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Comment The nature of transparency (Score 2) 83

I'm surprised that it hasn't been done before this. In high school, (Many, many, many years ago...) we were taught that things were transparent because "light wave could pass through." In reality, we now know that in transparent materials, a photon striking the surface passes some of its energy to the next molecule, releasing another photon, which does the same, etc., etc., until finally the last photon is transmitted to an almost unobstructed medium (air, in our case). The key question has always been, "What is the difference in atomic structure between 'transparent' medium and 'opaque' medium?" The second question has been, "How can we change the atomic structure of supposedly 'opaque' materials to work like so-called 'transparent' materials without losing the characteristics that make the current 'opaque' materials useful to us?"

Ceramic research has been on the edge of this discovery for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Fucking SJW (Score 2) 581

assaults? How does one assault another person when they don't know where they live or who they are? I think the term you are looking for is harassment, which can only be achieved if the harassee looks at the harassment. Comparing mean things people say on the internet to the civil rights movement shows a giant ignorance on your part when the mean people of reddit start spraying fire hoses at people that are strong enough to peel of skin, burning down houses, lynch people, or have their dogs attack other people then you can make that comparison.

Comment bah. we have a right to know who wants to hide (Score 1) 51

that's what "data wants to be free like beer" is all about.

used to be it took old spies and retired cops with shelves full of criss-cross phone books to do skip tracing. find the lost siblings from adoption situations.do background checks before hiring people claiming to be old spies and retired cops. that's the Internet's job now.

don't break it.

Comment Re:The real story is even worse (Score 1) 178

And years later someone came across that piano arrangement, found that a copyright had been registered on it, and (presumably being ignorant of the actual history of the song), thought they owned a copyright on the song and started trying to enforce it.

When it comes to copyright, never attribute to ignorance that which can be adequately explained by malice. They always try to enforce the rights further than they know they are entitled to.

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