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  1. Re:Insurance on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Where do you put your jackknife/multitool? Do you just buy a new one each time?

  2. Cable cutters, vegans, and flat Earthers. Who needs them?

  3. Re:So pirate? on Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    What I can't find in the pirate's waters, I wouldn't find on Netflix either. Things like "My Three Sons" or "Money to Burn"

  4. Re:So pirate? on Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    And tablets. Both of my roommates watch videos on their tablets. However, Netflix isn't blocking all Android devices. Only those that are rooted. Set-top TV boxes would not fall into that category.

  5. Re:World's Largest Chip Maker on Samsung May Overtake Intel As World's Largest Chip Maker In 2017 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Transistor count doesn't tell you the size any more than saying a bookshelf can hold 50 books. 50 paperbacks takes up way less space than 50 encyclopedias. Talk to me in square millimetres.

  6. World's Largest Chip Maker on Samsung May Overtake Intel As World's Largest Chip Maker In 2017 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung May Overtake Intel As World's Largest Chip Maker In 2017

    So...Um... So, how big is the world's largest chip anyway?

  7. Wouldn't work. Impulses in the brain are electro-chemical. The chemical part would cease at absolute zero, bringing a halt to all impulses, all thoughts.

  8. We all know this isn't going to work. We can't even repair a severed spinal column with anything close to satisfactory results. What makes this guy think he can get a whole brain working again?

  9. Look on the bright side: All new episodes of Gilligan's Island and Hogan's Heroes.

  10. Re: permissions on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1

    That must be one powerful bug if you need to use fire management to deal with it. I thought the days of Halt and Catch Fire were long behind us.

  11. Re: permissions on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1

    there is no way to stop management

    Really? What about a nuclear war? Or are they just like cockroaches?

    In a nuclear war, management are the folks in the bunkers.

  12. Re:Golden age of remakes maybe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Avatar would have been a lot better if the Na'vi revealed at the end of the movie that Eywa has been sending Pandoran life forms to the Earth via the previous mining missions, initiating a Gaia-like consciousness here and that now it is time to awaken it.

  13. Re:Calls only? on FCC Kills Plan To Allow Mobile Phone Conversations On Flights (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Show me one cellphone technology that can send and receive signals at a distance of 38,000 feet (the average cruise altitude)

    All of them. 38000 feet is a smidge over 7 miles, or 11.5km. GSM has a range of 35km, but the typical cell range is 70+km.

  14. Re:I'm no chemistry expert, but... on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Carbon+oxygen forms compounds containing carbon and oxygen. It doesn't form compounds containing hydrogen. Or is the energy released in the combustion enough to synthesize new elements?

  15. Re:I'm no chemistry expert, but... on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because an element has allotropes, doesn't mean the oxides are allotropes (or maybe it does, as I said, I'm not a chemist). Either way, the oxide is CO or CO2.

  16. Re:I'm no chemistry expert, but... on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Graphene by itself is just carbon (C) so graphene oxide would be CO or CO2.

  17. I'm no chemistry expert, but... on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm no chemistry expert, but isn't graphene oxide simply CO2?

  18. Re:yes but.... on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We could use it as salt, or we could fill in the salt mines we've been digging, or we could drop it into the oceans to counteract all the freshwater melt coming off the polar ice caps from the global warming.

  19. Spam is going to go wherever human attention goes.

  20. Re:Plenty of precedent! on Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that there have been several precedents for this. They even Mythbustered it once.

  21. Re: Great advertising! on Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Of course not. Trump is no fool. He hires people to dodge them for him.

  22. Re:The Pi Symbol is Nonsense on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The pi symbol could easily be replaced with something that depicts the representation between radius and circumference...

    I agree. Tau: the ratio of the circumference to the radius.

  23. Re:Divide a circle with radians... on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    At least they pronounce "Lieutennant" correctly.

  24. Re:Tau is greater than pi on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:It's not 3.14. It's 3.141592653589793238462643. on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    So Newton wasn't smart enough to figure out that the true circle constant is Tau, not Pi?