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  1. Re:Peanuts on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    The solution to that problem is to have systems that are superscalar in design. Like supercomputers, you know the cost of a single node, and then you know the cost of building interconnection fabric, the cost of the software licenses, support staff, electricity, cooling and office space construction. Then you can calculate the cost of 30,000 node system.

    You'd want to do the same with supercollider rings - how much does it cost to build a single 1 degree segment to support 14 GeV, then scale it up accordingly. There must be some power law between the strength of the containment magnetic field, the bore diameter and ring diameter.

  2. Re:Peanuts on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    Sounds like that is the sort of thing you would want to award a prize to - anyone who could build an accelerator that could do experiments about a certain energy level.

  3. Re:Archive.org should not respect robots.txt on Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They buy up a domain when it becomes available, set the robots.txt file to "do not archive", then the google-bot spider will send the instruction to delete all
    past archives.

    You used to be able to visit old web-pages through the google-cache. Remember when google would always have a cached copy of what you wanted to read. Nowadays they just seem to be happy to be a proxy server which records everything you download from the target webpage.

  4. Re:"Microsoft abandoning it just as Yahoo is adopt on Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking · · Score: 1

    Was it Dilbert PHB's or the BOFH who announced "Weekly redundancy notices will continue to be issued until employee moral improves".

  5. Re:Not unproven on Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power · · Score: 1

    Wow, if they can have floating wind turbines, then it would be possible to have a floating processing plant to collect all that trash that was washed out to sea by the tsunami. Imagine having a whole fleet floating around that area the size of Texas, and just running sift pans through the ocean.

  6. Re:Random Mac Address Applet on Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network · · Score: 1

    Demon Internet 1994 - you gave them your credit card details (name + address + city), plus a billing address if it wasn't the same as the credit card. Then they gave you your information pack plus the account details page which was a thick sheet of paper with your hostname, static IP address and password details.
    It also had information on how to use their DOS based usenet and email reader, based on trumpet sockets.

  7. Re:Random Mac Address Applet on Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network · · Score: 3, Informative

    You used to have to do that back in the early days of home Internet around the mid 1990's. Just to register for a SLIP/PPP dial-up connection with a static IP address and hostname required proof of identity, your name, address, contact details, and you'd get this deed of ownership of the hostname.

    In France they actually require ID and a copy of your passport just to get a SIM card.

  8. Re:Google did something evil? on Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Against Apple, Google and Others Given the Green Light · · Score: 1

    I've seen these situations before. You'll have job market employers who wants application engineers with current experience of device driver internals for particular hardware or vendors. Then they'll have a non-poaching agreement with those vendors, then complain there is a shortage of qualified candidates.

  9. Re:MacGuffins, all of 'em on Computers and Doctor Who · · Score: 3, Informative

    The best Tom Baker stories were when they could see the world in an entirely new perspective such as dropping down to miniature size to fight a virus, or taking advantage of iconic technology of the time; Jodrell Bank, BT telephone tower. The excuse about the TARDIS was that it's chameleon device broke down while trying to imitate a police box.

    Though the scariest parts were when they used jelly for the daleks eye-stalks. That had kids having nightmares. There there was the Seeds of Doom where people slowly turned into giant walking trees larger than manor houses.

  10. Re:Children with progeria make results inconclusiv on Biological Clock Discovered That Measures Ages of Most Human Tissues · · Score: 1

    The activity of the immune system has something to do with this too. You can either have an hyper-activated immune system and it will kill every slightly mutated cell, causing premature aging. Or you can have a suppressed immune system in which case, cancers and tumours are more likely to grow.

  11. Re:That article was fucking awful. on Crossing the Divide From Software Dev To Hardware Dev · · Score: 1

    When you develop hardware, you use software simulators, FPGA boards with bit files (a binary representation of the hardware circuits that can be stored on flash memory) and actual silicon. The software simulator is meant to simulate the memory mapping and parallel nature of the hardware, the FPGA boards do this a bit quicker, and actual silicon is the real deal. Only the first two can be updated if things don't work as planned unless the hardware has programmable microcode.

  12. Re:4^4 on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Codons are sets of three letters. Every creature has its own unique codon table - every three letters (GATC) make up one codon, so there are 64 possibilities. But the fun thing is that many codons actually code for the same amino acid, but take different times to complete the process. Either because some molecular rotation is taking place or just because it's a time delay to allow folding to complete elsewhere. Then sometimes the sequence is used in reverse order (creating a back-to-front version of whatever is made) and sometimes even the sequence of letters is read with an offset of one or two letters, so essentially one group of letters can code for six different chains of amino acids.

