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  1. Re:The holy grail on New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, and in the passive case, have a look at this GPS analysis to detect snow depth. http://xenon.colorado.edu/pres...

  2. Re:There are numerous other obvious flaws on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    well yeah, it's been 50 years. With today's technology we can easily go back and fake the landing sites on the moon directly. Since we won the spacerace by faking out the russians.

  3. Re:The holy grail on New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. It's called RADAR, specifically a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

  4. Re:Good riddance on Microsoft Shutting Down MSN Messenger After 15 Years of Service · · Score: 2

    Ah yes, HoTMaiL.

  5. Re:Now, if they would just ditch... on Mozilla Ditches Firefox's New-Tab Monetization Plans · · Score: 1

    More than one extension. One extension per interface revision, and they don't play nicely together and add lag.

  6. Re:yes on Can the Lix 3D Printing Pen Actually Work? · · Score: 1

    no one argues that the concept is impossible, just this implementation. The 3d-doodler is an available ABS extruding pen, just bulkier and with a beefier power supply.

  7. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then on The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    kid at 25, now back in school at 30? Hardly impossible.

  8. Re:fall to Earth on GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land · · Score: 4, Informative

    and http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2013/09/14/european-satellite-goce-uncontrolled-reentry/ his will be the first uncontrolled reentry of an ESA satellite since Isee-2, in 1987. Unfortunately, it will not be the last, considering that the bus-size Envisat’s altitude is gradually decaying in Low-Earth Orbit without control. According to ESA, up to 25% of GOCE’s mass will survive the extreme reentry conditions to fall to the ground. However, the risk for populated areas is very small since the majority of the Earth is covered by oceans. “The major part of what survives to the surface will be the core instrument,” says Dr. Floberghagen. “From the original mass which we have now in space, we have estimated that about 25%, about 250 kilos, will reach the surface, and these 250 kilos will be distributed over between 40 and 50 fragments.” The fragments that survive will hit the ground in a 900 km long footprint. The reentry will be a good test for debris monitoring systems and fragmentation models.

  9. Re:fall to Earth on GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some, but not all of it. http://www.spaceflight101.com/goce-re-entry.html : With its fins and aerodynamic shape, GOCE will maintain a stable position in orbit as it approaches entry. During entry, the spacecraft will likely remain in that position for the initial phase of re-entry until it breaks up. Following the destruction of the spacecraft, most of its components will harmlessly burn up in the atmosphere. However, it is known that about 20 to 40% of a re-entering satellite's total mass reach Earth's surface. Dense components of satellites usually impact 800 to 1,300 Kilometers downrange from the Orbital Decay Point. Their journey back to Earth is strongly influenced by atmospheric properties like crosswinds that play a major role during atmospheric descent.

  10. Re:45 years ago... on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 1

    You're just assuming he stopped reading after the third line or so, eh?

  11. Re:He's Banned Now on Facebook May Dislike the Social Fixer Extension, but Many Users Love It (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well, they'll probably do what they did to fbpurity, block all links to his site from facebook. You can't post a link to it.

  12. Re:Long live TeX and LaTeX on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    you don't have to do this with tex, unless you are coding in a unrelated, plain, word editing program. It isn't necessarily instant live update, but it is a far cry from paper and markers. Also, cascades shouldn't progress beyond section breaks, and you can force even finer cascade breaks.

  13. Re:packet radio? on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    Would not a cryptographic signature not be enough to protect these kinds of communication?

  14. Re:volume on Is Google Voice Doomed To Be 2nd-Class Messaging System? · · Score: 1

    His wife must read /.

  15. Re:check the weather out west on Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms · · Score: 2

    Excepting when it comes off the gulf, or from Canada. Or when it becomes suddenly severe. But yes, typically it does come from the west.

  16. Re:Good idea on New 'Academic Redshirt' For Engineering Undergrads at UW · · Score: 1

    it depends what you call passed. 50%, 65%, 80% (here, that's the min undergrad, honours, grad grade to "pass"). Passing means you know enough to do that material, not that you understand it well enough to apply it without effort while learning the next level, so if you stopped there you could be considered to know the material.

  17. Re:Not an EA fan but on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    Loosing (karma) is Fun.

  18. Re:$4.30 MSP430 Launchpad for starters on Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform? · · Score: 2

    I started with arduino, and I had no microcontroller experience. The community, examples from the absolute ground up, and vendor (sparkfun, adafruit, etc) support is excellent. It all makes for a really enjoyable experience. Digikey and mouser get you parts fast. Ebay and random asian websites get you parts slow but cheap. If you want graphics (eg. TV, or monitor) though, best go with the pi. A pi costs less than an arduino graphics shield. Ethernet is doable at least.

  19. Re:$4.30 MSP430 Launchpad for starters on Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform? · · Score: 1

    There is also an arduino style IDE for it. http://energia.nu/

  20. Re:What is the fascination with this case? on John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center · · Score: 1

    Hans Reiser

  21. Re:No, not really... on Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    goodreader (ios) can cut margins. Its not automatic, but it is very quick and it remembers. I can comfortably read papers on my ipod, although scrolling (with helpful jump buttons) is necessary.

  22. Re:The problem with CFC on Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    not only that, but it isn't something that you keep using, so even if civilization continues, CFC's probably won't (at high levels). The consequences of high atmospheric CFC's are enough to push them out of use. It'll be like high powered omnidirectional TV and radio signals. Those stopped too, yet we continue.

  23. Follows the same rule as small scale on The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive · · Score: 2

    It's not the fall that hurts, it is the sudden stop at the end.

  24. Re:Good to hear on Galileo: Europe's Version of GPS Reaches Key Phase · · Score: 1

    Humour aside, north pole GPS is important for all those great-circle plane routes that go over the north.

  25. Re:Antitrust issues anyone? on The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia · · Score: 1

    The opposite is more likely, them keeping nokia afloat so that there is still a maker of microsoft phones.