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  1. Re:Wait on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well....let's change that to something that is physically possible.

    If you were travelling 99.99% the speed of light in one direction, and something else, say 1 light year away, was travelling in the opposite direction at 99.99% the speed of light. From YOUR perspective in the first ship, the light from the other ship would take....wait for it.....1 year.

    Spacetime stretches and squishes based on your speed. That's WHY time dilation occurs.

  2. FYI--Mayo clinic article on diabetes on New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes · · Score: 2

    Just to level-set everybody.

    http://www.mayoclinic.org/dise...

  3. Re:It's a hoax on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    I can see a system like this as an auxiliary system--to make your tanks last longer. Add in a re-breather system and you have potentially seriously long underwater times.

  4. Re:Presentation on Ask Slashdot: IT Spending In Engineering? · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points right now. I would rate this Insightful and Informative. Exactly the right thing to do.

  5. Yes. 3.5 standard deviations on the normal curve (gaussian distribution, I assume).

  6. Re:Far from it... on Has the Industrialized World Reached Peak Travel? · · Score: 1

    Ask the apartment management if the apartments have firewalls.

  7. Re:Many questions still... on Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood · · Score: 1

    I figure they'd just cut off a patch of skin and grow it in a petri dish. They do this now for burn victims. Then, when they've grown enough, they convert it to blood?

  8. Re:China’s Cyber Threat Growing on Talk On Chinese Cyber Army Pulled From Black Hat · · Score: 1

    Taiwan. The Chinese Government wants enough capabilities to hold us back over anything they do against Taiwan.

  9. Re:Some thoughts. on Is RCA's Airnergy Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Only in direct line-of-sight, but technically...yes. One cell phone WILL cast a "shadow" for any directly behind it, just by the fact that this first phone's antenna is intercepting the signal. The cell tower is still putting out the same amount of signal power, however.

  10. Re:Some thoughts. on Is RCA's Airnergy Snake Oil? · · Score: 0

    One small correction: The cell tower transmits the same signal power level, no matter where it goes or how it's used. So if a cell tower out in the Mojave desert puts out, say, 5 kilowatts and there's no cell phone around to receive its signal, then....the cell tower put out 5 kilowatt. Phones that recharge from the cell towers' transmission won't effect anyone else's phone reception.

  11. Re:idiocy? Incompetence? on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    Better make sure your computer rounds that (way way down) to 13.7 billion. According to current cosmological thinking, that's when time began.

  12. Re:NFL is going to LOVE this on Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs · · Score: 1

    The instant the NFL tries this schtick with Joe Sixpack, the howling from living rooms across America will shake the franchise to its roots.

  13. Put your own encryption on top of the drive's... on Universal Disk Encryption Spec Finalized · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing says you can't use Truecrypt or what have you on top of the hardware-based encryption built into the hard drive.

    This way you'll have AT LEAST as much protection as you would've with just your software-based encryption.

  14. NOT Invisibility Cloak: RADAR Cloak on A Step Toward an Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it just me, or would this stuff work VERY well as a RADAR cloaking device?

    1-18 GHz is solidly in the microwave (millimeter-wave RADAR anyone?) range...

  15. Re:Quick! on Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up please. This is an interesting point, and little understood or reported.

  16. Re:I've got no problem... on "Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are correct: the cat is well and truly out of the bag. There is practically no way to regain our privacy from the prying eyes of the government. And many corporations.

  17. Here's one: Trendnet TEW-631BRP. on Can Any Router Guarantee Bandwidth For VoIP? · · Score: 1

    Trendnet TEW-631BRP. Has good QoS management and is Draft-N to boot.

  18. Re:Sigh.. on Greenpeace Complains Game Consoles Aren't Green Enough · · Score: 1

    You've got to be kidding, right? 1. Proponent of some good cause lies/exaggerates 2. They are shown to be lying/exaggerating 3. People start to ignore them, AND their cause, to an extent (baby with the bathwater) They are HARMING their cause.

  19. Re:downplaying the white elephant on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 1

    Satellite dish? Try a phased array. Think small flat panel antenna with directional gain like a satellite dish.

  20. MOD PARENT UP on US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT UP. I don't like Bush either--I'm glad he's going to be replaced soon. Don't make up crap about him and his administration, though: that just makes people stop listening to even legitimate things you say when they find out about the bull...

  21. Re:Servant of the people on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    Well...technically, they based their theory of the social contract on those of John Locke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke

  22. Re:I like my solution better on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or in the case of the wrongly convicted...first offenses.

  23. Re:Will someone explain? on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You have it backwards. It shouldn't be "justify not letting us have your DNA." It should be "justify why I should give you my DNA." Remember, the theory goes that the Government is a servant of the people, not the other way around.

  24. Re:Prior art on HD-DVD and the Early Adopter Premium · · Score: 1

    OPs comment about the 3.5 inch drive's history was informative, interesting. The comment taking someone to task about the proper usage of the words "disc" and "disk" on an informal internet forum post...not so much.

  25. Re:Back in the old days... on How Retailers Watch You · · Score: 1

    Thrill seekers. They want to do something "bad", "forbidden", etc.