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  1. Re: pulsars for positioning is idea with old roots on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    the odds are nothing will ever find it anyway, ever

  2. Re:workers are begging to join on Robots Ride To the Rescue Where Workers Can't Be Found (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    you mean those male refugees that left their wives, mothers, sisters, daughters behind to be raped and/or forced into child marriage?

    fuck 'em

  3. Re: pulsars for positioning is idea with old roots on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    article is incorrect, assumes times and distances which don't apply to probes as they will go near many star systems in less than 2 million years. So the nearby pulsars if any aliens find them in tens of thousands to couple million years will be the same and they won't change much.

    article is just a meme

  4. Re: pulsars for positioning is idea with old roots on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry but author was ignorant. The problems pointed out are for over many millions of years and immense distances. But the probes will go by other stars in a much shorter timescale, near first one in less than 100,000 years. The plaques would be useful for stars near earth and in tmespans of couple million of years.

  5. Re:gas on NASA Planet-Hunter Set For Launch (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Methane from biological functions of living organisms is not a problem on Earth. Nor is carbon dioxide from those processes either.

    The industrial production of these gasses may be another matter

  6. Re:God damn it on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    what nonsense about Russia, they abolished serfdom and were on their way to building something great. by early 20th century were the 4th biggest economic power. communism was a downgrade.

  7. Re:Oh crap... on Diamonds in Sudan Meteorite 'Are Remnants of Lost Planet' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    our early solar system had a large amount of those, not just one. a lot of them are still around, further away after Jupiter flung them out. others shredded. still that would be long before multicellular life on earth came around

  8. not for modern smartphone it isn't, that's why they dropped making any new QNX in 2015 with support only since then. Live in the past if you want, but the future is not that type of kernel, it's not up to the job

  9. nonsense, they dropped it. can't cut what a modern smartphone does

  10. actually it happened, now you can buy can get tablet with keyboard in a case for under $100 that does more than the OLPC can do

  11. pulsars for positioning is idea with old roots on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    the plaques on the Pioneer spacecraft launched in 1972 and 1973 showed the Earth's position from 14 pulsars

  12. Re:The code bellow is illegal. on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    that might be a munition under U.S. law

  13. Re:Science is obsolete on The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    the "lone wolf" type is discouraged these days. True in science, true in the corporation. And probably 99.9% of the time that's a good and proper thing, most good really is accomplished with teams and collaboration. I have a feeling though that a more useful model of reality will come from a lone wolf though

  14. Re:He's Right on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    we have a choice at work between those or mac books so we see the lifetime of hundreds. those Dell have MUCH more reliability problems

  15. Re:Could have been stricter on Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    you're confused, that is all part of shipping costs. really.

    bigger and more efficient ships are built all the time anyway, it's why there are shipbuilders with *growing* order lists

    the builders and operators are EXTREMELY interested in fuel savings

  16. Re:He's Right on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless' (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    no, windows laptops are flimsy, mac laptops are robust and have incredible battery life. don't have to fart around with driver downloading either.

    windows and its hardware are an inferior world, I'm in both for laptops as my mac book pro is supplied by employer but at home my family and I have wintel laptops

  17. Re:Science is obsolete on The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    even the searches for dark horse candidates for dark matter are coming up empty. and the Higg's boson is *dangerously* light. and our two best models of reality can't be reconciled at all.

    we don't know how the fundamental things work yet

  18. Re:Could have been stricter on Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    pfft, shipping costs are small percentage of cost of goods. get a grip

  19. Re:Interesting Linux dropping old hardware support on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    you're being silly. the discontinued CPU aren't what are used in PC, look them up and in what kind of devices they are used.

  20. I heard there was talk to make it run Linux well too after that

  21. Re:Science is obsolete on The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Dark matter kind of throws our rock chucking equations into the crapper for large scale and big rocks

  22. Re:God damn it on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    nah those purges made lifespan take a big hit

  23. the point is some babies are born obese. look it up. just under 10 lbs. is the starting point of the definition. facts are our friends, AC. Maybe you should holler up the stairway to your mom to order you a pizza so you can chill out. don't have a heart attack jerking off, not fair to the paramedics to make them haul you quarter ton ass up the stairs.

  24. signatures served no purpose on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I can't write anything that looks like my signature on those silly tablets anyway, and a lot of people just make a wavy line..... how about some actual security instead? a pin? connect the dots on a grid in a pattern?

    signatures always were silly, a thief can practice the one they make you put the the back of your card

  25. Re:Wait, let me get this straight. on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    actually, no, there are limits on liability.

    so not brave, just insured