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  1. Re:Good. on NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger Suit Against Huffington Post · · Score: 1

    Much as i dislike the Huffingtonpost, if this judgement had gone they other way, every web site serving goods of blogger, for example science 2.0, where I blog, could have been sued for getting rich from my work. So its a good judgement that allow magazines that are groups of bloggers to survive.

  2. Re:Cylons, terminators... It all means one thing. on Needed: A LAMP Stack For Robotics · · Score: 1

    I've been wanting to build testing code on /etc/cough all day.

  3. Oblig: Excession on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    Thats no a planet, its an Excession!

  4. Re:Whatever... on Xbox 720 a No-show At This Year's E3 · · Score: 1

    The shouldn't be a Xbox 720, until there removed all the bosons from the matter on the Xbox!, 720 is purely fermionic. No excuses for not nowing the math here!

  5. Re:Maybe the universe is telling them something.. on LightSquared Satellite Disabled By Last Week's Solar Storm · · Score: 1

    Well the satellite is probably still up there, its just the hardware that burned out, or maybe correctably damaged. Didn't they buy insurance?

  6. Re:Google's Rules of Acquisition on Google's Rules of Acquisition · · Score: 1

    I know Ferengi would pop up at the mention of Acuquistion. But the sweet smell of stamp press latinum is?

  7. Re:Newsflash on Linode Exploit Caused Theft of Thousands of Bitcoins · · Score: 1
    The curracy conversion rate and the legal force to pay debt never were. But we thought it was mathematically safe from hackers, but not it seems open third party coin generator sites. Back to the old Drawing board for cyber currency.

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  8. Re:Summary goes a bit too far... on Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts · · Score: 2

    CP violation has been observe in every weak decay that transform a quark from one generation to another, using the weak force. The weak force normally acts between a up-like quark and down-like quark in the same generation, but there is a miss-match between the down quarks as since by the W particle and the down quarks since by the Higgs that generate the masses of the particles, this leads to an additional matrix, the CKM, in the action of the W particle on quarks, leads to transmutations between the three generation of quarks and the decay of heavy quark generations to lighter ones. The K mesons and the Beauty mesons the a single complex phase of CKM matrix is responsible for difference between the matter quarks and the anti-matter quarks and this is well describe by the CKM matrix. This result for the D meson (D^0 = cd) is much larger at 0.2% than the predicted value of around 0.01% and is truely a hint of new CP violating physics.

  9. Re:It's in Paypal's nature. Just stop using them. on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    They'd hardly be the only one, I've personally had the same trouble with Google Adsense, stopping ads for my whole site, just because erotic stories was one minor category. In fact most advertising operations seem to completely seperate between adult categories and none adult. They are porn advertising networks, but they don't do normal content. So your pretty much forced to at least seperate adult and non adult content into different sites with different advertising networks.

  10. Re:Trade off on Flatworms Defy Aging Through Cell Division Tricks · · Score: 1
    Ha, but the usual trade off, in making cells immortal, is making to organism much more prone to cancers.

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  11. Re:Good grief... on Philatelists Push Petition For Pluto Probe Postage · · Score: 1

    Have I I've swallowed a mouse, or are you taking the Mickey. If i'd had known it was that sort of a cartoon, I wouldn't have shown it to mum or dad.

  12. Foolish cops on DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes · · Score: 1

    Surely they know how much transatlantic ping pong go on. Not to mention, how much brits joke and fake. Besides mentioning destroying america on twitter, doesn't mean that was there will, lots of thing would or could destroy america discuss.

  13. BBC is that you on The Web's Worst Privacy Policy · · Score: 0

    Serious, want to do be within a kilometer of a user computer when the click is on.

  14. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 1

    Robert Sheldrake made the same mistake for a lifetime.

  15. Re:Yeah, lets spread cancer all over the place on Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real · · Score: 1

    Terahertz is 300GHz to 3000GHz frequency band 3*10^8 / 3*10^12 = 1/10 mm. E = 1 millieV 3*10^9/ 3*10^12 = 1/100 mm. E= 10 millieV Terahertz radiation is in the right frequency range, not to be able to focus on cells, or let alone the insides of cells. Even the largest macromolecules would be invisible to it. Also the energy of a Terahertz photon isn't enough to break a single hydrogen bond, DNA would not be damaged.

  16. Re:This is exactly what is wrong with the world. on Ask Slashdot: Changing Career From OLTP To OLAP Dev · · Score: 1

    Industries change in size and number of staff they need. Having only one language and one industry, couldn't garantee a career. Besides its boring not learn.

  17. Re:Google is becoming annoying on Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search · · Score: 2

    I concur, just had google+ add my friends pop up in the middle of using google groups, with no close button. Give me back usenet.

  18. Re:I don't see the problem at all! Am I just dumb? on Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "twitter sells the right to mine their data". And good luck to that, mine 140 character all this codes bit.ly that change and TLAs three letter aconyms, can I now data mine 1/f noise and white noise. Don't want google sell mining rights on my searches though. And I want friends and my web search history, very well seperated.

