132714954 comment Comment Re: Useful tool, but not magic (Score 1) 59 by mattcoz on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:31PM (#60239804) Attached to: Microsoft's New 'Windows File Recovery' Tool Restores Deleted Data Avoiding using your computer also reduces the chance of you deleting the file in the first place.
124996926 comment Comment Re: regular cycles are unusual? (Score 1) 136 by mattcoz on Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:38PM (#59709454) Attached to: Something In Deep Space Is Sending Signals To Earth In Steady 16-Day Cycles They aren't saying that it being a repeating signal is unusual, but that it is significant in trying to figure out where the signals are coming from.
124037494 comment Comment Re: isn't it just 240Ghz (Score 5, Informative) 49 by mattcoz on Monday January 27, 2020 @09:44PM (#59663128) Attached to: Detection of Terahertz Magnetic Resonance Could Revolutionize Electronics The actual report correctly refers to it as "sub-terahertz", which is the range from 100GHz to just under 1THz. But, of course, "terahertz" makes a better headline.
121785550 comment Comment Re: Death spiral? (Score 4, Funny) 137 by mattcoz on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @12:59AM (#59552864) Attached to: The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower The dumbhouse effect
115449188 comment Comment Re: And The Heat Will Bounce Back... (Score 3, Insightful) 62 by mattcoz on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:33PM (#59187838) Attached to: A $30 Device Turns the Cold of Outer Space Into Renewable Energy Except it's being moved outside the atmosphere, so...
84809737 comment Comment Re: Because independent variables are easier (Score 1) 142 by mattcoz on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:08AM (#52524061) Attached to: Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? Didn't sound right to me either, but I calculated it out and it is correct.
83863257 comment Comment Re: Energy Use (Score 1) 951 by mattcoz on Thursday June 02, 2016 @11:51PM (#52239295) Attached to: Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation Compare the energy use of early computers with that of mobile phones, if anything it scales inversely.
82653263 comment Comment Re: Did not "win" jeopardy (Score 1) 168 by mattcoz on Sunday April 10, 2016 @09:38AM (#51879087) Attached to: IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions Yes it did "win" jeopardy. You can argue it had an advantage by having a superhuman reaction time, but it still followed the rules and won.
82346983 comment Comment Re: Climate change, AI robots, ISIS, econ. inequal (Score 1) 104 by mattcoz on Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:11AM (#51785741) Attached to: Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions Even Bigger Than Originally Thought The threat is real, it will blow again. The whole "we're overdue" stuff is BS though, that's not how geology works.
82244943 comment Comment Re: Questioning isn't "denying"; it's science! (Score 1) 504 by mattcoz on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:33PM (#51749871) Attached to: Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years Thank you!
81868851 comment Comment Re: Johnny Mnemonic Anyone? (Score 1) 102 by mattcoz on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:42AM (#51657509) Attached to: U.S. Military Spending Millions To Make Cyborgs A Reality Johnny Mnemonic is a prequel to Neuromancer
80973769 comment Comment Re: So Let Me Get This Straight (Score 4, Insightful) 249 by mattcoz on Saturday February 06, 2016 @06:45PM (#51454807) Attached to: Windows 10 Gets Core Console Host Enhancements Why does it have to be innovative to be a good thing? Should they just not do it if it has already been done by someone else?
80156655 comment Comment Re: Welcome to why I run an adblocker (Score 1) 406 by mattcoz on Sunday January 10, 2016 @12:38AM (#51271343) Attached to: Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising Exactly the same thing happened with me, I'm glad I decided to just find the news elsewhere.
78765831 comment Comment Re: Those answers drove me crazy. (Score 1) 49 by mattcoz on Sunday November 22, 2015 @01:03PM (#50980799) Attached to: Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form I kept thinking there must have been something wrong with my browser, had to check the source to make sure.
78539445 comment Comment Firefox (Score 2) 107 by mattcoz on Saturday November 14, 2015 @06:58PM (#50932439) Attached to: Chrome V8 JavaScript Exploit Leaves All Android Devices Ripe For Attack Good thing I use Firefox instead of Chrome.