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  1. I decided to click the PDF link and help you out:

    "Giuseppe Levi Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
    Evelyn Foschi Bologna, Italy
    Bo HÃistad, Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegnér Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    Hanno Essén Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden"

    Considering you got 2 mod points for claiming it's secrecy ...

    Uppsala universitet was funded 1477, it's the oldest university in the Nordic countries.

    Bo HÃistad is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nuclear Physics.
    Roland Pettersson is at the Department of Chemistry - BMC, analytic chemistry.
    Lars Tegner is a professor emeritus at the Department of technological science, electricity.

    KTH / the royal institute of technology is the largest and oldest .. uhm.. college? whatever of technology in Sweden.

    Hanno Essén describes himself on a webpage as:
    "Universitetslektor (retired), Department of Mechanics, KTH
    Docent, Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University

    I am a retired, but still active in research, senior lecturer (associate professor) at the Department of Mechanics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. Former Director of undergraduate studies (studierektor) 1990-2012 and former chairman of the Swedish Skeptics (FÃreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning, VoF)."

    I can only assume the Italians are of similar qualification.

    Bologna University, founded 1088!! 85 000 students in 23 schools!

    Giuseppe Levi is a researcher in their Department of Physics and Astronomy:
    Google translate from unibo.it

    Evelyn Foschi is a Doctor (Fields of research: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology  Engineering  Electrical and Electronic Engineering) at the Department of Physics at the university of Bologna (http://www.intechopen.com/profiles/108904/Evelyn-Foschi)

    I don't know what they are allowed to do and isn't. I assume they may be doing their best from what they are free to do with the device.

  2. Maybe I should stand out and claim it's fusion.

    If I'm wrong no-one care because I'm just random user on Slashdot who make a stupid comment.

    But if I'm right!! Then I was soo ahead of so many others! (Except the conspiracy theorists whom gladly jump upon anything including this.)

  3. Re:What has happened to Slashdot? on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 1

    TweakTown (http://www.tweaktown.com) even already have that sexy blog format which is so new and exciting in Slashdot beta!

  4. Re:What has happened to Slashdot? on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Everyone. Quickly head over to TweakTown!

    It's the new best thing ... .. oh wait.

  5. Re:Please explain on Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support · · Score: 1

    Why do a driver for random tv-card?

    Why not? I want support for the controller. Thank you all :)

  6. Re:I don't think we are giving anything up. on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    Windows could also be written so that it used DX 10 or 12 if available, gulped up RAM if there was any and so on.

  7. Re:Proprietary on Acer Launches First 4K Panel With NVIDIA G-Sync Technology On Board · · Score: 1

    My 8600m GT may have been broken too I guess.

    Anyway they have Phys-X, better OpenGL drivers, more OS support, lower power usage, (alternative methods for anti-aliasing and lighting too I believe but I don't know what AMD have there) and G-sync. Better proprietary drivers. Still not at least as good open ones is a fair thing to say?

    AMD have Mantle and Adaptive-Sync and .. ? Worse drivers even though their open ones may be better than NvidiaÂs open ones.

    Mantle I suppose will be pretty irrelevant vs new DirectX 12 and OpenGL.
    Just as G-sync should be allowed to become irrelevant if Adaptive-Sync let you make the same thing in a standard way.

    Just suck that Nvidia is big and common enough that they may get away with not supporting it and do their own thing :(

  8. Re:Proprietary on Acer Launches First 4K Panel With NVIDIA G-Sync Technology On Board · · Score: 2

    19 September 2014 - Secret press conference - Nvidia will support Adaptive-Sync: http://www.sweclockers.com/nyh...
    25 September 2014 - Nvidia won't offer support for Adaptive-Sync but will instead continue with their G-sync and hence never implemented DVI 1.2a support: http://www.nordichardware.se/G...

    Both link in Swedish.

    Nvidia - Assholes. If true.

  9. Re:Proprietary on Acer Launches First 4K Panel With NVIDIA G-Sync Technology On Board · · Score: 1

    I'd say price point matter more at this point.

    I would prefer to have an Nvidia card and I would prefer to have monitor synced to the GPU.

