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Comment Re:My model! This fits perfectly... (Score 1) 70

My hunch is that opposing gravitational forces don't add up in that way when you're talking about forces so strong that light is too slow to escape them, or that for another object to influence the gravity of the black hole that much, it would itself have to be either so close as to be within the event horizon, or so dense as to have an event horizon of its own which overlaps the first.

Comment Re:Semantics (Score 0) 571

The definition of harassment, at least where I live, is "unwanted sexual advances"

Sounds more like something you've assumed to be true based on a half-remembered conversation. For a start, would do you mean by "the" definition? Dictionary definition? Legal definition? Where's it written down?

Comment Re:My model! This fits perfectly... (Score 1) 70

The idea is simply that, the gravity field of a single star, black hole, or planet if it has no neighbors is spherical. If it's in a tight orbit with another body, as is with a binary star system, then it's gravitational field could be considered elliptical

I'm not clear on why this should be the case. Can you really push and pull gravity around like it's a physical object?

Comment Re:Comparing LAN to WAN Speeds (Score 1) 124

a.) Yes, we do because the blog post says as such.

I don't think it's at all clear.

The company transferred a 1.36 GB MP4 video clip between two Apple MacBook Pros using [...] the Internet connection at its headquarters.

Sync’s time might seem ridiculously low, almost as if the Internet wasn’t involved at all. You have to remember, however, that BitTorrent’s headquarters has a ridiculous fast connection both downstream and upstream.

That implies that the LAN wasn't involved, although it's not very clearly stated.

In any case the blogger repeated the test over the internet and got similar results.

Comment Re:Am I missing the point? (Score 1) 124

They copied some data across a local network.

I don't think they did, or at least it's implied - though not very clearly - that they didn't. In any case, the internet connection was 1gb/s, which is practically LAN speed with their gigabit adapters.

The article's author did a test over the internet and also found that Bittorrent beat the others - but then, the others are probably designed to be more considerate to your internet connection and not clog up your tubes.

Comment Re:Comparing LAN to WAN Speeds (Score 1) 124

They compared the transfers between two laptops on the same LAN

a) we don't know whether the two laptops could talk to each other across the LAN - in fact without evidence to the contrary I'd assume they couldn't
b) Dropbox will sync across the LAN if it can.

In any case, I'm not sure the LAN/WAN distinction is too relevant here, given that they were using 1gb/s internet connection.

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