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  1. Re:Are there any practical applications? on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that the leakage through such a thin layer of oxide would make it useless as an insulator in transistors.

  2. Re:Two-dimensional? on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 1

    That's the stoichiometric ratio, but glass is a framework, not a collection of individual SiO2 molecules.

  3. Re:Two-dimensional? on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 2

    Topologically, not topographically. Topographically, cows are oval brown spots, but you have to zoom way in to see them.

  4. Re:Sucker. on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 2

    iPad X will be three atoms thick, with a protective coating of Higgs bosons on both sides, hand made by people in China with desktop LHCs.

  5. Re:lolwut on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. Maybe GGP *wasn't joking*.

  6. Re:And FF10 also makes addons compatible by defaul on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 1

    "FF11 will remove the UAC prompt on Windows, which will be a further improvement in 6 weeks from now."

    And FF13 will install Linux on a new partition and reboot the computer using the new OS.

  7. Re:development styles on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? · · Score: 1

    I don't know what that House Price Index represents for US house prices on the website you linked to is, but I'm pretty sure it's not $/m2.
    House prices when I last bought a house two years ago were around $100/sq. ft., which is over $1000/m2. I live in a part of the US that has higher housing cost than average, but nowhere near five times average, not even 2x average.

  8. Re:Disappointed on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    Hi, Gary. Been back to Pullman lately?

  9. Re:Dark Side on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    I thought it had more do with the fact that in order for stuff to hit the "near side" it'd have to pass close by the Earth, making it less likely than hitting the "far side".

  10. Re:So Cool! on Japan Plans To Merge Major Science Bodies · · Score: 1

    Well how about Emmy Noether and Marie Curie? They were alive at the same time, plus... both women. Make it a three-way, add in Lise Meitner.

  11. Re:Fear on The Hi-Tech Security at the Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. That gets covered too.
    How about based on eating this or that?

  12. Re:Dying from lack of surprise... on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    Those aren't esses or effs. Those are integral symbols. Madison and Jefferson weren't mathematicians but Hamilton was. Oh wait, wrong Hamilton.

  13. Re:"It's not the consumer's job to know what to wa on Apple Versus Google Innovation Strategies · · Score: 1

    Trash can to eject X makes sense if you think of it as "remove X from the computer" (i.e. if you don't know too much or think too much about what is actually happening).

  14. Re:"...only show phones they think might sell." on Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles · · Score: 1

    So if there's no "lock-in", and I agree you can switch, then why do you insist that you need to use a Windows Phone so you can communicate with your Exchange server? My Android phone sends and receives email just fine. Why should I care whether or not I'm using the "most widely deployed email system in businesses around the world" if another system works and doesn't force me to use a device that I don't like? You aren't being consistent.

  15. Re:misread that on Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As Entire County · · Score: 1

    OT: my guess is that it would take longer than "a fraction of a second" to truly shit a brick. Perhaps tens of minutes. Sorry.

  16. Re:AAF: Ammo Against Facebook on Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As Entire County · · Score: 1

    Oh, I forgot to say: read with your Comments Filter set to -1, otherwise you can't see what I mean.

  17. Re:AAF: Ammo Against Facebook on Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As Entire County · · Score: 1

    You can also see that supposed degradation in the quality of /. posts and posters is just that : supposed. As in not entirely real. Things were not so much better ten years ago. Don't believe it? Read some of this.

  18. Re:Go the Apple way on Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As Entire County · · Score: 1

    Currently +4, but the reason is that it IS informative. You're right, Prineville is about 100 mi. away from the Columbia, not 30, but that doesn't change the fact that Prineville has access to a lot of hydroelectric capacity, because the difference between 30 miles and 100 miles is 70 miles, but it's also negligible.
    And he did say "like, 30 miles".

  19. Re:"...only show phones they think might sell." on Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles · · Score: 1

    I give up. Lotus Notes?

  20. Re:"...only show phones they think might sell." on Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles · · Score: 1

    But if all you are doing is "communicating" then you don't need a smartphone so what does your opinion on smartphones matter?

  21. Re:Both on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    Similar to Energy Star rating, but actually useful, would be a better criterion I should think.

  22. Re:NTT DoCoMo is the standard gold of mobile netwo on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    I'd guess they've already upped their capacity, and they probably think you should up yours.

  23. Re:Suing the FBI? on Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon · · Score: 1

    Careful there...

  24. Re:Can they simply delete it? on Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon · · Score: 1

    This is helpful, but could we please have a car analogy, and not just, "You're living in your car, and the police bust into the trunk and find a body, etc." ?
    Thanks.

  25. Re:Unfair to Criticize Education on Maine Senator Wants Independent Study of TSA's Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    He was thinking of a "Boy Named Sue".