User: Ceyx

Omnicloud could be a solution

On: If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready?

This looks like it would have that problem covered, along with a lot of other concerns like data encryption...

http://www.omnicloud.sit.fraun...

FP

On: Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program

First Post your way to a degree!

Re:Garbage

On: FTL Neutrinos Explained... Maybe

Actually you can aim them by choosing your generation process parameters correctly.

Thanks for the interesting reads

On: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Slashdot has always been one of my favorite sites and a source of interesting information off the mainstream information sources. You could find real gems in the posts, although sometimes hidden in tons of trolling ;-)

Good luck with your future.

Good summaries

On: How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments?

I like:

http://physicsworld.com/
http://www.physicstoday.org/

They are good a summary of current work but still easy to understand.

Voodoo

On: Apple Sues Steve Jobs Figurine Maker Over Likeness

Maybe SJ is a beliver in Voodoo and afraid of angry customers ;-)

Re:Intelligent life...

On: Potential 'Avatar' Gas Giant Exoplanet Discovered

There is a very nice SCI-FI story about life in strange locations here, it is called "Passages in the Void"

http://localroger.com/revelation-passage/

 

Robosoccer Videos

On: German Robot Dogs Dominate 2005 RoboCup U.S. Open

Sombody asked for some videos of Robosoccer matches, unfortunatly i could not find any of the 2005 World Cup but some nice aolder ones:

http://www-ds.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~robotics/ content/videos.html

Have fun ...

Re:Of course there will be lots of comments!

On: The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design

Actually Entropy (in the thermodynamic sense) S is NOT measured relative to something but defined as S:= -k_b*SUM_i(p_i*ln(p_i)), k_b being the Bolzmann konstant, p_i the probability of the state i and finally SUM_i the sum over all possible states i (Pretty hard to calculate ;-))

Just nitpicking here, doesen't really change any argument above ;-)

Re:the right tool for the job

On: Mars Orbiter Lost Over Metric Conversion Error

Have you ever tried to express the wavelength of visible light in the English system ? I guess it would be something like nanofoot ... but wait, arent we mixing to different bases now ? As long as you are using an numeric system with base 10 it's clear that this is the system of choice for science. And if we use the same system in normal life stupid errors like this wouldn't happen.