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Comment Ok but did anybody try (Score 1) 81

... booting up a less Micky Mouse operating system and cleaning up Microsoft's incontinence with something more absorbent?

Or are these immortal files inhabited by the acrid, haunting, and traumatically awkward presence of literally all the Autism in the universe distilled and compacted into the single most socially unaware idea ever conceived thouhgout all of spacetime: are these files -- in fact -- the way "Recall" is finally reborn into the world?

My opinion: yeah, probably. Learn to use SysInternals, or throw on the fucking Linux LiveBoot of your choice, & just nuke it from goddamn orbit.

Comment Re:The Lenz effect (Score 2) 94

Sorry to be "that guy" (I tried to get out of it, but today I am "that guy" according to the roster) -- but Lenz's law has nothing to do with the levitation effect you've no doubt seen in video clips about LK-99. For one thing, Lenz's law requires the conductive object and/or the magnetic field to be moving with respect to each other, in order to induce an opposing force.

What you see with LK-99 is exactly the same thing as levitating a graphite disc in a magnetic field, and the phenomenon is called diagmagnetism, which is basically just the complementary force of what most poeple know as "magnetism". In fact if you take another look at that video clip you'll see it's not fully levitating, and it's my understanding that it's only the friction at the contact point with the large magnet that stops the LK-99 nugget being repelled off to the side and away from the magnetic field.

Comment Mystery?! (Score 2) 94

There was no mystery. Literally the first time I heard about "LK99" was my not-even-a-physicist buddy telling me how he thinks it looks like a diagmagnetic ceramic with pretty good electrical conductivity described by an extremely poorly written paper -- but definitely not a "room temperature" superconductor.

Comment Re:Not bad (Score 2, Insightful) 404

If you knew what a "regressive tax" is, I expect you would not have isolated the word "regressive" from its context.

Irony++

I have no idea what renewable energy government subsidies exist in Germany, nor do I understand their impact on taxation, but the parent comment makes the clear assertion that there is a greater relative financial burden on poorer consumers & taxpayers than on the more wealthy.

Whether or not this is true, the concept itself is internally consistent and semantically accurate.

Comment Re:Don't Panic (Score 3, Interesting) 535

From now on I can never again consider a British subject as an intelligent person. Not after what they have done to themselves.

I'm British and I have been trying to explain exactly the same fucking points as listed by you, but these people really are too stupid to understand what's in their own best interests. What's even worse, most of the people in the Remain camp were themselves too busy breathing through their mouths to actually mount an intellectually sound defense against some of the absolute bullshit proferred by the Leavers.

So I'm kinda with you on this.

Patents

Microsoft, Apple and Others Launch Huge Patent Strike at Android 476

New submitter GODISNOWHERE writes "Nortel went bankrupt in 2009. In 2011, it held an auction for its massive patent portfolio. The winners of the auction were Apple, Microsoft, Sony, RIM, and others, who bought the patents for $4.5 billion as a consortium named Rockstar Bidco. At the time, many people speculated those patents would be used against Google, who bid separately but lost. It turns out they were right. Rockstar has filed eight lawsuits in federal court targeting Google and Android device manufacturers. 'The complaint (PDF) against Google involves six patents, all from the same patent "family." They're all titled "associative search engine," and list Richard Skillen and Prescott Livermore as inventors. The patents describe "an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The oldest patent in the case is US Patent No. 6,098,065, with a filing date of 1997, one year before Google was founded. The newest patent in the suit was filed in 2007 and granted in 2011. The complaint tries to use the fact that Google bid for the patents as an extra point against the search giant.'"

Submission + - How amateurs destroyed the professional music business (rocknerd.co.uk)

David Gerard writes: Here in the future, musicians and record companies complain they can't make a living any more. The problem isn’t piracy — it’s competition. There is too much music and too many musicians, and the amateurs are often good enough for the public. This is healthy for culture, not so much for aesthetics, and terrible for musicians.

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