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  1. Re:Given that this is slashdot... on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 4, Funny

    But in a liberal libertarian society everyone gets their fair share of evilness plus the opportunity to contribute as much evil as back as they like. In such an environment, shared projects such as OpenEvil are free to flourish and take over the universe.

  2. Re:IP addresses on SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign · · Score: 1

    It was worse 16 years ago. At the time voice traffic still exceeded data traffic but everyone realized digital was going to take over, in particular ATM. The argument then was how wide the data bus for hardware systems should be . Computer people wanted 64 bits. Voice people wanted 32 bits. They couldn't agree so compromised on 48 bits.

  3. Re:Attitude on SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign · · Score: 1

    Latest wifi routers have single button pairing. You press a button on the router, connect to it using your wifi device, and in seconds encryption keys have been swapped.

  4. Re:Face Palm on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    You prefer "System Essentially Contrary to the American Method" ?

  5. Re:I thought we were expanding??? on Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    The BBC did an animation of the motion of all the galaxies in the universe. All of the galaxies would be travelling in straight lines unless they became within range of each other. Then they would either orbit each other or partially collide, where one galaxy would be stretched out. Originally most galaxies would be spherical, but the effect of collisions was to turn them into spiral arm galaxies.

    Full star collisions were extremely rare.

  6. Re:Why would anyone ..... on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 1

    According to Kaspersky research, Stuxnet and Duqu would spread by USB mmory stick. A logical decision if there are computers on an isolated internal network. A not so good idea if someone uses a USB stick or just a single server as a data airlock.

  7. Re:How is that a test? on Is a "Net Zero" Data Center Possible? · · Score: 1

    Wow, the Nerd-phone, Nerd-pad and Nerd-pod have a strange and yet familiar sound to them.

  8. Re:Technicolor was American, not French on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 2

    Technicolor has a research center in France. You will see adverts for research scientists in color science.

    Given the way that texture compression is a big issue for mobile devices, and that there are demos that use movie videos as textures, that drifts into their territory.

  9. Re:Technicolor illustration of a broken patent sys on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Earlier than that, the patent was supposed to give the inventor a source of income from sharing his know-how with the world. If he ran a self-owned business, that knowledge would have been lost if he died or retired. If he documents that know-how as a patent, he csn block others from using that knowledge unless they pay him a fee. 30 years was supposed to be enough time for a career to last.

  10. Re:Face Palm on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Dream on, pal.

    Shouldn't that be NTSC or HDMI these days?

  11. Re:Problem? on All Researchers To Be Allocated Unique IDs · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, similarnames seem to have similar levels of achievement. Perhaps parents were in similar social circles.

  12. Re:Unique IDs eh? on All Researchers To Be Allocated Unique IDs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it any different from an Email address or a bank account number?

    If you have gone to the effort to research, write and publish a paper the last thing you want is for people not to know who or where you are.

    To make it really useful, you should be able to register as an independent researcher and take it with you wherever you go.

    The only downside is thst it might become like the Chinese record of achievement.

  13. Re:Why the hatred of money? on Barter-Based School Catching On Globally · · Score: 1

    True, but the phrase "making a living on the side" was often used. Sometimes they would do jobs for each other, buying materials at "wholesale" prices and doing the work for free in exchange for a rack of wine or champagne.

  14. Re:Link to actual paper? on Key Gene Found Responsible For Accelerated Aging and Cancer · · Score: 2

    Human DNA has teleomerase and teleomeres . Its known that inflammation and infection leads to swelling. Like arthritis patients - when the immune system gets hyperactive, white T-cells go into an "angry" state and attack healthy cells. The eventual destruction due to this pricess ends up with joints losing cartilage, grinding agsinst each other and causing more inflammation.

  15. Re:But how long before this is actually usable? on Key Gene Found Responsible For Accelerated Aging and Cancer · · Score: 2

    There were sci-fi short stories sbout this theme that were written in the 1950's, before suburbanization. One was that a drug called Eternitol or something similar was found and that led to three or four grnerations of the same family living together. Others had the roads department deliberately timing traffic lights and placing street signs to cause as many traffic accidents as possible to achieve population control. The other had families fighting in home invasions in order to get birth permission documents.

  16. Re:That Moment on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Agreed. He could just have got bored and just learned a bit to keep his parents happy. But he managed to do sonething new and get a paper published in a maths journal. He will probably becone a MIT maths professor.

  17. Re:I laught at the western countries when I look on Pollution From Asia Affects US Climate · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen what happens to a single street when their is an "air inversion" on a cold day and someone decides to light a fire in one of their chimneys. All the smoke just remains at ground level.

    Edinburgh used to be called "Old Reekie" because there was so much soot that it actually stained all the yellow standstone buildings black.

  18. Re:Explain the mind of a genius? on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 2

    Path of a projectile at the Earth's surface without air resistance in a uniform gravitational field is a parabola (or quadratic curve). Go into Earth orbut and you also get ellipse curves.

    Air resistance would slow horizontal and vertical velocity by a fraction per unit of time, so I would guess that it is an integral of a power sequence.

  19. Re:That Moment on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    More likely , one or more of his parents is a mathematics lecturer/teacher. They would know about the resources available. At least he would have needed to what the problem was and what kind of notation was required to solve it.

  20. Re:Why the hatred of money? on Barter-Based School Catching On Globally · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, these weren't carried out in the USA. But it might explain why so many European countries have financial problems, especially when the majority of the population lives in small villages.

      In the UK, the big problem was with people paying builders, plumbers and joiners in cash and avoiding the 20% VAT (which can be quite considerable when prices go over £5000.

  21. Re:Why the hatred of money? on Barter-Based School Catching On Globally · · Score: 1

    20% sales tax on low quality imports vs. home grown / home made produce with no tax (jam, honey, scarves, woollen wear, cords of wood for winter, compost, clothing) . One persons trash is another persons spare parts.

  22. Re:Cash on Barter-Based School Catching On Globally · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are on holiday, religious or resident visas that would prevent either from attending paid educational courses or receiving financial payment. I know friends in France who are not allowed to "work" as English language tutors, but accept gifts instead. Same with the French language tutors.

  23. Re:So that's really why he gave up his citizenship on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO · · Score: 4, Funny

    You Canadians have all gathered together in large cities right along the border. Looks like an invasion force :)

  24. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    You have a safe stable job where there aren't any internal politics over who does what. I know some stores had a seniority system with shelf stackers,bag packers and cashiers. Remember seeing one guy with a serving you for 20 years badge ... but he had bought a house all that time ago and had paid off the mortgage many years back. Meanwhile house prices had inflated all around. He could walk to work while everyone had to drive to work.

  25. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    The same thing happened at an onlien bookstore. A $300 textbook on dynamic systems was on sale for $30. They didn't really specialize in technical books, so I guess they thought the $300 was a misquote.