  19. Re:p2p Facebook clone on Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance" · · Score: 1

    Was expecting some what to join me there.

  20. Re:the glass is half... on FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Very true. Seen thousands of TV shows about it though. There are three bad sides to being socialised into a climate of fearing the law. One is the paranoir of being a criminal the other is the paranoia of the being a victim, the third is a mind full of worse case scienios. Over all, it probably makes us safer, if more miserable. Perhaps Life is batman not the x-files.

  21. Re:They probably wrote it in Java on FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Lets writing it in C, and leave bufffer overruns all over it. Thats what the FBI need. So they extradict teenage whiz kid for being able to crash it as easierly as dodgem car.

  22. Re:p2p Facebook clone on Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance" · · Score: 1
    Would love this, only a couple of months ago I was thinking about how in fifteen years, usenet news in many ways hasn't been beaten for public peer to peer messaging. Add images in mme, svg vector, lossless and loss images, sub-html but no javascript (or x-site scripting proof javascript), what happen to the java applet model that actually worked secuity wise, utf-8 and mathml and latex. (Yeah years of equations in ASCII on sci.physics) Should the system be where encrypted and hide the interests and indenties of the users. Public forum and frield private rooms, trust wieghting on the posters indentity, private/public keys done with a UI thats doesn't nag to much. Let it be open to snooping. Question for the design. Should the system be where encrypted and hide the interests and indenties of the users. Or let it be opening to snooping followed by all what about the bad guys stuff. Either way is would still be a useful project. The internet was so free when it was just a university system wasn't it. Apart for getting logged off by the sys admin for abuse, which did keep the flame wars done. These days the content is drowned in business and advertising, and get rich quick schemes that don't work. I learnt to deal with net conversations to great degree on usenet, complete with spam and flaming. Yeah build a new kill file system, and a pass it on to friends who like it system, into it complete with better than bayes filtering and taxomany, and elimate the central server.

    I rembember well at university, saying on day everyone will be on usenet, and my friend, screamed, no don't let the plebs on usenet. But it happenned, So more rublish from Hannah, space potatos popadopalis, and Archimedies (university dishwasher) plutomium and spam.

    A new usenet would be great, and as you can see, i've given a bit of thought to the design. Search on a discentralised system is the problem, perhaps the filtering/pass onward system on remote system could be notified or what your looking for, and use spare cycles from your friends machines.

    Next design issue, what about copromised friends machines, and web of trusts in the system, filtering can be on both sides, to stop passing forward junk.

    What about viral message and viral market?ng. Warez and hollywood rips, where often they're own punishment. Should sound and vision also have filter settings on it? Where does the filtering for exe's come from, computer virus db don't just build themselves. Neither does making the client os rock solid. This is getting to be a big project, isn't it. Just to make it ultimate lets have an intellegent english question answering from text, image to text and voice and on the search, not quite sci-fi, but that while beyond state of the art at the moment. Boolean queries in a search language on bayesian filters might be the limit.

    Any takers for forming a team to build one.

  23. Re:Moglen wasn't particularly helpful on Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance" · · Score: 1

    Very true, read the above regularly to keep the black heliocopters away. "As evidence that your are boring, consider the fact that you spend a good portion of your life on Facebook. ", Also since being on Facebook gives you no google links, for you posts, you get less famous they're than being on blogger or word press. But on a blog (a rotten name for a place to publish, since before someone named it, possibly since Jason and Argonants), you'd have to actually be a good enough writing on interesting subjects to be read. You still probably won't win the popularity contest, because you'd need to spend either a lot of money or time just to get known. Social network do make a lot of space for people communications to be stored through. But for people trying to be famous, and selling the chance for advertising or writing to make a difference, media will probably need to recreate social networks regularly. Otherwise the dreams of the average writer tend to zero under the weight of all the advertised stuff. Meanwhile the readers disappear under the weight of the adverts and all the content being old. Yes earn though blogging was always oversold, so was SEO. Solution to your SEO dreams create another network with new names. Maybe DNS and reader writer privacy can be different in the next model.

  24. Re:Polaritons? Just makin' **** up, are we? on Cambridge Scientists Create Huge Quantum Particles · · Score: 1

    If it helps Polaritons don't belong in the standard model megagerie. They are quasi-particles. Collective states can (often) be modelled as a system with the number of quasi-particles representing the excitation of the system, if these quasi-particles have well defined properties, act at point, commute with other useful observable then its a useful description of reality, but its still just electrons and nucleii as usual. Quasi-particles are very useful at reducing complex system to simple ones in condensed matter.

  25. Re:Can we know the temperature now? on Vast Web of Dark Matter Mapped · · Score: 1
    Yes, by measuring the infrared light (oh wait, it doesn't radiate, its dark) we can know the temperature. We can measure the volume, and the mass. To get the temperature we have to notice dark matter holding its up from gravity by pressure and not angular momentum, and also know the masses of the particles in dark matter, then PV=nRT.

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