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  1. Re:Mars mass object inside 100 AU? on Something Big Is Warping Our Outer Solar System (futurity.org) · · Score: 1

    Either way its pretty unlikely. And it would have remained in an eccentric orbit. If that happened there would be evidence of it in the inner solar system.

  2. Re:Mars mass object inside 100 AU? on Something Big Is Warping Our Outer Solar System (futurity.org) · · Score: 0

    The only way a foreign object could enter the solar system would be to score a near direct hit on the sun, and break up during closest approach. Parts of it would remain in a comet like orbit. But this object doesn't seem to be in an orbit like that. I really don't see how it could be from a different solar system.

  3. Mars mass object inside 100 AU? on Something Big Is Warping Our Outer Solar System (futurity.org) · · Score: 2

    If its a kuiper belt object, then it must be huge to have that much mass, because of its low density. Or it could be a rocky object, like Vesta or Mercury, but then its hard to explain how it got to be so far from the sun.

  4. Temperatures above 60 C are not unknown in outback Australia. Probably the same in Saudi Arabia.

  5. Re: This just in: on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow I don't think KB will be doing any more tracks with Rolf Harris.

  6. Re:Kangaroo vs White-Tailed Deer on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And what happens if it sees a bike rider ahead of it but fails to see the wheels?

  7. Openmoko on Software Developer Explains Why The Ubuntu Phone Failed (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading the article it sounds like the openmoko all over again

  8. Re: It's easy on Software Developer Explains Why The Ubuntu Phone Failed (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Unity made sense at the point when gnome decided dump their user base and start from scratch. Gnome is more mature now so it makes sense for Ubuntu to stop work on Unity.

  9. If I pay for 3000mm of 90 by 45 pine it had better be exactly those dimensions or greater.

  10. Re:Surprising that this hasn't been done before on Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    AI of this type has been on the cards for a while. It was trialed on the recent probe to Vesta and Ceres.

  11. Re:Holy crap, that's 292% more science! on Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    But they have had tens of thousands of years to generate those returns. Whats the return on this mars rover over the same period?

  12. Re:When religion makes laws on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    All our social organisations are just religions by a different name. Humans are stupid. They believe stupid shit. Its how we are built.

  13. HIVE on DARPA Funds Development of New Type of Processor (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats the worst backronym I have ever heard.

  14. Re:Hopper & COBOL on Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Its very php-esque.

  15. Re: COBOL on Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    sys.exit() will be replaced by your'e fired! where the exclamation mark is a modifier ensuring immediate execution of the current thread.

  16. Re:Henry is right on ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984 (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft isn't open. I think it was more a question of accessibility. More people understood windows than unix, so server side windows had a head start.

  17. Henry is right on ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984 (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its quicker to code something simple like getopt than to argue about it.

  18. Re:total bullshit on Third Gravitational Wave Detected From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light Years Away (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    It works because the speed of light delay in the signal changes the phase of the gravity waves, between different detectors.

  19. One solar mass of energy.

  20. Re:The problem is the sockets are ill-designed. on Working Theory In Jet Crash: IPhone In Cockpit Is To Blame (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I can imagine a scenario where the crew have a small emergency, switch on their oxygen supply, and start a fire with the oxygen exhaled from their masks.

  21. Re:The problem is the sockets are ill-designed. on Working Theory In Jet Crash: IPhone In Cockpit Is To Blame (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats the portable ADS-B receiver going to be used for?

  22. Re:Story not exactly clear on details on Working Theory In Jet Crash: IPhone In Cockpit Is To Blame (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Many airlines have standard ipad apps to replace the maps pilots have formerly used on aircraft.

  23. Re: Solar Probe Plus? Name Botch! on NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Don'y you know that you can just stop your space ship and get off any time you want?

  24. Re:Solar Probe Plus? Name Botch! on NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Its like current flow: electrons go one way, positive charge "holes" go the other way. Except its with antimatter, not electric charge. I hope Watts is working on a third book. The first was great. The second, ok.

  25. Re:Solar Probe Plus? Name Botch! on NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1