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  1. As satisfying as watching....... on Local TV Could Go the Way of Newspapers · · Score: 1

    Once it becomes as easy and satisfying to view a YouTube video on your 50-inch television as it is to watch "Two and a Half Men,"

    It already is boring to watch youtube on a 50-inch.....I guess we've reached that point

  2. Re:Insert PETA-VORE joke here on PETA Creates New Animal-Friendly Software License · · Score: 1

    Eat a cow AND a person

  3. Re:What were the earlier estimates? on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1, Informative

    Its ok, its from FoxNews, so you are better off not RTFA

  4. Re:Really? on NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch · · Score: 1

    alien hackers

  5. Re:In order to stay competitive, you have to join. on "Fair Trolls" To Fight Patents With Patents · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is that the people in the DPL are "good" and so if you asked them, and told them about your project, and you were not some large corporation trying to steal their work, they would grant you use of it.

  6. Re:But now on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 1

    no, not in the UK....probably in international court

  7. Re:I don't think "prove" means what you think... on Commercial Quantum Cryptography System Hacked · · Score: 1
    The Physical device they hacked works under this 20% assumption.....this 20% is due to limitations between reality and the ideal-world

    If you RTFA you will see they openly discuss that this attack works only for this real world device, and that it is easy to stop:

    Moreover, in our attack, Eve only sends two states to Bob. Alice and Bob can detect this attack by estimating the statistics of the four BB84 states. Note that, once a security loophole has been found, it is often easy to develop countermeasures. However, the unanticipated attacks are the most fatal ones.

  8. A flaw....but fixable.... on Commercial Quantum Cryptography System Hacked · · Score: 2, Informative
    Insightful FTA:

    Moreover, in our attack, Eve only sends two states to Bob. Alice and Bob can detect this attack by estimating the statistics of the four BB84 states. Note that, once a security loophole has been found, it is often easy to develop countermeasures. However, the unanticipated attacks are the most fatal ones.

  9. Re:The main danger is on Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners · · Score: 1

    Nor does the current system, or any proposed system.....scanning just makes people feel safe, it doesnt make them any safer

  10. Re:Hey, how about you concentrate on the *comedy*? on The Futurama of Physics · · Score: 1

    They were great 30 minute episodes stretched into good feature length movies

  11. Re:that was impressive on The Futurama of Physics · · Score: 1

    I dont love the........all hail the hypnotoad

  12. Re:Computer Solving Physics - brain like on Researchers Build Evolving Brain Computer? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Computer Solving Physics - brain like on Researchers Build Evolving Brain Computer? · · Score: 1
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402143457.htm

    The researchers point out that the computer evolves these laws without any prior knowledge of physics, kinematics or geometry. But evolution takes time. On a parallel computer with 32 processors, simple linear motion could be analyzed in a few minutes, but the complex double pendulum required 30 to 40 hours of computation. The researchers found that seeding the complex pendulum problem with terms from equations for the simple pendulum cut processing time to seven or eight hours.

  14. Computer Solving Physics - brain like on Researchers Build Evolving Brain Computer? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I dont have a link, but an interesting show on NPR talked about a computer that arrived at F = ma from watching a pendulum, and having never been given that as information. This same program was used on a dual pendulum (pendulum on the end of a pendulum) as was able to determine the physics behind this (a previously unsolved physical model) Ultimately it was used to figure out the relationship between different ions in a cell and how the concentrations of each relate to each other.....research that could not be published because they had only the answer, but not the derivation or explanation as to why. I'll search and see if I can find a link to it.

  15. W-A on Google To Answer Your Questions Directly · · Score: 1

    Wolfram-Alpha.....but by google?

  16. Re:Oh No! on Ball Lightning Caused By Magnetic Hallucinations · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its easy as 1 - Set up superconductor based magnetic field 2 - party 3 - profit

  17. Re:Doesn't explain... on Ball Lightning Caused By Magnetic Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    do you have examples?

  18. Re:Roberto! on Robot With Knives Used In Robotics Injury Study · · Score: 1

    RTFA.....they are testing a collision detection system to see if potential injuries can be prevented

  19. Local, not global on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 1

    Great locally, but not a silver bullet. Just not enough energy to harvest globally (same problem with wind power).

  20. Re:Typical response from a professor on Flash Is Not a Right · · Score: 1
    If the programs are good enough, and people protest (which they wont) then the company will be forced to accept the language.

    If instead the language is obsolete or not necessary enough, you're screwed by your own decision.

    It ends up sucking for you, but Apple's goal shouldnt be to make you happy, or to make it easier for you to program.

    (and no, I dont like apple, my only apple product is an ipod)

  21. Re:Rights and wrongs on Flash Is Not a Right · · Score: 1

    It is totally within their rights to do all those things, and if you dont like it buy a different product. They dont hide the fact that they do this, and even if they did its common knowledge and posted about all the time.

  22. b n m on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thats a f*ing fat finger if it hit b instead of m! or maybe its not a qwerty

  23. Re:netflix vs gamefly on One Year Later, USPS Looks Into Gamefly Complaint · · Score: 3, Informative

    35. GameFly is not the only mailer to experience significant DVD breakage rates on automated mail processing equipment. In response to this phenomenon, the Postal Service has adopted a practice of manually culling out the DVD mailers of two high-volume shippers of DVDs, Netflix and Blockbuster, for special processing.

  24. Going postal on One Year Later, USPS Looks Into Gamefly Complaint · · Score: 1

    Dont worry, USPS is already on top of that

  25. Re:Here is how you do science. on Second Inquiry Exonerates Climatic Research Unit · · Score: 1

    In an ideal world......in the real world competition, the need to publish, the need to be the one who is first or has the best model means people hold out from collaborating and keep their methods to themselves until they are 2-3 steps past.