Wrong.

The first time there was a major outage and everyone ran off batteries for an extended period of time ... needing to not only start using normal mains power again but ALSO charge their batterys ... now you're fucked if you don't have the capacity you already have and probably more to deal with the surge of everyones chargers.

Great UPS, but the energy has to come from somewhere.

Mean while ... the BSD people keep thinking of Linux as a 'third party' they'd not let their worst enemy run.

Linux is for the unenlightened. Running a Linux file server or firewall on a heavy network ... there you're just showing how ignorant you are.

Linux on a desktop with shitty hardware that BSD doesn't support ... sure, its great.

yes, its not a flashlight ... except if you mean a highly focused 100kilowatt flashlight, BUT it certainly stands to reason from our observations of the universe that some frequencies of EM are better suited to this purpose than others, as well as various drive configurations.

And for reference, if you read the article ... they compare it to photon drive engines, they are very real (although very weak)

You might want to checkout the definition of engine too, I think yours is probably not the one the scientists are using. Its not always about having a hemi.

Its not a violation of the laws of conventional physics.

Some of the microwave radiation escapes, thats where your thrust comes from. Matter propellant isn't used, energy is the propellant. What I don't get is why people keep calling it controversial or defying the laws of physics. To defy the laws of physics, it would have to accelerate with no energy supplied to the system at all, but it has a supply of energy it is expending.

Remember kids, in our universe Matter and Energy are more or less one and the same and completely interchangeable IF you have sufficient spare energy :)

Photons of light (which are EM just like microwaves, just a different frequency) impart energy on things the impact, this is well known ... where do they think a solar sail comes from?

Like you said, they may not understand how the microwave radiation is moving the device, but saying its breaking the laws of physics just makes it clear to anyone listening that you have made no attempt to understand what it does.

This is the drive output portion of the Impulse drive from startrek, once refined of course ... the input portion would be fusion generators to power it all to some useful energy level.

Technically, the only thing Jeff Bezos is doing is lending his name and some money to the project, its not like either he or Elon Musk are ACTUALLY involved in the work done in any way. They are mouth pieces.

Its their money, they can do whatever they want with it, but lets not pretend either one of these guys are actually doing anything impressive. They got lucky in a boom/bust situation, nothing more.

Hell, has Elon Musk EVER ran a profitable company? Just because he got rich selling stock doesn't mean the company was worth a shit, it just means there are people dumber than him.

No it doesn't, it just changes where you have to do the attack vector. If you think switching to HTTPS is going to fix this you're an idiot. So you can't mess with the encrypted stream ... except ... you can, because the country installs its own root cert on your machine, don't like that? No problem, good luck getting anywhere on the Internet because the GREAT FIREWALL ISN'T GOING TO LET YOU DO SHIT if you don't do it there way.

Of course, you're one of those tools that still thinks this is China attacking random tiny companies so this post is surely wasted on you.

I'd think by your UID you'd have been around long enough to recognize this pattern.

This is just how Netscape manages itself into ... well not being in business. Just because they changed their name to Mozilla after Sun realized how shitty they were doesn't mean its a different company really.

Netscape has never had a grasp on what their customers wanted or needed. They have always coded themselves right out of existence by doing stupid shit JUST like this. No one at Netscape that makes decisions should be allowed to make decisions, they repeatedly show no clue who their target market is or what that market wants and then tell that market both things regardless of the fact that people WHY more qualified than them are part of their target.

You know why we have Google Chrome? Because Netscape (the company) is fucking stupid and Google knows it. They like to make decisions based on principals ... and they're stupid principles that no one gives a fuck about outside of their tiny little over funded for no reason world.

I call them netscape because its the same people making the same stupid decisions that put them out of business the first time around, and some of those people went on to Sun ... and helped put them out of business as well. They make decisions for their own personal purposes. They don't deserve to have a business, but a bunch of techies fanboy'd up on firefox because 'its not Internet Explorer' ... not because its a good browser, its about the shittiest browser used on the web today in every way. That legacy still keeps random fanboys ranting and raving about how theres nothing wrong with firefox and random UI and code changes weekly are the way everything should be done.

God, I can not explain in enough detail how horrible Netscape/Mozilla is at software development. Without their anti-Microsoft fanboys, they wouldn't exist, and even thats going away.

When Adobe's PDF reader is less of a resource hog than your browser, you probably fucked up ... A LOT.

science.

There is pretty much nothing done in psychology that is actually good science. You can almost universally pick the results of any study before it starts, just ask the people doing the study what they expect and thats the result your going to get. Even in 'double blind' studies, most of which aren't even blind studies when you look at them closely are always clearly biased by the test design, which was done in a way that to show someone the results they wanted to see.

