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Comment theoretical bs (Score 1) 60

sigh.. another ridiculous claim from some random physicist grabs the headlines because it "violates the laws of physics"

And if a charge moves through the glass faster than light can, it creates a shockwave of light

Comment Re:That's what encryption is for. (Score 1) 402

Who leaves their business secrets in the open. Especially laptops, they get lost stolen, or as the article says people examining it. Really you can use a truecrypt container and hide it somewhere.

As far as i know, encryption doesn't prevent a keylogger or a trojan ,planted on your computer, from stealing your data/passwords/whatever is on your screen, or even worse, gaining access to your company's computers through yours when you go back to the states..

Comment Life timeline (Score 1) 130

Life timeline on earth (in millions of years ago): Earth formation - 4,600; First life (simple cells) - 3,600; Dinosaurs ~ 300; Humans ~ 2.5; If we use that for comparison, and best case scenario of Vega having something very similar to earth, it is highly unlikely that it can host even the most basic of life forms..

Submission + - Simulated brain scores top test marks (nature.com)

illestov writes: "Spaun sees a series of digits: 1 2 3; 5 6 7; 3 4 ?. Its neurons fire, and it calculates the next logical number in the sequence. It scrawls out a 5, in legible if messy writing. It contains 2.5 million virtual neurons — many fewer than the 86 billion in the average human head, but enough to recognize lists of numbers, do simple arithmetic and solve reasoning problems.
    "Until now, the race was who could get a human-sized brain simulation running, regardless of what behaviours and functions such simulation exhibits, from now on, the race is more about who can get the most biological functions and animal-like behaviours. So far, Spaun is the winner"

Comment Grading curve? (Score 2) 185

All three antivirus checkers lose 3 points in just three months? also, "Yes, Windows Defender is enabled automatically when no other antivirus is present, but its technology comes from the Microsoft products that failed the recent tests. Don't rely on it. Install a better antivirus right away." sounds like an ad by one of its competitors

Comment Re:Missing Piece from Test (Score 2) 185

The main reason I use MSE is that it does an adequate job and unlike every one of the competitors free or otherwise, installing it isn't worse than getting infected with Malware. Last time I used either AVG or Avast it was like infecting my PC on purpose. I'll pass up some protection against zero days(which is spotty at best anyway) in exchange for not installing crap.

agreed, although my reason for using MSE is that it never finds anything and never bugs me with stupid popups telling me how it found a super deadly trojan , about once every few days, reminding me of its absolute importance.

Comment missiles/drones/satellites (Score 1) 91

I have been working on optical gyroscopes for the last three years, they are nothing new, and they are already being widely used in satellites , missiles, drones and etc, the idea has been around for a long time, what this horrible article is referring to is newly funded research to enhance their sensitivity and accuracy. Currently, they have to use up to 8 (depending on accuracy needed) gyroscopes per missile/satellite to get enough resolution. Hopefully this research will yield cheaper and more accurate systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_optic_gyroscope

Comment Re:doesn't add up (Score 1) 357

thanks, that makes sense. I didn't realize error correction was so ridiculously inefficient. According to your description, you would get a speed up from just sending copies of each packet just in case one of them gets lost.. at a certain amount of redundancy you will get 0% of packets lost and even though you are sending perhaps 4 times as much data, it is still way faster than having to go back and figure out which packets got lost and request them again..

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