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Comment Re:Commercial exploitation of the Moon (Score 3, Insightful) 121

Commercializing the moon is another.

Should we allow such endeavor to proceed in the first place?

Of course we should. For two reasons.

1. Space exploration won't become more than the sideshow it is now until someone manages to monetize it. If we want real sustainable investment in space and space related technologies, we need someone to be making money off it somehow, otherwise various governments around the world will just continue to drop the ball. It could be from mining, or tourism, or something else, but industry needs to get involved.

2. I own all the real estate on moon (I bought it on eBay), so if anyone went there, they would have to lease the area they are using off my company - it's well past time for that investment to pay off for me.

Comment Re:Android Dominance? (Score 1) 298

If you think that enough users do this to make any sort of difference (or even know that it *can* be done), you're even more clueless than the typical user.

The stats in the summary were referring to traffic on the slashdot site.

If you read slashdot, are an android user and *don't* know that this can be done, you should hand in your geek card right now, and find another website to spend your time on.

Comment Re:Android Dominance? (Score 1) 298

So there are over 3 times as many Android phones as iPhones, yet internet usage by Android is *lower*?

Something is fishy here.

I'm guessing android users are spoofing the user agent on their browser to iPhone because so many websites still look and work better on mobile when the web server thinks you have an iPhone.

Comment Re:Mass Mail (Score 1) 473

The only people using mail anymore are junk mailers.

Not quite. If all the retail stores are going broke because everyone is buying stuff off the internet, then USPS should be doing a roaring trade in package deliveries.

Not sure why USPS don't seem to be able to leverage off all that traffic to make a profit.

Australia

Submission + - Google hit with $200,000 damages bill over Mokbel shots (theage.com.au)

niftydude writes: Should Google be held liable for images that appear in its search results? An Australian court has said yes.

A Melbourne man who won a defamation case against search engine giant Google has been awarded $200,000 in damages.

Milorad Trkulja, also known as Michael, sued the multinational over images of him alongside a well-known underworld figure that appeared in its search results.

A six-person Supreme Court jury found last month that Mr Trkulja had been defamed by the images, which he first contacted Google about removing in 2009.

Comment Re:Please, just stop... (Score 2) 204

We're talking about China deciding that the USA needs to be taught a lesson.

Why would China want to teach the USA a lesson? The Chinese already own most US debt.

The only reason the US could be justifiably paranoid about what China can/can't do to them, is if the US intends to default on China, stop paying interest, and pre-emptively attack China to get out of the situation.

Comment Re:How about actually shipping them? (Score 2) 178

How about actually, you know, shipping the things? Ordered a month ago, only thing I've got from it so far is an automated email and a PI-shaped hole in my paypal account..

I see this comment all over the place. Who did you order from?

I have two already. Bought mine from element14.

I don't mind about the extra ram, cause the tasks I'm using these ones for don't require it.

Comment Re:What about the speed of information? (Score 1) 381

As I understand it, we're still waiting to find out if gravitational waves/radiation propagates at the speed of light.

You are correct, we are still waiting for experimental validation, however, if gravity waves exist, then the gravitons that carry gravitation force are expected to fit into the Standard Model as a massless gauge boson. Theoretically, according to the Standard Model, all massless particles travel at the speed of light.

It will be *very* interesting if we find that gravitation waves do not travel at the speed of light.

Comment Re:it worries me (Score 1) 398

Seems they have taken a clue from Albert Einstein, who supposedly owned 6 or 7 of the exact same brown suits for the same reason - so he wouldn't waste any mental energy with such useless minutiae such as what to wear that day.

Einstein also didn't wear socks - because they took too much time to put on, and shoes already did the job well enough.

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