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  1. Short half-life unfortunately on Hydrogen-Powered Drone Can Fly For 4 Hours at a Time · · Score: 2

    Years maybe, but not forever because the fuel is chosen to have a lot of activity for a short (in terms of years) time instead of a little bit for a long time. You need that intense activity because you get buggerall power from the seebeck effect (thermocouples etc), which is why the photoelectric effect is preferred in satellites unless the thing is going to be in the dark or going to be dipping into atmosphere to get sharper ground images (eg. the Kosmos series of satellites). Your RC Zeppelin would be better off with solar cells.

  2. Re:"Kaspersky's relationship with the Kremlin" on Eugene Kaspersky: "Our Business Is Saving the World From Computer Villains" · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there some Washington idiot bragging about it at the time? Very noisy "speculation".

  3. Re:It's not a networking issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    Either that or the pumps just all have an install image that has a single static IP address and it's completely independent to the software's capabilities.
    This guy should be talking to the pump software people instead of us. The networking could turn out to be trivial and he could just be jumping through hoops due to arbitrary defaults.

  4. Re:It's not a networking issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    These are gas pumps. Should he network them together? Is the question.

    "Should he network them together for the duration of the update procedure" is a more accurate question and is far less to worry about.

  5. Re:It's not a networking issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    That's half of it - the other half is the propriety program and either getting it aware of the networking setup or avoiding that with a multi-VM situation as described.
    Not having even the ability to "look under the hood" with the program means a cobbled together brown string and chewing gum operation in the middle to bind things together and try to convince the software that there is only one pump at the other end of the network. If it was me I'd be in touch with the software vendor and see if there is something they can tell me about how the software works which may eliminate the need to give it adult supervision of a VM.

  6. Re:You got me to jump through hoops - congrats on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    I assumed that you were making claims about that story

    Rather fast to take offence and slow of wit or just not paying attention? A bit depressing either way, but you've done your little bit to stand up for the trolls in the face of a ridiculous strawman constructed in my name. Perhaps this will be a little lesson not to crap all over someone and then fly off.

  7. Re:You got me to jump through hoops - congrats on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Well you assumed wrong again then didn't you? Maybe you should read before posting replies since all the stuff about "Friday night fights" very obviously is plural isn't it?
    And yes, I did find I did have the +3, as addressed in the other post you obviously didn't bother to read, and as is found in spades in those stories and many, many others.

  8. Re:Anyone who knows avionics knows he's full of sh on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1

    He needs some serious time in jail

    Just for talking about it after playing with some rig at home? That's a bit harsh.

  9. Re:Unforeseen consequences on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1

    Hence doing it on a simulator. The next question is how good his simulator is and if the flaw exists on the real thing.

  10. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if that would be a problem due to the sort of redundancy where bits of an exploded engine can cut a lot of cables (A380) and there's still enough of a network to tell most of the systems on the plane what to do.

  11. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1

    Frankly, it's complete bullshit. The systems are completely, physically separate

    That's the sane thing, but then again the sane thing would be to not have a single Automatic Teller Machine connected to the internet.
    Are you certain that the systems are on networks with an air gap? Are you certain that stupid shortcuts (such as I've seen in POS machines and other stuff that should never be so vunerable as they are) have not been taken? While it should be the case that the systems are completely, physically separate I don't think we can be so confident that it is actually the case considering the very large number of networked systems in these planes, requirements to keep weight down and a desire to minimize costs.
    It would be nice if you are correct, but I don't think access is as unlikely as you suggest.

  12. OK so the three was there - and you'll find them on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    OK so the three was there and not a goalpost shift - and you'll find them fairly easily from the URLs above or with the quick google searches I used to get those URLs in the first place. Plenty of stuff you suggested would be at -1 but there it is modded up.

  13. You got me to jump through hoops - congrats on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1
    Not going looking to play a pathetic little deliberately time wasting game while time was short is of course the reason - and where did the +3 come from? New goalpost shift from the shitting seagull by the looks.
    Here's an entire article with a vast number of comments along those lines:
    http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/12/03/1928259/the-brains-of-men-and-women-are-wired-differently

    Too old? Then let's try this one:
    http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/05/01/2040226/scientists-have-paper-on-gender-bias-rejected-because-theyre-both-women

    Not enough? Then try every fucking Friday since probably early March or wait a few days until this Friday for the next "mens rights" bait article.

