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  1. Re:Having Read Both Papers on FTL Neutrinos Explained... Maybe · · Score: 2

    Physics (and velocities) don't work like that, you can't simply sum them.

    If, in a third reference frame, 2 objects are observed to be approaching each other at .75 c, co moving observers in the frame of either object would calculate their respective closing velocity as .96 c

    The velocity addition formula is:

    s = (v + u)/(1+(v*u/c^2))

  2. Time to add MOTD EULAs to your equipment on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    In the old shell style http://www.free-x.ch/pub/FreeBSD-IPFILTER.html (look for warning banner)

    ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE USE OF THIS SYSTEM CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO MONITORING AND AUDITING.

    Also, curse you lameness filter.

  3. Re:Texas Police Are Pretty Bad on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    Depends on the state, it's at least supposed to be the case, in Washington, Texas and several other states, that there is no "Duty to retreat"

  4. Re:But where does that leave our immune systems? on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 2

    It's possible, going by the mechanism being used, that it turns every viral infection you get while on it into the equivalent of a (possibly weak) deactivated virus vaccine. In fact, if it didn't, it probably wouldn't work at all, as it's unlikely it can kill all the infected cells before they have done any viral replication work.

  5. Re:It's called Kalocin. on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    Infected cells are already zombies, this just kills the zombies before they manage to produce a bunch of viral material and burst.

  6. Re:Just scribble a random scrawl on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    If it's emergency care, Duress?

  7. Probably on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    Depends a bit on what you are working on, but i find one monitor for ssh terminals, editor windows and/or debuggers, one monitor for the client interface and sometimes one for the server interface, makes me more productive than juggling one monitor back and forth with a kvm switch.

  8. Re:You have to be fucking joking on Google Sued For Tracking Users' Locations · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work without sending the location data to google, and by "doesn't work" I really mean, "can't work" without sending data to a centralized system to look up the necessary data to compute your enhanced location. In some sense, your phone doesn't send Google precisely where you are, instead, it sends statistics from which Google derives a better guess as to where you are and sends it back to you.

    Fun thing is, unlike Apple, they actually TELL YOU what they are doing when you turn it on, and ASK if you really want to do it.

  9. Re:Taken to a logical conclusion on Free Internet Porn Is Legal, Says California Appeals Court · · Score: 2

    I'll take a gram of anti-matter please. Don't forget to package it securely.

  10. Re:Great Legal Team! on Sony Must Show It Has Jurisdiction To Sue PS3 Hacker · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is not the only exemption, I believe 1201 f should apply as it is providing the information to allow the PS3 OS software to inter-operate with the software generating homebrew images.

    http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html#f

    IANAL

  11. Re:For me it was a love hate thing on Stargate Universe Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Hypothetically, Eli was the tech nerd everyman viewpoint character.

    Destiny left 'the galaxy' eons ago. If you mean the specific galaxy it was in when they first boarded Destiny, there was nothing special about that galaxy, no particular reason the stones should stop working when leaving it. As for different bodies, I always found it amusing that they never seemed to have any accidental transgender events (or if they did, I completely missed them).

    Can't really comment/dispute anything else you said, except that, their science consultant (Scalzi) seems to have done some good.

  12. Re:Civ 5 is wrong on North Korea Says War With South Would Go Nuclear · · Score: 2

    The same way I had a unit of mechanized infantry running around smashing north america while still in the Medieval era.
    Ancient Ruins

  13. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. There were more pay phones before the advent of cell phones.
    2. People died due to being unable to contact help (they still do, but you hear about it more because it's unusual now).

  14. Re:really? on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    The statistics work great in determining that there was cheating, they are useless in distinguishing the good student that guessed on the hard problem and got it right, the student that understands the subject matter in general and the students that are cheating.

  15. Re:Eh what? on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    C52 isn't actually reasonable, it precludes some network technologies and topologies (wireless mesh networks for instance) and precludes open networks.

