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  1. Re:The good 'ol days on Views of the Asteroid Toutatis, From Earth As Well As Close-Up · · Score: 1

    I doubt any asteroid will be found rotating around its long axis though.

  2. Most people assume that email is like using SMS on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    But in fact you can put anything you like in the From: field. Most people don't know that.

  3. Wow on Video Tour of the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Firstly I noticed how loud it is in there. I read read about that in the past but the video really makes that clear. Also I would absolutely want to shoot along that long passage we see early in the video. I reckon you could build up a lot of speed and probably do a lot of damage too.

  4. Alternative on Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage · · Score: 1

    Cox should just have sent an email to the affected users.

  5. Re:Availability. on First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A · · Score: 1

    I see that there are emulators around so maybe you could retain your software and retire the hardware (in the summer, anyway).

  6. Re:Availability. on First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you have a PDP-11 why do you want a raspberry-pi?

  7. Re:Make sure... on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...it is ADA compliant.

    You mean coding it in all UPPERCASE?

  8. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 2

    No more shafts leading directly to the core, please.

    And while your at it, make the force field a bit more difficult for Jedi infiltrators to turn off.

    Yeah no single points of failure and build a UPS directly into the machinery while you are at it.

  9. Well yeah on People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People are dying slower.

  10. Oh christ just the thought makes me bored. What do they do, sing about their homework and fantastic marks?

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  12. Re:Fahrenheit? on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Sure then you use one significant digit to the right of the decimal point in celcius.

  13. Re:112, every time. on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but easier to accidently dial when joining cables.

  14. Re:Waves on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Atmospheric heating will cause movement of air which will generate waves of some sort in any body of water. Titan has a slightly eccentric orbit which causes tidal heating and will also cause varying tides in bodies of water. The other moons will cause small tides. Flowing fluid always has waves was the water moves across an uneven surface. This rives flows because it carries fluid from a watershed to a lake.

  15. Re:The nice thing about 999 on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    Yeah something similar happens in Australia where the emergency number is 000. You dial 0 for an outside line then 0011 for an international number but if you do it from home and forget that you don't need an outside line then you get emergency services.

  16. Re:200 miles or 400 km? on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Its a radar image. At that scale I would expect 1% precision or better.

  17. Re:Waves on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Obviously there would be waves in a liquid.

  18. 112 and 000 both work on mobiles here on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    But I generally use 112 when calling emergency services from a mobile and I think it should be an international standard, not just a GSM standard. The only problem I know of is that 112 is fairly easy to dial by accident when joining cables if pulse dialing is supported.

  19. Re:Fahrenheit? on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Even so I have never wanted to know that the temperature is 39.5 or 40 degrees for general "walking outside" purposes. Two or three degree precision is fine for me and thats about the accuracy you get from weather reports and cheap instruments anyway.

  20. Re:Conspiracy can begin on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    something radar-reflective.

    Rough surfaces. Perhaps piles of rocks/ice.

  21. Re:Metric system, please on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    They sometimes do metric conversions ;)

  22. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine rocked up at the apple store for the first day on sale for a new iPhone some years back. He goes to the counter and tells the sales person what he would like to buy (the new iPhone). Sales person says Give me a minute I will check out back as if they didn't have a crate of them out there.

  23. Re:No running. on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Though I wonder if there could be fossil oxidisers frozen under ground on Titan. If they could be found and dug up, there could be a chemical energy industry on Titan.

  24. Re:How could water be flowing on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Or is the river a river of oil?

    More like natural gas.

  25. Re:Fahrenheit? on Cassini Discovers First River On Another World · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit is of a higher precision.

    I have never personally needed to know that the temperature is 38.2 degrees C outside.