There is a limit of who we can see with visible light

Are you thinking about the invisible man.

Don't "fix" what is broken, especially when it is a basic part of the system.

Well, I never try to fix anything. ;)

they managed to access the subdomain by leveraging a union-based SQL injection attack.

So, the republicans are right. Unions are evil. ;)

I had always thought that the energy level that the particle was found at represented the amount of energy that had to be added to the particle just to detect it. In other words the larger the energy level the smaller (less massive) the particle was before the acceleration process. Basicly, by using Einstine's E=mc2 they add energy in the form of acceleration (usually by radio waves), until the particle has enough mass to interact with their detector. Detecting really massive particles is easy, it is the small ones that are hard and require a lot of extra energy to find.

Mod parent up!

Hard to do because a lot of companies are only worth their patents.

If the company has no assetts except their patents then their patents should have no value. We should only give value to patents based on the patent holders ability to use the patent in the making of products. As to "creditors/shareholders", if the worth of a patent is determined by the tangable products from the patent holder then we would see patent trolls become worthless, and noone would be willing to loan money to them or invest in them. The way I see it we can only have one three possible sinarios:

1. Patents are a tangible asset and patent trolls have a legimate business model. (this is our current situation)
2. Patents have no value, and businesses can copy whatever idea they want. Small businesses would never have a chance in the marketplace.
3. Patents value is tied to the value of the products made with the patent. Give a grace period of say two years to develope a product. This, grace period, would create a loop hole for patent trolls to exist in, so we make patents non-transferable. That is, we make it so that patents can only go from the original holder to the public domain.

All of that and make patents non transferable. if patents can still be tranfered then patent troll could start a new company every 18 months and sell all their assets to their new company. rince and repeat.

I am almost certain that my comments do not represent the majority of slashdotters. Even slashdot won't claim them:

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I find it interesting that it is always the Anonymous Cowards of slashdot that do all the yelling, and most of the insulting on slashdot. In all honesty, you should grow up, grow a pair, and put your name on your comments or stay out of the conversation.

As to energy being mass, perhaps you would like to explain massless particles such as the photon. Of course you could be saying that the photon has no energy. I hope that you are not asserting this, but then again the quality of Anonymous Cowards on slashdot has gone down a lot lately.

To answer your question as to what is "vibrating", in this line of thought there wouldn't be anything TO vibrate, per-se, no time for it to be vibrate in and no space in which the vibrations could take place. You'd simply have a multidimensional waveform where if you made some axis space and another one time, you could treat it as though something was vibrating. In practice, though, it would be a static n-dimensional waveform whose existence was logical rather than physical.

I know that this is inconsequential to whether or not you are actualy describing the true nature of reality, but if you are correct then what you have said would have tremendous implications for phylosophy. The whole concept of free will is dependent apon a future that can change. If your waveform is static through what we call time then the future is locked in stone. Yet there is actualy indication with the double slit experiment that our choices can change the outcome of things. That is to say, our choice to observe the particle colapses the waveform and removes the interferance pattern. If our choice (observe/not-observe) can change the outcome of events, then the future is not set in stone. If the future can be change then your description of the wavefunction as it relates to time is wrong, and the waveform is in flux. This would indicate that the wavefunction can change. If the wavefunction is not static through all dimentions then it would seem acurate to say that it is "vibrating". However, this brings me right back to my original question. What is the thing that is vibrating? "Nothing" doesn't seem to vibrate very well.

I can cut a string. I can not cut a fundamental wave/particle.

matter is in it's base form a vibration

What is the thing that is vibrating? The equation E=MC^2 seems to indicate that matter and energy are just two expressions of the same thing. I acknowledge that my confusion "might be" just my inability to imagine nothing vibrating. That doesn't sound right. I mean "nothing" vibrating. See there, I have done it again. No matter how I say it it only makes sense if something is vibrating. If it is a thing that is vibrating then the vibration is just a property of the thing and is not the thing itself. Ripples propagate in a pond, but sound does not carry in a vacuum. If matter is only a vibration then the real question is what is the medium that the vibration propagates through. It seems to me that we have gotten right back to needing the "ether" to explain reality.

The only time it could ever be acceptable would be if terrorists were actively using cellular phones to control the detonators for explosive devices

Great, now the terrorists (I really hate that word) are going to start rigging their bombs to go off on loss of network signal.

It's that a computer is sold with all of its hardware functional in Linux

You should be careful. I used to assume that this was true; however, when I bought my dell mini10 with ubuntu preinstalled a couple years ago it had some propriatary video junk that still barely works, and lacks 3D hardware suport. Look up Intel poulsbo.

yes.

Defense attorneys for "terrorist", you need to get with the times. Them terrorist are guilty we just have to get on with the sentencing and inhanced interigation processes. We have no need for actualy having a trial that is only for those inocent people.

The risk, that are minimal, are considerably less than the risk that the physician might give a misdiagnosis if you don't have the procedure. I used to work administering the test that required the use of barium. I was a x-ray tech (I don't work in healthcare anymore), and I know for a fact that the overwelming majority of the barium that patients injest, or receives retrograde (if you don't know you don't want to find out), is passed out of the body after a couple of bowel movements. The actual x-ray itself exposes the patient to far more ionizing radiation than the barium ever will.