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  1. Re:Non-linear gravity on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    The Universe is 13.8bil years old and has a diameter of 91bil light years. Explain that. CBR is uniform, which requires inflation, or requires some truly absurd assumptions to make it work.

  2. Re:Non-linear gravity on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 2

    We know about Dark Energy because objects are moving away from us faster than light. Since it is impossible for something to move through space faster than c, then more space must be getting created. If space is being created, and objects are receding away from us at a known rate, then we can calculate the amount of energy required.

    A change to gravity does not work because we have already measured the gravity at these ranges to be within 99.9% of the expected values. Advancements in optics and sensors has allowed us to measure minute changes in red shifts and detect curved paths that light takes. Mix all of this together and you can measure gravity quite accurately. It's working as expected. Even worse, we're able to see the gravity but unable to see the matter causing it.

  3. Re:We don't need density! We need longer life! on Toshiba Announces 3D Flash With 48 Layers · · Score: 1

    So you're writing about 10TB/day for 90 days strait? That's impressive.

  4. Re:Users are *bad* at choosing passwords on Many Password Strength Meters Are Downright Weak, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    Assuming 100 random chars from a 96 char alphabet, that is 658bits of rng. That is 8.9e+43 times bigger than what a 512bit hash can support. Overkill much?

  5. Re:Still waiting for a "hackability meter" on Many Password Strength Meters Are Downright Weak, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    So super computer can break a 20 char password that is limited to the 96 chars you can type on a standard USA keyboard. 96^20 is a big number.

  6. Re:Yep on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 1

    When I start at my current job many years back, I was an excitable young person and found myself sometimes working one projects after work because some of them were fun to me. I got scolded by my manager for not relaxing when I got home. If he felt you were working more than 40 hours, he'd give you forced time off with pay, like a half-day or something. Salaried, so he's just tell you to not come in or to go home.

    I've changed over the years, I just head home at the end of the day, my mind needs to relax, but I got a lot more useful work done during the work day.

  7. Re: Yep on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 1

    Cheap programmers just mean seat warmers. They're a body with a degree that passed HR's checklist, but that's about it.

  8. Re:Suck it Millenials on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 1

    I learned to type in IRC, then further refined in Warcraft and Starcraft as you needed to communicate with your team.

  9. Re:I'm keeping my genes! on The One Thousand Genes You Could Live Without · · Score: 2

    There are fully healthy XX males. Not too common, but there are cases where nearly all of the genes from the Y have been transcribed to the X. We have yet to have found a fertile XX male, but it's only because they lack the gene to allow sperm to swim. Move that gene over and we're good to go. Then everyone could be XX.

  10. Re:Not faultless on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 2

    He should have had it in writing.

  11. Re:We should lobby to break the cable companies on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 3, Informative

    Middle of nowhere? He lives in a county with 250k people and about an average of 650 people per square mile. My county has roughly twice the area and 1/3rd as many people and access to gig fiber through most of the county.

  12. Re:No deadly force to protect property on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 1

    In many areas of the USA, a threat to your property is a threat to your person.

  13. Re:Check their work or check the summary? on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the flushed after the fact

    writer = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter("test.txt"));
    startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    for (int i=0; i < numIter; i++) {
    writer.write(addString);
    }
    writer.flush();
    writer.close();

  14. Re:Stupid is as stupid publishes.... on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They should follow best practices and use StringBuilder and rerun their tests.

  15. Re:It depends on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. What they're saying is it's faster to write data strait to disk than to copy that data around in memory, then write it do disk. In other words, A is less than A + B

  16. Re:Does fosters beer on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 1

    It seems a bit much for me to swallow that this single study is going to refute decades of many studies all at once. Who cares for everyone else is saying moderate consumption is good, they're all wrong. Soon we'll find out that fruits really aren't that good for us because they have sugar in them. The new recommendation is to never eat any fruits.

    I want to see more research on the subject.

  17. Re:Great idea... on Energy Company Trials Computer Servers To Heat Homes · · Score: 1

    But it gets to run full blast 24/7 for the other half of the year.

  18. Re:Here's MY test on A Bechdel Test For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    3rd option, most of the male programmers are not needed. Remove all bad programmers and I bet you'll be left with a roughly 50/50 split of male/female on who is left.

    Random Male Programmer: I was told to go to college after I graduated, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I figured programming would be easy money, so here I am. What do you mean my algorithm is O(n^3) and doesn't validate user input? How would a user give wrong input? I only give valid options in the HTML drop-down.

    Yeah, get rid of the mouth breathers and we'll have a better ratio.

  19. Re: Nothing new on Gaming On Linux With Newest AMD Catalyst Driver Remains Slow · · Score: 1

    Intel is also more efficient. All I know is the high end AMD CPUs that compete with the high end Intel CPUs, have about a 250watt TDP, while Intel is about 100. The TDP of the AMD CPU is greater than my CPU and GPU put together, and my CPU is about the same in performance.

  20. Re:It supports it just fine, article is BS on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the public NTP pool is up to 30ms off. I have NEVER had all of my public pool server agree at the same time, there has always been at least one that is way off.

  21. Re:PHP is fine on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not the languages fault, ehh? sounds like a lawyer cop-out for bad design. The owner's manual clearly states that if you put on your turn signal while slowing down, the radio station is at 98.6fm and the temperature outside is between 42f and 50f, the car will deploy the air bags. Clearly the user is at fault for not being ready for airbag deployment.

  22. Re:It has an acronym , so it will fail. on Obama To Announce $240M In New Pledges For STEM Education · · Score: 2

    Learning to code, isn't about knowing the silly commands, but training your mind into solving problems by breaking them down into elementary instructions.

    I've never met a person who learned to think this way, only people who have always thought this way.Most people will at most learn is the concept, but will rarely actually learn how to think that way. Like any artist, programmers see the world differently. Learning to imitate great painters doesn't make you an artist. A photocopier can do that.

    I'm not saying people can't learn to think this way, I'm saying that anyone can be an Olympian, but many do not have the determination that it takes. If you're born with the innate curiosity to want to solve problems, you will devote yourself to breaking down problems, and you will do this all the time for nearly everything, giving you massive amounts of experience from an early age. Then you will get everyone else that gets dropped into a required class and have no real interest. They may have the potential, but unless they start practicing all the time, they will gain almost nothing. When confronted with a problem, people will use what they are most familiar, and unless they exercise their ability to breakdown problems to the point of at least par usefulness to what they've been doing all of their life, they will revert to their own way.

    Compared to someone who has been doing this their whole life, everyone else thinks like they grew up in a sensory deprivation tank.

  23. Re:It has an acronym , so it will fail. on Obama To Announce $240M In New Pledges For STEM Education · · Score: 1

    You can be good at communicating ideas and concepts, but not good at communicating the "normal" way. I can talk blue in the face trying to describe a complex issue, but a few diagrams on a white board and the idea is conveyed.

  24. Re:"Drama of mental illness" on Child Psychotherapist: Easy and Constant Access To the Internet Is Harming Kids · · Score: 1

    He was saying that from what is being told, we can't tell if it's better diagnosis or an actual increase. Yes, more people are going to the hospital, but it doesn't mean there are more people that need to go the hospital.

  25. Re:Doesn't smoke or drink or have tattoos on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Most people who do those do those to be "cool", not because they like to do them.