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  1. In Soviet Russia... on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our climate-changing overlords!

    Seriously, it's way too cold out there.

  2. I hate these two: on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    "Mathematics is an exact science"
    and
    "Miracles do not happen"

  3. Re: Max speed to which solid object can accelerate on Astronomers Find Star Orbiting a Black Hole At 1 Percent the Speed of Light (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Mass doesn't lose its "physical parameters"e, true. But a physical object does! I have a spaceship. It is accelerating by some means. My question is: at what speed approximately it becomes a "set of protons and electrons" instead of its normal shape? To what speed it can accelerate without losing its shape?

  4. Max speed to which solid object can accelerate? on Astronomers Find Star Orbiting a Black Hole At 1 Percent the Speed of Light (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows that only photons can reach the speed of light in vacuum.
    What happens with a solid object if we are starting to accelerate it?
    To what speed can it accelerate without losing its physical parameters (by ionization, atomic reactions etc)?

  5. Re:Other options? on The Rescue Plan That Could Have Saved Space Shuttle Columbia · · Score: 0

    No, I am not saying about returning to ISS. I am talking about the possilbility of using shuttle resources while still connected to ISS and then using resources of ISS, setting shuttle in frozen state.

  6. Re:Other options? on The Rescue Plan That Could Have Saved Space Shuttle Columbia · · Score: 2

    Also, what options about using MKS were investigated? Was it possible to host all austronauts there after life support on Columbia has been exhausted, and then gradually evacuate via Sojuz and/or Atlantis?

  7. Re:No... on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 2

    What happens if, for example, Kansas proposes law which mandates NO kill switch on smartfones?

  8. Talend already used it successfully on Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Talend.com offers Talend Open Studio - a great free software product for flow-based visual programming, based on Eclipse.
    I used it for projects for 5 years and was amazed, how easy to make complex data transformation by dragging and dropping components and links.
    A result is a java (or Perl) program, which can run standalone.
    The program is a visual data flow, easy to modify and understand even for non-programmers.
    I really appreciate Talend team effort and recommend this product for all, who need data transformations.

  9. Re:There would be no need... on How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? · · Score: 1

    Okay.

    I needed to go to the hospital, but the car wouldn't drive because it said I had a broken brake light
    I missed my flight and lost my job, because the broken brake light detector was faulty
    My car drove itself to the repair shop, and got a ticket for a broken brake light on the way
    My car drove itself to the repair shop while I was indoors, and I came out to drive to the hospital and had no car

    And, if you overrided that (by using manual handle logged by special insurance sealed registrator) and then on your way
    near red light your car would have been rear-ended by a heavy truck, leaving you paraplegic, would you be happier?

  10. Try Khan Academy first on Ask Slashdot: Worth Going For a Graduate Degree In the Middle of Your Career? · · Score: 0

    Why not? It's, at least, free.
    http://www.khanacademy.org/about

  11. RUBY, BASIC on Ask Slashdot: Scripting-Friendly Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    Ruboto IRB (in Google play)
    tuProlog (from their site)
    BASIC ( in Google play)

    Not so bad. Need no root.

  12. Re:Probably on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 0

    An H-1B bomb?

  13. For Android Developer: on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Standing/Walking Workstations? · · Score: 2

    Install AIDE and go for a walk in a park with your phone, having your IDE handy with you. Or put your phone/pad to a treadmill in front of you.

  14. It's all right, but on How To Share a Cake Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    how to eat your cake and have it too ?

  15. Re:Does he get to keep it? on Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof · · Score: 1

    From the local media - the local administration has provided this guy materials, and he already has fixed the roof himself.
    Nevertheless, seems like he is now trying to sue Roskosmos for moral damages.

  16. Imagine in real life on New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins · · Score: 1

    You have called a plumber. Plumber came in with some guy. Some guy bringed his golden tin, went to your kitchen, took your hammer from your instrument stand and started to mint fake coins. Ow!

  17. Show them Storytelling Alice on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    www.alice.org
    It's a 3d world, which is programmed using visual programming language. For kids.
    A free one, also have source code.
    License is apache 1.0

  18. Missiles? on NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space · · Score: 1

    Any time i hear about tornadoes and their damage, I think: why US military doesn't say a word in tornado prevention?
    On most weather radars tornadoes and tornado-capable clouds are shown almost perfectly.
    So why not
    - fire missiles iodic argentum warheads to such clouds, forcing their rainfall.
    - fire missiles with heavy warheads (conventional) to the already developed tornadoes?

  19. Re:Stupid patent system on Google Loses Bedrock Suit, All Linux May Infringe · · Score: 1

    Hm. A good idea to search prior art in an "Art of programming" by Donald Knuth.

  20. Re:New Pigments! on Scientists Aim To Improve Photosynthesis · · Score: 1

    Red cabbage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_cabbage) has almost black, dark violet leaves. It tastes good.

  21. Re:First post on The Case Against GUIs, Revisited · · Score: 1

    Imagine a Guified CLI, in which, for example, you can provide a set of images by selecting it visually in some gallery, and the command will look like
    processImage [here comes the images in thumbnails] -size 20 -colorify
    ?

  22. Same in Moscow, Russia on Texas Student Attends School As a Robot · · Score: 1
  23. What about FidoNet? on Egypt Goes Dark As Last ISP Pulls Plug · · Score: 1

    Does this coutry have any presence in FidoNet? It's a useful form of distributed communication.

  24. Re:Believe? on Fedora Infrastructure Compromised · · Score: 2

    Excluding logs before and in the exact time of break-in, while attacker hasn't put his stealth instruments to the victim machine yet.

  25. Re:Everything? on Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything · · Score: 1

    At least
    - it'll be a lot of fun to just stare and browse this thing, zooming to your own areas. This can make a lot of money on advertisiments!
    - Some portions of this can be used to improve forecasts, weather forecasts.