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  1. Re:Warranty? on Philips Releases 100W-Equivalent LED Bulb, Runs On Just 23 Watts · · Score: 1

    Phillips may be Bolivian, but Philips is definately from The Netherlands, Eindhoven. They are the ones that design lights.
    Having said that: they probably have Asian companies produce most the lights to their spec, with some quite heavy sample based checking on the things. They tend to use high grade components, wich makes them more expensive.

  2. Re:Shitty incoming power on Philips Releases 100W-Equivalent LED Bulb, Runs On Just 23 Watts · · Score: 1

    A computer controlled power cleaner? Pah, in my day we used a washcloth and some soap! These kids today and their toys. Turning them all lazy!.

  3. Re:Warranty? on Philips Releases 100W-Equivalent LED Bulb, Runs On Just 23 Watts · · Score: 2

    My full colour Led strips work at 12V dc.
    I have them as ambient lighting behind a 5cm (2 inch) height wooden panel in the corner of the ceiling and the wall, over a long part of the wall. They provide a smooth glow over the wall, in whatever coulor I like that day.

  4. Re:What is the point of a driverless car? on Google Gets Driverless License For Nevada Roads · · Score: 1

    If it were programmed to stop fi it doesn't know what to do it simulates tourists quite nicely.
    On a more serious note: even if it would it would still be possible to program it to be a way better driver than the average human, watching some of the traffic here in NL. Probably even better than a select few.

  5. Re:couldn't they just do this with earth based? on Hubble To Use the Moon To View Transit of Venus · · Score: 2

    Haven't tested looking through it, but holding a white sheet of paper in the focal point was quite "enlightening". We used a 15 cm telescope. You can write with the scorchmarks on the paper with it. Just move fast enough because if you don't you'll set the paper on fire.

  6. Re:Stream is the word. on Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? · · Score: 1

    Since the harddisks are doing the streaking I had an image of a harddisk with no hardware encryption. It is streaking to the Roku because it is showing it's bare data to the Roku.

  7. Re:Will black hole devour dark matter, anti-matter on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I understand now.

  8. Re:Note exactly rare on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, it's still awesome.

  9. Re:Will black hole devour dark matter, anti-matter on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    IANAP, but I'd postulate that, assuming dark matter obeys the laws of time dilation, it would behave exatly as normal matter beyon the Schwartzschild radius of a black hole. Time would stop due to extreme time dilation and thus the particle would effectively stop at the Schwartzschild radius. Then the black hole would be a tiny bit more massive, the Schwartzschild radius would be a tiny bit bigger.

  10. Re:Will black hole devour dark matter, anti-matter on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 4, Informative

    IANAP either, but as far as I know gravity isn't energy. Black holes evaporate due to Hawking radiation.

  11. Re:radio lasers on 1Gbps Wireless Network Made With Red and Green Laser Pointers · · Score: 2

    Beam divergence is a bitch at low frequencies. EM signals don't travel in a straight line, a ray of them tends to get wider over distance. This effect is stronger at low frequencies. For space you need the highest frequencies you can get if you want to have some usable distance. Gamma lasers would be preferable, if it were possible to make those.
    Or you'd need a very wide beam and thus a very large laser/maser.

  12. Re:1Gbps on 1Gbps Wireless Network Made With Red and Green Laser Pointers · · Score: 1

    That's the default, aint it?
    Truth to be told: that's about half a shark and half an octopus. And, so it seems, one bad movie.

  13. Re:This is science on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 2

    There is nothing wrong with that statement. Another /. poster pointed this out and I remembered it (although I do not remember his name):
    A hare and a turtle go for a race of 10 minutes. The hare runs 100 meters in one minute, calls it quits and takes a nap. The turle works for 10 minutes and manages to crawl 10 meters. The hare won, although he stopped after 1 minute.
    Methane does so much damage in that 9-15 years the CO2 needs about 2000 years to catch up.

    Add to that the fact that methane degrades into CO2 and H2O in the atmosphere, thus after 9-15 years the degradation products still warm up the planet.

  14. Re:Last bastion on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 1

    Since catholics are still called religious I'd say it's still a religious belief.

  15. Re:It helps keep us safe on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 0

    A "FUD" mod option (with -1 value) would do. Now Overrated is the most usefull.

  16. Re:But is it wrong? on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 2

    They imprison people who can be convinced to become terrorists. The test method is just very thorough.
    There is certainly a wrongness to that, but IMHO it isn't a big one.
    They probably aim to reach 3 things with it: the direct result of filtering the "proto terrorists" out, the indirect result of terrorists mistrusting each other and the indirect result of people who are approached for this may decide not to go that way, because the terrorist may be an FBI agent.
    Both of the indirect results are achieved by making the tactic public.

  17. Re:What if... on The Greatest Machine Never Built · · Score: 1

    Schrodinger's lolcat: I can or can't has heizenberger?

    (from signature)
    Shouldn't that be:

    Schrodinger's lolcat: I can and can't has heizenberger?

  18. Re:Clarke's third law on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver a Step Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from technology. (C) Foglio Studios

  19. Re:Probably won't help much in electronics... on How Lasers Could Help Fingerprint Conflict Minerals · · Score: 2

    The recycling of once-conflict materials doesn't supply the conflict with money.

  20. Re:Good news everyone, we have a missile defense on Congress Wants To Resurrect Laser-Wielding 747 · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure you can find a defense contractor willing to make one for slightly less than the 747+laser costs.

    Well, I dunno. Military projects have a high markup you know.

  21. Re:Beat Graphene to Market? on Silicene Discovered: Single-layer Silicon That Could Beat Graphene To Market · · Score: 2

    The basic technique used in cookie graphene is quite cheap, and if you choose to produce it directly on the final substrate the handling should be easy. Dunno what the exact recepie of silicene would be, but sand in a vacuum oven would be my first try.
    The problem with graphene is that carbon doesn't have a band gap, making semiconductors difficult to say the least. Silicon does have a band gap (wich I am using right now, as it is the basis of modern computing.

  22. Re:Ignorami on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 1

    You can't survive on any single food. Corn is healthy, but as with everything: don't eat to much of it.

  23. Re:Population Control? on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that is mistaking a result for a cause. The cause is education.
    Education -> job -> resources
    Education -> knowledge of where kids come from and how to prevent them.
    Education -> job -> pension -> less need for kids as a pension.
    Education -> career -> late start in getting kids -> less kids

    Education results in both more resources and less kids.

    Warning: this is simplified. Heavily simplified.

  24. Re:Oh really? on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 1

    Some people count it as fun to maintain a vedgetable garden at home. Rooftop hobby farms should be possible.

  25. Re:Ummm. on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 1

    Why don't you insult them directly? They are putting your kids and yourselves at risk for their own imagined gain. They are damaging herd immunity.