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  1. Re:oh please, there's no problem on Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    If you take your "wifi" device that only does 2.4GHz to a place with 5 GHz wifi, it won't work either. get over it.

  2. Earth gets hit with X2 all the time on Friday's Solar Flare Twice As Energetic As Monday's; Earth Safe · · Score: 2

    Sometimes there is satellite damage from X2 flare, though the things are supposed to be designed to withstand them. More likely effects are communication disruptions. Last year, February 2011, Earth was hit with X2. We mostly survived 8D

  3. Re:Sun's limb? on Friday's Solar Flare Twice As Energetic As Monday's; Earth Safe · · Score: 4, Informative

    the word "limb" has alternative definitions than the usual use of "branch of tree" or "member of animal's body other than head or trunk". These alternatives come from Latin "limbus", meaning border. In astronomy, the definition is "The circumferential edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body." There is a related definition in mathematics: "The edge of a graduated arc or circle used in an instrument to measure angles" --http://www.thefreedictionary.com/limb

  4. oh please, there's no problem on Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    most end users, almost all of them, don't know a thing about radio spectrum, encoding, or protocols for such. The level of understanding is "does it work with this system, or doesn't it'. Therefore "super wifi" is nothing more than a marketing term. It doesn't matter.

  5. Re:that's not the fun kind of x-ray laser on Scientists Create World's First Atomic X-Ray Laser · · Score: 1

    Back in the days of a mostly ground based ICBM force, delaying launch means losing the weapons to inbound ones.

  6. Re:Damn... on North Star May Be Wasting Away · · Score: 1

    they insulate to contain the body of a person and their hot nubile lover, which is why they only work half as well for slash-dotters.

  7. Re:Oh my god! on North Star May Be Wasting Away · · Score: 2

    slashdot ate your degree signs (some geek site huh?)

    also of interest is that Deneb is presently the North Pole star of Mars.

  8. Re:Pivot point on North Star May Be Wasting Away · · Score: 1

    oh noes, they'll slip and fall off each other's backs, all the way down.

  9. Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Webster's 1820 Dictionary, 2nd one for welfare (n)

    2. Exemption from any unusual evil or calamity; the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, or the ordinary blessings of society and civil government; applied to states.

  10. that's not the fun kind of x-ray laser on Scientists Create World's First Atomic X-Ray Laser · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excalibur

    (when head-mounted on shark, you don't get your shark back)

  11. Re:is an xray pump laser truly needed? on Scientists Create World's First Atomic X-Ray Laser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    while normally true there is a type of laser called an up-conversion laser, whereby two or more photons excite an ion to release energy greater than the pumping frequency.

  12. Re:Watching Obama Destroy Gingritch on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Obama's done a great job of continuing the Bush/Cheney agenda. Either way, the fat cats win

  13. Re:Gotta love the fiscally conservative Republican on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    it is not up to the Republican party to pick the leading candidate, that is for certain cartels to do.

    Slashdotters should realize who exactly calls the shots on this globe, presidential elections are a facade

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/billionaire-expects-millions-gingrich-super-pac-source/story?id=15433505#.TyF_DavLaSA

  14. Re:Back to the future on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    so we had the ISS 14 years later as international collaboration, close enough

  15. Re:Gingrich's real plan on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    sorry, good sir, but there is no budget or revenue left for giant lasers. what we can provide is laser pointers attached to the heads of really pissed off sea bass

  16. Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Is that the revisionist crap they're spewing in schools nowadays? The term "General Welfare" in the period's context was for the states, not individual persons.

  17. /. Jumps Shark, Stopping Midair to Sodomize It on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 0

    That's the end of Slashdot, it's all over but for the fat lady farting.

  18. Re:Let them prove it. on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 1

    naw, let's keep the psychics, and send the three branches of U.S. government to the moon, along with all those who want the office for 2012. couldn't hurt and it might help

  19. Re:Why?? on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 2

    I saw even lamer than that today, announcement of coming "electric planes" with concept pictures from Boeing & etc. of these 737 sized crafts. then one real picture in the article at the end of a real electric plane, a single man craft that was not much more than enclosed ultra-light. Because of course, the state of the art is that batteries are way too fucking heavy to make a craft with tens of thousands of horsepower

  20. Re:LTS? on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 1

    eh? there are plenty of linux desktops out there. GNOME3 and Unity are not them. I've put a few people on a "Linux desktop" (xfce and gnome "classic") this year and they are very happy.

  21. Re:Too fast ! on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 1

    works fine with multiple monitors. see any of dozens of how-to for xfce4 with multiple monitors

  22. Re:Too fast ! on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ubuntu does not support users. Ubuntu users will be abused by Unity. I don't need to know it. The world does not revolve around GNOME3's arrogant prick developers nor Canonical's brain-farting code monkeys.

  23. Re:good riddance on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 1

    illogical, GNU/Linux has plenty of sensible desktops (which of course work on other OS too).

  24. Re:Too fast ! on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 1

    You cannot polish a turd into 24K gold. A polished turd still looks like a turd.

  25. Re:Don't count this out yet on Startup Combines CPU and DRAM · · Score: 1

    no, that base has to have base digits of one half raised to increasing integer powers. it is NOT an integer