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  1. Re:Fails? on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    Yes, I get it. Did you read the linked articles? Can you show me the error?

  2. Re:Antiparticles / antimass? on Has the Higgs Boson Particle Field Been Hiding in Plain Sight? · · Score: 1

    Nassty Higgses, we hates 'em, precious!

  3. Re:Fails? on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    Because you're supposed to be looking at it along the axis of propagation. The horizontal distortions are interspersed with vertical distortions similarly to the way electric and magnetic field strength maxima follow each other in an electromagnetic wave.

  4. Re:Fails? on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia has an illustrative animation and commentary. The commentary states that there is no motion in the direction of propagation, i.e. a transverse wave.

  5. Re:As a matter of interest... on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 2, Informative

    That would be the phonon.

  6. Re:Fails? on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The argument is that since binary systems which include a neutron star steadily lose energy it must leave in the form of gravity waves.

    Einstein predicted transverse gravitational waves. This post questions whether LIGO is capable of detecting transverse or only longitudinal waves. The poster also points out that two waves would be generated and says that the longitudinal waves cancel at large distances.

  7. Re:Gravity waves, meet Bigfoot on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    Let's add dark matter, dark energy, the Higgs boson and government employees who are really "here to help"

  8. Re:Oh well. on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 4, Informative

    .basically we don't like Iran, so we can't do business with them at all.
    Unless, of course, we're Halliburton! (Read the 9th entry)
  9. Re:Ron Paul on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    Life is basically a boolean, it either exists or it doesn't.
    What, you never heard of Schroedinger's cat?
  10. Re:Ron Paul on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    If you support abortion in the 4th trimester you support the killing of 3-month old children.

  11. tactics on Comcast Sued Over P2P Blocking · · Score: 1

    Isn't the point to this lawsuit (like the FCC ruling) that Comcast's tactics for controlling traffic illegal rather than controlling traffic in the first place?

  12. Wal-Mart vs. Linux on Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out · · Score: 1

    Observing that Wal-Marts is largely controlled by the CCP, I still applaud the release of a truly affordable PC with Linux pre-installed, no matter what you think of Enlightenment (I personally think it sux).

  13. Re:Obligatory binary joke on Nanotech To Replace Disk Drives Within Ten Years? · · Score: 1

    There are two types of people in the world: Those who think there are two types of people in the world and those who know better.

  14. Before there was pong on Games All Downhill Since Pong? · · Score: 1

    I guess this discussion only covers computer games although I spend as much or more time playing go (on the computer) as I do playing computer games. There's a simple game that generates very deep strategy. As for computer games, I think they've basically gone downhill since myth. Also noteworthy is that despite fancy graphics I've spent more time playing nethack than I have all other computer games combined.

  15. Re:Congratulations on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    Rove's tactics allowed GW to connect with his idiot base. On the other hand, Gore did nothing during the election but shoot himself in the foot with an automatic. Nader had absolutely nothing to do with it.

  16. Re:No confidence on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the cars make you more fuel efficient.

  17. Re:The one they missed is the one that counts on Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas · · Score: 1

    If you consider the Fourth Reich a good thing I guess Ron Paul wouldn't appeal to you. Otherwise to see the "appeal" please consider the alternatives.

  18. Uh... on Dell Laptops Have Shocking New Problem · · Score: 1

    Power is measured in watts (or horsepower or electron-volts/second) not volts.

  19. Re:Naturally there are sins of omission... on "Tech Heroes" From Ada Lovelace to Jamie Z · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of Terry Winograd. I also think my friend, Rick Adams qualifies.

  20. Re:Naturally there are sins of omission... on "Tech Heroes" From Ada Lovelace to Jamie Z · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More to the point, how could they forget John von Neumann, Marvin Minsky and others?

  21. Re:You don't? on How Do You Advocate Linux in 5 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    My Mac Just Works.

  22. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MIND??? on The Privacy Candidate · · Score: 1
    I feel as though I'm beating a dead horse, but I must point out that Hillary will say anything to get elected. Did you even read the comments after the article? Please begin with the ones which go, "Is this the same Hillary Clinton who [fill in the blank\]?" I'd like to recommend a film to you: The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

    HUMMA KAVULA
    And what will you give me to insure your return?

    ZAPHOD
    My word as President.

    HUMMA KAVULA
    Ha! I'd be better off with the dung of a Bethusian Mega Donkey.

    ZAPHOD
    Okay, then I'll get you that.

    HUMMA KAVULA
    I need a hostage, something you hold dear. Only what does Zaphod Beeblebrox treasure?

    At an earlier point (I think) Ford Prefect makes the pronouncement, "The role of the President is not to wield power, but to divert attention away from it."

  23. Re:The corruption is really, really scary, actuall on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1

    Uh, it's not that the islands are sinking. The sea level is rising.

  24. Re:you're right on Microsoft Applies to Patent RSS in Vista · · Score: 1

    You're obviously too young to remember the browser wars.

  25. res ipse loquitur on Republican Aide Tries to Hire Hackers · · Score: 1
    His college grades "weren't that great," he acknowledged.
    Do tell.