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  1. Re:I'll believe it when I see... on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2

    Spacetime is by no means a flat plane with a fixed notion of distance. It doesn't matter how far apart points A and B were, warp drive simply makes the necessary corrections to the universe such that there is a shorter path to get there. For example, we can see galaxies which are 46 billion light years away. Those stars "warped" to their current locations in a mere 13 billion years. Nothing FTL about that. The question isn't whether spacetime is malleable, it's whether there is any practical way of doing it.

  2. Re:RIP GSM on AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 · · Score: 1

    EVDO supports it, but it requires one radio for voice and one radio for EVDO. HTC built one phone like that, but nobody else did. Also, no carrier has an actual 4G network yet - LTE won't qualify until the next release and nobody has deployed VOLTE yet last I checked.

  3. Re:RIP GSM on AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interestingly the one thing that LTE doesn't inherit from WCDMA is the CDMA-based air interface. LTE uses OFDM, which is a radical departure from CDMA. OFDM uses a drastically slower symbol rate to reduce the effects of echoing (multipath), but then makes up for the reduced capacity by adding thousands of narrowly-spaced carriers. Because combating multipath is the main limiting factor in practical wireless the overall efficiency is drastically increased.

  4. Re:Failed? Define failed? on Foxconn Hires Top Spinners To Defend Its Image · · Score: 1

    I'm getting tired of hearing that load on here everytime some company does somethign disgusting.

    corporation 1. an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

    Where does it say they can't have morals? A corporation has to obey its shareholders- mostly people who are just trying to save money for retirement through mutual funds and would probably be outraged if they knew they were abetting this crap.

  5. Re:A de(cade) late and a dollar short on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    How is that different from any other server application?

  6. Re:A de(cade) late and a dollar short on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    Servers can't compile?

  7. Re:TEPCO has ruined nuclear power for decades on Japan Widens Evacuation Zone Around Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Every time there's a nuclear accident, it becomes more and more obvious that while a nuclear power plant is perfectly safe, a nuclear power plant with a human at the controls is a disaster waiting to happen.

  8. Re:Here's why we don't use renewables only on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Actually in the future scientists predict that long strands of aluminum could be used to transport electricity from areas where electricity is being generated to areas where it is in demand. They may even invent devices which can store electricity for later use! As for corn, you did a rather good job of explaining why corn is NOT a form of renewable energy.

    The only reason nonrenewable energy is economically competitive is because we're borrowing against our future to pay for it.

  9. Re:Before everyone freaks on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    The summary sucks. But I think the TFA argument is basically that based on the measured levels of contamination, the water is somehow getting from the magic rocks to the ocean. Perhaps the pressure vessel breached from a meltdown, and the containment vessel was cracked in the hydrogen explosion or maybe even the earthquake itself.

    On a side note, while even in light of this fiasco I still think nuclear is safer than say, offshore drilling or coal mining, why do we continue to bother with anything besides renewables?

  10. Re:Where is the heat coming from on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Wrong (except for the boron part; graphite is indeed used to speed up the reaction not slow it). See above comment (quantumpion) for the correct answer.

  11. Re:Not only graphics on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    And you'll never be able to shoot me as dead with your PC as I can with my real gun. Does that mean real war is more fun than Modern Warfare? It's a pointless comparison.

  12. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    When people think of intelligence, they think of things that set a more intelligent person apart from a less intelligent person. This is dangerous in AI because it makes it easy to dismiss monumental achievements in intelligence that even an idiot makes look easy. Does Watson understand geography or human anatomy? Apparently not. But it does understand on some level that "the answer to this question is a city" which is a huge leap in intelligence.

  13. Re:Senior member of Anonymous? on Anonymous Isn't Anonymous Anymore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Takes one douche to know another, apparently. How is Anonymous lingo not acceptable in a discussion about Anonymous?

  14. Re:Can't we all just... on Geek Culture Will Never Die...or Be Popular · · Score: 1

    It's funny you phrase it that way, because I've always considered "being unconcerned with labels" to be the true measure of geekiness. Which leads to an interesting paradox..

  15. Re:The other side of the coin on Why Eric Schmidt Left As CEO of Google? · · Score: 1

    Back here in the states a large corporation gets above the law simply by purchasing as much government as it requires. I wouldn't call what google did a precedent (other than the fact that for once I happen to agree with the corporation's position.)

  16. Re: What's missing from this article? on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    I would venture that a small minority of the /. crowd actually has an engineering degree. In any case, as bad as it can get here, compare the comments on here to the comments on, say, YouTube.

  17. Re:Heat energy. on The Moon Has a Fluid Outer Core · · Score: 2

    Before the discovery of radioactivity it was estimated that the Earth would only take 20MA to reach its current temperature from a fully molten state. So the internal heat is almost entirely radioactive, meaning that the degree of molten-ness depends mostly on composition, not square-cubiness. Also, exotic is when you use an endangered macaw not a chicken.

  18. Re:Good to know. on Why Apple's iPad Has Been Good For Sprint · · Score: 1

    Just to be fair, the planned LTE networks that Verizon and AT&T are calling 4G don't meet the definition either. However, both WiMax and LTE have true 4G upgrades in the pipeline.

  19. Re:Inflationary theory on Inflaton, Mother of the Universe · · Score: 1

    To be precise, the ratio of empty space to occupied space is increasing. Your shrinking is just a restatement of expansion from a different point of reference.

  20. Re:NetApp on NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS · · Score: 1

    To literally screw NetApp would require some sort of giant screwdriver capable of rotating NetApp until it bored into a piece of wood.

  21. Obligatory Futurama on Black Hole Emits a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Gas Bubble · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Think of the astronomical odors you'll smell thanks to me!"

  22. Re:Cryptochrome? on Some Birds Can See Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    Given that it's cryptocrome not chronochrome i'd say it means "hidden color".

  23. Re:No mathematical background? on Quantum Physics For Everybody · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disagree. I didn't realize it until college, but physics without calculus is about is as satisfying as having someone describe a piece of music to you.

  24. Re:Law Suit!!!! on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly, can I demand an inspection every time I don't win?

  25. Re:Sensible on Air Force Wants Reusable Fly-Back Rockets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't the shuttle such an albatross precisely because reusability is so impractical?