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  1. what about amazon? on Asus Corrects Eee PC Source Code Issue · · Score: 1

    Any idea about the GPL status of the Kindle? The Asus lets you reinstall the modified source code, the Kindle is only GPL "in legal" but not "in spirit".

  2. Re:No, the answer to the Universe is 137 on 42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta · · Score: 1

    No exactly. The normalised fine structure constant is not the inverse of an integer, but it has been conjectured that it could be an integer plus a quantum fluctuation. The first candidate was 136, then 137, and also 128 is suggested from time to time

  3. exactly: cell switching on Google and Skype in Startup to Link Hotspots · · Score: 1
    You are right. Cell switching is the trick, and they do not perform it.

    A real wifi network could do cell switching because besides the role as AP, all the nodes are networked between them. So a node could communicate the rest of the network that it is servicing a movile device and that it has already been asigned a network number as well as a NAT and gateway for external internet access.

    A serious developer could even thing IPv6 and roaming protocols from the IETF.

  4. Re:Research by reading random paper productive? on Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference · · Score: 1

    Even worse: it could be that the random paper insight were already useful by itself.

  5. actually there are out there... on SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle · · Score: 1

    Surely most important data can be read from other cheap sources, such as cosmic rays or nuclear data. But the devil is details, and detail is the thing you get from a particle accelerator.

  6. they first discover, then clean, then undiscover. on SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle · · Score: 1

    and this task takes three-four year of data analysis.

    Seriously, the LEP had, becore closing, published preliminary hints of a charged scalar at 68 GeV and a neutral one at 115 Gev. After one or two years, the final analysis were done, lowering the certainty on such discovery. Then it took a year more to do the joint analysis from LEP four experimental areas, again lowering the relevance of these signals. Then Nature (the journal) publish a review article alerting that the 115 signal is there. All this without doing any new experiment.