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  1. Re:This really should come as no surprise on Antarctic Subglacial Lakes May Not be Isolated · · Score: 1

    Actually there is another explanation for Glacier movement.
    Ice under, I guess it is 50 mts or so, is not brittle. Rather it can flow due to the high pressure above it. It is viscous (but not much).
    This is the reason for all glacial movements. But, ice above this 50 mt range actually break up rather than flow.

    Hopefully, we are both attacking the same thing.

  2. Gender based... on Closet Slashdotters: The 'Intellectually Curious' · · Score: 1

    What is the percentage of the 60 M gender wise?

  3. Re:Buzzwords and Challenges. on Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, but this *is* unbreakable.
    This is no logic which can be broken by brute force of amazing insight.
    This is the basic law of physics at work i.e. the quantum state of a pair have information which stays the same even if they are far apart. (I think they are using this one here).
    One changes, the other knows. So somebody peeks to it, they guy knows it has been peeked into.

    So, looks like this is it.

  4. Re:Wasted funding? on NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation · · Score: 0

    Those spinning superconductors generating magnetogravitic fields are understood.

    Not quite. Currently the theoritical values are many dimensions lower than what was actually measured.

    Only Heim was close, but even his theory is nowhere near complete.

  5. Re:Are they really testing what they think? on NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation · · Score: 1

    oops sorry.
    I was reading another article on the same and replied on behalf of that.
    My mistake.

  6. Re:Are they really testing what they think? on NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation · · Score: 1

    Also, how can they even test the same?
    For testing you need to compare the data from the computer o/p with the real life situations.

    Now, since gravitational waves havent been spotted yet, there is no (straightforward) way of making sure whether these details match too.

    But these guys are genuises and would have thought about ways of doing it already, most prolly.

  7. Re:Always a Bigger Fish on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 1

    I am sorry I started this conversation, Kid.

  8. Re:Always a Bigger Fish on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 1

    Sorry, if I hurt you.
    I re-read my post, and it looks quite a obnoxious one indeed. Sorry about that :-(

    Anyways, what I meant was - 10x the size of T-rex = 10 * 8 Tons = 80 Tons.
    And, an Argentinosaur weighs = 100 Tons.

    So similar to (if not more) than the wolf-bison ratio.

    So calling my post - obnoxious is correct, but - un-informed/uninsightful .. I think that is wrong.

  9. Re:Always a Bigger Fish on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm is good - Provided one knows what he is talking about.
    The answer is there in the article (actually in the summary itself).

    On an average - Tyrannosaurus rex was roughly 5 to 7 tons in weight.

    FTA
    Researchers said that by working together the dinosaurs may have been able to kill animals much bigger than themselves, including the 125-foot, 100-ton Argentinosaur

  10. Re:Depends on what fuel cycle you use. on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Although I generally dislike the French government, I have to give them kudos in this area for being the only government with the balls to continue civilian research in this area, when the US decided to ban it

    I guess India India and China were also doing civilian research in fast breeder reactors.

    Also i think India is only one which tried Thorium as a fuel. And she has quite a lot of it too...

  11. Re:The Input/Output Hurdle on It Does Little and Not Very Well · · Score: 1

    I dont know whether such a device is already in the market - or not.
    Anyways here goes -
    A virtual reality eyeglass - with instead of typing - look (down) at the keys.
    As we focus on an area (which contains one set of keys say -
    rty
    fgh
    cvb
    that area zooms though so that we will get what we want. Just zoom our eyes towards it(maybe a dot on the center of the key, where we can focus then), and it is considered as typed.

    Then we look up, and lo the monitor has what we typed.

    Problem is that we cant wear this thing on the road and go - the essential requirement for such small devices..
    But when you are in the back seat of a car etc, this should be fine - provided the person gets used to it .. (if he can :-) )

  12. Re:Journalism 101 on Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On Protest Site · · Score: 1

    the guy clearly isn't THAT famous. "Thousands" of people the world over might be accurate; "hundreds of thousands" is almost certainly not.

