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  1. Re:Wow, what a trivial concern on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 1

    While you could certainly minimize the effects by doing something like leaving your space suit in the airlock, there's going to still be dust contamination. Over time, I think that the dust buildup inside the rest of the spaceship would cause problems. You could always replenish the supply of air, which is going to be necessary anyways, but msot of the dust would still be floating around, as the replacement of dirty air with fresh air would be gradual.

  2. Gigabytes? on Another Internet2 Speed Record Broken · · Score: -1, Redundant

    TFA says 101 gigabits per second, not gigabytes.

  3. Definition of addiction? on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1
    DeRupo said the scientific evidence is that caffeine is not an addictive substance, however. Altering the coffee-drinking routine is what produces problems, researchers found.

    The only difference I see between the two is that altering your consumption of caffeine can mean either lowering or raising it. If you can't lower your caffeine consumption without causing problems, aren't you technically addicted?

  4. Re:I've been spam free for three years... on Beat Spam By Not Using Email · · Score: 1

    But isn't any site open to dictionary attacks? If mail can be freely sent to an account by anyone, it can be spammed. Maybe get an address like z_Z_0@usa.net or something, at the end of the alphabet.

  5. Re:I wouldn't spend 1/8th of my yearly salary on i on Bridging the Digital Divide With PCtvt? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not 1/8 of your salary unless you make $2000 a year. Four billion people may live on less than $2000 a year, but that doesn't mean that all those four billion have $1999 in yearly income. I'm sure that for many people, it's not an 1/8 of a year's salary, but 1/4, 1/2, or even more.

  6. Re:combination on Smart Glass Blocks Infrared - But Only When It's Hot · · Score: 1

    That's a good idea, but a potential problem is that heat != brightness. That is, the glass detects and blocks infrared, but not visible or ultraviolet, energy. The rooms or cars might stay cool, but it doesn't do anything to solve the brightness problem.

    The visible and ultraviolet energy still penetrates. Also, visible and ultraviolet waves are more energetic than infrared waves, so it would seem to me that in the case of the sun, more of the heat comes from the non-infrared part of the spectrum. Don't we need glass that blocks visible and ultraviolet energy above a certain temperature to solve the heat problem too?

  7. A couple of logical fallacies... on Kansas AG Rejects Settlement Discs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This was very similar to what libraries do all the time.

    That doesn't make it right. Societies discriminated against blacks "all the time" too.

    They did libraries a big favor by selecting these CDs because there's no way libraries could have said what they wanted.

    If there's "no way" that libraries can say what they want, it's a flaw in the organization of the libraries of Kansas, not a license for someone else to dictate their content for them. It seems to me that, having continual contact with the public, libraries are more in touch with what the people really want. Therefore, they should be in charge of stocking themselves.

  8. Re:Frankly, I Don't Get It on How Many TV Channels Will There Be In The Future? · · Score: 1

    It's not true that there are a fixed number of people in the world, although the growth is much faster in developing countries without access to television. I don't think that the number of people watching television is a factor though.

    When there's nothing better to do, many people, including myself, just watch whatever's on. If there was a better selection of programs, maybe I'd watch TV for a real purpose instead of just to pass the time.

  9. Avoiding Traffic Jams on Traffic Sim Predicts Jams Before They Happen · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bill Beaty investigated how to avoid traffic jams by recognizing the intermediate state of synchronized flow and undoing the damage six years ago. Apparently, a traffic jam can be stopped, even once started, by a single car.

    Traffic Waves

  10. Re:In other breaking news... on Forward This Article And Get Paid $203.15 · · Score: 1

    This makes two levels of nesting :)

  11. Re:The Filter is great! on Gmail Spam Filter Testing · · Score: 5, Informative

    When I add up the figures from May 13 to 19, I get that 4869 messages were received. 4717 of those were spam, and 1820 were marked, so Gmail's success rate was 38.6%.

  12. Ever notice... on 1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive · · Score: 1, Funny

    that nerds are the only ones who are envious of men with small objects? ;)

  13. Re:Does this change anything? on More Blackholes Discovered... · · Score: 1

    Assuming the Big Bang theory is correct, the galaxies are moving away from each other, since the universe is expanding.

    Also, dark energy (and "bright" energy, for that matter) doesn't expand space. Energy is interchangeable with mass, which exerts and feels gravity. More mass increases the possibility of a Big Crunch; without dark energy, it is believed that the universe would expand forever for lack of sufficient gravity to counteract the initial bang.

  14. Re:verification on 'Einstein Probe' Delayed · · Score: 2, Informative

    FWIW: To elaborate on the "different sets of data" mentioned above, Wikipedia defines a theory as "a model or framework for understanding," and a law as "a scientific generalization based on empirical observations."

  15. Re:It would be great.. on Money That Grows On Trees · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, as the article implies, there would have to be at least a small gold deposit under your garden, in which case you could probably make money quicker by selling the land. It seems to me that the main implication of this discovery is that pollutants can be removed from the soil, not that significant amounts of gold can be harvested.