Where are you getting these numbers? Where is Japan and Korea on this chart? Because they always top the other charts
Anyway, average total bandwidth is wrong metric to be using. What you want is average home bandwidth available, and average home bandwidth per dollar, or some other way of measuring how evenly distributed the bandwidth is among the population. Average is astupid because it makes no distinction between the apartment complex in Seoul, and the bums sleeping in Akamai's dumpster, since both groups have an average bandwidth of 45 Mb/s. So what if in one case it's 10 people each with 45 Mb/s and in the other it's 1 person with 450 Mb/s and 9 people with 0 Mb/s?
It's transparent that average bandwidth is being used to whitewash over the inefficiencies in the American market when every other study places the oh about 33rd in the world, and all the ads are touting "super fast" 3 Mb/s links that rarely reach 2.5 Mb/s in practice.
It certainly appears that the free market has failed America once again. (And no one even start with rant that problem is too much regulation, when "socialist" Scandinavia kicks your ass, it ain't that.)
Just pass a federal law stating that it is an illegal restraint of interstate trade for a state or municipality to restrict the ability of new service providers to enter their markets. The only regulations they should be able to impose are civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure.
And when trade comes to a halt because all the streets and sidewalks are torn up?
I was all excited to see DEC back in the news. Oh how I missed you since that fateful day in 1998 when you got bought by Compaq, which inturn got bought by HP by the woman who now hopes to do for California and America, what she did for HP.
But alas, no. You are gone and shall never return. I guess I'll just have to file your section next to Enlightenment's, and all the other sections that people have no idea what they're for. Can't someone over clock a a DEC Alpha or something?
The obvious fact is, that Lord Bill's nightmare came true. He was afraid that web browser would make the operating system irrelevant, and that's exactly what happened. Think about it. When was the last time someone said, "Hey check this out! Go download this application..." Almost never. All the really exciting is happening on the web. That's because the web has matured to the point that developers are leveraging Internet scale data. Not only that, but web based apps are preferred by users because they work everywhere. I still use a standalone application for email, but I'm in the minority. This hasn't just made Microsoft unhip, but frankly irrelevant. As I told a friend of mine who said how he despised Microsoft, "Isn't hating Microsoft, a bit like still hating Prussia?" What does Microsoft have that's relevant? Sure they still have their Windows and Office, but that software is commodified. I can access the web with any OS, so Windows simply doesn't matter. With interoperability. no one really needs Office. For me, Apple's Pages and Numbers work pretty well, although I still prefer Excel for its ability to allow me to write custom functions (albeit in VB).
Now here's the irony, Microsoft Research is supercool. They do all sorts of groundbreaking stuff. Photosynth, Surface, along with work in collaboration and personal information management, just to name a few areas. MSR is great, and there really aren't that many places that do that work, let alone at with the both the breadth and depth of MSR. Microsoft doesn't really have too many peers in that respect, and that makes Microsoft very hip. Of course, MSR isn't for everyone, but for those people that like to do research, its great place to work.
So why don't they do anything to reduce the chance of delays, such as not scheduling more flights than an airport can actually handle during a given period of time?
You don't understand the problem at all do you?
The problem is that there's no slack in the system. None at all. One of the reasons is because planes have to fly at minimum distances apart while staying on certain FAA defined routes. (e.g. Your nonstop flight from LAX to JFK isn't the Great Circle Route, but rather a series of straight line segments that do not always approximate the Great Circle. Ever wonder why your flight goes over Denver? Now you know.) One plane on one route runs into a headwind, or must divert for storm (and it always happens), and the entire system begins to backup, and stays backed up for hours, just like a slowdown on the the highway.
Free flight might be able to help with this, but that's the problem. Most popular destinations are at capacity. They're not over capacity, they're at it. What you want is for someone to voluntarily cut back service so that service is improved for their competitors. That simply isn't going to happen. Something akin to congestion pricing might help, but that's not the airline's role. That's the airports and the FAA's. In fact. it isn't clear that the airports could even do that, since they lease the gates exclusively to each airline. They're not simply assigned on a first come first serve basis.
