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  1. All this assumes super cold beer is desirable on Condensation On Your Beer != Good · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The condensation pays a latent heat penalty, warming the beer when the beer is super cold. But conversely the evaporation pays back the latent heat penalty at some higher temperature. Where the equilibrium point is I'm not sure.

    But there is an easy solution to this problem: mist the outside of your beer glass with cold water. This will tie up all the condensation nucleation sites without paying the latent heat penalty.

  2. TimeCube on Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' · · Score: 2

    Can we get something more definite than that? I mean if the submitter doesn't know, and it sounds like he doesn't, why even say anything.

    it means they can finally build a lattice for the TimeCube. http://www.timecube.com/

  3. Re:Those who would trade a bit of freedom... on Study: Limiting Bidding On Spectrum Could Cost Billions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am by no means a fan of AT&T or Verizon, but the concept of preventing a company from bidding on something in the name of competition strikes me as... anti-competitive. I'm a firm believer in a free market economy and this reeks of giving all the kids a trophy just for playing.

    Your assumption is that the sole criteria is return in dollars, and not say some other public good. When we sold land to homesteaders in the wild west we did not maximize the return but had settlement in mind. We do this with lots of resources. The public gets a greater benefit, the govt gets less revenue. We often handicap research grant scores to favor young investigators or classes of institutions. This is a case of maximizing future returns and diversifying risk rather than getting immediate return of maximum research output per dollar spent.

    Not having a monopoly may be a better use of the spectrum than simply more of the same from an existing large company.

  4. Re:Those who would trade a bit of freedom... on Study: Limiting Bidding On Spectrum Could Cost Billions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it's worth billions more to verizon then you can be sure versizon is going to extract many ties that from the citizenry. So in the end the govt would get more revnue but the people would have less money. I'd rather have the reverse. Moreover the competition may be good.

  5. It's really clear. on BlackBerry Looking To Quench 'Insatiable Demand' For New Smartphones · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has the company a question mark?

    What he is saying is that the company has finally.

  6. Re:This is why on vTel Deploying Gigabit Internet In Vermont At $35/Month · · Score: 2

    The cost of the service will depend mostly on demand. Homeowners aren't likely to pay $150,000 for the service.

    But a business would.

  7. Re:Why? on vTel Deploying Gigabit Internet In Vermont At $35/Month · · Score: 0

    Hi do you eat food, drink water, heat your home, or breath air? Then you need to realize that all those people laboring in the "undeveloped" open spaces are have to exist for any "developed" area to every come into existence. You are subsidizing yourself when you make it nice for people to live in those areas.

  8. Re:This is why on vTel Deploying Gigabit Internet In Vermont At $35/Month · · Score: 1

    Yes but if only 1000 people subscribe then that's 150,000$ per home. It would raise the price of my home by $150,000

  9. Re:Google Glass is the new Segway on Eric Schmidt: Google Glass Critics 'Afraid of Change,' Society Will Adapt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like the idea of running up to people and shouting "safe surfing off", "open ten tabs with pictures of goatse and tub girl", "glass, send e-mail to boss, include link to lemon party.com. send now.",

  10. Re:Google Glass is the new Segway on Eric Schmidt: Google Glass Critics 'Afraid of Change,' Society Will Adapt · · Score: 1

    It is simple, when you enter a place you should not use your google glass you stow it in your google pocket protector or google belt-loop calculator case. There will be a nice secondary market for google glass accessories like the nose-bridge band aid, rhinestone cat glass styling, and librarian style neck chains.

  11. MIssing the death blow on Paul Thurrot Predicts November Debut, $500 Tag For Xbox 720 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MIcrosoft is in a great position to deal a death blow to Sony and Nintendo in the next generation console race. They have a leading system now. The demand for set-top boxes is poised to explode. And the winer gets to be position themselves as a benevolent but profitable internet TV gate keeper in a durable way. So why screw this up with a large price hurdle. This is reminds me of the overpricing mistake sony made with the blue ray system. Makes Nintendo Wii look a lot more attractive, and gives Roku and AppleTv some breathing room.

