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  1. Re:Low-Latency, Direct Communications on Low-Energy Neutrinos Detected In Real Time · · Score: 1

    The problem is amplifying the perturbation to detectable in the coupled oscillators without destroying the signal or the oscillators - at sub-eV levels it will tough.

    Phase locked quantum oscillators are actually reasonably well studied even though the classical case (and the quantum case) both are tough problems it has been studied - particularly in the area of "Chaos" theory - basically you dump the noise into the environment away from your signal/detector setup

  2. Re:Low-Latency, Direct Communications on Low-Energy Neutrinos Detected In Real Time · · Score: 1

    have thought about this.

    You owe me a copy of next book for this idea

    coupled quantum oscillators - you want the pair to have similar but slightly diff frequencies (sub-eV diff equivalent in energy) and the both need to be very stable - the neutrinos then interact with the frequency difference and show up as a perturbation in one or both of the oscillator systems.

    Hope you prefer replies to mod points.

  3. You missed the point on Do "Illegal" Codecs Actually Scare Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    Your points are true and valid - however,

    this is just another troll like the 300+ distros FUD from yesterday or whenever.

    There has been a stream of these articles on the various tech magazines and blogs over the last few days.

    Expect it to continue until the shiny new Vista SP comes out.

  4. Internet Rule 1 on Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess · · Score: 1

    Don't feed the trolls.

    Which I am about to break.

    And with Bill Gates in charge - how many versions of windows are currently supported?

    Please include the all the different flavours of Vista . And that is from one company.

  5. Firehose & FF3/Seamonkey 2 (aka Suiterunner) on Slashdot: Podcasts, IM, Improved Discussions · · Score: 1

    Firehose has problems with FF 3 and Seamonkey 2 (aka Suiterunner).

    Slider for filter doesn't work.
    Voting buttons don't work.

    I have emailed the firehose address a few times with error messages and stuff.

    No I don't have js turned off or the no script extension installed.

  6. One page - karma whoring for fun on The United States Space Arsenal · · Score: 1
  7. Hardly surprising on EU Broadens Probe of Search Engines and Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Hardly surprising - see here

    http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,, 2107262,00.html

    "But arguing over whether discussion should focus on the worst offender, versus a general industry indictment, can be a distraction from the need to implement privacy protections which cannot be easily ignored."

    http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001218. html

    http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/mt-comments.cgi? entry_id=1218

  8. Re:How to figure out which star you are looking at on Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova · · Score: 1



    http://heavens-above.com/

    or stellarium if you want an excellent downloadable app

  9. Re:The Pirate Bay on TorrentSpy Ordered By Judge to Become MPAA Spy · · Score: 1

    A group of people gathering together to listen to a work of art and then share it amongst themselves and others?

    How about a wandering minstrel comes to a village plays and the people listen, absorb and repeat. Perhaps embellish and use it to help pass the long winters. With others in the village helping to correct each other when they misrembered parts.

    Definitely a lower tech version but until the written word was available it was all the shared culture their was apart from the physical embodied arts. It was prized, respected and the good copiers were rewarded.

  10. Re:Nothing to see here. on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    or right click on the tab and change it's priority.

    but the first hard part is done - functionality that exposes the opened tabs.

    "Side panel scrollbox of opened tabs is the way to go."
    I think this argument was actually had quite loudly during the initial development and basically decision was extension it if you want it - I could be wrong it was a long time ago.

  11. Re:Nothing to see here. on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    "
    And, does anybody else use browsers as extensively as I do? I would be interested in meeting with some of you and discussing strategies for increasing web browsing and content consumption rates."

    Most of this are things that could be done with Places - charting your path etc.

    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places

    Rush mode is interesting as dialup user atm I know what is like to wait and then have to find something quickly and have to wait and wait. FF 3.0aX has a drop down box for listing the tabs open/being opned - so the first part of the problem is solved. Now just to separate the box and allow work on it - maybe talk extension here because playing with the internals of what gets prioritised sounds like a nasty job on any one problem - but multiplatform.

