You're thinking too small. Do a grep of the patent database and replace every instance of "Internet", "Online", "Wireless Communications", etc with "Quantum Teleportation".

Just, the time isn't right yet - patents have a shelf life. The trick is to file the patents just before the products hit the market. Timing is everything if you're going to troll.

If I were an EA Shareholder, I'd be looking at changing the board of directors - there is a market for single player only. offline playable games, and if you are completely ignoring that market, you are leaving money on the table.

Just ask Bethesda. Last I checked, Skyrim made in the neighborhood of a Billion dollars (exact figures don't seem to be available, but there were reports that they had made at least $650 Million in the first week of sales - and I don't think that included sales from Steam, which I don't think were ever released publically - so $1 Bn total seems a reasonable estimate).

That's just *one* game. Granted, probably the most successful single-player game so far, but still, if you factor in all the single player console and PC games, it's probably 2 to 3 Billion a year for the whole industry.

So, we have a corporate executive proud that he's ignoring a market. Way to go, EA! #winning

Physicist 1: I'm writing a grant for our quantum teleportation experiment. Where should we do it? We could go from MIT to Columbia Univ in NYC?

Physicist 2: Maybe we can convince the public that this research needs to be done somewhere isolated. . . and tropical. I know - let's write up the grant to include a budget to go to some islands.

Physicist 1: Puerto Rico? Dominican Republic?

Physicist 2: Too many tourists. . . I know - the Canaries!

The reason for using satellites is that many frequencies of electromagnetic radiation require line-of-sight for communication. Putting a satellite in space gives it line-of-sight to many points one the earth's surface which lack line-of-sight, otherwise I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that quantum teleportation does not have the same requirement of line of sight?

If it does not require line of sight, doesn't it completely obsolete satellites? Well, I suppose you might use quantum communications for the uplink, say from a newsroom or telecom center, but use EMR for a broadcast to satellite receivers. For a one-to-many transmission, that's still a good model, but for direct site-to-site communications, couldn't you use quantum communication directly (I hate the term quantum teleportation - if it's information, let's call it communication, not teleportation, less confusion).

This is a great step, but I think the next steps are to keep increasing the distance, so we can do tran-continental and trans-global communications directly with no satellites and no wires. How awesome would that be?

There are resources of Uranium and Thorium on the moon itself, so it may be possible for lunar nuclear power to be self-sustaining. Of course, nuclear reactors need other materials as well, and I'm not sure if some of those would have to be brought in from earth (such as coolant in the form of water, sodium, or salts).

Where in the world is this guy? If he's in the US, I suspect that even if he wasn't using USD, by virtue of being in US legal jurisdiction, he's going to end up in federal prison.

If he's somewhere else, maybe the local government will prosecute him, maybe not, who knows. Maybe the local government will extradite him, who knows. Maybe he'll suddenly be facing rape charges in another country, and flee to the embassy of a "friendly" country.

How does this compare, efficiency-wise to other processes for hydrogen production? If you had another source of energy (nuclear, solar, etc), and were interested in converting that energy to hydrogen (perhaps to then synthesize something like ammonia or di-methyl ether), would this be an efficient way to go about it?

Check out the logo for AVG antivirus. Even though they aren't exactly identical, they are so close that I predict a trademark lawsuit. I don't know if AVG would actually *win*, but I bet they try.

Hey, has anybody mentioned Mothra yet?

We do not know that this is forever. Natural Selection pressures which lead to the development of larger forewings my over the next few decades lead the butterflies right back to the larger wingspans. Or not.

That's evolution. There is no *should* - there is only what is; and what is, is constantly changing. Bigger wings, smaller wings, it's all the same to me, until you can show me species *dieing out*, or having abnormally high rates of birth defects (and smaller wings are NOT a birth defect if they otherwise function normally), cancers, etc.

We should keep watching, with interest, what happens in the areas around Chernobyl and Fukushima, but so far, the evidence doesn't suggest catastrophic failure of life, nor is it likely too - the increase in background radiation was temporarily very high, but quickly subsided as the radiactive substances released by the plant dispersed and dilluted.

Finally, I will need a chance to look in more depth at this "study", but I have to wonder if they really proved these changes were due to Fukushima, and not due to something else which was co-temporal (e.g. result of selective pressures do to local ecological changes due to the tsunami; or possibly from the lots of chemical contamination of the environment due to the tsunami washing out industrial facilities, hospitals, etc).

As others have said, I'm not sure that 11-Venn is useful for most people's comprehension, but I'd love to have it on a t-shirt. Mathematicians come up with some awesome abstract art, sometimes.

Yeah, more or less, FTTN is probably as good a classification as any. I live in an apartment building with like 40 apartments. I believe the entire building is serviced by a single fiber. However, I am also on the lowest speed tier they offer for the fiber service. I think it goes up to like 100/10 as the top tier, but that's pretty pricey. Inside the building, it essentially uses a high-speed form of DSL on the building's telephone lines to get the signal to each apartment - and television service over the coax lines.

I'm currently lucky in that I'm in a pretty small part of Cincinnati, OH that is currently served by Cincinnati Bell's fiber-optic service, so I get 10/2 service through them. The place where I find having the extra speed is nice is that I can better "multi-task". Previously, with slower-speed Internet offerings, if I was, say, downloading a large file (like a Linux distro .iso or game download on Steam or Direct2Drive), I could read webpages, of course, though they would load a bit slower, but I couldn't, for example, watch full-resolution Netflix or Hulu video (the resolution would downgrade pretty often).

With the higher speed offering, I can watch HD video streams while downloading stuff in the background, or have multiple file downloads going and they'll all download pretty fast, etc.

That's kind of nice - but I agree with the parent that it's not necessarily worth an extra $30/mo - but for me, the 10/2 tier on the fiber optic package is only $40/mo total, which is the same as I'd be paying for the lowest tier on Time-Warner Cable (which also offers comparable speeds), and I think is only about $10/mo more than I was paying for CB DSL (which was 5/1, IIRC) previously.

So, most organic compounds break down over time in the environment. Won't caffeine also break down? At what sort of rate does it break down?

The only way I'd really be worried about caffeine in the water is if it's going to keep accumulating forever, or at such a high rate that it reaches meaningful concentrations.

*Whoosh*

It doesn't really matter the reason. If property owners can legally restrict your use of camera flash, they can restrict other uses of technology too - for pretty much any reason they wish.