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bytbird81
013 @03:17PM
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Attached to: Greenland Repeals Radioactive Mining Ban
I thought NMR was the technology included MRI, but didn't necessarily involve imaging. (For instance finding rates of metabolism.) MRI uses NMR to produce images.
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bytbird81
2013 @05:03AM
(#45079847)
Attached to: The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying
"Hey, I'm so rich I don't care how much anything costs!"
-- Said no rich person. Ever.
You've never met my wife.
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bytbird81
2013 @04:22AM
(#44444551)
Attached to: Study Finds 3D Printers Pay For Themselves In Under a Year
Don't mock the article. Here's what I found from a brief Google search:
Yearly spending per household 2009:
Housing – shelter – $10,023
Pensions, Social Security – $5,027
Food – food at home – $3,465
Transportation – gasoline, motor oil – $2,384
Shower curtain rings - $2,105
Healthcare – $2,853
You'd be surprised how much the average household spends on shower curtain rings. Shower curtain ring failure is an important cause of household injury, and has a high fatality rate. Also, you probably underestimate addictiveness of the shower curtain. While you may only need the ones that came with your shower curtain when you moved into the house 15 years ago, plenty of addicts blow through new shower curtain at a rate of dozens per day.
You may have heard of Narcotics Anonymous or the AA. There's also the SCA, and a non-spiritual group called Glass door which helps people get over this dreadful affliction.
While 3d printers may reduce the cost of the curtain rings, which may help financially, they will not be doing anything for the root cause of the problem. This is just another reason 3d printers should be banned from general use.
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bytbird81
13 @02:52AM
(#44378579)
Attached to: Ubuntu Forum Security Breach
He hurt their feelings.
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bytbird81
013 @05:38AM
(#44306653)
Attached to: New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune
This phenomenon is called tidal locking.
From Wikipedia:
Most significant moons in the Solar System are tidally locked with their primaries, since they orbit very closely and tidal force increases rapidly (as a cubic) with decreasing distance. Notable exceptions are the irregular outer satellites of the gas giant planets, which orbit much farther away than the large well-known moons.
Pluto and Charon are an extreme example of a tidal lock. Charon is a relatively large moon in comparison to its primary and also has a very close orbit. This has made Pluto also tidally locked to Charon. In effect, these two celestial bodies revolve around each other (their barycenter lies outside of Pluto) as if joined with a rod connecting two opposite points on their surfaces.
The tidal locking situation for asteroid moons is largely unknown, but closely orbiting binaries are expected to be tidally locked, as well as contact binaries.
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bytbird81
13 @03:35PM
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Attached to: Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference
Why, oh, why couldn't you have written the summary? You actually summarize what has happened, rather than wasting a long sentence just mentioning you went to the conference and stayed at another hotel. I hope you are modded up.
Submitters - think before you submit, and make the summary so good we are not forced to read the article.
Editors - feel free to edit and improve things, and importantly, you don't need to sensationalize everything for us to read it - that just pisses us off.
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bytbird81
@04:42AM
(#44068601)
Attached to: Developers Rolling Out Pebble Smartwatch Apps
Nah, he should stick to an analog watch. Draw a circle on your wrist, with the big hand upwards and the little hand at 5 o'clock. It may not have the precision of your watch, but at least it's +/-5 minutes for 1.4% of the time.
For that steampunk feel, draw a fob watch on your nipple.
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bytbird81
@01:36AM
(#44067983)
Attached to: Samsung Launches 3200x1800 Pixel ATIV Book 9 Plus Laptop
If you own a Mac it shows that you have money to burn, and aren't that worried about prudent use of money. So why not sell things to Apple users? They're great consumers.
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bytbird81
@04:33AM
(#44027171)
Attached to: Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon
Parallel universe.
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bytbird81
@05:45AM
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Attached to: Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon
$25! Shit, you're have to be a thousandairre to afford that.
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bytbird81
@05:41AM
(#44020907)
Attached to: Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon
Actually, you don't have to do anything. Stick with your old bulbs, and cheer the fuck up.
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bytbird81
@05:40AM
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Attached to: Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon
Slashdot is just full of negativity about everything. Just stupid overused jokes, and ridiculous theories about what a "hacker" or the NSA could do to your system. It's hard to think that people here are able to achieve anything in the real world harbouring such pathological cynicism. The world is actually a pretty cool place.
There's nerdiness - in which people should get excited about this type of stuff; and then there's bitterness - where everything is stupid and a waste of time. I hope that the two are independent variables.
I've only just (in the last 2 months) started browsing reddit. Sure there's a lot of crap, but everyone seems much more positive than they do here. Nearly every new device or technology, from the Ouya to the Oculus, including every new Nasa project, every new discovery, is just bagged without any real interest on Slashdot.
Slashdot seems a lonely place.
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bytbird81
@05:29AM
(#44020879)
Attached to: Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon
Morse code.
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bytbird81
3 @05:08AM
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Attached to: Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating
I had a brief relationship with him. Didn't end well, I was pretty young at the time. I got a good settlement though.
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bytbird81
3 @05:06AM
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Attached to: No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV
Sorry, I've been away for a few days and couldn't check replies.
I'm not worried about CO2. But went I'm waiting at the lights, sitting behind a diesel bus and a few SUVs, I wish they had electric engines. Surely it would improve the local quality of the air.
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