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  1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.... Provably ZERO merit to this comment!

  2. How did you know on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 2

    I am also networking and programming savvy but I always assumed good hacking jobs would go unnoticed. What tipped you off to being hacked and do you allow admin login to your router from the wan side? I'm generally aware that is the most likely attack vector. Thanks for any info.

  3. Re:Indirect tax on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    If it's so easy - why isn't Tesla doing it?

    By that I assume you mean selling an electric car in the small car class? I ask you, who is forcing them to? No one is forcing Tesla to make a certain class of electric.

  4. Re:Raise the Price on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no regulation requiring electric alternatives be less than n% more than gas. There's no way to even enforce it. The Fiat has to be sold for $30k at a loss but the Tesla can go for $80k because the government things its so much nicer? No, Fiat just knows they are competing with the Nissan Leaf and no one would buy their car for 50% more than the Leaf is going for. He just wants to whine and make it sound like the government is ruining him, not that he's being beat in the market.

    And as for that Executive Order, its directed at the California government as a goal to strive towards. You are trying to make it sound like he has passed some sort of law directed at car manufacturers which would be illegal, and impossible as there's no legal definition for "cost competitive". http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=...

    There is no law requiring a Fiat 500e to be sold for less than 200% the price of a regular 500.

  5. Marooned in Realtime on Kepler-186f: Most 'Earth-Like' Alien World Discovered · · Score: 1

    Did they ever imply the singularity caused us to burrow underground in that book? I thought it was just hinted that humanity moved to some higher state of being.

  6. They already know about Earth on Kepler-186f: Most 'Earth-Like' Alien World Discovered · · Score: 1

    If they are advanced enough to travel here then they've had their own version of the Kepler telescope for 500 years and have known at the minimum that Earth has liquid water, oxygen, and chlorophyll (I think that can be picked up used spectroscopy). Basically anyone advanced civilization nearby probably has known about Earth as a life-bearning world long before humans came along.

    Just a cool thought to counter the idea that we're hidden until someone detects radio.

  7. Re:It never worked on Mountain View To Partially Replace Google Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    When I was in a one bedroom apartment in Mountain View I tried google and could never connect to it. I thought "What a pile of crap". Then I set up my own wifi router. I couldn't even connect to that from an adjacent room half the time. If you're in any sort of apartment complex all the (now old) 2GHz baby monitors and 2GHz phones absolutely killed any signal that has to go more than 30 feet or through a wall.

  8. They weren't doing this already? on "Synthetic Tracking" Makes It Possible to Find Millions of Near Earth Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed they they weren't doing something like this already. I think its a pretty standard cross correlation filtering method. They even say they're brute forcing it with a GPU, which surprised me. Am I missing something or could this be sped up quite a bit with FFT?

  9. Re:Quit spamming for "medium.com" on "Synthetic Tracking" Makes It Possible to Find Millions of Near Earth Asteroids · · Score: 2

    Using the 200 meter telescope was just a test, its not necessary to make it work. Read the paper or article, they both say that.

  10. Re:I hypothesize.. on Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior · · Score: 1

    Dammit, nevermind. I can't see a joke without help.

  11. Re:I hypothesize.. on Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior · · Score: 2

    Heh, thank god America never did those things.

  12. Re:Not Surprising on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    As a reference for "good" wifi, the new 49ers stadium is claiming some crazy real-world useability. Something like every single person in the park will be able to fully utilize their 802.11n or 802.11g bandwidth. If this actually turns out to be true it could be the model for how to do large wifi projects right.

  13. Re:I'll save you some reading on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1
  14. Re:I'll save you some reading on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Its a kickstarter for a version that would launch something at 1 km/s, or about mach 3. I think the version you're talking about is the Mark 2, which they've already built and which there is a video of on the kickstarter page: here

  15. Re:That's sad. on SETI Running Out of Money · · Score: 5, Informative

    Googling SETI donate gave the first link:
    https://www.teamseti.org/donate

    SETI just isn't in the public consciousness as much as it used to be. Kickstarter or getting Justin Beiber to <3 aliens would definately be helpful.

  16. Re:Obviously on House Appropriators May Limit Public Availability of Pending Bills · · Score: 1

    I remember that everyone could read the entire healthcare bill at any time. It was just over 1000 pages and people chose to whine about that instead. A very few journalists actually did and really asked intelligent and pointed questions about its contents. But that was massively drowned out by screams from the right of Obamacare, Socialism, and Death Panels. And so no one knew what was in the bill because they only paid attention to those who yelled the loudest.

    In that context, here is the full comment Pelosi made and I think it shows your little snippet to be misleading.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=zE-F5CX34qI&NR=1

  17. IE9 does "improve" Vista, nice little bonus on IE9 May Not Be Enough To Save IE · · Score: 1

    I refuse to pay Microsoft for an upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, an upgrade I believe should be viewed as a massive UI bug fix. But I was pleasantly surprised that installing the IE9 Beta also installed or updated various other software components so that Vista is at least mildly less annoying. For instance: right clicking the taskbar no longer results in a 10 second hdd thrashing pause before my dual-core 2gb ram machine figures out how to pull up a menu. So that's nice. I still surf the web with Chrome though :)

  18. Re:Please... on Teleportation Gets a Boost · · Score: 5, Informative

    A technical explanation would take too long and people would just argue with me anyways so heres a summary -This is not 'traditional' teleportation -It works at the speed of light, there's nothing strange going on here, although it is related to what you might have heard referred to as 'spooky action at a distance' With quantum teleportation you aren't teleporting a THING, you're teleporting a property of that thing without actually measuring that property. Sounds crazy but here's an example: suppose you have two helium atoms and using light you are somehow able to give the second atom the momentum and spin of the first atom but in the process you change the momentum/spin of the first atom. You've basically changed the second atom to be exactly like the first but they call that teleportation. And effectively it is. The reason its so nifty is you don't have to measure or know these properties to transfer them. Thats the quantum part of quantum teleportation. Beyond that, I have no clue how they're applying a property of light to an atom.

  19. Re:Please... on Teleportation Gets a Boost · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll try, one sec