  12. Re:we've had a few on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 1

    fairly robust fibre optic solutions to date that carry data and are far more energy efficient. im confused as to why our peripherals dont use them

    No power?

  13. or firewire? on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 1

    Firewire goes to 30GB/s and 45 watts (30v @ 1.5 amps) and you can daisy chain it. Seems like a better idea than inventing a non-backward compatible serial port and pretending it is somehow related to USBs of yore.

  14. voltage? on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 1

    What voltage is being proposed. At 5 v that's 20 amps!!

  15. charging smartphones by USB on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have an iphone 5 and like newer samsungs and ipads these want to draw 2.1 amps from USB, which is a no-no for standard USB. THere are a number of USB hubs that pretend that they are apple/samsung compatible, promising 2.1 amps. But what they don't tell you is that you can't have 2.1 amps if the hub is connected to a computer. It will only act as a USB high current charger when it is incapable of making a serial connection. It's either a serial port or a high current charger but not both.

    I'm guessing this is because a lot of devices expect their current overload regulation to come from the USB hub which is limited to 0.5 amps by spec.

    Will this superspeed use the same USB plug and thus have the same limit of either being a charger or a USB port, or will it do both at the same time.

  16. More complete? on LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete · · Score: 2

    How can something be more Complete? I can understand less complete. Does this imply knowledge of the future?

  17. Re:ISP Provided? on Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers · · Score: 1

    Yours for either A. having your credit card information on the network in an unencrypted state, B. transmitting it without making sure the HTTPS lock is present, and/or C. not having adequate deskop security.

    It takes more than just an accessible router to get to sensitive information... if an unauthorized party is able to access that information, 9 times out of 10 it'll be a user's fault.

    Most people use dynamic addressing and delegate the DNS lookup to the router. This means Https or any of the other things you mentioned are useless as security measures.

  18. Re:Android has probably not on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Android has probably not outsold Apples devices, when you consider Android's non existent tablet sales and lack of laptops/desktop installations.

    Don't forget to count Cameras and TVs.

  19. Give the money back on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Clearly it is time to close apple down and give the money back to the stockholders. I mean it has a price to earnings ratio of 9.6 in an industry where 30 is the norm ( Facebook has a P/E ratio of 1,854.43, and arguably a book value of zero.) Seriously it's on the way out.

  20. I've had it with google. on New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? · · Score: 1

    I use bing now. sadly, it's not as good. but google is just going bad. I actually believe MS when they do the scroogled ads. I'm not saying they are more privacy conscious out of the goodness of their heart, but I believe they see it as a wedge issue and will stick to it for now it least. Needless to say I don't facebook either.

  21. Re:No on What Does It Actually Cost To Publish a Scientific Paper? · · Score: 1

    If you think that true then why publish in a jounral? send all your articles to Xarciv for free.

  22. filtering on What Does It Actually Cost To Publish a Scientific Paper? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I value is a filter. There's two much to read and too much crappy research. The harder it is to publish and the more that difficulty is realted to the quality the better.

    What I also appreciate are special collections that group simmilar themes. I have found over the years that the more electronic things have got the more I have lost out on the serendiptous find of the article that was next to the one I was actually looking for. When I search for things I just get what I search for and that tends to make a tight circle.

  23. Re:Yet another one..... on Has Kickstarter Peaked? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just started a new Kickstarter project to create the next kickstarter. Please sign up.

  24. Entropy conservation. on Yahoo Buys UK Teen's Smartphone News App · · Score: 1

    His algorithm is actually like a heat pump. It reduces the article's entropy by pumping random redundant text into slashdot.

  25. Money Laundering on Yahoo Buys UK Teen's Smartphone News App · · Score: 1

    This got me thinking that Apps and internet companies are a great way to launder money. You buy illegal goods under the cover of publically paying someone for their "app" which turns out to have no value later. Politicians that want illegal direct donations can skip to whole speaking fee nonsense which has reasonable caps and instead author dubious apps and sell these to the Koch brothers for ten million a pop.