Like a cow on a milking machine.

The article summary says "I believe that the CSS code we write today will be readable by computers 500 years from now." Yet at the bottom of the Slashdot main page it says "All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin"

I'm with you. Nowadays I run XP SP2 as it comes off the CD with zero updates and no network or internet access in VirtualBox on Mint 17 for the occasions I must. (COM port behaviour with Wine can be iffy.) SSD and 16 Gigs of ram and it boogies. SP2 to SP3 made the wheels fall off.

Insurance policy for the human race? If the human race is so destructive of its environment and self and pretty much everything else it comes in contact with, 1/ why is that not simply going to happen again on Mars? 2/ If history is any indicator, does the human race warrant being preserved? An alien civilisation would view us as a cancerous blot on the universe.

I can only drink spherical litres, you insensitive clod.

Good example of that is when Japan lost WW2 and the people came to realise that the emperor was NOT the invincible descendant of the Shinto sun god. For many it was a great dissapointment and they kinda fell into a hole for a while. Many replaced this devotion to a religious emporer figure with devotion to a secular job. Japan then rose and rose.

Sorry, make that 2,000,000 km. But you get the idea.

I wonder how they reconcile their Eco-green mentality with organising an event that encourages 100,000 people to drive their cars maybe 20,000,000 kilometres to attend.

So when are we going to see driverless F1 cars?

I can see this small board stuff getting as fragmented as the bazillions of Linux distributions available. Choosing which board you want to play with will get as complicated as choosing a phone plan. Too much choice is not good. What the right amount of choice is, I don't know.

I worked for 13 years at a company that designed and manufactured switch mode power supplies up to 3kW size. The last ten years was in the design lab with a team of about 15 engineers. We made decisions on a daily basis in respect of fire and electric shock safety for our products; things that affect the very lives and properties of the end users of this equipment. One wrong decision or non-comliance with a particular regulation could have caused our company to be sued into oblivion. Despite this responsibility that we shouldered, we were not allowed access to the stationery cupboard - we had to go and ask permission of some junior office member for a simple ball point pen etc.

Would it be posible to burn this tritium with atmospheric oxygen? The product of this combustion could then be cooled and condensed back to "heavy water" of some sort? This water would be rather easier to store in tanks and maybe not so dangerous. I don't really know much about this stuff.

The logical fallacy though is that we weren't old back then.

"using images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) cameras that reveal Lunokhod 2's tracks." -------------------- So they can photograph wheel tracks on the moons surface? It should then be a snap (pun intended) to take a pic of the Apollo 11 landing site and put that conspiracy to rest once and for all.

E-waste gets positive spin in news article.