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  1. Misleading summary on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 2

    It is not theoretically possible to both capture a single photon as both a wave and particle simeltaneously. What they have done is show a set of thousands (millions?) of electron photon interactions at the same instant in time arranged on 2 axis. Basically the lower and slower lumps become particles and the upper smoother lines show waves. So its neat and a first for light waves afaik but misleading as it is not a photo of a single photon.

  2. New ways to protect privacy are needed! on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 1
    We need to make laws to force the public to stop making inquiries as it's seriously imposing undue police and government right to privacy. We need to incarcerate these people and lock them up for twice as long as people who get caught smoking a joint - yes for life!!!

    /sarcasm

  3. Re:Sell any stock before they launch this... on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    To be fair the Abrahamic religions actually do overlap in many - perhaps the majority - of their cosmological beliefs.

    Only if you assume very vague details. When actually questioned in a explicit way, very little actually overlaps. For example is god one entity or three? How about Jesus - prophet or god or neither? When you go beyond a handful of vague agreements you find that there is very little overlap indeed. In fact even within a specific religion or sect it varies by region and even church to church. The whole idea of a personal god, which pretty much always translates into god being exactly as the observer prefers, renders any objective universal coherence invalid.

  4. Re:Sell any stock before they launch this... on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    There is no evidence outside the bible of Jesus. You would have thought with all the miracles, dead comming back to life, and trouble making someone would have noticed. The name Jesus wasn't even invented untill hundreds of years after the new testament was written - it was closer to Joshua in the original Greek that it was written in. Even then no records exist. The authors are actually not who they claim to be, even religous scholars agree on this. Therefore everything is a fiction and false. Yes the original comment was a bit tongue in cheek but if EVERY SINGLE falsifiable fact in the bible is proven wrong, tens of thousands of them, and zero are substantiated, then yes you are intellectually dishonest for beleiving the rantings of a syphilus addled brain bronze age goat herder over repeatable experiment you can see with your own eyes. You obviously don't believe in Thor or thousands of other gods. Have the balls to go just one more.

  5. Re:Sell any stock before they launch this... on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    Ok ok, I'll grant a few true facts on religious websites - such as we had a potluck last Wednesday. But the vast majority of claims are false. My god man they all conflict - Christians, Jews, Muslims - the overlap in concensus is tiny and the facts backing up what is agreed on are basically nonexistent. It takes a seriously intellectually dishonest mind to believe that one must be right at the expense of all the rest. Even more so when you ignore the mountains of facts that show religious revelation false.

  6. Re:Sell any stock before they launch this... on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    Rational people may think so but the stock price is based on the people who use google services. Stupid people make up a majority of most business models. Id expect a large backlash.

  7. Sell any stock before they launch this... on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1, Troll

    I mean imagine if they *really* did push down pages with incorrect facts!!!?! ALL religious websites - all homeopathy websites - Fox News all down at the bottom. Not to mention how they would handle irony - it would actually be sad to see sites like The Onion punished. It's a nice idea but would require human level strong AI to automate and it still wouldn't be obvious where to draw the line.

  8. Re:Relatively high temp... on Physicists May Be One Step Closer To Explaining High-Temp Superconductivity · · Score: 1

    No superconductor can carry unlimited current. Every one known or predicted has a threshold that, if exceeded, causes a breakdown of superconducting. Under many circumstances of high currents the resulting heat buildup destroys the superconductor.

  9. Re:Omg, my GF talked to me about it on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 1

    Lmafo yes the same happened to me +1000

  10. What the heck are they doing??!? on Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option · · Score: 1

    I mean after the last bit of dirt, bot, scum, and abuse is removed - well heck they might as well remove the brain cripplingly stupid comments too and finish shutting down the whole operation.

  11. Google changes stance on Google Reverses Stance, Allows Porn On Blogger After Backlash · · Score: 1

    'Takes it in another direction' should have been the title.

  12. Re:Utilities on Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware · · Score: 2

    The wheel is one of the most patented devices ever. People reinvent the wheel every day, from new reinforcement designs, to air pressure sensor systems, to folding systems for robots, to electric powered rims for ebikes. As a patent holder for two different wheel based inventions your careless use of a metaphor deeply offends me. Please think of all the hard won innovation and freedom the wheel has given you before you disrespect it so much. Brought to you by the let's roll with a better metaphor department.

  13. Re:It's a body transplant, not a head transplant.. on Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away · · Score: 1

    The first thing they need to do is start calling it a body transplant, not a head transplant. The living person got a new body, the dead person did not get a new head.

    Pat

    Reminds me of George Carlins' near miss routine.

  14. The sad state of climate science on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1
    For a problem that is going to impact everything from rising ocean levels to farming - people should want to know exactly what is going to happen - if humans are responsible or not.

