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  1. Re:So fucking what on Internet By Light Promises To Leave Wi-Fi Eating Dust (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say it's useful wherever you currently use wifi under artificial lighting.

  2. I was expecting at least BBC12 by 2001...

  3. Re:Batteries just don't store enough energy... on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    So if electric engines can be made that are more efficient than jet engines...

    Sorry, I didn't notice the mistake when I made the post.

  4. Re:Batteries just don't store enough energy... on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Li-Air have roughly the same specific energy as gasoline. I'm guessing aviation fuel is similar. So if electric engines can be that are more efficient than jet engines...

  5. Re:Let Bob Lazar name 115 on Four Elements Added To Periodic Table (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They should simplify the naming scheme! Starting with Hydrogen, which should be called Unium (or Unum if you're American). Water will be Dioctium Unium. And Roentgenium will be Unununium.

  6. Also, no decapitation. on BBC Taken Offline By 'Anti-IS' Group (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the plus side, the BBC won't cut your head off if they find you.

  7. Not to mention it's going to be loud. Something that the video doesn't show.

  8. Re:Trust the philosopher on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Nobody remembers him for his eccentric philosophical/religious speculation, we remember him for his scientific and mathematical contributions.

    There's probably a lesson in there for us all.

  9. Re:Falling into a star on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    6) Makes a good finale to a Disaster Area concert.

  10. Re:Self-fulfilling prophecy? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops. That's actually C++.

  11. Re:Self-fulfilling prophecy? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Something like this?

    out << "Hi" << HTML::Text{post['name']};

  12. Re:Like testing for 'god' on Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Hologram, not simulation.

  13. Re:I don't think... on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. the doctrine or belief that there is no God.

    What a terrible definition. God isn't a well defined concept. How do you know which one it's referring to? Without bigotry to mandate what "God" is, the "definition" doesn't definite anything. It can only makes sense to someone who's a theist. For example: "the doctrine or belief that there is no Invisible Pink Unicorn". It's absolute nonsense to anyone else.

  14. Re:This is stupid ... on You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the mistake was trying to use a fixed time-period for seconds. It might work for angles, but it's a mess when it comes to variable lengths like days or years. The second should just be a fixed fraction of today or the current year, and we should give up a conflating it with a unit of time. The SI "second" is a good unit time, similar to a second, and badly named.

  15. Re:The movie's not out yet and I'm already tired on Star Wars Battlefront Released (giantbomb.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm happy to wait indefinitely for it to come to Steam. Just like Mass Effect 3.

  16. Re:Reality acceptance issues... on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    Someday people will look back on the shared delusion of religion and wonder what the fuck was wrong with everyone.

    The funny part is that they already do. For example, Ra or Ptah aren't popular anymore.

  17. Re:iso646 on Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"? · · Score: 1

    Replacing ! with not hugely the improves readability of code.

  18. Re:David Cameron is not very intelligent on UK Government Says App Developers Won't Be Forced To Implement Backdoors (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    24% of the electorate voted for a Conservative candidate. 0.08% voted for David Cameron.

  19. I used to think that we needed nukes to prevent someone nuking us. But I'm not sure this makes any sense. What we need is the capability to retaliate. We need a way of killing the people responsible for launching nukes. We don't need a way to kill lots of people in the same country.

  20. Re:Really? on Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I just kept in mind the invention of the transistor while reading his drivel.

  21. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    My friends are honest and open.
    My enemies are deceitful and secretive.

  22. Re:But... on Apollo-Era Photos Now Up at NASA's Flickr Account, In High-Res · · Score: 1

    And all NASA needed to do to convince them, would be to photoshop an alien into one of the photos.

  23. Re:eagle system on Researchers Use Smartwatch To Spy What Users Are Typing On a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Similar, but the eagle system is more majestic.

  24. Denial of Service on Xerox PARC Creates Self-Destructing Chip · · Score: 1

    That's going to make DoS attacks very effective.

  25. Re:Financial Motivation on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Has Microsoft US even told Microsoft Ireland to give them the data? Or are they using this bullshit sovereignty excuse to avoid doing so? it's only when MS Ireland refuse to do so because of local (Irish) laws that there's a sovereignty issue. MS US can't force MS Ireland to break laws in Ireland. At that point though, MS US is in the clear because it's done all it can.