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  1. Re:Pssst! on Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star · · Score: 2, Informative

    they get ripped straight out into the bore as soon as you pass the .5 Gauss line. I think you must have meant .5 Tesla, as .5 Gauss is approximately the strength of the Earth's magnetic field.
  2. Re:MiyEee PC runs just fine on £10 Battery Upgrade For UK Eee PC 900 Owners · · Score: 1

    It might not get so hot if you didn't turn the fan all the way down all the time. I'd rather lose a little bit of battery life than a little bit of CPU life...

  3. Re:Heh on Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they figured it out, or maybe it's alive? Or maybe to both? maybe.
  4. Re:I only hope... on Phoenix Mars Lander Deploys Robotic Arm, Possibly Finds Ice · · Score: 1

    It would still be possible to build non-sentient machines, you know...

  5. Re:Pixel pitch is too small for me on Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like a problem that should be solved by the rendering engine devs, not by the web designer. Perhaps someone who knows more than I do will say that this is not the case, but until then I'll stick with my intuition.

  6. Your ranting is misplaced here, sir. on Programming As a Part of a Science Education? · · Score: 1

    but for people who've already established their foothold and have spent several decades already making their fortunes perhaps our admonishments are a bit self-centered. GP was talking about law students. Now, which decades was it that they spent making their fortunes? Teaching students technological literacy is going forward, which by your own words is what we should be doing.
  7. Re:Bush doesn't care... on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1

    The United States was almost always THE BIG LEADER in this type of research. Really only since WWII, when the Nazis effectively drove all the good physicists out of Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, France, etc. Where did they go for refuge? You guessed it.
  8. Re:MODS ON CRACK on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1

    Congress could, if they wanted, and as they made so much noise about before they were elected, stop funding the war and start funding science.

  9. Re:ugh, what spin. on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'll cut your paycheck by 9%, starting with the beginning of the year. Hope you hadn't spent all of your first 5 paychecks or anything already.

    The problem was that planning had already been done, purchases had been made, contracts had been signed, all with the expected budget in mind.

  10. Re:What did Fermilab do recently? on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1

    http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/ Take a look at the right-hand side of the page. It lists several links to both papers and press releases describing discoveries made during the last couple of years. And these are only those analyses that were deemed "press" worthy. Most get published in journals which you probably wouldn't ever bother to investigate before trolling here.

    And that's just CDF. There are several other ongoing experiments at Fermilab, which I don't know as much about.

  11. Re:Well, for one thing.. on Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you buy windows and then get the refund, then you are quite clearly saying "I don't want windows". However, if you buy linux instead, then you are not only clearly saying "I don't want windows", but also "I do want linux". So what you propose definitely does not send the most specific message.

  12. Re:Wiping the crapware will also work - indirectly on Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Provided you never buy anything via the crapware, you're still screwing the crapware vendors. In fact, if you view the ads a lot (this presumes that the hardware vendor has ad tracking, which I hope they don't.), and still don't buy anything, then you are screwing the crapware vendors even more. They pay (if there is tracking) for views, and they don't get anything unless you buy.

    Wiping the crapware is really no different, in the end, from ignoring it.

  13. Re:Withdrawal and Other Downsides? on Cognition Enhancer Research · · Score: 1

    First, tolerance buildup in amphetamine (dexedrine and adderall) as well as amphetamine derivatives is very easy and happens very quickly. It happens with children all the time. By the time kids reach high school or college, if they have taken amphetamine for a while, they are definitely on a significantly higher dosage than before and/or redosing more often (twice a day, three times a day, or taking time released amphetamines to make up for it) just to achieve baseline. I started on Ritalin in 3rd grade. I began by taking 5mg twice a day, as a trial dose, and within a month or so, the doctor recommended that I bump up to 10mg twice a day. A few years later, I switched to 20mg slow release once a day. By the time I was in high school, it is true that I did occasionally redose (with the doctor's permission, and only with 5mg normal release), but only on days where my homework was going to last more than a couple of hours past the end of school (because the 8hr slow release got me through schooltime, but not much further than that). If I had had high school levels of homework in 3rd grade, I would have redosed then too. Then I switched to Concerta (equivalent dose), which lasted for 12 hrs, and the redosing ended. During my senior year, I switched to Straterra, which I have been given to understand is a much more benign drug, and I'm on the same dose now, 5 years later, as I started out on.

