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  1. Bandwidth on Samsung Testing 5G Phones With 1gbps Download Speed · · Score: 1
    Bandwidth, according to wiki, is expressed in "bits per second, or multiples thereof".
    .

    Your "12 GB per month" is an artificial plan limit and not a bandwidth limit.

  2. Re:Crap, the sky is falling on Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Costco, 36-can box of soda, went from $9 a box to $10.50. Overnight. A month ago.

  3. Re:How do you figure? on Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? · · Score: 1
    They do not publish the articles.
    .

    No need to. You are doing it on your web site...that they found.

    Google Scholar is not a publishing company, its a search engine. The pdfs need to be already available on a server

    Yes, and they are, as mentioned several times before.

    and only then can Google find them and display them as search-hits.

    And?

    I cannot "upload" my article on Google Scholar and thus make it widely available (so that it can be searched, found, commented upon, ranked, whatever).

    False, false, false, false, whatever.

    Google Scholar does have ranking ability as well. I guess you never bothered to check it out to not know this.

  4. Dye pack on Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US · · Score: 1

    How about an exploding dye pack. See someone looking like Carrot Top, call the cops.

  5. How do you figure? on Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? · · Score: 1
    but they do not publish original research material.
    .

    I visited scholar.google.com yesterday and they made it clear what it would take for them to find your work: .pdf extension, pretty much. So, if you don't publish elsewhere and they find it, then it is original.

    I think the only definition of "original" that scholar.google.com does not fit is one where they are the only publishers of something. Not sure how many would even want that.

    Seems they are doing a proper "google" here...vacuuming up any paper that any academic wants to have published. Sounds like "publishing originial research material" and then some, to me.

    If I have cluelessly misunderstood you, please advise.

  6. scholar.google.com on Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? · · Score: 1

    They are involved.

  7. Tobacco...right on Peppers Seem To Protect Against Parkinson's · · Score: 3, Informative

    Anecdotal, but the only relative I have that smokes...is the only one that got Parkinson's.

  8. As easy as 1-2-3 on Name.com Resets All Passwords Following Security Breach · · Score: 1
    (1) Turn over all passwords to the NSA
    .

    (2) Tell the world that something bad happened

    (3) Profit

  9. Make that Radium on First Observations of Short-lived Pear-shaped Atomic Nuclei · · Score: 3, Funny

    Subject line fail.

  10. Radon on First Observations of Short-lived Pear-shaped Atomic Nuclei · · Score: 2

    The image of Ra (Radium) shown is interesting, given that this atom is radioactive...i.e. unstable. With spheres being more stable than wobbly shapes, it seems to make sense that radioactive elements might vary well have asymmetric shapes at the atomic level.

  11. Best dump yet on Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Highlighting the obvious similarity of the Metro interface to the Sesame Street web site is the best dump on Windows 8's flagship yet. Another (derivative) comparison is with the McDonald's cash register (which amazingly enough can be bought). I'm sure there are Idiocracy references too. 5 seconds on Google confirms it.

  12. What's next? on BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT · · Score: 1

    Sharing an IP address? What's next, sharing a desk?

  13. Vitamin D on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Vitamin D? It is now relatively common for people, especially older ones, to take 2000IU daily. Worked for me. Note: not suggesting it as a cure all, but it certainly _improved_ my QoL.

  14. Re:Related to OD's? on Tylenol May Ease Pain of Existential Distress, Social Rejection · · Score: 1
    Not sure if you were trying to refer to water with "Hydriotic acid". There is a Hydriodic acid, this being Hydrogen Iodide ( HI ). I would not want to be consuming this.

    At the bottom of that wiki page is a reference to the use of HI in the manufacture of meth. Perhaps this was the "too much will kill you" that you hinted at.

    Anyway, an interesting diversion reading that page. HI is ultra soluble in water: "One liter of water will dissolve 425 liters of HI". Officially blew my chem. eng. mind that did.

