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  1. Re:nice try, planetary scientists on Vesta Is a Baby Planet, Not an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    They made a bad call on Pluto, but they're trying to get it right with Vesta, they must be referee-like.

  2. Re:Pluto? on Vesta Is a Baby Planet, Not an Asteroid · · Score: -1

    Planets orbit the sun, asteroids orbit something else. If a rock among other rocks is orbiting the sun, and it meets the other qualifications, it's a planet..

  3. Re:Does it have to be water, not some other liquid on Mars Rover Turns Up Evidence Of Water · · Score: 2

    We need to find water on Mars in order to support manned missions, bringing it from Earth makes the cargo weight that much heavier.

  4. Haven't we seen this before? on Mars Rover Turns Up Evidence Of Water · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mars probes typically return this kind of water on Mars data every few years or so. The problem is, it's nowhere close to the water level found on Earth and therefore it's ability to support any form of life is quite low. I'm not sure how newsworthy this is. It doesn't make much sense to me.

  5. DVD Edition on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    One of the most distinctive features of Linux Format was a DVD edition sold around the turn of the millennium that saved modem-connected users from having to download the latest packages. It was cool.

  6. Re:But... but... on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    Yep, my brother and I used to buy 2600 there and share it. B&N has always had a good supply of geeky materials.

  7. Does this guy say... on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'M KING OF THE WORLD!?!

  8. Re:There must be some way... on Good News For US Fusion Research · · Score: 1

    Your comment is about five years late. This was an Obama cut that got undone by the House.... it's all (D)s involved.

  9. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 0

    There are two ways to put Windows on a Mac, Boot Camp and virtual machines which both put the full capabilities of Windows in front of the user and programs and therefore malware. Windows on a Mac requires antivirus and antispyware solutions just like any other PC.

  10. Re:More importantly on How Good Are Robo-Graders? · · Score: 1

    How quickly will teachers become completely automated? That's a bit of a scary concept. You can't just have "teachers" who do nothing but press "Play" on a video machine.

  11. Sorry, human intervention required on How Good Are Robo-Graders? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think auto-graders are a good idea. Where is the information exchange between student and teachers? Teachers need to read student essays not just to assign the grade, but to exchange knowledge with their students Opinions and comments should be two-sided exchanges, if students are writing things that aren't going to be read, how does that work?

  12. Re:Uhm, not even old news on MIT Hack Turns the Green Building Into a Giant Game of Tetris · · Score: 1

    Yep, this is not the first time we've discussed this one... but it's nice to see a tradition like this still going on.

  13. Warning: Concusing use of "Black Box" on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Black Boxes are typically things that scare Slashdot. We don't know how they work, as compared to a documented "white box" solution.

    This definition of a "Black Box" is different. It's an event data recorder, meant to be like the orange devices found at airplane crash sites designed to let everybody know the status of the vehicle before it crashed. No big privacy change because most cars already have one, it's just a law change that requires there be standards,. rules, and such for these things in the future.

  14. Re:SlowNewsDay on US and China Held Secret Cyber Wargames · · Score: 1

    The more communication the US has with China

    Who said this was communication? This was barely a "wargame" and not something worth our time.

  15. tanslation Error on iTunes' Windows Problem · · Score: 1

    This isn't a ""Windows Problem" it's a "PC Problem" because it's about both Mac too, which is both a type of PC. What happens to the user who's traveling or doesn't have their PC available or one at all? They should still be able to sync their music collection with iCloud and such. This "PC-Free" initiative should be the answer to that.

  16. SlowNewsDay on US and China Held Secret Cyber Wargames · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What we have here is a pen-and-paper exercise between two groups of bigwigs where there were asked a few questions about what they would do, and we have no idea if they answered truly or not. What is this story doing here? We must not have anything to talk about today.

  17. "Theft" of data isn't quite right. on Court Rules Code Not Physical Property · · Score: 2

    This is as old as Napster and other file sharing technologies. The copyright holders would rather use the laws for "theft" than "copyright infringement" but that's just not going to work. Good lawyer work on the defense side I think.

  18. Re:For Sale on Fully Functional Nintendo Controller Coffee Table · · Score: 2

    Yep, and G4's AOTS did a similar thing when the show first started.

  19. Oblig Comedy Centrail referenece on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    There's only one thing left to do when this happens, teach our kids how to play Crossballs. (Anybody remember that show?)

  20. Re:Ex post facto on Appeals Court Rules TOS Violations Aren't Criminal · · Score: 1

    They can't without permission, but continuing to use the service can represent permission.

  21. Go to SCotUS, Go directly to SCotUS on Appeals Court Rules TOS Violations Aren't Criminal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A court ruling out of line with three other rulings is certainly a sign that the court wants a higher court to look at this... 3-1 scores don't matter, just that the case got there.

  22. Best defense: Overprovisioning and cutoffs on Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's two key strategies to avoid being DDoSed... first, have more processor, network speed, and disk I/O resources than you need for normal load so that the attacker can't fill one of your computers pipes. Then, host your server or servers at multi-connected datacenters which can cut off large users of your server before it reaches your NIC card. Firewalls at the server can't get back the bandwidth lost to needless connections, but firewalls at the datacenter entry points can. Basically, make sure none of your time-sensitive loads reach 100% and you're fine.

  23. Re:Does this mean even more pown'd windows boxes? on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 1

    Yep, and it wouldn't surprise me to see someone from Microsoft go home and write the critical exploit for the flaw that'll never be fixed. If your OS no longer has patches available, you're running too old an OS.

  24. Re:10 wrong then wipe rule? on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    What's your source on that?

  25. TV nuetrality? on Comcast Not Counting Their Video Service Against Bandwidth Cap · · Score: 1

    If I have to have Comcast to watch Comcast Sports Net and the new NBC Sports Network, and DirecTV in order to watch Fox Sports Net... just how do I chose?