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  1. Crowdfunding? on Copenhagen Suborbitals Seeking $10k In Crowdfunding For New Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    When did "crowdfunding" replace the words "charity" or "sponsorship"?

  2. Re:Space station altitude.... on Astronomers Catch Asteroid In Near-Miss Video · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's about 1 earth radius from the centre of the Earth.

  3. Re:$30 million dollars?!?!? on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    They'll have spent a ton of money reprinting content to include their link to Facebook. All their TV, radio, press and web adverts will have been changed to report it too. You could argue that's a one-off cost though.

  4. Feel sorry for him on World's First Quadruple Limb Transplant Fails · · Score: 1

    Such a shame, probably has the highest hopes for a better life and may not survive now.

  5. Not PCI compliant on Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe this rules out all Android devices with CarrerIQ agents from being used to handle payment card numbers. There's no obvious mention on CarrerIQ's website of PCI compliance or how they protect the user's data. It probably also contravenes SOX, HIPAA and and host of other industry regulations. Bye bye lots of commercial use of Android handsets, especially Blackberry.

  6. Ship transfers? on Rethinking Rail Travel: Boarding a Moving Train · · Score: 1

    I suppose a model for this is how passengers or crew are moved to and from large ships during travel since they can't easily slow down or change direction. How's that done at the moment?

  7. Scare quotes on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    Please God NO... it's bad enough seeing so-called news sites like the BBC peppered with scare quotes in headlines. Please don't start doing it here.

  8. Feynman lectures? on Microsoft's SkyDrive Drops Silverlight · · Score: 1

    I hope this means that the Richard Feynman Messenger Series of lectures that are only available with Silverlight on the Project Tuva websites are soon going to be made available to Linux users.

  9. FaceTrackNoIR on Glasses-Free 3D On iPad (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    FaceTrackNoIR have been doing this on the PC with just a webcam for a while. It's especially good in simulation games. http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm

  10. FF4 is great. on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 1

    So far FF4 has been great. I've moved back from Chrome. Only hiccup was the DirectDraw fonts under Vista but it was easily solved.

  11. Do I want hydrophobic or hydrophilic then? on Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating · · Score: 1

    I cycle and it rains here a lot so I want a hydrophobic coating on my lenses so the rain runs off. But it's also often cold and humid so I don't want fogged lenses and that needs a hydrophilic coating. Which one do I really want, or do I need different coatings on either side of the lenses?

  12. Where next? on Researchers Find Possible Atlantis Location · · Score: 1

    In 2,000 years time will researchers claim to have found the locations of Lilliput and Blefuscu?!

  13. Re:That agrees with my figures on Windows Browser Ballot: the Winners and the Losers · · Score: 1

    There always was real competition, tut when IE was bundled it because the majority of users' default browser and since people don't like to change they're unlikely to choose another browser simply because they now get the choice on startup.

  14. Swedish alternative on Future of 3D Street View To Include Live Video · · Score: 1

    It's been a while since I last looked at this, but a company in Sweden came up with an, arguably, better method to both Google and Bing for 3d maps.

  15. Re:Another sad moment for Slashdot commenting on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    It's a shame the wording of the summary is wrong because on first reading it sounded like the satellite will be bathing its surrounding in infra-red light to detect nearby objects like space debris, which I thought sounded quite fascinating. Then to discover it's just an infra-red telescope made it far less interesting.

  16. Precedent on Windows 7 Released Early In UK · · Score: 1
    Wasn't it a member of a political party in the UK who said

    "Today is a good day to bury bad news."

  17. Re:Why number pads? on The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion · · Score: 2, Informative

    See this page http://www.vcalc.net/Keyboard.htm for why keypads are the reverse of phones. Basically it's because both phone and keypads are descended from earlier devices; keypads from mechanical calculators, which in turn were descended from cash registers which had the highest numbers on the top row, and phones from rotary dials.

  18. Oh, the waste! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    Won't anyone think of the gallons of ink and hundreds of trees that will be wasted by people printing pages to test this?

  19. Your PIN is your password on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk · · Score: 1

    Like a password, you should change your PIN regularly. If it's copied from a terminal then you're only vulnerable for a short time.

  20. Vista's version on Major Breakthrough In Spintronics Research · · Score: 2, Funny

    It looks like you're reading a quantum state. Do you wish to continue? Yes/No? No/Yes?

  21. /. invents stackable stories on MIT Reinvents Transportation With Foldable, Stackable Car · · Score: 5, Funny

    /. invents identical stackable stories. Take one, and the next identical one is available in line. The idea was copied from MIT as reported on /. some days ago.

  22. Re:An Acacia subsidiary - More Info on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    Here in Europe that doesn't sound too strange, but from other a US perspective it's like... man from France, moves to Spain, starts company in Germany, buys patents from Italian company, and sues companies in Sweden, Norway and England. In Andora, Back'o'beyond.

  23. 1 cent Candian now more valuable on Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent" · · Score: 1

    The Canadian mint didn't have a reason to do anything before their cent became a lot more valuable.

  24. Re:First Uranus joke ... on George Takei Now an Asteroid · · Score: 3, Funny

    While he's at Uranus he could pick off a few Klingons.

  25. Re:You know what's great about Alzheimer's? on Alzheimer's Could Be a Third Form of Diabetes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's the saddest, most frightening, and heart warming post of any kind I've read for years, certainly on /. CmdrTaco should put it in the all time top 100 to remind people there's more to life, and death, than technology.