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Re: Sushi (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Linux kernel version 4.2 released -- 24th anniversary edition on 2015-09-08 16:08 (#KT4F)

It's still a lot easier than eating warm live fish, and the scales.. they always get stuck in your teeth.

Re: Uses of the spectrum (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Lawn mowing robots to inferfere with radio telescopes on 2015-04-21 15:05 (#7GZE)

Antennas obviously.

Same thing that applies everywhere.. (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Crickets aren’t ready to replace meat on 2015-04-21 14:06 (#7GVD)

Garbage in.. garbage out.

I'd be interested to see if they could be used in a larger scale system, obviously, straight garbage isn't particularly useful, but for example, if they were fed plant material like algae grown in the natural sewage processing farms as part of the process?

It's not 1+1 =2 obviously.. and that probably wouldn't be enough alone.

Re: International law on new volcanic islands? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Tongan volcano creates new island on 2015-01-20 16:02 (#2WS0)

I guess it depends on whether Tonga can claim it, since it's in their territorial waters..

Re: change the speed of sound (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Elon Musk plans to build Hyperloop test track, likely in Texas on 2015-01-20 13:36 (#2WRX)

Yes, but more problematic, it's such a small molecule that it's really, really hard to keep contained.

Interesting idea (Score: 2, Insightful)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in New app lets you rent a toilet on 2015-01-20 11:17 (#2WRW)

I wonder if it will let toilet owners rate the visitors, because some people have no respect for other people's things (especially women in public toilets, if my SO is to be believed)

Re: 64k (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe Settle Employee Poaching Lawsuit on 2015-01-19 10:40 (#2WRD)

64k should be enough for anyone..

Re: 30 ft? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Researchers discover why birds fail to avoid collisions with aircraft on 2015-01-16 15:14 (#2WQT)

Well, considering that peregrine falcons can reach 300 Kph+ it looks like they'd be easy prey.

Re: 30 ft? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Researchers discover why birds fail to avoid collisions with aircraft on 2015-01-16 15:12 (#2WQS)

In my defense, I had a horrible night of sleep wednesday night. Also, the font on this site is awfully small on my 4K monitor, and...

30 ft? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Researchers discover why birds fail to avoid collisions with aircraft on 2015-01-15 16:42 (#2WQJ)

30 ft must make them pretty vulnerable to things like peregrine falcons..

Maybe I'm a pedant (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Scientists discover the first protein that can edit other proteins on 2015-01-02 15:24 (#2WME)

I think that the use of can is a bit wrong here, I'd put it as "is used to edit", can seems to imply that it has a choice, or prefers to edit other proteins instead of building up muscles, or causing holes to form in your cerebral tissues.

Yeah, no maybe about it.

Re: Falling (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in NASA envisons an airborne colony on Venus, before Mars on 2014-12-24 12:44 (#2WBC)

I've never needed extra credit :P

Anyhow, a space suit with a nuclear battery and oxygen generation capabilities, it would only leave heat or pressure.. as I'm no space suit engineer, I'm pretty sure that the temp increasing to 460+ C or pressure approaching 93 bar would do some irreparable harm to the integrity of the space suit, allowing boiling hot sulfuric acid into your lungs.. yummy.

Re: Falling (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in NASA envisons an airborne colony on Venus, before Mars on 2014-12-23 16:53 (#2WAD)

Probably when your oxygen, or heat source runs out.. that said, I don't think most spacesuits can survive temps upwards of 200C, and I'd be surprised if you didn't hit those temps somewhere around mercury (give or take a few thousand miles).

That's a huge could (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Greenhouse gases could cause a wet Africa on 2014-12-15 09:47 (#2VYH)

Plus, alterations in the Atlantic currents could be disastrous for a good part of europe.

Re: Einstein Wasn't All That. (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in The Digital Einstein Papers on 2014-12-12 12:20 (#2VW3)

Your point is that he built his theory from the work of people before him? Like pretty much every scientist throughout history?

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -Newton

Run off back to stormfront..

Re: Definition? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Advertisers are outraged that 23% of video ads are viewed by robots on 2014-12-11 11:54 (#2VVD)

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they can force window focus, and probably that it remains in focus for a certain percentage of the video running time, and the person|bot not skipping/closing/muting is enough to count

My heart bleeds for them (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Advertisers are outraged that 23% of video ads are viewed by robots on 2014-12-10 16:26 (#2VTG)

Say I had to guess who is making the cash.. I think it's probably the site owner serving the ads that they hire botnets to view, more than enough money to go around.

