And the computer here is a patsy called a calling station.

From the article: "but its basic approach to the game involves getting into every hand by calling bets".

Yea, because when you use some other mail server and your messages flow across the Internet in standard clear text SMTP ... the NSA can't read it from your server, just Googles. As far as being an idiot ... well ... pot, meet the kettle ... its black too.

I love when idiots think they know so much ... and every time you speak you show that you know far less than you think.

You also better look up the definition of collaboration, might surprise you to learn that it doesn't mean what you're using it to mean.

Before you rant and rave about how I'm a total idiot, you should start with a dictionary and a clue.

Someone doesn't know WTF they are talking about. Windows store containing iOS apps ... which can't actually sign them with the digital signature required to actually load to a iOS device and run ...

And if they are referring to web pages ... well, web pages != apps, stop ruining the terminology you ignorant fucks.

You joke about gamma rays but there isn't much of difference between X rays and gamma rays from a biological perspective.

I'd be interested in what happens to those that have received several head CT scans. One head CT scan is about 20 years of background radiation.

If you can't handle spam, you aren't qualified to be in IT. Seriously, you can't solve the most common problem that occurs on the internet ... Get a Gmail account you moron, FFS.

If this is really a problem for you, you need to switch professions, become a psychologist you'll fit right in, its full of people who talk out their ass like they know something yet have absolutely no idea wtf they are doing ... sounds like a perfect fit for you.

Your assumption is wrong in most ways.

You aren't going to cycle your entire battery every day, so 2000 charge cycles could be twenty years for all you know. You don't know what the actual battery capacity is. You know what they are telling you is available and for how long, but simply selling you a 800w pack and utilizing it to only 50% capacity (because its actually a 1600kw/H pack) changes the game entirely.

Thats how you extend battery life, you simply use less of it.

Tesla isn't going to warranty the pack for 10 years if they have to replace it in 5 unless they can replace it for less than 10% or so of the original sales price or something ridiculous. In which case, someone else will start making the same batteries and selling them for less without the spare capacity, probably out of hong kong, HobbyKing I bet will be first.

Really? Tell that to all the people without AC, you know, like several entire countries? In those countries you get less heat on cloudy days which requires even more energy from your less power

Whatever happened to those guys?

Over 27,000 cycles of data (each 1.5 sec cycle energizing the system for 0.75 sec and de-energizing it for 0.75 sec) were averaged to obtain a power spectrum that revealed a signal frequency of 0.65 Hz with amplitude clearly above system noise. Four additional tests were successfully conducted that demonstrated repeatability.

Is that enough?

Except the test results seem to indicate that it does.

But then you are a world class physicist and know better than this NASA team that's been testing this device for years, eh?

Wouldn't a more reasonable person think that there must be some interesting physics going on here instead of poo pooing the idea like a modern day Baron Kelvin.

Wrong.

The first time there was a major outage and everyone ran off batteries for an extended period of time ... needing to not only start using normal mains power again but ALSO charge their batterys ... now you're fucked if you don't have the capacity you already have and probably more to deal with the surge of everyones chargers.

Great UPS, but the energy has to come from somewhere.

Mean while ... the BSD people keep thinking of Linux as a 'third party' they'd not let their worst enemy run.

Linux is for the unenlightened. Running a Linux file server or firewall on a heavy network ... there you're just showing how ignorant you are.

Linux on a desktop with shitty hardware that BSD doesn't support ... sure, its great.

yes, its not a flashlight ... except if you mean a highly focused 100kilowatt flashlight, BUT it certainly stands to reason from our observations of the universe that some frequencies of EM are better suited to this purpose than others, as well as various drive configurations.

And for reference, if you read the article ... they compare it to photon drive engines, they are very real (although very weak)

You might want to checkout the definition of engine too, I think yours is probably not the one the scientists are using. Its not always about having a hemi.

Its not a violation of the laws of conventional physics.

Some of the microwave radiation escapes, thats where your thrust comes from. Matter propellant isn't used, energy is the propellant. What I don't get is why people keep calling it controversial or defying the laws of physics. To defy the laws of physics, it would have to accelerate with no energy supplied to the system at all, but it has a supply of energy it is expending.

Remember kids, in our universe Matter and Energy are more or less one and the same and completely interchangeable IF you have sufficient spare energy :)

Photons of light (which are EM just like microwaves, just a different frequency) impart energy on things the impact, this is well known ... where do they think a solar sail comes from?

Like you said, they may not understand how the microwave radiation is moving the device, but saying its breaking the laws of physics just makes it clear to anyone listening that you have made no attempt to understand what it does.

This is the drive output portion of the Impulse drive from startrek, once refined of course ... the input portion would be fusion generators to power it all to some useful energy level.

Technically, the only thing Jeff Bezos is doing is lending his name and some money to the project, its not like either he or Elon Musk are ACTUALLY involved in the work done in any way. They are mouth pieces.

Its their money, they can do whatever they want with it, but lets not pretend either one of these guys are actually doing anything impressive. They got lucky in a boom/bust situation, nothing more.

Hell, has Elon Musk EVER ran a profitable company? Just because he got rich selling stock doesn't mean the company was worth a shit, it just means there are people dumber than him.