Comment Tormented (Score 3, Funny) 142
What is a tormented Facebook file??
Comment Hmmm (Score 1) 142
I am confused. The title says 'Who is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?'. So I was guessing they didn't know and were coming to Slashdot to ask if anyone knew.
But no, they already know it! So why bother and ask us anyway??
I don't get it.
Comment Relative (Score 4, Insightful) 172
This might be true, but if you compare it to which fraction of our total energy production is renewable, then renewables get relatively more fuel subsidies than the fossil fuels.
Comment Re:Music (Score 1) 674
Do you sing in 12 languages on a daily basis? And use it to communicate?
Comment Re:Belgium (Score 1) 674
Flemish is not a language. From wikipedia:
Flemish:
Belgian Dutch ( Belgisch-Nederlands (helpinfo)), the national variety of the Dutch language as spoken in Belgium,[2][3][4] be it standard (as used in schools, government and the media)[5] or informal (as used in daily speech, "tussentaal ");[6]
Submission + - Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray (livescience.com)
pitchpipe writes: A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica.
[...]it turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new study detected an overabundance of cosmic rays coming from one part of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming from another.
[...]it turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new study detected an overabundance of cosmic rays coming from one part of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming from another.
Submission + - World’s First Molten Salt Solar Plant Opens (inhabitat.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Sicily has just announced the opening of the world’s first concentrated solar power (CSP) facility that uses molten salt as a heat collection medium. Since molten salt is able to reach very high temperatures (over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit) and can hold more heat than the synthetic oil used in other CSP plants, the plant is able to continue to produce electricity long after the sun has gone down. The Archimede plant has a capacity of 5 megawatts with a field of 30,000 square meters of mirrors and more than 3 miles of heat collecting piping for the molten salt. The cost for this initial plant was around 60 million Euros.
Comment Kayaking (Score 1) 312
I hope they did not include kayaking as an option like they have in google maps!
Submission + - Times loses over half of readers due to paywall
An anonymous reader writes: webuser.co.uk relays the news that Rupert Murdoch's decision to charge people to access The Times and The Sunday Times websites has led to a 66 per cent drop in traffic. Since 2 July anyone wanting to access the websites of The Times and The Sunday Times has had to pay — £1 a day or £2 a week.
Submission + - Turn your iPhone into a universal remote for $49
An anonymous reader writes: ThinkFlood released the RedEye mini today, a device that lets you turn your iPhone into a universal remote for $49. ZDNet grabbed an early release and posted a full review. For $49, it's better than most high-end universal remotes out there, with the ability to customize the interface, actions and even setup multi-step activities.
Submission + - The games you love to hate, 2010 (associatedcontent.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Games you love to hate is an article containing a little bit of my quirky humor, 5 games you love to hate, and a little bit of information about each of these games. Things you will find inside are game play design structure, and the inevitable flaws of each game.
Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View 312
Barence writes "Most of the satnav companies allow users to report errors with their maps, but do they ever get fixed? PC Pro's Paul Ockenden uses Google StreetView to highlight glaring and dangerous flaws in Tele Atlas maps — which are used by TomTom and Google Maps itself — but the company has failed to respond to numerous reports of map errors posted over the course of several years. 'About half a mile from where I live, a Tele Atlas-based satnav will instruct you to turn off at a junction where there's only an on-ramp,' Ockenden reports. 'I've witnessed some confused and dangerous driving at this junction as people try to find the non-existent exit, so I wouldn't be surprised if major mapping errors like this are a danger to road safety.'"
Comment The solution to the debris (Score 1) 221
To all the people that were asking about the debris, maybe the solution is not that far away. Raytheon has unveiled a anti-aircraft laser system today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10682693
I am no expert in this field, but to me it seems not too far-fetched that the system will also be suitable in the future to get rid of space debris.
Comment Another world record attempt (Score 3, Funny) 221
They always want to be the best in everything. Now it seems that the Chinese are trying to become the country with the most objects in earth orbit.
Comment Re:I disagree (Score 2, Insightful) 718
I set my parents up with an Ubuntu machine. On the desktop are icons for: Solitaire, Google, and Yahoo! Mail. They have not had a problem since I moved them to this setup.
Ever since I started reading slashdot parents have been used to portray the computer user with no knowledge of computers at all. I wonder for how long this will stay like that. I mean, at some point even slashdot-readers will get children.
