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  1. A Monumental Task on What Should Start-Ups Do With the Brilliant Jerk? · · Score: 1

    So give the brilliant guy a truly insanely difficult looking (caveat) challenge for a breakthrough product.

    Once he's evaluated the entire set of options and possible solutions, which are documented so everyone can meet with the rest of management and see what the odds are of a possibility of a breakthrough.

    Use people for their skills.

  2. Re:Hard to imagine the vastness...HOT on The Deepest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field · · Score: 1

    NASA noted a cloud of Baryons likely goes out more than 300,000 light years out from the center of the Milky Way (maybe 70,000 light years in radius by memory).

    The Baryon cloud is at a temperature of 1-2.5 million kelvin !!!

    Hence, with your Warp Drive you won't need to worry about a warm Burma Shave. In fact you won't worry any more at all as you will assume an equal position with the Baryons.

  3. Re:Great artists steal. on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Trademarked where? This is a trivial issue as I see it. License or redesign.

    Still, Apple can simply change the design elements to avoid "a copy". This is done all the time and there have to be hundreds of clock face variants of simple numberless designs.

  4. Re:file copyright with US Copyright Office on Ask Slashdot: How To Fight Copyright Violations With DMCA? · · Score: 2

    I know this Catholic guy in Jersey who has "cousins" in Sicily who take care of problems...

    But I know you want to be Anonymous, ah hem...oh well.

  5. 1984... on Australian Smart Meter Data Shared Far and Wide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is here!

  6. Re:Developing Marginal Lands on Has Plant Life Reached Its Limits? · · Score: 1

    The pale-geologists have mapped inland valleys of Egypt, whose runoff formerly went to the Nile, which were incredibly productive and laced with rivers and lakes 7000 years ago which are now desert. Those are the formerly productive regions I was referring to.

  7. Developing Marginal Lands on Has Plant Life Reached Its Limits? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The MidEast represents instructive activities of man over 10-20 thousand years.

    Farming started between Turkey and Iraq of today, the fertile crescent, but land salting and rainfall reductions reduced that output. About 10,000 years ago the inland valleys of Egypt were incredibly productive, but later rainfall reductions then reduced that to desert.

    Hence, natural rainfall changes altered growth a lot.

    Man induced changes in that same region has caused vegetation to increase in one spot where there is economic incentive to figure out how to grow plants in marginal lands. Israel. They have developed techniques to make it work. Other peoples in the area haven't been as diligent.

    Overall, maybe it is merely the cost-benefit ratio that determines whether mankind develops marginal lands.

  8. Re:Maybe...if We on Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks · · Score: 1

    My lame attempt at sarcasm doesn't work and I should stop it.

    I don't advocate holocausts. I can, however, see taking out key nuclear facilities. It seems obvious that over the long term, the non-Muslim world stands a great chance of suffering higher costs dealing with the Iranian nukes than taking them out now.

    There is never a clean solution when one country says blatantly and openly they will destroy another country or two or three.

  9. Re:Maybe...if We on Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks · · Score: 0

    Get serious and apologize for taking out their nuclear facilities they will start to finally take us seriously.

    If we do not do so, the day will come in my lifetime when New York City has highly enriched uranium dust spread over the entire city.

    Then everyone will say "Why didn't we stop Iran when we had the chance?" Iran will say "It wasn't us; must have been one of those nasty Hezzie groups..."

    There is nothing you can do with someone who has sworn to kill you & tear up your home other than to stop them.

  10. 50 Meter Rise in Sea Level...Oh God on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was such a horrible event...All civilizations which used all that land are now gone...under water.

    Well, it took tens of thousands of years and we lost coastline, but gained almost all of Canada and the Northern US, Europe and Asia back from a deep ice sheet to usable land, so I guess we lost some land and gained some land.

    I get a feeling I am being force fed a media manipulation based on our individual lifetime experiences rather than the long long term cycles that man can not affect in more than tiny ways. Man certainly has not affected the prior 2 dozen major worldwide ice age cycles.

  11. Virgin Penetration is Easy on 6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 0

    Last time it was tried.

  12. Re:Social engineering--PenTest? on Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    Penetration Testing?

    Must not know of such things in India yet. Seriously behind China.

  13. Re:Already got one. on Ultrasound Waves For Transdermal Drug Delivery · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I am interested in is whether the ultrasound modifies the chemicals being transported -- injected???

    Ultrasonic bubbles can create implosions that raise temperatures into the range of thousands of degrees farenheit.

    Ultrasonics are routinely used to bond plastics as a result of the temperatures induced.

    The question comes down to whether you destroy or modify the molecules you want to deliver...however slightly. Needles don't do that.

  14. Analogies Anyone? on Google Pressured Acer/Alibaba Because of Android Compatibility Issues · · Score: 1

    Like dogs fighting over the scraps below the table.

    They should be fighting for what is on TOP.

  15. "Apple Only Accessories" on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 1

    If it is a "bad deal", Apple's competitors will eat the "Apple" marketshare up.

