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  1. Re:What happens when the App crashes? on Rigging Up Baby · · Score: 1

    If a device helps showing a pattern, good!

    Is there software that does that ? I mean as a new parent, there are times when the little one won't sleep, or shits in creative ways, or cries, or refuses to eat, etc... My wife writes done when she breastfeeds and others things, but I find it impossible to make sense of the data. Is there software where you can put vague entries like 'mother ate beans at lunch', 'baby nearly exploded at 18:00' and it finds correlations if there are any, possibly knowing a bit of physiology. Personal health monitoring software ? I don't know what those could be called.

  2. Re:Pretty incomplete on Rigging Up Baby · · Score: 1

    ...return them for a second round

    Rabbits do that.

  3. Re: That's a shame on Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 · · Score: 1

    You don't know what you are talking about and you are also confusing your vocabulary. 'Free climbing' is climbing with hands and feet and a rope for protection. It is what most climbers do, as opposed to 'aid climbing' which is pulling on gear. 'Solo climbing' is simply being alone (no climbing partner) and can be done with or without rope. There are some big wall solo aid climbers and the risk is very low. 'Free soloers' are the guys in the commercials... or just about any other climber when you are on easy enough terrain.
    Few climbers actually like free soloing (I do); and also very few people die from free soloing. Accidents when rock climbing are usually due to falling rocks, errors during maneuvers (usually on rappels), bad anchors, tripping on trails on the way down... and car accidents when you drive back tired from a long day of climbing.

  4. Antarctic mountains on Tremors Mean Antarctic Volcanism May Be Heating Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On normal maps of Antarctica it's hard to see where the (rock) mountains are. I made a script for that 15 years ago, and it's still there.

  5. Great gift on Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites · · Score: 1

    Coproliths make a great gift for kids. They are cheap to get on eBay or whatever, and they are as educational as can be. And as fun as a turd can be !

  6. Dell hides its linux lineup... on Dell's New Sputnik 3 Mates Touchscreen With Ubuntu · · Score: 2

    I recently needed two new Linux laptops. A small one and a big fast one. With some special requirements: qwerty keyboard, but shipped out of the US, matte screen, fast CPU and mem but doesn't care about GPU, etc... Well, I simply couldn't find anything. The Dell site had only the aforementionned 'development laptop'. System76 and other Linux vendors all had something missing (often the shipping or the matte screen). I was about to get a Win8 laptop to wipe when I got a mail from Dell at work (we buy stuff from them): basically their entire lineup with Linux. With full options. You just had to get into the site in a different way. It's dumb but I know have an ugly but nice M6700 with Ubuntu.

  7. Re:Ford on Tesla Planning an Electric Pickup Truck, Says Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    I'm not currently smoking anything: here's what a quick google tuns up

  8. Re:Gotta ask ! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    xplain to me how a human can optimize by hand a 70-stage execution pipeline with branch predictions ? Impossible. On the other hand the compiler has the specs of the processor and knows how many nops to place between instructions.

  9. Re:Ford on Tesla Planning an Electric Pickup Truck, Says Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, these midsize trucks sell very well outside of the US

    Well, it's all relative. Pick-ups are a purely american thing due to advantageous taxes on them and fashion (any self-respecting redneck needs one). The rest of the world considers them useless:

    • you can't put as many people in them as in a car
    • they don't handle well (a US friend who swears by hers doesn't find anything strange in having to put bags of sand in the back in order to stay on the road on slippery mountain roads)
    • they have very poor aerodynamics thus worse mileage per gallon than a car
    • you can't use them in cities or the stuff you carry gets stolen
    • you can't use them in wet countries or the stuff you carry gets wet
    • Professionals (farmers, construction workers) prefer flatbeds which are easier to load/unload.

    Yeah, you see them in poor desert countries where they carry 20 people and sheep together but in Europe I hardly see one a month. Hey, on your commute, just count the number of pickups that actually carry something...

  10. Re:Wow, this _is_ kind of a shame on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    Those same long-life northern clams are fished for commercially and eaten. In Iceland, but mostly sold to east-asian markets.

  11. Re:Doesn't that kinda defeat the point of the arch on Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet · · Score: 1

    I agree that it's ridiculous. The access should be granted with the robot.txt that was valid _at the time_. Just archive it together with the website.

