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  1. Re:Huh? Help out an under educated ignorant, pleas on New Generation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells Powers Up · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although I am not familiar with the chemistry of this research, it is quite possible to pack inordinate amounts of compounds in a solution. For instance, 1 ml (1 g) of water can hold 99 g of the compound used to develop film. The space around molecules in a solution can vary quite a bit, and if the geometries of the solute and solvent match very well to the forces between them, the wasted space can be decreased, increasing the concentration of the solution.

  2. Mathematics is the defining science on Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled · · Score: 1

    The thing you need to understand is that mathematics isn't a science. You can create lots and lots of perfectly valid mathematical theories, prove them true, and they don't have one tiny bit of them relevent to the real physical world.

    Although this seems right, mathematics plays a much larger role once you get to quantum mechanics. In this field you can no longer grasp what is going on, but you can do the math to yield the truth. For instance, Schrodinger's equation tells us the energy of a particle through an eigenvalue, which is a purely mathematical construct. The reasoning is that the particle is a wave, but what does that really mean? Not very much other than that the mathematics which tell us everything about it is the only thing we can use to understand the basics of chemistry, physics, and biology.

  3. Sentencing in general on Spammer Sentencing Guidelines Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lately I've been thinking about sentencing, and I see people complain about how it's unfair that non-violent crimes get just as much time as, say, a man plowing over another person at 90 mph. And then we see the CAN-SPAM act, and think that these people should get MORE time than that. It makes me wonder if our view of sentencing being linearly or otherwise correlated to the aspect of the crime is wrong.

  4. Re:Am I missing something? on A Network Attached Windows Box? · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that sometimes Windows doesn't like to do things on a samba share, such as installing a program to a samba share I believe.