It's probably a pretty safe investment too.. yeah, you're hiring botnet dudes, but there's probably no paper trail between the two groups, and as they're not using the botnet to DDOS, or steal CC info, I'd imagine they're pretty low down on the LEO most wanted lists..

Next? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in The Pirate Bay is gone for good on 2014-12-10 11:23 (#2VT6)

We'll put it up there next to Napster and Limewire, et al.

Testaments to the fact that just because tech can do something, and do it really well, that doesn't naturally translate into it being legal/just/unnecessary to evolve.

Re: Nuclear power battery (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in New Horizons spacecraft prepares to study Pluto after 9-year voyage on 2014-12-08 17:50 (#2VQP)

Or it could have been to the acute shortage of the fissionable material, don't assign to malice, etc etc.

Re: Wrong and wrong again... The Romans cement was NOT more advanced (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Geopolymer concrete like the Romans on 2014-12-05 16:33 (#2VMN)

Well, you can still see the apartments that were around Rome in places, but yeah, it is entirely possible that the importance of a building might make people less likely to use it as a building site.. or it might have made the Vandals less likely to light it on fire when they invaded, and so on.. there are many many explanations for why much of the cement romans used hasn't survived, being crap is only one on a long list of possibilities.

Yeah, it would be, but it's not unheard of.. the Murano glassmakers of Venice seem to have help onto a lot of their secrets for a long while.

Re: Wrong and wrong again... The Romans cement was NOT more advanced (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Geopolymer concrete like the Romans on 2014-12-05 15:26 (#2VMF)

I just find it odd that the examples we can see are often projects that were started by emperors, which would have then had little impediments either monetarily, or hiring the best cement mixers, etc.

You are ignoring a third possibility, that making good cement was something that you had to be part of a guild to learn.. and guilds can be very protective of their trade secrets. That's why there is very little written down.

Re: Wrong and wrong again... The Romans cement was NOT more advanced (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Geopolymer concrete like the Romans on 2014-12-05 13:20 (#2VMA)

While I don't disagree that your premise may be correct, what makes you think that a society noted for its obsession with bureaucracy and incredible ability to organize (look where they built, and how they managed to keep garrisons weeks from Rome supplied) would not have had some recipe for cement, but that the amount of work or scarcity of materials prevented it from being used always?

Re: Wrong and wrong again... The Romans cement was NOT more advanced (Score: 2, Funny)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Geopolymer concrete like the Romans on 2014-12-04 17:29 (#2VK3)

Are you speaking from experience.. you were a Roman architect/builder?

Re: Wait, ambiguous phrase! (Score: 3, Informative)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Cherry trees blossom six years early after a trip to space on 2014-04-16 10:11 (#135)

In fact the article is much more specific "..suddenly produced nine flowers, each with the normal five petals, compared with about 30 flowers on the parent tree."

Wait, ambiguous phrase! (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Cherry trees blossom six years early after a trip to space on 2014-04-16 10:09 (#134)

So, does the cherry blossom normally have 30 petals, or does the cherry tree normally have 30 blooms instead of 9?

Pedantic minds want to know.

Re: But is it stackable? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Linksys WRT1900AC Router on 2014-04-14 13:56 (#12G)

Stacking ports is easy, stacking with another 4 radios is another issue entirely.

Re: Confusing (Score: 2, Insightful)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Recreating the THX Deep Note on 2014-04-10 12:09 (#11H)

Not exactly fruity loops, is it.

Are people seriously that anal? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Electronic Cigarettes May Not Help Smokers Quit on 2014-03-25 09:21 (#SX)

I can't see how vaporized nicotine is anywhere near as harmful as cig smoke, no tar, no combustion byproducts, not cyanide, or other nasty monoxide combinations..

I dunno (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Move over MD5. Here's Blake2 on 2014-03-24 11:41 (#RZ)

blake2sum just doesn't have the same ring to me, and with a sufficiently dirty mind, could suggest a double liason with a pair of blakes.

Re: That is interesting.. (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Ripples in Gravitational Waves May Confirm Big Bang and Expansion Theory on 2014-03-19 16:54 (#PH)

I actually really liked the multiverse one, where it was bubbles containing the universe popping into and out of existence, the math on all of them is way over my head though.

