fuzzywig - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Competition is good. (Score 1) 211

by fuzzywig on Monday September 01, 2014 @08:30AM (#47799503) Attached to: Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets

The commercial aircraft makers like Boeing and Lockheed are partly responsible for the high cost of space access. Who do you think has been lobbying to keep the SLS on the cards?

Comment Re:god dammit. The Numbers (Score 1) 521

by fuzzywig on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @10:29AM (#47712135) Attached to: Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead

Not all birds are equal, or at least, some species are a lot rarer than others. for example, I doubt your cat can kill a large raptor, but apex predators typically have a large effect on the health of an ecosystem.

Comment Re:god dammit. (Score 1) 521

by fuzzywig on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @10:26AM (#47712109) Attached to: Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead

So you're saying if we kill you, more birds will live?

Comment Re:minutes to midnight (Score 2) 252

by fuzzywig on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:35AM (#47599471) Attached to: Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia

It's worth noting that Energia originally started out as OKB-1 of NII-88 and was the centre for the Soviet space program that put man into space, so it was originally part of the government.

This (presumed) takeover is actually a move back to the old days of government control, although I'd assume more as a way of establishing control rather than paying lip service to socialist ideals.

Comment Re:just wondering,.. (Score 2) 171

by fuzzywig on Thursday July 31, 2014 @10:39AM (#47574273) Attached to: Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink

This is designed to stick out of the top of the case, if you look at the pictures the case is the black/blue oblong underneath the copper.

Comment Re:i'm glad to work for free (Score 1) 418

by fuzzywig on Monday July 21, 2014 @11:49AM (#47501009) Attached to: Dealing With 'Advertising Pollution'

AdBlock Plus has been blocking YouTube ads for years*, and Google don't seem to care, even though as far as I can tell, it's just blocking "ad3.swf" while allowing "watch_as3.swf", which can't be hard for Google to work around.

I can only assume that Google don't see it as much of a loss of revenue, or that whoever is in charge of the decision doesn't like adverts.

*(It wasn't until I was round at someone's house, and they showed me something on youtube which had an ad on it that I even realised they existed, apparently this was at least a year after they were introduced.)

Comment Re:Rather far north. (Score 1) 151

by fuzzywig on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:40AM (#47448997) Attached to: Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport

On point 3, any failed boosters would end up falling on France, or possibly Germany.

Ideal spot for a launch site!

Comment Re:Rather far north. (Score 1) 151

by fuzzywig on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:39AM (#47448991) Attached to: Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport

Ascension is a better choice, it's closer to the equator than St Helena, and we've basically give Diego Garcia to the yanks (and the British government of course doesn't give a flying fuck about the native people who were displaced from there).

Comment Re:Rather far north. (Score 3, Insightful) 151

by fuzzywig on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:34AM (#47448949) Attached to: Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport

Nah mate, Ascension is closer to the equator and already has ESA facilities.

Comment Re:Drake's equation did it in 1961 (Score 1) 28

by fuzzywig on Thursday July 10, 2014 @10:00AM (#47423837) Attached to: The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy

We've got quite a good idea of R, the rate of star formation, and in the next 50 years or so we'll probably have a more precise value for fP, the number of stars that have planets.

Comment Re:Go Phone - AT&T Store (Score 1) 146

by fuzzywig on Monday June 30, 2014 @07:24AM (#47348957) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America?

In the UK most pay-as-you-go carriers will give you a free SIM, often with £5-£10 worth of credit, as a way to get to you locked to their network.

Comment Re:You know ... (Score 1) 358

by fuzzywig on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @10:14AM (#47314651) Attached to: Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones

I'm not sure how dangerous it is in terms of speed, but in terms of distraction it's much worse than drink driving. For example.

Comment Re:Turn your head to switch documents (Score 1) 72

by fuzzywig on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:37AM (#47279885) Attached to: 3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift

"A securities day trader would climax over this."

Funny you should say that.

Comment Re:You keep using that word... (Score 1) 250

by fuzzywig on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:02AM (#47279823) Attached to: TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible

frogrot is my favourite word of today.

And yes, the (alleged) TC developer was doing a great job of avoiding the main questions "can we change the license on the code to GLP?" and "can we use the name TrueCrypt?". The original email even mentions that they foresee having to re-write chunks of the code.

Comment Re:A minority view? (Score 1) 649

by fuzzywig on Thursday June 19, 2014 @10:26AM (#47271915) Attached to: Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

It's not really smugness, it's closer to the feeling you get when you understand something better than you did the day before, ("oh, that's how a carburettor works").

It's not necessarily a nice feeling, for example I know I'm not going to get to meet my dead granddad again, but I'd rather have it than be wandering around with false hope that somehow everything is going to be fine.

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