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  1. Re:this is why people balk at climate change on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    No they won't be. No AGW prediction claims or even suggested that. The projections are quite varied and for the 100+ years mark, with very little over the next 30 years *even* with a doubling of the CO2 levels over 100 years. Note even over 100 years there is no 2 meter sea level rise prediction that is credible.

  2. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Fact is there is just not much science on "diet". There is enough however that your ethnic background can have a large effect on exactly a healthy diet is. About all we can really say is that too much of anything is bad, to little of somethings is bad. Get some exercise, even if it is just 10mins walking a day, we know that makes a difference.

    However we have some really interesting results recently (I go to these sorts of conferences). If you are starved in your younger years, like before 10, or your mother was starved during pregnancy, this has a fairly irreversible (we think) effect on your metabolism that makes your body hoard all it possibly can.

  3. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Organic crops use pesticides. And Fungicides. They are "organic certified" ones, but are just if not more toxic than modern non organic ones.

  4. Re:He should have known better! on Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash · · Score: 1
  5. Re:For all of you USA haters out there: on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    Our strippers are higher quality and deserve $5 and $10s.

  6. Re:Let me get this straight... on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    threat model... treat model. Not thread. There is no thread.

  7. Re:Let me get this straight... on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    QTF. Yea that is all they have ever done. I am surprised by how many people think "its secure cus it runs linux". Good God no. Security is hard when you have a well defined thread model. Many times you don't even have that.

  8. Re:Already solved! on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    ROTFLOL... I can't even tell my colleagues in the same room why i am laughing. Evil Mac users!

    Oh and init.d FTW.

  9. Re:Uh, okay? on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    I know this is said in jest...but

    I only use linux desktops. Why do i need to care about what others use? Interoperability should mean we don't need the year of whatever whenever.

  10. Re:Umm..and telnet is insecure. on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    I was going to say the same thing. We know how insecure X11 is. Don't we? Well i though everyone did.

  11. Re:I suppose this means there's still hope on Simon Pegg On Board To Co-Write Next Star Trek Film · · Score: 1

    Star trek is not and has never been anything about speculative fiction any more than star wars is. The have technospeak. They are deliberately not even trying.

  12. Re:I suppose this means there's still hope on Simon Pegg On Board To Co-Write Next Star Trek Film · · Score: 0

    Really? And dilithium crystals are all good then? What about just reversing the polarity on the modulation frequency.

    It's fucking star trek. The lowest of the lows in all of sci fi *ever*.

  13. Re:It's about time. on Simon Pegg On Board To Co-Write Next Star Trek Film · · Score: 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Star Trek was not what you think it was.

  14. Re:Amazing work.. on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Amazing work.. on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Amazing work.. on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1

    (red matter? WTF?)

    Yea cus dilithium crystals are right on the money and ignoring that the correct application of teleport solves pretty much most of plots was soo rock solid.

    You fans are all the same. You point out what is wrong with the new while it was twice as bad in the original. And please don't start with "it was intellectual". it was only if your a Texan neo nazi. " Oh.. killing people different to me bad?"

    It is star trek, the softest crappiest (technospeak anyone) form of sci fi invented by man. Futurama is more intelligent, more realistic and just better sci fi. You can't do crap with star trek because it was already crap in the first place. At least JJ work is interesting enough not to walk out before the end of the movie. If your sci fi is that crap *at* least have some action.

  17. Re:No Headshots From Mars on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    You not going to get 90 min pings from mars to Europa buddy. And if you are getting that, then where do i sign up!

  18. Re:Business model? on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    The difference is 20 years of digital transceiver developments. They have been substantial.

  19. Re:Needed! on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fused silica has a refractive index of approx 1.5. so light is 33% slower in fiber. But that is not the whole story since group velocity and phase velocity are mode dependent. I assume it is all single mode however at that would be in the ball park.

    Diamond has a index of refraction of 2.4, so fibers made of diamond (there are reasons to use diamond :) so signal speed would be 1/2 c.

    Over 1/2 of lag however is in the switching.

  20. Re:Needed! on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    Most DSL are about 20m-50ms at best due to the way the lines are set at the ISP. As in first hop 50ms ping even if your all at the same ISP. (can't remember the details, something about the ATM setups often used etc)

  21. The difference is that a space based internet is useful. Underwater cities and jetpacks, no so much.

  22. Re:Internet by satellite: non-news on Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies · · Score: 1

    Probably the biggest difference between 1990s and now, is the *amazing* progress with transceivers. The SNR ratio and gain, noise rejection and everything is just incredible. Just the bitstream on modern USB is plain godlike compared to what we could do back then. This makes the whole system far more viable.

    Oh and legal reasons. Buying bandwidth, getting right of ways for cable etc is not just cheap, it is total cartel central in just about every country out there.

  23. Re:"Forget about the risk that machines pose to us on An Open Letter To Everyone Tricked Into Fearing AI · · Score: 1

    You claim Turing complete, with nothing more than an assertion. There are physical process that are *not* Turing complete. You don't need magic to make it uncomputable. Now either put up or shut up.

    Oh my personal project is a vacuum energy machine that runs on water. I can't cite anything or show you anything because it is my own personal project.

    Yea right.

  24. Re:"Forget about the risk that machines pose to us on An Open Letter To Everyone Tricked Into Fearing AI · · Score: 1

    So you claim you know what is needed... Well lets see the citations. Because people working in the field here don't know what is needed for "strong ai" or even how to define strong ai properly.

  25. Re:Cool!! on Exoplanet Hunting NGTS Telescope Array Achieves First Light · · Score: 1

    Many years ago when I was in university and hung out with astronomy nerds ... the notion of discovering an exoplanet was still speculative science, and it was largely thought there wouldn't be many planets.

    What? My masters was in Astrophysics. It was widely speculated that planets are common. But size distribution/distance from parent and all that was a bit of an unknown. We don't believe we (the solar system) is special.