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  1. Re:Wait, where are we heading now? on Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Halfway from == we just had. We're heading toward the minimum.

  2. Re:Wait, where are we heading now? on Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    We're halfway from the last peak and they defined the peak as the wetter time.

  3. Re:So, they get 5-15% for doing jack shit? on Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And you still don't... You can still sell your app the old way through your own website. If you can convince customers to go there to buy it (an exercise that is *not* cost free)

    The entire point of the Windows app store is to eliminate that option. They tried it outright with the Windows Universal framework, but that was such garbage nothing could be done with it so they abandoned it for the most part. If the app store takes off then they will lock down native apps produced outside it.

  4. Re:Please, $DEITY, no on Microsoft Adds Support For JavaScript Functions in Excel (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is Microsoft, not the language. VBA macros still exist, it's the managed environment running them that becomes the issue without regard to the language.

  5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Microsoft Adds Support For JavaScript Functions in Excel (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    While Dante's inferno depicts several circles of Hell with the Devil in the center/bottom circle stuck in the floor being tortured for eternity - that's really not even the limit, there's another less well-known circle of Hell smack in the center: the Devil's colon. That is where this will go. That said, it's better than VBA.

  6. So, they get 5-15% for doing jack shit? on Microsoft Hopes Money Will Entice More Developers (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    And they wonder why they're hemorrhaging customers? You didn't have to pay to publish apps before the app store.

  7. Re:Wait, where are we heading now? on Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It says a 405k cycle that last peaked 200k years ago, so we're heading for the minimum (since it referenced extremes, that seems to mean less-full lakes and less extreme weather.)

  8. Re:You're Closer Than You Think on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't forget sue, they also win contracts by suing whenever they get beaten in a competition to bid for them.

  9. Musk Doesn't Care About Risks on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's trying to build himself a private Martian fiefdom, what's it matter if a few of the would-be slaves die?

  10. Re:ambivalent on this on Ticketmaster Hopes To Speed Up Event Access By Scanning Your Face (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like every other technology, it has the dark purpose and the nice thing they pitch it as to the public. This will be used to spy on people, people will accept it because they think it will cut down on lines. But really who cares, people who worship singers are basically cattle anyway.

  11. Re:Dupe on Eight New Meltdown-Like Flaws Found (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, I remember the good ol' days with multiple quadruplicate and triplicate posts in a single day, back when duplicates were rare and single posts were unheard of.

  12. What About Food? on Ask Slashdot: Is the World Better Or Worse Because of Security Tech? · · Score: 1

    This is obviously important, and I don't necessarily see it as a distraction, but rather a complex problem that has some added thrill to being solved. I can't help but wonder though if I (and my species) would have been X times more productive or have come up with some amazing new culture or technology, if we didn't have to deal with obtaining agricultural products.

    In a utopian world, where there are no metabolic processes, we would have likely forfeited many of the farms and fisheries that have been put into place to prevent starvation from happening. So my question is -- are we more technically advanced because of the thoughtfulness that has gone into creating these systems?

    Or are we just losing precious resources and time dealing with the necessity of fending off starvation?

    Point being: OP is a euphoric tard. Security is a natural consequence of game theory, you might as well stop coding if you don't want to deal with it. It's no different than food or water for base survival - it's a result of existence.

  13. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The facilities manager was probably trying to get an increased budget by pretending to be understaffed.

  14. Re:The irony is palpable. on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    No, the useless person is the one whose job is to apologize that the carpenter can't come

    That guy's job wasn't to apologize for the carpenter, it was to distract the anthropologist such that the carpenter could get some work done.

  15. We already know from relativity that isn't accurate. Acceleration is non-linear in nature with depreciating returns as you approach the speed of light. That means you can take advantage of an accelerating reference frame to translate energy to momentum or momentum to energy. You're just defining energy wrong.

  16. THIS IS BAD! on 'Biology Will Be the Next Big Computing Platform' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact Theranos should have made it abundantly clear that Silicon Valley is nothing but marketing and sales shills who have no place in tech, let alone science - this is overwhelmingly bad. Offering GM Human cell lines is fucked, even offering GM mammal cell lines is fucked. The GM isn't even the bad part of that. It is super easy for things to mutate in a mammal cell culture, then infect the researcher, then infect others. It's even possible (as in likely, not "possible" as in "it could happen") for a virus to mutate cross-species when it infects mammal cells in culture a researcher comes in contact with. Even in the DIYbio community the general consensus is "don't fuck with mammal cell cultures unless you absolutely have to, and do it in a proper lab."

  17. Re:why the s? on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It's the British English spelling, which makes sense given the story is from the Guardian. I guess we could squabble about whether maths or math is more appropriate, but they're both contractions of mathematics.

    As long as we can agree that the British don't belong in the American internet I think we're all on the same page.

  18. Re:Not quite on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    He did limit the potential solution space by 25% - that's not nothing, it was known to be 4-7, now it's known to be 5-7.

  19. Re:If Only on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not just mix some Uranium in with the lime and market it as eco-friendly carbon-neutral concrete? The hippies who use it will surely die of radiation poisoning before the buildings collapse.

  20. Re:No, and fuck off on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We need an indestructible material which doesn't require maintenance, like that stuff Neil Armstrong found in Antarctica at that secret Illuminati base full of death traps housing the antichrist which can't be corroded with any known chemical or even so much as scratched with diamond. Then we can have our buildings last forever so the hippies can complain about pollution which is actually not biodegradable.

  21. Hippies on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Hippies are FAR more unsustainable for the planet simply because they're Humans. If we want to get serious about helping the planet we really need to start seriously asking "is it time to cull the hippy population?"

  22. Re:Here's a good plan on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He bombed an empty building in Syria and called it a win to get Israel to stop bitching about fake gas victims.

  23. Not developed, you shill.

  24. It makes no such promise, people who deny science by refusing to accept the experimental results make that claim.

  25. Re:Here's a good plan on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    You won't find Trump supporters who want war - he was elected to stop wars and focus on rebuilding our nation.