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  1. Re:Just a silly question on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    > If we can get a superconducting material to emit a pulse of gravitational radiation,
    > would that then be able to be further refined to become an artificial gravity generator?

    No.

  2. Re:What's that smell? on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    No one has ever seen a polynomial...

  3. Re:Your choice on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > If they don't want to go legit, you should consider a new company or push FOSS
    > alternatives.

    Switching to Free Software *is* going legit.

  4. Re:Your choice on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1

    I agree, but it is going to take time to switch and he needs to try to get the company legal (or at least CHA) in the meantime.

  5. Re:Your choice on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We're talking tort here, not crime. As long as he can show that he was acting as the company's agent he's off the hook personally. That's what the CYA letter is for.

    The elephant in the room is, of course, the fact that if they fire you you might just go to the BSA...

  6. Re:Reflected gravitational waves can be useful on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    > If you can concentrate it, you can amplify it.

    That doesn't follow.

  7. Re:Just a silly question on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 2

    > This separation causes a polairisation in the material which then relaxes back at some
    > point afterwards and emmits a gravity wave.

    Seems as though that polarisation should be detectable in principle. It also seems as though one should be able to get a superconducting sheet to emit a pulse of gravitational radiation by applying an electrical pulse.

  8. Re:Gravity Shielding on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    This is about gravitational waves, not about gravitational fields.

  9. Re:What to do about it? on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 5, Funny

    > ...the default configuration doesn't allow remote access from the Internet at all.

    True. The crackers have to use the bot that controls his pc and the default password that he didn't change.

  10. Re:Tomato on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > If you allow ssh access from the wide internet...

    Why would you do that?

    > ...and you have a weak password for root...

    Why would you do that?

  11. Re:oh yeah? on Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes · · Score: 1

    The panel switch method is lower level. How do you know your card reader has not been compromised?

  12. Re:Contraposition on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    Thank you, Jeremy. You may return to your seat. Now, Jennifer, can you see any way to improve on Jeremy's proof?

  13. Re:One more time on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    The RIAA produces evidence of the downloading of one copy and then asks for $150,000 in statutory damages. If they want the judge to take their actual damages due to the downloading of 100,000 copies into consideration they must produce evidence of the downloading of 100,000 copies. They don't.

  14. Other Motivation on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm certainly not surprised to see a Democratic administration support the entertainment industry, but in this case they probably have other motivation as well. An unfavorable ruling here could be generalized to the awarding of amounts unrelated to actual damages for any reason. Since it is often the government that collects such awards...

  15. Re:Think of the opportunities here! on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    And the script kiddies will once again have entertainment.

  16. Re:You have the date. What's the next instruction? on Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date · · Score: 1

    Why? He said nothing about illegal drugs. child pornography, or "terrorism".

  17. Re:Read the interview with Charlie Miller on Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date · · Score: 1

    Taking over people's property without their permission and using it for your own ends? sounds like government in action to me.

  18. Re:Look at the Classifieds on Programming Language Specialization Dilemma · · Score: 1

    > ...no matter how much you hate Microsoft, has more SQL...

    Since when does Structured Query Language have anything in particular to do with Microsoft?

  19. Re:Forget'em on Programming Language Specialization Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not nursing (which will soon be overpopulated) but studying medical records might be a good move.

  20. Procedural only? Sad on Programming Language Specialization Dilemma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's sad to see programs that purport to be about computer science cover only a few popular procedural languaages.

  21. Re:Will Orion be able to service it? on John Mather On the Building of the James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > ...having a multi-billion dollar spacecraft dependent on a foreign launch vehicle makes
    > me nervous.

    That's silly. Ariane V is just as reliable as anything the USA has that could launch the JWST. This is not some Russian war-surplus ICBM or Chinese knock-off of an old US design. It is a mature modern rocket with an excellent launch history.

  22. Re:Disturbing on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    > Not by everyone's definition...

    By every physicist's definition.

  23. Re:Contraposition on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    Can we see your proof, please?

  24. Re:What does this say about the search for the Hig on Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle · · Score: 1

    This discovery does not imply any problems with the Standard Model at all.

  25. Re:Disturbing on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 2, Informative

    > That is, if I am correct in interpreting your statements as presuming that quantum
    > mechanics is apart from "traditional" physics.

    Quantum mechanics is traditional physics.