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  1. They love their work! on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? · · Score: 1

    Some scientists actually have a passion for science, some love it, some like it.

    To have their whole world turned upside down, to be surprised many times, that is reason enough for some.

    It's nothing magical. It's just rare.

    (Find your passion, follow it!)

  2. change is the best on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Position To Work For Long Hours? · · Score: 1

    change your position from sitting legs on the table, keyboard on your legs, to sitting back and front, lean to left&right...

    the whole idea is to forget ergonomical thinking, and let your body to choose when you need to change. just like when you sleep, you don't wake up and actively think that you must change, you just do it.

  3. timeline is totally wrong! on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 2

    "..... distance of 12.7 billion light years. "
    If an object is 12.7 billion light years from us, the time that light takes to travel to us takes.... 12.7 billion years.

    " ...the cluster must still be in the process of formation."
    Nope. It _was_ in the process of formation about 12.7 billion years ago. Now that said cluster is 12.7 billion years older, and it is either very old or blown away to bits and pieces some time ago.

    The distance works like a time machine, and for example we see and experience our Sun about 8 minutes 11 seconds later, which is the distance between Earth and Sun in "lightyears".

  4. pen&paper _or_ videocamera on Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking? · · Score: 1

    pen is the ultimate tool for taking notes.
    laptop lacks free drawing tools (combined to keyboard noting, free software, for many operating systems, _small_, preferable portable...)
    but if you can video the whole stuff then you can freely concentrate on the lecture and if you want, use pen from time to time for clarification.

    laptop is limited to technology, in one or more ways and to your abilities to use it.
    pen is limited to you. only.

  5. Re:summary error on "Magnetic Tornadoes" Could Offer New Data Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    no. and yes.

    two magnetic elements. reading:
    0) same direction = 0
    1) opposite direction =1

    they do not have 00, 01, 10 and 11 states, which would be four states.

    elements are read in an "old-fashioned" way, they probably _could_ be read in all four states, but they are not.

  6. my second after batmud... and the last too. on MUDs Turn 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    www.icesus.org

  7. make two "classes" on The Battle For Wikipedia's Soul · · Score: 1

    first let the inclusionists decide what to include. then deletionists has the "right" to "mark" certain articles, so that the reader will see what is more "open" and what is more "scientifical".

  8. log houses? on Shaking a 275-ton Building · · Score: 1

    finnish company (http://www.honkatalot.fi/eng/index.html) has sold many log homes/houses to japan. why? earthquakes do not destroy those at all: if the worst happens, you just use few tools, few guys/gals to help you, and in few hours your log house is fixed. (i have no time to explain how, but ask here, and later i will explain how to fix it *fast* after (almost) any kind of EQ.)

  9. Re:Well... on Microsoft's Bold Patent Move · · Score: 3, Funny

    i had that idea before you. my lawyers will contact you.

  10. anonymous cowards on Best TCP/IP Stack Implementation? · · Score: 1

    anonymous cowards gives flying fart. or takes. whatever, he's a coward, hiding behind anonymity. it's not 3 million country. you have your "facts" wrong, stupid.

  11. Re:Not a good way to dispose of neuclar waste. on Giant Laser Transmutes Nuclear Waste · · Score: 3, Informative

    at the end of the story is this:
    "He also points out that dramatic reductions in the half-lives of isotopes inevitably lead to huge immediate increases in the levels of radiation being emitted per second. Initial missions from iodine-128 would be hundreds of billions of times higher than from iodine-129, causing handling problems for nuclear operators."

    you are right. if you cut down the radiation time, you multiply the intensity of the radiation...
    i do not want to be anywhere near when they start processing nuclear waste with lasers, practical or not.

  12. Re:The background on FInland Proposes Editorial Culpability for Web Content · · Score: 1

    "I'm getting more and more ashamed for being Finnish."

    you don't have to. every nation, at some point, works just like ours, finnish one. the only reason is the big %'s of stupid people. no one can change that.
    it's sad, but it's the way world is. i am not happy either...

  13. Re:Slashdot effect? on Space Weather Secrets · · Score: 1

    >Ylen Inetjulkaisujärjestelmä: Tietokantavirhe

    into english:

    FBC Internet Publishing System: Database Error

    and the rest of the error you can read, right?
    you tried to be funny?

  14. Re:excuse me? on System Adminstration and Corporate Ethics? · · Score: 1

    the big Q is not about the ethics.
    if you do a favor to someone, letting him/her go away the trouble they have gotten themselves, they soon learn to use that. and, some day, there will be a moment when they can not go back anymore. it might be physically/digitally/whatever impossible, and then they are in trouble.
    in trouble because some time ago, someone helped them and they got used to the idea that they can "undo" things in big, bad internet.
    undo's are very, very rarely possible, so do not get uset to the idea that you can just act, react, and then, when mistakes happen and troubles are coming, you just pick up the phone and talk you out of it.
    it is not realistic.
    do not help ppl to do unrealistic things, if you do not want to bl4ckm4il them later. and that is not ethical.

  15. stupidity plus luck on Design Your Very Own Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    me neither, but i was very close.
    i was building a computer. i put everything together, did some service pack installation, went to my room at my work, came back 4 mins later... something smelled... like after the thunder. i tried to move mouse, nothing happened. computer had "frozen" totally. i looked at the open case, noticed that fan+cloore where hanging with only one clip, and i rip the power cord away.

    it was *kinda* fan failure, but the real reason was stupid user :-(

    i forgot to plug the fan ps cable to MoBo! i grabbed the cable, got fancooler away. it was so hot i could not put my hand closer than 5 cm to it, something like over 100 degrees of celsius :-O
    ok, i paid my learning money there, i thought, and our boss laughed friendly at me :-)

    later i tried MoBo, CPU and memory, just for fun. and, hey ho, they worked! and the still do, CPU is at my firewall... at least it is officially tested real overclockers CPU.

    strange, i thought it could never ever work...

  16. hmm. typing on Are American Vacation Policies Outdated? · · Score: 1

    anything coming out of america having grammar errors, typing mitchmathces and like, are not so "good". and those typo's were in the topic, title...

  17. Re:Another interesting consept: Invisible Firewall on Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security · · Score: 1

    Invisible firewall operates lower levels in OSI, so it could be quite hard to "make" or force it to do decisions in upper levels. You can always write new modules to kernel, but i can not.