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  1. Re:Backpeddle? on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    I do think they jumped the gun a bit by getting their background correction from a scraped conference figure rather than unambiguous published data, which seems to be the source of the problem.

  2. Re:Not the Big Bang on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the Alcubierre drive have the same causality issues as any other FTL form of propulsion?

  3. Re:Not the Big Bang on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    By "standard theory" to you mean the standard model of particle physics? If so:

    1) That's a different thing
    2) It's probably the most correct model of anything ever invented

  4. Re:Car analogy? on Will 7nm and 5nm CPU Process Tech Really Happen? · · Score: 1

    Everyone wants faster, cheaper, and lighter cars, but you cannae break the laws o' physics, captain.

  5. Re:GIVEN to one of the lab employees. on 1958 Integrated Circuit Prototypes From Jack Kilby's TI Lab Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    Gifted is more specific; one may be given something that is not a gift. May I suggest a word-of-the-day calendar?

  6. Re:Summary is Awful on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    It's not either-or. Google already restricts videos to particular delivery or monetisation methods according to its licencing agreements; there is no reason why it cannot do exactly the same thing with its new subscription service.

    On the gripping hand, Google's new streaming service isn't a video delivery system, it's for audio content, so the new licencing rules needn't apply to people's existing videos at all.

  7. Re:learn to write, dammit! on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that was a bad oversight.

  8. Re:display port on 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon · · Score: 1

    Honestly, they didn't plan to replace it, at least not on any appreciable timescale. People don't buy TVs like they buy games consoles or phones or iPods, so the sensible thing at the time was to roll out yet another twenty-year standard and get around to thinking about succession later. Of course, if you're a Sony or a Samsung looking at your briefly revitalised TV business tailing off again as people finish upgrading, maybe you're regretting this.

  9. Re:Summary is Awful on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 0

    ...or I've read the stories about this from the past few weeks indicating how this affects a number of coalitions of independent musicians with or without label representation, and therefore know fine well that it's not just affecting three artists.

    But, y'know, assume I'm a jerk. That's a great policy. It's not like you can literally see everything I've ever posted on Slashdot and figure it out.

  10. Re:Flaimbate on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Did reading comprehension drop when I was away? The headline is "YouTube to block indie labels as subscription service launches" and all of the comments regarding terms are about Google's upcoming streaming service. The videos in question are already on YouTube so there's no "independent labels" refusing permission for them to be up there.

    The Guardian article is pretty unambiguous about it too.

  11. Re:learn to write, dammit! on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    I couldn't find a phrasing that fit and carried the intended meaning, and I assumed that people who read the summary would grasp that it referred to the thing Google have that music videos might actually be on.

  12. Re:Everything should be done over WiFi on Huawei, Vodafone Test Out Hybrid System That Combines LTE and GSM · · Score: 2

    When they come up with a version of wifi that works over the dozens of miles that currently exist between me and my nearest tower, sure. But I suspect it would either look like a giant power plant attached to an enormous antenna, or just be a reinvention of the current cellular standards.

  13. Re:Government fails again on Why NASA's Budget "Victory" Is Anything But · · Score: 1

    More to the point, whenever we've been given the chance, we haven't.

  14. Re:Theia on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's like asking, "how do we know that the Cretaceous period was called the Cretaceous period, the dinosaurs didn't have written language".

  15. Re:Somewhat confused on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 5, Informative

    The isotope ratio is more different than you'd expect for formation without an impact by a third body, but it's less different than you'd expect from an impact given what we know about the distributions of oxygen isotopes in the solar system. So both hypotheses need revision: for the Theia hypothesis, they suppose that it was an inner planet with a remarkably similar composition to Earth, and for the non-impact hypothesis, they suppose that the Earth's isotope ratio diverged from that of the moon due to later (small) impacts delivering different compositions.

  16. Re:My old PSP fat is awesome. on Sony Winding Down the PSP · · Score: 1

    Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is the best Metal Gear game since 2005's MGS3. It's also excellently suited to handheld gaming.

  17. Re:Magnetic Pulses on Geophysicists Discover How Rocks Produce Magnetic Pulses · · Score: 1

    You'd have to be pretty gullible to believe it was humans that were responsible and not the Nordics.

  18. Re:iPhone 5S on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    None of the US variants of the 5S supports UK 4G.

    https://www.apple.com/iphone/L...

  19. Re:Scotland? on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The fine summary.

  20. Re:Scotland? on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    If she's looking at spending £25 or more on a service plan, she can probably get a Nexus 5 for free (or next to free).

  21. Re:Not a phone, but... on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    The price of an iPad Air would probably pay for a couple of years of 4G hotspot access and a USB battery pack for the hotspot - or an entire extra hotspot, for that matter.

  22. Re:Scotland? on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 2

    Especially given that (presumably) she's buying it off-contract. It's that or a pile of roaming fees.

  23. Re:HTC One mini (and probably more) on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    That phone comes in different versions for 4G AT&T, EMEA, and Asian frequency bands, so it's definitely not US-and-Europe suitable.

  24. Re:White Moto X on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Would've been nice if I'd kept the spelling of straight straight. Sweet deus.

  25. Re:Scotland? on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    On the gripping hand, 4G is so patchy in the UK, and high-speed 3G so prevalent, she probably won't really want a 4G handset anyway.