    Now they are...

  13. Re:Monkeys on Wiki to Help Solve Millennium Problems? · · Score: 1

    Not exactly.
    See, Internet already proved this is not the case (for the first one at least)

  14. Good on Sun DReaM Finds Home In IPTV · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, this kick starts the IP TV network.
    This is good for the whole bubble in general, in that more bandwidth needs will sustain it for longer periods.

  15. Re:Well, yeah on Most Search Engine Users Stop at Page 3 · · Score: 1

    Grrr.
    This post almost lost me, my job.
    Please be careful (or provide danger signs) if such links are posted.

    Thanks You

  16. Improved search engines on Most Search Engine Users Stop at Page 3 · · Score: 1

    62% of those surveyed clicked on a result on the first page, up from 48% in 2002 Since ~80% of people use google for searching, this shows that - not only other search engines have improved, google search itself is improving quite a bit. Also, I really doubt the valuse of this study. Isnt this obvious ? Also FTFA - businesses needed to take the results of the study on board duh !!

  17. Never on Should Companies Delay Products for More Features? · · Score: 1

    Design the products as per the design requirements.
    Make it *extremely* patchable.*

    If new features are to be included during any time of the release, patch the same to it.
    Even after the release, you release patches to make it jazzy and cutting-edge et al.

    *This needs a VERY solid base design, though.

  18. Possibly on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I tend to believe this guy.
    The global temp started increasing alarmingly only after 80's due to cleaner air supported by green house gases.
    But, as per the storm counts - http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=140, there is an increase of stronger storms, from 1920 onwards.

    Even though this doesnt prove anything, it actually puts a seed of doubt in my mind. I used to believe (without any doubt) that increased temp is causing stronger storms et al. But I do have my doubts now.

    Also I do not know if some localized temp changes caused these storms too...

  19. Re:hobble in space on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 1

    The space , even inside the solar system, is so huge, that you idea has no merit.

  20. Re:no need! on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 1

    Do not try to cheat.
    This is just 1 pixel across.

    Where the remaining .5 ?

  21. Re:Moons on Venus Probe Set to Reach Target · · Score: 1

    Check out Coriolis Force in Google.

  22. Men are from MARS, Women are from VENUS on ESA to Send Spacecraft to Venus · · Score: 1

    constant surface temperature of 870 degrees Fahrenheit with crushing atmospheric pressure a hundred times greater than on the Earth's surface.

    Quite True, indeed

  23. Re:What about Windows? on Indian Companies Embracing Linux Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    But this is a golden oppurtunity for Linux, I beleieve.
    Since in India, automation is just coming up for most systems, linux has an
    advantage (ok, rather less disadvantage) compared to that of developed countries,
    wherein the systems were all under development even before very stable Linux
    systems were a reality.

    Now we can see how well Linux can match up with its greatest rival.

  24. Re:Sooner than you think on When Black Holes Collide · · Score: 1

    Two ways to look at it -
    First way -
    Every force is believed to be set up by a particle as per current theories -
    and gravitational force is caused by gravitons. And gravitons can move at the speed of light and no faster.*
    The second way -
    When black holes merge, the merging will cause a different sort of deformation of space-time. Now, for that effect to reach out to some other particle, it has to travel, and that wave travels at the speed of light and no faster*

    Also, for the second point you mentioned, there is no transfer of information in that case, and so is void.

  25. Re:Sooner than you think on When Black Holes Collide · · Score: 1

    No Information can travel at the speed more than that of light.
    Even if (just a hypothesis) gravity waves reaches here at the instant it happened, it means that it is not detectable, since if we can detect it, it means information travelled at more than the speed of light.

    Anyways, einstein proved that the concept of 'same instant (instantaneous)' is not there anymore.
    So that q itslef is not valid.