    As is Adaptive-Sync may be a standard of DisplayPort 1.2a but even the new Nvidia cards only have DisplayPort 1.2 and who knows what Nvidia will do. It suck to get an Nvidia card if they are retarded and decide not to support Adaptive-Sync but I don't want anything else either because Nvidia make the best products. :/

    Some time some idiot lectured me using this:
    http://www.geforce.com/hardwar... .. except it's not the same thing (that person may have also lectured me about DX12 which may have been correct (in that all Nvidia DX11 graphic cards will support DX12.))

  10. And Russia on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 2

    Is supposed to renew their whole arsenal to 2020 rather than 70% of it I think I read earlier today or possibly yesterday.

    Guess it may be weak enough to not deserve to be posted.
    Better get a source so you don't quote me on it:
    http://rt.com/politics/189604-...

  11. Re:The little guy. on Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US · · Score: 1

    I guess it would benefit all the buyers if they don't push up the price too much then again if the price is seen as low / in a way there one would had wanted more I guess one may want to pay more (then again it's ok getting less stock which you think you can do say 20% return on than twice as many but which you can only do 10% on ..)

    Then again at least when it comes to purchasing lots of stocks many institutions are ok with paying a premium over the regular price to get what they want and hence paying "too much" relative the regular market price.

    I don't know whatever the price normally end up being lower or higher than what the stocks will trade for later on.

    I also think it differ how it's done. I don't know for sure but it may be the case that here (Sweden) it may be more common to give rights to purchase the new stocks for the old stock holders whereas say in the US it may be more common to look for institutional purchasers of them.

    Both methods exist at least. There's also the possibility of just offering shares for a fixed price and then people can sign themselves up for interest and then have a lottery or give them the stocks they could get out from the ones one wanted to create.

  12. Re:Night owls on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    I read it at 05:17.

    But it's early evening somewhere else! *denial*

  13. Re:Well, that was interesting... on NSA Director Says Agency Is Still Trying To Figure Out Cyber Operations · · Score: 2

    Just put up /. beta before any US gov pages.

    The attackers will be confused and wonder where they have arrived, if it's some blog of sort, and most likely just leave it alone / leave as quickly as possible.

  14. Re:Of course there is more ice in Antarctica. on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Except it's heaviest at 4 degrees.

    And lighter as ice.

  15. Re:It did? on Chrome For Mac Drops 32-bit Build · · Score: 1

    I will get a machine with at least 32 GB of RAM.

    This one have 8 GB.

    And it's a Windows 8.1 machine not a mac. I think I said that. Possibly not just giving general experience what do I know.

    I don't know whatever it support 32 bit plugins and whatever my bankid plugin is 32 bit and whatever that could increase the memory load more.

    My feel for it was that it used more RAM at least.

  16. It did? on Chrome For Mac Drops 32-bit Build · · Score: 0

    All I noticed was that it was chewing up a lot more RAM so I installed the 32 bit version again instead.

  17. Re:power consumption? on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 1

    OnePlus One vs iPhone 6+

    Begin! .. oups it was already over.

  18. Re: Holy shit! on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    Point taken.

    And yeah, it was likely politicians I meant.

  19. Re:Well, we really should be at that stage by now. on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    But solar efficiency needs to be improved at least ten fold before is can compete with nuclear.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

    Ok. That will never happen.

  20. Re:Holy shit! on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    Is this a big IT project that actually worked? Where's my fainting couch???

    Maybe you missed the part where it said government?

  21. Re:containment on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I guess it's a better usage than freaking balloons but should we care about that way are using it?

    Or just assume we'll go all in on fusion later?

  22. Re:Umm... WHY??? on Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    But Microsoft will do their own incompatible version.

    And then refuse to go on.

    And people will call it Minecraft 6 and use it for 5+ years even though it's outdated and nasty.

  23. Re:And low-emission transport trucks, too on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or be nuclear powered.

    Oh no I didn't?! ;D

    But yeah, wind - Can't imagine no-one have thought about that one before!! .. with solar panels :)

  24. Re:Is China more free than the USA? on Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Cell Phone Company For Blocking Google · · Score: 1

    The USA isn't the worldÂs leading democracy.

    The weird organisations you have is .. weird.

    I wanted to say that your government wouldn't go to that extent to hide what they was doing but then again with the CIA I guess they are ok with at least trying to hide things from you.

    Have CIA blocked access to Wikileaks? No.

  25. Re:Good luck. Nice knowing you. on Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Cell Phone Company For Blocking Google · · Score: 1

    capitalism that even free and open democracy won't make any difference in who is running things

    So just like in America? ;D