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Comment Re:Arrogant Ignorance? (Score 1) 2288

by bazzlevi on Thursday April 21, 2011 @01:16PM (#35896510) Attached to: Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?

"Here's a fun trick to do, ask some of your friends or relatives how many yards are in a mile." And that's all it is: a trick. Who cares? Who, in the course of their daily living, would EVER need to know how many yards are in a mile? By the way, it's 1760, and I knew that off the top of my head.

New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory 284

Posted by timothy on Friday September 03, 2010 @05:28AM from the string-washing-powder-what's-the-difference dept.

dexmachina writes "A team of theoreticians, led by a group from Imperial College London, has released calculations that show string theory makes specific, testable predictions about the behaviour of quantum entangled particles. Professor Mike Duff, lead author of the study from the Department of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, commented, 'This will not be proof that string theory is the right "theory of everything" that is being sought by cosmologists and particle physicists. However, it will be very important to theoreticians because it will demonstrate whether or not string theory works, even if its application is in an unexpected and unrelated area of physics.' In other words, string theory may finally have shed its critics' most common complaint: unfalsifiability. However, given the second most common complaint, I can't help but wonder: which string theory?" Update: 09/03 23:34 GMT by S : Columbia University's Peter Woit, author of the Not Even Wrong blog, says these claims are overblown, and adds that a number of string theorists said as much to Wired.

Facebook To Add Remote Logout 145

Posted by timothy on Friday September 03, 2010 @02:30AM from the best-not-get-hacked dept.

angry tapir writes "Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts. The social-networking company is rolling out a new security feature that lets users see which computers and devices are logged into their Facebook accounts, and then removing the ones that they don't want to have access."

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