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  1. The sky is ever falling on NSA Trying To Build Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    The quantum computing fear is really nothing new.

    It makes the current encryption scheme more valuable but there are post-quantum schemes as well as quantum cryptography as alternatives.

  2. Re:Wrong man for the job on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 1

    That's indeed a very good point. Nye just seems to be too nice for that kind of task.

  3. So sorry fo Bill Nye on Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham · · Score: 2

    Guess somebody has to do this kind of yeoman's work.

  4. Too high success rates in conventional colleges! on Are High MOOC Failure Rates a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    Since the students are "customers" I find the high success rate in US colleges rather suspect.

    In my experience European professors are far more inclined to fail students.

  5. Re:Awesome on Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion · · Score: 1

    This is not much to go on but slide 13 has a bit on the vortex development:

    http://fire.pppl.gov/FPA12_Richardson_GF.pdf

    This thesis though should hit the sweet spot:

    http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~jgregson/images/JamesGregsonMAScThesis.pdf

  6. Re:HOAX ALERT II !! on Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion · · Score: 1

    A hoax Jeff Bezos invested in. I'll take it you didn't bother to read any of the links.

  7. Re:Wait for it on Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion · · Score: 1

    Try Amazon, after all Jeff Bezos already invested.

  8. Re:New Slashdot paradigm... on Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion · · Score: 1

    Could you explain the profit part to me? That'll be most interesting.

  9. Re:What? on Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion · · Score: 1

    They hold a couple of patents and published three papers (the rest in the list is references on their approach to fusion).

  10. Re:16:9 is twice 8:9 on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Every bit helps :-)

  11. Re:16:9 is twice 8:9 on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    Two 8:9 screens would be fine, but with Word two pages view at 1080p is not quite enough pixels. Just lacking that extra bit of resolution to make it annoying.

  12. Re:Shaping notes on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but while the techie whines and sweats it, the musicians put in all the work for the love of it :-)

  13. Re:Shaping notes on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only a real orchestra offers massive parallel musicality, and they scale pretty well under a competent conductor.

  14. Re: Kicking up the lundar dust on Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    it was first written about on ancient Chinese turtle shells

    Probably even true :-)

  15. Re:Kicking up the lundar dust on Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully · · Score: 1

    How juvenile.

    The Western world has still enough clout to hurt China economically. Although, it'll hurt us almost as much. So yes, a diplomatic solution is most likely if they were to overstep.

    At any rate, the Chinese are not opposed to cooperation, they have a good working relationship with ESA.

  16. Canada Post is a joke on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    Having lived in Germany, the US and now Canada I can say with conviction that the postal service here is rock bottom. May as well close it for good.

  17. Re:Freedom of thought on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 2

    It's a law to protect minors. The idea is that having gone through school and reached maturity, hate groups will have a harder time recruiting them to their cause.

  18. Re:Freedom of thought on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since this is only with regards to minors, how does this differ from the US censoring (there it's all about sex).

    I strongly suspect that American police would arrest people handing out pornographic material to kids at school?

  19. Re:Only ruled out local hidden variables. on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 1

    This was an answer to the envelope example, and my intent was mostly to not have this stand unrefuted at a certain filter level.

    I am well aware that non-local hidden variables are not ruled out, nor do I find this idea particularly unattractive. But if they were in play QM would still be plenty strange.

  20. Re:Mysterious quantum mechanical connection? on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 1

    Please moderate this up, it's the correct answer (and yes, I hold a physics degree).

  21. You may get some milage out of this software on Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? · · Score: 1

    Emergent Neural network simulator. If nothing else it will give you a good baseline of how far you can push the envelope with a single workstation.

    Just installed it on my machine and it looks well crafted and quite versatile.

  22. Alternatively ... on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    ... they could just learn Arabic and move to Saudi Arabia. I am happy to pitch in a modest amount for the ticket price, if this helps to get rid of them.

  23. Re:Why again is BP still in business? on BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments · · Score: 1

    Darn British having their way with the colonies ...

  24. Superconducting chips made from Niobium? on Warning At SC13 That Supercomputing Will Plateau Without a Disruptive Technology · · Score: 1

    D-Wave scaled up superconducting foundry output for their quantum chip, see no reason to not leverage this for conventional superconducting chips.

  25. One more reason to like the guy on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 2

    After my physics degree I thought it would be a good idea to learn something about business so I got an MBA.

    While at business school I couldn't believe the crap they teach there. Especially the believe in the efficient market hypothesis is a joke.

    But it wasn't all a waste of money. Having to get everything done as part of a diverse team, while being swamped with work, did prepare me well for consulting, and according to my wife markedly improved my social skills :-)