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  1. Re:record ? on Fusion Progress: Superheated Gas Kept Stable For 5 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    6min30 for a Tokamak design, record date is 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    some video of it: http://www-fusion-magnetique.c...

    So 1000sec in 2012 is not a shock to me.

  2. Re:record ? on Fusion Progress: Superheated Gas Kept Stable For 5 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    unfortunately the source is a dead link, see foot note 18 here
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Here a 60sec burn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    Can't put my hand on other video I'd seen in the past, one of which was 7min. I keep searching, must still be there somewhere :)

  3. record ? on Fusion Progress: Superheated Gas Kept Stable For 5 Milliseconds · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't understand the difference between this record compare to current record of holding plasma, which is about 16min.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. srly ? on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 2

    18 years as a developer, I've never used such a shitty test..

  5. Re:most like 100,000 years on Evidence of 100,000-Year-Old Life Found In Antarctic Subglacial Lake · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most people think radio-dating is only done by carbon, they don't understand that we use different element in different context..
    They usually don't understand the principle of half-life and think we have to wait that time to measure it..
    Typical creationist argument ;)

  6. Anime on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    There is a very good Anime about Hikikomori : N.H.K.

  7. Re:Web of trust on Mozilla Launches Initiative To Adapt Scientific Practice To the Open Web · · Score: 1

    As long as you are qualified to judge what you download and read, then you can choose to seed it.
    If "approval" is not restricted to qualified people (like current peer review process) it's a open door to a big mess!

    Massive approval != correct publication. (just look how many people use homeopathy...)

  8. Re:Looks like creationism... on Moore's Law and the Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    > Do you even understand what it means to "calibrate"? Do you understand what it means that they have to consider things such as sample contamination and so on?
    > An accurate measurement of the ratio of C12 to C14 atoms does not mean you have an accurate measurement of the age of the item, because you do not know the starting ratio, and you have not validated the assumption that decay rates stays constant over long periods of time.

    You seriously think they don't know about that?

    > Why did you use "almost surely"? Why not "definitely"? What uncertainty are you accounting for with that phrasing?

    Since I am not a expert in that field, I can't affirm this with certainty, and since you are the one with doubt, you should be the one learning on the subject, you obviously lake the necessary knowledge to understand what you criticize.

    > Because those values are estimated based on models and not experimentally verified

    Most are experimentally verified, even if you stat the contrary.

    > An experiment that verifies the accuracy of long term age estimates requires multiples of the time period in question. When it comes to millions to billions of years, we do not and have the millions and billions of years of data to validate the estimates. In short, they're unprovable claims until we've performed some million/billion year experiments. Inconveniently, those results are outside of our lifetimes.

    No. This is not necessary to do it that way. We have tons of evidences and experimental data to backup those claims, but you obviously refuse to admit that. Do some research, try to understand how the age of the universe is calculated, how each 'tool' works, what data are used, how they are verified, what experiments have been done. I think you don't understand there is not on one way used to calculate the age, but multiple ways which all converge to the same value. And with advance in science, this value is more and more accurate.

  9. Re:Looks like creationism... on Moore's Law and the Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    1. Carbon is one of many isotopes you can use for dating, some of them has short half-life which has been tested and proven. Even in your life time. The process itself is accurate, but a specific half-life can't give you age precision under that half-life.

    2. Red shift is one tool which help us to measure the expansion of the universe, which help us to measure the age of the universe. This tool associated with many others allow us to do a pretty accurate measure. I was just pointing out to you other means of measure than radio-dating.

    3. "Estimates are not verifications": this is why we give uncertainty range. The good value is almost surely in that range. At least all evidences and experiments point to it. Certainly not 6 000 years.. Actually, we have 'verified' that estimations, multiple times, refine its accuracy.

    It's not because we use the word "estimation", the values are wrong or unknown.

  10. Re:Looks like creationism... on Moore's Law and the Origin of Life · · Score: 1
  11. Re:I don't get it. on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    Well, not really.
    There are others laws and you can work anything between 35 and 39 hours.
    With some other contract types, you don't have hours rules, but days. My contract state I must work something like 220 days per year, my boss ask 40 hours per week. But in practice, as long as you do your job in time, you can work less hours. (but more in "rush periods")

    Most CEO will try to make you do over-hours and not paid them to you, so in most case, you have a 35 hours contract and work near 40, if you don't or protest or anything, well, they made you quit.

  12. Re:More context provided in the extended clip. on Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz · · Score: 1

    I think it's Yoda, not Spock :)

  13. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not to mention that Hagia Sophia is originally a orthodox basilica.. and so a orthodox design..

  14. Re:Omg :( on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    This is what scare me, 'cause I am also a sw fan, at some point, and I'am afraid to be disappointed, again..

  15. Re:Can't we get somebody with a proven track recor on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Doll House was good imo

  16. Re:Can't we get somebody with a proven track recor on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    (just learn that you can't post a "less than" sign into comment, the alone 3 was suppose to be "less than" 3 ^^)

  17. Re:Can't we get somebody with a proven track recor on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Interesting
    3

  18. Re:No more time travel! on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 2

    Time travel can be well used... But also so easily miss and over used!
    (ie Lost and final of Fringe)

  19. Re:Why JJ Abrams when you could get Peter Jackson? on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this guy would make a better one for sure!
    But he would trade spaceship and asteroid belt for some planetary landscape shot somewhere in NZ :D

  20. Omg :( on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 2

    Please not him ...
    StarTrek 2009 is not bad, but not good as well... (and I am a trek fan, so I love anything trekky)
    But, I can't stand Lost, and Fringe which had a good start has gone down and down.. to a meaningless end... So disappointed..
    Just my point of view but I think this guy is overrated where he should only get a 5/10 score.

  21. Re:green soup must be bad for you on That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros · · Score: 1

    It's not that irish or french people want this, only some lobby pushing for it, and some bad politics which follow...
    Google news is free advertising for them and they didn't even understand that...
    btw you're right, god doesn't exist :)

  22. Re:Firefox + 64bits = Waterfox on Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now · · Score: 1

    Waterfox follow the release cycle of Firefox (release channel, no beta nor alpha), with a little delay (from days to weeks)

  23. Firefox + 64bits = Waterfox on Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you want a 64bits version of Firefox, use Waterfox :)
    http://www.waterfoxproject.org/

  24. Re:Tesla on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 2

    "Wireless high power transmission using microwaves is well proven. Experiments in the tens of kilowatts have been performed at Goldstone in California in 1975 and more recently (1997) at Grand Bassin on Reunion Island. These methods achieve distances on the order of a kilometer."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer#Microwave_method

  25. Re:Tesla on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 1

    This has already been done, on few hundreds meters using big directional antenna in area where you can install wires. I just cant remember where it was.. A tv documentary I've seen 10 years ago at least. Somewhere in south America, to power some scientists observatories or alike.