Comment Re:Now that the equipment has been shown to work.. (Score 4, Insightful) 37
abandoning != suspending
Comment Re:It could be built by the neanderthals (Score 2) 50
Has the timeline been changed by better archaeology or dating, or reclassification of remains? when I was at school (only 2 decades ago, in the UK) I was taught that the last Neanderthals died out around the time of the construction of the Pyramids in Egypt, no more than 6000 years ago
Just asked my sis (who sports a B.A. in prehistoric archaeology )... according to her, you must've had a very strange teacher -- historically, the figure for "how long ago did they die out" has been creeping down as more and more recent specimen were found. At no time did people think it was just 6ka ago.
Comment Re:It could be built by the neanderthals (Score 2) 50
Neanderthal were still plentiful in Europe around 7K to 5K BC
Comment Anedotal evidence suggests same for humans... (Score 4, Interesting) 67
... or is that just me and the people I know?
Comment Re:GMT (Score 1) 475
I try the same every spring whenever we switch to DST (which for me is UTC+2), but I give up after a week or so because it gets confusing with different web services (calendars, bug trackers etc) and my own devices being in different time zones
Comment Seems to become a national hobby... (Score 4, Informative) 130
... after Mr Guttenberg had to quit as Defence Minister because of plagiarism, it seems to have become a sport to topple politicians this way. It's a fun thing to watch.
Comment Re:Let me get this straight (Score 1) 3
So... all those pre-historic women loving the mysterious stranger with the blue eyes? Interesting.
Comment questionable conclusion (Score 1) 3
"This gene does something good for people
So it seems.
It makes them have more kids.
Might be. Alternatively, it may also let more kids survive or make the kids more aggressive towards others, or... whatever, we dont seem to know really.
Comment meh, do your surveys elsewhere... (Score 1) 6
... also, I use different distros for different purposes.
Ignoring that, this is what my timeline looks, sorted by first use of each distro:
fli4l suse gentoo ubuntu debian arch
Submission + - Virus may cure Acne (asm.org)
Fusselwurm writes: Good news for future basement-dwelling pimply Slashdotters!
A virus may be used against acne, researchers believe. The virus seems to target specifically bacteria that cause acne, and seems to be harmless otherwise.
A virus may be used against acne, researchers believe. The virus seems to target specifically bacteria that cause acne, and seems to be harmless otherwise.
Submission + - How to Make an 'Energy Efficient' Warp Drive (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "Sonny White, of NASA's Johnson Space Center, presented his warp drive calculations at the 100 Year Starship symposium earlier this month. By White's reckoning, his design of starship — that is "adjusted into more of a rounded doughnut, as opposed to a flat ring" and oscillates the warp intensity — could be powered by the approximate mass-energy of the Voyager 1 space probe. Of course, this is a lot of energy, but how does it compare to previous estimates? In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre — who is widely considered the first to formalize the physical theory behind the warp drive — found that his warp drive would need all the mass-energy in the Universe to function. But in 2009, Baylor University physicist Richard Obousy applied our current understanding of quantum dynamics, dark energy and string theory to the warp drive. His system could theoretically be powered by the rest-mass energy of Jupiter. Better, but still not great. Although White's warp drive would still need the entire annual energy usage of the United States, suddenly (assuming all the "exotic" assumptions are proven) warp speed doesn't seem so prohibitively power hungry."
Comment New Bomb Powerful Enough... , Says Bruce Willis (Score 3, Funny) 352
... or so I misread the headline at first glance.
Comment As always... (Score 3, Insightful) 477
... the answer depends on "what do want it to you use for".
I hate those polls when there's no nonsense option you can choose to say "I hate this poll".
Comment Re:I don't really give a s h i t (Score 2) 248
What do you want to imply?
That, somehow, he who does not know how to debug the kernel should not play with bit operations?
Something like that?
Or, that we should stop researching the structure of the universe, and instead focus on what we usually do, which is making war, screwing other people and post photos of our dicks on teh internet?
Comment Re:Slower and more minor (Score 1) 132
Schellenberg, E. G., von Scheve, C.:
Emotional Cues in American Popular Music: Five Decades of the Top 40
(paywalled)
