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  1. Re:Yeah, that's cool and all, but... on New Data Indicates Arctic-Ocean Sized Body of Water on Ancient Mars · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about that myself, (not that the Martians surfed) but how high the waves might get. First of all the gravity on Mars is about 38% that of Earth, Secondly, the sea in that totally convincing graphic looks like it goes around the whole planet, like the Southern Ocean on Earth, so would 100 metre waves be possible?

  2. Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Public Domain's not the issue here, when the American Statistical Society opposes this bill, there must be some serious problem somewhere.

  3. Re:My brain is full on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no way of doing that. Feynman said "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics". You've probably got no chance. :-)

  4. Re:Sure, some access is bad on Facebook's Colonies · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure Iran is quite what you think it is. Sure the current government there is dictated to by a Theocracy, but it is also (after Israel) the most democratic system in the entire middle east. Elections in Iran are a (somewhat limited, it is true), vibrant exchange of ideas, and candidates are elected to the People's House (Parliament) who have quite different views to the Mullahs. Also the people of Iran are not all sword waving Muslim extremists. I give the current political system in Iran a generation, and it'll be swept away by a new generation who won't be dictated to anymore. Source: Regular political arguments with a (Muslim) Persian, (Christian) Iraqi, a (Muslim) Egyptian, and me, an Atheist Westerner.

  5. Re:Payment Gateway Access is No Accident on Iran Allows VPNs To Make Millions In Profit · · Score: 1

    You may be correct, and what you say is plausible, but I have the feeling that the Islamic bit of the Islamic Republic might be a bit half hearted. I worked with an Iranian lady who laughed when someone mentioned how Muslims don't drink. "You've never met a bunch of lushes like the Iranians" she said, and told us all a great story about the purchasing of (illegal) booze in Tehran in the 1980's. I wonder if their attitude to these things is that rules are made to be broken.

  6. Re:Great for Cuba on Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US · · Score: 1

    They have very high food costs.

  7. Re:The moon on NASA Releases Details of Titan Submarine Concept · · Score: 1

    No people will be put in this sub. It will be a drone.

  8. Life? on NASA Releases Details of Titan Submarine Concept · · Score: 1

    The pdf says: "Measurement of the trace organic components of the sea, which perhaps may exhibit prebiotic chemical evolution, will be an important objective, and a benthic sampler would acquire and analyze sediment from the seabed." Why would the seas on Titan only exhibit prebiotic chemical evolution? Titan is about the same age as Earth, surely? Would love to know more about the possibilities of evolution of life in such an alien environment.

  9. Re:Adobe on YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default · · Score: 1

    I vaguely wondered about flash over the weekend just gone, as I reinstalled Windows. Then I forgot about it and installed the various programmes I use, (Office, Photoshop, Chrome). I won't need it at all it seems.

  10. Re:Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Since the EU was formed, (or, more precisely, it's previous incarnations as the common Steel market, Common Market etc) Europe has been at war with itself no times. Over the previous 15 centuries or so since the fall of the Roman Empire, there has been no period of peace as long. I would say the EU has been nothing but success, as it has prevented young men like my Father from being drafted into an army and sent to fight a bunch of young men he had no real quarrel.

  11. Re:what about spectrums rights? on Where Cellular Networks Don't Exist, People Are Building Their Own · · Score: 1

    The only job I've been drug tested for is my current one. The factory guys are all drug tested randomly, and management decided that it was only fair if everyone had to be tested too. I'm not sure if it has any relevance, but the company is American owned, (but I'm not in America). Luckily for me my drug of choice is made with water, grain, hops and yeast.

  12. Re:Clearly on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    I won't buy it, I won't have one even if they give them away. I won't ever buy a Sony product again, due to their shoddy rubbish failing repeatedly just outside the warranty period, (2 x Playstations, 2 x TV's).

  13. Teachers on UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them · · Score: 1

    I'm not in The UK, but my teenagers tell me that the IT teachers they have seem to be one chapter ahead of them in the text book, and are not terribly confident of their subject knowledge. For instance my year 12 son, (16 years old), helped the teacher set up a DHCP server for the class lab, as he had done it before at home with me, but the teacher had never actually done it, just read about it.

  14. Re:SimCity 2000 available for free on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    In my view Sim City 2000 was the best version of the game ever, but I haven't actually played all of them, so maybe there is a better one somewhere.

  15. Lies, Damn Lies etc on FBI: North Korean Hackers "Got Sloppy", Leaked IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    So according to Clapper, the North Koreans connected to Sony's network through proxies, except when they didn't, also we're still trying to determine how the North Koreans accessed Sony's network. Clapper just sounds completely out of his depth here, no clue about what went on and probably doesn't even understand the briefings he will have been given.

  16. Re:Here's an idea on Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Helmets don't protect heads from concussion, mouthguards do, make them compulsory, take away the huge pads and helmets, make tackles above the shoulder illegal, problem solved.

  17. Re:US Navy still uses sextant and chronometer on Using Naval Logbooks To Reconstruct Past Weather and Predict Future Climate · · Score: 1

    I'm not surprised they still do this, and no, it is not done at night, just at midday.

  18. Re:Diversity vs monoculture on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    I love "New Zealand - pretty, but cold". It's about right, except for the top bit of the North Island, which is neither.

  19. Re:Whoosh on How Flickr Is Courting the Next Generation of Photographers · · Score: 1

    This is my experience too, and the experience of most of the people who belong to the camera club I belong to. Flickr is finished really, the MySpace of photography.

  20. Re:Whoosh on How Flickr Is Courting the Next Generation of Photographers · · Score: 1

    Not anymore they're not, all the photographers I know, (quite a lot of amateur club photographers) are leaving Flickr in droves. The club I belong to have closed our Flickr account too.

  21. Bullshit Numbers on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "It logs the non-clinical information on 80 million people in Britain " when the population of Britain is about 64 million.

  22. Re:That kinda sucks on Sony Tosses the Sony Reader On the Scrap Heap · · Score: 1

    The second part of your post is why they're in trouble. I won't buy any of their products either. Neither will lots of other people.

  23. Global Warming is not true. on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    And I can prove it. Here in the Southern Hemisphere the last three months have been much colder than the preceeding three months, so there!

  24. Re:Yet another proof creation doesn't work! on Hints of Life's Start Found In a Giant Virus · · Score: 4, Informative

    You keep saying "We Know..." about something Jesus is purported to have said, or that "We know that God gave us free will..." as if these are facts. I don't know anything about any Gods at all, because I've never been given any evidence that any God exists. The Bible, or any other religious writing is just something written a long time ago (usually) by some religious people, so can't be counted as evidence for anything.

  25. Re:This just in. on Mt. Gox CEO Returns To Twitter, Enrages Burned Investors · · Score: 1, Funny

    But there are some Unicorns and Rainbows, right?