Of course no one applies saying, "I want a phd. I'll do anything." You say what you're interested in, but the fact is you rarely pick your advisor or your topic. It depends on who can take another student on, and who has money for what. Sure you can try and get an advisor to like you, and you can try an massage a topic into something you're more interested in, but it's still a lot like an arranged marriage. Which is to say, your phd career might not be exactly what you were expecting, but that doesn't mean you won't still be satisfied.
Q: Where will the data of the users be hosted? On servers you buy/rent?
A: Short answer: Where ever you like.
We think most people will use some sort of hosting provider to host their seed. This could be a traditional web host, a cloud based host, an ISP, or a friend.
For the less technically inclined, we hope to provide a one-click hosting service like Wordpress.com to make creating a seed as easy as possible.
I don't know where your "chained-to-the-floor portables we have now" comment is coming from. My laptop has 6 hour battery. An iPad has 10 hours. Not exactly chained to the floor.
As to why the home phone should be a server, that question stands the world on its head. There is no reason to keep phones dumb. Not even financial reasons are valid any more.
Let me ask it another way then. Why should anyone have a server in their home to begin with?
There's none. A hosting service, either a traditional service (i.e. you get space on a computer that runs various servers to use) or a simple service (e.g. blog hosting like wordpress.com or blogger, or even facebook) is all people need. You don't have to control these machines, as long as you can easily import and export your data to and from them. (Coincidently this where wordpress.com beats the living crap out of facebook.)
As long as you have interoperability (ideally though open standards, but that's not strictly necessary), you avoid lock in, and that's all you need to do.
If you are aspiring for a PhD, you should already have a good grasp at researching papers and conference proceedings. Actually, should probably have already done that part... From these papers and conference proceedings, you can quickly identify those working in your field of interest and get a (partial) big picture of who's doing what where. Limiting you search to the last 36 months might be helpful.
True story:
*ring* *ring* PhD Applicant: Hello? Dr. Z: Hey Applicant, I'm Dr. Z at one of the schools you applied to. Can we talk? A: Sure. Z: Ever thought about information retrieval? A: Not really. Z: What do you think when I say "information retrieval?" A: "Search engines." Z: Is that something you're interested in? A: (I better say yes, if I want accepted into the university.) It could be interesting. Z: Great!
Fast forward one year.
Z: Hey Former Applicant, there might be some money for you if you work shopping websites. Are you interested? A: (I better say yes, if I want money.) I'll give it a try.
Fast forward four more years.
Z: Congratulations on your new PhD in shopping websites! A: Thanks Dr. Z!
Did you guess who this applicant was? IT WAS ME! (FYI: I actually like my disertation topic.)
And you know what? That scene, or one very similar is played out all around the world every day. No one really their research topic, their advisor does it for them. Most applicants, don't know any current phd students outside of their TAs, and they don't even know them that well.
The best thing to do is a combination of picking some universities you like, and picking a conference (ideally, a top one, but you probably don't know which one is a top one) and then seeing who had papers there. That tells you what schools have labs in that field. Browse the faculty and grad student pages and see what's going on.
The house phone will become a server, it will run asterisk, and it will host the family/indvidual website and bulletin board.
If by "future" you mean "yesterday's future," then yes.
Home phone? Really? How many people own those things any more? More importantly, what are the trend lines? Why would you buy one, when cell phones are ubiquitous and work equally well inside houses? I single that out because you're describing the fabulous future of 1994.
While I like decentralization, because it means a greater ability for open standards and survivability, which in turn means better interoperability, and more innovation. What isn't required is for everyone to run their own server in their house. I have a phd in computer science, but I am not a sysadmin. I hate it. There is nothing more frustrating than sysadmining. I am not going to patch systems, debug link connections, or anything. Fuck that shit. Life is much more interesting and too short to waste on configuring routers. That's why I pay someone else to host my website. I get a website that I want, but I don't have to really do anything to keep it working. Same thing with Diaspora nodes. You create a hosting service, because no one wants to buy a damn box.
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Main Point: We don't argue that climate change isn't happening, and if that's what you think the debate is about then you are completely wrong.
It's interesting that you brought that up, given the history of the climate change "debate." Because until about 10 years ago, saying global warming doesn't exist was the position of the deniers. The position was that global temperatures were not increasing. Then the position was changed to admitting that that temperatures were increasing, but no faster than historical rates, even though it's clearly exponential growth. (i.e. the hockey stick, and yes, even the "new" "refined" hockey stick) Even earlier this year you had conservatives mocking global warming because of a blizzard.
