Comment Re:A radar? (Score 1) 148
Radar is not used for that. Civilian and military planes use transponders for that.
Comment US not fourth place (Score 1) 155
If you add other countries, the US is not fourth place any more, so the chart is totally misleading.
Comment Exobrain (Score 1) 87
Cool, this will turn your skin into an exobrain.
Comment Compare it against renewable energy (Score 1) 599
The comparison between two old technologies doesn't give any clues for the future. The argument to continue using nuclear energy since there are better energy sources like solar and wind power. Germany shut down eight nuclear reactors after the Fukushima accident. The cost of electric energy did decrease and Germany exports more electrical energy than ever before, despite Cassandras that it would all break down without nuclear. The comparison should be between nuclear and a mix of renewable and modern, efficient gas power plants.
Comment Re:"centuries"? (Score 1) 305
What kinds of devices have we been interacting with for centuries? That's what I'd like to know.
The nipples of your mother. The only intuitive interface in the world.
Comment This madness is happening all the time (Score 1) 259
See http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/fission_stories for a growing collection of incidents that almost went wrong.
Comment KDE (Score 1) 456
Looks like KDE to me.
Comment Written history (Score 1) 143
A U.S. geek appears to have accidentally written history simply by having sex.
Fixed that for you.
Comment Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo (Score 2) 203
Panama? I only see an image of Africa and Asia.
See?! That proves it's photoshopped, They even forgot to put in parts of America.
Comment Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo (Score 1) 203
One obvious difference - in the NASA image, clouds have no shadow, in the russian one they do. That makes the NASA image look flat, and the russian one jump out in 3D. Why that is, I'm not sure.
The Russian image is taken at the day-night border, where the sunlight comes from the side, while the NASA image is taken around noon. The shadows make the landscape much more visible. Spy satellite images are often taken in the morning or late afternoon for the same reason.
Comment Re:9.0 magnitude earthquake Unpossible? (Score 1) 258
St. Andreas is not the only possible area of a quake. In the Washington area there is more tension building up:
http://www.physorg.com/news169653448.html
Comment Google voluntarily pixels buildings (Score 4, Informative) 46
The streetview service is not illegal in Germany. Google voluntarily pixels houses if people living there demand it. They don't have to. Other services like sightwalk.de do it without for years.
Comment Re:Is it better than this? (Score 2, Funny) 445
Comment Re:Works for me (Score 1) 227
==> so it's hosted in Denmark now!
I recommend that the 4498 unrelated sites should do likewise, and find a hosting provider with a spine.
the hostingprovider has a spine and was danish from the beginning. The serverhoster (serverloft) has no spine and is located in Germany.
Comment Use this howto (Score 1) 539
Use this howto.
