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  1. Re:It's not so cold. on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 0

    Thank you. I was coming here to complain about the Fahrenheits.

    Kelvin may make the most sense and if nothing else use celsius since that's what most (?) of the world use (I know Slashdot is home of Americans and ran in the U.S.)

    The rather obvious comparision for me would be water ice since I find ice hard to take a dip or swim in. And it's convenient to compare against 0 degrees with a negative number. But the Fahrenheit number didn't mean much to me.

    I did got that it was likely cold and as such and compared to some really cool Kelvin works to.

  2. The Wikipedia entry even say on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 2

    "As part of its mission goals, the X-37 was designed to rendezvous with friendly satellites to refuel them, or to replace failed solar arrays using a robotic arm. Its payload could also support Space Control (Defensive Counter-Space, Offensive Counter-Space), Force Enhancement and Force Application systems.[10] An early requirement for the spacecraft called for a delta-v of 7,000 mph (3.1 km/s) to change its orbit.[11]"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

  3. Re:hmmm... on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    I suppose you mean it's the former affecting the later if anything?

    At first I read it the other way around but it make much more sense for the US to launch something when getting to know about the NK launch.

    I guess they don't use GPS. "Hey, I'm a GPS satellite..."

  4. Re:I can assure you... on Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC. · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what you have to do with laptops anyway?

    I would type something about my MBP but then I would get moderated troll.

  5. Re:Tablet interface vs 10-Foot UI on Valve's 'Steam Box' Console Is Real, Says Gabe Newell · · Score: 1

    The Linux UIs (except Android which already is) will also be designed for touch and tablets.

    It will just be like 5-10 years after Microsoft before it work reasonable well.

  6. Re:Again. on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 0

    But you should.

    From 10+ km above.

    Over settlements in occupied territory.

  7. Re:Cue Apple's lawyers on Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux · · Score: 0

    I'm not saying that's the issue both both applications you mentioned use GTK so maybe that's one reason why it works but may not work in other cases.

    And GNU/Linux isn't all GTK.

  8. Re:AMD on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    So this was more like a LGA _AND_ BGA decision? Or BGA was never decided and it's all LGA due to reactions? It never was about going all BGA?

  9. Re:So if you are 18+ and work a night shift, on Nintendo Puts a Bedtime On Wii U Content In Europe · · Score: 1

    Care to explain what the region lock of the 3DS did?

  10. Re:why was it even granted? on Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid · · Score: 1

    Just patent "more" and be done with it.

    More resolution?
    More soda?
    More buttons?
    More power?

    Gotta pay!

  11. Yeah on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? · · Score: 1

    "Anything with Intel"? Not really a need for a thread.

  12. Re:AMD on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    But of course what you're likely to see is cheaper chipsets and motherboard specs coupled with an average processor and entusiast like motherboards coupled with an unlocked processor.

  13. Re:AMD on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    .. and I guess that's why they are doing this. This way the consumer don't have to bother about the socket any longer. Pick "system" as in CPU + motherboard add RAM and you're done.

  14. Re:AMD on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    It's not much of a difference ATM anyway considering Intel changes the socket more or less every time they release something new anyway.

    SB-E to IV-E is supposed to be an exception.

  15. Re:I love the 'privacy' arguments here. on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    You know. Privacy exist and is a word outside of the US constitution to?

    You may want to do things in privacy even if it's not the government doing the spying.

  16. Re:Why can a patent survive bankruptcy on Apple and Google Joining Forces On Kodak Patents Bid · · Score: 1

    If your reason for patents are correct then yes.

  17. Re:Sounds like a great "plan" on How Yucca Mountain Was Killed · · Score: 2

    Just make ammunition of it and shoot it out in someone else country.

    AMERICA!

  18. Re:So they aren't made in the US now? on Apple CEO Tim Cook On Apple's US Manufacturing Move · · Score: 1

    Again, another idiotic post that is simply incorrect. I have over boxes for Apple products within 20 feet of me, and not a single one claims the product was made in the US.

    Why are you spreading lies?

    I don't see how it's idiotic.

    http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/12/03/2124209/some-apple-imacs-assembled-in-america
    "Some Apple iMacs assembled in America"

    Assembled. Made. Whatever. That wasn't the point.

    The point was that they said "in America" but this news post made me wonder whatever they made that claim before the changed had already happened.

    Lame-ass AC. If you are going to claim someone is an idiot do so under your own name.

  19. Re:So they aren't made in the US now? on Apple CEO Tim Cook On Apple's US Manufacturing Move · · Score: 1

    They don't say that.

    Apparently some have already started saying "Assembled in USA"

    You are awesome.

  20. Re:This has been known: on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    I thought safety was regarding reactors and accidents rather than weapons and willingly reactions and explosions.

  21. Re:Sanctions on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    Scotland wants to leave UK.

    (Hey, maybe that's a reason to build nukes?)

  22. So they aren't made in the US now? on Apple CEO Tim Cook On Apple's US Manufacturing Move · · Score: -1, Troll

    But the boxes or products say so?

    Lies?

  23. Re:Hey, Apple has browser competition! on Android Options Mean "Best" Browsers Might Surprise You · · Score: 0

    much less outright forbidding other browsers from being installed.

    Are you a terrorist?

    This look really suspicious to me!

  24. Re:Safety Bat on Original Batmobile To Be Auctioned For the First Time Ever · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meanwhile on Slashdot:

    2012: Unicode nowhere to be found.

    I suppose I could just as well had written 2013..

  25. Re:Safety Bat on Original Batmobile To Be Auctioned For the First Time Ever · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in Sweden:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_96
    http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_96

    "1962: 95:ans fyrvÃxlade lÃ¥da erbjuds som extrautrustning pÃ¥ vissa marknader, dock inte i Sverige. I januari 1962 infÃrs bilbÃlten som standard."

    http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_95

    "1962: Tillverkningen flyttas till TrollhÃttan. I januari 1962 infÃrs bilbÃlten som standard."