Theres a reason psychologists are called quacks, like most stereotypes it doesn't apply to all, but it damn sure applies to most, which is why it came to being in the first place.

Most psychologists doing studies are trying to push their own personal agendas and the effect its had on the profession in general is obvious. Example: Guy has psychological condition as defined by DSM ... guy's a psychologist ... he becomes leader of psychology association ... suddenly his psychological condition ... is no longer a condition, its normal. Rinse, repeat. The history here alone will tell you why you should be ignoring most of the profession outright.

Its not science, is people manipulating people because they can.

Very true, it is worth nothing though that efficiency in the air is far more important financially than it is on the ground so while taking a bus is going to be WAY more efficient over all than flying or being the one person in the car you're driving ... Airplanes are typically more efficient than any land vehicle and we should actually try to be better at incorporating things the commercial airlines do into other mass transportation options

With that said, fi that means we start using airlines for a guide to how the seats should be sized, I promise you the entire nation will just drive their own cars, in which case, it would be less efficient.

The summary (didn't bother to read the article) doesn't understand the point of not letting jurors talk about the trial to others. Its not so they don't give out trial details to the public, its so the public doesn't give them things from outside the court.

The judge ISN'T BOUND by that and is in fact REQUIRED BY LAW to hear things first (when requested by attorneys) to verify if its even okay for the jury to hear it. The judge posting on Facebook is not a problem for the trial itself, its just unprofessional, trials are public you know, unless deemed otherwise by the judge.

Telling the jurors not to talk to others about the case doesn't make it a private case, its just normal to not have the jurors getting data from other places.

The mistrial was for entirely different reasons if anyone bothered to know anything about the actual trial.

Than you don't really know much about UI development.

Qt is about as horrible as you can get in every aspect. Its not native, which sucks in every way. Its not UI native, its not UX native, its not native to devs of a particular platform, its pretty much different in everyway, none of which are particularly better other than being cross platform. If you think Qt has abstracted everything away from your for cross platform dev then you really aren't doing all that much with your apps. That doesn't mean you don't make great apps, but it does mean their guis are pretty simplistic (which is also a good thing).

What you think is so great about Qt is exactly why it sucks. Its mind numbing the number of people that look at all those things as good traits. Its like you utterly failed to grasp the idea that users of a system expect applications of that system to behave in a certain way and you're proud of the fact that you do everything possible to be counter-intuitive. Not just to the users, but other devs well since Qt pretty much lives in its own little obnoxious world.

Wow, you are so clever and original. No one has ever made such a witty remark as yours before.

NO IT DOESN'T. I REALLY wish people would stop saying these things.

Using traditional methods of propulsion to accelerate in normal space-time causes time dilation.

The formula entirely falls apart when you hit the speed of light which according to the formulas in question require infinite energy.

FULL STOP.

Leaving one location and arriving at another faster than light traveling through normal space does not require that you do exactly as specified above.

If you can avoid the acceleration portion, its a whole new ball game.

If you can avoid traveling in normal space-time, then you've just potentially solved the problem entirely.

Neither of these two things have been proven impossible, although very improbably for the former.

A blackhole is already not normal-space time, the formula in fact breaks down inside a black hole. A wormhole (which can mean any number of things) connecting two black holes? Thats pretty far from normal-space time and certainly, in theory, allows for things such as leaving point A and arriving at point B before the light traveling between the two does.

Light does not travel in time at all from its perspective.

You can't fly a 747 by shooting a jet of water from the top of it up into the sky, you can make it fly using all the other normal aerodynamic principles that keep us as happy fliers. Just because you know it won't work one way doesn't mean their isn't a way we haven't discovered yet to accomplish the same thing from a practical perspect, and you really should stop implying that FTL == Time Travel. The equations that produce that 'theory' break down at the speed of light, so you can't use them to make assumptions about what happens after that.

This guy seems to think the fact that his computer is usable is an exploit. He doesn't mention anything that isn't just documented and known as the 'way it works'.

Pretty much everything he talks about makes it clear he doesn't actually understand the features and how they actually work. Every comment he makes ... makes almost no practical sense. Its not technically incorrect, its just pointless and doesn't actually mean anything from a security perspective. Its like saying These makes are insecure; the sky is blue; and magically the second is supposed to backup the first.

A couple things to note:

It doesn't work on an iPhone, third party apps aren't allowed to steal information from you typically on iOS where as that is on by default on Android and its completely acceptable to steal your data.

iPhone owners typically purchase the phone AS a product. Android users typically ARE the product.

No one cares about the remaining 3 blackberry users or the 10 Windows Phones in the MS test lab.