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  1. Re:Alternates to solar panels on NASA Mars Rover Spots Its Ultimate Destination · · Score: 2, Funny

    The proper physicist's notation is so boring. "A satellite could collector solar energy 1 of the time."

  2. Re:Everyone? on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to be that your BitTorrent client will accept a connection from someone not on your peer list.

    Further, even if it doesn't, they know exactly which torrent you're a peer on, they just can't necessarily demonstrate it. Certainly sufficient for their research purposes. (For law enforcement purposes, if that was relevant, it would probably be sufficient to get a search warrant.)

  3. Re:Everyone? on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    By story, you mean the submitter's comment on the story. Both the "quote" from TFS and also TFA say "most", not "all".

  4. Re:Wouldn't Peer Guardian prevent this? on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Only if they have an IP address in a known-dangerous block. Being security researchers, they're probably well-aware that an excellent way to spy on P2P users is with a laptop on a local coffee shop's WiFi.

  5. Re:Everyone? on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    You're assuming, among other things, that everyone else in the torrent has PEX disabled -- or at least that the "private" flag in the metainfo file is set and that everyone's torrent software honors that by disabling PEX.

  6. Re:Pound has dimensions [M][L]/[T]2 and [M] ... on The Big Technical Mistakes of History · · Score: 1

    If only they had separate names for pounds (force) and pounds (mass)!

  7. Re:Come On! on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Because people's memories go back less than a year and use heuristics instead of data. While 2009 wasn't actually cold, the winter that just passed had some fairly nasty weather.

  8. Re:Why is anything sensitive connected to the web? on Military Asserts Right To Respond To Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    You mean like SIPRnet or JWICS?

  9. Re:Superiority complex on Heavy US Demand Delays iPad's Worldwide Release · · Score: 1

    Mature people will use any tool that works well, knowing full well that these are few and far between.

  10. Re:Big Bank and Evolution on Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report · · Score: 1

    It doesn't purport to. Only people who understand astrophysics poorly think that the Big Bang theories are an attempt to explain creation in general. (People who misunderstand astrophysics... now that's a small crowd!)

    The way space-time works (or is defined, if you prefer), time "before the Big Bang" doesn't actually exist.

  11. Re:Hmm on Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns · · Score: 1

    Oh, of course it's ambiguous. It's just that the rule that "no foreign words are allowed" does not mean that the official word list, which contains words of foreign origin, doesn't abide by that rule. Regardless of where you draw the line, there are plenty of foreign-origin words that are permitted in Scrabble.

    Of course, your exposure to various words may vary. People here know of "chili con carne", but nobody refers to "chili con queso" and few people know "otaku". Since you can buy insipid "queso cheese" in the supermarket, though, it would probably count as English.

  12. Re:Hmm on Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns · · Score: 1

    The English language includes a number of words and phrases of foreign origin -- some of them unchanged from their original form. In Scrabble, "foreign words" does not refer simply to any word that is derived from a foreign language (even if the English and foreign words are identical), but rather to foreign words that are also not in English.

  13. Re:Copyright infringement on Making Closed Software Act Like It's Open · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's only a derivative work if you distribute the proprietary software along with your enhancement. If the enhancement simply requires that the user already have a copy of the proprietary software in order to use it, then it's not a derivative work.

  14. Re:If it is driver error, why... on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    A statistician is going to tell you that that's too few data points to answer much of anything.

  15. Re:Support your economy!...right on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    That's not "local". Local is when the guy who owns the company I'm buying from lives down the street.

  16. Re:Not going to RTFA; explain? on Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass · · Score: 1

    There are philosophies that would hold the two ideas as identical.

    So, people who held such a view might analyze the situation the same way, regardless of the applied magnetic effects.

    Ah, control groups. So useful.

  17. Re:We hit 7 TeV, but how much more to go? on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    Why not? If it's expanding, it has an edge.

    Not necessarily; if it's embedded in a higher-dimensional space, it can expand without having an edge.

    For example, the surface of a balloon expands as you inflate it, but it has no edge.

  18. Facts? on Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like how a blog post that simply states, without evidence, that web filters lead to income-based educational inequalities is simply asserted in TFS as a fact. Also how TFS chooses to copy text directly from said blog post without using quotation marks.

  19. Re:Technical problem on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    Probably he's interested in viewing PDFs.

  20. Re:Why uses a PC to do banking? on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you're distributing your own discs, you could just use DNSSEC and include the cert needed for verification on the disk itself. Similarly, making your own CA isn't really a good plan if you want to serve customers who don't have this disc, but the disc can have no CA certs installed on it and just have the verification data for your site.

  21. Re:Useful to whom? The racists who care about skin on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    It really does contain only that information. They changed the system between 2000 and 2010. Only a small subset of people are given a longer set of questions (to get a statistical estimate of that data); the form that everybody gets is a short form that has very few questions.

  22. Re:Useful to whom? The racists who care about skin on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    Wait, which part of the statement you quoted indicates what information is to be collected and to whom it should be made available?

    If you're going to quote the Constitution, shouldn't the part you quote actually support your claim?

  23. Re:hmm on Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hooray! Now Zoidberg is the popular one!

  24. Re:Effectively? on Quantum State Created In Largest Object Yet · · Score: 1

    In a conference call, you're not effectively in two places at once at all. You're effectively communicating with people at multiple disparate locations while remaining in one location.

    They just say "effectively" because a superposed state is not really the same as being in two places at once, but that's a reasonable analogy to use.

  25. Re:so how big is it? on Quantum State Created In Largest Object Yet · · Score: 1

    It says right in the article that it's trillions of atoms.