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  1. Re:Physicists on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    But without time passing, how is there movement?

  2. Re:Look on the bright side on 8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean Neo Tokyo? :)

  3. Re:ARM Windows on Taiwanese OEMs Consider ARM Products For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    You can enable PAE rather easily.

  4. Re:wow on Discovery's Last Go Round, As Seen From the Ground · · Score: 1

    It's fine for most people. And by most I mean nearly everyone.

  5. Re:Time for a launch loop on Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure · · Score: 4, Informative

    Very close? The longest carbon nanotube ever observed was only 18.5 cm long. I think LEO is a bit higher than that.

  6. Re:I see Linux, I think Linus. Must be the names. on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    I had to install a bunch of those modems into a single PC, which was running Fedora (I think). That was years ago. It was a truly horrific experience. I'm still haunted by it today.

  7. Re:So much for build quality... on New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' · · Score: 1

    Like when they had shitty screens that dithered the colours back in 2007? Those were awesome!

    The same screens are available from all manufacturers for all types of PC. Mac ones are nothing special.

  8. Re:And bolster my theory on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    Even simpler: use a telescope. The counter-Earth would be visible in some parts of its orbit, due to the elliptical nature of the common orbit.

  9. Re:Why???? on Google x86 Native Browser Client Maybe Not So Crazy After All · · Score: 1

    So you can turn *any* computer into your own simply by logging in to it. It's like roaming profiles, but even more useful. Not everyone sits in front of the same hardware all the time as you seem to.

  10. Re:The fix is in on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    That's not how evidence works. Evidence is not the same as guesswork. Even famous people have bad luck. Coincidences still happen, even to people like Assange. Leaping to conclusions doesn't help anyone.

    I'll wait 50 years.

  11. Re:The fix is in on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 4, Funny

    [citation needed]

  12. Re:EU-UK? on LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running · · Score: 1

    True indeed. I must pick you up on something, though: "British" can mean "from Britain", where "Britain" is a synonym of "United Kingdom", meaning Northern Ireland is British, but not in Great Britain. Messy indeed :)

  13. Re:headline needs to clarify "largest" on LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running · · Score: 2

    You've misinterpreted the situation. A more apt analogy would be someone claiming to have the largest computer because it has the largest number of cores, not because individual cores are spaced far apart. The collecting area is about 1 square Kilometre, which is the largest of all radiotelescopes.

  14. Re:Aricibo? on LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running · · Score: 1

    It didn't. The Arecibo telescope has a collection dish with a radius of 305m, whereas this new array has a collection area of about 1 square Kilometre.

  15. Re:EU-UK? on LOFAR, the World's Biggest Telescope, Is Up and Running · · Score: 1

    No, Northern Ireland is part of the UK regardless of tradition or not. It's a well-defined political term that specifically includes Northern Ireland.

  16. Re:Hmm... WA politics... on WA Election To Try Online Voting · · Score: 1

    You are confusing mandatory voting with high voter turnout. Two different things entirely. Your argument is all over the place.

  17. Re:that's an awfully Luddite sentiment for Slashdo on WA Election To Try Online Voting · · Score: 1

    If done right it would take a damn-sight more than flipping a few bits. That's the whole point of the part where the OP said "if it were done right". It would also be a lot more secure than bits of paper which can't be checked by the voter, and which can go missing/be replaced.

  18. Re:Hmm... WA politics... on WA Election To Try Online Voting · · Score: 2

    ... or they are voting because they have been told to vote for a specific candidate by people they idolise, or who claim to have some authority over the people (such as ministers/other people who scare them).

    It's clearly a myth that low turn-outs are good. I mean, just think about it for a second. Seriously. It's fucking retarded to claim they are somehow good. Especially for the half-assed reason you just gave.

  19. Re:Great book on LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right? I'm prepared for a "woosh", but copyright defines the right one has to copy a work.

  20. Re:1440p? on Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU · · Score: 0

    Yes, but that's not what we're talking about here. 1440p is not 1080p at 1.33:1.

  21. Re:Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin #10 on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    And remind them of the ADA.

  22. Re:Uhm, yes? on Duke Nukem Forever Not Edited For Australia · · Score: 1

    And not no mention mirrors that had to be windows to voids of equal size to the parts of the room being reflected. That was confusing as fuck to write, let alone create in the editor.

  23. Re:The BBC is hardly unbiased on Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ha! Whatever, buddy. Paranoid, much? Maybe you're just a right-wing asshole the rest of the country (apart from the EDL) doesn't want.

  24. Re:author makes no reasonable point on Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark · · Score: 0

    Go back to reading the Daily Mail, asshole.

  25. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    He does drive a Honda and hate trains, though, so he's got that going for him.