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  1. Dice Holding on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Companies Won't Be Around In 10 Years? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or maybe just the /. part.

  2. Re:so let me get this straight... on Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia · · Score: 1

    If you don't use the real name of Chelsea Manning, you could at least try to write her former name correctly.

  3. Re:Numbers in summary contradict headline on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It could also be presented as 10.3 TWh of renewables vs 7 TWh of fossil vs 7.8 TWh of nuclear.

    Or another way could be 7 TWh of fossil vs 18.1 of not fossil.

    Or 7.8 of nuclear vs 17.3 of non nuclear.

  4. Re:ESA's spectacular rash of achieving failures on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 1

    What a spectacular list of two items!

  5. Re:Who cares about the lander? on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 1

    "social justice warrior" is only an insult when it comes from someone who think that the opposite, "asocial injustice coward" is a compliment.

  6. Re:Who cares about the lander? on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 2

    I have both sciences, feminist and general news sources in my regular news feed. I've seen much more stuff about sciences than about shirt. Maybe you should reconsider your sources of information and remove some of the "feminist are devil" sources from them.

  7. Re:Fair-weather power sources are lame... on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You cannot really blame ESA to not take into account Mars rovers solar panel problems. I think it's very difficult to take problems which happens after the launch of a spaceprobe during the design of this probe. Maybe ESA should hire some fortune teller?

  8. No need for public record on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    I don't need to know if you have voted to send you two letters, one which says "You have a excellent voting record" and "You have a bad voting record". That's classic astrology stuff. Just send letters with something which applies to everyone. It's working, you have decided that the first one was a personalized letter and the second is one that they have send to everyone, while your neighbor that doesn't vote just think the opposite.

  9. Re:I don't know what they are doing to burn coal n on Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years · · Score: 2

    Ok. 60 USD/month is insignificant.

  10. Re:Politically correct travel restrictions claptra on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 1

    The good time cannot be the time when he was back in the US. For him, the time is 21 days from the time he left West Africa (not from the US arrival), to see if anyone has been infected by the subway trip or bowling game it's 21 days from these events.

  11. Re:Politically correct travel restrictions claptra on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So your point is that these people don't follow your advices (even if you are the top expert in epidemiology) and this as lead to a disastrous situation in the US

    You mean the same experts who gave the OK for Amber Vinson to fly knowing she was exposed and had a fever?

    How many people have been infected by contact with Amber Vinson?

    Or the doctor who returned from Guinea who admitted he wasn't feeling good but decided to ride the subway multiple times, go bowling and eat out?

    How many people have been infected by contact with this doctor?

  12. Re:Not inherently unreasonable on Proposed Penalty For UK Hackers Who "Damage National Security": Life · · Score: 1

    It's like software patent. Just add "with a computer" at the end and you get a new patent. Or a new crime, in this case.

  13. Re:"Contrary to what we were sometimes taught" on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    The "gravity constant" that you are describing is the gravity acceleration at the earth surface due to the earth (where you may or may not have subtracted the centripetal acceleration due to the earth rotation) which changes with the position on earth mainly due to the fact that the distance from the surface to the center of the earth is changing (due to flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator). So this is more a change with location than a change with time. The ESA studies is more about the measurement of the earth gravitation from "outside" the earth, to create a model for orbit evolution with time. (Jn parameters, with n>= 2) And they study this evolution in time, for all location. So it's not exactly the same.

    (Anyway, the g that you talk about can be seen as an evaluation of the Jx modelisation at earth surface so this is of course related. Bu the study is more about time change than space change)

  14. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 0

    I think the elephant in the room is that most women have babies.

    The share of women having babies in the women population is very close to the share of men having babies in the men population.

  15. Re:costs on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Insurance on your cars will not reduce your electricity bill. But reviking internet services, TV cable and cell phones will definitively reduce that cost, so yes, go for it.

  16. Re:A good slice of luck. on European Space Agency Picks Site For First Comet Landing In November · · Score: 1

    The goal is get more information about comets. The only way to reduce the luck in the mission is to get more information about comets. You could probably make two mission, the first one studying a comet, the second one having a landing device. But you will not be sure that the second comet that you visit is similar to the first one. And it will cost a lot more. So adding a secondary landing probe to Rosetta, even if it may fail, is a cheaper solution, yet relying on some luck.

  17. Re:How about closing the border? on Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola · · Score: 1

    The comment doesn't speak about stopping immigration, it specifically refers to stopping Ebola by closing down (or quarantining) everyone coming from anywhere Africa. Including US citizen.

  18. Re:How about closing the border? on Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola · · Score: 2

    You want to shut down all travels from Africa when only 4 countries have a significant number of Ebola case? You have no idea of the size of Africa, do you?

  19. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 2

    The Irish employees don't have to obey US law, but they do have to obey their bosses who in turn do have to obey US law.t compel them to do anything.

    Not if what the US bosses ask them something which is forbidden by Irish law.

  20. Re:Not A SW error! on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    That's not what I understand from the article (my understanding of the article don't exclude your interpretation, but I see it differently) You are right, the control software of the Fregat did exactly what it was told to do (assuming the article is correct) but the input was wrong. But was the input directly done by an human or is it the result of another software (more likely) which had an error? If this is the case, then it's a software error. (this could also be an human input error before this software)

  21. Re:"Programmers" shouldn't write critical software on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    From what I understand (but this article is reporting that some press agency report that someone unamed told them something... the result must be very accurate) it's more likely that a software A gives a bad result to the Fregat control software B. I'm not able to determine from the article is the software A is bad or if there was a bad input to software A which result in this. I understand from the article that software A is also embedded, but see my remark in the parenthesis before about how accurate this article must be.

  22. Re:no good solution on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Putin, who doesn't want to see NATO missile launchers even closer to the western border.

    So to not see NATO missile launchers closer to the western border, he pushes this border to the west? What a stupid move.

  23. Re:ugh on 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit · · Score: 2

    How do you conclude that this is an idiotic mistake from the currently available informations?

  24. Re:fuel reserves on 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit · · Score: 1

    It depends of the exact orbit. But even if it's possible, you don't have any more fuel to reach graveyard orbit later. Better conclude that you can't use them and collect money from arianespace insurers.

  25. Re:Proves point on 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then If you want space done right go retired American vehicles