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Comment Re:Yeah, right... but WHY?!? (Score 1) 406

I think, Google's motivation is in self interest, not end user's interest. Reducing load and time to serve will benefit content providers, not end users. However it's bit odd and immature for Google to fix something that is NOT broken. Or maybe I'm too old to think like people at Google...

Comment Re:shaking (Score 1) 475

remember that fluid does not have much space between to move and shake about like gas does. also beer and soda do not spray because molecules are excited. it sprays out because of gas pressure and gas molecules attached to liquid is very weak. therefore small difference in pressure cause the bond to break easily. due to the surface tension of liquid, the bubbles wrapping around gas inside as gas rises up, builds up rapidly, resulting in "spray". but for water in microwave, imagine tightly packed asymmetric dipole molecules rotating in dipolar bond or imagine tightly packed gears rotating causing friction and heat. here is simple test you can do. ice cube and cold water. lets say, we have 100ml of cold water and same amount in ice. place two separate cups, one with water and one with ice into microwave oven. set timer to 3 minutes and watch the water boils before ice melt. in theory, if resonance is the factor, ice should melt faster since it requires less heat to melt than to boil. if dipole rotation causing collision and friction is the factor, dipole water should heat up faster than ice, because solid molecules are rigid, stuck together and can't rotate freely. hence water boils before ice melts.

Comment Re:Idiots (Score 1) 475

you also have facts wrong. "shaking" of molecules or also commonly mistakenly expressed as "resonance" doesn't occur in traditional household microwave dielectric heating appliance. but rather microwave "rotates" dipole molecules by altering electric field, hence creating rapid collisions resulting "heat". resonance happens at 10 times (20Ghz) that of traditional microwave (~2.4Ghz). so yeah... try to get your own facts right... :)

Comment Re:ban the man (Score 1) 307

I have to agree with you. It's a bullshit story with no regards to facts. Matter of fact, some of those "leaked" info had to be available publicly. For instance, the list of nuclear facilities in US is by COMPLIANCE with IAEA's nuclear nonproliferation agreement. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/reactors/nuke1.html Regardless, none of those listed sites entails any of US nuclear weapons facility or infrastructure or security protocol.

Comment Re:Troll? (Score 3, Informative) 168

http://www.boingo.com/download-boingo.php Assuming this is Boingo network, I don't see how Boingo software can't be used within Boingo network. Currently Boingo supports from Windows XP, Mac OS X, Nokia N series, WindowCE, Blackberry, Android and iPhone/iPod Touch. Most likely Verizon partnership with Boingo is to include the Verizon netbook promo users for branding. I mean, even the most stupidest marketing idiots should be able to see the idiocy in supporting only Windows XP/Vista. I really really really don't want to lose my faith in humanity because of this...

Comment Re:Read the RFP (Score 1) 434

From the website; Recovery.gov version 1.0 is currently hosted on a Linux server and Drupal is used for the content management system (CMS) and a MySQL database. RATB is open to recommendations for technology improvements for version 2.0 and beyond, including the hosting platform, database technology, CMS, programming languages, etc. that facilitate satisfaction of the requirements described in this SOO.

Yeah, because everyone in Slashdot all here have single handedly managed, built and hosted a system that gathers/collects and tracks information that is worth 400 billion dollars under 20 bucks an hour within a week, drinking 6 packs of Mountain Dew.
18 million is really nothing even in this economy which needs to serve up the expected number of traffic.

Comment visualizing the improvement (Score 1) 236

2^256
26  25  24  23  22  21  20  19  18  17  16  15  14  13  12  11  10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1
115 792 089 237 316 195 423 570 985 008 687 907 853 269 984 665 640 564 039 457 584 007 913 129 639 936

2^119
12  11  10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1
664 613 997 892 457 936 451 903 530 140 172 288

2^110.5 (rounded off to nearest units)
12  11  10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1
  1 835 754 156 221 338 741 132 617 695 578 321

2 significant figures improvement!  That's freaking amazing.

Comment call me stupid (Score 1) 123

1000x Denser ???
... 50,000 atoms ... to 15,000 atoms... 8nm across ... only 0.5nm across... could allow an increase in memory density of three orders of magnitude
three orders of magnitude? what kind of math is this???
The only question now is whether this team's calculations hold true in the real world.
I would like to see that calculation!

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