You're the one that doesn't understand the history of your own position.
That is to say, you can't bring up monetary incentives as proof of accuracy without noting that there's a lot of money going both ways - which is true in the meta-sense of the global warming debate. There are literally trillions of dollars, not to mention the very notion of who controls industry, at stake in this discussion.
You have a very novel definition of "a lot" then. There are trillions of dollars on one side (the carbon industry), and low tens of millions on the other.
Hardly an independent panel. And really, they did say he was incorrect to not have real statisticians working on the results - which invalidates much of the published work.
Umm... No, it doesn't invalidate it. Even after rerunning the regression, the conclusions remained the same. All that changed was a slight change to the slope of the line.
Your fundamental problem in arguing with a person who denies global warming is that they use erroneous logic. [...] Oh, and for future articles, Bad Astronomer, using cute otter lolcats to fire back at your opponents isn't exactly the hallmark of a logically sound debate. It's little more than an ad hominem attack.
While an ad hominem attack has no place in a legitimate debate, but as you point out there is no actual debate here, since no amount of evidence or logic is ever enough to convince the deniers. So it's pretty hypocritical to complain that someone making a throwaway (and by your assessment insightful) joke at the end.
Surely you realize that with all manufactured controversies, always responding to the allegations in a thoughtful and reasoned manner only further legitimizes the idea that there is a controversy, especially in a world where journalism has been replaced with stenography seeking out and presenting two sides (and only two sides) to every "issue" imaginable, in order to maintain access and foster an imagine of neutrality and respectability. They aren't liberal or conservative, they are aloof. We see it with climate change. We've also seen it with torture. From the 1930s to 2004, waterboarding was uniformly described as "torture" in the media, then it suddenly wasn't. What changed? The United States government started torturing people. Most damningly, waterboarding remained "torture" when done by non-Americans. When one's goal is simply to muddy the waters and sow confusion, being treated with respect is victory.
Global warming deniers are no different from creationists, homeopathic healers, psychics, UFOlogists, believers in moon landing hoaxes, 9/11 truthers, birthers, and the like. They are illegitimate because the do not wish to face up to facts and arguments, but rather paint themselves as as persecuted martyr that brings the "truth."
All he has to do is sign an executive order. That's it. Nothing else. Doesn't need Congress's approval, doesn't need the help of anyone else in the Executive branch. He just needs to write the order and sign it.
Their huge majorities? What majorities? In the senate, there's 58 Democrats, 40 Republicans and two independents that are mostly Republican.
While the independent senator from Connecticut meets that description. I challenge you support your claim on Bernie Sanders.
But yeah, the Democratic Senate leadership is a group of losers with learned helplessness. I mean my god, you first pick a weak willed loser from from South Dakota that had to run ads being chummy with the opposition president in a desperate failed attempt at re-election, and then replace him with in identical loser from Nevada.
I don't know which is more pathetic, the Democratic Senate leadership or a bunch of Republican fanboys trying claim these spineless wusses are a bunch of jackbooted thugs. The leadership is Allen Colmes. No, I take that back. I do know which is more pathetic. It's the Democratic Senators.
As any grader can tell you, cheaters are intrinsically lazy. Because they are lazy, they will inevitably fail to sufficiently cover their tracks, most often because the coverup is harder than the original task.
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Where are you getting these numbers? Where is Japan and Korea on this chart? Because they always top the other charts
Anyway, average total bandwidth is wrong metric to be using. What you want is average home bandwidth available, and average home bandwidth per dollar, or some other way of measuring how evenly distributed the bandwidth is among the population. Average is astupid because it makes no distinction between the apartment complex in Seoul, and the bums sleeping in Akamai's dumpster, since both groups have an average bandwidth of 45 Mb/s. So what if in one case it's 10 people each with 45 Mb/s and in the other it's 1 person with 450 Mb/s and 9 people with 0 Mb/s?
It's transparent that average bandwidth is being used to whitewash over the inefficiencies in the American market when every other study places the oh about 33rd in the world, and all the ads are touting "super fast" 3 Mb/s links that rarely reach 2.5 Mb/s in practice.
