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Comment Boycott (Score 1) 267

by SteveR on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:03PM (#57418274) Attached to: Cellphones Across the US Will Receive a 'Presidential Alert' at 2:18 pm Eastern Today

Turn your phone off at 2:17 pm.

Comment Re:Happy Friday from The Golden Girls! (Score 1) 91

by SteveR on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:31PM (#55281527) Attached to: Critical EFI Code in Millions of Macs Isn't Getting Apple's Updates

lol, "cosmonaut"

Pretty sure its "confidante".

Comment Re:Pointless exercise, is pointless. (Score 1) 180

by SteveR on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:08PM (#55012793) Attached to: I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked

I'm surprised you even found your way back online to report the fact that your internet reference books from a quarter century ago had dead links.

Slashdot is probably one of the few sites in that book that still works.

Comment Chumby (Score 1) 167

by SteveR on Monday July 31, 2017 @06:32PM (#54916765) Attached to: Petition Asks Adobe To Open-Source Flash To Preserve Internet History

Open source it. I want to create new widgets for my Chumby, which runs an old version of Flash.

Comment Can Trump undo it? (Score 1) 798

by SteveR on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:01PM (#53691539) Attached to: President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence

Can presidential actions like this be undone by a future president? Or does something like double jeopardy apply? (Not that I want it to be undone, I'm just curious.)

Comment ls(1) (Score 1) 533

by SteveR on Saturday January 18, 2014 @07:57PM (#46001653) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever?

If you're just considering userspace, then perhaps good old ls(1). I must run it hundreds of times a day.

Comment Pluto (Score 2) 142

by SteveR on Friday April 12, 2013 @09:40PM (#43437789) Attached to: IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet

I say we name all exoplanets "Pluto", just for spite.

Comment creat (Score 2) 92

by SteveR on Monday April 01, 2013 @06:17PM (#43333711) Attached to: Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own

'On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..."'

And there was much rejoicing.

Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 11, 2009 @01:48PM from the toil-and-trouble dept.

Theosis sends word that an astronomer at the University of Rochester and his colleagues have made the surprise discovery that Alcor, one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper, is actually two stars; and it is apparently gravitationally bound to the four-star Mizar system, making the whole group a sextuplet. This would make the Mizar-Alcor sextuplet the second-nearest such system known. The discovery is especially surprising because Alcor is one of the most studied stars in the sky. The Mizar-Alcor system has been involved in many "firsts" in the history of astronomy: "Benedetto Castelli, Galileo's protege and collaborator, first observed with a telescope that Mizar was not a single star in 1617, and Galileo observed it a week after hearing about this from Castelli, and noted it in his notebooks... Those two stars, called Mizar A and Mizar B, together with Alcor, in 1857 became the first binary stars ever photographed through a telescope. In 1890, Mizar A was discovered to itself be a binary, being the first binary to be discovered using spectroscopy. In 1908, spectroscopy revealed that Mizar B was also a pair of stars, making the group the first-known quintuple star system."

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