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  1. Re:Where do you get your Internet? on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    netflix is great, almost blu ray quality

    My wife is not that picky when it comes to quality, but a side-by-side of a regular 720p dvd to Netflix HD puts Netflix to shame, yet alone BluRay's 1080p. I have not have the privilege of Netflix' Super HD.

  2. Re:no shit on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because TPB has instant streaming, good recommendations, integrates as an instant streaming source for all of my house-hold devices, and has a lovely children's mode? TPB is only a good deal if you don't value your time or you just can't find something you want somewhere else for a decent price or ease of access.

  3. Re:Consciousness is a network effect on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 1

    I can't find the original article that I read, but here's something http://synapticscoop.com/2013/08/01/surprising-brain-scan-of-individual-living-with-walking-corpse-syndrome/

    It seems I may have mixed up "Vegetative Coma" and "Vegetative State". Either way, interesting stuff.

  4. Re:Consciousness does not define life or death on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 1

    We still need a way to have high certainty that the loss of consciousness is irreversible for the current person. We have a hard enough time telling if someone is currently conscious, yet alone if they can regain it once lost.

  5. Re:Consciousness is a network effect on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 1

    There was a recent article on someone with "Walking Corpse Syndrome" who got a MRI, and their brain had the same signature as that of someone in a vegetative coma, yet the person was clearly conscience. They were baffled how this person was even able to function on the most primitive levels, yet alone communicate.

  6. Re:The problem with dark matter on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 1

    And what are you using to prove that Dark Matter is not here in our solar system?

  7. Re:The problem with dark matter on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Until dark matter can be directly, or indirectly but consistently detected (e.g. we can take a bunch of dark matter and move it around, if it doesn't move it is a property of that particular region of space, not something contained in it), dark matter stays as an abstraction that helps our formulas to explain, pardon, model gravitational interactions.

    Same thing can be said about gravity.

  8. Re:The problem with dark matter on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 1

    We're looking for a particle with mass. Dark Matter by definition has to have mass. It is the one absolute requirement.

  9. Re:The problem with dark matter on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 1

    What about gravitational lensing in empty space? You did not address that part at all.

  10. Re:The problem with dark matter on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Blackholes tend to have mass around them, not off on their own, and they have a lot of lensing near them, then it drops off quickly, while the lensing they're observing is much more evenly distributed, like a lot of matter spread all over.

  11. Re:Relativistic space under tension? on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Time-dilation caused by gravity is more of an issue near the surface of objects than that of objects moving through space. While an individual object, like a star within a galaxy, may have high dilation, it's motion through the galaxy will be relatively unaffected. Which is why black-holes orbit similar to any other object, even though "time has stopped" for them.

    The only real distortion of space that matters is that caused by the average distortion caused too all space within the galaxy, which is quite weak.

    I am not a scientist

  12. Re:General relativity on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 1

    That still does not explain empty space having detectable mass in the form of gravitational lensing.

  13. Re:The problem with dark matter on Examining the Expected Effects of Dark Matter On the Solar System · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean how this stuff is 100% transparent to all known frequencies from radio to gamma? Please, tell me what matter you know of that is 100% transparent to all forms of radiation. Enlighten us all knowing one.

    Yes, we know, 100% that is is transparent. There are HUGE spots in the sky where there is gravitational lensing affecting background galaxies, but no obstructions in front of the galaxies. Something is causing the gravity, but it is letting the background light through perfectly clearly, minus the lensing.

    We're not talking about small amounts of gravity either, whole galaxy masses worth. If you had a galaxy worth of gravitational lensing, you'd hope to find something causing it. Instead the background light comes through crystal clear, like nothing is there.. hmmmm...

  14. Re:might be end of the line too on Extreme Ultraviolet Chip Manufacturing Process Technology Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    I hate it when electrons randomly tunnel out of a transistor, changing its value.

  15. Re:RSA = out of date on Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    You are correct, comparing AES to RSA is like comparing GPUs to CPUs and claiming one is better than the other. They solve different problems.

  16. Re:Japanese Military on Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 · · Score: 1

    The best defense is a strong offense, so Japan is allowed to have strong offensive ability, so long as the preemptively attack someone who is about to attack them, because it's in defense. Political logic! As long as Japan is at least 51% or more sure.

  17. Re:Dictatorial software on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 2

    FF is inherently unusable as a browser because it eats all of my memory when I leave 30 tabs opened for a few days at a time.

  18. Re:still don't get why I'm supposed to be excited on Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry's First 3D NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    I think 256GB for $80 will make SSDs everywhere.

  19. Re:orly? on Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry's First 3D NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    I remember the last time they got convicted of price fixing, everyone was selling memory at a loss. Competition was so high that they all decided they no longer wanted to sell for a loss, so they all agreed to increase prices at the same time.

    One of the few times I agreed with price fixing. Damn those prices were soooo cheap at the time.

  20. Re:10D on Samsung Begins Mass Production of Industry's First 3D NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    States are a power of two. Most MLC are 2 bits and TLC are 3 bits. MLC can be lots of bits, but the total number of states will be 2^(number of bits)

  21. Re:Why not? on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mandatory minimum sentencing. Just another word for REVENGE! There is no justice.

  22. Re:This is what MIT students do for research? on MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys · · Score: 1

    Everything is 20/20 in hindsight.

  23. Re:Unfortunately on MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys · · Score: 1

    Electronic locks... now the NSA will have a backdoor into your door.

  24. Re:I'll say it on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    Which are great points until you realize that Qualcomm targets lots of lower power systems that have almost no reason to run many threads and graphics can be done on a much more efficient GPU.

  25. Re:Little difference anymore between PC/console on QuakeCon 2013: Carmack On Next-Gen Console Hardware · · Score: 1

    The newer architectures are using newer designs that scale well. It should be trivial to just add better textures and increase special effects on the desktop version.