It certainly appears that the free market has failed America once again. (And no one even start with rant that problem is too much regulation, when "socialist" Scandinavia kicks your ass, it ain't that.)
Just pass a federal law stating that it is an illegal restraint of interstate trade for a state or municipality to restrict the ability of new service providers to enter their markets. The only regulations they should be able to impose are civil and criminal penalties for damaging infrastructure.
And when trade comes to a halt because all the streets and sidewalks are torn up?
There's always a way to "hide" something. You simply don't define every term, and then duke it out in the courts.
Or you simply ignore it, and then claim that congress is infringing on the "rights" of rich people, and get a 5-4 decision in your favor.
Are you a professor at Glenn Beck University? You could be! ;)
Monkey contractors may work for bananas but the quality of the work still isn't there especially on maritime projects.
I guess he should have hired more elephants. I understand that they work for peanuts.
*ba-bum-bum ksshhh*
Lord Ram had a monkey army not only fight for him, but build a bridge to Sri Lanka so that he could attack his enemies.
AND DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT'S A MYTH!
I was all excited to see DEC back in the news. Oh how I missed you since that fateful day in 1998 when you got bought by Compaq, which inturn got bought by HP by the woman who now hopes to do for California and America, what she did for HP.
But alas, no. You are gone and shall never return. I guess I'll just have to file your section next to Enlightenment's, and all the other sections that people have no idea what they're for. Can't someone over clock a a DEC Alpha or something?
I'm really tempted to post some enlightenment news, but I wish it was something more than their most recent point release.
You know what's really supercool?
Shipping stuff that people can use.
Hey stop working on the internal combustion engine! We've got to come up with stronger horseshoes!
The obvious fact is, that Lord Bill's nightmare came true. He was afraid that web browser would make the operating system irrelevant, and that's exactly what happened. Think about it. When was the last time someone said, "Hey check this out! Go download this application..." Almost never. All the really exciting is happening on the web. That's because the web has matured to the point that developers are leveraging Internet scale data. Not only that, but web based apps are preferred by users because they work everywhere. I still use a standalone application for email, but I'm in the minority. This hasn't just made Microsoft unhip, but frankly irrelevant. As I told a friend of mine who said how he despised Microsoft, "Isn't hating Microsoft, a bit like still hating Prussia?" What does Microsoft have that's relevant? Sure they still have their Windows and Office, but that software is commodified. I can access the web with any OS, so Windows simply doesn't matter. With interoperability. no one really needs Office. For me, Apple's Pages and Numbers work pretty well, although I still prefer Excel for its ability to allow me to write custom functions (albeit in VB).
Now here's the irony, Microsoft Research is supercool. They do all sorts of groundbreaking stuff. Photosynth, Surface, along with work in collaboration and personal information management, just to name a few areas. MSR is great, and there really aren't that many places that do that work, let alone at with the both the breadth and depth of MSR. Microsoft doesn't really have too many peers in that respect, and that makes Microsoft very hip. Of course, MSR isn't for everyone, but for those people that like to do research, its great place to work.
So why don't they do anything to reduce the chance of delays, such as not scheduling more flights than an airport can actually handle during a given period of time?
You don't understand the problem at all do you?
The problem is that there's no slack in the system. None at all. One of the reasons is because planes have to fly at minimum distances apart while staying on certain FAA defined routes. (e.g. Your nonstop flight from LAX to JFK isn't the Great Circle Route, but rather a series of straight line segments that do not always approximate the Great Circle. Ever wonder why your flight goes over Denver? Now you know.) One plane on one route runs into a headwind, or must divert for storm (and it always happens), and the entire system begins to backup, and stays backed up for hours, just like a slowdown on the the highway.
Free flight might be able to help with this, but that's the problem. Most popular destinations are at capacity. They're not over capacity, they're at it. What you want is for someone to voluntarily cut back service so that service is improved for their competitors. That simply isn't going to happen. Something akin to congestion pricing might help, but that's not the airline's role. That's the airports and the FAA's. In fact. it isn't clear that the airports could even do that, since they lease the gates exclusively to each airline. They're not simply assigned on a first come first serve basis.
