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  1. Re:Award all naming rights to the first colonists on IAU To Uwingu: You Can't Name That Martian Crater Either · · Score: 2

    The IAU doesn't agree with that. They renamed many of the craters originally named on Apollo, for no other reason is that they are the IAU and couldn't stand that someone else was actually doing something, rather than talking about it.

  2. Re:I still can't figure out what they did on Google Faces Up To $5 Billion Fine From Competition Commission of India · · Score: 1

    I think that governments are perfectly capable of becoming corrupted even without Bill's influence.

  3. Re:I still can't figure out what they did on Google Faces Up To $5 Billion Fine From Competition Commission of India · · Score: 5, Funny

    The harm that Google has $5 billion that they want.

  4. Be aware of the consequences on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    Fine, accept code from foreigners, but be well aware that this will make is certain that it will not be used in many corporate sites. One of the items I have to certify when using open-source in a corporate environment is that there is no foreign content. Otherwise it cannot be used. No one is going to go through the source code from something like OpenOffice and look for malicious code, and show that it does not exist, if it has off-shore content, it will not be used, period.

  5. Re:Hate speech, and Libel/Slander on South Park Game Censored On Consoles Outside North America · · Score: 2

    Given that the mere innocent mention of certain Prophets can incite a riot, I don't think even that is a good criterion.

        Doing otherwise gives the most irrational types a trump card on what constitutes free speech.

          Brett

  6. Re:Computer illiterate little sister? on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 2

    My grampa was not retarded, so he wouldn't have liked it.

  7. Re:I blame textbook monopolies. on Wozniak Gets Personal On Innovation · · Score: 1

    This is 100% nonsense, every single point. As long as people think these are the issues, there is no hope for fixing. The funding and money parts are the most absurd - American education is grotesquely over-funded.

  8. Re:Where's the "safest" place on Earth? on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 2

    Up near Hudson Bay in Canada is a good candidate. That's where the Canadian Shield proto-continent is, mostly unaltered since Archaen times.

     

  9. Re:Would those data scientists with PhDs on Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use · · Score: 1

    Where does it say that?

  10. Re:From TFA on Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police · · Score: 1

    More likely, he figured it wouldn't get accepted if it was utterly uninteresting. Faux outrage is far more compelling.

  11. Re:It won't work on Australian Team Working On Engines Without Piston Rings · · Score: 2

    What the heck are you talking about? Piston rings are there to save money by not requiring precision honing of the bore and piston. If you select the materials correctly you have never needed piston rings.

          Just about every model airplane engine now uses a piston with no rings, and it scales perfectly well. It's just a matter of how much it costs, and the cost has been prohibitive.

          And yes, you do need to match the coefficients of expansion in some combinations of materials, and also taper the bore so that it doesn't "bell-mouth" from expanding more that the top, where it's hot, than the bottom. Either that, or allow it to be mismatched, put in even more taper, and allow heat and expansion to create the proper fit. In either case, chrome the bore, or put on a hard anodized surface to keep it from wearing out prematurely.

            People knew this all 50-60 years ago, and used it in some cases. It's not cost-effective, but it's certainly feasible.

            Brett

  12. Re:Stephen Hawking on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    Coleman Hawkings brother?

  13. Conspiracy on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    No false positives = a little too convenient.

            The utter lack of evidence is undeniable proof of a gigantic PLOT!

  14. English is good enough on How To Change U.S. Laws To Promote Robotics · · Score: 1

    "Maker Shed"? Really? People have been using the phrase "workshop" in some variant for probably 1000 years. You don't need to make a up a new phrase for it.

  15. Re:Wow. What a moon. on Mars Express Orbiter Buzzes Martian Moon Phobos · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the universe- what a gyp!

  16. Re:Perhaps not on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps racist behaviour should be punished independent of any mindless "free speech" worship.

            You, sir and or madame, are the worst kind of imbecile. Because as soon as you accept the notion that speech should be censored, you put someone else in the position of deciding which speech is to be censored.

          Yes, that does mean you have to put up with all sort of racists, anti-semites, and plain old lunatics spewing anything they feel like. That's far better than ceding your rights.

  17. Re:Epic Fail. on Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, because 99 weeks of warning that the benefits would run out simply aren't enough. Hey, here's an idea that will no doubt go over well in this venue - let's just pay people indefinitely! Why should it ever run out?

  18. Re:Old dogs & new tricks on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 2

    Huh? If he is in his 70's, it's very likely that he never used anything like a desktop/laptop personal computer at work.

            I work in a very high technology field and we didn't have anything resembling a personal computer until the early 90's - about when this guy would have been retiring.

          The answer is blindingly obvious, get an iPad.

  19. Girls are completely wrong. on Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Coding for it's own sake is *easy* and boring.

  20. Re:So can we stop it? on Killer Qualities of Japanese Fault Revealed · · Score: 1

    Uh, what? Plate tectonics can push Mt. Everest to 29000 feet, and we are going to fix it with concrete and rebar?

  21. Re:Yeah, but... on The Climate of Middle-Earth · · Score: 1

    This in an article that amounts to a nerdgasm over academics spending their efforts to model the climate of a fairy tale.

           

  22. Re:No Jobs on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    Even more people would sit home on their dead asses waiting for their check, while an ever-decreasing work force would have ever-increasing tax burden.

            It's already like that, to some extent. Something like 50% of the population takes government handouts already, and workforce participation is as low as it has been since records have been kept.

     

  23. Here you go... on Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? · · Score: 1

    HP-35s. Not as good as the original HP-35 u some respects, but plenty usable:

    http://www.amazon.com/HP-F2215AA-ABA-Scientific-Calculator/dp/B000TDRHG8

  24. Re:So it is a Canadian Company? Even worse, Qu on Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company · · Score: 0

    It was chosen, no-bid, to a political ally of Michelle Obama.

  25. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    As long as you define "politics" as the second rate copy of DU.