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  1. Slashdot reader Longjmp asks:

    When will EditorDavid stop repeating in his comment what's right there in the summary.

    So will he ever stop repeating what is right there in the summary. What do slashdot readers think?

  2. Re: Good luck with that. on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    That's easy.
    We'd just tell them we defy all known physics, from flares and radiation to pure mechanical forces like they do, obviously ;)

  3. Re:Good luck with that. on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correct. But not only that.
    It's most likely also 'tidal-locked', meaning one side will always face the sun (and be damn hot) and the other side permanently dark (damn cold) - with storms between which will make Earth's hurricanes look like the blow of a butterfly.
    With an evironment like that, we can rule out higher life forms.
    However, even primitive algae and amoebae in the belt between the extreme zones would be a sensation.

  4. Re:I hate clouds on Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight With Up To 200 Meteors Per Hour (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't miss anything, since, according to some comments above, they don't exist anyway.
    Ever been to Africa? No? That's because it doesn't exist either ;)

    More seriously, we were lucky, only a cloud or two. And it was indeed impressive, a lot more of those little critters than usual :)

  5. Re: Every single year on Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight With Up To 200 Meteors Per Hour (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So, in your just over 60 years no one ever told you to try spotting them during nighttime?
    Sad.

  6. Re:That's 129.2F if you're interested. on 54C Recorded In Kuwait Likely Hottest On Record In Asia (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe the temperatures of an ice/brine mix and your anus is more relevant to you (although I don't want to know any details), for me, however, the freezing and boiling points of water make a lot more sense ;)

  7. Re:What could go wrong? on Laser-Armed Martian Robot Now Vaporizing Targets of Its Own Free Will (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least the thing can't come back to earth, right? Right?

    Eventually it will reproduce.
    When our first astronauts arrive on Mars, they will notice that not only Mars is populated by robots, but also the robots have developed into an intelligent life form.
    And then Earth will be bombed into oblivion as soon as the astronauts exit the lander and wave their "Get Windows 10" flag.

  8. Re:At least it's good to know FB has priorities on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 1

    Thank you for proving my sig.
    Where in my (very) few words above did I say I was blaming Islam (only)?
    Or, in your view, Islam is a religion, whereas christian belief is not? Then what is it, the "Truth"?
    If so, you are among the people who are carrying on the hypocracy.

  9. Re:At least it's good to know FB has priorities on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 2

    Hypocritical society:
    Killing people is OK, "making" people (sex) is not.
    I blame religion.

  10. Re:I'm waiting for Tetris on Minecraft Movie To Compete With Avengers and Star Wars In 2019 (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfff, hipster.
    I want to see Pong: The Movie and Pong Reloaded
    (plus Making of - behind the bars).

  11. Re:Sweet on New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee (reddit.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    C++ needed more features. Some C++ books aren't even 1000 pages long.

    I agree! And more use of the "const" keyword.
    I want to write something like
    const int const foo(const*(const) int const a) const: const {}
    and
    for (const i = 0;const i(const)++; i and finally:
    const return const 1 (const const const)

  12. At least it wasn't equipped with a finger pricker.

    No, but with a laser.
    Its production number was No. 5 btw.

  13. Re:Design by cobbling together on Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As an extreme example there is Obi-Wan's lightsaber: it was built from an 1940's airplane engine, a WWI rifle grenade, a 1970's calculator, a WWII machine gun, a 1930's camera flash and a 1970's faucet knob.

    That's way to sophisticated ;)
    In the 1960's German TV series "Raumpatrouille Orion" (Space Patrol Orion) they used things like faucets and electric irons as controls, easily identifiable as such in the films.

  14. Re:Century 21, we're HERE! on China Plans To Reach Mars by 2020 and Eventually Build a Moon Base (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the refrain:

    "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning ..."

  15. Re:unless you're on the very young side of "teen". on Snowden Predicts Global iPhone Hack, Records Song (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    How does a person manage to not be aware of that?

    Speed readers...

  16. Re:No helmet??? on Jet Pack Company Executive Crashes During A Test Flight (kdvr.com) · · Score: 1
    You didn't even bother to read the summary, right?

    ... while hovering 20 feet over the "Go Fast" energy drink company ...
    ...but after receiving 27 stitches, he was released from the hospital...

    No parachute will open at that height, unless it's a rocket-propelled military jet seat parachute.
    Kinda hard to imagine he could carry one of those.
    And any kind of helmet, even a bicycle helmet, would have prevented those injuries.

  17. They mean fission, right?

    Yea, is fusion reactor, the article title is wrong

    Now I'm confissed...

  18. Re:This is why Slashdot doesn't need Unicode. on Variation in Depiction of Same Emoji on Different Platforms Can Lead To Miscommunication · · Score: 1

    I have a brilliant idea: Can we have an emoji instead of "I disagree"?
    Actually, /. should replace all mod options with emojis!
    ;)

  19. Re:Aging sucks on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    I guess if I had a muscular mouse that would help.

    Muscle is derived from Latin "musculus", meaning "mouse".
    So you want a "mousy mouse"? ;)

  20. Re:No matter what you call them, they were Europea on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    ...and the Europeans nowadays no longer know how to protect their own people against invading savages...

    I may have news for you:
    Hitler is dead, and since then Europeans, Germans even, stopped killing people just because they are foreign.

  21. Re:Apple knows: Only APPS can app apps! on Apple Executive Confirms: Manually Quitting Apps Doesn't Improve Battery Life (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Appion apps force quit you!

  22. Re:No no! Mod THIS Parent up! on Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh much?

  23. Re:Mod parent up! on Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the most basic roads can have unexpected obstacles. Roads are poorly standardized.

    What will happen is that driving becomes easier for humans.

    But they will NEVER let a ROBOT (and this IS a robot) drive autonomously on roads.

    You were saying?
    It won't happen soon or as fast as autonomous cars, but I think it will happen.

  24. Re:Ocean-going ground-effect aircraft on A New Algorithm Could Protect Ships From 'Rogue Waves' (cio.com) · · Score: 0

    I very much doubt that. Ground-effect aircraft need, well, some kind of ground to fly.
    In a condition where rogue waves may appear, this "ground" is simply lacking between waves and the aircraft would probably nose-dive into the next wave.

  25. Bang on Leap Days May Be Going Away In the Not Too Distant Future · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can someone make StartsWithABang end with a bang please?

    He's getting really annoying and any of his post isn't news nor relevant.
    No leap days soon? In 4 million years. Right.
    And I'm saying that as someone who is interested in astronomy.