Of course no one applies saying, "I want a phd. I'll do anything." You say what you're interested in, but the fact is you rarely pick your advisor or your topic. It depends on who can take another student on, and who has money for what. Sure you can try and get an advisor to like you, and you can try an massage a topic into something you're more interested in, but it's still a lot like an arranged marriage. Which is to say, your phd career might not be exactly what you were expecting, but that doesn't mean you won't still be satisfied.
Home server isn't required?
From the faq:
I don't know where your "chained-to-the-floor portables we have now" comment is coming from. My laptop has 6 hour battery. An iPad has 10 hours. Not exactly chained to the floor.
As to why the home phone should be a server, that question stands the world on its head. There is no reason to keep phones dumb. Not even financial reasons are valid any more.
Let me ask it another way then. Why should anyone have a server in their home to begin with?
There's none. A hosting service, either a traditional service (i.e. you get space on a computer that runs various servers to use) or a simple service (e.g. blog hosting like wordpress.com or blogger, or even facebook) is all people need. You don't have to control these machines, as long as you can easily import and export your data to and from them. (Coincidently this where wordpress.com beats the living crap out of facebook.)
As long as you have interoperability (ideally though open standards, but that's not strictly necessary), you avoid lock in, and that's all you need to do.
If you are aspiring for a PhD, you should already have a good grasp at researching papers and conference proceedings. Actually, should probably have already done that part... From these papers and conference proceedings, you can quickly identify those working in your field of interest and get a (partial) big picture of who's doing what where. Limiting you search to the last 36 months might be helpful.
True story:
*ring* *ring*
PhD Applicant: Hello?
Dr. Z: Hey Applicant, I'm Dr. Z at one of the schools you applied to. Can we talk?
A: Sure.
Z: Ever thought about information retrieval?
A: Not really.
Z: What do you think when I say "information retrieval?"
A: "Search engines."
Z: Is that something you're interested in?
A: (I better say yes, if I want accepted into the university.) It could be interesting.
Z: Great!
Fast forward one year.
Z: Hey Former Applicant, there might be some money for you if you work shopping websites. Are you interested?
A: (I better say yes, if I want money.) I'll give it a try.
Fast forward four more years.
Z: Congratulations on your new PhD in shopping websites!
A: Thanks Dr. Z!
Did you guess who this applicant was? IT WAS ME! (FYI: I actually like my disertation topic.)
And you know what? That scene, or one very similar is played out all around the world every day. No one really their research topic, their advisor does it for them. Most applicants, don't know any current phd students outside of their TAs, and they don't even know them that well.
The best thing to do is a combination of picking some universities you like, and picking a conference (ideally, a top one, but you probably don't know which one is a top one) and then seeing who had papers there. That tells you what schools have labs in that field. Browse the faculty and grad student pages and see what's going on.
Pick 6 to 8 and apply.
This is the future.
The house phone will become a server, it will run asterisk, and it will host the family/indvidual website and bulletin board.
If by "future" you mean "yesterday's future," then yes.
Home phone? Really? How many people own those things any more? More importantly, what are the trend lines? Why would you buy one, when cell phones are ubiquitous and work equally well inside houses? I single that out because you're describing the fabulous future of 1994.
While I like decentralization, because it means a greater ability for open standards and survivability, which in turn means better interoperability, and more innovation. What isn't required is for everyone to run their own server in their house. I have a phd in computer science, but I am not a sysadmin. I hate it. There is nothing more frustrating than sysadmining. I am not going to patch systems, debug link connections, or anything. Fuck that shit. Life is much more interesting and too short to waste on configuring routers. That's why I pay someone else to host my website. I get a website that I want, but I don't have to really do anything to keep it working. Same thing with Diaspora nodes. You create a hosting service, because no one wants to buy a damn box.
Main Point: We don't argue that climate change isn't happening, and if that's what you think the debate is about then you are completely wrong.
It's interesting that you brought that up, given the history of the climate change "debate." Because until about 10 years ago, saying global warming doesn't exist was the position of the deniers. The position was that global temperatures were not increasing. Then the position was changed to admitting that that temperatures were increasing, but no faster than historical rates, even though it's clearly exponential growth. (i.e. the hockey stick, and yes, even the "new" "refined" hockey stick) Even earlier this year you had conservatives mocking global warming because of a blizzard.
You're the one that doesn't understand the history of your own position.
