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  1. Great plan on Experts Warn Of Possible North Korean Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's smart. After you fail on a well tought rocket test, you simply rush a nuclear test so that people will forget the first one. Bonus point if all your well tought nuclear tests also failed up to now. Don't worry, this time things will work out ok, there is no pression or anything.

    Ok, I can belive they are planning that. If their leader have a bad idea, it will come through execution anyway... But it isn't an automatic thing like the summary implies.

  2. Re:Panspermia on Scientists Study Trajectories of Life-Bearing Earth Meteorites · · Score: 1

    The Urey-Miller experiment didn't just create amino acids and RNA basis. It also linked those elements at random in chains where shorter chains were way more common than long ones. That means, expand the sample size and the experiment time and it is quite possible that something like us come from it.

  3. Re:Mac's don't get malware on Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, it acts like a scientific calculator and doesn't do rounding. What do you expect it to do, your computer returns that same value if you code that in C.

  4. Re:Silver on Copper-Graphene Nanocomposite Cools Electronics Faster & Cheaper · · Score: 1

    Probably because their graphene is polycrystaline (if one can call them crystals) and this composite is actualy better at conducting heat from one crystal to the other than pure graphene. But I'm not sure, as I didn't read the scientific article.

    Anyway, comparing the heat conductivity of this polycrystaline material with monocrystaline graphene is useless.

  5. Re:Interesting. on Copper-Graphene Nanocomposite Cools Electronics Faster & Cheaper · · Score: 1

    Take a look at pipelines and all the other processor design techniques develpped after the 80's.

  6. Re:When people abuse prices go up on Best Buy Scans Drivers License For Returns — No More Allowed For 90 Days · · Score: 2

    Yep. I really don't belive that denying refunds or exchange will fly.

    What they can do is to make the process more complex if you got a refund recently, like actualy testing the product you are claiming is broken,

  7. Re:Load balancing and an experienced sysadmin on Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site? · · Score: 1

    Instead of trying to "detect" a DDOS, you can simply replace 1) with rate limiting.

    That's a great thing for doing in the kernel. Thus, I was out searching if it was alreay done, and yes, it is.

  8. Re:Other work says water diffuses through graphene on Pockets In Graphene Layers Allow Viewing of Liquids With an Electron Microscope · · Score: 1

    This post is the top thing on google when searching for "graphene baklava"! The rest seems to be blogs about baklava using the graphene wordpress template... At least I was able to discover what a baklava is.

    Searching for the author name gets better results.

  9. Re:Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Oh, now it makes sense. I was thinking about the sensors installed on lights to fine the car that cross a red, not the sensors used to discover when to turn the light.

    In the end, that later kind of sensor isn't pedestrian friendly either (pedestrians too have to cross streets) thus they aren't used around here anymore. That's why it didn't occour to me.

  10. Re:Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 0

    Well, ok. I don't even own one anymore (I do walk 3km to get somewhere, but you won't see me in a bike), but...

    A car has enough metal surface to trigger induction loops connected to traffic signals; a bike does not.

    And so what? That trafic signal is there only because a car is a danger for everything around it. There is no need to control the bike (and the ciclist will even control hinself if he wishes to live - what's not granted).

  11. Re:This is how our start-up handles it on Ask Slashdot: Viable Open Source Models For Early Startups? · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's an "interesting" approach to marketing.

    The downsides are that the people you want as clients will think your products lack quality, and if you ever grow enough to be noticed, somebody will fork your application and everybody will change for the fork.

    The Upsides are... Well, you say it worked quite well. Altough I can't imagine how, I'm probably missing something.

  12. Re:Long live XP on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 2

    That'll be interesting to whatch. What comes first? Massive migration from XP or April 2014?

    Will the currently old computers that run XP be replaced by them?

  13. Re:how to stop this on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 2

    On a zero sum game (like elections) carrots and sticks are the same thing.

  14. Re:End of the cloud on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 1

    That page needs to explain what the hell the software does. And should do that in big letters, at the page you linked, not after you click a button.

    Really, I've tried to discover, and all I can say is that it does file and photo synchronization with your phone. I'm not even sure if it does something else.

  15. Re:Cant stop a moving train on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 1

    Freedom is not good for the 1%.

    Freedom is only bad for the elite when they are decadent. While the elite is ascending, it is quite good for them.

  16. Good example on how an argument descend in flames on OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru · · Score: 1

    Sometimes a community can not really hold a discussion. Both posts were useless, and should be correctly marked as flamebait (as this one should be correctly marked as offtopic). I'd say people simply choosed the wrong mark, but the line between troll and flaimebait is fuzzy.

    The fact is that Linux is used on plenty of servers out there, as is Windows. With robust application level software, both can work reasonably well (there is a small difference on performance, but it can be compensated by hardware). There is some difference on availability and price of robust application level software for them, as there is also some difference on support on both short term and long term, but both can run applications well enough to be used.

    Now, the list the AC posted there (is that you?) is a weak argument supporting the dominance of Linux, while the list he replied to doesn't bring much data in any direction. Just remember that running one OS doesn't stop an entity from running another one. If Windows had a share of servers similar of Linux, and both were independent, 75% of the listed entities would use Windows.

  17. Re:Alan Kay on Should Failure Be Rewarded To Spur Innovation? · · Score: 1

    Capitalism doesn't reward failure

    No, it does reward bold success. The point is that it doesn't care about how many times you fail, but it cares about how bold your success was.

  18. Re:"Seize the youth/seize the future" FAIL on OLPC Project Disappoints In Peru · · Score: 1

    That Linux won't be adopted on the PC.

    Altough, I disagree with that point because of the simple fact that MS won't last forever, but Linux may last for a looong time.

  19. Re:Seems rather limited to Intel. on CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, processors didn't exist before IBM. Unless you are counting mechanical ones.

  20. Re:this is really good news on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1

    I doubt people feed High-Fructose Corn Syrup to bees at China. Nearly nobody out of the US uses it.

  21. Re:Monsanto-sponsored smear campaign on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1

    GMO plants is not the only thing Monsanto sells. In fact, it is not even the most important thing.

    Pesticides are their main business, and their GMO crops exist mainly to suppport that business. They also sell fertilizers (they are what made Monsanto huge).

  22. Re:Key AND Password on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    Why would you want that? If you fear somebody else getting hold of your key, put a password on it; if you fear your key is too short, make it longer.

  23. Re:Evolve or die on Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists · · Score: 1

    "We've decided to stop paying artists entirely, that is up to them. From now on we expect them to largely give their work away for free, and will offer some advertising for the first 5000 to sign up"

    It is more like "We offer advertizing services, you can hire us, 5000 artits already did". By the way, advertizing is the only remaining activity of the labels, thus it would be just another channel.

  24. Re:Thats right enslaving robots is bad...bad! on Do Tablets Help Children Learn? · · Score: 1

    Hey that one was called Battlestar Gatica? I didn't watch many episodes, so I may be wrong.

  25. Re:Same story over again on Dysfunctional Console Industry Struggles For New Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if Microsoft needs an strategy to make people finally use Linux, that will do.