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  1. Re:Umm forgive but on NASA Unveils Historic Pictures of Pluto · · Score: 5, Insightful

    watch the feed. What they've discovered so far has already challenged and thrown out many hypotheses about planet formation/evolution. It may look like a rock to the untrained eye - but what humanity knows about planetary physics has already changed because of this probe. It's impossible to know where and how this will change our theories and even technology down the road.

  2. Re:Tidal heat? on NASA Unveils Historic Pictures of Pluto · · Score: 2

    In the feed NASA stated they both locked up early on and ruled out tidal forces as being a factor.

  3. Re:First world problems... on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    When you put it like that, it sounds like the person might have outside pressures impacting his professional affairs.

  4. Lameese on How Light at Night Affects Preschoolers' Sleep Patterns (Video) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I immediately crushed hard on Lameese Akacem

  5. Re:America on Pull-Top Can Tabs, At 50, Reach Historic Archaeological Status · · Score: 1

    What're these monuments?

  6. crazy idea, maybe employers are screwing everyone on Win Or Lose, Discrimination Suit Is Having an Effect On Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Maybe they write up crazy job descriptions that almost no one can fill out of a false estimation of what they need?

  7. Re:A miss?! on Steve Jobs's Big Miss: TV · · Score: 1

    Too true. There are much larger misses to be pointed out. Anyone misses opportunities because we're finite human beings.

    As for me, I wish they would have thought out iTunes better. It's a clunky beast and moving the iTunes library around is annoying.

  8. Big on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Honestly I can't think of this as being anything but big. Companies live and die by outlook email still (enough of them anyway). So many of those executives don't even need a machine past email really...

  9. Re:Chromebook Shmomebook on Google Just Made It Easier To Run Linux On Your Chromebook · · Score: 1

    What's the problem? Or is it the ati driver still...

  10. I'm sold! on Google Just Made It Easier To Run Linux On Your Chromebook · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've not bought one yet (who has the finances?) but this would be great...and I could consolidate my porn browsing to just it. That ought to keep the rest of my stuff safe...

  11. add bluetooth and allow pairing with iphones/etc on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    I never understood why they didn't allow the use of these as "portable hard drives". Apple only marks up their iPads $100 per 32 gigs. They could sell 2x the i-devices by simply adding some bluetooth support.

  12. could we please stop linearly extrapolating? on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 1

    I have a strong suspicion that the many resource depletion posts we see on here employ faulty forecasting techniques.

    In this case, the article never mentions anything about how prices adjust to:
    -demand
    -supply constraints
    -externalities

    It's through prices that all those things communicate and avoid dire situations.

  13. Re:This just proves... on Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months · · Score: 3, Interesting

    and just how good and maintainable is that code?

  14. against it! on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    It's, at best, outdated and, at worst, costing the US economic losses.

  15. Re:Is there anything to show benefit/harm from it on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Messing with sleep is reason enough. If you get people out of step they're more likely to:
    -make mistakes
    -work less/put less effort into work
    -be angry/experience negative emotions

    And the list goes on. All of those lead to significant economic losses in aggregate.

  16. Re:Ok let me get this straight on Physicists Identify Possible New Particle Behind Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    This was one thing I didn't quite grasp when I first hit particle physics in college. It really did seem like many things were invented to explain experiments..and thus they explained experiments.

  17. 14 length passwords? on Passwords: Too Much and Not Enough · · Score: 1

    Am I wrong for thinking this means you just need a string of totally random numbers from 0-9? (or even a-Z, 0-9)

  18. does streaming porn count? on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    I mean it exists in a legal grey water, I think. I'm talking about sites like pornhub.

  19. Re:99 is not sub $100 on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In a world where people throw away pennies or leave them lying on the street 99.99 is 100.

  20. 99 is not sub $100 on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 0

    It's even less accurate when you know the price is 99.99.

    It's a very old marketing ploy and I expect better from a /. summary...Yes, it's very cheap, but urg

  21. Re:striking distance on The Odd Effects of Being Struck By Lightning · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is /. We don't read the articles. We maybe read a sentence from the summary and the title of the post then say whatever comes to mind first.

  22. striking distance on The Odd Effects of Being Struck By Lightning · · Score: 4, Informative

    I worked for a lightning research lab in college. From what I remember, lightning can strike up to 60 miles (?) from the host cloud if the internal charges of the cloud are "right" for it. My take away was if you can see bolts of lightning then you're (possibly) within range.

  23. I tell people this when they bring up iphone vs android. From a developer point of view, I prefer the iOS/objective-C/Apple way.

    This is with the huge caveat of general happiness on my part. Android's making everyone run linux. I've always wanted to see Windows knocked off the top spot (for economic and CS/IT reasons) - and it's finally happening

  24. read some actual philosophy on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    It just screams like a post someone made without any philosophical background.

  25. Re:haven't watched it... on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    But it is well in my mind. ISIS has me convinced that the US needs to occupy Iraq again...can't get more concerned about this problem then being pro-police force.