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  1. Re:Leaked photos on Leaked Photo Shows Touch-Screen BlackBerry 10 Phone · · Score: 1

    They should do something original like leave one in a pub.

  2. Re:XSLT? on Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API · · Score: 1

    So I think it might have been the last XML related acronym available.

  3. Put your habitat at the lunar poles on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 2

    If you build a habitat at one of the lunar poles it will be possible to build photovoltaic power plants which are both in sunlight and close enough to the habitat to directly feed power to it with electricity transmission lines. Additionally, this makes it easy for a habitat to be accessible for polar orbiting spacecraft. Habitats anywhere else on the moon move way from the orbit of your vehicle with the rotation of the moon. If your landing site is on the equator, then you can use an equatoral orbut, but for landing sites away from the poles or equator the orbitor continually moves away from the landing site, requiring that place correction manoeuvres be done before landing or docking with a returning vehicle.

  4. Re:XSLT? on Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API · · Score: 1

    XML style sheets. Its a way of converting data in XML to some other sort of document.

  5. Contamination on The Case Against DNA · · Score: 2

    Brings to mind the Leskie DNA incident. The funny thing was that for months after the rape victim's DNA had been found on the murdered child's clothing, police and forensic investigators flatly denied that it could have been caused by contamination.

  6. Re:Smell on Biodiesel From Sewage Sludge · · Score: 1

    Not a bike, a trike.

  7. Take your pick on Ask Slashdot: Best *nix Distro For a Dynamic File Server? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much any unix like OS will do fine. Personally I use NetBSD and if linux is a requirement, Debian.

  8. Titan on Why Mars Is Not the Limit For Human Space Flight · · Score: 1

    I think we should send a manned mission to Titan. I would suggest using uranium fission power and ion thrusters, with continuous acceleration over most of the flight. Titan is far enough away to make a worthy goal, like the moon in the 1960s. Landings are dead easy and launches would require relatively low energies.

  9. Re:Not a phone interface. on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    Zune didn't work for them though and it wasn't promoted as windows on an MP3 player.

  10. Sure, ADSB is open on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    But so is everything else, probably apart from ADS-C. Mode S radars, conventional secondary radars, and navaids like NDBs and DMEs. The whole system is open to abuse if you can be bothered but you have to transmit signals to do that and you won't get far without being caught.

  11. Only good experiences from real Apple stores on The Worst Apple Store In America — An Employee Confession · · Score: 3, Informative

    But. My wife's macbook came from Computers Now in south Melbourne. When it started running slow we took it back to the store. They dragged their heels on the job and I eventually decided to take the machine back. The computer they returned to me had a different metal top cover which was badly scratched. They faked up the sheet which I signed which had purportedly shown the damage when I dropped the laptop off. We argued with them about it but eventually had to accepted a damaged and not repaired computer.

    And the Apple store in Doncaster fixed the problem (a broken SATA cable) for 30 bucks as well as upgrading the OS. It took one day.

  12. Being married and thus not having sex on Birth Control For Men Edges Closer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Makes the whole thing a bit redundant.

  13. Re:Car analogy on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 2

    icons all over the desktop (which you can't see because there's windows in the way)

    Why the hate? Why this insistence on telling people how to work?

  14. Re:Extensions on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 1

    But the gnome team said at the start that support for extentions would be removed.

  15. Car analogy on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 5, Funny

    So out of the box every control is a switch under the instrument panel but you can install your own extensions with steering wheels, pedals, etc if you want.

  16. Re:What Gnome 3 Needs on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 1

    I love FVWM but it is really an interpreter which can be used to create a pretty good desktop environment. I still run it on a workstation which I keep around for doing network administration. My main desktop currently is unity. I think it does a pretty good job of keeping things simple.

  17. Its simple on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 2

    Just stop telling people how to work and think.

  18. Re:Hmmm... on Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others · · Score: 1

    "Interesting the .gay thing, considering how infamous Saudi Party Boys are..."

    That's among the reasons Saudis pray in KSA but party in Bahrain.

    And Malaysia, Thailand, etc.

  19. Re:Sad on Sci-fi Author Harry Harrison Dies at 87 · · Score: 1

    ...but his characters lacked realism.

  20. Re:First Post on Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU · · Score: 2, Funny

    He means it would be too slow to fly to java before posting from an internet cafe.

  21. Reads lips on Kinect 2 Sensor Output Image Leaks · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if you are plotting with your friend to lobotomise your e-box don't just talk about it in your space pod. Close the windows first.

  22. I have no mouth and I must scream on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    by Harlan Ellison.

  23. Re:That looks... on CDE Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Dunno. On dozens of accounts, on dozens of systems I have changed my DT environment from CDE to fvwm. FVWM is about ten times faster for a start.

  24. Re:That looks... on CDE Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Believe me it is horrible. Plain FVWM is a thousand times better.

  25. Re:Landing will never work on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1

    Apparently it worked this one time...

    So, 100% success rate for this landing technique then?

    Yes though I am not about to trust my life to it just yet.