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  1. Re:No one cares anymore on Can The Martian Give NASA's Mars Efforts a Hollywood Bump? · · Score: 1

    No you really couldn't. No on the surface of earth is even remotely comparable to space. Not only is there no oxygen, there is nothing at all, no pressure, no nitrogen. Just plenty of radiation if you want to make a cancer farm.

    Antarctica is millions of times more hospitable than space or even the surface of mars.

  2. Re:Far too late in the game...pun intended on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 1

    Different sort? They are all the same game. 100 versions of tetris is not the same as a 100 different games. And more importantly these games are not going to work on a console market either.

  3. Re:Non-linear control on Morphological Computation: The Hidden Superpower of Soft-Bodied Robots · · Score: 2

    Err no. Just because its digital does not make it linear or anything else. We use digital because it just works better, and is cheaper and is less susceptible to noise. Just because it is digital does not mean it has to be a power hungry i7 or something.

  4. Re:Good. on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    Lung was the classic reservoir. But other tissues do as well. Such as the liver etc. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is well established and published.

  5. Re:Good. on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    I actually did work on HIV. Current treatments effectively shut down the virus in the *blood*. But it archives itself in different tissues such as the lungs. These tissues just keep popping out previous successful versions of the virus to freshly reinfect at any time they go off treatment. This would be enough different "types" of HIV to prevent such a thing from working.

    Compared to when you get infected, it is fairly widely accepted that only 1 or 2 virions seed the initial infection. A completely different case.

  6. Re:How is this legal? on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How the fuck can people be so gullible... That really sexy girl that just want to give some internet stranger a good time, is ALWAYS ether a bot, a big fat dude or the feds.

  7. Re:This is why we like C on Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory · · Score: 1

    What the fuck? if you use all the memory in C you run out of memory like every other fucking language! What is this tripe with programing languages as religions round here? You think the magic C pixie fairy is going to magic more memory into your system?

  8. Re:Do damage to Bitcoin's reputation??? on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 1

    I don't assume anything. But the classic foam at the mouth bitcoin fan doesn't even understand fractional reserve banking (let alone the fiat money in general) and that bitcoin is 100% compatible with it. It is even in the FAQ.

  9. Re:Uber = Public subsidized on Uber Lowers Drunk Driving Arrests In San Francisco Dramatically · · Score: 1

    In Vienna, Austria, Uber is no cheaper than proper taxies. In fact taxies are faster since they are just there waiting outside the pub to take you home. Taxies are fairly highly regulated there, so they don't try and rip you off and rates are fixed.

  10. Re:Zoink on Mice Brainpower Boosted With Alteration of a Single Gene · · Score: 1

    "I see now my plan has a fatal flaw.", is then squashed by the gold bar.

  11. Re:1MB ought to be enough for anybody? on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bit coin has quite a bit of that [hard coded limits] in the original protocol to be honest. Like no ability to do anything faster, no able to handle even a small percentage of what paypal/visa/mastercard handles per second. It was an experiment that worked too well and now they are stuck with something that wasn't quite fully thought through.

  12. Re:Do damage to Bitcoin's reputation??? on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 1

    You really have no idea how the fed operates do you.

  13. Re:Already been done on Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 1

    Yea well when you can run around the galaxy with neutron stars in your pocket, you hardly need the antimatter version.

  14. Re:The Forge of God on Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 1

    That is almost as easy as making Unobtainium.

  15. Re:This is just the looong tail of the distributio on How Many Scientists Does It Take To Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands · · Score: 1

    Maybe the data you analyze. But we need more than one guy if we want to finish in anything called a reasonable time period. And we use 100 of thousands of CPU hours doing it. Don't assume the world is as small as your experience.

  16. Re:Very few eggs should be put in the tokamak bask on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    right now tokamaks are a factor of 2 away from working. A 10 fold increase in confinement would make them trivial to build. You could probably not even other with neutral beam injection.

  17. Re:Failure mode ? on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    oh lord... You could have looked it up. Even the big arse ITER contains less than a gram of material. Loss of confinement creates a mark and a little sputtering damage on the first wall or divertor plate. In fact it happens all the time.

  18. Re:Good for experiments, not powerplant ready on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    We have been working on grid energy storage for well over 30 years. And we still don't have a solution. What evidence do you have that it will be solved in just a few years? And well i don't think you understand the scale of energy needs. Right now there is no way in hell you could replace base energy with solar or wind or both even if all you do is build solar and wind in decades let alone a few years. Since you need a fuckton of it *everywhere*. Really run the numbers.. http://www.withouthotair.com/

  19. Re:Only if it works on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    Err no its not. Lots of old nuclear use pretty cool hot side, like around 300C, so to produce a GW of electrical power they pump out 3-5GW of heat. It is well within normal industrial scale cooling capabilities. Old coal was like that as well. These days we push for higher hot side temps, which costs far more up front, but uses less fuel so hence long term savings.

    This thing has by requirement a very hot hot side. The primary circuit won't run that hot, but having in the 700C range is not out of the question. Even modern power plants (coal or gas) often use 5% to 10% of the energy the generate for there own operation. 20% is clearly higher than that and often 10% is often quoted as the required figure for commercial plants, but you don't need some other costs to shift to move that up a factor of 2.

  20. Re:Corruption on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    Yea, this is truly hilarious...

  21. Re:High-frequency trading=respctable insider tradi on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    Oh FFS. HFT doesn't do shit to liquidity... because to trade at high frequency the stock already has to be LIQUID. And since fucking when is liquidy defined in microseconds. In the good old days when it could take a weeks to sell a stock (and this is still true for low volume stocks, and HFT won't touch those) sure improved liquidity was a good thing. But not when your talking seconds. In fact anyone who starts taking about improving liquidity over seconds clearly doesn't understand the concept.

    And on top of all that HFT is reserved for special people. If it was soo good for the market. We would all be allowed to do it. But we can't because its BS.

  22. Re:High-frequency trading=respctable insider tradi on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    Insider trading is legalized for particular parties. I really am not joking. ie politician can insider trade. In the US at least.

  23. Re:The stock market on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    To short a stock you still need to already have it.

  24. Re:The stock market on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 1

    Guess what. It is not illegal to insider trade if your a politician... Oh and lets not get started on the special treatment HFT get.

  25. Re: Looking more and more likely all the time... on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    so... your claim to credibility of the claims is /.? do you hear yourself say these things? There is to date, only one, just one published paper. And it shows, and states in the abstract zero detectable force.