It's not an ad hominem, he called your definition loony, not you.

I, on the other hand, am not afraid of calling you a loon, you're saying that because ipv6 solves an annoying routing problem (same host might not have the same ip from time to time) that it introduces a privacy problem (everyone might know who I am if I don't conceal it) and then immediately dismiss concealing it as an option.

Since it's already been deployed in Europe with great success (although the silence when you stand still at a red light is ominous) Mythbusters seems redundant.

Well we've been using it for a while in Sweden and it's pretty cold up here. No problems so far.

According to TFA, just Linux.

mass of athmosphere = 5*10^18 kg Nitrogen in atmosphere = 80% by volume
Oxygen in atmosphere = 20% by volume
Atomic mass of N2 = 28 u
Atomic mass of O2 = 36 u
mass of Nitrogen in atmosphere = (28*4)/(28*4+36)*5*10^18 = 3.8*10^18 kg
Earth mass = 6*10^24 kg

Amount of Earth mass that is Nitrogen in atmosphere = 3.8*10^18/(6*10^24) = 0.6 ppm

That means anything that is more common than 0.6 ppm of the earth would be more common than the nitrogen (in the atmosphere at least, I have no idea how common nitrogen is in the earth).

Jesus Christ not this again.

Yes all phones lose signal strength when you cover the antenna, not all phones allow the antenna to be bridged with another antenna rendering it into a pretty crappy antenna.

That's what the whole iphone antenna issue was about. Not signal attenuation do through holding it.

You are misstaken, notable predictions have predicted the following:

May 21, 2007: ARIN predicts sometime in 2010
June 20, 2007: LACNIC sets final date to januari 1, 2011
June 26, 2007: APNIC sets the date to sometime in 2010
April 15, 2009: ARIN says sometime before 2011


So for the last 3-4 years there has been a fairly good estimate on when they are supposed to run out.

well yes, the difference between 1 and 0.999... which would be 0 does indeed not make any difference if you remove it again. You however do not grasp that we are not saying that 0.999... is aproximately equal to 1. It is in fact equal to 1.

You are mistaken. The probability of you picking the wrong door is 99%. Then the game host opens 98 incorrect doors which isn't one of yours.

If you picked the correct door (1% chance) then the other door will be incorrect.

If you picked the incorrect door (99% chance) then the other door will be correct.

Thusly there is a 99% chance that the other door is the correct choice,

No, the TV-detector vans are a scare tactic. The noise being produced by your neighbors dwarf anything coming from your own home.

However the principle by which they are working is very real. And in North Korea, there is (supposed to be) silence on all frequencies except the government approved ones, therefore any activity there whatsoever would be a lot easier to pickup.

To render the image the bitmap needs to be uncompressed in memory anyway. Seeing as that the raw data dwarfs the size of the compressed image I don't see any way memory might affect this.

What does the article mean when they say Europe proposes something?

The european parliament, the council, some other organisations or perhaps a country from Europe?

The article is a little bit light on detail.

The summary is wrong, the project is not first, so 2027 is not even that far away :P.
In Sweden the project is apparently already in its late stages, while this will probably not be done in another 10-20 years.

Ah a challenge, for this we need the average word length in a standard English text, a = 5.1 character/word;
The speed record in morse code copying, b = 75.2 words/minute ~= 1.2533 words/second;
Average weighted character morse code length (weigthed by relative frequency of the character): c = 2.54167 bits/character

Which gives a speed of a*b*c ~= 16 bit/s.

56k/Morse ~= 3500

Now the problem is you didn't give any baseline to compare the T3 to but assuming you were talking about the comparisson T3 to 56k.

T3 = 44.736 Mbit/s
56k = 56 kbit/s

T3/56k ~= 800

That's really not that far of actually... Just roughly a factor 4, good guess :P. All of these numbers were pulled of wikipedia (or calculated with wikipedia numbers).

"May God grant him the mercy that I am denying him." Would have been more appropriate.