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  1. Re:Grade 2 Titanium Casing on TAG Heuer Launches "Connected" Android Wear Smartwatch With Intel Inside (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    This is useless trash. EXPENSIVE useleess trash. That doesn't have an Apple logo.

    That sounds like a good description of TAG Heuer products in general.

  2. Re:Thanks, Scott! on In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users (iab.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From what I can tell, most website operators are at the mercy of advertising agencies. Basically it's a case of let the advertising agency have their way with the site, or don't get any ad revenue. Or get another advertising agency, but there don't seem to be many of those that pay well.

  3. Get Wikipedia on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 2

    This appears to be the Odia language Wikipedia. But I know you said there's limited Internet. So I suggest you get Kiwix with the entire Odia Wikipedia (.torrent link to a complete package for Windows), and burn it to CD-ROM. (Odia isn't a popular language, so it all fits easily.) You can also look at other language Wikipedias, both because they are more comprehensive, and because they could help the children learn those languages.

  4. Re:Birds are not living dinosaurs, on Researchers Discover Largest Ever Dinosaur With Birdlike Wings and Feathers · · Score: 3, Insightful
  5. Re:Crash Mitigation on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    I think this is the best idea here. It's too bad horns mainly honk forward. I don't know if they could get permission to install a horn that honks backwards, but that would be a nice idea.

  6. Re:Is there a site maintaining a list of "bad" SSD on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 5, Informative

    It takes a couple of links and searching through source code to get there. So here's the list of problematic drives, better formatted but still in regular expression format:

    /* devices that don't properly handle queued TRIM commands */
    Micron_M500*
    Crucial_CT*M500*
    Micron_M5[15]0*
    Crucial_CT*M550*
    Crucial_CT*MX100*
    Samsung SSD 8*

    So, basically, all the ones I thought were the best. The list of whitelisted drives after it only includes those brands, Intel, and ST-something. So other brand may be unknowns.

  7. I hear Rolls also makes batteries on Mercedes-Benz Copies Tesla, Plans To Offer Home Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    Actually, I learned that in a comment here on Slashdot!

    Alas, it's just Rolls, no Royce.

  8. Can't be fuel-free forever on Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead, they think the graphene absorbs laser energy and builds up a charge of electrons. Eventually it can't hold any more, and extra electrons are released, pushing the sponge in the opposite direction. Although it's not clear why the electrons don't fly off randomly, the team was able to confirm a current flowing away from the graphene as it was exposed to a laser, suggesting this hypothesis is correct (arxiv.org/abs/1505.04254).

    He thinks a graphene-powered spacecraft is an interesting idea, but losing electrons would mean the craft builds up a positive charge that would need to be neutralised, or it could cause damage.

    So they'd need to carry hydrogen and split off its electrons or something to neutralize the charge.

  9. Re:No they don't on Cloud Boom Drives Sales Boom For Physical Servers · · Score: 3, Funny
  10. Re:I'll believe it when I see it... on India Ends Russian Space Partnership and Will Land On the Moon Alone · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the rover China sent. It didn't last very long, though.

  11. Non-profit revenue streams on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 2

    Firefox gets its revenue from ads. Whether directly or indirectly, through first Google, then Yahoo, and now directly. They never seem to have enough revenue.

    Wikipedia gets its revenue from donations. They occasionally have a beg bar at the top. They refuse to accept advertising. They always seem to have too much revenue.

    I, for one, would much prefer to have an occasional beg bar in my Firefox and no ads, rather than ads and no beg bar.

  12. Re:Wou would have thought. on Martian Moons May Have Formed Like Earth's · · Score: 2

    Yeah, except TFA is about how Mars isn't (much of) one. Jupiter is a big body snatcher, and Neptune may have snatched a big body (Triton), but it looks like Mars is innocent.

  13. Sounds like a bad translation on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 4, Funny
  14. Re:when i was a kid, on Tiny Robots Climb Walls Carrying More Than 100 Times Their Weight · · Score: 2

    But these robots are more likely to do what you want them to do than roaches. (Well, most roaches, anyway.)

  15. Sigh. on Random Generator Parodies Vapid Startup Websites · · Score: 1

    And they said robots couldn't take programmers' jobs.

  16. Re:Valve needs to use their clout on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 1

    No, Linus needs to use his finger.

    I thought he already tried that.

  17. This effect of climate change was predicted in '05 on Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://thinkprogress.org/clima...

    “Where the sea ice is reduced, heat transfer from the ocean warms the atmosphere, resulting in a rising column of relatively warm air,” Sewall said. “The shift in storm tracks over North America was linked to the formation of these columns of warmer air over areas of reduced sea ice.”

  18. Re:The main challenges... on Stanford Develops Fast-Charging, Stable Aluminum Battery · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just because it's not a good battery for your laptop - yet - doesn't mean it's not a good battery for other applications.

    Compare it to lead-acid, for instance. It's lighter, it's probably non-toxic (the electrolyte is unknown), and I'd be surprised if it were much more expensive. And it charges fast, so it probably discharges fast too. Sounds like a great starter battery for cars or scooters, etc.

  19. Re:space business on Virgin Could Take On Tesla With Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Virgin's business is suborbital fun rides.

    So I guess that means Virgin's electric cars will be fun to drive, but break down a lot?

  20. Unintended consequences on German Vice Chancellor: the US Threatened Us Over Snowden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By trying to prevent its allies from giving Snowden asylum, the USA has forced him to take asylum with a relatively unfriendly nation, Russia.

  21. Why new cabling? on Spacewalking Astronauts Finish Extensive, Tricky Cable Job · · Score: 2

    Considering (unmanned) SpaceX Dragon capsules already regularly dock with the space station, why do they need new cabling for what is essentially the same operation?

  22. Now imagine the room gets hacked... on Eric Schmidt: Our Perception of the Internet Will Fade · · Score: 2

    And all the things in the room start attacking you! Or spamming you with ads. Or demand a ransom in Bitcoins before they let you leave.

  23. Re:low requirements on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    You don't even need a text editor if you use a site such as CodePen.

  24. To Framework, or not to Framework on PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share · · Score: 1

    That is the question.

    Whether 'tis nobler in the framework to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous edge cases,
    Or to take up code against a sea of requirements, and by opposing end them?

    Personally, I prefer the basic PHP (and JSP) model of just writing out a web page with your backend language. I guess that makes me old-school?

  25. FTL communications? on Entanglement Makes Quantum Particles Measurably Heavier, Says Quantum Theorist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Given that two particles can emitted by a single source entangled, sent a long distance apart, and remain entangled,
    And that if one particle becomes disentangled the other particle instantaneously becomes disentangled,
    If we can measure the entanglement of a particle by its mass,
    Then we can communicate faster than light.

    But the no-communication theorem states that, during measurement of an entangled quantum state, it is not possible for one observer, by making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another observer.

    So I think this means that either the no-communication theorem is wrong, or the change in mass of an entangled particle cannot be measured.