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Comment I'm skeptical of the doubled data capacity (Score 0) 47

by marked23 on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:06PM (#49285937) Attached to: Full-Duplex Radio Integrated Circuit Could Double Radio Frequency Data Capacity

Ar = Bt - At and Br = At - Bt

To make room for the possibility that both At and Bt are transmitting a max-modulation symbol at the same time, there will need to be additional bandwidth in the frequency range to accommodate. The additional bandwidth would be just about the same bandwidth as would be needed for a second frequency.

If there is a free lunch in this invention, it hasn't been adequately explained in the article.

(Yes. I actually don't know what I'm talking about, but feel free to remind me.)

Comment Re:what about skinny people? (Score 5, Informative) 378

by marked23 on Saturday February 07, 2015 @12:51PM (#49005863) Attached to: Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant

Yes. http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-to-weight-loss-might-be-poop-transplants-fro-1265888152

Comment virtual processor? (Score 1) 124

by marked23 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @03:45PM (#48069335) Attached to: DARPA Delving Into the Black Art of Super Secure Software Obfuscation

I think what they are asking for is a virtual processor that executes encrypted instructions on a physical processor through homomorphic encryption. Existing techniques for this are insanely slow. They want some new math to make it faster, so that it's practical.

Comment Re:Seiki 4k for $500 (Score 1) 186

by marked23 on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @12:13AM (#47260323) Attached to: 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon

39" is ok. I've had the 39" Seiki for a few weeks now. I still have a normal (1920x1200) second monitor. So I don't want to run the larger fonts in Windows. I tried, and didn't like it.

For my taste, I think 50" is probably the minimum size for a 4k monitor if you want to use the default font size in Windows.

Comment Re:Not sure what this means (Score 1) 695

by marked23 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:59AM (#46333309) Attached to: Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World

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Comment Not sure what this means (Score 1) 695

by marked23 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:57AM (#46333285) Attached to: Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World

View source on their blank web page:

Comment Re:Targeted ads are better than untargeted ads (Score 1) 177

by marked23 on Friday July 05, 2013 @02:51PM (#44196999) Attached to: Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting

Fair enough. I can see that being an annoyance. I did some research for my niece's wedding dress, and for a few days afterwards, I was targeted with wedding dress ads. But they went away soonafter.

Comment Targeted ads are better than untargeted ads (Score 2, Interesting) 177

by marked23 on Friday July 05, 2013 @01:12PM (#44196019) Attached to: Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting

I'm not sure why I should hate targeted ads. I actually see ads for things I'm interested in... instead of random stuff. The tracking, ad infinitum, has always been going on, will always be going on.

Comment Mental masturbation (Score 1) 729

by marked23 on Thursday May 26, 2011 @08:09PM (#36258154) Attached to: Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness?

In a fit of free-thinking, I once proposed that god/nature invented the unpredictability of quantum events expressly for the purpose of enabling free-will. Or more generally, quashing determinism.

If we are really all just a pile of chemicals and electrical signals, our universe is determinate.

However nature gives us chaos at the quantum level. If any of that craziness influences anything at a larger scale, (in aggregate, how could it not?), then our universe is not determinate.

So why would nature 'choose' to ensure that determinism is not the law of the land?... Nature wouldn't, but perhaps a bored god would.

Comment Re:Why would some people think that ? (Score 3, Informative) 832

by marked23 on Saturday February 05, 2011 @08:00PM (#35114670) Attached to: Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children

>how in the hell could better vaccines and better health care help lower the world population?

Populations who have lower rates of disease, and better access to health care, tend to have smaller families because they don't have to have more kids as a hedge against their own death rate.

Smaller families becomes a snowball effect to more wealth, and even better access to healthcare.

Oh, and what's so bad about population control?

Comment Re:Many cutomers likely waiting! (Score 1) 302

by marked23 on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @04:46PM (#26271437) Attached to: Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3

Yup. I went to go buy one, in a store, credit card in hand, when I heard the news that the backwards compatability had been removed. Nevermind. Didn't buy one. Waiting 'til Sony gets the message.

Comment I did it just now... They do it. (Score 2, Informative) 668

by marked23 on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @03:44PM (#21958590) Attached to: NSI Registers Every Domain Checked

I did whois on frammusjammer.com at NSI, then thirty seconds later tried to buy the domain at Godaddy. It was already taken. Checked whois at register.com and it shows NSI as the owner.

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