  16. Re:Algorithmic trading? on Norwegian Day Traders Convicted For Manipulating Computer Trading System · · Score: 1

    Don't code a strategy, code a strategy for finding strategies. Heck, cheap low volume stocks are the natural place for it to test strategies due to the lower buy in, and with an explicit "magic 1, buy low, magic 2, sell high" pattern, the 'bid high' magic is a remarkably short permutation and should be run across relatively quickly.

  17. Re:Tipping Point on Chinese Nobel Winner's Wife Detained · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nuclear first strike. Before that, everything else is done under the shield of them not having nuked anyone but being capable of it.

  18. Re:So what's the deal here. on Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email · · Score: 1

    The wiki is misleading. It lists Washington for instance, but fails to note that only 3500 parcels are under the Torrens system in Washington, everything else is in the normal system. Basically, the Torrens system is a nightmare, every thing that is seen as 'wrong' with the chain of title system is trivially handled by Title Insurance, which, unlike regular insurance, as it's insuring against the past, can (and does) take significant measures to identify and cure issues before a real estate deal is finalized. It properly places the incentives for verification in the hands of experts who have a significant financial stake in things being correct. It also protects innocent third parties to a transaction, as there interests can't be infringed (as has occurred in TFA, the owner was not a party to the purported sale of his own house but gets screwed by the Torrens system, under a sane system, the buyers would have gotten title insurance and been compensated, not having ever actually acquired the house, as they were in a position, being a party to the transaction, to detect the fraud (either personally, or via the title insurance company) in transactions they are not a party to.

  19. Re:Scares the hell out of me on Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait, so he still has the original Title Deed? Then the house was never properly sold and the Title Insurance company should be stuck with the bill. Under what system can a fake title, after being identified as a fake, survive? That completely defeats the purpose of a Title and Title Insurance. Responsibility for verifying the authenticity of a transaction must always lie with the actual parties to the transaction, not uninvolved third parties, even when one of the parties to the transaction purports to be the third party. To do otherwise creates perverse insensitives for the only parties capable of identifying fraud, the uninvolved third part can't identify it, before the fact, on account of never having the opportunity.

  20. Re:Bad consequences on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I feel a bit sick saying this, but this would be an instance of #3 with the caveat that the group in violation of the license (they had 'returned' the software in exchange for a discount on the next version) sold that which was not theirs to sell to a third party who then tried to resell the infringing copies.

  21. Re:"Justice" on Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website · · Score: 1

    What evidence do you have that a summons was ever sent, let alone received, by the incorrectly identified party? Is there any reason to believe that having screwed up simple identification the plaintiff's lawyer correctly served the defendant with a summons?

  22. Re:Install Good Logging Practices on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know where you work, but when dealing with a few hundred or thousand tps per server, logging can account for a good chunk of latency.

  23. Yes, but audited on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 1

    The author/owner of an application should be on the hook for keeping it running and for it's failures. To separate these responsibilities creates perverse incentives and encourages fire and forget development with no thought to future maintenance and troubleshooting. At the same time, to discourage the practice of 'keeping things going by kicking them', access should result in a detailed audit trail, which would be necessary anyways for regulatory compliance.

    This doesn't work very well without other arrangements in place, namely, a standardized version control and deployment system, hardware as a service and fleet maintenance systems and a hetero-generous service based architecture.

  24. Re:People are afraid of real zombies? on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 1

    "You watched the wrong video"

    Unfortunately, you did in fact watch the correct video and I'm just telling you the above per your request.

    Though, parts sounded like a Eldritch Horror/Cloverfield situation rather than a Zombie scenario.

  25. Re:I know what I would do. on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    Read it again, the dev is complying with the FOSS licensing terms (distributing to apple, following the terms of the GPL), and none of the "non-FOSS portions of the Apple Software" are subject to FOSS licensing terms.

    FOSS portions of software distributed by Apple, on the other hand, those aren't covered by 3.3.16