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  1. Re:Latency on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    There are robots now that have their own little electronic brains.

  2. Its rotation period matches the orbit, so it is tidally locked. Libration is due to other factors, mainly the fact that the orbit isn't perfectly circular.

  3. Even if it was locked to the sun, how likely is it that the probe always keeps directly between the sun & the asteroid? Or at least always keeps the same angle to it?

  4. It's not my turn. I went last time!

  5. Re:All fiction on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    pet cemetery

    You should read that one again - a bit more carefully.

  6. Re:Um.... Dogs are cheap on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The security aspect did occur to me, but if some ne'er-do-well isn't scared off by two is he going to be scared off by six or seven?

  7. Re:Cause and effect, not fault. on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    cost a fraction of that at a privet vet

    Is that like a tree surgeon?

  8. Re: NFW on Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Walk tall, keep your eye on the ball, stick your chest out and always carry a torch.

  9. Better hope it's recessive on Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    the gene is out of the bottle

    As the bishop said to the actress.

  10. Prime numbers on 51st Known Mersenne Prime Number Found (mersenne.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    A prime number can only be divided by one, itself, and Chuck Norris.

  11. 10 Million on Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just dust in the wind.

  12. Re:Prediction on More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't lie. You just think "productivity" is a fancier synonym of "output".

  13. Re:Prediction on More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    and you're paying a big overhead per head

    If the system was set up that way, it can be set up differently.

    You're not in any practical sense paying for Bob's healthcare or Bob's retirement, you're paying into the healthcare and pension system.

    Good luck with that. I can hear the cries of "Communism! Venezuela! Compulsory gay maerriage!" already.

  14. So the amoeba is just a display? I wondered if I'd missed something when I read it.

    Then I asked myself why it was even posted, since it's not really a story, is it?

    And then I remembered where I was.

  15. Re: In other news, networking still a shitshow on Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features · · Score: 1

    I couldn't get shared folders working either, but I'm running a pretty old version. Since the host machine runs an smb server that was an OK workaround.

    On the other other hand, I couldn't get VMWare to work at all.

  16. Re:Prediction on More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    and that working more _decreases_ total (!) productivity.

    Productivity is defined as output per unit of input (usually per hour of labour). Totalling it makes no more sense than walking for five minutes, driving on a road for ten minutes and on a freeway for an hour and saying your total speed was 89 mph.

  17. Re:Can you dig it? on More Companies Are Trying a Four-Day Work Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This may be less realistic in an industry like mine where most operations run seven days a week and around 360 days a year, but it could be fantastic wherever it is practical.

    There are some advanced management techniques available that enable businesses to operate without having all the people there at all times.

  18. Whole Foods probably has a better margin. But they have a hefty delivery fee if you order under $35.

    So buy two apples.

  19. Re:Before the "Whip buggy manufacturers" comments. on This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The people who were displaced were knocked down a few rungs on the economic ladder.

    Which is a bit of a bugger if you're already on the bottom one.

    http://peterhousehold.blogspot...

  20. Re:Martin NiemÃller on This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, you could learn a new skill that robots won't be able to do and neither will any of the other people who were displaced.

    FTFY

  21. Re: Unemployment rate at 50 year low on This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And give him .. a nonconcurrent Sentence, for crimes. Against punctuation

  22. Re:Great on Python Gets New Governance Model (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a language for hipennials. If they followed your suggestion they'd probably swap opening and closing or match a right square with a left curly.

    It'd be almost as ugly as the bash case syntax.

  23. Re:A little late, isn't it? on Python Gets New Governance Model (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Are any of them suffering from seNIlity?

  24. An approximate value would be dot dash dash dash, dot dash, dash dot dash dot, dash dot dash, dot dot dot, dot dot dot dot, dot dot, dash

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    Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. )

  25. Re:ICANN can go fuck themselves on Forget Dot Com, 2019 Will Finally be the Year of Weird Domain Names (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    As far as if gTLDs are good or bad. Meh, I can think of worse things that ICANN could have done.

    Have they got round to unicode yet?

    That'll be fun - a link to bankgrandmotheruses.com, except one of the characters has a tiny little umlaut or squiggly thing.