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  1. Re:We didn't really know how things worked before on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 0

    No the real trouble is that it's clear that a lot of the climate change "science" is motivated by factors other than reaching the truth - especially personal careers and politics.

  2. Yawn on Philatelists Push Petition For Pluto Probe Postage · · Score: 0

    Slashdot story about stamps?!

  3. Re:Then **you're** naive! on Ask Slashdot: How Is Online Engineering Coursework Viewed By Employers? · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, no, you people in the US are just plain stupid enough to decimate your own economy all on your own.

  4. "Combining Microsoft's open, interoperable"... on Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare · · Score: 1

    Wow - either Ballmer is an A-grade ignoramus or (more likely) an A-grade liar!

  5. Re:As somebody who holidays nearby on Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast · · Score: 1

    Wish I had a dollar for every piece of anecdotal evidence!

  6. Re:Funny that people assume this isn't harmful. on Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast · · Score: 1

    Until/unless you drive your motorboat around 24x7 your comparison sucks.

  7. Re:When you're out of rational arguments... on New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd go so far as to say it's a religion!

  8. Re:Yes it is! on New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just as the "scientists" who wrote the emails in the first place missed the point of science?

  9. Re:Sounds like you need a tech solution on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    Exactly! It shouldn't be too hard to make the cockpit windscreen able to block or attenuate lasers. Biggest problem is that technology is required in a technology-averse industry.

  10. Re:A little late on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    ... can be curtailed without going back to a technological stone age.

    Citation needed.

  11. Re:Failed attempt. on Do Two-Screen Laptops Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    But I think you are on the right track. Solution is to make that external monitor more convenient. You can buy laptop portable versions of just about everything, except monitors (or at least I’ve never seen that). Should be trivial to make a monitor with integrated short cables and where the stand folds into itself and fits nicely into a laptop bag, with maybe some kind of protective cover for the screen. Would seem a much simpler approach than this contraption.

    Yes, it's called a second laptop (oh and a decent OS).

  12. Re:Not Publicly Available Information! on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    It seems like this is publicly available information.

    But it's not, you obviously didn't read the article. Here was the process: 1) Google employee makes sure some fake word does not exist in google or bing search results. 2) Said employee points google's cache results of that word to some random page. 3) Said employee uses Internet Explorer at his desk at Google to make the search appear in Google, then selects the only link as the correct thing he was looking for and Bing somehow acquires this information. 4) Search now appears in Bing.

    Well... Step 1 may cause Bing to start trying to index said fake word. The step 3(b) where the Google employee clicks on the Google search result for the non-related page will (via the Bing spybar) associate the fake search term with the non-related page (the fake term will appear in the HTTP_REFERRER field).

    Spybar: EVIL

    Bing crap: probably.

    Bing cheating? Not proved.

    They're just using their spybar clickstream data as a source of search info, just as Google initially innovated by using link data as a data source, rather than the contents of web pages.

    To conclusively prove cheating, they have to show a statistical correlation between the ranking of faked pages on Google and faked pages on Bing. Shame on you Google!

  13. Re:No no no... on Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS · · Score: 1

    I second that. N900 is an ok portable linux device but a shitty phone and hardware is behind the times. Mine decided to prove the point - now it's phone functions don't work at all!

  14. Re:woohooo on Tesla Roadster Data Logging Format Reverse Engineered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most places you want to drive, top speeds are greater than speed limits so acceleration is more significant.

  15. Re:No Pirate, a Thief on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    No, no, no! Neither type of "piracy" is theft.

  16. Re:Programming on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 1

    Or, given the output of Redmond, working on a crufty Windows codebase...

  17. Re:When did UML become "orthodox"? on How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that UML is for people who can't program!

  18. Statistics not Maths on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 1
    That and an understanding that the real world keeps trying to break down the barriers of the nice abstract models that computer science likes to use.

    For example, the TCP protocol is hopelessly broken for any real time communications yet countless real time applications use it. Same with the use of blocking IO models.

  19. Re:Open source on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    Wrong - science is no longer open source. Most science is based partly on software these days. How much of that software is released openly? None of the climate change papers that I've read have the associated software open sourced.

  20. Re:Storing heat? on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Better to get your facts right:
    The antarctic ice cap is stable or increasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Effects_of_global_warming
    Oh, no, an inconvenient truth!

  21. Re:Cool possible uses on reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts · · Score: 1

    Surely that'd be relatively easy to hack by use of a thesaurus?
    Or even google:
    old+historic: 66,500,000
    old+lifespan: 3,480,000


    pwned!

  22. Good luck to explosives manufacturers... on Fast, Accurate Detection of Explosives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good luck to explosives manufacturers - there go your chances of ever flying again!

  23. Claims Too Strong! on Clever Artificial Hand Developed · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This prosthetic hand may be able to mimic the human hand better than any currently available prosthetic hand.

    There are plenty of robot hands that are far better than this. e.g. #1 e.g. #2.

  24. Picture sans leaf on Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map? · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the FA: picture without leaf

  25. Dummy! Lasers Come in Different Colours on U.S. DOT Launches Laser Illumination Reporting · · Score: 1
    All they need are colored glasses to filter out that particular part of the spectrum. In the same way that red light is used for reading in the darkness and not rendering you blind after, a colorized glass could filter out the green lights. Heck, we wear them in my lab when we work with the lasers. So do the people that make the laser pointers.

    1. Lasers come in different colours
    2. The only filter that blocks all colours is black/opaque
    3. Blind pilots is a pretty bad idea