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  1. Re:You can homeschool all you want on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    It depends whether That Which Cannot Be Seen follows the laws of physics. If the human mind is not allowed to see it, would a camera see it, and if the camera saw it would the human mind be able to see it in the captured image? If the camera images it, it's not invisible, but the human eye might still not see it.

  2. Re:Physics of computing the universe on Can Curiosity Be Programmed? · · Score: 1

    You can construct a Turing machine which simulates itself... but you'll never finish building it because you'll keep adding tape to it until the universe ends.

  3. Re:curiosity 0.1 on Can Curiosity Be Programmed? · · Score: 1

    Why not the GPLv3 ?

    Licensing under GPLv3 is left as an exercise for any developer.

  4. Re:Well duh! on Does Personalized News Lead To Ignorance? · · Score: 1

    Have you placed a bid yet on yesterday's newspaper?

  5. So advertise, then. on How To Spread Word About My FOSS Project? · · Score: 1

    Go on a banner advertising service such as 1800banners.com and buy/exchange some banner impressions or clicks (clicks means the banner will be shown until that number of people click on it). As this is for web technology, select one of the web categories for targeting the ad. Then see if your invitations attract some users, and some developers.

  6. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Unless you have a radically new way to power a spaceship, there are no riches in the asteroid belt. There's no substance so valuable its worth the fuel to get there in a reasonable time

    Fissionables, for one. Valuable and usable for spaceship fuel in several ways. A lot of Earth's fissionables sank into the planet, so we only have access to small amounts.

  7. Re:You can homeschool all you want on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    Is something invisible merely because it is That Which Cannot Be Seen?

  8. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Earth is merely our nest, which is at the bottom of a gravity well.
    The Moon is practice for Mars.
    Mars is the gateway to the riches of the asteroid belt.

  9. Re:Breaking news on Radiation Therapy Mistakes Cost Lives · · Score: 1

    Automobile Driving Mistakes Cost Lives.

  10. Re:Sounds like a pyramid scheme on Artwork Re-Sells Itself Weekly On eBay · · Score: 1

    When we have intelligent robots, this artist will design one which will walk out your door after a week.

  11. Re:Wow What an Idea on A Practical LCD Writing Tablet · · Score: 1

    It looks like this also has no protection. Stuff it in a backpack or let it rattle around in a briefcase and you'll find scribbles added to your notes.

  12. Re:demo please? on A Practical LCD Writing Tablet · · Score: 1

    And it has digital output... through the scanner on my all-in-one printer.

  13. Re:1% is a huge difference in terms of DNA on Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction · · Score: 1

    They have sequence much of the animal's DNA. Maybe by the time they breeders are getting close the DNA technology will be able to better analyze the old samples.

  14. Be ready. on NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars · · Score: 1

    I suggest they photograph a Martian city.
    Then keep an eye on the shipyards.

  15. But was it official? on FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note · · Score: 1

    But was it an official FBI 3M PostIt Note?

  16. Re:The copyright cash cow on Sherlock Holmes and the Copyright Tangle · · Score: 1

    Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote "Elementary, my dear Watson". Perhaps it derives from some derived work

    Read all of the snopes page and you'll see it states one derived work which used it. Although the screenwriter's inspiration is unknown.

  17. Wave splash? on FTL Currents May Power Pulsar Beams · · Score: 1
    It looks to me like there is something like ripples in a rotating magnetic field, basically an electromagnetic wake. This magnetic wave hits a surrounding shell of material. If the source is rotating rapidly, the wake can get smeared across a wide angular range while the outward propagation is much slower. The wake can hit the surrounding shell almost simultaneously, with the location of the impact point changing at faster than light speed. The splash of the wave is what we see rippling across the material.

    So if you're waving a laser beam across the Moon, imagine the beam vaporizes that part of the Moon and emits a pulse at the point of impact. You could see a line of energy being emitted from the Moon, with the location of the end of the line changing faster than the speed of light.

  18. Re:GJ slashdot... on FTL Currents May Power Pulsar Beams · · Score: 1

    Good, I'm not the only one! The search result is still sitting in another tab waiting for me to get bored reading these comments.

    And thus your search result undergoes Einsteinian post-mortem rotation as you rotate your attention to it at lightspeed when you kill the other tab.

  19. Re:FTL Information? on FTL Currents May Power Pulsar Beams · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the cat is dead.

    Aww, you looked.

  20. Define "market" on France Tells Its Citizens To Abandon IE, Others Disagree · · Score: 1

    Maybe Microsoft is right. If you define "market" as "web browsers which you have to pay for".

  21. Re:Uh oh... on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    What happens when it discovers /.? It will be able to argue incomprehensibly and illogically for hours on end.

    The first thing it will do is stop reading other web pages.
    Then it will opine about them.

  22. Re:Weapon? on Using EMP To Punch Holes In Steel · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering just how much a strong magnetic field like this could accelerate a bullet-like metal object.

    You've already been advised not to kiss one, so you should be safe from whatever it does to your metal dental fillings.

  23. How to protect the workers? on Using EMP To Punch Holes In Steel · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the metal safety shields are how to protect the workers. If a hole is punched through a safety shield, it's probably time to turn off the machine.

  24. I, Professor on Robotics Prof Fears Rise of Military Robots · · Score: 1

    So how long has Sheffield University been using robotic professors?

  25. Re:Buckshot orbital shooting gallery! on India Developing Vehicle To Knock Enemy Satellites · · Score: 1

    Intended target? The intended target is anything in orbit.