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Comment: Re:Or the other option is... they're just wrong (Score 1) 442

by Kz (#38106388) Attached to: OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

Positrons are naturally equivalent to electrons that are moving backward in time, and vice-versa.

yeah, they're funny in that. but it's more complete to say that there are particles exactly like electrons but with negative rest mass that can only move backwards in time. they can't stop and turn into 'normal' electrons. and that it's usually easier to think of them as positive electrons with normal positive rest mass and move forwards in time. the non-convertibility is important, or else it would seem that normal matter can take a sharp turn an go backwards in time.

But having neutrinos that move faster than light doesn't mean you can take anything else along with it to make that thing move backward in time.

right. but the parent post said

if you can do FTL particles, then you can send information back in time.

and it _is_ easy to take information along with it to make it move backward in time.

Comment: Re:Thoughts on OCFS (Score 1) 320

by Kz (#37906444) Attached to: Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use?
first, you're mixing cluster file systems (like GFS, OCFS, CXFS) and distributed file systems (Lustre, GlusteFS, Ceph). second, without backup hardware, you don't have backup; you'll lose data. at least, use a second offline or near-line array to copy to. third: "snapshots are effective backups". wrong fourth: "none of the mentioned solutions have support for (infiniband)". wrong
Space

Dr. Michio Kaku on reality of a Space Elevator->

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An anonymous reader writes "Now that the shuttle has been retired, the hunt is on for revolutionary technologies to economically lift cargo and humans into space. And a space elevator just may be the answer. According to renowned physicist Michio Kaku, recent developments in nanotechnology may make this technological marvel a reality by the end of this century."
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Google

Google Launches Google+ Social Network 368

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from the building-another-walled-garden dept.
Randyll writes "Today, Google announced its decisive entry into the world of social networks by introducing Google+, a social network tied around Google services. Its aim is to be different from other networks with emphasis on privacy and a different kind of social networking. Instead of connecting with your friends, Google+ aims to center connections around specific groups—colleagues, projects, or groups of friends—with the ability to use high-quality video chats and a unique and rich web-based user experience. It is currently in beta with opt-in invites." Several other readers submitted speculation about another mysterious new Google service as well.
Android

Is Nokia flirting with Android?->

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hasanabbas1987 writes "What we have stumbled across now is what appears to be another N9 lookalike and seems likes its running Android (god forbid!). We can not confirm the originality of the home screen being actual Gingerbread, but the source of this image can not be ignored as it comes from the same Chinese guy who posted pictures of Nokia’s Windows Phone prototype back in May. So we can speculate that Mr. Chinese Guy has inside links and knows more than us. By the looks of bite sized Android UI on the screen we can be a bit hopeful that this is perhaps a testing model of Nokia."
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