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Comment Re:subject (Score 1) 105

by smi.james.th on Monday March 18, 2013 @11:24AM (#43203361) Attached to: Sarah Brightman's ISS Trip In Peril

Sarah Brightman isn't that bad... though I can think of several others I'd rather send into space.

Comment One word: (Score 2, Insightful) 266

by smi.james.th on Saturday March 16, 2013 @02:15PM (#43191863) Attached to: US To Deploy Ballistic Missile Interceptors In Response To North Korean Threats

China. They're big allies of North Korea, and I don't think they'd take kindly to America having significant military presence right there.

Comment Re:NK would never do it (Score 1) 266

by smi.james.th on Saturday March 16, 2013 @02:14PM (#43191855) Attached to: US To Deploy Ballistic Missile Interceptors In Response To North Korean Threats

Not least of which, because if their recent tests are anything to be judged by, they would get it horribly wrong. That rocket that they launched? Crashed without doing anything useful. I don't know why the States is worried, China has more to fear if NK actually aims at the US.

Comment Re:Gas mileage (Score 1) 222

by smi.james.th on Monday March 11, 2013 @12:38AM (#43135335) Attached to: Ferrari Unveils World's Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid

Ferrari's hypercars are super exclusive. If you were buying one of the 499 that they're making, they would have already contacted you to let you know ;)

Incidentally, IIRC, this isn't like a regular hybrid in that you can let it run on the electric motor alone, that would turn the engine off which would defeat the point of a V12 Ferrari. It's basically just an upgraded F1-KERS system. I guess the engine might turn off in stop-start traffic, but other than that, no.

Comment Opportunities for profit (Score 1) 12

by smi.james.th on Thursday March 07, 2013 @05:35AM (#43102545) Attached to: The Green Grid Publishes New Data Center Recycling Metric

Isn't there a lot of precious metal in E-waste? AFAIK harvesting that can be quite lucrative as well. It surprises me that one needs initiatives such as this, one would think that the firms would want to recycle electronics anyway...

Comment Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted (Score 1) 213

by smi.james.th on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:54AM (#43102277) Attached to: ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan

My grandparents would fall into this category. While uncapped services are available here in South Africa, ones with e.g. 2GB caps are cheaper, and they seldom use more than about 200-300 MB on emails and the occasional crossword answer search... So 1GB free would be ideal for them.

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 158

by smi.james.th on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:14AM (#43021463) Attached to: Pixel Picture Clearer? Google Ports Office-Substitute To Chrome OS, Browser

Perhaps (and I could be wrong here) another reason to buy this Pixel is that it's got decent hardware but isn't going to be troubled by secure-boot and things like that so you can install your own OS on it if you get tired of chrome-OS.

Comment Re:Really, Slashdot? (Score 1) 107

by Lemmy Caution on Sunday February 24, 2013 @06:04PM (#42997695) Attached to: 18 Carriers Sign Up for Firefox OS Phones

Ooops, wrong parent. Sorry

Comment Re:Really, Slashdot? (Score 1) 107

by Lemmy Caution on Sunday February 24, 2013 @06:03PM (#42997689) Attached to: 18 Carriers Sign Up for Firefox OS Phones

This is one of my favorite trolls, because you can set your watch by how long it takes for someone to post a link to the Jitterbag and saying, "here you go, Gramps."

Comment Re: A good first step (Score 2) 121

by smi.james.th on Saturday February 23, 2013 @12:39PM (#42989663) Attached to: White House Tells Agencies To Increase Access to Fed-Funded Research

Sorry man, but there's already loads of crap on the internet. The peer review system is very important in establishing any sort of scientific credibility.

Comment Re:Spying... (Score 1) 114

by smi.james.th on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:26PM (#42982053) Attached to: North Korea To Enable Mobile Internet Access — For Visitors Only

Okay he might try but if your communications are encrypted then he'll need to try pretty hard to understand them... so I would think that would give you some measure of privacy at least.

Comment Re:Spying... (Score 2) 114

by smi.james.th on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:20PM (#42981981) Attached to: North Korea To Enable Mobile Internet Access — For Visitors Only

Surely using something like Tor or a VPN would prevent Kim Jong-Un from spying on you though?

Comment Re:Umm, yeah (Score 1) 232

by smi.james.th on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:49AM (#42977697) Attached to: Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent

Okay, granted (disclaimer, I'm not a biologist) but the point remains: If you've already been born, your genetic material is pretty much fixed and you can't evolve due to happenings. I think this applies to mosquitoes as well.

Comment Re:Umm, yeah (Score 0) 232

by smi.james.th on Friday February 22, 2013 @04:31AM (#42977089) Attached to: Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent

And me without mod points... Good comment though, because evolution can't happen within a generation, so if the mosquitoes who had smelled DEET had offspring who weren't bothered then THAT would be evolution (on a very small scale) but not within a living organism's lifetime.

Comment Re:Disease (Score 2) 94

by smi.james.th on Monday February 18, 2013 @04:31PM (#42938499) Attached to: US Joins Google, Microsoft In "Brain Race"

While academically, I agree with you, but generally there would need to be some point behind it before the research can be funded. Curing disease is potentially such a point.

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