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  1. Re:Yes it is terrible! on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. Creating documentation for mainstream users is completely pointless. I personally think Ubuntuforums has great docs. I can just copy paste what they tell me, and voila, i have fakeraid setup, or whatever else is hard to install.

  2. Re:Not again on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 1

    They devolve into classical equations, if you set Planck's Constant to 0.

    No! They devolve into classical equations if you stop using operators and pretend everything commutes. If h=0 you lose kinetic energy completely.

  3. Re:Not again on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Or perhaps Einstein's theory is correct, and there are new exciting particles to be found that explain dark matter and dark energy. Einstein's theory does need to be quantized tho.

    Or do you believe we are at the pinnacle of the field, and can achieve no more?

    Depends on the funding.

  4. Re:Ow! on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 1

    Now you're telling me that they might also be decoupled in special circumstances.

    Time and Space are almost meaningless at those high energies, the times are incredibly small, and the distances are also incredibly small.

    Why do you think they built CERN. The laws of physics break down at high energies. The 'god particle', the Higg's boson, is the particle that transfers the gravitational force (yet their is not a quantum field theory for gravity that is accepted yet). Every other force has a force carrier particle. EM has the photon, weak has the W boson, strong has the other boson(forget the name), and gravity is assumed to also have a particle that transfers the force (Fermi lab might have seen it already). Of course we never see the particle, just as we never see photons (they are virtual photons) when electrons are repelling each other. We only see photons when we accelerate electrons. We only saw the W boson when we smashed protons together. Let's keep smashing things together until we see the Higg's boson.

  5. Re:ZZZTTT ! on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 1

    But our universe is very close to flat, it's only slightly open. Wouldn't it be essentially flat at high enough energies/early enough times.

  6. Re:And FTL, too on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 1

    The quantum correlation is instantaneous! There is supposedly a lower limit from that wiki article (THE WORST PLACE EVER FOR QM), but that's just from experiment, current theories predict it to be instantaneous, or simply a feature of nature. Furthermore, there are no hidden variables transferring this information, as has been proven many years ago. This in no way means information can be transmitted faster than the speed of light. You don't even need to go to entanglement go have something travel faster than the speed of light. The front of a laser pulse can travel faster than c when entering certain materials, yet information still cannot be transmitted faster than c. The way around this limit is to bend space sufficiently, so the distance is shortened, you would have to harness the energy of a black hole. Unless you have a PHD in quantum field theory, good luck understanding this theory at all.

  7. Re:MMMM Sasha Grey on William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star · · Score: 1

    well said

  8. MMMM Sasha Grey on William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star · · Score: 1

    I respect pornstars - is that wrong?

  9. Re:If anyone can see it, it can be indexed on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 1

    I think it's much more likely that Google had decided that Fox news is not news, and shouldn't be indexed on their news site; this is just a big cover up to avoid embarrassment.

  10. Re:I can wait on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    And all you liberals wanted The aborted Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Texas. I'm sure that would have been achievable!?! Let's all be happy it was canceled.

  11. Re:Repeat of the NY Republican Convention on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    Did you see the NYC channel 1 coverage on this? Most were all crammed into a condemned building and many people suffered from chemical burns. 60,000 cops on the street that day. Good times.

  12. Re:This is the reason... on Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing · · Score: 1

    HAHAHA, good thinking, stay with your E.Coli tainted organic vegetables.

  13. Re:A better solution? on Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    But I wanna update my penis!

    And that's only available in my spam folder!

    I do thoroughly enjoy theory tho, as do most /. readers.... it's a shame most people are stuck in reality... hahahaha....sucks for them, as they require it to.

  14. Re:250 GB on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding me? If you download at 100KB you will hit the limit. So if you just bought a couple of seasons of some shows on amazon, and wanna download them over the month, you'll hit the limit even if you only can download at 1Mbit.

    Now just imagine if you want true HD content, and perhaps have a couple of kids in the house. Or a couple of roommates. Good thing they don't give you a 30Mbit link like we get from verizon in NJ, you would hit the limit even if you only used it for 1hr a day!!!

  15. Re:As to crackpot theories... on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    I completely agree, I assumed that the CIA would plant WMDs right away if there weren't actually any there, but they didn't even manage to do that, you've got to be fucking kidding me. They must all hate bush as much as we do, or you know they would have..., or there really were WMDs somewhere.

    As far as all the crazy 'reducing your rights' bills and spying bills... there are fucking terrorists, what would you be doing if you were governing a country. Nothing bad has even happened yet, I can still go to Museums and the public square without being searched for bombs or weapons, and unless terrorism subsides, I can only foresee more and more measures to protect the public being put in place. You can complain all you want, but if you run a large business you most likely have much more surveillance and other security measures in place, for the good of your company and employees. And the employees most likely are happy, knowing they are safe.

