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  1. Re:Requires insanely cold temps? on Physicists Improve Spin Information Storage · · Score: 1

    There is that, but equally for applications that require no magnetic field, things that are hot have lots of energy. Energetic particles bouncing around everywhere couple to your meticulously-set-up experiment to the environment, destroying your isolated system and removing the quantum effects you're utilizing.

    For quantum computing, one of the requirements specified by the di Vincenzo criteria are long decoherence times. Heat seriously reduces those.

  2. Re:Strikers Vow on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The 1950s called, they want their red scare back.

    Seriously though, you need to get a grip. People who are ill are by definition less able than those around them. Why should it fall to them to help themselves? Do you actually just strive for the destruction of society? If so, there's a group of people in the Middle East who'd love to hear from you.

    We have national healthcare in the UK, and, having had both parents working within it for 25 years apiece, it's not slavery. Are the police slaves? The fire department? Your logic is flawed.

    Laukei

  3. Re:Why not last fm on Microsoft Readies a Rival To Spotify · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last.fm, at least in the UK (I'm not sure about in the US) doesn't allow you to create playlists, or listen to one song over and over an unlimited amount of times. Nor does it allow you to listen, start to finish, to an album.

    Spotify does. As previously stated by someone in the comments, it's basically just iTunes with a massive, cloud-stored library of music that plays as soon as you click it (the buffering is completely unnoticeable.)

    Laukei

  4. 7-digit UID? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Woot for being a member of the 7-digit UID club! Sigh.

  5. Re:Doesn't make sense on UK Conservatives Slammed Over Open Source Stance · · Score: 1

    The Tories aren't the current government. Labour are.

  6. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Prior to 9/11 I was < 12. Everyone's pretty optimistic when they're that young.

    ~Rob

  7. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every day I read comments online about the UK going to hell via 1984... and every day I find new evidence to back up these claims.

    It's an awful state of affairs when academics are being prosecuted under terror legislation.

    I've lost all faith in the the UK and US governments since 9/11.

    ~Rob

  8. Re:Yay on UK Uses CCTV, Terrorism Laws, Against Pooping Dogs · · Score: 1

    It's precisely this blase disregard for privacy that allows totalitarian government to emerge from liberal democracies.

    "Oh, I don't mind if my right to not be spied upon is infringed, because they're fixing some minor niggle!"

    Congratulations. In one sentence you've summed up the reason Britain (and many other countries) are going to shit.

    Laukei

  9. Re:Love the guilt laden language they use... on UK ISP Says No To Music Industry Pressure · · Score: 2, Informative

    EU law overrides any laws of the country. It's the priniciple of supremacy of the EU. If a member state contravenes EU law it can be punished with fines.

    Oh, and IANAL.

  10. Re:Not Steil and Domke on Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5YB1Mmx7E4

    A video of the talk... perhaps the person in it is the one you refer to?

    Rob

  11. Re:Hmm on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 1

    Are metachlorians the tags that describe your midi-chlorians?

    Need information Yoda does indeed.

  12. Name change? on Google Loses Gmail Trademark Case · · Score: 3, Informative

    They call it Googlemail in Germany, and the UK, where the name Gmail was owned by another company. Pre-existing @gmail.com addresses registered by UK users were left as they were, while new signups changed to @googlemail.com.

  13. Re:what will happen on Google Shareholders Reject Censorship Proposal · · Score: 1

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6598787.stm
    Baidu is already bigger than Google in China.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5108778.stm
    Google used to own 2.6% of them, too.

    -Rob