Re: So many conflicts (Score: 2, Funny)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Laser Pointing at Aircraft Increasing on 2014-03-19 16:51 (#PG)

Are you related to Kali?

BTW, what excuse does anyone over 12 have for pointing a laser at anything besides their own eyes, or a whiteboard.. or maybe the floor in front of their cat or dog? I am of course assuming that the guy wasn't developmentally disabled.

That is interesting.. (Score: 2, Insightful)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Ripples in Gravitational Waves May Confirm Big Bang and Expansion Theory on 2014-03-19 12:24 (#P4)

I was watching a program a few weeks ago which talked about inflation being one of the multiple competing theories vying for title of the "current best theory", it's good to see that they have been able to get some solid proof to support it.

No energy loss in fiber optic cables? (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Nano-scale Laser Amplifier Could Lead to Ultra-sensitive Radio Wave Detection on 2014-03-18 14:12 (#NF)

I think that getting rid of attenuation would be the actual breakthrough here. Probably breaking some fundamental law of physics too.

Re: Of course (Score: 4, Insightful)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Game Developers and Unintentional Sexism on 2014-03-14 12:27 (#J9)

I think you're using the wrong word. It's not ugly so much as unattractive. Beauty is a part of that, but attractiveness is far more important, as if you're not attractive, you won't find a mate, and your genes will hit a dead end. Attractiveness is a much more complex beast, and involves things like fitness as a parent, which is why wealth makes a difference to women, and so on.

Yeah, more junk in space (Score: 5, Insightful)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in How about an array of orbiting servers? on 2014-03-13 10:31 (#HH)

Exactly what space needs, ten years from now these will be obsolete, and just end up being further impediments to future orbiting objects.. hopefully, they're designed to de-orbit after a few years.

Re: Deeper problem (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in How Not to Write an API on 2014-03-10 15:17 (#CN)

I only forget the salt when cooking, but when cooking, you can usually add the salt later with no negative impact to food safety and security.

I wish they'd just stop faffing around (Score: 4, Insightful)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Zohydro, the Next OxyContin? on 2014-02-27 09:52 (#7E)

and legalize proper opiates already. It's some stupid equivalency game, opioids are the best treatment for chronic pain (until they find a way to get true endorphins past the brain cell barrier) but they're illegal because they make people feel good, so we'll create something that's close, it gets banned, rinse and repeat.

Protestant morals and fascist population control seem to go hand in hand.

Re: More Details (Score: 3, Informative)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in 3D Printing Goes Heavy Duty - Complex Metal Parts for Power Generation Equipment on 2014-02-25 12:12 (#69)

GE is outsourcing to Arcam Systems, everything in the article points to Siemens doing it inhouse, though they don't mention if the machinery is theirs or purchased from someone else. Found a few other articles from them, http://www.industry.siemens.com/topics/global/en/magazines/industry-journal/1-2013/pages/3d-printers-the-future-has-already-begun.aspx and this video shows the machine they're using: http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2013/12/siemens-3d-prints-toughest-christmas-tree-ever which seems to come from MCP systems.. found this talking about their tech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4odUhDjKHzo, though I think they may have been renamed.

Re: Glaucoma is bad (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in New eye layer has possible link to glaucoma on 2014-02-19 14:18 (#2W)

It also brought us no end of weed jokes too.

"Oh, yeah! Medicinal! Why, without it I could, uh, go even blinder, right?"

Re: I really feel that these sort of disks are starting to be seriously limited.. (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Toshiba Announces a 5TB Hard Drive on 2014-02-19 10:10 (#2T)

I'm mostly in agreement with you, de-duplication and large files do make tools like rsync quite efficent, but there is a lot of "enterprise" use that doesn't fit into those categories, mailstores being a good example..

I really feel that these sort of disks are starting to be seriously limited.. (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Toshiba Announces a 5TB Hard Drive on 2014-02-18 14:10 (#25)

Even with SATA and SAS 6G connectivity, you're still looking at a lot of time for file system verification, backups, even just using dd. I think they're fine for general usage, but the size of them is making a lot of the things I suggested earlier pretty time prohibitive..

Re: Combination of efforts (Score: 1)

by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org in Soylent News has launched! on 2014-02-17 10:44 (#T)

Well, I hope that this place takes off, cuz I got the awesomest UID.
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