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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Might on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    but they are closing in the next few months.

  2. Re:What about a supernova? on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    No, and they would be hard to build in the way you're suggesting. Though, it maybe needed to confirm the results on extreamly long distances.

  3. Re:Yawn. A few billionths... on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Yea but they did the test 15,000 times to confirm it before even mentioning it to the public.

  4. 1.06 times the speed of light +- 0.21 on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1, Informative
    or at least the last time or one of the few times it was measured.

    http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/gravity/overview.php

  5. Re:Definitely slowed ... on Opportunities From the Twilight of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    scaling clock speed just got hard because of power issues and such.

    Nothing that can't be fixed with a little liquid helium. Now give me my 8ghz processor.

  6. Re:What? on UBS Rogue Trader Loses $2 Billion In Unauthorized Trades · · Score: 1
    If any of this has to do with High Speed Trading or anything really to do with electronic trading it is because of WHO was arrested. FTA

    "Adoboli, a University of Nottingham computer science and management graduate"

    The investigation is still underway and I haven't seen anything that says how he did it or how long it took just that they noticed Wednesday, Yesterday.
    If this has anything to do with HST then the only way to fix it is to put a 24 hour delay on electronic trades. However if this was done over the course of months or years and they just now found out then even putting a delay won't fix it. Your example of trading at 1 second vs 0.01 wouldn't allow for the review nessisary. A second pair of eyes needs to look at the electronic trade.

  7. Re:50km? on FCC To Test Opening White Spaces Up To Public · · Score: 1

    Yea, but wouldn't you want to try and negotiate a clean channel with 10,000 other people rather then just have a few wimax points. Just think of the current issues with just 14 channels using wifi depending on regulations. 10,000 people setting up their AP to the same factory default settings sounds like fun.

  8. Re:Backwards. on Purported FBI Report Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat · · Score: 0

    You are insecure every minute of every day. What is to stop anyone from pulling a gun on you, beating you up, or just robbing you blind at any point in time. Your logic in defending Anonymous as "simply reveals how insecure we are." is the same as saying it's the store owners fault that the gang came by destroyed his store, took his money, and violated his wife. Oh, he should have had beater locks on his shops doors, less money in the till, and his wife locked away out of site. Is that it?

  9. Re:USPTO on Two Rambus Patents Invalidated By USPTO · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No that would slow down their patent review even more. If we just invalidated all software and method patents their work load would be reduced and would be able to do a better job reviewing and hearing challenges to existing patents in a more timely manner.

  10. 80 Hours?!?! on Are Games Worth Complaining About? · · Score: 1
    I only have one 80+ hour game in the last 25 years and that was Dragon Quest 7. All other games were lucky to hit 40 hours. Every game is too expensive today. 60$ should get me 2 games not 1 but no we have to have HD graphics which increased the dev time and shortened the game time and increased the cost PS2, XBox, Game Cube and Dreamcast Era graphics are good enough. And don't you dare ever repeat DQ7. It's nice but I'll never finish a game if it takes a minimum of 80 Hours, but practically takes 120. I'm not my Father I can't break the 999 Hour timer and not lose my mind.

    Rant Finished.

  11. Re:Technological threshold on UK Joins Laser Nuclear Fusion Project · · Score: 1

    All of those things are also pointless until you get more energy out then you put into the laser in the first place. We have working Fusion reactors but none of them actually put out more energy then they take in. Unless you count an H-Bomb then it works just fine.

  12. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    No it's never been done the way he said it would be. Marx believed that it would evolve on its own out of capitalism.

  13. Re:I don't see how it is illegal. on Sprint Files Suit Against AT&T T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1
    You should read up on capitalism.

    In each product area there are enough privately owned firms to ensure that no single firm can set prices or otherwise subvert impersonal market controls; as a result prices reflect the pressures of market competition

    So yes becoming too big is a problem since that leads to a communist system aka the opposite of capitalist, and is why we have laws against it unless you've been legally granted an exception like with the power companies and other utilities. Why do you think we broke up old MaBell in the first place, and implemented a whole slew of anti-trust laws over the last 100 years?

