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  1. Copernicus on Galileo: Right On the Solar System, Wrong On Ice · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sorry, it was Copernicus who championed the idea of heliocentrism (planets revolving around the sun) thus taking the earth out of the center of the universe model. Galileo was famed for the usage of the telescope to look at the heavens, the telescope had already been invented. In fact Galileo didn't invent or discover the things he is famous for, he simply marketed them..

  2. The origin of plastic on US States Banned From Exporting Trash To China Are Drowning In Plastic · · Score: 1

    Didn't the plastic originate from China in the first place, oh the irony! I think the US govt. should tell the Chinese govt. if they don't accept our recycled trash, we won't accept their plastic products.

  3. Vice Versa on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 1

    What if those children which area already prone to breaking things, need more sugar than the rest of the kids?

  4. Similar to... on World's First Road-Powered Electric Vehicle Network Opens · · Score: 1

    Almost sounds like something called a Metro (or subway)

  5. Good technology but impractical on First Laptop With Full-Sized Solar Panels Will Run On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    How many people do you see using laptops while they're sitting out in the sun, not many. In developing countries where they lack electricity I don't think you will find many laptop users sitting out either for fear of being robbed, an no I am not stereotyping, this is a fact. What third-world countries need, is electricity and running water, before they start using laptops.

  6. Interface to the human body. on Super-Flexible Circuits Could Boost Smartphones, Bionic Limbs · · Score: 1

    I don't like anything implanted in my body unless I am able to take it out at will, so maybe we need a basic interface into the human body that way we can choose what to attach to it.

  7. Good for users - bad for manufacturers on U.S. Calls On China To End Hacking; Start Cyberspace Dialogue · · Score: 1

    I bet a long list of security appliance manufacturers are sweating bullets after reading this.

  8. The algorithm is written on the window on High Tech Vending Machines Transform IT Support At Facebook · · Score: 1

    ".. algorithm ... if anyone has pulled 10 sets of headphones out of the system" If you they really need an algorithm to make that determination then they must have a shitload of engineers twirling their thumbs.

  9. Easy on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Driving in the right lane, 55 with a big smile waving the peace sign to everyone and being friendly.

  10. 190 million dollars for each fighter plane, think about that for a moment...

  11. Other studies on Promiscuity Alters DNA and Boosts Immunity In Mice · · Score: 1

    show that promiscuous mice are at higher risk of contracting disease, I wonder if the other mice were disease-free, what's the point of altering DNA if a mice gets ill and dies before passing on to other mice.

  12. Claro on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Of course they're going to back circumcision, most US doctors are of Jewish faith.

  13. Looks like... on Curiosity's Latest High-Res Photo Looks Like Earth · · Score: 1

    "Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Earth." "Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Arizona." "Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Utah."

  14. One word on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? · · Score: 1

    Go back to where you came from :) Kidding, welcome to the US where everyone is either an immigrant or the descendent of one.. Have you tried Boost Mobile?

  15. Re:224MB memory? Forget it. on Nokia Researcher Puts Firefox OS On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    I recall the old days of EMS where a piece of software would double your memory by compressing/decompressing on the fly, whatever happened to those?

  16. Re:When I was on Cyber Attack Knocks Offline Saudi Aramco · · Score: 1

    No need to blame anyone when they openly take credit.

  17. Not worth the effort on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    This is like asking if it would be possible to use floppy disk to retrieve a 1MB file, I (and others) don't see the point of your question,hard disk drives are a lot cheaper, substantially faster and a lot more reliable. The time is takes for the tape drive to boot up, get mounted to the OS file system and access the area where the file is located is ridiculously long.

  18. Re:54% is LOW on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    Exactly and since when are people able to determine if a agency able to do its job properly? Are we experts in security enforcement?

  19. Polls on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    On a totally unrelated note, although related to the mass population: Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe that Iraq had WMDs Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe we are defending our country by being thousands of miles away in Afghanistan Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe the hijackers were from Iraq / Afghanistan Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe they actually vote for the president of the US Of course these numbers are made up, but you get the point...

  20. One word: cpio on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Check out cpio under Linux or many Unix flavor OS, cpio can span backups over multiple target media. Make sure to test backup AND just as important: restore.

  21. Re:Tape? on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    I don't think tape is a good idea for large backups, mostly because of the restore times it would take, tapes are sequentially read/written so a search and restore for data at the end of the tape would take a very long time.

  22. defrestation on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Deforestation and the killing of wild animals faster than they can reproduce is the reason why water doesn't replenish quickly enough. Killing animals deprives their predators from food and so on, this affects the whole ecosystem in which these animals live. Deforestation prevents water from remaining in the soil and so on.

  23. tit for tat on Data-Fed Monitoring System Will Put New Yorkers Under Police Surveillance · · Score: 1

    And so you think that this balances things out? The difference here is that the NYC police can take action against citizens, you can spy on the police all day long and you can't do squat, revenge never works people, diplomacy does, we need to talk and discuss what is going on and arrive at better laws to protect both the police and the people they are trying to police.

  24. Re:Depends whether you include discrete math on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    please give an example. Any software that provides statistics, problem solving, etc.. can make great use of higher math, did you know you can solve word problems in complex math equations, fairly easily actually vs writing countless lines of code.

  25. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Oh boy. The difference between programming with Math and without it is huge, first off many programmer write elaborate lines of codes that can be replaced with a single like of "math well spent". A very simple example of the Modulus function which I'm not going to explain, I've seen 10 lines code that mimics the modulus function, why, because the programmer is math-illiterate, other functions such as divisions or more complex can be easily achieved by binary math, the same goes with trigonometry, and more important calculus differential equations and statistics-related functions. Those who say math isn't need in programing don't know what they are missing, it's like saying multiplication is not needed, unless you are writing "hello world" code all day long.