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  1. Re:How about giving Tibet back to the Tibetans? on China Eager To Send Its Own Mission To Mars In the Wake of Mangalyaan · · Score: 1

    Way too late. Because if you pull your genetic sequence you'll find that most of us of European ancestry also got a couple percent of Neanderthal ancesty along with it.

  2. For all her Majesty on China Eager To Send Its Own Mission To Mars In the Wake of Mangalyaan · · Score: 2

    China is always behind the curve. They didn't get nukes until the 1970's. And they won't do a Mars mission for another six years?

    They may have invented gunpowder and pasta way back when - but they lost it after that.

  3. If you have on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    A bit of electrical talent you could in fact circumvent their little device.

  4. What is more interesting on Device Allows Paralyzed Rats To Walk, Human Trials Scheduled Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Are the groups researching repair of spinal cord injuries. Seems if you get to them before too much time passes you can get the nerves to re-grow and connect again with a certain compound. I think that will stave off future handicapped people.

  5. Re:Missing in windows? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: -1

    Um, it's a command line thing. You won't find it in a GUI.

  6. Re:So wait on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    We'll wave to them from Mars.

  7. Re:Why not KDE on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    When I was a complete newb I used Yggdrasil. Then SCO.

  8. So wait on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1, Troll

    They'll get there 61 years after American boots have been all over the surface of the moon. We can tell them been there, done that, got the space suit.

    And think - the Apollo space program came up in approximately seven years. The Russians are going to take sixteen years to do theirs. Best wishes! I wonder if they'll salute the American flags we've left behind?

  9. Re:Read Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 1

    It's funny - I have the opposite issue. For example before I took the position I'm in I had three offers on the table. And I'm just a Linux guy with a bachelors degree.

    Advanced degrees really don't mean shit outside of academia.

  10. Re:The campfire gave rise to two things on Ancient Campfires Led To the Rise of Storytelling · · Score: 1

    But you forget about message degradation the further down the line a message is passed orally so that what comes out is COMPLETELY different than what went in.

    In fact kids play this game, except they call it Telephone. So you can understand that it's entirely likely the Jesus character is an amalgam of several other virgin birth and resurrection stories floating around at the time they finally wrote it down.

  11. Re:It is all pork barrel politics on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 1

    There is something Carter did that the world as a general rule doesn't know about. During his time he started phasing out land based missiles in favor of submarine based missiles. So most of our arsenal of nuclear weapons is deep in the ocean, pretty much undetectable.

  12. Just think on Secret Service Critics Pounce After White House Breach · · Score: 1

    This is just theoretical but were anything to happen to President Obama, VP Biden would step in. I wouldn't mind a President who drops and F bomb now and then to be honest.

  13. Re:a collision wouldn't surprise me on 2 Mars Missions Set For Arrival, Both Prepare for Orbital Maneuvers · · Score: 1

    Agreed, the robotic missions are doing very well on Mars and on their future landing sites I expect some pretty cool data coming back.

  14. Re:Repair on Inside Shenzen's Grey-Market iPhone Mall · · Score: 2

    While in the U.S. I regularly see people using iPhones with screens that are severaly cracked. This is right near MIT's campus for god sake. All you need is a heat gun and some spodging tools and you can replace the screen on them.

  15. Re:Credit cards? on Home Depot Says Breach Affected 56 Million Cards · · Score: 1

    The thing is for years they've always said it was the mom and pops that didn't want to upgrade. But the gear is fairly inexpensive to begin with. It's just in most places that still use the old swipe method it's the BANK that owns the gear and leases it to the merchant.

    So of course the banks will charge extortionate rates for said card swipe terminals.

    But nothing really prevents the really big merchants from telling the bank to stuff their machine. So I'd expect that might see the first use of chip and PIN. It's just for some time cards will have both the magnetic stripe and the chip because all merchants will take their sweet time converting.

    But MasterCard and VISA are going one better - they're pushing liability onto the merchants now. So it may happen sooner than later that the upgrades take place.

  16. What scares me much more on Once Vehicles Are Connected To the Internet of Things, Who Guards Your Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Is that they also want the cars to be able to communicate with each other. And how much do you want to bet that these communication systems will be tied into the non-secured CAN bus on the car? Yeah - one scenario I can imagine is your car going rogue and telling all other cars to pull aside. That would be fun on the highway.

  17. I've got on Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google · · Score: 1

    An Android 4.1.2 that allows me to encrypt the entire storage on the phone. So it's nothing new.

  18. I'm older but in the same boat on Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult? · · Score: 1

    I've always had a fascination with bio-chem. Got my InfoSci degree but toying with going back on a chem track.

  19. The government will always on Airbnb To Start Collecting Hotel Tax On Rentals In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Get it's pound of flesh. Here in RI they charge an extra 1% on prepared meals. One of these days I can see Chinese food places and pizza parlors just delivering raw ingredients to the customer.

    Better yet - overnight parking permits are $100 per year. Except where I live it's so fucking dense the house across from me has THREE cars parked on my side of the street. Good thing I don't have a car. And when I do finally give in and buy a car again I'll just make my own permit. Not many security features built in and I doubt the cops checking overnight are gonna call the code in.

  20. I wonder if on Scientists Twist Radio Beams To Send Data At 32 Gigabits Per Second · · Score: 1

    This is like QAM? I recall back in the late 1980's some AM broadcasters had played around with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. In essence twisting the phase of the carrier around to get channeling, etc.

  21. Re:One ring to rule them all? on Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home · · Score: 1

    I think you miss the point. Incumbent utility providers would love to jack up your heat or AC setting to increase their revenue.

  22. Re:at least the nuclear weapons will be gone on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Indeed - the U.S. Navy still has a pretty big presence in Scotland. It's how I ended up with a half brother there.

  23. Re:Now they Ignore It on The FCC Net Neutrality Comment Deadline Has Arrived: What Now? · · Score: 1

    I don't so much think they don't care but that corporate interests in Congress have threatened to cut their funding if they move ISP's into common carrier status.

  24. Interestingly on Google's Android One Initiative Launches In India With Three $100 Phones · · Score: 1

    The phone I carry is running Android Jelly Bean. Retailed for $49.

  25. Another avenue on If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It? · · Score: 1

    Is telomerase antagonists. The key to all cancers is that the cells use a substance called telomerase to rebuild the telomeres each time the cell divides. In essence it makes the cells immortal. But block telomerase and the cell just undergoes apoptosis after so many divisions.