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Comment Re:heh (Score 1) 754

At least part of the above post is not just wrong but absurdly misleading. The putative quote regarding nosediving is contextually crippled. The original quote comes from another absurd post: iPad magazine sales drop wherein the observation is made that Wired and other made-for-iPad magazines are not faring well after their initial launches. The article fails to assess the impact of absurd subscription pricing policies on peoples' willingness to engage in self-abuse.
Science

Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It 165

ccktech writes "As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."
Science

Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All 269

cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "You've heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. Some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up the Earth — physicists say that's impossible — and have petitioned the United Nations to stop the $5.5 billion LHC. Curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, Einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way. Now a computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole." That said, they estimate the required energy for creating a black hole this way to be roughly "a quintillion times higher than the LHC's maximum"; though if one of the theories requiring compact extra dimensions is true, the energy could be lower.
Privacy

Net Users In Belarus May Soon Have To Register 89

Cwix writes "A new law proposed in Belarus would require all net users and online publications to register with the state: 'Belarus' authoritarian leader is promising to toughen regulation of the Internet and its users in an apparent effort to exert control over the last fully free medium in the former Soviet state. He told journalists that a new Internet bill, proposed Tuesday, would require the registration and identification of all online publications and of each Web user, including visitors to Internet cafes. Web service providers would have to report this information to police, courts, and special services.'"

Comment hulu lame US only - why use it (Score 1) 220

Hulu is really not worth using. There must be a more effective service for boxee. I can't use Hulu because my IP address doesn't appear to be in the U.S. and they claim some license restrictions that don't permit anywhere but the U.S. to view their content. What utter garbage to spend time worrying over a lame service further restricting who can use them!

Comment Re:De-FUDding (Score 1) 459

Yes, I intended to refer to the two different JFS implementations and to indicate that the one in use in Linux is not dependent on the questions of derivation in the SCO license to IBM.

The fact that there was a JFS predating SCO and that was at one time implemented in AIX does not necessarily contradict the SCO position depending on how the derivation restrictions are interpreted; however, the fact that the JFS contributed to Linux was a clean-room version (to be demonstrated in court) would certainly negate that claim by SCO.

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