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byPeterBrett
12, 2013 @02:49PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office?
This is the right answer!
I've always cycled to work, sometimes as far as 25km each way. It's a great way to stay in shape, it's fun (even when the weather's bad), and you get to see and hear lots of interesting things you'd miss sitting in a car or on a bus. Also, it can often be faster than driving or taking public transport, especially if the roads where you are tend to get congested at rush hour.
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byPeterBrett
02, 2013 @08:42AM
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Attached to: 2013 Will Be a Big Year For Private Spaceflight
That's out of date. Dragon's C&C software has been Linux (not even RT-Linux) since the first flight that docked with the space station.
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byPeterBrett
02, 2013 @08:42AM
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Attached to: 2013 Will Be a Big Year For Private Spaceflight
Some guys down the corridor from me are literally using a Makerbot to fabricate flight components for prototype satellite plasma thrusters.
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byPeterBrett
29, 2012 @03:45AM
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Attached to: Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud
Last time I checked, a maximum of a two-year custodial sentence is not a life sentence.
Just look at cases where an English judge asks a defendant 20-30 times for a key, and each refusal is three more years in the slammer.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
But your unnecessary hyperbole aside, I entirely agree that RIPA is utter rubbish, and I wish it would go die in a fire.
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byPeterBrett
11, 2012 @04:03PM
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Attached to: Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF
"Please comply with the very permissive licence that we chose to licence our code under" does not amount to a religious argument.
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byPeterBrett
11, 2012 @03:58PM
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Attached to: Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF
I thought Oracle v. Google said APIs weren't copyrightable. As such, GPL-only APIs make no sense because the API can't be copyrighted to begin with.
You're wrong.
It is fine for someone to go and make a new, compatible implementation of the DMA-BUF API, with the same calling conventions etc., and license it however they wish. That is what the Oracle vs Google judgement said.
It is not okay to link your code into the GPL version of the DMA-BUF API unless your code is also GPL'd. That is something different.
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byPeterBrett
r 06, 2012 @09:30AM
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Attached to: The UK's New Minister For Magic
Do any of these people have any actual experience or qualification in the departments they get dumped on?
Sometimes, albeit rarely.
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byPeterBrett
r 06, 2012 @09:28AM
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Attached to: The UK's New Minister For Magic
It doesn't really matter what treatments Hunt wants the NHS to pay for; NICE is not under political control, and approves treatments based only on measurements of cost-effectiveness. BTW, this makes NICE extremely unpopular.
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byPeterBrett
2012 @10:23AM
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Attached to: Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ
There are some things for which just about any amount is overdoing it (e.g. cyanide).
My bag of almonds begs to disagree.
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byPeterBrett
2012 @03:04AM
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Attached to: Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic
Um. Actually, Germany = Lutheran, for the most part.
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byPeterBrett
2012 @01:59PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Sources For Firmware and Hardware Books?
It's not a book, but this book chapter is more-or-less compulsory reading for someone planning to get into HDL programming:
A structured VHDL design method
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byPeterBrett
2012 @07:54PM
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Attached to: Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids
The NASA study mentioned in the summary, which makes very worthwhile reading, recommends using a C-type asteroid rather than an M-type asteroid, explicitly because C-type asteroids explode and burn up very high in the atmosphere. And M-type asteroids of the size discussed hit the Earth multiple times every year anyway.
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byPeterBrett
2012 @07:47PM
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Attached to: Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids
And when the mission makes a mistake and an asteroid goes plummiting into a major city it will cause trillions of dollars in damage and massive loss of life and potentially create a cloud of dust that will cause an ice age.
Objects bigger than the size they're proposing to catch enter Earth's atmosphere several times every year. I think you've been watching too many movies. Did yo think the LHC was going to make a black hole and destroy the Earth, too?
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byPeterBrett
7, 2012 @08:26AM
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Attached to: UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money
You want to save electricity? Ban clothes dryers, electric heaters, dishwashers and electric kettles. At least you'd cost less lives than this insanity.
Actually, dishwashers usually use less energy and less water than washing up by hand, if you run them with a full load. And it's quite common in the UK to have electric hobs in the kitchen; boiling water in an electric kettle is always more energy efficient than boiling it in a conventional kettle on an electric hob.
Furthermore, the examples you provide are unambiguously uses of the energy to do something useful. Using huge amounts of power to light a completely deserted stretch of road at 3 am in the morning is unambiguously not useful.
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byPeterBrett
y 01, 2012 @12:53PM
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Attached to: EFF Seeking Information of Legal Users of Megaupload
What about OwnCloud?
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