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  1. Re:Teen Drama in 5 4 3 2 1 on Facebook "Trusted Contacts" Lets You Pester Friends To Recover Account Access · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are plenty of young people pranking each other by hijacking their friend's accounts without this! Leaving yourself logged in on a laptop/phone is considered permission to update your status to something "hilarious". I don't think this is going to increase hijacking.

  2. How is this different to harmonic oscilator? on Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In all chemical bonds the ground state has non-zero energy which results in a vibration of the two atoms. They will vibrate backwards and forwards forever as there is no lower quantum state to lose energy to. This doesn't really seem all that different, other than they're making a rotating non-zero ground state.

  3. Does anyone proof read these? on BlackBerry Looking To Quench 'Insatiable Demand' For New Smartphones · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "With more devices due to be revealed in May, has the company ?" Has the company what?

  4. Re:Terrorist or freedom fighter? on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because someone has Islam on his facebook page doesn't make him an Islamic terrorist. Were all the school shootings in the states Christian terrorists (Crusaders?) because they had Christian on their facebook page? We don't currently know what the brother's motivations were. Perhaps it was do with Chechen independence. Perhaps it was to do with religion. Perhaps they are just mentally ill individuals with an axe to grind with their local community. We don't know at the moment.

  5. Re:LAZARUS?! Really?! on "Lazarus Project" Clones Extinct Frog · · Score: 1

    It can be from Cold Lazarus the sci-fi drama if you prefer.

  6. Re:Remember Steam on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    You can if you made a separate steam account for each game, but who can be bothered to do *that*?

  7. Not as new as it seems on Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lasers have had negative temperature for decades!

  8. Re:The challenge of getting past c on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 2

    Faster than instant, is arriving before you leave! Which is what travelling faster than c is predicted to do.

  9. Re:Correction... on Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hardly, the IPO was an amazing success for facebook. They managed to sell the company for twice the current market price! Anyone who had facebook shares before the IPO (which is who facebook was doing the IPO for) did rather well out of the deal.

  10. Re:Missing the point? on Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The great thing about text is you can put it anywhere anything visual can be placed! You can but a tinyurl.com/acmeadd on a billboard, on a streetsign, on a television image.... (And its still quicker to type than to get the camera all lined up to QR code something you pass on a bus.)

  11. Re:Uh, maybe I'm missing something but on Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-character Password In Your Subconscious Mind · · Score: 1

    They can do, but they still wouldn't know the password itself to be able to log in again without you. Possibly there would be a mechanism to enter a distress code which would then summon the police and lock your account to a honeybox instead? But then you could have that with other password mechanisms.

  12. Re:So to recover your password ... on Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-character Password In Your Subconscious Mind · · Score: 1

    If you've seized the system already, then the passwords might as well be in plaintext. With this system users can't choose their own password, so knowing their password at once website won't help you break into their accounts on other websites, since they cannot be the same (except by chance.)

  13. Pointless on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 1

    If you want to get an extra hour of daylight in the evening....get up earlier? Why does the government have to mandate a change, schools / jobs in England can just start 1 hour earlier if they want the sunlight, and the rest of the UK can carry on as before. Problem solved! With on demand TV, its not like the TV schedules matter any more...

  14. VPN? on UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default · · Score: 2

    All internet blocking will do is increase the demand for VPN services, surely? Kids can just VPN out of the ISPs control and get all the porn they want, Adults will probably rather VPN for porn than officially be on a "want porn" list. What happens with false-positives? Many websites get blocked by net-nanny et al. which aren't porn. With a filter, you can just add a manual exception when that happens. What do you do with an ISP-level block? Will the Sun be blocked due to page3? What about artistic photos involving nudity which aren't erotic? This service should be opt-in rather than opt-out...

  15. Makes Sense on Bus Company Says Thin Drivers Deserve Better Pay · · Score: 1

    The less the bus driver weighs, the less weight the bus has to carry around all day. This should lead to some fuel savings! Also healthier employees will take less sick days, which is better for the company.

  16. Re:clear text passwords? on Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you look at the data they released, they only gave the password hashes, not the passwords themselves. There were no clear text passwords in the database. That said, one of them has been "cracked" to "ppp". Its an admin password, hopefully it required being logged in from the intranet or something.

  17. Re:Sounds like they got it backwards on Skin-Tight Bodysuits Could Protect Astronauts From Bone Loss · · Score: 1

    No, F=kx (well for a spring) if you have a larger extension, you have a larger force. I assume they mean that the legs need to stretch more than the torso to fit in the human occupant, thereby giving a greater tension. The suit isn't deformed by a fixed force, but by a fixed extension to fit the person.

  18. Re:Fiji water... on Things You Drink Can Be Used To Track You · · Score: 1

    So, if I drink Fiji Water consistently, they will never be able to prove that I was anywhere near the crime scene?

    Until the local police in Fiji decide to pin all their unsolved murders on you!

  19. Re:Massive U-Turn? on UK Video Game Tax Relief Cancelled · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just because the minister for the Department of Jam wants more jam subsidies does not mean that the Chancellor will pay for them! I don't think he has lied or misled you, he just doesn't have the clout to persuade Osborne to cut the health budget and pay for games instead.

  20. Re:Treated by homeopathy on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you were not treated by homeopathy. Homeopathic remedies have zero molecules inside them of the active ingredient. They "work" using the "memory" of water. If you were lacking in some minerals, you wouldn't get them from a homeopathic remedy. You might well have been treated by a mineral supplement, but that's actually a real cure for some things, unlike homepathy which is only a cure for dehydration / lack of sugar depending on if you take it in water or sugar tablet form.

  21. Re:Proportionality. on Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's why bankruptcy laws were introduced!

  22. Re:One of the few games I bought on New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops 10 Million Sales · · Score: 1

    ARRRRRR! By mindcontrol games is what you are looking for I think. http://arrr.mind-control.com/ Its in they BYOM series. (bring your own mouse) so its all controlled by mouse action.

  23. Re:New business opportunity on Augmented Reality and Privacy · · Score: 1

    It means if anyone is ever arrested for this crime though, you can sue them for patent infringement without you being guilty at all. With the lower burden of proof for civil cases, you can probably even sue the ones who get off the criminal theft charges.