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  1. Re:Before and after on Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist At the Same Time · · Score: 1

    Julian Barbour's The End of Time is a good read by someone who's done a lot of work on this issue.

  2. Re:When was Bitcoin anonymous? on Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters · · Score: 1

    No, half of all gold ever mined has been mined since 1967.

  3. Re:24 yo? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? · · Score: 1

    The design of Powershell was heavily influenced by Perl...

  4. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children · · Score: 1

    Ah, so it does... doh. 20s versus 60m is quite a difference though!

    The best thing about my alarm clock is waking up about ten minutes before it goes off. Never fails to amaze me :)

  5. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children · · Score: 1

    Seconded. Although I do find the transition quite obvious - unlike my daylight alarm clock which goes from dark to bright over half an hour, Flux does it in about five seconds. Once it's changed you don't notice the difference though, and it's definitely less glaring.

  6. Re:Sequestration is a gimmick on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    Well then it's a good thing you're not someone who'd twist someone's words to try and make it seem like there was meaning that wasn't there then, right?

  7. Re:Sequestration is a gimmick on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    Exactly, racism.

  8. Re: they see me trollin', they hatin' on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    No, I've been here over a decade, and by and large it's the same as it ever was - there's just more people and a broader range of topics and views. And there's way less in the way of outright crap than there was ten years ago.

  9. Re:It's been superceded by Web Components on The Forgotten Macro Language of HTML: XBL 2.0 · · Score: 2

    There's some articles about the template tag, web components and custom elements. HTML5 Rocks has some articles on the shadow DOM as well.

  10. Re:...and no short term memory on "Choice Blindness" Can Transform Conservatives Into Liberals - and Vice Versa · · Score: 2

    I very much suspect you're just overestimating the focus, attention span and memory of people - there's hundreds of ways our brains act irrationality in modern situations like this.

  11. Re:Functional market on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    How do you even define cheating in that sort of task? If I go and search for it on Stack Overflow and find a decent solution, and then I can come in and talk it through showing I understand it, is that cheating? Or evidence of a useful ability to learn new things? I'd say the latter assuming they can talk through it... my current job had this sort of offline test before my interview and it's the best place I've worked at so far :)

  12. Re:We must find out for sure! on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    This is Mach's Principle, and one of the things Einstein thought about while thinking up General Relativity. However, GR doesn't answer the question, and formulations such as Godel's universe break it in strange ways.

  13. Re:Gravitational tides will kill you on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    The energy comes from the black hole itself - every single particle that escapes makes the black hole less massive and therefore smaller. This loss balances the energy required to escape the potential well of the black hole, leaving a grand total of zero, same as to start with.

  14. Re:Solved! on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    I've been here long enough to recognise the accounts that I "like" and whose posts I'll pay more attention to, so my policy is that if someone is annoying enough to want to flag I'll a) go through current foes, find ones I don't recognise and un-foe them if they've not posted in ages, or b) just get rid of a friend I recognise. I've never used them to give bonuses or penalties to scores, so that works out for me.

    I wonder how many users would be in my lists without the 200 limit though :)

  15. Re: I don't understand all the anger over Google on Google Keep End-of-Life Date Forecasted · · Score: 1

    Which is fine up until the point where you want to change some part of your system that service relies on - another service's API, your underlying data storage technology, or just migrating from old server equipment. Now there's a whole load of costs incurred in just keeping the service exactly the same, which I doubt the low number of users and ad impressions sold are going to compensate for.

  16. Re:This won't be good... on Google Keep Labelled "Delete" · · Score: 1

    Just checked, and you can paste images straight into a note in Evernote's website, and use ordereded and unordered lists. The note interface is pretty much the same as for an Outlook email - title line, formatting controls, body text.

  17. Re:I thought features were passe? on Google Keep Labelled "Delete" · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure what you consider a technical project then, as Metro consists of a new application mode, a new set of APIs for implementing applications, and a completely new style for every part of the GUI.

  18. Re:No? on Google Keep Labelled "Delete" · · Score: 2

    You're forgetting their other service, writing bloated verbiage about last month's overused buzzword and marketing it as cutting edge market analysis for clueless C-level executives.

  19. Re:Oh, we can do something about THAT? on Gov't Report: Laser Pointers Produce Too Much Energy, Pose Risk For the Careless · · Score: 1

    Because there has never even been a civil war, military coup or brutal dictatorship in which the military of a country was responsible for vast numbers of civilian deaths and other atrocities, right? Given the right situation the US military will quite happily shoot their own citizens.

  20. Re: More Appropriate Bands on V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures · · Score: 1

    Bolt Thrower maybe, but even when death metal was the only thing I listened to Cathedral were fucking ghey, I can't imagine how you'd consider them death metal.

  21. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It could easily mean that the mammals suffered less than other animals around that time. If 90% of non-mammals die out but only 70% of mammals die out then that will certainly lead to a massive expansion of mammals relative to other species; it's still the case that the vast majority of mammals died out though.

  22. Re:The real issues on When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall · · Score: 1

    I've read a book by that guy and agree with his premise, but it does focus on the technological side of science rather than pure research, stuff that may or may not have any practical use directly.

  23. Re:This Is Beyond Inane & Changes Nothing on Lew Rockwell: Ron Paul Not Using the State or UN to Control RonPaul.Com · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul's name is not trademarked.

  24. The moral lessons to be drawn from Star Wars are not very helpful.

  25. Re:Related: White LEDs on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 1

    Mine has it's own scarf for just the same reason... it's like trying to sleep in a nightclub at full blast.