Ssshhh.

Slashdot is really a huge covert communications channel, I'm sure. You've seen the nonsense AC posts? I'm pretty sure those are coded messages :P

Yep, I'm sure Prater comes on, gives himself a few modpoints, and personally mods you down.

More likely you got downmodded for half-offtopic political ranting.

The complaint is probably more about fossil fuel consumption and associated pollution. That's a lot of crap being spewed into the air.

He's still a jackass, though.

Some more learning for you.

Plate tectonics may happen very slowly, but they're still going.

Ever been in an earthquake before?

I guess we're somewhat fortunate that this virus doesn't stay viable long outside of a host.

That's not the only problem.

It's not airborne, you do have to come into direct contact with it.

The "fun" part is it's not like you have to ingest it - literally touch is all it takes.

It's not even resources, so much, as custom.

Western societies generally don't touch the dead, unless required to do so.

Personally the issue wasn't that Google knew my name (I'm sure they know a lot more than that) but that they made that information available to everyone who cared to look.

That left a bad taste in my mouth and I have since refused to touch G+ because of it, even though they did back out from that particular stance quite quickly.

This would work exactly like machine vision (because light is radio) but with much larger antennas, and a lot more transparent/translucent (and very refractive!) materials to cause more computational difficulties.

Why not just place static readers on all the doors - you'll immediately know when something moves from one room to another? Granted you won't know which way it was moving, unless it traversed another door. But, if you know the starting location, there you go.

Still might not work, without the door being closed you might not get standing waves.

I don't think he was referring to arcing.

Pop quiz: What happens when you boil water inside an sealed container?

HTC isn't a generic Chinese OEM. They have their own line of phones, and some of them are quite popular.