  12. Re:What about now? on A Snapshot of the Universe 3 Trillion Years From Now · · Score: 1

    Couldn't have said it better myself.

    My issue with the quotes from the paper in the article is they say we live in a special time.

    Every time physics thinks that it has been proved wrong.

  13. Re:Felt the same about tabs on Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    Right now all the places/sqllite stuff is just backend - goal was UI equivalency with FF2.0 for inital release.

    That may change once it is bedded down and bugs ironed out.

  14. Re:It won't only be the little people on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    Yes and last time I checked I was somewhere between atheist and agnostic myself.

    I just liked it and was bored so I started playing with sigs and stuff. If you have a better sig for me I am all ears.

  15. Re:It won't only be the little people on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    It's where the money is

  16. It won't only be the little people on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 4, Informative


    Last paragraph
    "
    If push comes to shove, would Microsoft sue its customers for royalties, the way the record industry has?

    "That's not a bridge we've crossed," says CEO Ballmer, "and not a bridge I want to cross today on the phone with you."
    "

    Tech company sue it's own customers?

  17. Re:Great Firewall of Oz on Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website · · Score: 1

    you are forgetting it is an election year - prepare for major tech stupidity by all sides

  18. Re:This should be good on 2012 Olympics Security to be Chosen by Sponsorship · · Score: 1

    But they will all be safe with Jackie Chan protecting them (at the basketball at least).

    If you haven't seen the ad this won't make sense.

  19. Re:AE, Open GL on Microsoft Admits Vista Has "High Impact Issues" · · Score: 1

    Much more importantly have you or anyone you know got a .deb of Frets On Fire? Or know where to find one?

    I have tried the installer and the source code - the only Fire is when it crashes & burns.

    So right now hopefully my home pc has finished downloading all the sources & libraries (again) and I will retry again.

    But decent .deb that says "idiot you forgot x" would be a bonus.

  20. Re:It's simple on Is It Illegal To Disclose a Web Vulnerability? · · Score: 1

    Ah no.

    That is not the way the web works.

    You put up a website and don't block stuff off, then it is fair game.

    Put up a website with some stuff not linked anywhere and check the logs after a week. That will tell you who to prosecute. Any number of people bitch about bots & crawlers ignoring robots.txt. Go ahead put up a site and sue.

  21. Re:Roaming user on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 1

    As usual links form slashdot to bugzilla bounced so copy and paste the url

    Vote and comment here:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24934 3

    "Roaming should be useable with Firefox. I added support for it a year ago, but
    it probably bitrotted."

  22. Re:Ubuntu x64 here on Are You Switching to 64-bit Processors? · · Score: 1

    If you want some flash the latest version of vlc (0.8.6)has the latest ffmpeg which can do a lot of the flash out there. There is a firefox addon Media Player Connectivity which can be very useful for configuring this stuff (or to point at mplayer).

    not sure about youtube flash.

    Or you could give gnash a go if you really need flash.

  23. Re:Ubuntu x64 here on Are You Switching to 64-bit Processors? · · Score: 1

    Thanks

    The amd cpu people are OK - people with Intel Core 2 Duo seem to be having the problems - supporting (or lack thereof) chipsets.

  24. Re:Ubuntu x64 here on Are You Switching to 64-bit Processors? · · Score: 1

    Could you please be a little more specific.

    The mix of motherboard (Asus P5LD2-VM), Intel Core 2 Duo cpu and Ubuntu is Ok for the most part except for screwing up my optical drives. There is an outstanding bug #57502 (re JMicron chipsets) on this but eta is unknown.

    Some more detail would help.

    TIA.

  25. Re:Implications for Australia? on U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Fighter Source Code to UK · · Score: 1

    Unlikely the last person in power witha half decent foreign policy (particularly as regards the US) was Paul Keating.

    "'Upgrading' to JSF theoretically will reduce the crippling maintenance costs associated with the F-111, but at the expense of a lot of our strategic strike capabilities."
    The USA would not be adverse to Australia having no independent strategic strike capacity, unless they have some control. So I don't think we will see the source code.