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  1. Re:statistics fail on Neutrino Data Could Spell Trouble For Relativity · · Score: 1

    I would agree with this statement if you append your original statement to say "An experiment conducted this way would find more muon antineutrinos than muon neutrinos disappear 95% of the time, if our experimentally derived parameters are exactly correct." If no such assumption is made, you can't make any statement about how often an experiment would find a discrepancy. If, for example, there were no actual discrepancy, the experiment would only find one 5% of the time. In other words, while the true value is stationary, both the experimentally derived value and the confidence interval are not.

    Quick! Prepend "A means of..." and append "...on the internet." to this statement and patent it!

    In other words, I'm whoosh!-ing myself.

  2. Re:People still bank at Chase? on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surely switching is easy. You turn up and say "Give me all of my money, I'm closing my account." and they give you all of your money. You then go to a competing bank with a couple of forms of ID and say "I'd like to open an account, here's all of my money."

    Oh, you mean people are too lazy to switch? Well, that's different...

  3. Re:What does being a widow have to do with anythin on Verizon Charged Marine's Widow an Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    In the UK, early termination costs you the total sum of your contract period minus VAT, at least on Orange.

    There's no ETF, because the cost of the contract easily covers the price of the handset, and then some. Often, you pay up-front for a top of the range handset anyway.

  4. Re:Just because you've suffered some bad luck.. on Verizon Charged Marine's Widow an Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    These folk must get scalped by the RIAA legal team all the time.

  5. Re:120 days seems too long on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 1

    Regarding your signature, I bet you get a lot of flack for lacking the knack to crack the stack. You hack and you hack, alas and alack, yet without the knack you'll never crack that stack.

    This was a Dr. Seuss poem, wasn't it?

  6. Re:ISPs on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 1

    I've found the best way to cut off the internet is to unplug the cable. I'm pretty sure that the "Internet Kill Switch" will be a little red button activating a relay which quite simply turns off the fibre converters.

  7. Re:Good idea in theory... on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 1

    There should be a last line of defense for important computer systems throughout the nation (military, government, essential services like water and electricity, emergency services). It's called an Air Gap.

    Wait, we already have an Air Gap between essential systems and the internet? (Except NASA and the US army, according to Mr McKinnon). You mean... Joe Terr'rist can't fire up his Mac and shut down the entire power grid to the US from Iraq? Was Die Hard 4.0 a total brain fuck?

    What about mobile data and satellite?

  8. Re:I'm sick of ads in games I've paid for on APB To Use In-Game Audio Advertisements · · Score: 2, Funny

    I made the argument of wasted bandwidth on the ZIP+4 story, which I think was posted yesterday.

    I've just realised something. The amount of bandwidth that image takes up is more than likely comparable to the increased quantity of fuel consumed by having to carry around that "Bought from Hugenboffs Honda, Surrey" sticker on your rear windscreen. If you don't have those in the US, then the cost of carrying the surround on your vanity plate.

    Tell me, will you go to the Ford dealership and demand that they stop putting stickers in the rear of their cars because it wastes your fuel?

  9. Re:ads should only have a place in free products on APB To Use In-Game Audio Advertisements · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The day the BBC shows an advertisement is the day they stop getting my TV license fee.

    As far as this game goes; Meh. Never heard of it before now. Can't be that big of a deal.

  10. Re:40 centimeters square? on 1,400 Megapixel Pan-STARRS Telescope Comes Online · · Score: 1

    A centimetre is a measure of length. Therefore a square centimetre is a centimetre horizontally, and a centimetre vertically, making one centimetre square. 40 centimetre square is 40 centimetres horizontally, and 40 centimetres vertically. It gives you one dimension (horizontal) and the "square" implies the shape of the object, so the second dimension is also 40cm.

    It's a 1600cm^2 sensor.

  11. Re:That's what they said about CD-Rs on SanDisk WORM SD Card Can Store Data For 100 Years · · Score: 1

    That data isn't just going to magically appear.

    True. That would be quantum teleportation.

    (Yes, I know that quantum teleportation isn't about actually teleporting something somewhere else. Hush now.)

  12. Re:Next Step on Rats Breathe Air From Lungs Grown In the Lab · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those who are having trouble with this concept, they're talking about the mammalian diving reflex. You'll get much better results searching for that than trying combinations of "lungs fill with fluid." In fact, once you've looked through all of the articles of punctured lungs, kidney failure, and congestive heart failure, you'll wonder why they'd think this is a benefit at all.

  13. Re:I like this idea on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 1

    I'm all for America having a dictatorship stripping their liberties while the UK lets a liberal coalition government slowly give ours back.

    After all, I'm no help to you if I don't have the freedom to act.

  14. I like this idea on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then Fox won't be accessible to the rest of the world, and we can start forming opinions which don't include the drivel spouted by News Corp, the RIAA / MPAA, and the rest of the megacorps who want to govern world politics.

    Seriously, I'm all for a total communication blackout of America. I think it would do the English public some good to concentrate on our own issues.

  15. Re:"cyber 9/11" on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It'll be like 9/11 times one hundred."
    "Oh my God..."
    "Yes. Ninety-one Thousand, One Hundred."

    o_O

  16. Re:Hmm on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo. They've all been used to some level of effect.

  17. Re:Fuck acta on Experts Say ACTA Threatens Public Interest · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I'm hoping to break that cycle.

    I have karma to burn anyway, so I thought I'd burn it productively.

  18. Re:Better Is Better Than Worse on IE9 Preview Touts Cross Browser Compatibility · · Score: 1

    IE9 supports many royalty-free, web compatible formats out of the box (HTML, CSS, WOFF, PNG, and the like) so why not at least one more?

    Is this a game of "Spot the Star Trek reference"? Because I think they spelled his name wrong...

  19. Re:Scratches disc and improved dpads on New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power, Makes Less Noise · · Score: 1

    Uhhh... I learned not to do that with home CD players. Back in the early 1990s. When cartridges were still the common game format (First PS was 1994).

  20. Re:RIP OUT THE CAT5e CABLE BOYZ !! on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 1

    Then why the hell is Parallel ATA giving way to Serial ATA?

  21. Re:Different leader, same old party & policies on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    You must not know how the Borg work. Outsider! *Points at you and screams*

  22. Re:Interesting Historical Fact on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    And Gordon Brown in the UK.

  23. Re:"First Female PM" is not news. on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 1

    That depends on how many hens the fox gets to.

  24. Re:YAWN on Apple Sues HTC Again Over Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    So spice them up a bit!

    "Apple iPhone used to bludgeon pensioner, HTC handset used as shield by rescuer!"
    "iPhone used as canoe by 14 year old stranded after typhoon!"
    "Beowulf Cluster of HTC phones used to cure cancer!"

    See? It's like working for a News Corp company!

  25. Re:Shackled Market Economics on Apple Sues HTC Again Over Patents · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think you need that E for the acronym to work.