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  1. health risks? on Terrestrial Gamma Ray Bursts Very Common · · Score: 1
    I wonder if this could mean people living in an area with lots of storms have a significantly higher risk of cancer. High altitudes do have risks:

    "A seven hour airplane trip exposes passengers to 0.02 mSv of radiation, which is a fraction of the exposure of a standard Chest x-ray (0.1 mSv). Domestic airline pilots are exposed to an additional 2.2 mSv per year, about the same dose as a brain CT." http://www.xrayrisk.com/faq.ph...

    "the high-altitudes expose climbers to an extra 1milliSievert (mSv) of radiation, which is five times more than the average annual exposure in a nuclear power plant." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci... How much mSv is a gamma ray burst from a thunderstorm?

  2. why not run tor on a phablet or phone? on Tiny Wireless Device Offers Tor Anonymity · · Score: 0

    You could use your android or linux phablet or phone as Tor proxy and gateway. Phablets and phone's are made to be portable, this device only makes sense as a dedicated in place hardware router and for that you could do it yourself and use a raspberry pi.

  3. Jailbroken iphone with sshd on Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? · · Score: 1

    I can run basic unix utilities and vim very well by using ssh and logging in locally on my jailbroken iphone, it has a unix base after all. I believe there are phones you can hack and install linux on. Add a bluetooth keyboard. An ipad mini with slim keyboard cover fits in my coat pocket, i use voip for my phone.

  4. use emacs calc with org-babel on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    read section "Using Code Blocks in Org Tables" of the Org-Babel intro: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html supported languages: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html

  5. Re:Interesting fact on Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Correction: your profile will be public, but you can opt to only show your first and last name.

  6. futuremind on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    I've got a very old futuremind sw powered mindmachine, which uses the parallel port and a SB AWE 32 for it's sound. Neither can be emulated. I was thinking of recording the sound and film the LED output, make an mp4 out of it which I can then play and watch on my OLED Z-800 HMD. No time to look into it unfortunately. The same goes for the hundreds of 80's en '90s tv shows on VHS which are gathering dust.

  7. boardgaming on Split Screen Co-op Is Dying · · Score: 2

    That's one of the reasons why I focus on boardgames instead of computergames, like reading a book compared to watching a movie on average it can stimulate the mind more as the game design is usually more intricate and it is more social! I can recommend playing Puerto Rico and Imperial 2030, also see: BoardGameGeek ranking.

  8. Re:One acronym: KVM on Recommendations For Home Virtualization? · · Score: 1

    There's a free VMWare baremetal hypervisor based on ESXi, works ok.

  9. Re:What is the point? on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi Joost, you confuse the iTunes for iPhone with iTunes for OSX or Windows. Subscribe to rss url is not possible in iTunes for iPhone or iPod.

  10. Re:Catholics are quite clever on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    The "multiple incarnations" does not refer to human-alien reincarnations but to Christ incarnating as alien to bring God's word to them.

  11. Re:Don't need electronics for that on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    Hi Haxamanish, How accurate is your clock based on your sense of North and Sun when it's sunny and you are in familiar territory? Half an hour? 15 minutes?

  12. Re:That's not really the issue here. on The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School · · Score: 1

    ok societal change will not happen overnight but individual energy requirement is negligable. learn qwerty or dvorak, all the same. use keyboard remapper software on an usb stick or web download if you are on another computer. dvorak is more comfortable for your fingers. look what happened when the phone keypad was used to enter text, a whole generation became very efficient on that keyboard layout.

  13. Re:Glory! on Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler · · Score: 1

    May I be the second to say "AMEN!". Linux is always said to be the fastest most responsive desktop os on older hardare. Still xp can beat x/gnome/linux 2.6 on a low end machine, perhaps this scheduler will change it.

  14. truecrypt is not brickin it on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the poster meant to truly "brick" the netbook instead of just making sure no sensitive data can get stolen from the hard drive. In this case autoflashing the rom/bios with something nasty under some condition can do the trick.

  15. other solutions on Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone · · Score: 1

    I had this for ages with Windows Mobile had this for ages with Tomeraider3 wikipedia database. Instead of using bzip2, it's more efficient and elegant to store the table in sqlite and use it's excellent sqlite3 compression.

  16. Modammad Asgari knew on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 4, Interesting

    tweet: unconfirmed: Mohammad Asgari,a system administrator in the interior ministry (in charge of securing election LAN) was killed #iranelection

  17. Re:So, what I think you're asking for is... on Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords? · · Score: 1

    For tagging files: Leap http://www.yepsoftware.com/leap/index.html DEVONthink Has import files and folders option, tag support and you get advanced search (boolean etc.) as well http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/devonthink2.html

  18. DEVONthink on Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords? · · Score: 1

    There is a OSX application specifically written for these kind of scenario's: DEVONthink. http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000231.html It has the Abby OCR engine built-in, a web server and an extremely smart search filter, which is able to find related documents based on metrics like keyword frequency.

  19. why i started to read slashdot in 1997 on Homebrew Microcontroller Laptop, Made of Wood · · Score: 1

    This kind of articles, really really cool. But why the laptop casing, why not make it into a wearable? LED display mounted on left lower arm, chorded keypad on the right lower arm.

  20. Re:Dvorak is better, but how much better? on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    there are custom dvorak layouts for different languages. that said, in my language dutch, letter frequency is similar, different layout wouldn't add much speed so i just use standard dvorak with u and i switched.
    you can optimize layout for your specific keyboard use, something which might happen in the future when we'll type with brain patterns.

  21. game of life simulation on Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? · · Score: 1

    game of life simulation!

  22. Re:There's the Z800 on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    There was a program Win3d that enabled z800's use with ati. nvidia is a better combination though.

  23. Re:There's the Z800 on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    Excellent, I have been waiting to use my z800 with linux, in the meantime xp works ok. Would the driver be easy to port it to OSX?

  24. webkit squirrelmonkey fastest on Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests · · Score: 1

    From my tests the webkit nightlies perform the fastest on javascript, significantly faster then chrome. safari 3.2 doesn't contain the latest js performance optimizations.

  25. belief in a just world on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 1

    A long long time ago in a galaxy far away I did social psychological experiment between need to punish and a believe in a just world (hypothesis by Melvin Lerner). We found a significant correlation, it wouldn't surpirse me that the BJW questionaire can be correlated with political orientation. http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v3n2/justworld.html