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  1. Re:I just say on Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? · · Score: 1

    Once again, looks to me like a data measurement problem, not an inherent problem. A short wave chain in this case is fewer data points than are needed to calculate the wave frequency because you don't have enough peaks. But what if instead of one detector, you have a million? Instead of one processor doing the fourier transform, two million cores, each either working on position or momentum, using a different sensor?

    Like I said before. Hard is not impossible. It's just a matter of figuring out how to get more data.

  2. Re:I just say on Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? · · Score: 1

    So the real problem is that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle isn't about either position or velocity, but frequency?

    Still should be able to compensate for it by running two parallel processors, one working on concentrating the function for position, and the other working on concentrating the function for momentum, thus giving TWO Fourier transforms.

  3. Re:I just say on Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure. Having read a better description of the Heisenberg Principle in this article than I have ever seen before, it should be theoretically possible to now build a Heisenberg Compensator, which was impossible in 1920 but is completely possible now. If you know the amount of energy in the photon taking the picture of the electron, then it should be possible to use software and a very fast computer to accurately record the position and velocity of every electron in any given system. It will take a massive amount of redundant processing, but it is POSSIBLE to compensate for the uncertainty principle. Same goes with any other form of measurement- first feed your model into computer memory, then adjust for the effect of the measurement in the model.

  4. Edge?!?!?!? on Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Funding Trends Low · · Score: 1

    Better have a big cache on the Youtube app is all I have to say.

  5. Re:Headdesk on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Headdesk on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    "Aren't we actually *glad* that we don't have slaves anymore and that gay people are on their way to being treated like -- you know -- citizens? "

    When were gay people deported?

    As for slaves, thanks to the McBudget I now have definite proof that slavery just got transformed to a lower cost solution:

  7. Re:Headdesk on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Ironing? I meant Ironic, though I think both fit.

  8. Re:Headdesk on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    The only thing more ironing is that they are asking the branch that ordered the surveillance to begin with to stop the surveillance. What part of "we obtained a court order" do you NOT understand?

    As for democracy- the United States, as they keep telling me, is a Republic. Any appearance of democracy is just window dressing on the real system where every candidate is bought and paid for long before you vote.

  9. Re:With the right training, huh? on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    More like, with the right training, we can help them become much better....criminals.

  10. Re:Imagine on Sound-Based Device Authentication Has Many Possibilities (Video) · · Score: 1

    The thing that gets me is this- he was using computer passwords as a proxy, gathering from a variety of sources. And still, 2580 came up frequently. Which makes sense on an ATM or phone numeric keypad, but NOT on a standard keyboard numeric 10 key.

    Worse yet, the 1234 think extended on to 5 and 6 digit numeric passwords.

  11. Re:Imagine on Sound-Based Device Authentication Has Many Possibilities (Video) · · Score: 2

    Sadly, so does a quarter of the human race

  12. Re:Phone alerts on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ever been in a flash flood? Swimming won't help when the wall of water bangs you into a building.

  13. Re:Phone alerts on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 1

    Your average storm drain *IS* a river.

  14. Re:Alert on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 2

    There's an easy answer for that- set phone on vibrate before going to bed. No need to block anything.

  15. Re:As it turns out... on N. Korea-Bound Ship With 'Military Cargo' Detained By Panama · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given the starvation rates in North Korea, I'm pretty sure the people would have welcomed just the sugar alone.

  16. Re:Title should be 'Actor Currently Playing...' on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'd think that too, but previous seasons had plenty of homosexuality, and in fact, bisexuality was a central part of the character of Captain Jack/ the Face of Boe (complete with a pregnancy!) - and that didn't bother me one bit.

    No, I think it started with the gay horse and went on from there.

  17. Re:Title should be 'Actor Currently Playing...' on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    How are two right wing dictatorships (and they were conservative, even if communist) leftist politics?

  18. Re:Title should be 'Actor Currently Playing...' on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 0

    No, only in the fake worlds of Hollywood (where apparently 95% of the fictional population is gay) and the Supreme Court (which has always been more fictional than reality based- on anything).

  19. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    I wish getting out of jury duty was that easy here!

  20. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Zimmerman used a direct defense of self-defense, not Stand Your Ground.

  21. Re:Title should be 'Actor Currently Playing...' on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 0

    Or perhaps I've just been homosexual blind for many, many, many decades. And they've just started making it more explicit.

  22. Re:Title should be 'Actor Currently Playing...' on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 0, Troll

    To me, leftist politics ruined the last two seasons of Dr. Who. The utterly unnecessary multiple militant homosexual and cross species relationships and homosexual characters ruined it for me.

  23. Re:OFFTOPIC: Slashdot Kremlin story just pulled? on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    I'm dead center on the political compass scale- well, ok, slightly high authoritarian, but center left/right.

    I'd classify you as "Individualist with sociopathic tendencies"

  24. Re:It just kind of seems DOA on New Analysis Casts Doubt On Intel's Smartphone Performance vs. ARM Devices · · Score: 1

    Java Android apks run just fine on Medfield.

  25. Re:University of Califonia? Oh, they'll love her. on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    Better yet, UC will get all that money from educating illegal immigrants....oh wait....