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  1. Re:Stop Making Up Words! on Reno Selected For Tesla Motors Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    Even the word giant has the same root: it's just omitting the second g, gi(g)ant, for better pronounciation. It's gigas with the latin ending -nt meaning "the one who does", comparable with the english -ing.

  2. Re:Stop Making Up Words! on Reno Selected For Tesla Motors Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    Actually, giga(s) is greek and means "giant". And yes, the syllable for the billion is derived from the greek word. But that doesn't mean that the original meaning just vanishes.

  3. Re:warehouse on Out of the Warehouse: Climate Researchers Rescue Long-Lost Satellite Images · · Score: 1

    No, as usual, things with no immediate use but too hardly earned to get thrown away get stashed until the time comes. And then forgotten. There is no cabal here. Guys can hope, but to hope natural laws change at will just to support the own ideology has the ring of futility to it.

  4. Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Password Managers all the way down!

  5. Re:Prevailing winds? on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1

    No, 700 miles is pretty close. 850 would be more closer though, it's about 1300 km.

  6. Re:I guess that explains on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1

    While Westphalia is part of the ancient settlement area of the historical Saxons, contemporary Saxony has nothing to do with it. Actually, the title of Archduke of Saxony was handed to the Duke of Meissen, when the original Saxon line of Achedukes died out in the 15th century, carring the name Saxony from today's Westphalia and Lower Saxony to Meissen and Dresden.

  7. Re:GMT? on Iceland Raises Volcano Aviation Alert Again · · Score: 1

    Because most clocks sold worldwide still display the term GMT even though they are in reality using UTC.

  8. Re: Her work on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    No. I don't understand their behaviour. I know why they are acting that way. But that doesn't mean I understand them. I think they are exactly the type of person she complains about rightfully.

  9. Re: what's wrong with cherry picking? on CenturyLink: Comcast Is Trying To Prevent Competition In Its Territories · · Score: 1

    I have a DSL line on twisted copper with 30 MBit/sec. I've seen demonstration installs with 230 Mbit/sec on twisted copper. NSN has demonstrated 825 Mbit/sec on DSL via twisted copper in 2010. So where does your 20 M come from?

  10. Re:what's wrong with cherry picking? on CenturyLink: Comcast Is Trying To Prevent Competition In Its Territories · · Score: 1

    So my middle post doesn't matter. I don't have a choice of providers, I just have a choice of how I get the internet. Sat, DSL or Cable.

    Hm. So you were saying, that you don't have the choice of fast food chains, because Domino's only serves pizza, while McDonald's only serves burgers?

  11. Re:plasticity on Fish Raised On Land Give Clues To How Early Animals Left the Seas · · Score: 2

    An organism benefits from plasticity in changing or not optimal environments. About every organism shows signs of a certain plasticity. It doesn't just thrive under optimal conditions, but it can also exist in not so advanturous environments, but it doesn't grow to the same size, reaches the same age or produced the same amount of offspring. Nevertheless, thanks to plasticity, it can overcome the situation.

  12. Re:Wind and sunlight? on Scientists Confirm Life Under Antarctic Ice · · Score: 2

    Additionally, we have van t'Hoff's rule, stating that increasing the temperature will result in 2-3 times the speed of the reaction. Reversely it means that organisms living close to the freezing point of water have their reaction speed reduced to about one tenth to one hundredth.

  13. Re:No. It would not. on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 4, Funny

    England still will have a very long coastline

    According to Benoit Mandelbrot, the coastline is infinitely long indeed.

  14. Re:Call anything 3D printing on World's First 3D Printed Estate Coming To New York · · Score: 1

    I don't see it either, but this begs the question if the robot to automaticly lay bricks has some advantages compared with a robot that 3d-prints the wall.

  15. Re:Call anything 3D printing on World's First 3D Printed Estate Coming To New York · · Score: 1

    Criticizing by mentioning that an often used idea is proven? This is no critic, this is just stating the obvious.

  16. Re:Call anything 3D printing on World's First 3D Printed Estate Coming To New York · · Score: 1
    Pouring cement requires a mold you pour the cement in. Laying bricks is manual, discontinuous work.

    This 3D-printing works without mold, and it's a continuous process.

  17. Re:Or... the internet itself on How the Internet of Things Could Aid Disaster Response · · Score: 1

    Actually, I have two providers, and in cases of emergency, I still can go to the office. So much for redundancy.

  18. Re:tag the survivors with RFID on How the Internet of Things Could Aid Disaster Response · · Score: 1

    I think you didn't get the parent. Before the disaster, you screen the people who will be affected by it and designate the survivors. Those people get tags to be easily spotted and identified. Thus you can rescue the survivors easily and don't need to waste time on people not deemed worthy to be alive.

  19. Re:well on The Psychology of Phishing · · Score: 1

    Even if I get spam that claims to be from my bank, I can see it being spam because I got similar spam allegedly from other banks I never did business with. The same with the two messages of unclear status, I seem to have with so many sites, that the one that claimed to have sent by a site I actually have an account with was easily spotted.

  20. Re:Um, here's a simpler way on Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size · · Score: 2

    The demonstration video of the origami wheel was not about climbing obstacles, it was using the foldable wheel as some gear replacement with continous transmission ratio.

  21. Re:This is news? on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 1

    Every institution abuses their power. Governments are just the scape goats U.S. Americans like to butcher. Other countries have banks, other big corporations or the neighbouring country to beat at. Stop blaming the government for all failures, or at least start distributing your blame more fairly.

  22. Re:Um, here's a simpler way on Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a different scenario and thus a different solution.

  23. Amiga 2000 in East German nuclear research on The Almost Forgotten Story of the Amiga 2000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the late 1980ies, the Nuclear Research Facility at Rossendorf near Dresden, Germany had two Amigas 2000 as central processing units for their accelerator experiments. It was fascinating, because Rossendorf was in communist East Germany, and the Amigas probably were bought half-legally for obscene amounts of (east german) money. But appearently they urgently needed the 32bit processing capability and were using selfdeveloped Zorro cards for the signal reception and processing.

  24. Re:Are they forgetting that this is the UK? on UK Government Faces Lawsuit Over Emergency Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1

    And what would be the result? The UK would face a treaty violation suit and would have to pay a monthly or yearly sum to the E.U. until they are in compliance again.

  25. Re:Hard to place? on Fossils of Cambrian Predator Preserved With Brain Impressions · · Score: 1

    Sique: error. --sexy not implemented