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  1. Re:Coming next ... Office desk telephones on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    This is what surprises me. Why don't we have multiple profiles for a given phone so you can pop in a new SIM card and have your company load and manage their stuff seperateely from your personal stuff?

    That way businesses can remote wipe employee phones when the employee leaves.

    It is just a software why hasn't some one done it yet?

  2. Re:How do you cool something that cold? on MIT Team Creates Ultracold Molecules · · Score: 0

    I know a few women who can do it.

    On a serious note though what happens if you take a particle that cold and hit it with a really energetic one? Like half of LHC energy( since the LHC has two sets of counter flying particles that it smashes together?)

    Do you get different subatomic particles?

  3. Re:I know a lot of this is cutting edge... on Parachute Problems Plague NASA's Flying Saucer · · Score: 1

    a lot of parachute issues are deployment problems at speed/ heat.

    Take a spacecraft which is flying at thousands of MPH toward the ground, burning at 2000 degrees, and then deploy a soft fabric.

    If you don't unfold it perfectly you lose everything. if one strand of folding rope is out of place you lose everything. The amount of engineering going into just the folding of a parachute would surprise you.

  4. Re:It will be too late. It probably already is on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Funny I was always told that "cheap" oil would be gone by 2050. Which certainly will be true. After that it will have to come from far more expensive methods, which means a minimum of $150 a barrell.

  5. Re:intuitively I would think steam would be better on Watch the US Navy Test Its Electromagnetic Jet Fighter Catapult · · Score: 4, Informative

    Catapult launches have specific power requirements to get a given mass to a specific acceleration. This has to be exact. To much or to little causes issues to the airframe in question.

    Steam has minimum power/ pressure requirements just to get the system moving. That means there is a minimum load that can be launched. For fully fueled jets or cargo planes that isnt a big deal. For a UAV at half the size it means you have launch issues.

    Emals always a much larger load range at launch. You can tailor the power requirements for the mass/ acceraltion ratio you want at launch. This means you can launch a quarter size drone and a full sized jet easily. Something steam struggles with.

    Seriously this is Slashdot and basic physics.

  6. Re:Why the garage ? on Opening Fixed-Code Garage Doors With a Toy In 10 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I would put it closer to fifty percent.

    However once the garage is ready. You can then close the garage and work inside which muffles the sounds of breaking a lock and jam nicely. And even if some one hears something they can't see it.

  7. Re:One connector to rule them all. on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 1

    Next one will have one connector that can do all three at the same time.

  8. Re:RAND PAUL REVOLUTION on Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Rand Paul isnt for any of those things. They are sound bites.

    Look at his budget proposals some day. They paint a different picture

  9. Re:Squeezing the balloon on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 1

    Non your bank ATM's have withdrawal limits.

  10. Re:Squeezing the balloon on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly crime is a business. as long as someone is willing to do the work and make a profit at it they will do so.

    Prisons are part of what makes crime expensive. Another thing is flooding the market with low value goods that simulate high value goods.

    Look at car radios. since manufacturer's started putting high quality audio and navigation systems into cars, car radio theft has dropped off considerably. It isn't worth it to steal the radio.

    Tv's aren't big ticket items anymore. neither are dvd players. Computers are a mixed bag but even they are so cheap now a days. jewels always will be. Though if you want to protect your diamonds the best way is to put staged storage areas filled with fakes. the crooks will steal the fakes.

    Crime falls when the standard of living comes up, and inequality is lessened. As inequality is increased so does crime.

  11. Re:1947... on New Alloy Bounces Back Into Shape 10 Million Times And Counting · · Score: 1

    Well considering that the scanning electron microscope wasn't developed until the late 60's and it took 30 additional years to make a decent one it makes sense.

    I dare you take a modern computer tablet back to 1947 and ask them to make sense of it. I bet they struggle just to keep the battery charged.

    Now you want to figure out anti grav?

  12. Re:Overblown on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    exactly. I bet they also had all sorts of contingency plans, and meetings if Scotland voted to leave the UK too.

    The USA has military plans to invade Canada, and the UK. and they keep them updated. it is war game scenarios just in case and it makes for easy test cases for new people to think about.

  13. Re:It's not a networking issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    That's not the important question.

    These are gas pumps. Should he network them together? Is the question.

    Though I do see an advantage of a closed local network for the pumps that doesn't have outside access. ( access only through a specific port.

  14. Re:Is it on the main download page? on Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you imagine powershell ssh commands?

    SSH-Connect -host -ipv4{192.168.100.1} -username {no smith}

    Oh and go ahead and hack my machine script kiddies.

  15. Re:Laser gun.... who knows. Railgun though on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Non line of sight attack. A rail gun can hit a target 100 miles out(impossible for surface level lasers). In seconds. Dodging isn't practical.

    When ou have long line of sight you are correct. But lasers are limited to 10 miles or so.

  16. Re:Bad good idea on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 1

    mobile browsers don't allow adblockers. Besides Advertising currently takes up between 30-90% of the data transmitted compared to actual content.

  17. Re:"Cashless" is meaningless on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 2

    In the USA barter hours are taxable
    http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/t...

  18. Re:The mice again! on How SpaceX and the Quest For Mars Almost Sunk Tesla Motors · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well australia started as a human penal colony. Mars can start a bit smaller as the mouse penal colony. i propose we include all mousketeers too.

    I then propose we grant honoury mousketeer status to bieber.

  19. Re:Overdramatic on Galaxies Die By Slow "Strangulation" · · Score: 1

    both words are overly simplistic for the process.

    however you can use up all the local resources. It is called strip mining. So galaxy's are like people they strip mine an area of all useful stuff, and living behind a desert filled with rusting metallic husks.

  20. Re:Nope. Not happening. on Is Big Data Leaving Hadoop Behind? · · Score: 0

    Funny I was thinking they were all children's books. cloudera, horton hears a works, etc.

  21. Re:Not stuck in orbit! on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    Even so the the crew would use the Soyuz the exist crew will use to return to earth is up there. New crews keep their capsules. So the capsules rotate.

  22. Re:Elon Musk to the rescue once again on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering that no one else has tried and succeeded means he is closer than everyone else.

    Now when he builds his own moon base can we call him an evil mastermind ?

  23. Re:OT: Dogs on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 1

    That isn't safe. you need to protect your doggy's eyes. put goggles on his head first.

    It looks way cooler too.

    Just before christmas one year it was snowing like made which made the traffic all the much worse. I pull up in my lane and look to my right only to see a husky with his head out the window of the car next to me. He had a grin a mile wide, going this is great. wind, snow. It was a absolutely miserable day but that brought a smile to my face.

  24. Re:How hard will this break Corp Intranet apps? on Microsoft Is Confident In Security of Edge Browser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why were you stupid enough to write apps that only ever worked in IE to begin with?

    Don't blame microsoft for your stupidity. We have enough to blame Microsoft for that is legitimately their fault.

  25. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 2

    You need to ditch the games part. If a group of just sima
    Iarly aged males are together the social etiquette gets tossed. Fraternities have the same issues for relationships.