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  1. Re:Ninth, mofo. on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Fun size.

  2. Re:Damn autocorrect on 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Such things happen. I tried telling my girlfriend I was an ecoturist via text, and now I'm stuck in a hut in the Amazon basin!

  3. Re:is this even slashdot news? on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    And how about, "AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

    My guess is "Anal-retentives Anonymous' Assinine And Humourless Holy Hubristic Heavy Handed Half Hearted Health Harming Hardly Human Horrid Hopeless Hapless Helpless Haphazard Hierarchy".

  4. Re: Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd just assume put land mines there, it's only going to take a couple explosions before purple start to rethink coming over through unofficial channels.

    I thought they're sort of brownish...

  5. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Not an improvement.

  6. Re:is this even slashdot news? on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    And that, kids, is why "knowledge" and "intelligence" are two different words.

    Today's lesson was brought to you by the word disingenuous.

  7. Re:is this even slashdot news? on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And, if you are even a bit of a tinkerer or garage mechanic you also know that harbor freight crap is generally inferior to Snap On or MAC.

    I disagree...last time I tried to use a MAC hammer the screen broke and the Thunderbolt port stopped working, and it didn't even drive the nail in properly.

  8. Re:Quiet leaf removal option without fuel or batte on Help Is On the Way In the War Against Noisy Leaf Blowers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not for long. What most American voters don't realise is that Trump has invested heavily in leaf blower manufacturers, deporting Mexicans is simply a way of boosting sales.

  9. Re:If privacy is a concern, you don't use Windows on Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, at least it can't be shortened further to "Windows fixed that for you".

  10. Re:wah wah wah clickbait on Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Clone soldiers have feelings too! Not much spatial coordination, of course...

  11. Re:Towed Sonar? on US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sonar emits sound in a spherical pattern, the area of that sphere blocked by the ship is minuscule (the further away from the ship the smaller it is) and only to a relatively shallow depth; the sonar buoy can submerge below that and have a completely clear forward field of view. Also, if the receiving hydrophones are on the ship rather than the buoy, the engines and sonar emitter are both in the same direction (behind), so they could be optimized for forward facing sensitivity without having to worry about being in close proximity to the emitter (the inverse square law applies: a sonar ping loud enough to bounce off a target a few kilometers away is going to be seriously loud at the source, that limits the sensitivity and gain of the receiver).

  12. Re:RMS on US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Is backporting done in the US Navy, or is it still "don't ask, don't tell"...?

  13. Re:Android on desktop? on Remix Mini Review: a $70 Android Desktop PC (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    As a long time owner of an iPad with keyboard case (pre dating the original Surface), I'd say iOS plays quite nicely with a keyboard. You're probably right about a mouse, though, and there are definitely other aspects of the touch UIs that would make them less than ideal.

  14. Re:Self-reported on Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained? (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    What you suggest isn't a reasonable analysis either, since it fails to account for the emissions from manufacturing conventional ICE cars.

  15. Re:Who needs new plants? on UK's Coal Plants To Be Phased Out Within 10 Years (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's either that or risk shooting a corgi by accident.

  16. Re:Curse of DRM strikes again... on Microsoft Kills Off Zune Music Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about the guy with the Zune tattoo? Will his skin stop working?

    More importantly, will his brain start working?

  17. Re:Does this include BetaCam? on Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year · · Score: 1

    Analog Betacam was replaced by Digibeta, Betacam SX, IMX and HDCAM long ago; HDCAM SR is still widely used in broadcasting, so tapes for professional units will be available for some time yet. And the reason Betacam SP looked good is because it had nearly twice the bandwidth of Betamax (and ran at a higher tape speed).

  18. Re:Blinders Much on Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year · · Score: 1

    The format used in broadcast was called Betacam (replaced by Betacam SP, Digibeta, Betacam SX and HDCAM in the same physical format, all incompatible with Betamax), which had a wider signal bandwidth than either VHS or Betamax and higher vertical resolution. S-VHS and Super Betamax were prosumer formats introduced later, and never widely used in broadcasting except for community/public access television.

  19. Re:Just go to Germany! on The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition · · Score: 1

    The value of a tertiary degree is that graduates earn more, right? Therefore they pay more income tax, have more disposable income which is subject to GST, etc. IOW public education is already a loan which will be paid back by way of taxes (and then some), and as such it's an investment by the government on behalf of current taxpayers to increase tax revenue in the future; so sure, say free education isn't free, but amortized over the tax paying life of the student it costs YOU nothing. All student fees do is create wealth disparity and disincentives for the individual students, which if you read TFA is exactly why Utica is doing this.

  20. Re:History repeats. on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 1

    The lack thereof being one of the TV series' failings. Such a disappointment for young nerds everywhere...

  21. History repeats. on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But will it be another Stargate or Logan's Run? Sometimes a good idea can be spread too thinly.

  22. Re:Not this shit again... on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean, I've heard that several times myself. No, this was synchronous with the flash (I can tell the difference, as an audio engineer I'm practiced at estimating delay times)...there's no explanation for that except the Frey Effect.

  23. Re:Not this shit again... on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Not quite true, I’ve experienced what I know was direct auditory stimulation from an EM field because it’s a well documented phenomenon. I was walking past (4 feet) a building as it was struck by lightning*: there was a click which seemed to come from inside my head at the exact instant of the strike, followed a fraction of a second later by the thunderclap. Admittedly that’s an EM flux orders of magnitude higher than just about anything man made, so I’m skeptical about claims regarding devices in the mW-W range. Otherwise I agree with you entirely, it’s most likely whine from inductors, thyristors, etc, and I’ve used artificially generated HF harmonics (16-19kHz) in audio mixes to deliberately generate that hair raising and nausea sensation.. ..surprisingly it works even on people who can’t hear discrete tones at those frequencies.

    *Thankfully the building had a steel frame, large footprint and good earth stake. Damn scary, though.

  24. Re:Take away on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    It’s well known that science is the leading cause of death in lab animals. That’s why so many people are against it.

  25. Re:Could someone ELI5 how Macbooks retain value? on Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac? · · Score: 1

    True (the 2014 models are also A1502, MBP 11,1), and a fair correction. However the point stands that it isn't necessary to switch on an Apple to find out its specifications, though I'd add that the System Profiler is the best way to see what you're getting in a second hand machine.