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  1. Re:Easy question on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    The OP said 'blind' not 'double-blind'.

  2. Re:FSA? on Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. The French, Italians, Dutch etc all have their own space agencies in addition to ESA. (However I have never seen the acronym FSA used for the French one: it's the CNES, the Centre National d'Etudes spatiales.)

  3. Re:Wow the guardian is gullible on Are Wikileaks Servers In a Nuclear Bunker? · · Score: 1

    The guardian article doesn't say the servers are in this bunker: the summary is wrong. But then ./ readers aren't known for reading TFA.

  4. Re:these people need to stop wasting their money on Research Finds Effects of GSM Signals on Sleep · · Score: 1
    The reason radio telescopes are frikin huge (TM) is that they want a large collecting area to increase sensitivity. The large dishes are mirrors that focus incoming radio waves to a (much smaller) receiver. Their size is nothing to do with the wavelength of the radio waves.

    (Also, check the size of your nearest radio receiver capable of picking up long-wave transmissions. Guess what, it's not 1 km long. So you might conclude that humans can indeed in principle be affected by radio waves -- whether they can in practice is another matter altogether of course.)

  5. Re:If it's on the books.slashdot.org subdomain on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    Too bad this information doesn't show up when you read full item page
    I guess at that point you have to read the prominent header in the middle saying 'book review' or the numerous references to 'the book' in the body text...
  6. MA in law on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 1

    Confusingly, this means he has an undergraduate law degree: this wouldn't on its own be a qualification to practise law. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxbridge_and_Dublin)

  7. Re:Where are the new motherboards on Intel 45nm Processors Waiting to Clobber AMD's Barcelona? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Barcelona is supposed to drop into your existing socket F motherboard with a BIOS update.

  8. Re:The more accurate the better on Does Wikipedia Suck on Science Stories? · · Score: 1

    'obtuse' means stupid. You may mean 'obscure' or 'abstruse'. More seriously -- there's room for something in between 'basic' and 'go away and use Google Scholar'. Searching the journals is useless if you don't know where to start looking. I've written science wikipedia articles in the area that I specialize in. I try to write them aimed at the level of, say, a first-year undergraduate student. That's still not aimed at the 'average Joe' but then I have to guess who the article is more likely to be useful to.

  9. Re:This is a crazy and silly idea on Why Apple Should Acquire AMD · · Score: 1

    no feasible new ones are on the horizon
    There's this thing called Barcelona you should check out...
  10. Re:A couple of problems on Wikipedia and the Politics of Verification · · Score: 1

    nslookup -q=mx bristol.edu Server: 147.197.200.2 Address: 147.197.200.2#53 Non-authoritative answer: bristol.edu mail exchanger = 5 dirh.bris.ac.uk. bristol.edu mail exchanger = 6 dirf.bris.ac.uk. It's not common for British universities to have .edu addresses, but my former employer did, which suggests it's possible. Not that that provides any support for the original suggestion, which is clearly unworkable...

  11. Re:single process uses 1 core unless multi-threade on Auto-Parallelizing Compiler From Codeplay · · Score: 1

    And the parent was correct -- the original poster is talking nonsense. I'm running MPI code on a cluster consisting of some single-core machines, some 2-CPU boxes, and some 2-CPU 2-core systems. All the cores are in use.

  12. Re:The road to hell on The Power Consumption of Modern PCs · · Score: 1

    What the previous poster said: powernow works fine on my dual opteron 250 machine. Also see here: http://electricrain.com/greg/opteron-powersave.txt if you're running Linux. The setpci trick makes a real difference to my machine's capacity to heat my office.

  13. Re:Watt-seconds ? on Xeons, Opterons Compared in Power Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Compare `kilowatt-hour'.

  14. Re:DRM sucks, news at 11 on iPod Cracked, But Does it Matter? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, you're sure that this wasn't a technical problem with playing video on more than one display at once, as is fairly common with cheapo laptop graphics chipsets?

  15. Re:Confusing To Me on Jury Awards $11 Million for Internet Defamation · · Score: 1

    You're right about the burden of proof (which has been mentioned above already) but of course truth (`justification') is a defence. The difficulty is that it is up to you to prove that what you say is true, not up to the plaintiff to show that it is not.

  16. Re:Summary on Best Gaming Video Cards for the Money · · Score: 1

    Sure, I bought one a couple of weeks ago. http://www.leadtek.com/3d_graphic/winfast_a7600_gt tdh_1.html

  17. Re:GPL vs EULA on GPL Successfully Defended in German Court · · Score: 1

    It sounds as though you are talking about what are called in English the moral rights of the creator, which do have some limited equivalent in US law, though not as much as they do in EU countries.

  18. Re:why would matter be dark on Dark Matter — "Alternative Gravity" Team Responds · · Score: 1

    That's 1 *G*eV for a baryon. So baryons dominate over the photon energy density by a large factor and the answer to the original question is yes, it has been thought of, and no, it doesn't make any difference (in the present-day universe). The rest of your argument is pretty much correct, though.

  19. Re:MOND and TeVeS in trouble? on Astronomers Make Important Dark Matter Discovery · · Score: 1

    If the weak lensing observations are correct, and it's hard to see how they can be systematically wrong, then MOND is wrong (or, to cover bases, some aspect of our understanding of how to infer masses from *visible* matter is badly wrong). It's a neat result: no idea why it's getting a press release now, though...

  20. Re:**SPOILER** on Astronomers Make Important Dark Matter Discovery · · Score: 1

    Actually there are a few other systems now where the weak lensing shows a mass distribution significantly different from the X-rays. You might have seen a few last week, though the point wasn't laboured.

  21. Re:Very good news! on Debian to Run on AMD64 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm running AMD64 Debian stable, like many other people. Just google for AMD64 sarge.

  22. Re:The user Debian folks didn't seem to happy on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Set for December · · Score: 1

    If you read all of the debian-devel-announce posting you will see that it does in fact contain a specific date.

  23. Re:sig on Why Vista Release Date Really Slipped · · Score: 1

    p values are a measure of the probability unless otherwise stated. If the OP means the probability of the null hypothesis (which is probably what you mean) he should say so.

  24. Re:I am for the freedom to play any game you want. on Judge Blocks Louisiana Violent Games Law · · Score: 1

    Since Gitlow v. New York in 1925 the law of the US has been interpreted in such a way that the Bill of Rights is directly binding on the States. You may say that the 14th amendment was never meant to have that effect, but right now it does, and will continue to do so.

  25. sig on Why Vista Release Date Really Slipped · · Score: 1
    It is a statistical certainty (p < 10e-11) that there are innocent people being held at Guantanamo Bay.

    • If it's a certainty, then probability should be close to 1, not close to 0. You mean p is very low that there are no innocent people there.
    • You mean 1e-11, or possibly 1e-10. The mantissa should be < 10.