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  1. Re:CFAA applies ? on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1

    It can't apply otherwise the FBI would have raided their headquarters, siezed all their computer equipement, and arrested all the directors.

  2. Re:New Moon on New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune · · Score: 1

    The orbital period 23 is hours. so full in 11.5 hours.

  3. Re:Units on Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips · · Score: 1

    Yes you maximize ops/power by running for longer! Prior to you no one has mentioned this concept, we have only considered ops/energy, either as such or as ops/sec/power.

  4. Units on Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips · · Score: 2

    Why GFLOPS/watt? that is (operations/second)/(Joules/second). why not just operations/joule?

  5. Cause and effect on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

    I am quite prepared to accept a link between brain damage and using a mobile 6 hours a day, but has it been shown which came first?

  6. A thousand words on Elementary School Kids Explore the Moon At Close Range · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every time I see a picture is worth a thousand words I ask myself which takes up more disc space?

  7. Re:so what on Google Drops Cloud Lawsuit Against US Government · · Score: 1

    Either that, or they were not written with MS office!

  8. a careless omision on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    Who forgot to put the microwave detection equipment on Voyager?

  9. Re:I'm trusting the summary this time on An Open Source Legal Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Come on now, be fair to the guy. He's only had seven weeks siince the ruling to write his summary!

  10. Re:Spammers, etc. will LOVE this on The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the obvious TLD for phishers was .con

  11. Is the Army an Agency? on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    if so how about .ir

  12. Re:Not gonna move to the UK any time soon. on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 1

    He listens to people so he can then tell them that they're wrong.

  13. Re:Taco uses a spell checker! on First Superheavy Element Found In Nature · · Score: 1

    He must be some sort of magician.

    Harry Potter uses a spell checker to prevent things being misspelled.
    J. K. Rowling uses a spelling checker to prevent things being misspelt.

  14. Re:Hydrogen is a Battery on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline · · Score: 1

    Why is it that when discussing biofuels noone tells us how efficient the convertion of solar energy to corn is? I have never seen any figure for this compared with other methods of collecting solar energy from the field.

  15. it's not piracy on UK ISPs To Face Piracy Deadline · · Score: 1

    The success of the misinformation from the **AA's is ilusutrated by the fact that the word piracy occurs more often in these comments than the word copyright. Copyright violation is not piracy and we should avoid refering to it as such,or we serve the purposes of the enemy.

  16. Some maths on Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station · · Score: 2, Interesting

    400km up 27700 km/h the energy loss required is about 117kJ potential and 888kJ kinetic to land. say 1MJ. This is slightly reduceded as to get to an eacth grazing orbit the plane must be thrown backwards fom the space station eith a relative velocity of about 700km/h.

    If we assume a surface area of 1000 sq cm, not unreasonable for a length of 30-40 cm, then and a re-entry time of 1000 seconds the energy must be lost at about 1 watt/sq cm, which seems possible.

    The launch from the space station would appear to require rocket assistance.

  17. Re:The MPAA wants us to act ethically??? on Court Rules Against TorrentSpy In MPAA Email Suit · · Score: 1

    Robert Anderson has clarly breached the copyright of the authors of the e-mails by selling their work. How m,uch is it he has to pay per e-mail?

  18. Re:While the US sues itself into irrelevancy... on Patent Lawsuits Galore · · Score: 1

    "land of the free"! - who put that 'r' in there?

  19. The british way. on Perfect Silicon Sphere to Redefine the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Defining mass buy by sherical objects is not new. The British Standard Apple has a mass of 102 grams. Thus under a standard gravity there is a force of 1 Newton.

  20. Re:good old EU on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 1

    The point is that, if the record companies are charging Apple different licencing fees for different EU countries, they are breaking EU law. The EU are after them for this as well. It is likely that if the EU gets round to imposing fines, which normally take several years, the fines for the record companies will far exceed those for Apple.

  21. Re:Er... new? on Fish-like Sensors for Underwater Robots · · Score: 1

    with 1 milimetre spacing it certainly isn't a low frequency linear accoustic array.

  22. Re:Best Unsuggestion... on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 1

    What makes you think he's read My Life!

  23. Re:Hmm yes... on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 1

    You can import from almost any file containing ISBNs. LibraryThing will find the books in library catalogs and enter them for you. I would recomend using Amazon only as a last choice source their information is terible. While waiting for the site to become accessible again you could create a file of ISBNs.

  24. We could try this on The Long Arm of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Surely the way to deal with phishers is to give them their own TLD. Obviously .con

  25. How it falls on The Financial Future of Space Travel · · Score: 1

    In Mercury by Ben Bova it was broken at geosynchronous orbit. It wrapped from Equador across the acific and ended in the Atlantic. I think he's wrong.
    In part it depends on what it's made of but it has to be designed of materials good under tension, I guess lose the tension and it behaves like string. The downward force on the middle would be greater than at the top so there would be tension at the top end.
    Consrevation of angular momentum suggests to me the top would move east as it fell but the tension would pull against this.
    Then there are wind effects. Does the anchoring at the base hold?
    The simplest case should be solvable, no air resistance, ground anchor holds, uniform mass distrubution with height, infinitly flexible, infinite tensile strength, non elastic etc. Any applied mathematicians out there?