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  1. Re:Get your affairs in order, people on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 4, Informative

    If I am mostly carbon, (...)

    You're not.

  2. Re:Get your affairs in order, people on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why eat one proton? Since they're smashing protons, wouldn't the blackhole already have a positive electric charge?

    Stop growing at that point is clear enough for me: it has still only the gravitational pull of a few proton masses, hardly enough to be significant at these scales. Electromagnetism rules them big time.

  3. Re:8Ep... on ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew · · Score: 1

    here, please do Usenet. (...)

    I think that's why i stopped doing usenet...

  4. Re:Yuk! on ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew · · Score: 1

    I didn't think that many people peed in the pool or ocean.

    People?!

  5. Re:Webmaster? on ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew · · Score: 1

    Or maybe WCS: "Web Content Supervisor". :)

  6. Re:Yes, attach it to the ISS on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bussard_collector

    Argh. Bussard ramjet. You always link to Star Trek to "explain" something?

  7. Re:So 0+0=1! on Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The zero-point energy of an quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator is 0.5\hbar\omega > 0. Well, spoiled as i am, TFA can't surprise me anymore :)

  8. Re:Watch out... on Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 1
    These proton beams punch through a lot of matter (from minute 13:50 and 18:00):

    http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/511382

    It's an episode from the german(-language) "Abenteuer Wissen" pop-sci show. The whole episode is about LHC.

  9. Re:Do it on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: 1

    Why "thief"? What has been stolen here? I think it's more like preventing Tool (or other clubs of that sort) from publishing it's articles/guides/technical information about locks and lockpicking.

  10. Re:Don't blame the troops on Air Force Looks To Laser-Proof Its Weapons · · Score: 1

    Poor troops. Mindless robots they are.

  11. Re:Armour them and spin them. on Air Force Looks To Laser-Proof Its Weapons · · Score: 1

    The point is, this little creature has a deadly weapon, created by evolution. We could learn from it.

    Only hand out deadly weapons to shrimps and not chimps?

  12. Re:Only a problem if you have TPM? on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    There's a big difference between Trusted and Trustworthy. As this update proves.

    Indeed. Trusted. Past tense.

  13. Re:Why latex at all ? on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    I've settled with a mechanical pencil (ratchet-type, 0.5mm B (= #1 US system) lead). It gives more contrast and smoother writing than HB. And blank paper.

  14. Re:Why latex at all ? on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    \documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{scrartcl}

    \title{Hello, World}
    \author{Me, Myself and I}

    \begin{document}

    \maketitle

    \section{Hello}

    Some Text.

    \subsection{,}

    Some Text.

    \subsubsection{World}

    Some Text.

    \end{document}

  15. Re:A stupid question, but I need to ask... on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    The integral symbols in the sample (...) are taller and angled which is more correct (...)

    I doubt that pretty much. It's just an elongated "s" and my handwritten integral symbols (and most i see from others) look more like an upright, elongated "s". But i think i know what you're meaning: taller and angled integral symbols look more "correct", but maybe that's because we're used to it because it's the style commonly used in textbooks.

  16. Re:28 Qubits ought to be enough for everybody on Opening Quantum Computing To the Public · · Score: 1

    ...with a probability of 0.25

    A: "Oh, cool. A quantuum computer! But does it run Linux?
    B: "Dunno. Let me see..."

  17. Re:28 Qubits ought to be enough for everybody on Opening Quantum Computing To the Public · · Score: 1

    My money says that 50-60 years from now, you'll be running a hybrid quantum/traditional computer on a mobile device you carry in your pocket.

    50-60 years from now, i will most probably be dead, you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Choices on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about the KDE project right now is that both the 3.5.x and 4.x lines are usable

    That made my day. Thanks for a good laugh :)

  19. Re:Sorry to say but... on Thirst For Coltan Fueling African Conflict · · Score: 1
    The correct saying should be:

    "anytime a material of value is found in Africa, the locals will murder each other to steal and sell it. And companies based in 1st world countries will happily buy because of it's low price and thus feeding the conflict."

  20. Re:This is great and everything.... on The First Paper-Based Transistors · · Score: 1

    Please comment :)

    Captain Obvious to the rescue!

  21. Re:Finally on The First Paper-Based Transistors · · Score: 1

    I still don't get it. Hz implies cyclical, uniform motion to me. But who wipes his/her ass in a cyclical, uniform motion? One wipe. Fold. One wipe. Dispose. Next Sheet. (All wipes in one direction). Nothing uniform there. But maybe asses get wiped differently across the pond. Or the physics education i endured so far has stripped me of the inaccuracies to get those type of jokes.

  22. Re:Obligatory on Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet · · Score: 1

    "Captain, we detected an M class planet on your long range sensors."

    "Yeah, those are my long range sensors! Never, ever forget that! Now put that darn thing on the screen!"

  23. Re:Hot? Cold? on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. 1.9K to cool the magnets (even "high" temperature superconductors have a critical temperature of up to 138K (current record)) which keep your particles on track so that they can produce really high temperatures when colliding inside one of the particle detectors.

  24. Re:Problems... on Send the ISS To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, outside the magnetic field of earth, you have to protect the crew from occasional solar flares.

  25. Re:Hugely popular? on P2P Set-top Boxes To Revolutionize Internet · · Score: 1

    Well I have never seen P2P used for anything legitimate.

    http://beta.legaltorrents.com/