Slashdot Mirror


User: Eternauta3k

Eternauta3k's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
856
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 856

  1. Re:Stealth Satellites? on Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they're so desperate to control satellite spotters that they publish an applet to spot all sorts of satellites and they took down another similar website

  2. Re:well on Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know what spy satellites look like A dot of light (even if you have a telescope)

    Remove all blinking lights It's actually the reflection from the Sun that lets you see it (maybe the black paint could help, along with frying the satellite and rendering the solar panels useless (unless they have a RTG)).
  3. Re:Or it is not spreading on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free · · Score: 1

    No, local computer stores sell PCs with linux preinstalled, so customers just install pirated copies of windows. It's safer than shipping with a pirate copy already installed.

  4. Re:I can't do it, captain! I don't have the POWER! on U of MI Produces Strongest Laser Ever · · Score: 1

    Hey! Ignorant people arguing here! Take your "facts" elsewhere!

  5. Re:That opens the doors on Hacker Could Keep Money from Insider Trading · · Score: 1

    I don't know, will they take his money from a legal activity (this investment) because of another illegal activity (the hacking)?

  6. Re:If we take it out of the air... on New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 · · Score: 1

    No. God no. Look up how many tons of carbon there are in the atmosphere, we're not gonna spend a fortune pointlessly and capture CO2 beyond what's necessary.

  7. Re:Geography 101 on China Bans Horror Movies · · Score: 1

    Over here we call them 'yanquis' or 'americanos', unless we're talking about stuff like aborigines, in that case 'indios americanos' or 'aborígenes americanos' means from the continent.

  8. Re:So Obvious It Hurts on Natural Selection Can Act on Human Culture · · Score: 1

    The idea that mankind is the "winner" on planet earth should be qualified with "at the moment"
    Winner? We are smarter, but we aren't nearly as many as, say, the ants.
  9. Re:I can't do it, captain! I don't have the POWER! on U of MI Produces Strongest Laser Ever · · Score: 1

    Read the other comments, it takes something like 9 joules, no huge electric bill needed.

  10. Re:How is this news?? on Possibility of Life On Mars Looking More Remote · · Score: 1

    0MG lol
    Seriously

  11. Re:Assumptions... on Possibility of Life On Mars Looking More Remote · · Score: 1

    There is plenty of water on Mars, mostly ice of course
    I believe Mars has dry ice (you know, CO2). Who knows, maybe the bacteria took shelter somewhere not affected by the stripping of the atmosphere.
  12. Re:Geography 101 on China Bans Horror Movies · · Score: 1

    no single country dominates Europe to the point where being called European would mean you're a resident of that country
    Weren't the terms "America" (for the country) and "the Americas" (for the continent) used since the times of the colonies? Has that cinderella movie lied to me?
  13. Re:SSL lighting on DOE Shines $21M on Advanced Lighting Research · · Score: 1

    After each letter of the acronym say the word it stands for
    As in sself-ccontained uunderwater bbreathing aapparatus?
  14. Re:Why not? on 3D Crystal Grown On a DNA Lattice · · Score: 1

    Muscles convert chemical energy into mechanical energy, the nerves just signal when to contract

  15. Great news! on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    This is great news! Now that the shuttle program is coming to an end, China can pick up were the US left off!

  16. Re:Keypad on New Authentication Scheme Proposed · · Score: 1

    (my job takes me in and out of jails frequently)
    Burglar?
  17. Re:Creation +1, Evolution -1 on Geologists Claim Earth May Be Softer Around The Middle Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't it like someone had intelligently designed grammar nazis so they embarrass themselves every time they make a correction?
    :P

  18. Re:MAYBE half on Latest Earth-Crossing Asteroid Passes by Tonight · · Score: 1

    So, because the internet is a technological system, it isn't used to transmit FUD or lies, or making shit up. Likewise, information transmitted over the phone must have a scientific basis.

  19. Re:Not the first one though on Massive WiMax Network for India · · Score: 1

    I haven't read any WIMAX reviews, but usually all I hear about broadband providers, even in the US, are complaints.

  20. Re:Great, but on Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Brass.
    :P

  21. Re:Where's TFA? on Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way? · · Score: 1

    I thought "huh? A mattress made out of cellphones?"

  22. Re:Don't live in the dark ages! on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 1

    Every command line I've ever seen has all of one real UI difference with the DOS commandline -- variable color. That's it.
    Command completion and searching for previous commands
  23. Re:Incorrect about sickle cells on New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory — Evolution Not Random · · Score: 1

    Whoops. Replace sickle cell disease for some other disease with incomplete dominance and deadly recessive homozygotes :)

  24. Re:Wait... what's different here? on New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory — Evolution Not Random · · Score: 4, Informative

    So there seems to be some sort of mechanism that selects beneficial mutations BEFORE procreation or death kicks in
    You never see stuff like people with 2 alleles for sickle cell disease, because they don't make it to birth. Likewise, very bad mutations are selected against at a very early stage. However, mutations are random, there's no way for a cell to control where some cromosome will change.
  25. Re:In other news... on New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory — Evolution Not Random · · Score: 1

    if evolution was random, all creatures would have non-detrimental but non-advantageous neutral traits that they developed randomly
    The genotype gets extremely small random changes, which won't necessarily affect the phenotype. And we do have lots of neutral mutations, but no one neutral mutation is very frequent partly because of Hardy Weinberg's principle.

    My family has genes where we don't grow all our wisdom teeth. Well how about that. 99.99% of other people don't have that gene but it doesn't really specifically help or not help me survive
    Say one person has that weird teeth trait. That means an extremely small percentage of people (one in 7 billion) have it. The only way for that percentage to grow is for the trait to have some kind of advantage. Otherwise, people without the gene will multiply at the same rate as people with it, and the frequency remains constant.
    That took a long time to think