    I can see the need to modernize connectors and to present the best you can to give long term value to customers over a long time period, just like the prior connector.

    The future iPhones will break traditions again and people will keep saying "but it isn't like other smartphones."

    The only thing needed is to answer customer needs. For me that is lighter, smaller, more adaptable to varying use conditions.

  16. A Nanotechnology Analogy on Easy Fix For Software Patents Found In US Patent Act · · Score: 1

    If an inventor claimed to own the function of nanoparticles altering the abosorption of wavelengths of light to increase the efficiency of a solar cell, then he could keep everyone else from using nano-particles to do that regardless of material or structure.

    Hence, I can see the logic of the 1952 patent law structure in that you can patent a specific new structure leading to a good end result, but you can't patent "the release of radiation" from a light bulb type structure.

  17. Re:A Sextant on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe Chris used a backstaff or cross staff and not a sextant.

  18. Re:Compass and sextant on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 5, Informative

    What would you install for a safe trip around the world? Electronics won't give you safe seafaring or your sanity. Can't count the number of times in good weather when one or more pieces of nav gear was MIA.

    Sextant and compass are fine but you need a couple mechanical chronometer watches at a minimum. Then comes the charting and math when you have to do the navigation by dead reckoning. The first time you take a lightning strike or a knockdown or rollover and all the electronics goes, the non-electronic equipment will be gold. Yup, I've heard the guarantees about "our grounding is guaranteed to work", but guarantees in the middle of the ocean are worthless. Radios in a water tight aluminum box with batteries as a backup. Typical abandon ship gear.

    Enough experienced sailors as crew to maintain a wide awake watch at all times. A container ship at 25 knots can be invisible now but on your beam in 20 minutes. The other thing which can sneak up, though it is rare is a nearly submerged but still floating metal cargo container that you can barely see. Some small yachts do disappear each year without a trace.

    Traveling without experienced sailors can be exhausting, all the way from "when are we going to get there" to people who become paranoid a week out on the way across the ocean, to those who don't want to share in the inevitable cleaning and fixing and night watches. Then some will just bail out after the first 6 week crossing and you have to "pick up" more crew, which has its own problems.

    Common sea sense enough from experience to think ahead and avoid sailing into a bind, whether pirates, political, weather, lee shore or a bad anchorage... That might include a professional skipper for the first third of the voyage...and a pile of cash. Accidents happen and parts and repairs are expensive.

    Anti-pirate gear? Best is a course to avoid those areas. Thieves in the night in major harbors is a different and all too common story. Slocum used the lowly thumb tacks on the deck near the rails to grab the attention of boarders in the middle of the night. Lots of stories are swapped amongst sailors in every port.

    No easy answer. Everyone is different in attitude and ability. Boy scout motto applies at all times.

  19. Re:Spying? Really? on Arma III Developers Arrested In Greece For 'Spying' · · Score: 1

    The German court will issue a ruling tomorrow that may "break the camels back" on the Greek issue of debt repayments.

  20. LittleSnitch like App for tablets? on No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires · · Score: 2

    Incoming connections we can deal with in one way or another by not responding/cancelling. I tend to be concerned with other things that leave my devices.

    I'm wondering if there are equivalents to LittleSnitch to zap outgoing connections?

  21. Re:problematic Rasmussen on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1

    Not problematic compared to CNN, ABC, CBS that oversample democrat voters and then announce results as if they are not "biased".

    I need a break.

  22. Variable Posture is needed on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On Stand-Up Desks? · · Score: 1

    The human body was not meant to sit for 8+ hours a day.

    Finding a desk and chair/stool which can be varied in positions and heights between sit down and stand up offers a way to keep varying the muscle positions. Pure standup works for awhile for me, partial sit-down with one leg on the floor and one on a stool works for awhile and then sitting in the chair works.

    "old" drafting tables by Hamilton and Mayline can be real cheap in used office furniture places and have plenty of drawers and a top that can be angled. Lots of choices exist which are not expensive.

  23. Re:Try anti seizing compound? on Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt · · Score: 2

    I doubt it is cross threaded, as all these guys "know the drill."

    Galling is a common problem with otherwise correctly sized and connected threaded parts. Once a burr occurs, a bolt that otherwise runs free suddenly starts self-welding building up a mass of torn metal in between the threads which just effectively locks the parts together.

    Stainless Steel bolts into Stainless Steel holes have a tendency to gall easily.

  24. Re:Best Preference on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1

    "Or Canada, Spain, Mexico... a lot of countries offer varying degrees and types of nationalized healthcare. The United States stands alone in being the only G8 country that lacks it."

    Ummm...At least when you want to do so in the good ol U.S. today, you can walk into any emergency room and they will then treat you, regardless of insurance.

    Hence, I call the prior statement a bit of misinformation.

    What I detect in virtually all countries is that if you want the best health treatment with the best doctors and at the better or best facilities, you get it 100% of the time when you bring out cold hard cash. If not, you wait in the queue.

  25. But Android is Open !!! on "SMSZombie" Malware Infects 500,000 Android Users In China · · Score: -1, Troll

    Open to fraud.