  14. Re:Is it a Mad Max movie though ? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Neither can you, it seems. There's no point in replying anymore

    Ah yes, a little petty game with a pretend win by denying the obvious that you've seen every fucking Friday FFS while trying to get me to run off and do a search for something you've already seen. How weak. Since you are the one who was making accusations about me surely it's up to you to back them up and not me to go on some sort of fishing expedition (for stuff you already know is here but pretend is not).

  15. Re:Reading a novel out of a fortune cookie? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1
    Good and short article but you may have to sign up for the free trial period to read it, hopefully not though:
    http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/...
    From the article:
    The problem here is that we're conflating "women at all" with "feminism".

    ...

    These are the sex slaves at the centre of all the conflict:
    You will note that they are scantily clad younglings with but little agency and few spoken lines. Their chief role in the film is to be babe-meat.
    And where models have been cast in these roles, the equivalent male roles are mostly played by actors.

  16. Re:Is it a Mad Max movie though ? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    So not being content with flying in from nowhere and shitting all over me, refusing to justify why then buggering off, you now want me to go off on a fishing expedition? Why do I have to provide proof (which you've ALREADY SEEN FFS) while you get to attack me for what your invisible strawman did?

  17. Re:Reading a novel out of a fortune cookie? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Someone who knows a bit more about the topic than Miller and has written a script for a successful show sounds like a better fit to me than bringing in an academic or social worker and then translating their stuff into movie dialogue.
    So IMHO contraversy factor is nil.
    Still haven't seen it, but have heard some of it through the wall after coming out from the Avengers and watching trailers in a lobby for a while. Mad Max is LOUD!

  18. Re:Men's rights and reverse racism on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    we're just not allowed to talk about them as a society, because "white male privilege", is my point.

    Last I looked we white males were still very much running the place, so your shit about women getting in the way of you becoming one of the people with power in society is just kicking the cat.

  19. Re:Is it a Mad Max movie though ? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    It's anything but obvious.

    Are you really THAT stupid? Mising up two different posts by two different people, one of which is obviously a reply to the one above? Of course you aren't, so please stop pretending it's not obvious.

    You painted with a broad brush

    Not at all, that was the "I can't do anything right" post above mine with deliberate contradictons to cover anyone. Mine was about drawing attention to the only flaw that matters instead of the one above that was pretending that everyone is a target.
    Now are you going to be adult enough to apologise for the equivalent of tipping a bucket full of turds over my head because you stuffed up or are you less than that?

    upvoted comment that you claimed was made that said "women are unsuitable for tech"

    Every fucking time there is a "women in IT" or "women in STEM" article on this site there are plenty, are you really telling me you have not seen at least a dozen by now?

  20. Re:Is it a Mad Max movie though ? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Obviously it's a reply directly to a "poor me I can't do anything right" post but don't let your choice of pretending to be an idiot get in the way of reality.
    By logic it applies only to "whiny virgins who feel they should have got a free supermodel" despite your attempt to show otherwise.
    However you got very quiet instead of contesting the subject when I pointed out how far you were off the mark earlier, and here you are back without addressing it - so OK for you to dish it out but not me even when I wasn't actually dishing it out?

  21. Re:The Flash on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Bit of an odd choice since everyone in "The Flash" is either very good at something or has two seconds on screen before being saved.

  22. Yes it is a typo on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Yes I have an escaped apostrophe in "lots" which will have offended the grammar Nazis. Sometimes my typing sucks - possibly due to not being allowed to do typing at school because it was not considered manly back then for boys to be at a keyboard.

  23. Re:Is slashdot all-in on the genderwagon? on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    Yes. Check out the "Friday night fights" where a gender article has been posted just about every Friday for months as examples. Lot's of attention, lots of comments, advertisers must be taking note.

  24. Re:Men's rights and reverse racism on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    and then can go and sue the kid for child support, and is almost garenteed to win

    That's so far out there I'm just going to have to ask if it ever happened, and then why the fuck are you bringing up such an incredibly rare (if it ever happened at all) thing as if it has any relevance to your point at all.

  25. Re:"Incredibly feminist action film"- Charlize The on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is this on Slashdot?

    Because it looked like the sort of thing that could generate 400+ comments and have people looking at the advertisements on the page.

    Has Slashdot become this clickbaity?

    Yes, and the increasing number of things framed as MRA vs SJW fights are part of it. It's the new bitcoin article of the week.