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  1. podbay on USAF's Robotic X-37B Orbiter Launched For Test Flight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is the podbay big enough to hold Chinese or Russian satellites and bring them back down again? That seems to me what is really going on here - why otherwise would the USAF really care about getting stuff back down again? - they don't need their own satellites back - let them burn up in reentry - they are not collecting particulate matter, and I don't believe they will be going around hoovering up space junk. If the thing can stay up therewith it's solar panels for 270 days, maybe it is just wandering around picking up "rogue" satellites, attaching small engines and letting the satellites deorbit.

  2. Re:Next steps, please on Ultrathin Silk-Based Brain Implants · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's really often very scary what gets tagged informative or funny on slashdot.

  3. Tweet inverse Density on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 1

    Well, at least we know know how many libraries of congress are required to archive all tweets. 1 LOC.

  4. "Smash" is the biggest overstatement you could.. on Yoctonewton Detector Smashes Force Sensing Record · · Score: 1

    possibly imagine!! it is the tiniest of fathomable gentle nudges!

  5. Re:Huh? on Yoctonewton Detector Smashes Force Sensing Record · · Score: 1

    The next unit should be xonto for (-27) and xotta for +27. that fits in with the pattern that zetta/zepto and yotta/yocto make.

  6. Re:There is no Mediterranean Ocean on An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen · · Score: 2, Informative

    A sea is effectively landlocked and hence has no real tides or surfing waves. Of course, things like "Sargasso Sea" don't fit. Oceans are not landlocked - they have 1000's of kilometers of "borders" to other oceans. You could even say "An ocean touches Antarctica, a sea does not". If you like the concept of "Arctic Ocean" then say "An Ocean reaches to a Pole". Or an ocean has an average depth of more than 3000m.

  7. Just found out, huh? on Finland To Try Scanning Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    Swiss Post and other Post Companies have been providing these types of services to corporate customers for quite a while now. It's all part of Business Process Outsourcing or adding value to your customers.

  8. "first" in the face on NZ Draft Bill Rules Out Software Patents · · Score: 1

    or "fist" in the face?

  9. in China.... on China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries · · Score: 1

    Firewall burns you!

  10. Actually on Millions Continue To Click On Spam · · Score: 1

    CmdrTaco has been spamming us today with this story and "Yootoob iz dOWn!!!" stories

  11. Re:first use on 3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue · · Score: 4, Funny

    what do you mean? a thousand yards long for those endless running scenes, Or where a wife can lock her husband out but a raptor or sabre-tooth tiger can come in through any window?

  12. So long... on Long-Running Underwater Robot Lost At Sea · · Score: 4, Funny

    and thanks for all the fish!

  13. I seem to recall... on Apple Loses Aussie Trademark Complaint Over "i" Name · · Score: 1

    That there is a hamburger chain somewhere called Mac........ I wonder if they are next in the firing line.

  14. Re:I recommend blau.de on Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? · · Score: 2, Informative

    simyo is 24c/MB so not cheap.
    Vodafone is no-contract, 19,99€ upfront and prepaid 15min/2h/24h/7days, where 7 days= 7,99€ for max 1GB

  15. Re:False analogy. on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    actually doodling is giving the left brain something to do so that the right brain can focus on what is being said

  16. All yore soup tittles Arnie belong two arse. on YouTube Makes Captioning Available To All · · Score: 1

    Just imagine when they hook this up to Google translation and text2speech. You can choose your language for youtube audio.

  17. Re:Enjoy 'em while you can, folks on Shuttle Makes Rare Night Landing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama is right. He stopped Nasa wasting it's time/money/effort/brains playing space-trucker (let private business do that - it should NOT be Nasa's job to do mundane Wells Fargo or Fedex chores) and get back to doing serious innovation - like ion drives and other techs that are gonna get us ultimately to Mars, Jupiter and Alpha Centauri - because private enterprise is not ready for that yet.
    Are you proud of Nasa playing Fedex, which the Russians, Indians, Chinese, or SpaceX could also do sooner or later, or are you proud that it got from nowhere to the moon in 9 years?
    It's like software or many other things. Versions 1 and 2 are highly innovative and lots happens. Then your software becomes business critical to customers and innovation stagnates, new releases only contain fixes or minor changes - goal is only to milk it for all it's worth. Obama is cutting out the stagnation and getting them back to the cutting edge.

  18. Re:When do people get this on 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 Resource Monitor marks memory like this
    "In Use" (2.97GB) (Memory used by processes, drivers, or the operating system)
    "Modified" (122Mb) (Memory whose content must be written to disk before it can be used for another purpose)
    "Standby" (944Mb) (Memory that contains cached data and code that is not actively in use)
    "Free" (154Mb) (Memory that does not contain any valuable data, and will be used....)

    screen shot

  19. Re:Been done...like years ago on No Glasses Needed For TI's New 3D Display · · Score: 1

    Magic Carpet had 2 stereo modes. the red&blue with glasses AND Autostereogram mode, where you have to cross your eyes and look into a pixel explosion until the image slowly resolves.

  20. Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    From your list of needs it is clear that you are simply not an artist (IANAA2!) - and hence not part of the target audience of Photoshop - you are part of the target audience for IrfanView - geeks who need to adjust images without really touching pixels. And yes, IrfanView can add circles and text in version 4.25, (Press F12). That's my main tool and Paint.NET if I need to do "pixelwork" or layering.

  21. Re:This is how it's done where I'm from... on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In Austria it is even simpler than that. Do NOTHING at all unless you want to make some special claim because all normal claims - like number of kids, commuter-rebate and so on go through the employer. And you can change or add any data you like at anytime over the next 5 years in an online government portal / and the telephone hotline is free and there is no waiting and the people are really helpful.

  22. Re:What is the bandwith to iceland anyways? on Iceland's Data Center Push Finally Gets Traction · · Score: 1

    like Eve Online!

  23. Re:It doesn't matter what the truth is on Newton's Apple Story Goes Online · · Score: 1

    I think you believe the Bible too, all of it - including the first page. Or this is your consolation why the "others" believe the Bible.

  24. Re:"IP La" on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 0, Troll
    for some stoopid (=$$$ and power) reason the Americans have decided that corn is the be-all and end-all.
    • The food is full of that chemical concoction high fructose corn syrup. Instead of eating a natural food that they could trade from many (nearby) Central American countries they concoct their own with farming subsidies - keeping their neighbors in poverty and servility - and inanely socio-reengineering their own population into believing it is natural.
    • Corn is feed to the cows to make beef and hamburgers instead of letting them eat grass.
    • "Organic" fuel is produced in a sick attempt to make the whole thing look green/responsible - but is simply unsustainable biosphere destruction. Now what was just a food issue is now horribly entwined in energy politics.

    And all of the above are simply theft and rape from nature - and the biggest sufferers are the oceans - who cares about dead zones under the waves.

    Stand up you Americans and say no more to this corn-politics. Don't listen to the political energy-security spin wrapped up as patriotism and way-of-life, the big industries selling those million-dollar harvesters and homogenising small-town USA. Pay your carbon abuse, and don't just switch your glaring carbon debts to not so "invisible" nitrogen-dumping or phosphorous-dumping in your seas and waterways.

  25. Re:My psychic prediction on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 1

    No, that empty space is protecting this tiny nest of life from the hostility of that dangerous universe. Where do you think all the Fe, Au, Cu, C, O, Ni, P, Mg etc came from that we rely on? Without all that empty space we would have been long fried/evaporated/fused/zapped/smashed/nova'ed/"singularized"/whatever. Your "waste" comment is like "junk" DNA.

    We really are not that important on our pale blue dot.