  15. Re:New Coke was a Flop? on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 3, Informative
    When you analyse how HFCS and sugar are broken down, you see that there is a difference. In essence, HFCS is broken down with the liver. Drinking a lot of it adds load to the liver. It also means that it is more easily/likely converted to fat.
    .

    The above was from memory. This 7-page How Stuff Works article is from the first hit of a google search of "HFCS vs sugar".

  16. Re:wavelength on Fermi and Swift Observe Record-setting Gamma Ray Burst · · Score: 1

    Yet still 12 orders of magnitude greater than the Planck size. It is boggling how much we don't begin to know.

  17. Re:Game on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 1
    (1) display the number, with +/- another number next to it.
    .

    (2) Show an average number for the past x minutes, with x/10 time delay. Have an "I'm not a dick/douche" button. Press that and you get the number the TSX used to show.

    (3) Have an "email your congressman" button and every time you press it, make the MPG number go up.

    (4) display the real-time progress of the Bit-miner you installed instead of the MPG number.

    (5) replace MPG number display with a touchscreen SMS center

    (6) instead of paltry MPGs, show "Best of" YouTube videos on a continuous loop

  18. 3 for 3 on USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams · · Score: 2, Insightful

    3 replies. 3 complaints about the spelling of a single word. Without bothering to read the initial point, or any of the 3 replies, further, I award the point to the parent post.

  19. Re:God made it. on Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo · · Score: 1

    I prefer the Rare Earth hypothesis

  20. Re:God made it. on Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo · · Score: 1
    Let us assume that at the sub-atomic scale, decisions are not taken at random, but that at every (let's say binary) decision the universe splits in two halves (one half taking one outcome of the decision and the other half the other).
    .

    You mean there might be a world without spelling mistakes? No Dan Quayle, I realize, but still that would be kind of awesome.

    You would automatically be banished from such a world at the first typoo

  21. Re:Bose never got a Nobel on Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' · · Score: 0
    Bose are designed to be appealing to people without being good.
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    Like Dyson vacuum cleaners.

  22. Re:Hmmmm on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1
    It got me researching cell phone radiation. Our old dumb phones are 0.9 (head), 0.6 body) -- with the US limit being 1.6. Then I checked our one "smart" phone (that nobody wants to use) and got some weird numbers. Specifically, 0.57 W/kg (head) and 1.12 W/kg (body). At first I could not understand why the body figure was higher than the head one. Then I noticed that the head one was at 1700 MHz while the Body one was at 850 MHz. There was no such difference for our dumb phones (T-429s). Makes me think, scaling the 1.12 with the ratio from our T-429s, that the figure would be very close to 1.6 (head), and thus very near the limit.
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    BTW, as the video reveals, this limit is based on adult male head sizes, but is applied to all humans (with children having much thinner, more vulnerable, skulls).

  23. Re:I agree on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1
    2 adults, 2 kids here. 4 to 6 laptops (they break, get replaced), 7 desktops, 1 smartphone that no one wants to use, 4 dumb phones that are all around three years old and work great, no tablets. [1 large screen TV that is increasingly unused, 1 small screen TV, also decreasing in use, and several gaming systems gathering dust].
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    I think table *prices* will have to decrease in the near future, as we reach market saturation for the current price point. As they do this, more will be sold and the market grown.

    Getting back to the grandparent's post, we here are heading toward the scenario GP predicted...maybe one tablet but probably no more than that. Lugging around quite large laptops still works for us, in part because of our media usage on them -- with its need for a large screen and large storage device, with a bonus of easy-to-navigate-with keyboard and touchpad. If tablets came with 128 or 256GB of storage, this might create a tipping point for some sizable share of the population.

  24. Re:Hmmmm on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. I'm watching it now at Vimeo (it can be downloaded, in 4 different forms, as well). I'm 10 minutes but am hooked already.

  25. Re:Another bitcoin article? on One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? · · Score: 1

    If bitcoins have been lost, can they be regenerated by someone else, effectively stealing them?