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  1. Another teenage fusor on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 2

    At first I thought the article was about this guy, another teenager building a fusion reactor.

  2. The Eclipse Project on 10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project · · Score: 1

    Dani Megert : 14,143 commits on Eclipse Platform + JDT

    Darin Wright : 12,642 commits on Eclipse Platform + JDT

  3. Re:Why does this matter? on Apple Bans Android Magazine App From App Store · · Score: 1
    I love the "What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?" Section:
    • 32% buy Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6" Display - with New E Ink (Pearl) Technology
    • 28% buy Kindle 3G Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 3G Works Globally, 6" Display - with New E Ink (Pearl) Technology
    • 16% buy the item featured on this page: Barnes & Noble NOOK ebook reader (WiFi + 3G)[B&W]
  4. Re:Could someone explain... on Hubble Builds 3D Dark Matter Map · · Score: 0

    Take the same picture twice, 6 months apart. The picture are from positions that are 2 AU apart. You can gain perspective by comparing these in the same way your brain compares images from your eyes.
    The red-shift tells you how far the star is. I'm not really sure on the details, but you should be able to compare the two images together with the red-shift derived distance to see if things don't quite add up.

  5. Re:My best guess.... on Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement · · Score: 1

    High scores were made of this.

  6. Re:In Post-Soviet Russia... on 10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would guess that they were referring to a figurative pipeline, however, part of the enrichment process for uranium is to convert it to Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) which is a gas.

  7. Re:WHY would you do this? on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 2, Informative

    put it in a frame or something

    Do this, literally.
    I took a similar laptop, flipped the screen and put a wooden picture frame around it. Now it is a digital picture frame. Of course, without USB, cd or network, it is a little painful to actually get the photos onto the computer.

  8. Re:Learn as hobby, not at school on 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Programming is a lot like Math, you can put the time in, but some people just don't grok it.

    There is an interesting article here which holds up pointers and recursion as two things in programming that a lot of people never really understand.

  9. Re:Smart = Unpredictable on DARPA Builds Smarter Version of Microsoft's Clippy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That same idea is expressed in an article about why Wolfram-Alpha fails as a user interface.

  10. Re:The other %1? on Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yes. From here:

    The new ASTER data expands coverage to 99 percent, from 83 degrees north latitude and 83 degrees south. Each elevation measurement point in the new data is 98 feet apart.

  11. Re:Don't we already have it on Real Nanotechnology Getting Closer, Says Drexler · · Score: 1

    Microchips may have been at the micro scale when they were first invented, but they've certainly moved down into the nano-scale in the years since then.

  12. Re:Epic Security Problem in My Opinion on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 1

    A rapper might apply for a Web address ending in .hiphop.

    Or maybe .music or maybe .ryhme or maybe .lyric or maybe .album or maybe .songs or maybe .r for "Rapper" or maybe .rap?

    I would think that any individual that can afford the registration fee would simply register their name.

    *.gates
    *.obama

  13. Re:VLC is OK. on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    I have an original xbox running gentoo/XBMC that I use as a media center.

    When booted to gentoo (I'm also running a torrent client) I use the mplayer CLI through an ssh terminal. There is no keyboard and the controller is an awkward replacement for a mouse, so I do everything in a terminal.

  14. Re:Women don't want to do CS? on Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    A safe, educational toddler hammer toy that lets kids indulge their love of hammering

    This is awesome. I rarely get to indulge my love of hammering any more, kind of sad really.

  15. Re:Distrust by the masses.. on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Provide free high quality drugs to people already addicted with no criminal penalties or consequences to people who come forward and ask for them.

    Call be paranoid, but something about the government providing free high quality drugs is a scary first step to "opiates for the masses".

    My first thought was "Brave New World", and then "Equilibrium".

  16. Re:Importance of warm-up on Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles · · Score: 1

    This is exactly right.

    Stretching is actually quite inefficient as warmups go, and the article should not be taken to say that warmups weaken performance. Static stretching is for after.

  17. Re:Paste your code to /dev/tty for upload on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    You can do this on windows with "copy con filename" (Ctrl-Z & enter to stop). Good to know the linux version.

  18. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 5, Informative

    ctrl+r (in bash?): reverse incremental search through history.
    pushd/popd , change directory saving the old one on a stack.

  19. Eclipse Lawyers on Tasks of a Free Software Legal Department · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At the Eclipse Foundation, I believe the lawyer types spend most of their time doing due-diligence on contributions coming into the project.

  20. Re:Slashdot might not be the best place to ask on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if this applies to OSS in general, but in Eclipse at least, version numbers actually have some semantic meaning assigned to them.

    In this case, you come to a place where you have both a "marketing" version and a "real" version. Hence the trend of naming major releases instead of giving them specific versions.

  21. Re:But they pass it off to someone else on Google Demands Higher Chip Temps From Intel · · Score: 1

    It's a zero-sum game. The total load on the planet is the same. The same total bunch of chips exits Intel's fabs. On the total, no energy was conserved.

    So Google's "going green" is at the cost of making everyone else less "green".

    Not true.

    This is only the case if you assume every other customer is also running data centers that require special cooling. If Google is using off-the-shelf components, then it is just as likely that the other chips are going to regular desktops that receive no additional cooling.

    In this case, it is actually more efficient overall to give the best chips to Google and other datacenters, and leave the rest to others.

  22. Re:Yes, but ... GPL on Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? · · Score: 1

    This problem is exactly the reason there are alternatives like the Eclipse Public License. Google has recently announced that they are adding the EPL as a license option for Google Code.

  23. Re:There is real psychological truth to this on Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
    Consider the case of the person digitally added to a wedding photo. After looking at that photo for years, it would not necessarily be surprising to actually remember that person as being there.

  24. Re:What's so bad about Uwe Boll? on Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, they're not bad in the kind of way that they become unintentionally funny, they're just mindnumbingly bad.
    They are bad, but unintenionally funny may be a personal preference.
    I have a copy of BloodRayne. I laughed and enjoyed its horribleness. The whole idea of it is just filled with awesome..
  25. Re:Pi approximation day on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    Hah! I love it. If I remember, I will celebrate pie approximation day. Though maybe I'll eat a tart instead of almost eating a pie.