Exactly. So it must be speed of light in a vacuum. If they found Neutrino's traveling faster than light in some medium that wouldn't be a very big story.

LOL. Its particle physics. Considering almost the entire world has to pool resources to do this science I think cheap parts is the last thing we have to worry about. They were not detecting light sent from CERN btw. Light is notorious for its poor transmission though the earth. More likelythey both have atomic clocks and record their events.

That is a children's story and is not worthy of posting on slashdot. The first measurement of the diameter of the earth was made in the 3rd century BC. Thinking people of every time time after it were aware of the result, repeated the result and understood the meaning.

You compare 2 of the closest major cities in Europe with 2of the most distant in the USA. Try comparing 2 cities in the north east of USA, that is where high speed rail should work. Tuck it in, your bias is showing.

That is not how the 3DS works. It does present 2 different images to your eyes and uses a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp for the purpose. I think it does do head tracking but this is in addition to its 3D display technique.

640K should be enough for anyone.

I'm not a USAer - not that there is anything wrong with that. Don't you find that people who make baseless assumptions sound like children.

I work at a major chip manufacturing plant. At 4.10 I was conferencing with another fab when all our PCs shutdown. 10 minutes later the place was in chaos. Now don't get me wrong the fab keeps going but my god the cost to the company of this. Say 10 sites world wide with 2-5k employees each the majority of which can't do any meaningful work. McAfee have a lot to answer for.

This only applies to the Fisher-Yates method for fast shuffling cards. In this method a number is selected at random and that number corresponds to a random looking (but deterministic and repeatable) sequence of cards. Its fast but its far from perfect - just use a slower method (I'm sure on mondern hardware you would never notice anyway) and you will get back the full state space of the deck. Even still you would have to play a lot of hands before you notice. Note: I'm sure Fisher-Yates is not used on the Poker sites. If it were the sites would be open to statistical methods for mining money out of them.

I didn't see anything that suggested fabrication would be easy. In fact the article mentions that e-beam lithography was used. If e-beam lithography is a neccessary component then you won't see this in the mainstream anytime soon. The process is slow. So slow it is never used for industrial applications. That said, it is used in acidemia all the time because nothing allows you to get build smaller structures.

I'll admit I'm Irish but I will also admit I have no faith in my Police. Even so, your suggestion is bordering on the mad and reeks of coverup. It also does not match in any detail what the RTE news is reporting, and I do have faith in that news service.

I would suggest that when one government smuggles explosive into another country the standard proceedure should not be just to call the airport to give them a heads up and then assume all is well.

How was Dublin Airport able to sit on the mess? You can only sit on something when your the only one who knows about it. The only ones in that position in this mess were the Slovak police.

Why did the Slovak police and government not contact thier Irish eqivelents and keep on contacting them until the explovises were returned? This is a diplomatic incident its not the sort of thing you send an email about asking for an update.

Why was the pilot allowed to take off. How is that even his decission? Its mad I tell you.

If you really think this is the way it went down then I have a bridge I think you might like.