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  1. Re:General Relativity is Wrong on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    But this seems to contradict special relativity. That's pretty hard to swallow.

  2. Re:More tests please. on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    All the relativistic effects have been accounted for. They are well-understood and routine for folks who use GPS for high-precision measurement (both time and space).

  3. Re:Supernovas on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    Dimensions are not places.

  4. Re:Supernovas on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 2

    Muons "oscillate" from electron to muon to tau and back again (this is what OPERA was designed to measure). Supernova muons will have gone through all three phases many, many times. In the unlikely event that muon neutrinos do exceed c the behavior of supernova neutrinos could be explained if one of the other types travels slower than c so that the speed averages out to exactly c. This is also unlikely of course, but what's one more impossible thing before breakfast?

  5. Re:Hard Balls? on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 1

    I could see banning hardballs. Even when I was in primary school (seventies) they weren't allowed.

    Yes, the rot had already set in by then.

    Why, in the fifties not only did we walk uphill both ways in the snow, we had balls. Hard ones.

  6. It may be cheaper to pay the registration fees now on Schools Buy .xxx Domains In Trademark Panic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...than the lawyers later. Even if the schools' names are protected by trademark and/or defamation law it's likely to cost considerably more than $200 to find infringing domains and get them revoked.

    Besides, when the school gets hard up for money they can rent their .xxx domain out for pron.

    Or they could just give it to their cheerleaders...

  7. Repair a smartphone?? on Motorola Reinvents the RAZR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aren't they meant to be disposable? I thought you just threw them away when they became obsolete after six months.

  8. Wake me up when they start issuing /48s. on Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users · · Score: 0

    They won't really be supporting IPv6 until then.

  9. Appaloosas rule! on Spotted Horses May Have Roamed Europe 25,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Knabstrups are ok too.

    The best horse I ever owned was an Appaloosa. He died two years ago at the age of 36. Good old Snout.

  10. Ministry for State Security, of course. on Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    In German. Or Russian. Or maybe Chinese.

  11. Re:but but but virtual particles... on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    All black holes radiate. The power density decreases with size. This means that even galactic ones must have non-zero blackbody temperatures which, at least in principle, could be measured.

  12. Re:Slashdot: Anti-science for ignorant pseudo-nerd on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    > ...talking a brief pin hole...

    No we aren't. There are no holes involved. That's just typical reportorial hype.

  13. Re:Value for money? on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    > ...blue sky projects like these.

    This is no "blue sky" project. No holes are being ripped in anything. The article is mostly hype and bullshit.

  14. This just shows, in a roundabout way... on When Geeks Meet, Are They More Likely To Have Autistic Kids? · · Score: 1

    ...that engineers are smarter than doctors. Well, we all knew that.

  15. Re:Security/Privacy companies giving out your priv on Carbonite Privacy Breach Leads To Spam · · Score: 1

    Whats better is that they give out their ENTIRE FUCKING LIST, and then give another list of 'don't email these guys' ...

    I don't think so. I think they paid the spammer to spam his list with their ad and gave him their customer list so that he would delete those addresses from his list and so not spam them.

    Charging for service, then selling your info.

    Not selling your info. Hiring a spammer and then giving him your address expecting him to use it only for the intended purpose of washing his list. Incompetent bunglers: a typical Web business.

  16. Good news for vampires! on Human Blood Protein (HSA) From GMO Rice · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but you know somebody was going to say it.

  17. It isn't shown getting down to do the pushups. on Boston Dynamics' PETMAN Humanoid On Video · · Score: 1

    Or getting back up.

  18. Re:A tunable photodetector on Another Step Towards Graphene Semiconductors · · Score: 2

    > Probably just as usefull as any normal phototransistor out there.

    Normal phototransistors don't have adjustable bandgaps.

    > ...a material with very low electrical and thermic resistence.

    And thus also potentially much faster than exisitng photodetectors.

  19. Re:2 layer vs 3 layer on Another Step Towards Graphene Semiconductors · · Score: 2

    I'm having trouble peering thru the journalist filter and not finding any other primary sources.

    I thought it was fairly clear that this demonstrates the existence of a bandgap that cannot be attributed to substrate effects or contaminants.

  20. A tunable photodetector on Another Step Towards Graphene Semiconductors · · Score: 1

    One group observed the photoconductivity of their graphene sheets as a function of wavelength and applied voltage. They showed that the oddly stacked three layer graphene sheets would generate a larger current for particular colors. That is, the light was exciting electrons out of bound states and into conducting states, indicating the presence of a bandgap. Furthermore, this color changed depending on the applied voltage, indicating that the bandgap was changing with the voltage.

    A voltage tunable photodector. Useful.

  21. Re:Build one. They're simple. on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? · · Score: 1

    > Yes. So is the OP.

    I'm wrong: he wrote EEPROM. However, he also mentions PROMs, so it isn't entirely clear what he means.

  22. Re:Build one. They're simple. on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? · · Score: 1

    > you're talking about UV, you're talking about EPROM

    Yes. So is the OP.

    > your PROM (like some PIC and most modern all-in-one boards)

    Those don't use PROMs. PROMs (Programmable Read Only Memory) were one-time-programmable via fusible links and are even more obsolete the EPROMs (Erasable Progammable Read Onl;y Memories). I used both in their heyday.

    > It really depends on what type of boards you want to program.

    He wants to burn new EPROMs for old games.

    He could also build an EPROM emulator.

  23. Build one. They're simple. on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? · · Score: 1

    A UV toothbrush sterilizer will work for erasing.

  24. So when are they going to set up roadblocks... on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    ...on the Interstates and start searching passengers in private cars? The drivers will get a pass, of course: they're crew.

  25. Re:1. reduce the number of CAs to a handful on Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June · · Score: 1

    I don't have a problem with turning the CAs into a regulated utility....

    Regulated by who?