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  1. Pr0n on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office? · · Score: 1

    Watching myfreecams will keep you awake and your blood pressure at a healthy level... It will also get you fired, but you will be healthy.

  2. OS does not matter on Symbian Sells Millions, Despite Nokia Pushing Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    The OS doesnt matter. it is the UI that matters.

  3. Re:Transmutation can be done on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 1

    Also useful to produce isotopes for cancer treatment. Some isotopes have such a short half life that they have to be produced on site, or pretty close by anyway. Therefore there are cyclotron transmutation devices all over the world at the major cancer treatment centres.

  4. Re:Politics on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 1

    Yup, you can hold a chunk of Plutonium or Thorium in your hand without any ill effect. OK they also have radio active isotopes, but the regulations are just written in a bad way.

  5. Re:Solution on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 1

    I'm regularly astounded at how little the US posters know about their own country. The State governments and Congress runs the country. Obama is in control of foreign policy and defence only. He has buggerall to do with the internal affairs of the USA.

  6. BASIC on Better Tools For Programming Literacy · · Score: 1

    Well, BASIC still exists. There is nothing preventing anyone from using it.

  7. Subversion or Git on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 1

    If you feel that you need to leave deleted code in comments for a while or forever, then your version control system isn't working. Simple as that.

  8. Re:not feasible on DRONENET: An Internet of Drones · · Score: 5, Funny

    Weed is too cheap. It would have to be coke (or HP printer ink) to make it economical.

  9. Not likely the way he described on DRONENET: An Internet of Drones · · Score: 1

    However, Fedex and UPS may be good candidates for using autonomous aircraft.

  10. Dongles on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    I think the 1980s called and Sony responded. The next thing they will patent is a portable tape recorder....

  11. Re:Does this surprise anyone? on The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software · · Score: 0

    There are actually Four monkeys. The fourth one is don't do evil.

  12. Spiked... on Stanford Team Developing Spiked Robots To Explore Phobos · · Score: 1

    So how do they spike a robot? Do they add some meth to the hydrazine? Thank you, I'll be here all week...

  13. Re:No working Skype for Android either on Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Say what? Skype is pre-installed and works perfectly on my Kindle HD.

  14. Re:The major difference is the applications on Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Quickbooks works fine in a WinXp virtual machine on Linux.

  15. Put two in a pipe on A Firecracker-Launching Slingshot: Start the New Year With a Bang · · Score: 1

    Old trick: Put two in a pipe, then you have a fire cracker launching fire cracker, which is a whole lot more spectacular.

  16. Win8 with KDE? on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I think that Windows 8 with Cygwin and KDE as the desktop may be quite nice, but the bad Gnome3 clone formerly called Metro really doesn't work well.

  17. Re:Ion thrusters on NASA's Ion Thruster Sets Continuous Operation Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ion thrusters are in wide use on satellites for many years already. This is merely an improved version.

  18. Re:No, the question is: what happened on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: -1, Troll

    The expanding sun idea presupposes that the sun is gaseous. The sun has actually been found to be rocky. surfaceofthesun.com Therefore the sun may actually run out of gas fuel much much much sooner than previously thought and will not expand and will likely not explode either, but will more likely just fizzle out and die. It appears that the sun is not a second generation star but more likely a third or fourth gen. Most people just blissfully ignore this research.

  19. Re:Procariotes on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When the aerobic life on the surface of Mars died, the underground life would have been unaffected. So if there was life on Mars, the place to look today, would be underground, since anaerobic life should still be there.

  20. Re:No, the question is: what happened on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 2

    Yes, eventually the earth will cool down and the seas will sink into the crust and the surface will be dry just like the moon, Mars, Pluto, Mercury and other cold planetoids.

  21. Procariotes on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 1

    There is as much life in the earths crust as there is on the surface. It is therefore quite possible that there is a lot of life in the crust of Mars.

  22. Re:They never said real personal information.... on Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare · · Score: 0

    Jewish black - my heart bleeds for you. You must have a helluva tough time everywhere except maybe New York.

  23. Re:Or, to look at it the other way... on Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare · · Score: 1

    Friend of mine bought a cell phone in Munich and activated it in Monaco. The long and short of it is that both cities now work as local calls. So sometimes computer support issues actually do work to the advantage of the customer.

  24. Re:Microsoft Word Sure Sounds Fantastic on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 2

    20 years - you are very young. I once had to covert 10000 files from old formats. Not fun. Had to write a special program, some of which ended up in Open Office import filters. Ms proprietary formats are a pain in the derrier.

  25. Re:Exciting on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 1

    You know, even Windows Xp could auto-hide its horizontal task bar. On my Fedora machine, I have two task bars on XFCE, one at the top and one on the side, both auto hiding. The big mistake that Unity made, is that they cocked up the menu system. Other than that, it mostly works. However, if you want something that works properly, all the time, then KDE/XFCE/LXDE are all much better than Unity/Gnome3.