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Comment Support and Release Schedule (Score 2) 666

The only 2 reasons I can really think of are Redhat support (which, at the place were I work, barely gets used. In fact I believe we are migrating to CentOS because we can't justify the cost of support with how often we use it), and the release schedule, because it seems like CentOS is run by the seat of their pants, and they'll release when they feel like it.

Comment More devices than people (Score 2) 374

Off the top of my head: Between the 3 people that live here (girlfriend, apartment mate, and I), and the roommates girlfriend who is frequently over, there are up to: 3 Androids, 1 Blackberry, 4 laptops, a chromebook, a media center, and home file/media server. This doesn't include assorted other devices belonging to friends who visit regularly. There is actually enough traffic that I am considering putting in a second access point to lesson the peak loads.
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Submission + - Event-hiding 'Temporal Cloak' Demonstrated (gizmag.com)

Zothecula writes: Last year researchers at Imperial College London proposed that along with being used to cloak physical objects, metamaterials could also be used to cloak a singular event in time. A year later, researchers from Cornell University have demonstrated a working "temporal cloak" that is able to conceal a burst of light as if it had never occurred.

Comment Seems unscientific (Score 2, Interesting) 104

I understand the they used birds because of the evolutionary history, and crocs due to the age of their species and reptilian nature, but I doubt using the human body as a reference to the bodies of our millions of years old relatives would give a clear picture, and the same goes for this experiment. And it could be the case that the birds they used didn't evolve from t-rex, but rather some other (possibly completely unrelated) species of bird, which would skew the results. If I had to guess, I'd say that 30% is in the margin of error for this kind of work.

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