  13. Re:Seat weight on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    That's OK. The greatest damage is the luggage falling from the overhead lockers. Fortunately, the passengers are there to take the impact and prevent the seats from being damaged.

  14. Re:It not logical Captain on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    It's not just large-assed people that are the problem. Some body-builder type guy got assigned the middle seat chair in our aisle. The guys arms were so massive they were going over the chair armrests into the space of each person on either side. I end up being squashed into the window, the person on the other side ends up being squashed into the aisle and being jabbed by the food trolleys every time they go by.

  15. Re:Silly people on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Then you run into the problem that there isn't the space for the extra salary workers to own homes within 5 miles of work, especially when they have families. They all want the home with the good school and short commute.

  16. Re:Global Economy on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    They brought out Advantix cameras and film (they stored various digital info on the film cassette to help printing) as well as a digital print service where you could get your pictures scanned and stored on CD-ROM. All returned in a presentation pack consisting of a wide box, the film reel, your pictures and a CD-ROM. Seemed a really nice idea but they snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory, by deciding to have a custom viewer that auto-started, then played adverts for companies like National Geographic. Then you really had to root down through the directory system to find your own files. Even then, their auto-viewer used up more space on borders than on your picture. Oh yes, and they kept the film from the reels.

  17. Re:Google Drone View on Fleet of Drones Maps a Mountain in 3D · · Score: 1

    If they take these photographs at regular time intervals, they'll then have a 4D animation of the flow of glaciers down the mountain.

  18. Re:Fukushima or naturally occurring on Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues · · Score: 1

    Apparently, scientists in Japan are extremely concerned that Japanese users of Twitter are frequently reporting spontaneous nosebleeds.

    http://www.infowars.com/thousands-of-japanese-report-nosebleeds-in-health-scare/

    Though mysteriously, there is no report of bleeding gums or falling out hair.

  19. Re:Interesting. on Over 100 Missing Episodes of Doctor Who Located · · Score: 0

    The program tapes were steel magnetic tape. It wasn't the responsibility of the individual production teams to archive material. They had a deadline to make and at that deadline they had to have everything in a can, ready to send. Once sent out at the end of the week, they re-used all the tapes to produce the next episode and discard the ones that were too worn out.

    There wasn't any archive department at the time. These days, a master copy is sent to an archive as well as sent out to the distributors.

  20. Re:Replacing (General practice) doctors on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    You won't even need the booth. All you will need is a smartphone and a disposable sensor pack. The sensor pack will collect a finger-prick blood sample, maybe a urine sample, and a sample of exhaled breath. A HD camera will analyze any problems with movement and skin discoloration, while the microphone will analyze breathing and heartbeat.

  21. Re:Why no BLACKS? on The Era of Young Innovators: Looking Beyond Universities To Source Talents · · Score: 1

    If you look at the addresses, that is in Canada (Ontario = ON, Nova Scotia = NS)

  22. Re:What can they learn on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Have you tried calling the helpline:

    1-800-F**CKYO (1-800-318-2596)

    http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/03/need-health-care-coverage-just-dial-1-800-fuckyo-to-reach-obamacares-national-hotline/

    There's also story doing the rounds that if you don't already have health-insurance, then they'll put you on a list, suspend your driving license and place federal-liens against your home.

    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/obamacare-conspiracy-theory-lien-house-debunked

  23. Re:Thus: on Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature For Feature Parity With Windows · · Score: 1

    It's well known that for 18 years (at least since 1996), that Microsoft doesn't want OpenGL to offer features that DirectX doesn't have. Some companies would be required to put the "brightest graduates" on DirectX projects rather than OpenGL ones - that's from interviews and direct employment.

  24. Re:Er, all of the above? on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is a very similar thing happened decades before with Craig Neidoff and an AT&T technical manual about the E911 phone system worth $23.900 (or $25 when ordered directly from AT&T technical catalog)

    http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Hackers/us_v_craig_neidoff.article

  25. Re:Hope it makes him feel better on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 1

    I guess no-one told him about privacy laws, the rules governing data interception and data protection. He went into a communications room in MIT, patched up a laptop to sift out data being downloaded from a server, and then got caught. He goal was to download every paper and article ever published. He could never do this use a remote link, so used the download requests of other people to achieve this.

    But in effect, he was intercepting the thoughts and ideas of other people. So the administrators would have been furious. It would have been enough to explain this to him, require him to delete the data, and them help him find a legal means of doing what he wanted to do. But instead, the prosecutor wanted do set another example of "let's hang, quarter and draw him after crushing him with a mill-wheel".