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  1. What's the big deal? on Storing Photons In a Solid State Device · · Score: 1

    I can store a photon for several seconds by sending it through a medium in which the speed of light is different from the speed in the original medium. Maybe I should patent all known mediums that light can travel through as potential storage devices for photons.

  2. Re:It's a scam by Elsevier WRT bundling subscripti on Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics · · Score: 1

    You mean something like this? Arxiv

  3. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    It's been done. Fort Collins, Colorado. College students took the plates off the camera-radar van and put it on their car, then sped past the device multiple times wearing halloween masks. The police got several tickets mailed to themselves and then figured it out.

    An even better story is the man who got a ticket+photo in the mail so he sent a photo of a check in the amount of the fine to the police. The police sent back a photo of hand-cuffs. The man then paid the fine.

  4. Re:Novell already did this on New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video · · Score: 1

    and you can count on my phhbbblltttt(scuse me!).

  5. Re:Huh?x10 on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    How is water a greenhouse gas? I thought Co2 is because it's lighter than most molecules so it stays in the upper atmosphere and reflects light back down to Earth, whereas H2o condenses and falls back to Earth. So water may reflect light back down to Earth but it eventually goes away due to condensation, but Co2 never condenses

  6. Re:A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Publ on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Need I mention that their wear too mispled worlds? Behinds, you cans till incinerate them eaning thouh even that for the speeling not correcting and tense, as it were, however, correcting will exhaperate.

    So their!!

  7. Re:Installing Eavesdropping Equipment on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    Fiber is easy to tap. It's all mirrors and beam-splitters. Sort of like you see on those bank-heist movies where they defeat the laser-grids by redirecting the laser with mirrors. Pass the light through a beam-splitter and it reduces the transmission energy(#of photons) but not the frequency. Even better, you could pass the photons into an amplifier and output the same signal strength to 2 lines. The real problem with the conspiracy theories is that you'd then need to run a second cable to carry the intercepted data and power the tap device.

    It's probably just like they say, a ship dropped anchor and broke the line, however it could be a wiretap effort that failed, but it will eventually be discovered as such.

  8. Re:Cross Country Links? on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    All IP traffic would be rerouted through other links that are up until they become saturated and the queue time exceeds the TTL(time-to-live) for the packets. Eventually, the majority of packets will time out and be discarded. critical services will adjust their ttl to compensate and eventually complete their transfers.

    As far as VOIP goes, you would get really bad jitter; this is when you don't get all the packets you need in time to play back the audio. It sounds like, well, either a drunk person or badly synthesized speech; and the delay can be several seconds... "Houston this is Dallas, Over"...wait 3 seconds... "Dallas this is Houston, Go ahead, Over"...

  9. Mirrors on your Monitor on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    Put convex mirrors on your monitor. They're available at any auto store. Then you can see when people are looking over your shoulder and hit alt-tab to switch from porn to boring corporate software like outlook.

  10. Mac OS is a bad choice on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    I believe you'd be better off with Linux. You can lock down the user interface more than a Mac. It's less maintenance work for you and less legal liability. It also affords your users freedom to run their own stuff in a sandbox.

  11. Re:none on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    At AT&T we bypassed all internet filtering in minutes. We were part of an experimental group tasked with bypassing parental control software. 50% of us had porn on the screen in 10 minutes or less. Within an hour we figured out how to disable the software completely.I think I was 18 years old at the time.

  12. Re:Think Different! on 2009, Year of the Linux Delusion · · Score: 1

    Might want to try the more recent versions. I'm on a laptop with all the bells and whistles, multiple NICs, multiple LAN configs, all kinds of security keys, multiple DB servers, web server, programming environment, graphics enviro, multimedia all working, p2p, etc. Heck I even have VOIP working with video-calls! I think you want a Ubuntu multi-verse install to keep everything in sync. I've been through 2 upgrades in 2+ years, 4 major disk recoveries, several recoveries with evolution contacts and calendars, several recoveries with firefox, and I've never lost any data and my system has never been reinstalled. Just stick to the rules of putting everything in your home folder, install everything through apt/synaptic, use strong passwords, etc. In a way, Ubuntu comes with a sort of "undo" functionality in which you can track what's been installed, reverse or correct changes, and upstream fixes always propagate to your system. If an app isn't in the distros, there's a darned good reason and you're better off waiting for the "official" release. If you absolutely insist on running something you need which isn't supported, there is a HUGE community to draw upon for help. Is that all clear?

  13. Re:Think Different! on 2009, Year of the Linux Delusion · · Score: 1

    What's not dependable? I've NEVER experienced a gui crash in Gnome/X11 since Ubuntu came out...

  14. Re:Think Different! on 2009, Year of the Linux Delusion · · Score: 1

    Try rdp for linux. You can run remote desktops on windows boxes with it and it has more features. Also, the newest(8.10) version of Ubuntu has native VPN support in the Network Manager.You don't need to run XP in a VM at all!

  15. Re:Developers section red now ? on 64-Bit Java For Linux · · Score: 1

    The main problem was the java and flash plugins for firefox. Now people can run 64 bit firefox with all the plugins. You still probably can't decode certain codecs that are only 32-bit... sigh

  16. Re:No compatibility problems? on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Word sucks. I used Open Office for 5 minutes and never looked back or used Word again. Anytime I deal with Micro$oft drones I just send a PDF. If they want to see my original document so they can plagiarize it, they have to use Open Office because their little Word program can't open a standardized format.

  17. Re:latex on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    It's sort of like OSX="Oh Sex!" and OOoLatex="Ooh, Latex!". Not sure about dmaths...

  18. Re:NOT all open source on Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps · · Score: 1

    SugarCRM isn't really open source. It's more of "get you hooked so you buy the full version" trial-ware. The fact that they exclude 50% of the Pro version in the Open version makes for a largely unusable system after installation, unless all you want to do is data entry into a web form. Forget about payment processing, invoicing, accounting, shipping, etc.

  19. Re:Get a lawyer. on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    is IANAL like I-ROBOT?

  20. Re:the short hairs. on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    D00d that is s0 3l33t3! Now how did you do it?

  21. Re:Conservation of energy on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Yeah where the hell are our sex robots?

  22. Re:Video on Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you believe this, I have a desktop cold-fusion device that you can buy for $25.

  23. Re:Riddle me this on 3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine · · Score: 1

    Because the merger would require approval by the Securities and Exchanges Commission. Any child corporation(subsidiary) would be subject to review. But you do have a valid point and this does happen all the time(ahem Pharmaceuticals).

  24. Re:I was wondering why LCD prices weren't at $350 on 3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine · · Score: 1

    Duh! Because it's more than double the size! Ever try to make a 42" liquid crystal array? Probably takes a lot of material and really big vacuum pump whereas a 20" can use the existing lineups and a lot less material.

  25. Re:Hmmmm on 3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine · · Score: 1

    Really? Where exactly is there unclaimed land that a human can live on? I'd love to drop out of civilization and move there!