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  1. Re:Shut up and take my money! on Consumer Reports Can't Recommend iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Neither. It was the eyePhone video.

  2. Re:security holes of releasing source code on Microsoft Opens Source Code To KGB's Successor Agency · · Score: 1

    Basically, they get all of the disadvantages of open source security, but none of the advantages.

    ?

    People can find security holes and exploit them, but they can't find security holes and fix them. (They can, however, find security holes and report them, so...)

    I guess that's why MS didn't give out the right to build from it's source. This denies governments to find flaws, fix it for their versions and exploit them on $enemy. This encourages governments to report found holes (unless they can be "fixed" without recompiling).

  3. Re:Its too bad the UI got messed up on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    If I type "dennis" in the address bar, it's because I want to connect to the webserver on the local machine called "dennis".

    Easily fixed: just use a correct URI.

  4. Re:Peter Wayner on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    MathML can be part of an XHTML document. Dunno what XPath is, but chances are it's part of HTML5 like the rest.

  5. In Soviet Russia on Nokia Chases Blogger To Recover N8 Prototype · · Score: 1

    Nokia receives with YOU!

  6. Re:No mathematical background? on Quantum Physics For Everybody · · Score: 1

    What about:

    F=ma --> lagrange formalism --> lagrange density for the electromagnetic field --> maxwell equations

  7. Re:No mathematical background? on Quantum Physics For Everybody · · Score: 1

    How the hell is this flamebait?

  8. Re:No mathematical background? on Quantum Physics For Everybody · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they mean teaching the theory and not the applied physics?

    It's the other way around: theoretical physics is even more concerned with math than applied physics. There's a reason why theoretical physics is also called mathematical physics. And I guess you confuse working the numbers with math.

    Furthermore, you can't separate physics and mathematics because the latter is the formers language.

  9. Re:No mathematical background? on Quantum Physics For Everybody · · Score: 1

    Considering that their first PDF is only 6 pages long and only text, I don't expect any serious physics thaught in that course.

  10. Re:Small errors? on Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report · · Score: 1
    Figure 1-3 from Chapter 1 of Muller, R. A. & MacDonald, G. J., (2002). Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: data, spectral analysis, and mechanisms. Springer-Verlag New York is really interesting, IMHO.

    I really don't know why we should leave that sweat spot either 2 degrees Celsius down or up. According to the 4th assesment report of IPPC WG1 even the low scenario B1 has a best estimate of 1.8 degrees C warming till the end of this century (page 13 (PDF)). So atm we have a rise, let's keep that in check.

  11. Re:Who? on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Logic is built on the principles of mathematics

    Which came first, the logic or the maths?

    Logic is the principle of mathematics.

  12. Re:P!=NP on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    I don't have an Einstein. It's considered rude...

    It really depends on your frame of reference.

    Unless it's inertial.

  13. Re:P!=NP on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Albert Einstein's genius was thus not to postulate the constant speed of light in vacuum, (...) but the abolishment of the ether as medium for the light.

    That's the same, if you take into account the first postulate of relativity: all inertial frames of reference are equal. Einstein did not simply postulate that the speed of light in vacuum is constant but that this constant is the same in all inertial frames of reference.

  14. Re:Who? on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    I actually had to google Friedman.And i don't know why you compare him to Knuth. I never held a book in my hands with his name on it. Landau or Lifshitz would be more fitting, IMHO.

  15. Re:Cue the fanbois on Experts Explain iPhone 4 Antenna Problem · · Score: 1

    It got a Phone in it's name.

  16. Re:What's the incentive to use it? on Berners-Lee Pushes Linked Data In MIT Course · · Score: 1

    If it's high quality data, just sell access to it based on an acceptable monthly fee. If it's 1-5 EUR/month and worth it, few will bother with this fee, IMHO.

  17. Re:So let me get this right... on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    Yes, most of it. There can also be a problem with radon. After longer periods with no rain, radon will be more concentrated in rainwater. Now, that's not really a big problem, because you can always let this type of water stay around for a while before drinking it - radon has only a half-life of a few days. The simple point i wanted to make was that water from rain isn't a source of clean water right from the start.

  18. Re:So let me get this right... on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1
  19. Awkward? on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, it is. Because you're not smiling in the camera but your peers face - which hasn't a camera behind it but above/besides it. So it always seems that your peer is intentionally avoiding looking at you.

  20. Re:Point proven on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    Interesting what you subsum under "population control". And people aren't livestock. Get used to it.

  21. Re:And the Polywell group can't get funded on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like WB8 funding was granted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell#FY_2009_work

  22. Re:Knowledge is power... on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    That aside, since its original proposal of sustained thermonuc. fusion has been thrown out in favor of hour-long pulses, probably 90% of the physics it will undergo is either known predictable. (In other words, this is NOT the plasma physics equivalent of the LHC, which is actually necessary to set boundary conditions on many physical models).

    AFAIK current research is concerned with predicting and controlling plasma instabilities which develop over time. Very tricky and in no way solved today but a major problem when trying to generate plasma which is stable for more than a few seconds. So settling for "only" hour-long pulses maybe not that bad an idea at this stage.

  23. Re:Helium 3 on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    Granted, I'm a novice in this area, but it seems to me that hydrogen based fusion is a failure, and it's time to admit it.

    ROFL. Made my day :D

  24. Re:Stellarator on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    Wendelstein 7-X in Germany is well funded (Stellarator). As well as Polywell, if someone can trust Wikipedia on that.

  25. Re:ITER is too big on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    Or that laserpointer in your hand.