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  1. Re:Producing them is one thing on Samsung Claims Breakthrough In Graphene Chip Design · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because silicon dropped in price rather dramatically.
    I don't really see any process on the horizon that will cause another drop like that. It would require a break through making = 22nm fabs much cheaper to build and maintain.

    If they made a significant break through where they are competitive, then things will change fast.
    The demand for more efficient chips has never been higher.

  2. Re:Half my age, 10 times the guts. on Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Win Truth-Telling Award · · Score: 0

    Gained nothing? I'll be the movie and book will make him some many while continuing to stroke his ego.

  3. Re:He should get the Nobel Peace Prize on Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Win Truth-Telling Award · · Score: 1

    Actually. the NSA mandate is to watch all communication. Contrary to TV, there focus is on SIGINT, not on trying to get Micheal Weston, or what every you think they do. IT's even broke into group. A group monitors one type of country, G group another.

    As for the privacy issue, they rest solely on Michael Haydon, who decided that agency would use thinthread(thinnet?); which encrypted all the informaiton, and you would need a court order to decrypt what they need.

  4. Re:He should get the Nobel Peace Prize on Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Win Truth-Telling Award · · Score: 1

    " way would have landed him in isolation, right quick, as is obvious from earlier attempts on the part of brave whistleblowers."
    based on.. what, exactly?

    You are clearly and intentional, missing his point.

  5. Re:May contain traces of irony on Evidence Aside, FBI Says Russians Out To Steal Ideas From US Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    I can't find any reference to that, link?

  6. Re:Its all bullshit on Evidence Aside, FBI Says Russians Out To Steal Ideas From US Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    The FBI routinely releases information to business to describe potential vectors for security failures.
    That is all this is.
    This is a good thing, and it's something they should be doing.
    'Hey, here is a possible threat, so keep an eye out'.
    WTF is wrong with that?

  7. Re:so encourage domestic investors on Evidence Aside, FBI Says Russians Out To Steal Ideas From US Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    VC invest in tech company. Tech company gets tech contract from government. Russia has a direct line to what that is.

  8. Re:No, just no. on Evidence Aside, FBI Says Russians Out To Steal Ideas From US Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    "...happening in the US is happening in secret."
    often by corporations, who need to be reminded that security is an on going process and not an install and forget item on a spreadsheet.

  9. Re:Uh huh. on Evidence Aside, FBI Says Russians Out To Steal Ideas From US Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    Your post would seem plausible if Putin wasn't saber rattling.

  10. Scale this up on For the First Time, Organ Regenerated Inside a Living Animal · · Score: 1

    to humans.

  11. Obvious troll on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    is obvious.

  12. 135 is now 'horrific'? on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    If you take inflation into account, it's cheaper the XP was.

    You don't want to spend the money, that's fine. By no measure is it 'horrific'

  13. win 7 came out 8 years ago. on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, you had some sort of excuse?

  14. nice.

  15. have some play a few violins of different quality and record them.
    See if there is even a scientifically measurable different in the sound. At that point you can determine if any change that may be there is within the optimal human range to detect.
    Of course that's just sound, it could mechanically be better, or feel better when held.

  16. hhh on Sand in the Brain: A Fundamental Theory To Model the Mind · · Score: 1

    " nature is made up by random events"
    no. It's made up of complex events interacting and may seem random only because we don't understand everything. The more properties you understand, then the less random it becomes.

    I am talking about the macro world, natch.

    "So perhaps the brain works like this to. It's a collection of chaos, bound by rules. Those rules cause the microscopic chaos to form patterns on the macro scale.
      You might as well of said the brain works like things in nature work. well. no duh.

  17. depends on there on Sand in the Brain: A Fundamental Theory To Model the Mind · · Score: 1

    discipline. It's not like there is a physicist factory where everyone just pound out physics. So disciplines are less abstract the others.

  18. I ahve seen on Sand in the Brain: A Fundamental Theory To Model the Mind · · Score: 1

    physicist, many, many times make statements about other disciplines and been wrong every time.
    Why? becasue they don't hold themselves to the same level of rigor in other fields as they would in there own..
    Sure, maybe he is correct, but not likely. So.. write a scientific paper held to a high level of rigor.
    If you can do that, then I don't care what you expertise is in. Hell, you could be a ditch digger, but if you write a paper that stands up to peer review, then you history should not matter.
    Unless you history includes fraudulent papers.

  19. they will just install a plate in the garage on Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds · · Score: 1

    the using inductive charging.

  20. yes on Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds · · Score: 1

    no one has ever invented a way to cool car components.

  21. then explain on Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds · · Score: 1

    the latest generation of smart phones.

  22. Re:Also Oakland on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    Another case of people making money by skirting rules and regulation that everyone else in the industry abides by.

    JSYK: Hotel guests and tenants have different rights. So to anyone doing this sort of thing with a resident should be wary, you could get a guest you refuses to leave and you will need to go through the tenet eviction process as opposed to the hotel eviction process.

  23. Re:Read your lease... on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe this it or not, but if people are subletting, then they are in violation of their lease. What do you want the city to do? strike down every no subletting contract?

  24. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    yes, that would work. By work I mean it will solve the 'issue' that use as an excuse to prevent regulation. The real reason isn't changing ones mind, it's riding a bubble they create.

    IT's like when people say, you can' ban guns I need then to hunt. And then you say, fine ban all guns that hold more then 3 rounds.
    Then they stammer and come up with as different excuse.

    People just making shit up so the don't have to challenge their own narrative.

  25. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Do you understand the HFT ride the bubble they create by buying, or selling?
    buy 100,000 share, price goes up slightly* then as sell happens immediately. less then a second is many cases. Rinse repeat * a million.

    *as you would escpet, but then you expect an 'immediate' dip.