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  1. Without consent? on Microsoft Asked To Compensate After Windows 10 Update Bricked PCs (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Did it really upgrade without consent, or did the users just accept the upgrade without knowing what they did?

  2. Longet title ever on White House Wants Ideas For "Bootstrapping a Solar System Civilization" · · Score: 1

    "the Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council" Does that even fit on a business card?

  3. We had on School Installs Biometric Fingerprint System For Cafeteria · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We had biometrics in our school 15 years ago, in Sweden.

  4. Particles with mass on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    If the photon turns into a pair of massy particles, shouldn't that fact alone slow it down? Anything with a mass can't move at the speed of light. Also, doesn't gravity affect light in a similar way as it affects particles with mass?

  5. Re:Fee on selling? on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    Then define your terms. Tell me what "a lot" means.

    "a lot" = enough to care about

  6. Re:Fee on selling? on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    I see your points, but the question remains: would it be possible for them to charge for a transfer. They may have stated that the bandwidth is free, but could they change that in order to cover for expenses, or as a way to try to minimize transfers?

  7. Re:Fee on selling? on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    No. It's self-evident. The games has to be downloaded by more users, and extra added overhead to verify ownership, and so on...

  8. Fee on selling? on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    If users can sell or give away games as they see fit, that would put a lot of stress on the steam servers. Would it be possible for valve to take out a fee to cover expenses?

  9. Re:Uhhhh on What 'Negative Temperature' Really Means · · Score: 1

    My take on it: Going below 0 kelvin means that the relation between energy and entropy changes. It doesnt mean that there's less than 0 energy, as one would think...

  10. Woah, that was unexpected. I know one of the co-authors and help proofreading the article months ago :-)

  11. Re:This will obviously help. on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 1

    It's the prison you go to after you get out of prison.

    Exactly! Shouldn't the person comitting a crime be redeemed after taking the punishment?

  12. Re:USB 2.0 on Open Hardware and Software Laptop · · Score: 1

    USB 3.14 only has half a cable

  13. Wow on DOOM 3 BFG Edition On Github, Timed For Oculus Rift · · Score: 1

    Didn't think we were going to see any more of Id's sources after the ZeniMax acquisition

  14. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    ... which radiate far more in the infrared and red, and far less in the colder portions of the spectrum...

    Actually infrared is the cold portion, and blue is the hot.

  15. Re:New positions? on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 1

    They have to pay for the ex-Google Mappers somehow. It's either that or convince people to start renaming continents.

    Didn't Samsung recently sue LG for hiring their ex-OLED developers? Could Google do the same? After all, tech-theft is a legidimate thing to go to court over...

  16. Re:Done 40 years ago on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 2

    Except that helium molecules are so small, they slowly leak out of pretty much any 'sealed' container?

    Doesn't something have to get in to fill the void? Otherwise there will be a vacuum left inside...

  17. Re:Space elevator orbiting the moon? on LiftPort Wants To Build Space Elevator On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 1

    If you anchor the elevator on the far side, wouldn't it be "flung out" by the motion of the moons orbit, thus reducing the lunarstationary radius?