    Which really begs the question, legalize pot and you could enact these laws with almost no opposition, but they don't? Which also begs the question, would you really want legalization, considering you will lose half the support against bills invading your privacy once stoners can smoke legally.

  16. Re:Fire? Gimme a break. on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the Billion Muslims!

    [sarcastic]It was a Jewish-Goverment-run conspiracy, FYI .[/sarcastic]

    And sorry to all you muslims I have not met, blame education in Saudi Arabia for my bias. Meeting people from there is ..... interesting/disheartening. They tell me Rupert Murdoch, who was awarded Papal knighthood from the pope, is really a Jew bent on hating muslims or something or other. And that is the least absurd thing they tell me.

    Oh Saudi Arabia, if it wasn't for the oil, you would be the first, and perhaps the only, to be invaded.

    And then it sucks a whole lot more meeting muslims from other countries that are great people that love america more than I do, and yet those are the countries we DO invade. (You meet great people in New Jersey, which to me includes Philly and NYC, now I live in Maine and only meet boring white people that haven't left the country ever.)

  17. Re:Unpossible! on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    The Madrid skyscraper? (The Windsor building). The whole fucking thing was engulfed in flames for hours.

    All conspiracy theorists site it as 'evidence'

    It was just built in a normal way, unlike WTC 7. The twin towers wouldn't have fell without the planes destroying their structure and fireproofing, they could have handled fire.

  18. Re:You can build it, but it sure ain't cost-effect on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    They use rebar, I'm sure if that heated up it would fail, and the concrete alone can't handle the stress, so it would still collapse, although it would take longer.

  19. Re:Ever hear of jet fuel? on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    You cannot relate BTUs of energy to heating up steel to a certain temperature. It makes absolutely no sense. Heat damage? Steel only weakens with high temperature, so you could dump billions of BTUs of heat at it, but unless it's it's at a high enough temperature, it wouldn't do anything.

    Steel would is also immune to a quick hot flash of heat, it just wouldn't have time to absorb any heat at all. It was the impact that stripped the fireproofing and the fires that followed, burning the carpets, office supplies, everything else that actually heated it up. Paper burns hotter than jet fuel, BTW.

  20. Re:Who modded this up? on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    Why do you think WTC 7 was a government building, obviously it was not fit for civilian use, because those people can sue!

  21. Re:It's Science! on Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots · · Score: 3, Informative

    Too bad we can't detect if there are Jupiter like planets around this star.

    We can only detect Jupiter sized planets very close to the star, or something much bigger that is further away, nothing actually similar to Jupiter.

    So no, it doesn't start a refutation at all. And this technique only can find planets that are in the same plane as our line of sight to that star, which considering how far away we are is an almost insignificant percent of that solar system.

  22. Re:But does it run Linux? on id CEO Claims PC Hardware Manufacturers Love Piracy · · Score: 1
    What the hell are you talking about? A 450MHz can run all the web 2.0 apps?

    It can barely run youtube videos, and by that I mean the low-res ones.

    Imagine opening multiple tabs of youtube videos and perhaps a word file as well. And then imagine opening nbc.com or fox.com, which the average user WILL do.

    Some people enjoy the wait, others appreciate new hardware.

    Sure Vista is slow but flash in Ubuntu is slower than flash in XP, the preferred Windows OS. So right now it's Windows that is still the faster OS for the preferred use of PC's, web browsing.

  23. Re:Racist Attacks are Terrorism on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Every kid in the nation says "nigga" all the time. (not applicable to nerds) They repeat everything they see on MTV or BET, it's the way it was and the way it will be. The rap artists are 100% responsible for this.

    Every now and then some old white racist says nigger, but this was in Missouri for christ sakes, of course they are racist down there. That's like being surprised their IQ is really low, or that they voted for Bush.

    If mexicans and peurto ricans can make their way up to NYC and NJ, I'm sure the black people living down south have the ability to do that as well. At least everyone hates everyone up there, and the racism is mostly just for amusement in NYC

  24. Re:Can a String Theorist? on Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction · · Score: 1

    30 years ago Fusion was 30 yrs off. Today Fusion is 30 yrs off. It's not happening anytime soon... right now the hope is we can mine Helium 3 from the moon and perhaps use that to create Fusion.

    WE HAVE NUCLEAR - why not use it?

  25. Re:We've heard this before on Leaping the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just go to L.A. , there are much more fake looking lips on the women there