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  1. Re:Wikipedia article on this guy on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 1

    no.. you're right, it's not "made up" it's the reaction to the centripetal force basically... as I said

  2. Re:Wikipedia article on this guy on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 1

    would it not be easier to just use the centripetal force, which we know IS real, and simply write off the centrifugal force as the reactionary force that it really is?

  3. Re:Newsy on FBI Widens Use of National Security Letters · · Score: 1

    All I can say is typical American view, "if it's happening here, it's going to happen everywhere else"
    newsflash, the rest of the world was around and functioned long before America and will do so long after.

  4. Re:Newsy on FBI Widens Use of National Security Letters · · Score: 1

    ugh.. and what of those of us that don't live in said "police-state"?
    I gotta say, the weekly post on how privacy in America is going down the crapper is starting to get on my nerves, if the people who have to live there aren't kicking and screaming and stopping the shit then why do the International community need to hear about it?

    Except to gloat of course, which admittedly is a whole lot of fun ;-)

  5. Major panic as "finger" is discovered... on MIT Wireless Campus Tracking Users · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this ability has been there on most large userbase Unix systems for years. Why do we now care that it's gone wireless?

  6. Re:"Typical subwoofers bottom out at 20Hz" on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    why on earth do either your speakers or your subwoofer go lower than what you can hear?

  7. Re:Indeed. on Australian Do Not Call Register · · Score: 1

    as a melbournian I gotta say it's not quite that extreme.
    the weather is reasonably the same across the inner city it just changes very quickly across all of it.

  8. Re:As an Australian I can honestly say on Australian Do Not Call Register · · Score: 1

    heh, with any luck the money for those jobs will move local to viral marketing ;-)
    Actually, I seriously think I'd prefer viral marketing, irks me much less than people asking if I want to change my electricity provider in the middle of the grand final.

  9. Re:God as a copy-and-paste hack on Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    ... and this is why ID is not a valid scientific theory, because no evidence could ever disprove it, and as you have pointed out everything can be twisted to somehow support it.
    Evolution, on the other hand would instantly be disproved simply by the existence of an animal that is completely distinct, hasn't evolved from anything else. But such a thing is yet to be found.

  10. Re:The obligatory argument for ID on Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    a left over piece of digestive system no longer used, a spine suited to quadripeds, legs suited to quadripeds, what appear to be the remains of legs in the belly of a whale.
    Sure does fit evolutionary theory nicely don't you think?

  11. Re:The obligatory argument for ID on Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    He never put it as evidence to prove ID to be false, as that is impossible with an hypothesis so vague.
    It was merely a list of things that follow and support the theory of evolution.

  12. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    My point had more to do with the diseases in the world being not quite so spread around as they are now, no airplanes, limited travel between the continents etc.

    But, hey, make up whatever point you want to refute ;-)

  13. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    The greeks too, but could this have been before STD's were quite as widespread around the world as they are now?

  14. Re:Another way government fucks up your life on Ships Turned Away As Aussie Customs' IT System Melts Down · · Score: 1

    Oh too right, us over ere in oz iz in desperate need of croc repellant roight naow.

    I cannot see this as being a serious problem for anything other than consumer items, things like medical supplies would obviously be expedited and also, I like to think that we're an advanced enough country that 1 or 2 days delay in medicine transportation from overseas doesn't pose any serious risk to lives.
    Hell, sea transport can be delayed that long because of weather.

  15. Re:Another way government fucks up your life on Ships Turned Away As Aussie Customs' IT System Melts Down · · Score: 1

    The customs checks for imports at a major shipping port taking 3 times longer than usual is NOT "endangering lives"

  16. Re:The obvious question... on Ships Turned Away As Aussie Customs' IT System Melts Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not knowing what they are using I can't exactly say you're wrong but I'd put good money on it that you are.
    The shipping yard they are talking about is huge, having upon hundreds of containers coming in weekly, I highly, highly doubt it is running with comodity user PC's as the backend.
    Also, the problem that is being cited as the reason is the complexity of the system, not that it's running extremely slow.

  17. Re:Blood tests? on Florida DUI Law and Open Source · · Score: 1

    if you're on your P's and you get a BAC of 0.01 it could quite likely have dropped to 0 within 30 mins. ;-)

  18. Re:Blood tests? on Florida DUI Law and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm pretty sure you can just accept the fine as given by the RBT. But of course then you can't contest it because you've basically waived that right.
    Always a better idea to get the bloodtest, hell if it takes 30 mins to get to the police station your BAC may have even dropped a bit.

  19. Re:Will I keep my username? on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 1

    Do I need to do anything? No. Although the name is changing, your email service remains the same. To sign in, you can go to the same page as before, or you can now also visit: http://mail.google.com/mail.
    From the way most of it reads, googlemail.com and gmail.com will just be interchangeable servers, and so you will in effect have the same account for both of them.

  20. Re:Huh? Two Answers To The Same Question on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 1

    not the same question, not the use of the word "ever"

  21. Re:Privacy issues? on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazingly enough there's not yet a response saying "NO".
    Google still own the "gmail.com" domain, whether another company owns the trademark in the UK or not, mail addressed to @gmail.com will still end up at a google server.

  22. Re:branded addresses on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 1

    As it is you could do that with the only "e-mail infrastructure" being a box that forwards the emails for every user to their corresponding gmail account. Then you just put whatever the hell you like in the "from" box when you reply or send email from gmail.
    Ugh, way too many uses of the word "mail"

  23. Re:I work internationally on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 1

    I think, that maybe he was referring to the technical infeasability of allowing @gmail.com addresses everywhere except the UK.

  24. Re:IIIR used the gmail name since 2002 on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes because checking that there is no trademark violations for EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD is completely feasible.

    Welcome to the Internet, sometimes things here are grey.

  25. Re:nearly, but not quite... on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: 1

    wouldn't something that needs to survive the impact of a bullet need good compressive and tensile strengths?
    ala a concrete beam full of steal rods, weight makes it bend so need compressive strength up the top and tensile strength down the bottom.