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  1. Re:I found that interesting on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    That's the end of it though? I know those heavier elements don't necessarily fuse even in neutron stars, but we can't see what goes on inside a black hole. Is it not possible a dense enough black hole could proceed in a way to explode, distributing lighter elements around?

    Part of me really doesn't like the idea that it's not coming back :(

  2. Re:I found that interesting on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    Only for simple 2-body systems or such? All the neighboring matter around you on similar vectors has it's own gravity. Given enough time the matter in the local area would coalesce. Wouldn't that cascade?

    I'm not trying to be dense. I've got lots of little facts and impressions from all over the place and appreciate correction.

  3. Re:I found that interesting on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    Won't that (eventually) get pulled back, gravitationally? Given enough time everything should end up coagulating into large masses that in turn pull towards each other. End result: another Big Bang.

    Of course that's kind of... far off on the timeline.

  4. Re:mo3 3own on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    I still like to think of it as the equivalent of a numbers station.

  5. Re:I found that interesting on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    Star explodes. Gas spreads out. Fast forward, gas is coalescing into smaller stars. Fast forward, larger stars are consuming their neighbors. Fast forward again, you have a small set of huge stars (or some large blackhole or something) that continues on, then explodes again, starting the sequence over again presuming no outside interference.

  6. Re:Fermis paradox on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 2

    Assuming we don't kill ourselves off, first, or get off this rock before chance does it for us.

  7. Re:I BLAME GLOBAL WARMING on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    It's not really cooling, it's just spreading the same amount of energy over an increasingly large area. The sum total is still the same.

    Or are we actually losing energy somewhere? That's a scary thought.

  8. Re:mod 0p on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    How many of you think this thing might just be the modern equivalent to a numbers station?

  9. Re:Let me be the first to call her a on 'World of Warcraft' Candidate For Maine State Senate Wins Election · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or maybe she's one of the few who plays for fun, and not for gear?

  10. Re:1000 times bigger than Mega? on Gabon Suspends Me.ga Domain, Dotcom Says "We Have Alternative Domain" · · Score: 1

    Shoo. The big boys are using SI prefixes over here.

  11. Re:Not GPL, and suitable for JIT on FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM · · Score: 2

    So, written a bit more flexibly, and licensed a bit more flexibly :)

    Nothing wrong with having a "competitor" (it isn't, but anyway you get what I am saying) from either perspective. Gives both a reason to strive to improve.

  12. Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 1

    That's the fault of the third-party items. The items Linux can solve are not the problem here.

  13. Re:ICQ on Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype · · Score: 1

    GTalk (google talk). It's XMPP as well, and it connects to Jabber.org.

    You've had it available for ages (it's that chat thing in gmail also)

  14. Re:Stupid. on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 2

    Innovating? I think you mean companies like Diebold keep whining "give us more money" to the politicians?

  15. Re:Stupid. on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 2

    Ladies and gentlemen! The 2012 election results: Obama beat Romney 3 out of 5!

    There was some minor rioting as various claims of "hey no changies" were issued.

  16. Re:Gtalk/Facebook on Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype · · Score: 1

    I use what my friends use, and unfortunately most of them are still using lame networks.

  17. Re:ICQ on Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype · · Score: 1

    jabber.org + pidgin (or anything else XMPP) = win

  18. Re:UK - Not pressing any buttons today... on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 2

    Obama is quite the student of this community organizer philosophy, and the quotes along these lines (and even those praising Mao) from his early choices for his administration seem to confirm this somewhat.

    I don't see this as a problem. What I do see as a problem: throwing out ideas because they might possibly have something in common with what is thought of as communism. Just because you want a few things, doesn't mean you want the whole package. Outright rejection and killing-with-fire is just proof that the Red Scare never ended.

  19. Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 2

    * RTFM: still happens, but not as much as it used to.
    * Distro-vs-Distro: yes, this is still annoying as hell
    * RPM Hell: yea, what? Seriously, when was the last time you got this when you wern't doing stupid things like trying to use SuSE RPMs in Fedora? Likewise with the debian family.
    * I can say nothing about marketing, beyond the claim that all involved in it should die in fires (along with lawyers)
    * Binary Blob holy war: Blame US copyright law. Not an issue for end users, usually.
    * SAMBA doesn't matter if Windows is removed from the picture.
    * RAW image support: we are talking about desktop use, not photo lab use... that said, I agree this should be supported. But it's not holding us back from desktop use.
    * Adobe CS and photoshop? You need to take that up with Adobe. It's not our fault they don't build for our platform.
    * Likewise for your embroidery software.
    * Also likewise for iTunes and your iPhone. You should be able to load music on it, but you won't get the iTunes integration.
    * And yet again likewise for games.
    * AND your label printer!
    * oh, also silverlight!

    Gee, half your complaints are nothing Linux can do anything about. Third parties have to get off their asses (or remove their heads from their asses) and port their own products. The rest is minor shit that isn't holding back anything except you, it seems.

  20. Re:Will DNSSEC help with this? on Why Google Went Offline Today · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nope. DNS doesn't mean shit if the routers are sending your traffic to the wrong place. (DNS points to an IP, which is (supposed to) point to the target machine. If that last part isn't working, the first part won't work no matter what)

  21. Re:OH - On the states Rep/Dem border on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    Yea, I've got my FSF sticker but that's it. The antennas and such should fill the same space your H&K sticker does.

    (all black car with antennas all over it? hmm yea, lets not mess with that one)

    Bonus if I'm wearing my HT and speakermic when I get in/out.

  22. Re:What is $5Million? on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Hell, I survive just fine on less than half of $100k. You don't need to own a house - and in this case, you can't be "fired" so that $100k yearly is not going to just go away.

  23. Re:Almost no line on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    The receipt can be facilitated by coercers, or by those buying/selling votes.

  24. Re:UK - Not pressing any buttons today... on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 2

    What, as opposed to some other dipshit ruining it for 4 years?

    I'd rather the current dipshit get his full 8 years to try to get anything accomplished rather than yanking the rug out from under and throwing it all in the trash.

  25. Re:VA disenfranchised on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    Not if it got stuck to some jackass's mail who had BS sticky shit attached to their early holiday cards.

    Happens all the time. People need to leave the outside of the envelope clean and pristine. Put your fluffy shit inside the envelope, kthx.