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  1. communications have been disabled. we must be at war. 502 Bad Gateway

  2. 'centuries' are not SI units either. Do you perhaps mean we're 63.115 gigaseconds from a somewhat arbitrary time reference?

  3. Re:No shit Sherlock on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Redundancy is always good.

    Yes. Redundancy is always good.

    Yes. Triple redundancy is always best. (vote on which is failed)

  4. Re:wine on Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org) · · Score: 2

    10 Print "Wine Is Not An Emulator. But then what does Wine stand for?"
    20 Goto 10

  5. Re:Why not multiple dogs? on Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine · · Score: 3, Informative

    That theory doesn't hold if all 10 dogs are missing the same 20% due to a common failure mode.

  6. Oblig XKCD on Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste · · Score: 1

    Well not really an XKCD but a What-If.

  7. Re:Mislead on Quadcopter Drone Packs First All-Linux Autopilot · · Score: 1

    That's not necessarily true either. A scheduling analysis could be performed to determine the real-time capabilities of the system. A simple stability program running on a massively overpowered linux system could be proven to guarantee scheduling at a low update rate. It's just not an efficient real-time system.

  8. Long term effect on New Oculus Rift Prototype Features Head Tracking, Reduced Motion Blur, HD AMOLED · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thinking way out there... but if the Rift catches on, will significantly more brains be trained to cope with motion sickness? Will we be better equipped for space travel? I wonder if it will reduce motion sickness medication sales.

  9. Loose change on Bitcoin Hits New All-time High of $32 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the bitcoin equivalent of losing loose change in your couch, one of my old hard drives has 4 mined bitcoins on it somewhere. They are rapildly approaching a value high enough for me to stop being lazy and ressurect the machine.

  10. Re:Excellent; on Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 · · Score: 1

    This is especially true for pre-1996 pennies, which are 98% copper. roughly 3-4 cents per penny depending on the current copper price.

  11. Beowolf cluster on Rare Operating Apple 1 Rakes In $374,500 At Sotheby's Auction · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a.. wait, I can't. there's only 6 of them.

  12. Someone check my math on Another Step Forward In Small Scale Electrical Generators · · Score: 1

    For Natural Gas (@0degC)
    Specific Heating = 47.7MJ/kg
    gas density = 0.72 kg/m^3
    cost ~= 0.25 $/m^3 (typical Ontario with distribution)
    efficiency = 50%

    = 4.77 kWh/m^3
    = $0.052 / kWh

    this would assume it could run on natural gas, but it needs pure methane. Even so, it ends up cheaper than grid electricity.

  13. Re:No alarm clock here on 'Social Jetlag' May Be Making You Fat · · Score: 2

    That only works if your body's natural clock is fairly close to 24h and your rhythm can sync in with the clock. I think average is around 24.5h. I'm in around the 25h mark. I can sync with 24h for a few days, but if I leave it natural I'll add an hour every day (vacation or on flex time).

  14. Cheap Source of Copper on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Pre-1996 Canadian pennies are 99% copper. Last I checked, the ones I'm saving (hoarding?) are worth 3.6c each.

  15. Laser Failure Mode on Seagate Hits 1 Terabit Per Square Inch · · Score: 2

    The good news is that if the laser fails, the data should still be available to read and copy onto a new hard drive. If the laser was needed for reading as well, I'd be wary of the reliability.

  16. Get a good adapter set on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've used a GQ-4X Willem Programmer with good success. The trick is to get a good set of adapters, so you have the flexibility to cover many packages. PSOP, TSOP, etc. I've even found one that lets me do a serial SOIP8 EEPROM while it is still on the board-- very handy to not need the remove&resolder.

  17. Re:Nothing to see here on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    ---installs BTC miner---

  18. Nothing to see here on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey look, elephants!

  19. End user suffers on Internet Groups To Stream Live IPv4/6 Announcement · · Score: 1

    A top level address would then cost ~16mil per year-- not unreasonable. But since this trickles down the wholesale market to smaller ISPs, then to the end user, and there's profit to be had, and its supply driven, then the poor end user gets nailed with huge costs for a few addresses.

  20. Unity on Unity with Unity on Preview of Ubuntu's Unity Interface · · Score: 3, Funny

    So if I use this unity 3d engine on ubuntu unity using VMware unity, do I get a trilogy?

  21. The HDCP effect on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    HDCP Effect: A preemptive Streisand effect where there is no immediate aggressor but one is implied. Which means the material gets blasted around the internet 'just in case' there are aggressor actions.

  22. Re:WRT160NL on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 1

    The WRT160NL just got DDWRT support a few weeks ago. I bought it before DDWRT support hoping to run OpenWRT, but never got around to building a serial terminal interface for it.

  23. Why the US uses MPG and not L/100km on Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If a company sells one pure electric car, which get infinite miles per gallon, the fleet average will be infinite miles per gallon!

    one electric car at 0L/100km doesn't do anything to the average if it's a big fleet.

  24. Re:This sucker's electrical... on DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    It should have been a short movie. When Marty goes back to get the Doc, there's another car there (the one with zapped electricals from the lightning strike). Borrow some gas from that one, throw it back in the cave and go home.

  25. Moko + Palm Emulator = iPhone Killer on Open Source Linux Phone Goes On Sale · · Score: 1

    A linux phone is useless unless it gets some real software applications developed for it. I would say the best path would be to port a Palm emulator onto the phone to have instant access to a large software base. Most decent apps don't need much processing power or memory to run. Then in time start rewriting the best apps to run natively.