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  1. I'm skeptical of the doubled data capacity on Full-Duplex Radio Integrated Circuit Could Double Radio Frequency Data Capacity · · Score: 0

    Ar = Bt - At and Br = At - Bt

    To make room for the possibility that both At and Bt are transmitting a max-modulation symbol at the same time, there will need to be additional bandwidth in the frequency range to accommodate. The additional bandwidth would be just about the same bandwidth as would be needed for a second frequency.

    If there is a free lunch in this invention, it hasn't been adequately explained in the article.

    (Yes. I actually don't know what I'm talking about, but feel free to remind me.)

  2. Re:what about skinny people? on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 5, Informative
  3. virtual processor? on DARPA Delving Into the Black Art of Super Secure Software Obfuscation · · Score: 1

    I think what they are asking for is a virtual processor that executes encrypted instructions on a physical processor through homomorphic encryption. Existing techniques for this are insanely slow. They want some new math to make it faster, so that it's practical.

  4. Re:Seiki 4k for $500 on 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon · · Score: 1

    39" is ok. I've had the 39" Seiki for a few weeks now. I still have a normal (1920x1200) second monitor. So I don't want to run the larger fonts in Windows. I tried, and didn't like it.

    For my taste, I think 50" is probably the minimum size for a 4k monitor if you want to use the default font size in Windows.

  5. Re:Not sure what this means on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    <body>
    <!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
    </body>

  6. Not sure what this means on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    View source on their blank web page:

  7. Re:Targeted ads are better than untargeted ads on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I can see that being an annoyance. I did some research for my niece's wedding dress, and for a few days afterwards, I was targeted with wedding dress ads. But they went away soonafter.

  8. Targeted ads are better than untargeted ads on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not sure why I should hate targeted ads. I actually see ads for things I'm interested in... instead of random stuff. The tracking, ad infinitum, has always been going on, will always be going on.

  9. Mental masturbation on Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? · · Score: 1

    In a fit of free-thinking, I once proposed that god/nature invented the unpredictability of quantum events expressly for the purpose of enabling free-will. Or more generally, quashing determinism.

    If we are really all just a pile of chemicals and electrical signals, our universe is determinate.

    However nature gives us chaos at the quantum level. If any of that craziness influences anything at a larger scale, (in aggregate, how could it not?), then our universe is not determinate.

    So why would nature 'choose' to ensure that determinism is not the law of the land?... Nature wouldn't, but perhaps a bored god would.

  10. Re:Why would some people think that ? on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 3, Informative

    >how in the hell could better vaccines and better health care help lower the world population?

    Populations who have lower rates of disease, and better access to health care, tend to have smaller families because they don't have to have more kids as a hedge against their own death rate.

    Smaller families becomes a snowball effect to more wealth, and even better access to healthcare.

    Oh, and what's so bad about population control?

  11. Re:Many cutomers likely waiting! on Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3 · · Score: 1

    Yup. I went to go buy one, in a store, credit card in hand, when I heard the news that the backwards compatability had been removed. Nevermind. Didn't buy one. Waiting 'til Sony gets the message.

  12. I did it just now... They do it. on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 2, Informative

    I did whois on frammusjammer.com at NSI, then thirty seconds later tried to buy the domain at Godaddy. It was already taken. Checked whois at register.com and it shows NSI as the owner.

  13. Re:This scan would make "House" episodes... on New Super Scanner Can Scan Body in Under a Minute · · Score: 0

    Aw C'mon folks. It's entertainment. Nobody cares about the patient, we just want to see House be a jerk. If you want to learn something, look elsewhere.

  14. Re:Question on Tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm no physicist, but I think in order to "be straight" it must follow the curve of earth's gravitational field. Not sure if I understand that correctly, but if physicists say that an orbit is a straight line through space/time (in a sense), then it follows that a straight line inside a planetary gravitational field would have a curve to it.

  15. Last one I saw was in 1995 on How the IBM PC Changed the World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I retired a 5150 in 1995. It had a hard drive and maybe 128k. We used it every day. It was the computer we all used to store our CNC programs on. Connected to a serial port switch box running 100's of feet of cable to the CNC machines. It worked until the day we turned it off and replaced it with a contemporary Pentium. That was the last time I saw a 5150 in working order.

  16. OCR wins on Defeating Captcha · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once all these new algorithms get integrated into OCR software... OCR software might just work.

  17. I'm in that datacenter once a month or so... on LiveJournal Blackout Analysis Online · · Score: 1

    I always wanted to push that button... Now I don't have to.

  18. Re:Acrobatic Robots on Aerial Robotics Competition · · Score: 1

    Cherry 2000, Old and Busted. Jessica Dooley, New Hotness!