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  1. Re:Business opportunity on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt much "highly paid jobs", it'll just get thrown onto the backs of IT droids with the rest of the crap they have to do (speaking as one myself)

  2. Re:Dec 27, 1978 -13.6 C +7.5 F on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    yes, there are those claiming otherwise as they flagellate themselves in front of their Al Gore idol. give your nut sack a couple extra cracks of the cat-o'-ninetails for me, global warming boy

  3. Re:Dec 27, 1978 -13.6 C +7.5 F on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    I am not referring to that feared "coming global cooling" nonsense, but rather the real dip in average global temperature from very roughly 1940 to 1980

  4. Re:Bull. They're halfway, the easy half at that. on Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University · · Score: 1

    very interesting, but of course he is using active devices, if you can pull it off all passive without voltage drops killing the works best of luck

  5. Re:Not the cheapest on HP TouchPad Go: $99? · · Score: 1

    that "minority language support" is irrelevant, that work could have targeted any system. The softwares don't matter

  6. Dec 27, 1978 -13.6 C +7.5 F on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is indeed weather, it's come close to that before (in the "global cooling" period of the 1970s) Dec 27, 1978 the high was -13.6 C +7.5 F.

  7. Re:Screw Standard Resolutions on HP TouchPad Go: $99? · · Score: 1

    it's a cost savings measure, that extra line of pixels always winds up the part of the panel bar in Linux or Windows that never changes anyway

  8. Re:Not the cheapest on HP TouchPad Go: $99? · · Score: 1

    so the "one laptop per child" didn't have to be such drama queens, the $99 computer came into existence with no effort on their part. just stoke the cheap chinese tablets with educational wares and throw them at third world kids, just need to set up charging stations

  9. Re:publish it? on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    Employers could do that firing even before laws were made about it. And of course hauling people before courts or magistrates. nothing new.

  10. Re:Excellent Idea on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Japanese Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    the coin-operated carbonated caffeine dispenser has ruled me for over 40 years.

  11. Re:Bull. They're halfway, the easy half at that. on Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University · · Score: 1

    nope, you can build two logic functions non-inverting logical AND and OR. The state of the art in the 1950s was to use transistors, sometimes coupled with diodes as DTL (diode transistor logic). Once you have amplification (which comes with the ability to invert if you so desire), things get easy and you can do any logical function.

  12. Re:Holy Entropy on Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University · · Score: 1

    Heat was actually believed to be a substance, until the middle of the 19th century. Not by everyone, Francis Bacon , Robert Boyle , and Robert Hooke didn't believe that in the 16th century, and Benjamin Thompson (Lord Rumford) proved it wasn't in the late 18th century.

  13. Re:publish it? on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    ooo, the law! the law! words on paper written by power and money grubbing scum to confiscate wealth and maintain their control, must always obey them!

  14. Re:publish it? on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 2

    just need to add a couple important steps and you won't need a lawyer nor have any worries. Use qemu with option to set bios clock. Create a virtual machine running at time before you had present job. Be sure your app can run under versions of interpreter, etc. in existence at that time. Make tarball of your wares with the pre-job date and containing pre-job dated copyright notice. Now you distribute that, and if employer makes a stink, just say it was open source software you wrote before you started job, it just happens to fit their needs and they should be thankful you let them use it.

  15. Re:The Word Monetize on 2012 and the Technology Blahs · · Score: 1

    You realize Slashdot has found the way to monetize posts such as yours?

  16. Re:How to Monetize a Flying Surfboard: on 2012 and the Technology Blahs · · Score: 1

    no, first you have to get the name right. it's called a Hoverboard(tm), dammit! you have to invent a Hoverboard(tm)!!

  17. Re:first on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 1

    that's silly, we're already in the gravity well. Approaching from space, which is easier to reach and return? remember a starship could have a fusion drive that works for months or years to get to near light speed at less than one gee acceleration, but that won't get you off Earth, but could well get you to and off the moon.

  18. Re:first on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 2

    but all those craters were made over the last four billion years. There's only two inches of dust (on average) accumulated in that time!

  19. Re:crowdsourcing may add a lot of work here on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 1

    *gulp* but it only has 48 stars!

  20. Re:Our own backyard? on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 1

    They bring their infrastructure with them? He3 is worth roughly 100x what gold is, to us humans. Despite what Cowboys and Aliens taught us about the Big Green Men, He3 is worth a LOT if you're riding a fusion powered ship around

  21. Re:Our own backyard? on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 1

    they may well be, you could launch a starship from a planet's orbit and slowly get to good fraction of lightspeed just accelerating at less than a gee for months or a few years, but that kind of drive won't get you off a planet.

  22. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    I'm the f'ing drama king, the queens will be my bitches

  23. Re:Climate Change on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    Don't be daft, trivial to prove the man-made origin of smog. The "hole", on the other hand, is really a reduction in concentration of ozone, and though your green enviro-nazi teachers might not have mentioned it, there are naturally produced sources of ozone destroying chemicals (e.g. methyl bromide) which in combination with seasonal winds reduce the concentration of polar ozone. even the "ozone-hole" alarmists acknowledge those mechanisms along with the man-made ones.

  24. Re:Climate Change on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    we haven't been monitoring the ozone hole for very long, not even 50 years. maybe it is a totally natural thing that fluctuates in size mostly due to solar output.

  25. Re:Danger for which democracy? on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    funny the "differences" between the two are hot button religious and "moral" topics. those distractions keep most people imagining they have a choice while going with the plutocrat's agenda.