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  1. good idea? on Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    noone is going to take an army to go to Arctic to destroy seeds, but they might to destroy an Archive, and while they are there they'll trample the seeds...

  2. Re:Just needs a little nudge. on No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    There are still times when you could fire the Space Station to a lunar insertion trajectory. It would no longer be in the ecliptic, but when you get to the Moon the speed of the ISS would be much slower as the orbit is more like 3 hours, than 90 minutes at the moment, so you would need much less fuel to delta V the orbit to be in the ecliptic.

  3. Re:So many questions on Steve Wozniak Invests In Robot-Powered Paper-Digitizing Startup (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a document preparation solution to reduce the costs of preparing documents for scanning. Scanning and OCR are secondary to what they are offering. Don't mix up an OCR engine with what they are doing here. You can plug in any OCR engine that you want into this kind of workflow.

  4. Re:Boaty McBoatface: people power on Boaty McBoatface To Go On Its First Antarctic Mission (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between elections and referendums. In an election the people choose representatives to represent them in making decisions. In a referendum the representatives or their leaders are too cowardly/sly/divided/scared to make a decision and throw it back at the people.
    A democracy implicitly states that smarter decisions happen by representatives than by letting the people have a direct say. Boaty McBoatface is an example of a stupid result from a referendum; it would never have happened if representatives had chosen it.

  5. Re:wrong conclusion on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1
    In the US the market will self correct to say only rich kids can go to college, we don't care about educating poor kids. There will be no fair chance for the underprivileged. A self correcting market always abuses the powerless at the bottom.

    either admit you don't care about the powerless masses or you do care about them, but don't believe that self-correcting is justice for all.

  6. Where we're going we don't need no roads! on Researchers Convert Biomass To Hydrogen Using Sunlight (rdmag.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:What happens when something goes wrong? on Jeff Bezos' Spaceflight Company Blue Origin Gets Its First Paying Customer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    go and read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., there is no difference. They faced difficulty and skepticism and Orville died in a crash, but we still have planes today.

  8. Re:Not about winning a bet on Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you get the idea that they need replacing in 5-10 years? Cite references please! In 5 years they'll be able to buy any batteries they like from any supplier - this is not locking them to Tesla at all, this is about not locking them to gas, or other fossil fuels.

  9. then people will type "--force" automatically.

  10. Re:Elon Musk is Delos D. Harriman on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    He said it is noone from Hollywood.

  11. Re:Will I actually be able to get this one? on Raspberry Pi Zero W is a $10 Computer With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought them at pihut last year for 4.80£ https://thepihut.com/collectio...

  12. Re:Aren't all islands... on New Zealand May Be the Tip of a Submerged Continent (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that Australia is a continent 94% above the ocean and Zealandia is 94% under the water, So Australia is not the "tip", but new Zealand or even Hawaii are.

  13. Re:Artificial Gravity on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You are going to need a large MASSIVE space wheel to do that easily without causing the rest of the station to wobble. If you want to do it "small" with a counterweight, you will have to balance it perfectly (won't happen) as the person is MOVING around in the rotating space. This will cause wobble in the rest of the space station - destroying the zero g environment you want there. And when the person wants to go to zero G, what are you going to do with all the rotational energy and momentum? So it's not just a counterweight - you need a counter-counterweight that is spinning in the OPPOSITE direction of the person+counterweight to ensure that Total Rotation Momentum = 0. And since it is spinning, the direction of rotation is fixed in space, which means over the 90 minutes of the orbit the rotational section will need to rotate 360 degrees.

  14. Re:So how is this any different than before? on FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    mod him up.

  15. This duopolists both suck on Verizon and T-Mobile Are In a Virtual Tie For the Best Network In the US (androidcentral.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care if they tie. Where one fails the other works. Why can't we have comprehensive coverage? I live in Orange County where houses are on average 1.8M$, and still no comprehensive coverage. Mountainous Austria gets it right. They just ignore the same amount of population.

  16. And that is why we have him who sits in the White House - people did something about it.

  17. But they didn't use concatenation to get every natural number - just log, root and divsion.

  18. no, he means translation of text he WRITES to bad vendors.

  19. Musk is now in a good position to potentially influence Trump. Don't forget that Trump in his inauguration said "We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow." Sounds like he is throwing a few carrots Musk's (and Zuck's with the diseases) way. They should take and chomp them.

  20. Re:Not at all creepy on DragonflEye Project Wants To Turn Insects Into Cyborg Drones · · Score: 1

    Oh they can come! imagine nano-biobots delivering nanosize nasties like these two famous cases - you would'nt need to get as close as a cup of tea or umbrella. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. and you don't have to tip them.

  22. Why dropped from F/A 18's? on Pentagon Successfully Tests Micro-Drone Swarm (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Was this a test of swarm technology or of dropping drones from an F/A 18? one did not require the other - this looks like a publicity stunt, not a test.

  23. these people might be in places where they cannot upload.
    Aren't there SD cards that can autoencrypt?

  24. Re:Why do I need this? on Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    if people know how many seconds it is to the next green light, maybe they will stop texting or surfing before the light goes green.

  25. Re:Disturbing, but practical on French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    act now doesn't have to mean two years in jail and 30,000€ fine. it could be a psychological assessment and warning.