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  1. Re:Bet Ya on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine now, how nervous are these sharks with lasers.

  2. Re:If True: Shameful on Did an Unnamed MIT Student Save Apollo 13? · · Score: 1

    In the middle of the Cold War, nobody can afford the cost having a hippie as a national hero.

  3. Re:AH AH AH AH on CDE Open Sourced · · Score: 1
    Well, if you don't change anything by fear of introducing a bug. Where is the need for CDE to become open since you won't even change the code using it? I believe the thing is only legal. The providers are just trying to throw this monster away from them because they need to provide, on paper, some kind of support for it for a period of time that extend beyond the actual life of the thing for a very narrow range of customers.

    I remember that IBM was obligate to support AIX 1.2 on its PS/2 workstations for at least 25 years because they won a contract for the US aerial control system (I don't remember exactly the name, I am not living in USA). So, even if nobody no longer is having a PS/2 and AIX PS/2 never got a significant market share, there was eventually a 1.3 version for this only purpose. So, I imagine freeing the source code is a way to handle this kind of situations these days.

  4. Re:AH AH AH AH on CDE Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Don't you meant paleontologists?

  5. Re:Give it time on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1
    Right, it was quickly profitable. They killed all people soon and replaced them with black slaves on many islands to grow sugar canne which was the oil of this century. Local workers appearing to be poor workers and black slaves much more efficient and hard at work. America wasn't an hostile environment for the human kind, it was indeed a very welcoming one.

    Comparing discovery of the America and its colonization to space colonization is just laughable.

  6. Re:8 years ago... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    Do you know if the same applies to the vets? Just asking to make my mind about which one I will call next time I will be sick.

  7. Re:Me chinese. Me play joke. on Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Router · · Score: 1

    Even not specified in the article, one of the photons of the entangled pair belongs to the Chinese government. That's what we call an entangled backdoor.

  8. Re:That *niche* market. on RIM CEO Says Company 'Seriously' Considered Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Indeed! RIM had a niche market, however they want everything without giving anything and this is their main problem.

  9. Re:I don't really give a s h i t on IT At the LHC — Managing a Petabyte of Data Per Second · · Score: 1

    Well, that one should be called a petadick.

  10. Re:Palmer's Jurassic Park plan extinct on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    He also saw Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and he is seeking advice to know how he could resurrect Boris Karloff to appoint him as a groom at the Coolum resort.

  11. Re:The ice cream will melt before simulation runs. on Cray XK6 Supercomputer Used To Simulate Ice Cream · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess they got their budget from the global warming studies department.

  12. Re:Incandescent bulbs return? on UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows · · Score: 2
    If efficiency is comparable to other cells, a good efficiency would be around 25%. Also, IR light is lower in the energy EM spectrum. I don't know how important it could in that case, we do not have much information about these new panels.

    In cold climates, these panels may not be a good idea since instead of reflecting IR, it absorbs it. So, a part of the energy spent to heat the building will feed these panels instead of heating the inside. Again, we need more data to compare both alternatives.

  13. Re:Almost certainly fake on Australians Receive SMS Death Threats · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since Aussies are all having large penis, the spammers are switching their business in order to continue to make some kind of revenues.

  14. Re:Put stuff in sealed plastic cases? on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    Floppies are for the faint of heart, I would record your meeting onto an 8-tracks audio cartridge and put hit in the chest without any other form of protection.. You should learn to take risks. 8-track players are still available for nothing on e-bay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1311&_nkw=8-track+player&_sacat=0

  15. Re:Using Periods? on Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths · · Score: 1

    Notice to your favorite social media staff: I'm sorry, but due to your inappropriate use of profiling methods, you are banned from my list of social media. In fact, I just found you are an asocial media.

  16. Re:Really? on Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths · · Score: 1

    Who says this profiling is using only a single tweet? It uses far more than 140 characters.

  17. Re:Using Periods? on Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths · · Score: 1

    Notice from your favorite social media staff: I'm sorry, but due to your inappropriate use of periods, you are banned from our social media. We found you are in fact just asocial.

  18. Re:Did we really find it? on Higgs Data Offers Joy and Pain For Particle Physicists · · Score: 1

    "From what I understand it was only one single experiment that showed us something that we think is where/what the Higgs Boson would look like.
    Has it been reproduced or confirmed?"

    CMS and ATLAS are TWO like 2 independant experiments. So, yes, if data in both experiments converge to the same conclusion, it would have been confirmed and reproduced. Physicists aren't idiots and this is the reason they are running two different experiments with the same goal and working in isolation to each other.

    Now, the point is measurements of the characteristics of this new particle are required to formally identify it to a Higgs and which Higgs. So, for now, as the CERN and LHC said, this is a Higgs-like particle.

  19. Re:it's not just in NASA on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    Right, would you like to be the one risking his life since then? Too easy to talk about the life of others and its value for those among us how will sit on their butts and watch.

  20. Re:I'd do it for free. on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    These missions are all about national chauvinism anyway. Failure isn't an option.

  21. Re:I'd do it for free. on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    The main problem with your assertion is about the quest for knowledge. The manned flight program has just score very poor on that side. Most of our knowledge, at least the useful one, comes from completely automated missions, probes and satellites.

    At my sense, manned flight program isn't justify at all, let Sir Branson do some tourism in space for those among us who have a pile of money they don't know what to do with or lack some kind altruism to spend it toward valuable goals. And if one out of seven die up there, here could be the benefit of manned flights after all.

  22. Re:Easier said than done on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 1

    You assume the safety system will make a bad decision in a particular circumstance while it can do the right choice, or even avoid completely this situation which often arise because someone failed to recognize and identify an obstacle in advance. It would be pretty easy for an all automated system to identify humans on the road from everything else well in advance and even looking on the side of the road well in advance for such obstacles to manifest. Something a human driver cannot do.

  23. Re:Fast Lane on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 1

    All automated cars are the best choice to solve this problem. No more emotionnal decisions will taint driving decisions. And fast lanes will lost completely their significance since the flow of trafic can be accurately controlled and trafic jams/slinky effect completely avoided.

  24. Re:Much better than Google's approach on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 2

    Automated landing systems can rely on radioguidance devices and airstrips are usually large enough to take into account for error. That is not the case on a road where you have nothing else than road marks which may not always be visible if any. The speed of the airplane isn't really a factor provided the computers are much more faster at doing computations and evaluate sensors than a human given the overall setup is much more simple than the one required for a car. No computer vision is involved into an automated airplane landing system. And even if it were, the overall scene is a simple one compare to a car road where you can have pedestrians, bikes, cars, obstacles of all kind, curves, bumps, sidewalks, posts and so on.

  25. Re:easy answer. on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 2

    Given the advances in AI, encryption, pattern recognition and so on, the language it will be written in is completely secondary. Write it in the language which can render the best what you have to say. The Rosetta stone wouldn't be needed today to decrypt hieroglyphs and much harder puzzles were deciphered since then. As long as you have sufficient data or text written in that language.