As a historical parallel, I suggest you read up on cancer and the tobacco lobby. "Doctors smoke Camels," but the tobacco industry knew they caused cancer in nineteen-fifty-fucking-three , yet they denied it for 45 years. Even recently before Congress, the CEOs of the tobacco industry declared under oath, I believe that nicotine is not addictive, even though the American Heart Association (you know, doctors), have said "nicotine addiction has historically been one of the hardest addictions to break."
No you're being played, but you don't realize that, because you're too "intelligent" and "independent" to realize it.
That is to say, you can't bring up monetary incentives as proof of accuracy without noting that there's a lot of money going both ways - which is true in the meta-sense of the global warming debate. There are literally trillions of dollars, not to mention the very notion of who controls industry, at stake in this discussion.
You have a very novel definition of "a lot" then. There are trillions of dollars on one side (the carbon industry), and low tens of millions on the other.
No one gets rich doing science.
Hardly an independent panel. And really, they did say he was incorrect to not have real statisticians working on the results - which invalidates much of the published work.
Umm... No, it doesn't invalidate it. Even after rerunning the regression, the conclusions remained the same. All that changed was a slight change to the slope of the line.
Your fundamental problem in arguing with a person who denies global warming is that they use erroneous logic. [...] Oh, and for future articles, Bad Astronomer, using cute otter lolcats to fire back at your opponents isn't exactly the hallmark of a logically sound debate. It's little more than an ad hominem attack.
While an ad hominem attack has no place in a legitimate debate, but as you point out there is no actual debate here, since no amount of evidence or logic is ever enough to convince the deniers. So it's pretty hypocritical to complain that someone making a throwaway (and by your assessment insightful) joke at the end.
Surely you realize that with all manufactured controversies, always responding to the allegations in a thoughtful and reasoned manner only further legitimizes the idea that there is a controversy, especially in a world where journalism has been replaced with stenography seeking out and presenting two sides (and only two sides) to every "issue" imaginable, in order to maintain access and foster an imagine of neutrality and respectability. They aren't liberal or conservative, they are aloof. We see it with climate change. We've also seen it with torture. From the 1930s to 2004, waterboarding was uniformly described as "torture" in the media, then it suddenly wasn't. What changed? The United States government started torturing people. Most damningly, waterboarding remained "torture" when done by non-Americans. When one's goal is simply to muddy the waters and sow confusion, being treated with respect is victory.
Global warming deniers are no different from creationists, homeopathic healers, psychics, UFOlogists, believers in moon landing hoaxes, 9/11 truthers, birthers, and the like. They are illegitimate because the do not wish to face up to facts and arguments, but rather paint themselves as as persecuted martyr that brings the "truth."
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
You have a very novel definition for "proven".
All he has to do is sign an executive order. That's it. Nothing else. Doesn't need Congress's approval, doesn't need the help of anyone else in the Executive branch. He just needs to write the order and sign it.
Actually, no. (10 U.S.C. 654)
I suggest you actually learn a little bit about DADT.
Their huge majorities? What majorities? In the senate, there's 58 Democrats, 40 Republicans and two independents that are mostly Republican.
While the independent senator from Connecticut meets that description. I challenge you support your claim on Bernie Sanders.
But yeah, the Democratic Senate leadership is a group of losers with learned helplessness. I mean my god, you first pick a weak willed loser from from South Dakota that had to run ads being chummy with the opposition president in a desperate failed attempt at re-election, and then replace him with in identical loser from Nevada.
I don't know which is more pathetic, the Democratic Senate leadership or a bunch of Republican fanboys trying claim these spineless wusses are a bunch of jackbooted thugs. The leadership is Allen Colmes. No, I take that back. I do know which is more pathetic. It's the Democratic Senators.
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Mal detects fraud in an episode of Firefly.
In Dark Horse Expanded Universe Star Wars Comic Centered on Background-Character-with-Back-to-Camera-Seen-at-43-Seconds-in-to-the-Tatooine-Cantina-Scene-of-the-Special-Edition-of-SW:ANH detects fraud during a Dejarik game.
Super Miroki-chan detects fraud while negotiating for the return of her panties in the anime OAV Tentacle Monster Love 3000.{dubious}} In the original manga, Miroki-chan instead detects fraud from Harumi-kun {{original research?}}
Math outs a fraud. How is that not cool? It's like real life Mathnet!