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  1. Ever heard of the ITU? on How Many Frequency Bands Are There? · · Score: 3

    There already is an organization, the Iternational Telecommunications Union (ITU) that administers international RF frequency allocation on a nation by nation basis, among other things. It mostly deals with surface to space and long-range bands, and adjudicates international bandwidth disputes. It is then up to national governments to administer their spectrum as they see fit.

  2. Technical Challenges on Ask the Man Behind the NOAA's New Beowulf Cluster · · Score: 1

    What were the toughest technical challenges involved in creating this cluster? How did you solve them?

  3. Re:Photon Mass on Practical Gravity Shielding for Spacecraft? · · Score: 1

    Correction: photons have *momentum*, but no mass.

  4. Hype breeds Failure on Reactions to AOL/Time-Warner Merger · · Score: 1

    This thing is laughable -- it's either going to blow apart before it closes (remember, the deal is not yet final), or some investment banker is going to make a mint in ten years cutting it up and selling off the pieces. AOL just lowered its credit rating and massively raised its debt load by this stunt. It saddled itself with a huge and low margin legacy business substantially divergent from its current business. There is no compatibility between corporate cultures. The merger is DOOMED from beginning to end. The collapse will be a strong blow to media concentration, so I suppose its good.

  5. moderation and karma are bah-roken on jpeg2000 Allows 200:1 Wavelet Compression · · Score: 1

    How did someone like you get that much karma?? Wavelet theory provide ways of compressing *ANY* wavelike data, including audio, images, and video.

  6. Re:Two sides to this... on Physics Fraud or Ground-Breaking Science? · · Score: 1

    He's wrong about the hydrinos. It's simply too easy for the claimed effect to happen; why isn't it happening on a grand scale in nature? The answer of course is because it isn't happening either in nature or in his lab, and he's either terribly deluded or a fraud.

  7. Three Dolphins on Sex in Space · · Score: 1

    According to G Harry Stine's book "Halfway to Anywhere," getting it on properly in space requires a third person to keep the main event from flying apart. This is derived from how dolphins do it. Therefore, the club for those who have done the deed in zero-g is the three-dolphin club. Apparently there is even a patch (helpfully reproduced in the book), and there are allegedly quite a few astronauts qualified to wear it.