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  1. Re:Shielding on Cambridge Team Breaks Superconductor World Record · · Score: 1

    Dymano? urgh. Preview only helps if you actually READ what you tpyed.

  2. Re:Shielding on Cambridge Team Breaks Superconductor World Record · · Score: 1

    Perfect! Wrap the ship in a 33-foot water blanket, wrapped in a skin of high-strength magnets.
    Now you have a water supply once you land ... except that on Mars, you still need the blanket and magnets as that planet has (relatively speaking) no magnetic field and nearly no atmosphere.

    Figure out how to re-start the magnetic dymano before trying to restore an atmosphere, else the solar wind will strip it away again.
    / Earth and Venus have strong magnetopsheres, Mars does not. The gas giants are too far out and too massive to notice the wind.

  3. Detroit calls Google arrogant? on Google, Detroit Split On Autonomous Cars · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the Detroit that didn't take Japanese brands seriously until it almost killed them.
    The Detroit that needed 30+ years to bring a small, efficient, powerful engine to the US.because they knew best what American wanted (big V8s for drag racing).
    The Detroit that hides the fact that Mitsubishi (Chrysler), Toyota (GM) and Mazda (Ford) built their small cars for 20-some years.
    But Google is arrogant.
    Right.

  4. Re:ummm...nope on Cambridge Team Breaks Superconductor World Record · · Score: 1

    Err, can you math (or do I fail understandment)? 1.7*100 = 170. 1.7*10 = 17, so 10x.

  5. Re:What's the solution? on The Security Industry Is Failing Miserably At Fixing Underlying Dangers · · Score: 1

    Oh please! A CS degree is a license to get a coding job and nothing more (any more).
    No employer is going to hire a coder who doesn't have at least 2 years in the currently fashionable language in the dominant ecosystem.

    The geeks you're talking about are Computer Engineers, but if you're not a top-ranked grad from one of the top-12 schools, you're going to wind up as a codemonkey working for an accountant.

  6. Re:Yeesh. on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    Stopped clocks, as it were.

  7. Perspective - one side's Freedom Fighter is another's Terrorist. cf: LEO::Jack-booted Thug

  8. Re:Can a company patent it? on Century-Old Drug Reverses Signs of Autism In Mice · · Score: 1

    Risking a 50% chance of toasted adrenals is a bit much to ask to treat a non-life-threatening condition.

  9. Re:Most doctors on The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath · · Score: 0

    And virtually every elected official.

  10. Re:The path, not the position on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    This is well known. Any politician (or candidate with an apparent chance) who threatens 'The System' had better stay out of buses and small planes. If that doesn't work, some patsy will be persuaded to step up.

  11. Re:It's true. on What Apple Does and Doesn't Know About You · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Keep the absolute minimum of logs, and delete those logs routinely when they are no longer needed. Don't ask for personally identifying data, and if your business actually requires any type of such data - delete it as soon as practicable. Sixty or ninety days after payment for a purchase has cleared - you certainly don't need the identifying information any longer. Just delete it. There is no justification for selling that information to marketers. None. There is certainly no justification for keeping it around just in case Uncle Sam should ask for it. Tell Uncle to pay for his own investigations.

    When the law says 'keep that data for -n- years, that's how long it's needed.

  12. Re:Slashdot is cheering for,,,, on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 3, Funny

    They might as well be looking at Carly Fiorina, then.

  13. Re:I suspect it is bcos of HP's TCPA connection on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    I think it was a sloppy phrasing of non-x86 arch. Itanium _can_ do x86, but not as efficiently ... IIRC (it's been over a decade since I've touched one)

  14. Re:Why would you want to? on The First Phone You Can Actually Bend: LG's G Flex · · Score: 1

    Buuut, if he jumps on it ....

    / sorry

  15. Re:BootCamp is free on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    Not the way I do it - I'll grab discarded XP boxen, or buy cheap at a pawn shop and re-use those license keys.
    Skipped Vista, and the Win7 boxes aren't cheap enough, yet, but they will be soon.

    The boxes then become linux things (or landfill).

  16. Re:Why the secret data collection? on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 1

    So, similar to corporations employing elaborate financial shell games to escape taxes and regulations, our own government is dodging our own laws for dubious ends? What quarterly numbers are they trying to pretty up for their equity holders?

  17. Re:"secure fiber optic cables" on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 1

    It's spelled as one word, but properly pronounced as two. "suck your"

  18. Re:First Step = ID the smarter people on Root of Maths Genius Sought · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as you keep watching the less-developed minds for signs of the lights coming on later than average. Not all people develop according to schedule, and some late bloomers come on strong.

    I know somone's going to say something about so few people accomplishing anything monumental after age 25 that you don't need to bother, but one should notice how few people accomplish anything at all BEFORE they turn 25.

  19. Re:Nope on Drone-Mounted Laser Weapons Are On the Way · · Score: 1

    Ground-based laser sources, agile mirrors on drones for directing fire?

  20. Re:Statistics on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    But it's not a mature product. It's a lazy adolescent product only updated by fanbois and axe-grinders (to too large an extent).

  21. Re:Godlike attributes on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    He is playing to an audience afraid to laugh.
        -- Voltaire

  22. Re:Instead of likening things to rocket science on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Thing is that a failure at Rocket Science tends to make rather a loud noise, a big mess and severe-to-fatal injuries.
    Quantum Science failures don't make good television.

  23. Re:Pre-Check on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    I think that may have to do with the PR-psychology of a plane blowed up on the tarmac vs one brought down mid-flight.

  24. Re:This is news...? on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    > Isn't Canada part of the US anyway?

    If you try to claim they're not American, some of them get a bit snippy about the name of the continent we share.

  25. Re:Sounds ominous, but... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    And they have your address and know how long you'll be gone.

    They've already been proven to be a significantly criminal organization.