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  1. Re:sleezeball on Google Yanks Several Emulators From App Store · · Score: 1
    But its a highly useful app to have, immediately giving buyers access to a lot of old games. Perphaps thats the problem, without the new platform, needing new applications and new games, development dries ups. Originality is hard to find in the modern world, as are places to be original. But conversions, and translations are just as much useful work. I don't see how you can label a programming a sleezeball just for translating from open source projects. One thing open source was definitely not created for was to close off similar development. I'd agree literal, line for line coping of someone else work and selling it as your own is illegal. But you can't call 'based off some other work' sleeze, unless you want every person have start from caveman level.

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  2. Re:goodbye-mr.-jones dept on "Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids · · Score: 1

    Dr Daniel Jackson, would be very at home though. I the did still need spades to dig them up somewhere down the line though.

  3. The only device that can see raw cosmic rays on Space Station Becomes Dark Matter Hunter · · Score: 1
    This is the only device in the world, that can measure cosmic rays before they enter the atmosphere. Measuring the primary protons and nucleii from cosmic rays, before they break up in showers of secondary particles. I doubt actually though that it will measure dark matter, as dark matter is neutral and won't interact with the magnetic fields in the AMS.

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  4. Re:Missing Rings on Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds · · Score: 1

    Kepler should keep its eye out for the planets that remove their rings and place them in their pockets. They show attraction, but part without saying goodbye the next morning.

    But that would mean... converting the telescope to a cheaterscope, also known as a don't tell-(the partner)-oscope.

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  5. Re:winter? summer? on Signs of Dark Matter From Minnesota Mine · · Score: 1
    Good link, but its just a proposal and a test at the ice cube cosmic ray experiment so far. But yes it should be duplicated there. That will take some time though, DAMA took 13 years to get a decent signal (8 sigma I believe). So by 2020, we'll have a confirmation, maybe. And even then we'll still not really know what dark matter is.

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  6. Re:The British are now like the Terrorists... on UK Pressures the US To Takedown Extremist Videos · · Score: 1

    They may be some American preachers might call death and and destruction on there foes, but Christianity, not to mention Jesus, was pretty big on turning the other cheek. Both Judism and Islam have 'eye for an eye' policies and Christianity doesn't.

  7. Extend the SQL language? on MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development · · Score: 1
    So does this mean we can custom extend the SQL language in MySQL, personally I like to be more aggregate functions, and ability to program aggregate functions at will.

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  8. Nice on 3dfx Voodoo Graphic Card Emulation Coming To DOSBox · · Score: 1

    I be able to replay the original Unreal, on an emulation of the hardware I had at the time, (actually think I had a Voodoo 2 not a 1).

  9. Re:What I want to know is... on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: 2, Funny

    but men fit even less, because function dick(), changes from private to public to not function, depending on the value of the blood alcohol variable.

  10. Re:What I want to know is... on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: 1
    Woman don't fit into a class hierarchy,

    function quim(), changing from public to private depending on weather she subclasses pornstar.

  11. Re:What I want to know is... on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: 1

    Why think of women as object? Because they keep on objecting!

  12. Re:To the early adopters - Thank you on SpaceShipTwo Flies Free For the First Time · · Score: 1
    Yes I do hope there are enough reckless millionaires willing to fly in this thing, because it will take a lot of these flight before Virgin galactic could make anything genuinely useful like a sub orbital travel, or payload/humans to orbit.

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  13. Re:I thought Orion was dead on Orion Spacecraft On the Path To Future Flight · · Score: 1
    Can't believe this weird mix of shuttle hardware could work out cheaper than a new big dumb rocket stack. I suppose the factories making shuttle tanks and solid rocket booster won't need retooling, but even so, this beasty looks much more complex than Ares.

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  14. Re:Yawn. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1
    Yes, the RHIC is a much better machine for studying the quark gluon plasma in the early universe, at least while the LHC is in photon mode. The LHC can and we be schedule to collide heavy ions like the RHIC later its in life, and with its higher energy will look at QCD at much higher energies than the RHIC.

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  15. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    Let canonise Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and reset the definition of the second, so that the world was created exactly 4004 BC! Then, One Ussher second is equal to 2.27 million SI seconds, or a 2 days and 15 hours.

  16. Re:40%! on Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Cells · · Score: 3, Informative
    Don't know where you get the 12% number from. Sun Power solar cells are already 22% efficient, while the average commercial solar cells are 17 or 18% efficient.

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  17. Re:Oh joy. *Another* photovoltaic breakthrough on Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Cells · · Score: 1
    Yes fraid so, but i'm sure your know the reason why photovoltaic technologies very important, oil running out and global warming aren't exactly new news either.

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  18. Re:The easy way out on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1
    The shouldn't be any 60Hz flicker if the power supply circuit on the transformer is made properly, couple of capacitors to smooth the voltage, and an low frequency choke would fix it.

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  19. Re:Lasers... on 9 Ideas For Coping With Space Junk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice idea, But the sharks would suffocate in space.

  20. Re:well known crackpot area on Follow Up On Solar Neutrinos and Radioactive Decay · · Score: 1
    Well you right, that until the effect is proved, a theory about it doesn't have much justification. I happen to have a theory around already with is why I look for observations (however tenuous), that might prove or disprove it. More recent to bcrowell's links, http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3318 continues to show increasingly good statistics for decay rate variations matching the sun spot cycle.

    The flare rate variation wasn't confirmed, http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2295, showed other flares did nothing

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  21. Re:well known crackpot area on Follow Up On Solar Neutrinos and Radioactive Decay · · Score: 1

    Neutrino capture should also occur, if a anti neutrino strikes a beta-decaying nucleus, (even a very low energy anti neutrino), the process, anti-v+n->p+e will occur. The cross section is low though, so we would have to postulate a very large number of low energy anti-neutrino passing though substance to see a sizeable change to the decay rate. I have examined what would happen if neutrinos and quarks, both felt an additional force, an axial force, this would lead to a background sea of neutrinos or anti-neutrinos around any element, except those with the same number of protons as neutrons. Pauli-exclusion would prevent most of these being the correct type, electron-neutrinos, in ordinary conditions. But special conditions would liberate enough extra electron-neutrinos to increase decay rates. I'll rate this up on my blog Axitronics, just as soon as I can put some definite maths, behind the above.

  22. Never ever buying one of these. on New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off · · Score: 1
    As if, my data storage, wasn't unreliable enough. A built in wipe feature, that might go wrong, is just making matters worse. If you need the data protected, encrypt it, its hard enough recovering (possibly impossible) from a lost key. Hardware wipe is definitely not needed.

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  23. Re:Yeah... on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 1
    "I follow market research on EVs as part of my job, and it's not "Young people wealthy people" who are generally determined to be the most likely buyers for electric vehicles."

    Then more adverts with Models draped over Telsa EVs, if you can't sell a car, to young men, with too much money, you can't sell anything to anyone. Plus some underground adverts with pornstars recharging there vibrators to Mr cools, new car. Also hire some rockers to redefine electric music.

  24. Re:Bose-Einstein? on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 1

    Was that written to be funny? not Bose speakers but famous physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.

  25. Re:What about dark matter stars? on Scientists Discover Biggest Star · · Score: 1
    The weight of the dark matter would increase the pressure on the star's core, increasing the burn speed of the baryons in the star, if dark matter can self annihilate though it will create enegery of its own is helping to support the star. So it very much depends on the properties of dark matter as to weather it would help a star bet the Eddington limit.

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