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  1. Re: I always thought... on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 1

    Yes, but no. They would be susceptible to the gravity, and could not be launched out of a black hole. But electricity works on more of a pump like system. And like he said, you might be able to theoretically pull the electrons out of the black hole.

    Yes you could not easily transmit back, and a battery inside of a black hole simply would not work. But if you have a huge electron pump outside of the black hole and a cable that goes in and one that comes back, you might be able to push the electrons through and back (powering the equipment).

    Still, practically, I am thinking the atoms of anything you create and put inside of a black hole would simply fall apart.

  2. Re: I always thought... on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 1

    I am no expert, but I think you are right theoretically. Practically, I think it would simply be impossible to construct anything that that would survive.

  3. Re: I always thought... on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is some debate exactly what happens when you get enough mass together to tie space-time into knots. The most important part of a black hole is really the event horizon, which is the point X distance from the center of mass of a black hole where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape. The original idea was that is was a very static place, a perfect circle.

    There is a bunch of different problems with this. Because in this universe we have the idea that mass, energy, and information cannot be lost. Something cannot just go into a black box and all knowledge of it is lost, because then information would then of been lost.

    Stephen hawking's has just come forward with the idea that it is a far more stormy area with fluctuating gravity. Which would allow this information to escape. Previously the idea was Hawking radiation, which would allow things to escape from the black whole even without fluctuation gravity.

    One of the problems of with the horizon, that someone just proposed, was that it would be so tumultuous at the edge that everything would be burned beyond recognition,. This article is about how stuff entering a BH would NOT in fact be burned beyond recognition.

  4. Re:I always thought... on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem with that is that black holes need the mass they suck in to exist.

    The mass cannot both be in the black hole and shot out the other side into a new universe.

    So unless you can come up with a theory that has black holes creating mass out of nothing, that is simply impossible.

  5. I imagine it will stay on When Cars Go Driverless, What Happens To the Honking? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I imagine that driverless cars will honk quite frequently, just to be on the safe side. They will be able to communicate silently to other car 2.0s but the old style drivers and the pedestrians will need warnings that there is a car that they might not be aware of.

  6. Re:Value on Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And the ridiculous part is this is for Linus himself. Obvious a lot of the money goes uncollected, is sounds like most of the devs who get tips probably don't even have 5 bucks yet.

  7. Re:Inability to digest milk on How Farming Reshaped Our Genomes · · Score: 1

    "97% of the time, humans have only one child at a time."
    Depends. Did the average human 100,000 years ago breastfeed until 12 years old, or until 6 months old. I doubt that we have any idea.

  8. Re:Inability to digest milk on How Farming Reshaped Our Genomes · · Score: 0

    It is possible that humans just have more babies than other primates. Size definitely does matter for milk production. We might have ridiculously enlarged breasts for primates, but we have tiny breasts compared to some other mammals.
    Possibly we are just more fertile, or more likely to use wet-nurse babysitters throughout history?
    And we have to remember, not all cultures have any interest at all in breasts. If it is not even close to universal today, we have no reason to believe that they were sexualised at all throughout history.

    Though that does not really explain why they remain so big between use.

  9. Re:Uh right. on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    If you own a shop, you are far above the average, living hand to mouth, citizen.

    And I tried to look stuff up, but I cannot find pre-WWII Jewish wealth statistics.

  10. Re:Uh right. on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am pretty sure the Nazis thought the Jews were rich, because they were rich. They hated them and thought they were trying to take over the world because they were bat-shit crazy, and needed someone to blame for all their problems.

  11. Re:Drift? on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 2

    The summery itself mentioned this. These people are unable to pay rising property taxes....

  12. Drift? on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure Americans have always been outraged when the 1% forced them out of their homes and made them move away.

    It is all well and good to allow the ultra rich to offer you anything they want for your home and land. But then they literally force you to take an offer, and one not necessarily of a fair value, or go bankrupt and lose your home; Then people have historically gotten angry.

  13. Re:So I was sitting behind a Gbus/Fbus on 85 today on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    That is a completely different ball game. You know how much work they would be adding, with insurance, and 30 times the number of busses, and now their is no room to work, and the baby crying is interrupting the meeting they are trying to have.

    That is like the worst idea I have ever heard.

  14. Re:The most egregious example of this problem... on Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches · · Score: 1

    I don't get it, how is Froslass profanity?

  15. Re:Great Firewall of China is bad enough ... on Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have elections in China.....
    They just do not have official political parties, like many other democracies.

    China is also mostly Capitalistic...

  16. Re:Similar language, describing different things on Code Is Not Literature · · Score: 2

    "Well written" and "law" is a contradiction in terms.

  17. Re:'may dissuade customers from buying items from on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 1

    Well it will all depend on who delivers your route. 50% is actually less than my broken rate. I gave up with Amazon when they could not deliver a single unbroken item to my house.

  18. Re:Bad marketing. on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking that. I have no idea what the Wii U is. For the last console launch, it was obvious, and everyone knew it was the small, cartoony, gimmicky one with the motion controls.
    Ultimately, those controls fell short of even conservative estimates of usefulness, but at least the general public knew what Nintendo was offering.
    I have no idea how the Wii U is different from the Wii, or why I would want one.

    But to be fair, I do not know much about the PS4 or Xbox One, but then I do not have to. Obviously, 99% they will just be more powerful versions of their predecessors. That is just what they do, and that it what their customers want.

  19. TrustyCon on RSA Boycot Group Sets Up Rival Conference · · Score: 1

    With a name like that, what is not to trust?

  20. What is the difference between a duck? on Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview · · Score: 3, Funny

    "How would you move a mountain using only a spoon?
      If you were in a box, how would you think outside it?
      Last question: What is the difference between a duck?"

  21. Re:'may dissuade customers from buying items from on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 1

    I saw that. But I strongly prefer email. Do you actually get a person, with the power to do stuff if you/they call?
    Considering the ridiculously algorithmic responses I got through email I was guessing that they might just have a service with voice recognition and speech capabilities for the phone.

    And you are not trying if Amazon is considered pretty good service. In real companies you get to talk with charming, profession people, who customizes every message and who have the power to grant/customise anything they like.

  22. 'may dissuade customers from buying items from on' on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 0, Troll

    I will tell you what dissuades me from buying from Amazon, the the 50% broken package delivery rate, and that their "Customer Service" is just a robotic platitude response system. I have tried, there is no way to actually talk to a real person, or to get anything else but one of a few algorithmic responses.

  23. This is stupid on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 2

    With predictive algorithms and loads of local warehouses, which they already have or are building, they can already give you same day/next day delivery.

    What are they going to do? Predict to the exact minute you order something, a day or two in advance, and have the package arrive within the hour of order? That is the only way they could do better than they are already doing.

    And it seems to me, if you are going to try this predictive ordering, you put the merchandise on the trucks, but do not actually deliver it that day unless you get the order before drop off. It would not cost any more money to put a few boxed of popular good on trucks, and drive them around all day, and update the drivers schedule on the go with new orders. You do not even have to predict individual people, just groups, which is actually doable and easy.

  24. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Normally, I think you get a choice. When I read up on it, cannot remember if it was a specific state or Canada, you had your choice of injection, stabbing by 5 men, Shot, and I think hung might of been in there as well.

  25. Re: It's about time! on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 0

    Since when are power hungry, bullies, with a history of abuce of power, the "good guys".