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  1. Re:Enough with the toy languages on Book Review: Core HTML5 Canvas · · Score: 1

    So done using a language written in C, libraries written in C, and further libraries that depend on the language and libraries written in C?

  2. Re:I call bullshit on Xbox One: Cloud Will Quadruple the Power, Says Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Because not everyone will be on their Xbox all the time, and Microsoft might also have spare server time available for peak Xbox hours.

  3. Re:Got it backwards on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Usually time constraints. Alice might want to communicate securely to Bob over an extended period while separated, but they can physically meet beforehand. For example, you want a secure link with a military drone.

  4. Re:What do we need this for? on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    The weather?

  5. Re:interconnect on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    That's the first thing I thought about at the mention of a "brick wall". What else is going to stop you building a super-computer that has N-times the processing power of an existing one?

  6. Re:Because it's valuable, duh. on Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does it even qualify as scientific knowledge if it's not freely available for peer review?

  7. Re:Of Course Battery Life Will Be Short on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 2

    I would prefer a power cable. Put the battery in my pocket.

  8. Re:have they controlled for intelligence? on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    Which is why a clearly visible shooting target, with the groin-area shot out, is more effective than an actual gun.

  10. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    Completely agree. I'd add that the threat is the defense. Actually shooting the firearm is no defense at all.

  11. Re:First english version? on Earliest Version of D&D On Display At Rochester Museum · · Score: 1

    Gedyr ah Emlyg?

  12. Re:Thank you on CS Faculty and Students To Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook · · Score: 1

    That should be:
    I couldn't see any mention of C++11. I'd assume they would use the new standard. Anyone know?

  13. Re:Thank you on CS Faculty and Students To Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook · · Score: 1

    I couldn't see any mention of C++11. I'd assume they would. Anyone know?

  14. Re:Discovery and limitations on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

    I'm not saying you're wrong. Just that people who have said similar things in the past have all been wrong.

  15. Re:Goodbye Anonymity on Google Glass Will Identify People By Clothing · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not going to work on me. I don't have any fashion style.

  16. Re:Life on Clues of Life's Origins Found In Galactic Cloud · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which is just 4 light-minutes away. Voyager 1 is 17 light-hours away, and has taken 35 years to get that far. The next nearest star system is Proxima Centauri, and that is 4 light-years away...

  17. Re:The idea of Teleportation on Mathematical Breakthrough Sets Out Rules For More Effective Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Until we understand consciousness, it's hard to say. Entanglement might have something to do with it. Duplication of a conscious state could be prohibited.

  18. Re:A tablet is on Acer Rethinks the "Tablet Bubble," Launching $99 Tablet · · Score: 2

    It's a shame you can't get a keyboard to go on the back of these surface devices. Starting with V, C, X, Z, etc. down the back left, and a couple of space buttons each side, but on the front.

  19. Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    The argument there gets a bit more complex, but you can get the basic point by looking at entropy. An unordered system is not likely to become ordered over time, and it cannot do so over an infinite time, which it would need to (it would eventually degenerate into a final stable state, unlike the universe we see around us with non-homogeneous elements).

    Why can't it do so over an infinite time-period? If it's unlikely to become ordered over [a finite] time, then over an infinite time-period it's a certainty. Why would there be a final stable state? No thermodynamic system has one.

  20. Re:Just on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For Web Hosting? · · Score: 1

    You'll want a RAID controller that supports TRIM.

  21. Re:Benchmarks don't mean much... on OCZ Launches Vector Indilinx Barefoot 3 SSD, First All In-House Design · · Score: 1

    Very happy with mine. But the 830s are becoming harder to find since the 840 came out.

  22. Sample Size on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder how big the sample size would need to be to get two 100% matches.

  23. Re:Desktop on 48-Core Chips Could Redefine Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    You probably already have that many. Except they're in your graphics card.

  24. Re:commonly understood on Physicists Propose "Perpetual Motion" Time Crystals · · Score: 2

    There are Quasicrystals. These are ordered in space, but not periodic.

  25. Re:Did you take any science courses at all? on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I thought, along with why the f' is this news? It's been known about since the publication of Special Relativity over 100 years ago, and certainly before we started calling them tachyons, around 50 years ago.