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  1. Radar is not used for that. Civilian and military planes use transponders for that.

  2. US not fourth place on Switzerland Tops IPv6 Adoption Charts; US Lags At 4th · · Score: 1

    If you add other countries, the US is not fourth place any more, so the chart is totally misleading.

  3. Exobrain on Possible Cure For MS Turns Common Skin Cells Into Working Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Cool, this will turn your skin into an exobrain.

  4. Compare it against renewable energy on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    The comparison between two old technologies doesn't give any clues for the future. The argument to continue using nuclear energy since there are better energy sources like solar and wind power. Germany shut down eight nuclear reactors after the Fukushima accident. The cost of electric energy did decrease and Germany exports more electrical energy than ever before, despite Cassandras that it would all break down without nuclear. The comparison should be between nuclear and a mix of renewable and modern, efficient gas power plants.

  5. Re:"centuries"? on Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces · · Score: 1

    What kinds of devices have we been interacting with for centuries? That's what I'd like to know.

    The nipples of your mother. The only intuitive interface in the world.

  6. This madness is happening all the time on Blow-By-Blow Account of the Fukushima Accident · · Score: 1

    See http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/fission_stories for a growing collection of incidents that almost went wrong.

  7. KDE on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Looks like KDE to me.

  8. Written history on Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific Discovery · · Score: 1

    A U.S. geek appears to have accidentally written history simply by having sex.

    Fixed that for you.

  9. Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo on Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's · · Score: 2

    Panama? I only see an image of Africa and Asia.

    See?! That proves it's photoshopped, They even forgot to put in parts of America.

  10. Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo on Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's · · Score: 1

    One obvious difference - in the NASA image, clouds have no shadow, in the russian one they do. That makes the NASA image look flat, and the russian one jump out in 3D. Why that is, I'm not sure.

    The Russian image is taken at the day-night border, where the sunlight comes from the side, while the NASA image is taken around noon. The shadows make the landscape much more visible. Spy satellite images are often taken in the morning or late afternoon for the same reason.

  11. Re:9.0 magnitude earthquake Unpossible? on Geologists Say California May Be Next · · Score: 1

    St. Andreas is not the only possible area of a quake. In the Washington area there is more tension building up:
    http://www.physorg.com/news169653448.html

  12. Google voluntarily pixels buildings on Street View On iOS Pierces German Privacy Veil · · Score: 4, Informative

    The streetview service is not illegal in Germany. Google voluntarily pixels houses if people living there demand it. They don't have to. Other services like sightwalk.de do it without for years.

  13. Re:Is it better than this? on New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sheesh, RTFA, already. They mention the coolerado and explain exactly why this new idea has the potential to do better.

    Cause Coolerado uses Flash and TFA HTML5?

  14. Re:Works for me on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 1

    ==> so it's hosted in Denmark now!
      I recommend that the 4498 unrelated sites should do likewise, and find a hosting provider with a spine.

    the hostingprovider has a spine and was danish from the beginning. The serverhoster (serverloft) has no spine and is located in Germany.

  15. Use this howto on Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? · · Score: 1

    Use this howto.

  16. Debian on Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? · · Score: 1
  17. Used to be called on Wi-Fi Direct Overlaps Bluetooth Territory For Connecting Devices · · Score: 1

    Ad-Hoc Mode. What's new about this?

  18. Re:What the fuck on Indian Tiger Park Now Tiger-Free · · Score: 1

    Your number one priority in a Tiger Park is... to maintain the tiger population. How the fuck do you let 24 tigers die in 36 months? Am I the only one that thinks that maybe after the first 12 months someone should have said, "wait a minute, we've got less tigers now than 12 months ago" and tried to figure out what the fuck was going wrong? How the fuck do you not notice anything is wrong in three years? Surely 24 tigers did not die in the past few months, right?

    Go RTFA: "warning bells were sounded regularly for the last eight years", so they did notice, but couldn't come up with the reason for the decline.

  19. Iron Sky on Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available · · Score: 1

    Teaser can be found here.

  20. Re:WHAT ?? on Fly Me To Which Moon? · · Score: 1

    Life disturbs local entropy. An example of which is our oxygen atmosphere which is made by living things. Excess methane on Mars and Titan has been attributed to life, but is most likely the result of natural processes.

    Isn't life a natural process?

  21. Just one more step. on A Waste Gasification Plant In a Truck · · Score: 1

    "There are plenty of waste-to-energy plants around the US, but most of them simply burn the waste, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Gasification technology, by contrast, converts nearly all of the waste into gases like hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used to run generators and furnaces."

    Which then burn the carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and dump it into the atmosphere. Not much won.

  22. Ask the author on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    If you know how to contact her, why not just ask the author. She might be able to send you a copy in your prefered form.

  23. Re:Super slimy. on Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format · · Score: 1, Troll

    Let me get this straight:
    Sit pouting on the sidelines during ODF standardization
    Complain that ODF lacks all kinds of OMG Necessary! features
    Hack together your own bloated abortion of a format.
    Lie, cheat, and steal your way to its ratification as a standard, never mind that it duplicates functionality of an existing standard, and is of severly troubled quality.
    And now: Demand to be placed in charge of maintaining the first standard?

    Anything I missed?

    ...
    Profit

  24. Booting is overrated on How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suspend or hibernate most of the time. I reboot my laptop only when the kernel gets a security fix. I don't care if that takes 40 seconds.

  25. Re:Strange Choice of Target, eh? on Chinese Security Site Under New Kind of Attack · · Score: 1

    By the way: what's the point in occasinally inserting the attack code (it will get detected sooner or later, no matter how often it's inserted, 100% of pageviews over 2 days would probably be better than 10% over a week)?
    It's supposed to be an arp attack. Maybe they can't insert it into every connetion.