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Comment: Re:Meeting this professor (Score 4, Insightful) 80

by NonUniqueNickname (#43709909) Attached to: Make Your Own Invisibility Cloak With a 3D Printer
You will see him hiding behind a big off-white disc with holes in it. Call me a nitpicker, but to me "invisible" is the opposite of "visible", which is the defining characteristic of what we call visible light. Being being undetectable to 10GHz frequencies, while impressive in its own light (haha), is most certainly not invisibility.

Comment: Re:Kim Dotcom == Eric Cartman?! (Score 1) 165

by NonUniqueNickname (#42203457) Attached to: Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court
In Korea, Kim is a surname. Koreans do refer to each other by surnames rather than given names so it gets a bit confusing.
Kimberley is the name of a place. As a given name it is unisex, though in America mostly given to girls. As of late, the inexplicable popularity of a female named Kim is tilting the balance to make it a girl's name. Same as Paris.

Comment: Re:yet another solar tech not available to the pub (Score 4, Informative) 237

by NonUniqueNickname (#41870085) Attached to: Solar Panel Breaks "Third of a Sun" Efficiency Barrier
Why guesstimate solar production? Use NREL's PVWatts application: http://gisatnrel.nrel.gov/PVWatts_Viewer/index.html
Click on your city. Click 'send to pvwatts'. Enter the solar system size in kW (default is 4.0). Click calculate.
Depends a great deal of where you live, of course, because energy prices and solar radiation vary quite a bit across the USA.

Comment: Re:Email theft (Score 1) 148

by NonUniqueNickname (#41836771) Attached to: Court Rules Website Terms of Service Agreement Completely Invalid
Your faith in humanity is heart-warming, but misplaced. As any business owner will tell you, employees steal anything and everything that's not bolted down. I worked at a place that glued the mice shut to keep the employees from stealing their balls (back in the days when mice had balls).

Comment: Re:Well, DUH. (Score 1) 252

by NonUniqueNickname (#41540913) Attached to: Intel CPU Prices Stagnate As AMD Sales Decline
I'm a long time AMD customer and a satisfied one. My rig needed a performance boost and an upgrade to a Phenom II X6 1100T could have been just the thing, but AMD stopped making them a while ago, left me hanging. Shopping for a mobo+cpu on a $300 budget was completely one-sided, I'm running an i5 now.

Comment: Re:Overpopulation (Score 1) 926

We just need to make sure everyone reproduces responsibly to keep the population constant, reinvent our technology so it would only depend on renewable resources, put an end to all violent conflicts because the destruction is wasteful, and then... go extinct when the sun burns out. The only tool for the survival of the human race is a ticket off this rock.

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