Comment It's just a short term fix... (Score 1) 548
"Short term" means 5+ years minimum. MINIMUM.
Comment I'm actually a little embarrassed to say that ... (Score 1) 379
... I actually had this same idea several years ago. Then I built a simple prototype out of wood, tested it, and saw that it didn't do squat. Apparently my second thought should have been, "Don't test it, just build it and charge money for it."
Comment I run Ubuntu because it installs - Debian doesn't (Score 0, Flamebait) 345
Every few years I get a new box, and I think, "I'll try Debian, people seem to like it." Then I try to install it, and it never installs properly. My experience has been that the installers over the years have been non-intuitive, required too much detailed knowledge, and were clunky. That's why I've never used it. Instead I've used Red Hat, Fedora, and now Ubuntu.
Comment Re:So he's a loser ... moving on ... (Score 1) 416
There's so many retards there
Really, there is so many retards here? That's your point?
Comment Typos? Don't look around here! (Score 1) 416
Keep them away from Slashdot! Otherwise they'll hack in and fix this:
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Submission + - Safest Seat on a Plane: How to Survive a Crash (popularmechanics.com)
Ant writes: "Popular Mechanics shares a short article on an exclusive look at 36 years' worth of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports and seating charts to determine the best way to live through a disaster in the sky. Move to the back of the Airbus (Boeing too?).
Seen on Boing Boing."
New Accelerator Technique Doubles Particle Energy 124
ZonkerWilliam writes "Plasma wake particle accelerators are making surprisingly quick advances. It was a just a little while ago we had GeV acceleration in 3cm. Now they are capable of doubling the energy of electrons. 'Imagine a car that accelerates from zero to sixty in 250 feet, and then rockets to 120 miles per hour in just one more inch. That's essentially what a collaboration of accelerator physicists has accomplished, using electrons for their race cars and plasma for the afterburners. Because electrons already travel at near light's speed in an accelerator, the physicists actually doubled the energy of the electrons, not their speed.'"