    Now, tell me again about tolerance buildup, and significantly higher doses and all that...
  14. Re:It's really the company's decision on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should really read comments before flaming. Especially bits that you quote. Especially bits that completely invalidate whatever it is you think you want to say, AND that you quote. Especially bits like this: "Completely unaware of the fact that I was about to be laid off..."

    GP was not being childish; he was not throwing a tantrum; he didn't even know he was about to be laid off. He started a long-running script, presumably a perfectly normal part of his job, but one which would need some shepherding. Then his permission to do that shepherding was revoked, so he was unable to do it. So he didn't do it. So the company reaped the benefits of their own folly. There was nothing the GP could have done to affect the situation, and no blame can reasonably adhere to him.

    So get off your high horse, buddy. Somebody with as low a UID as you ought to know better.

  15. Re:Dark Matter??? on Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2dfgrs.png Look at this image and then tell me again about quantized redshift.

  16. Re:6 times as many posts is not necessarily ... on The Effects of Censorship — a Tale of Two Websites · · Score: 5, Funny

    Parent is making things up. I'm certainly not gett~$^NO CARRIER

  17. Re:So there's more dust than previously thought... on Galaxies Twice As Bright As Previously Thought · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fine, but that's pretty clearly not what TFA meant by "obscured". So context-ignoring semantic wrangling aside, gravitational lensing is not particularly relevant here.

  18. Re:So there's more dust than previously thought... on Galaxies Twice As Bright As Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Yes. The dark matter is not only deduced but unseen matter, the deduction that leads us to conclude that it exists also leads us to expect it to have a significantly different distribution in galaxies than the luminous matter does. Simply increasing the mass of all or most stars by 20% cannot account for the observed effects which have been attributed to dark matter.

  19. Re:Hmmm... on Wikimedia Censors Wikinews · · Score: 1

    No, the war in Iraq is going very slowly, not wiki at all.

  20. Re:Big science - don't have to go to space. on Where Are The Space Advocates? · · Score: 1

    Cold fusion refers to D-D fusion consistently occurring at an interaction energy of a few eV. Primarily, though, I was seeking to evoke the general public view that cold fusion is this magical goose that lays golden eggs and has been shut up by the government and some big science conspiracy.

  21. Re:Big science - don't have to go to space. on Where Are The Space Advocates? · · Score: 2, Informative

    the theorized zero point Zero point energy as an energy source has never been theorized except by crackpots who like the way the words sound and don't understand any of the science that is denoted by the words. Zero point energy as a phenomenon is much more than theorized, it is quite well experimentally verified. And the experiments match up with the theory particularly in regards to the utter ludicrousness of the idea of using it as an energy source.

    Zero point energy is the non-zero amount of energy that remains in a vacuum. A vacuum, mind you, being a region of space that is as empty as space can be made to be. In other words, the zero-point energy is precisely that energy that you can't get out of space. Oh when will this dumb myth finally die? It's almost as bad as cold fusion!
  22. Re:Workspace disconnect on Tech's Top 10 Workspaces · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You need to get into high energy physics then.

  23. Re:Beginnings. on Science Documentaries for Youngsters? · · Score: 1

    Just to play the devil's advocate, how do you KNOW they are just tricks any more than the mystic KNOWS (s)he is in touch with the greater universal thingamabob?

  24. IIRC on SCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX" · · Score: 1

    Didn't they already bring the evidence, and have it shot down? IBM's "Show us the code"?

  25. Re:Dear MADD, on MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene · · Score: 1

    If by "residence" you mean cardboard box, this luxury is enjoyed by hundreds of thousands daily! They also have a "residence" within walking distance of their "workplace".