This comment thread (thus far) is why I rarely go to Slashdot any more. It's like the admins here aren't even pretending to try any more.

Reading the article, all I see being described is the idea of going back to local processing and computation. Which, by definition, is not new. And definitely not edgy. Then again, how will I promote myself as an expert unless I make shit up?

You mean by inhaling?

This is much easier to understand if you don't think of it as sound. Sound only exists inside the brain, and the word has numerous connotations that obfuscate what's going on here. Outside of the brain, you have simple waves of air pressure. At the simplest level, if you blow on anything hard enough, you can levitate it. But perhaps there is a more efficient way to encode the energy in the moving air, and one that allows more flexibility in how the object can be moved, and balance. That's all that's at work here. The devil is in the details of aligning the frequencies, vectors, etc. [Source: was PhD candidate in audio research at Glasgow University.]

More than anything else, it sounds like someone knew it was his last day at RED.

How can it drop below zero?

Finally.

now we just need "a form of fusion"

I suppose you are right, and perhaps being the grown-up in all of this. As a scientist, the situation is very, very frustrating to me for so many reasons, though.

Without Sci-Hub and Libgen, I literally could not have completed my PhD thesis. My University's system's to access papers was broken, and so time-consuming to use, that it made accessing papers nearly impossible. I'm as anti-piracy as they get, but in this case, Elsevier does not create anything, and adds very little value. As someone who publishers papers, I do not want a company selling them. I am not compensated. My university is not compensated. The editors of the publication are not compensated. There are some a few cases where journals have legitimate expenses. And in this case, those people should be paid. But generally, there are no costs to review and publish academic papers. And it goes against the spirit of science to impose them on readers. As a music producer, the situation is very different—we all want (and need) to be paid for our work—the artists, engineers, producers, record labels—everyone involved in the process of creating and delivering music. But as a scientist, this is bullshit.

Quite interestingI wonder what the German news wires would have been? I was actually referring to a cultural habit of giving feel-good names to things that already have names. Instead of "propaganda", we have "fake news." Instead of "genocide", we have "ethnic cleansing". The feel-good names remove all mention of intention, rendering the terms impotent.

Can't we just call it what it is: propaganda?

It's so interesting to see these threads in virgin form, before the Russian trolls assigned to Slashdot descend.

A paid user of what? That doesn't even make sense. The rest of your response is copypasta - it doesn't warrant a response. As I said, they're here on Slashdot, too. Enjoy the weather in Kiev.

It was very interesting to watch Reddit's administrators actively support Russian interference in the US elections through their support of bots, trolls, and repeated Reddit policy violations. It was here on Slashdot, too — but Reddit actively supported it — Slashdot merely tolerated it. And these are forums where we'd expect the audience to be the least tolerant of such behavior—and indeed there was much anger. But not enough to change anything.