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Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 2) 133

Cause the top guy in the EU subsidiary, and every single person in the chain down to the guy who gave access to the US, would not mind spending time in jail? Either the top guy knows, or someone else is getting screwed, so someone is going to cover their ass and tell.

And they're all, more than likely, living in the Europe so the prospect of being wanted in the US versus being in jail in the EU should be an easy choice.

Comment Bullshit (Score 4, Interesting) 133

The EU Data Protection Directive is very specific on this issue; the hosting/cloud company can only locate the data in the US, or even transmit it there, if there is an explicit guarantee that the data has the same level of protection.

Basically yes, the US could use the Patriot Act to obtain protected EU data from US-based companies. And yes, the company would then have broken the EU directive and would face the courts.

Comment Re:The story that never dies (Score 3, Insightful) 271

You are assuming the heliostat is static... It isn't, and it changes a lot depending on magnetic fields.

If you look at the graphs (that are out there), there was 2-3 temporary drops in the magnetic field and increase in low-energy charged particles. Now it is truly beyond that boundary.

Comment Re:Reading the Article Backwards... (Score 2) 259

Except the real point of the story is that since B mesons were not symmetrical for C and P, then finding out that it was symmetrical for T would mean that quantum theory isn't symmetrical.

Basically the particle needs to be non-symmetrical for all three of CPT, or none (which we know it isn't), else there is as you say 'something extra on top of the basic quantum theory'.

Comment Re:Sorry but this sounds like non-news to me (Score 3, Insightful) 55

"The resonance excites the atoms and causes them to shake off electrons at a rate that otherwise would require higher energies."

Sometimes the difference between something significant and something already done lies in the details that stupid people are too quick to gloss over.

Comment Re:This is actually dead end... (Score 1) 279

Estimates by people who do estimates of this sort for a living, based on prior earnings and pre-raid customer-base. Basically it's the kind of thing they do all the time in the world of business and people can earn or lose rather much money on bad estimates so they take that kind of thing seriously, unlike you.

Comment Re:This is actually cool... (Score 4, Insightful) 279

Well, the issue is that by all accounts he was operating within the law, so who's the gullible ones here?

Unlike Youtube where copyright infringement was rampant and encouraged by the leaders, MegaUpload always has seemed to follow the DMCA faithfully. Until google gets a helicopter raid you can stick that gullible thing up your ignorant ass.

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