    If oceans rise just 5 feet it's going to take tens to hundeds of trillions dollars to do things like move entire cities or create flood barriers. Increases In salinity and changes in rainfall can lead to completely redoing the water supply for entire regions which in turn can completely alter the manner of agriculture in each region. Increased storm activity can take a toll also.

    It may look like the US spent 22B in climate research but actual research dollars were only 2.5B of that amount. The global women's shoe market is 80B whereas the global soccer (football) market is much larger. I have done some research and found we spend more yearly on the two than all of climate research ever done since the beginning of science. For a problem with such a high likelihood of being plausible its pretty damn insane more hasn't been done to understand and map the problem. I would not be suprised if the cost of dealing with a changing climate exceeded one quadrillion usd dollars within only 150 years.

    We need more satellites that map various temperatures (including ocean), land use, cloud cover, and co2 distributions. We need more studies and data on glaciers - autonomous sensors everywhere. Same goes for ocean currents - also temperatures from deeper that you may not get from satellite. We need better climate models that let us accurately predict the changes that are likely - region by region - something current models struggle with. We cant feed those better models with better data, or more accurately check predictions because we lack the means of acquiring better data. Ultimately, in 100years or so, there may be serious wars fought over the redistribution of wealth that a changing climate will force on us all.

  15. The Inquisition (Let's begin) on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    The Inquisition (Look out sin)!

  16. No real maximum as stated exists on 12-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Discovered · · Score: 1

    Yes it is true if you assume things like the material is gas, it has random slow motion initially, etc. Then yes you can derive an upper limit based on the balance of radiation pressure and gravity. For special cases unlikely to happen in reality, such as artificial configurations of matter or thought experiment cases, this upper limit is much higher. For example if you fed a black hole neutrinos how would they significantly heat and spread compared to gas? They would not and you could feed a black hole many orders of magnitude more mass if you had a sufficent source of neutrinos. The same goes for electromagnetic radiation of most any kind. Or carefully slow a spinning black hole and feed it large amounts of solid matter such that it tends to not form any accretion disk. Again you can feed it orders of magnitude more matter than the theoretical limit.

  17. Re:Even if you accept that new jobs will be create on 5 White Collar Jobs Robots Already Have Taken · · Score: 1

    I suppose another alternative is a massive depopulation of the human species on earth. That can easily be accomplished if the struggle for wealth distribution devolves into war.

    At least war is something that humans with few weapons/resources afforded to them are much more effective at than self replicating robot armies decked out with the latest military hardware.

  18. No one is focusing on co2 as a pollutant on The Best, and Worst, Places To Drive Your Electric Car · · Score: 1
    If (local/state/nation) governments were focusing, all vehicles that had a low co2/distance rating per region would get subsidy. This would make diesels the best bet because they are by far the cheapest co2 reduction per dollar spent. People/governments have a limited amount of money, we should do the most good with it.

    go ahead flamod me as I crashed in flames on the last ev article, but yes if you live in a few select areas (80% of the world dosent) or have a custom solar installation then yes electric is the best for the enviorment. Power plants take decades to plan and build it's likely your area has no plans on upgrading (mine dosent). Hybrids are great co2/dist but still cost too much - around half of people can't spend 30k a car. However give the same 7-10k subsidy to a clean diesel - a 5k usd diesel would get everyone lining up to buy.

  19. Re:Electric not the answer on The Best, and Worst, Places To Drive Your Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Do your calculations include the cost of a replacement battery?

  20. The lesson here - most revenue streams are yellow on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    Great to source, not so great to recieve. Unless you are really into that kind of thing.

  21. Re:Google Cardboard on Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets · · Score: 1

    IANAPA but from my take, yes thr cardboard units are infringing. Granted I only read the claims in apples patent once the first time around when it was posted a few days ago.

  22. 4 ruined kickstarter projects on Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My last rough count of ruined kickstarter projects is 4. Few things are sadder than a multibillion dollar international company serving cease and desist letters to fledgling startups who operated in good faith with due diligence. Ahh apple, will you use your 6+ to capture the exact moment you broke that 22yr old business owners heart?

  23. Re:This fails the obvious test on Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets · · Score: 1

    Apple arguably has the best layer dream team in the world. With these things it comes down to money, not facts or laws. Also with that 2008 filing date 7 years ago they should be able to patent troll with the best.

  24. Re:shouldnt be legal on Human DNA Enlarges Mouse Brains · · Score: 1

    Naw not frankensteinish at all. They didn't even use any bolts. It's more of A island of DR. Moreau kind of mad scientist experiment.

  25. Gatacca - coming to a country near you! on Human DNA Enlarges Mouse Brains · · Score: 1
    Voted #1 most realistic movie of all time, gatacca may become reality. http://news.moviefone.com/2011...

    Far from a fear of genetic tampering, bigger boobs and blonde hair will quickly devolve into less important things like health, lifespan, and more intelligence. But don't worry my non-augmented friends, while you won't be able to vote, hold a job, or hold any preferred life form rights, our kind masters still allow us to serve them. Isn't that enough?