Comment Re:Existing instruments give us a data firehose (Score 2) 60
It's not as if the CMB is going to evaporate or something.
It is going to evaporate, slowly....
Comment Re:Is this an ad? (Score 1) 24
Seriously. This sounds like an ad. "The new version of our software is out, and ITS BETTER!"
You know Blender is free open source software, right? Slashdot even helped it to become free and open source many years ago.
Comment Re: What's better than... (Score 3, Funny) 213
What are you talking about? Hunter Biden started that conflict by invading Russia. He's also personally responsible for global climate change. Trump himself told me.
The fact that this was modded up as "Interesting" instead of funny is pretty fucking scary. Of course, now watch my comment will be modded up as funny because that's par for the course these days.
Comment Sorry, that was my fault (Score 1) 59
I started playing Mines recently, which is just a plain old free open source game from the repos.
Speaking of which....
Comment Microsoft's typical tactics still at play (Score 1) 149
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <=== You are here
Comment Hell the public would have known in 1958 (Score 1) 266
Bell Telephone made a film in 1958 called The Unchained Goddess and probably played on NBC back in the day in which they mention the looming threat of man made global warming/climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment The Net (Score 3, Interesting) 143
A really long time ago on Slashdot there was a poll for the worst tech movie and The Net (1995) won by a huge margin. However, it would seem that the scenario that it warned us about has come to pass, people trust what a computer says more than physical evidence and it leads to ruining people's lives.
Comment Not the only one making risky bets (Score 3, Funny) 48
Sounds like Netflix made some risky bets too.
Comment Re:How much ... (Score 1) 20
FTFY: So about 8,800 football fields then.
Comment Not long now. (Score 1) 230
And the malicious attackers come up with a hack against this in 3...2...1...
Comment Re:I wonder.. (Score 1) 102
Heh, we had the same idea. I think you're onto something.
Comment Shoot it to the moon (Score 1) 102
I can understand if they are wanting to preserve parts of the station, but it seems like sending a rocket up to grab it and shoot it to the moon would be useful. Later the materials that end up on the moon could be re-used for small construction projects there without there.
Comment And Slashdot was there back then too (Score 4, Informative) 33
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
I guess the original release date was Sept 27th.
Comment Intent is 9/10 of the law (Score 2) 107
If the US justice system operates under the principle that 9/10 of the law is based on your intent, then the FBI is guilty because they intentionally set this up knowing that what they were doing was ethically wrong by constitutional standards.
Comment Comparing comments on the iPhone with this (Score 1) 360
For comparison of comments, it might be interesting to read and compare the
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/07/01/09/1857231/iphone-apple-tv-headline-macworld-keynote
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