  12. Re:Archive.org should not respect robots.txt on Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet · · Score: 1

    Or when you archive a website, you also archive the whois reference with it. If the whois info changes, then don't retroactively apply robots.txt.

  13. Re:Nothing is ever that simple on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    Science has particularly unsatisfactory answers to "Why am I here?", "Where am I going?", "Why do bad things happen to me and not others?", "Did I do ok with my life?", etc.

    "If you ask the wrong questions you get answers like '42' or 'God'."

  14. Reading smart data on 25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last · · Score: 1

    OK, I'll just say it, if I do "smartctl -a /dev/sda", I have no idea how to interpret the results. Every brand reports things differently.
    Is there some way so sum up the report to Fine / Failing / Already lost data / Dead ?

  15. Re:this is not good news on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    I know you are trolling, but 14% of the swedish population are immigrants. And in a country of blond Valkyries, it's not like Iraqis can go around unnoticed.

  16. Re:America's fear comes from... on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    Now I have no idea about the quality of facts of Fox vs. MSNBC

    A very simple test:
    Fox news lies: 82000 hits.
    MSNBC lies: 25000 hits.
    CNN lies: 58000 hits.
    Fox must have improved as I did that test a few years back and there was a 10x ratio. Or the shills are fighting back.

  17. Re:Control... on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    History is what it is, and it's fine. The etymology of weekdays or months is very interesting but nobody attributes them religious meanings anymore. This CE things goes the same: keep the historical meaning, get rid of the current religious aspect. Similar to the crosses you find on summits in Europe, put up sometimes centuries ago. I don't mind them. But if you want to build a 100ft tall concrete cross in my backyard, you'll find me tossing burning tires at its base.

  18. Re:Why is he special? on French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley · · Score: 1

    This asshole is british, right ? So why does France has to take care of wiping the shit off his ass ?

  19. Re:Worked for Capone on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    If the FBI can't get him, the IRS will. Nice.

    Happens to the best...

  20. Re:Look up "Window" from WWII RAF tactics on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just made me waste 2 hours on wikipedia. Proud of yourself ?

  21. Re:You've got to spot them first on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 1

    Anything bigger than your fist doesn't burn up on reentry. Bigger than your head and it doesn't even have time to warm up: if the angle is steep, it crosses the entire atmosphere in less than a second.

  22. Unrealistic to say the least ! on Motorola's "Project Ara" Will Allow Users To Customize Their Smartphones · · Score: 1

    I'd seen the Phonebloks video a while ago and thought it was some kind of joke: their CPU block has 4 pins. 4 !!! I don't know how many pins a current Cortex A-9 has but I'd bet it's over 300... I'd love this concept to work, but it's a tad bit unrealistic.

  23. Re:Arthur C Clarke strikes again! on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    Nuke the landing site from orbit! Next problem?

    That would kind of screw up with the results of the isotopic analyses they are sure to want to run there...

  24. Re:I have a easier answer... on Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying To Stop the NSA · · Score: 1

    It's a good question... which has already been answered in all the various democracies that use this system. There are various methods, such as you get your campaign money back only if you reach 5% of the vote. Or get at least a certain number of local constituents. Or get signed approval by a minimal number of 'authority figures', whatever that is. Also: mandatory checking of the books so as to be sure that the money isn't spent on whores and coke. The ex french president (Sarkozy) actually had his campaign money invalidated after he lost the election because of irregularities in the way he spent it.

  25. Re:Instead of likening things to rocket science on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    I just had a kid (last week) and I like any^H^Hmany^H^Hsome parents I wonder about the best way to educate about science and stuff. Classic. But I've been wondering if QM is so hard because it is counter-intuitive with our day-to-day interaction with a classic-physics world. What if we could teach QM to a kid and only QM...? Even in day-to-day interactions. Obviously I don't see a way to do this but I recently saw (on /. ?) a videogame where the physics engine follows many of the tenets of QM. What if you stuffed a kid in the simulator after birth. Would you get the best nobel prize ever ? Or most likely a drooling psycho. Yeah, yeah, I'm not up for the father of the year award...