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  1. Re: Not so fast on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    so that means the treehuggers killed him, to stop growing demand of devices.

  2. Re: Most news is corrupt and sold out on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    same here. i only read slashdot and eurekalert. scientific news are really news, all other sources are just controlled leaks of info from different interest groups - who bother.

  3. Re:Still brighter than the sun on Apple's Night Shift May Have Zero Effect On Sleep (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Settings-General-Accessibility-Zoom (turn on, full screen, filter Low light)

  4. Kickstarter on Google Street View Backpack Now Available To Volunteers · · Score: 2

    and let people vote with their wallets, where to send guys. Area 51, Mount Everest, neighbours backyard where screams are heard, etc.

  5. any camera will do on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    It's not really camera, it's you. My friend is photographer and takes better pictures with Nokia 2110 that doesn't even have a camera than me with Canon Hypermax Red 4K Turbodigital Pro+. It's the moments to grab, not technology. No camera makes you a better (or worse) photographer. I found that iPhone 4S + Instragram works best for me.

  6. imagine ... on Japanese Supercomputer K Hits 10.51 Petaflops · · Score: 2

    ... a Beowulf cluster of those!

  7. Re:200 petawatts?! on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    They really don't have to. Watt is joule/second i.e. power is energy/time. Because the time is so short (10 -9 of second), Power is so big (2*10 15 Watts). So, storage needed is power * time = 2*10 6 Joule, which is about the amount half-depleted car battery has. I don't know how much it is in Library of Congress units, though.

  8. I believe it on Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon · · Score: 1

    when I see it.

  9. Re:leak the damn thing on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    Yes! My bad, I meant to write final paper on whatever testimony she gives. I tried to find an explanation, why are they trying to muffle her or anybody - maybe on the grounds that the science done was badly done - sloppy work of smth.

  10. Re:leak the damn thing on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    I'm warning you - if I will still remember to follow this theme in the end of August or whenever that final paper will be out, and she still can't speak her mind, i WILL come back here and reply to you: "Ha! Told you so!" I agree on you, that bad science is worse than no science. Still, I wouldn't muffle anybody. It's like Barbra Streisand effect.

  11. Re:leak the damn thing on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    The canadian language is fine, my friends speaks it and even knows scienco dialect. But that paywall thing is major roadblock :)

  12. leak the damn thing on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    What we need, is that someone would leak the report and the whole drama would be moot. Where's A(nonymous)-Team?

  13. Re:Open access but outside the firewall possible? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Leave My Router Open? · · Score: 1

    Apple Airport Extreme does it extremely well.

  14. Re:Javascript on Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I use audio beatdetection in real life often, if ever ... still, it's about 10% of final result on my computer. :)

  15. Re:So, when... on Trojan-Infected Computer Linked To 2008 Spanair Crash · · Score: 1

    Very interesting to hear, how you came to that conclusion.

  16. Re:Holographic movies on Inside the Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On Causality You see, when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens? For example, Aunt Minnie is in the hospital. Why? Because she went out on the ice and slipped and broke her hip. That satisfies people. But it wouldn't satisfy someone who came from another planet and knew nothing about things... When you explain a why, you have to be in some framework that you've allowed something to be true. Otherwise you're perpetually asking why... You go deeper and deeper in various directions. Why did she slip on the ice? Well, ice is slippery. Everybody knows that-no problem. But you ask why the ice is slippery... And then you're involved with something, because there aren't many things slippery as ice... A solid that's so slippery? Because it is in the case of ice that when you stand on it, they say, momentarily the pressure melts the ice a little bit so that you've got an instantaneous water surface on which you're slipping. Why on ice and not on other things? Because water expands when it freezes. So the pressure tries to undo the expansion and melts it... I'm not answering your question, but I'm telling you how difficult a why question is. You have to know what it is permitted to understand... and what it is you're not. You'll notice in this example that the more I ask why, it gets interesting after a while. That's my idea, that the deeper a thing is, the more interesting... (Richard Feynman) If you know how, then you know why.

  17. Re:Waiting for Recall on XCore's EduBook, a Netbook That Runs on AA Batteries · · Score: 1

    Same power got me flowing. Say, we're done a full circle with these now, aren't we?

  18. works in Estonia on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    In Estonia you log into e-tax dept webpage via bank or ID-card and click OK couple of times on prefilled form and that's it. If surplus, they transfer it to your bank account.

  19. Re:Just because the math works doesn't mean it's t on The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force · · Score: 1

    I think general relativity is not understandable because it's taught in schools than Newtonian. And even when it's taught, it's taught badly because teachers haven't took time to get a grasp of it. How can you teach something you don't understand! :) GR is easy, one just have to take time and read it through, for starters :)

  20. like motorcycle riding? on A Hypothesis On Segway Hate · · Score: 4, Informative

    Obviously, author has never ridden a motorcycle - he has absolutely no idea, what it takes to ride such thing. On motorcycle, you have a throttle, first brake, rear brake, 6 gears and clutch. To ride it, you have to (ok, don't have to but would be good) understand counter-steering. And on IT? lean yourself and twist the stick. That's all. Pfffff.

  21. Re:Neat... on Towards Artificial Consciousness · · Score: 1

    mandatory: imagine Beowulf cluster of those.

  22. Re:overwritten once CAN be recovered on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 1

    news don't leak when they are not leaked. We still don't know who killed Kennedy.

  23. next up on article series ... on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... best web-server hardware configurations money can buy, also 10 hottest server apps for 2009.

  24. obligatory... on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those. Ok, even two would do. Twins, maybe ...

  25. and no joke on Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel · · Score: 1

    fungus turning almost anything into a snake oil.