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  1. Accelerator data outsourced on The Life of an ATLAS Physicist At CERN · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now anyone can help to analyze the data: http://www.higgshunters.org/

  2. Re:Various hacking tools? on Top Counter-Strike Players Embroiled In Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    Why think only offensive, when things could be really interesting with the possibility to code algorithmic defensive mechanisms. The execution time of the hacks on the server could be adjustable and be protected from hacking. That would allow for human reactions to come into play. Besides the actual weapon systems could be programmable, but this is not the traditional Counter-Strike anymore I guess.

  3. Re:Various hacking tools? on Top Counter-Strike Players Embroiled In Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    I'd say the game actually would get more interesting if hacking would be allowed. It would expand the skill set demanded to win.

  4. Re: Let's do the math on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    So called Big Bang happened everywhere. The observable universe is finite, the universe infinite.

  5. Except for example in the case where the said memories and the material for you to realize your existence are being fed to you, without you realizing that, from a cyclical tape storage of your existence. It doesn't really even matter if it's on reverse. But yes, it's the moment of now that spans the entire universe.

  6. Re: Links for a quick review of today's Rosetta ev on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 1

    Multiple accounts are useful, for example to bundle up news on certain topics only. It's no different from following only certain RSS feeds of a news site. It's good service and a way to filter the signal out of noise.

  7. Re:Gawd. on Life Insurance Restrictions For Space Tourists · · Score: 2

    It's nothing like exposing oneself to long and short wave radiation, oxidisation, radioactivity and telomere self-destruction for some 100 years and then dying because of that. Who would do that?

  8. Re:No thank you on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least Millennium Falcon seems to be in the correct shape.

  9. Re: Diversity is best on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should ask NASA.

  10. Re:Diversity is best on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 1

    I suggest all robot crew. Telepresence capabilities and careful modelling and tracking of the environment will enable pseudo-realtime exploration on Mars. This is possible now.

    If a crew is sent I wonder if actually a bisexual polyamorous crew would be the most cohesive. The less defences the better I guess?

  11. Re: Broken link on iFixit Tears Apart Apple's Shiny New Retina iMac · · Score: 1

    Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  12. Re:Shorter Slashdot wingnuts: on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 1

    It should be noted also that the so called skeptics only come about when there's a news release of the climate change science, but they never come up with original science by themselves. There's a reason for that however: the big climate conspiracy and censorship. No way it's about the quality of the counter-arguing papers. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

  13. Re:please no on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 1

    So far they have been hugely more successful than the models made by the more skeptical scientists. The only thing is that there aren't any scientific counter-arguing models, or those models have not lived for long. The models can only get better with new data, and more precisely they are modeling a warming earth based on the anthropogenic energy input. If you think models fail miserably then they should be failing even more. But that's not happening. Besides at the moment the warming trend is well in the area the long term models have predicted.

  14. TPB ftw on Apple To Face $350 Million Trial Over iPod DRM · · Score: 1

    Users were continually forced to either stop playing any songs they had bought from the Real store, or convert them to a non-DRM format, for example by burning the music to CD and then ripping the CD to their computer.

    Or just share stuff.

    Maybe the companies mentioned in the article should sue themselves rather than each other. The cumulative losses from the panic strategy moves by the companies who were not in anyway in control must be astronomical (per the official RIAA magical calculations). It seems that they are trying to come up with something to pay the consultant bills, picking each other in vain. I hope nobody wins, the consumers already did.

  15. Re: From the article on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The shift is small but the mass loss is real. Last three year average in the measured area has been 185 gigatonnes/year. It has an effect on the gravity, that's clear. The question is how much, and it seems it can actually be measured by instruments. Not anywhere in the world there's a constant loss of this magnitude, and as the trend goes on the change in gravity will also become more distinct.

  16. Re: The last sentence in the summary... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 0

    Do you mean to say that ice doesn't meet when its met by warmed air?

  17. Oops on Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update · · Score: 2

    Pulled back after the release? Time to head for the pharmacy.

  18. Re:So everything is protected by a 4 digit passcod on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    1. Set the device to wipe itself after ten mistakenly entered pass codes
    2. Give ten different pass codes

    Better option is to have an app that allows only 9 mistakes, for the ultimate twist.

  19. Readers Find Post-Within-Post on Astronomers Find Star-Within-a-Star, 40 Years After First Theorized · · Score: 5, Funny
  20. Will they release the whole set? on Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood Using Magnets · · Score: 1

    Just a couple of more organs and I'll have a functioning human setup attached to the fridge door.

  21. It's called testing on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 2

    The conditions are controlled and constant in order to test the system's response, to ready the system for variable conditions with solid behavior data.

  22. Re:WHAT? 2009 pandemic came from Mexico, not China on How to Maintain Lab Safety While Making Viruses Deadlier · · Score: 1

    Yes, that "thousands of people" doesn't even appear in the referenced articles. In the referenced article it's only speculated that IF the strain would escape from the lab there would be serious consequences. That article is about the justification of doing the said research in the first place, but also quotes the original researchers and their findings.

  23. Einstein's Forgotten _Draft_ Model of the Universe on Historians Rediscover Einstein's Forgotten Model of the Universe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is basically a peer review of an unpublished draft paper by Einstein. It would have been interesting to have Einstein's response, but on the other hand Einstein-de Sitter model is the result of further dialogue.

  24. Reaction or reflex? on Researchers Make Fruit Flies Perform Aerobatics Like Spitfire Pilots · · Score: 2

    Isn't the correct term reflex rather than reaction, considering that it's an insect? It's more like a mechanical than biological delay.

  25. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    What's professionalism? A job done without emotions, or having the emotions restricted? In the end it wouldn't much differ from working with robots. Or are the emotions a threat because authority figure's emotions can be a sign of a weakness, or do we subconsciously fancy emotionless and calculative psychopaths, for us to let go of the control to somebody else?

    There in the very thread he does all he can to help solve the issue and learn more about it. A challenge: find out the Linus expletive and outburst frequency per year.