Comment Glasses? (Score 1) 202
I wonder if this would work with glasses.
Comment Re:More than double? (Score 1) 60
In wired Ethernet topologies, going full duplex yields significantly more than double the throughput, since you no longer have collisions, back-offs, and re-sends. The article doesn't elaborate whether their full-duplex wireless would still be multi-access (think WiFi, with many clients on the same AP and same channels) or if each frequency would be carved out for one client and the base-station (in which case you'd see the same gains you did on wired Ethernet).
M point is that while they cite "allow a doubling of network traffic", the reality is even better than that. Full duplex gets you more than double throughput, as well as improved jitter/latency since you no longer have to randomly re-transmit frames (or randomly wait to transmit, as with WiFi collision avoidance).
I may be wrong, but I believe we already have "Full Duplex" in a sense as explained by you by using different frequencies for transmit and receive. The only difference here is now we can use the same frequency for transmit and receive.
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
Comment Re:No anomalies detected (Score 1) 222
I think it's perfectly possible for an advanced civilization to survive in that energy beam. A an engineer, one way I would approach the problem would be to use this deadly beam as a ultra massive energy resource. With that much energy coming one's way, I'm sure it's possible to create a massive electromagnetic field around the planet that would divert all harmful sub atomic particles. All it would require would be research and economic resources to pull it off.
Investment Companies Backing Patent Trolls 147
greenbird sends us to Forbes for an account of billions in investments flowing to US patent troll companies. One example is DeepNines, who is suing McAfee over a patent that covers combining an IDS and firewall in a single device. The patent was filed on May 17, 2000 and issued on June 6, 2006. No prior art for that, no siree. DeepNines is funded by "an $8 million zero-coupon note to Altitude Capital Partners, a New York City private equity firm, promising in return a cut of any winnings stemming from the lawsuit. The payout is based on a formula that grants Altitude a percentage that decreases with a bigger award."
Feed U. Texas to unveil its Supercomputer on a chip (com.com)
Blog: It's slightly less super than promised but it's pretty much a supercomputer on a chip.
Feed Poor brains light up with small cash rewards (pheedo.com)
A brain scan study involving rich and poor university students may provide biological evidence that money means less to the rich
The Coop, Social Networking For Mozilla 67
smileham noted a story about Mozilla developers considering work on a "social networking" Firefox extension called the "Coop" to take up where Flock left off. Also here is a wiki on the subject.
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