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  1. Re:I'll believe it when I see it... on India Ends Russian Space Partnership and Will Land On the Moon Alone · · Score: 1

    So why aren't there twenty rovers sending 4k video back from the Moon every day, to millions of willing subscribers on Earth, who would love to see the Moon like that?

    Once you've seen one grey lunar hill, you've seen them all.

  2. Re:"Only" 40 Kilobytes ?! on Software Patch Fixes Mars Curiosity Rover's Auto-focus Glitch · · Score: 1

    It's not clear what exactly the piece of code does. The "instrument" could refer to the ChemCam.

  3. Re:typo? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Arduinos can get by with as little as 5 uA in standby:

    And how much for the wifi ?

  4. Re:Waste of resources on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Assume the device sits in your house behind a NAT router, and you want to access it with your PC at work. How does that work, without zeroconfig, without security, wihout DNS, and without a web server ?

  5. Re:Waste of resources on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Assembler doesn't help you save data memory, which is going to be the biggest part in a simple networked device.

  6. Re: 32MB? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Any ARM can do TCP/IP, and is cheap and tiny. Having two chips talk to each other only makes things more complicated, and in the end, more expensive.

  7. Re:The program that runs the instrument is only 40 on Software Patch Fixes Mars Curiosity Rover's Auto-focus Glitch · · Score: 2

    Nobody in their right mind is going to write rover code in assembly. Too much work, and too much chance of a silly mistakes fucking things up, while the actual code saving is not much. It's much easier and cheaper to add some extra memory instead.

  8. Re:Waste of resources on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    A TCP/IP stack is simple, but there's a lot more to networking than just TCP + IP. You also need a web server, security protocols, zeroconfig, DNS, and plenty of other things.

  9. Re:typo? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    enough address space to make use of that 32MB without contorted bank-switching bullshit

    In other words: any kind of ARM CPU, which is fine because they are cheap and easy to use.

  10. Re:32*M*B? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    3.8K of RAM results in piss-poor networking performance, since it can only hold two full sized network packets.

  11. Re: 32MB? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    For few bucks you get a chip that offload the TCPIP layer and the whole TLS/SSL protocols and encryption from the processor. That is how the IoT should be done.

    Makes no sense. The chip that does the TCP/IP can also do all the other work.

  12. Re:Order in the universe on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    They also conveniently forget about the many women they interact with every day who don't do anything strange.

    For casual contacts, such as with bus drivers or cashiers, that's true. However, there's certainly a difference in the way I treat my male and female co-workers. It's not a big deal to call a male co-worker a stupid dick head when he makes a mistake, but I wouldn't dare to say something similar to a woman. Instead, I would try to find carefully worded positive suggestions on how to improve the work. Or just ignore it, and let somebody else deal with it.

  13. Re:And in other news on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see, I thought you wrote 'countries', but you wrote counties. And where you said 50%, you meant 20-40%.

  14. Re:And? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    And with modern equipment logging is fairly safe now.

    You have a strange definition of 'safe'

    http://circanews.com/news/onth...

    That's not the point though

    The point is that women aren't complaining about equality when men do the majority of dangerous and dirty jobs.

  15. Re:Starts with a Bang on Universe's Dark Ages May Not Be Invisible After All · · Score: 2

    hardly any Stuff that Matters

    But we get Matter that Stuffs.

  16. Re:This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Why the hell is it government's business to "allow" people to marry in the first place?

    Because at some point in time, the majority of the people thought it was a good idea. Probably because they had first hand experience of what it was like without that.

  17. Re:And in other news on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    The fact is that in many counties 50%of science students at university level are female.

    What kind of science ? And where's your evidence ?

  18. Re:And? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    How about no one has to mine coal or collect bottles to survive? I bet that blows your mind, huh?

    Depends on how you plan to implement that. And don't forget logging, and working on oil rigs. Or will we be okay without wood and oil as well as coal ?

  19. Re:And in other news on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    Here's a study that shows gender-related differences starting in neonatal brains:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

  20. Re:And in other news on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    without the benefit of actual scientific inquiry

    http://pss.sagepub.com/content...

    I am also unaware of any study that establishes a propensity in gay men to become hairdressers and fashion designers.

    Do you really need a formal study for that ? Just walk into a couple of hair salons. It's quite obvious. Also, having been on dozens of plane trips, I yet have to meet a straight male flight attendant.

  21. Re:And in other news on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    Feel free to provide some scientific evidence that contradicts the well-established fact that this is a social and not a biological issue.

    http://edge.org/conversation/t...

  22. Re:Undeserved?!? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    Not superior overall, but some of the differences lead to superiority in certain fields.

  23. Re:And in other news on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    That's not terribly interesting. The question you should be asking now is "why".

    Because higher levels of testosterone influence the brain to optimize for things that are good for doing science.

    Fortunately, we have zillions of studies that indicate it's a social, not a biological, consequence

    How do these studies explain why so many gay men go into hairdressing and fashion design ? Because society pushed them ?

  24. Re:Undeserved?!? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    There is no "correct" gender. There are different genders, each with their own privileges.

  25. Re:Still a hack, but way better than nothing. on Software Patch Fixes Mars Curiosity Rover's Auto-focus Glitch · · Score: 1

    This means it will still take just as long to obtain each image

    Not having to send the images to earth saves a lot of time.