  14. Re:What are they thinking? on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    However, former WikiLeaks staff member Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who parted acrimoniously with WikiLeaks, said instead of following standard security precautions and creating a temporary folder, Assange instead re-used WikiLeaks's "master password". This password was then unwittingly placed in the Guardian's book on the embassy cables, which was published in February 2011.

    Master Password == Root or The Password we put on EVERYTHING

  15. Re:What are they thinking? on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 2
    Deniability.

    The Gardian was used as the patsy to start this little mess. They start by giving the Gardian a "Temporary" password which just happened to be the Root/Master password for the server. I mean really. Who gives out the Root password to the server to anyone other than the SysAdmin. When the password was published back in February did they do the sensible thing and change all the passwords? No, instead

    WikiLeaks then published a series of increasingly detailed tweets giving clues about where the password might be found as part of its attempts to deny security failings on its own part. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/02/wikileaks-publishes-cache-unredacted-cables

    This was planed to go down this way.

  16. Re:Awesome. on PS3 Counter-Strike To Support Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 2

    This is how it felt playing Quake 3 on the Dreamcast. If you opted for a mouse and keyboard setup it felted like the controllers players were just ROFL Stomped.

  17. Re:Clueless haters... on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What you describe shouldn't be a patent but rather a Trade Mark

  18. My Bet on No Higgs Just Yet · · Score: 1

    My Bet is that the Higgs doesn't exist. It's only in the standard model to support Massless particles like Massless Neutrinos, but the Solor Neutrino Problem already puts serious cracks in that assumption. So my bet is that there is no such thing as a massless particle.

  19. Re:Failsafe Investing on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    I'd lump gold and bonds into the same bucked and use what Buffet suggested one time and keep 1% in Bonds for each year you are. So if you're 35 then you keep 35% in the safe bond bucket. That way by the time you retire you already have most of your money in the safe buckets for your retirement.

  20. Re:Sudden crash? on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    The wild swings of late have more to do with computers being setup to do trading. They get new input then they start doing rapid wild trades which results in it down 500 one day then up 500 the next.

  21. Re:One month? on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    You really should look up the definition of Average. You're using the definition of Median not Average. Your definition of average only applies if the stock market results are normally distributed, or in another way equal number of winners and losers and anyone who watches the stock market knows that is rare otherwise it would go up and down. What they did was they managed to get a profit of 1.85% when the average went down by 2.2%.

    A longer test would be nice but comparing them to the return rate for July of other hedge funds would be better. There was a test years back comparing random monkey picks to professional hedge fund managers. That was a better comparison then comparing it to the Average. http://www.automaticfinances.com/monkey-stock-picking/

  22. Re:Sync vs Useful rates on The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds · · Score: 1

    You do know that DSL only works at most 2 Miles(1.25 Miles practical) away from the phone companies equipment. If you're only getting 800K then you are well outside the optimal range. For you to get a good signal they have to have one of their boxes peppered every 1 - 2 miles in your suburb. Which is how big?. DSL has always been good if you're in range bad if you're not, and that probably won't change until you get something other then a single copper pair to your house.

  23. Re:Would Sprint buy T-Mobile? on Leaked AT&T Letter Damages Case For T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Just means you slowly phase one out. If AT&T buys T-Mobile they will be phasing out all the T-Mobile G3 phones (or force them onto 2G edge) so why wouldn't Sprint do something similar?

  24. Re:Merger will still happen on Leaked AT&T Letter Damages Case For T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FCC stopped EchoStar from merging with DirectV. Otherwise Dish and DirecTV would be the same company. But that did allow NewsCorp to step in and buy DirecTV instead. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/echostars-directv-bid-blocked-by-fcc

  25. 3DS == Virtual Boy on How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game · · Score: 0

    It really isn't that surprising. Nintendo broke away from their pricing model because the reporters at E3 went GaGa over a 3D hand held, and then they forgot they tried this gimik before with the Virtual Boy. The VB when over well with it's initial reviews and people liked to fondle it at the local Block Busters, but no one really wanted to buy it. This isn't Apple beating Nintendo this is Nintendo beating itself up with a gimik it knew wouldn't go over well if they remembered their past.