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  1. Re:Not Skeptical on SpaceX Releases Animation of Planned Falcon Heavy Launch (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 2

    What will happen? (A launch later this year, a successful launch later this year, or a successful launch later this year that also returns the first stages?)

  2. Re:"single catalyst" on New Catalyst Is Better At Splitting Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Where do you get that from?

    This is what I was thinking of: "The Guardian is reporting that Nocera has developed a catalyst from cobalt and phosphorus which can be used to split water at room temperature", which strongly implies that other methods require higher temperatures.

    These are the much higher temperatures.

    From what is written here it appears to be happening in liquid water

    All that abstract says is "water".

  3. Re:Could very well be training/testing on A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days (thedrive.com) · · Score: 2

    now that the surveillance drone has been outed.

    Unless it's not a drone.

    Not to mention that Seattle is a liberal bastion which the current administration probably wouldn't mind messing with a bit.

    Well, it is close to lots of military facilities... (But that would make this perfect for training, especially since it takes off every morning and lands every afternoon.)

  4. Re:Preceeded by IBM? on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there a difference between "expensive single-user computer designed for the professional world" and "personal computer"?

  5. Re: Nothing like nostalgia! on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The sarcasm zoomed right over your head.

  6. Re:"single catalyst" on New Catalyst Is Better At Splitting Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Also IIRC, these catalysts require very high temperatures.

  7. Re:Interaction with him on Syrian Open Source Developer Bassel Khartabil Believed Executed (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    The open source movement includes not just programming

    But he's specifically called Open Source Developer , and that means "programmer".

  8. Re:Remember when even Superman used a TRS-80? on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 0

    LOL. As if girls knew how to program in 1980!!!

  9. Re:Scared the shit out of me on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Only 1 had 5" floppies, and the rest were networked via the cassette ports via a cool rotary switch box.

    The exact same thing was in our school, where I learned to program.

  10. Re:Preceeded by IBM? on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100, that is classified as a "Professional Computer" (probably because the cost was "From $8,975 to $19,975"). And the processor was "an entire circuit board containing 13 square metal-can bipolar gate arrays, 3 conventional DIP transistor-transistor logic (TTL) parts and 1 round metal can part."

    Thus, no, it was in no way, shape or form a personal computer.

  11. Re: Nothing like nostalgia! on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 2

    You're posting AC because you're ashamed to put your name by obvious rubbish like, "Bought 16k mod 3 with cassette in 79" when EVERYONE knows that the Model III (not "3") wasn't released until late 1980!!

  12. Never did I deny that the medical condition is "lactose intolerance". The very reason that the medical condition is "intolerance" is because sooo many in those doctors' population were lactose tolerant.

    That does not mean that "lactose tolerance" is grammatically incorrect. For example: An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance?

    This development of lactose tolerance took only about 20,000 years

    around the same time, adult lactose tolerance developed.

    the lactose tolerant wouldn't always have had an evolutionary advantage

    for the lactose tolerant

    why adult lactose tolerance evolved so quickly

    It's hard to tell how prevalent lactose tolerance has been over time

    And the scientific term is lactase persistence.

    (I can respect the urge to be a grammar Nazi, but a wrong grammar Nazi makes a fool of himself.)

  13. No English as a first language person uses ...

    Says you.

    English is my native language, I'm lactose tolerant, and I'd never write, "I'm not lactose intolerant."

  14. Did I write "left"? Shame on me. They're on the right, where God intended them to be!

  15. My min/max/close buttons are on the left, too. I don't remember what the Xfce defaults are, since I changed it to my preferences as soon as I installed.

  16. But the vote was 53:47. With the statistical ambiguities inherent in voluntary online voting, that's too narrow of a margin.

  17. Re:This has to be from The Onion on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1
  18. He likes milk too

    That's perfectly normal.

    I guess he's one of the minority that isn't lactose intolerant.

    Huh? That double negatives means you wrote "he's one of the minority that is lactose tolerant", and there are too many cats who love (cow's) milk for that to make sense.

  19. Re:Leftovers on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Western cat food seems to be mostly meat, but Japanese cat food has a lot more fruit, vegetables and seafood in it.

    Seafood isn't meat? You must be, or were raised, Catholic.

  20. But why should users care what the default is when they can so easily change it?

  21. AT&T isn't in your market? (Not only that, but the threat of me just *dropping* TV service has been enough for me to get a discount.)

  22. Re:And requiring cable boxes on Charter Has Moved Millions of Customers To New -- And Often Higher -- Pricing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The company is encrypting, or scrambling, its signal in Louisville. It means customers must now have cable boxes for every TV set. They can no long plug cable-ready TV sets directly into a cable outlet.

    Cox did this a few years ago, and there's been no sign of a monthly fee.

  23. many customers saw their bills rise when their previous discounts expired and they were switched to non-promotional pricing.

    FFS, the whole point of promotional discounts is that your bill increases when the period is up!

  24. Isn't this what themes (of which there are 85 jillion) are for?

  25. Not just old news, but old /. news!!! on China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/06/23/1442206/chinese-government-fabricates-social-media-posts-for-strategic-distraction-not-engaged-argument

    In contrast to prior claims, we show that the Chinese regime's strategy is to avoid arguing with skeptics of the party and the government, and to not even discuss controversial issues.