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Re:Phrack Issue #68 on Saturday April 14, 2012 @07:20PM (#3842264)
Maar ik kan niet lezen Nederlands.
Re:ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12 on Friday March 16, 2012 @02:08AM (#3712197)
I understand that you read about a "a neutrino network that would transmit directly through the Earth, for true point-to-point communication," but you obviously didn't read the paper. Here it is. http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 It's a proof-of-principle. A stunning achievement, no doubt. But it's hardly a practical option for communication, "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth."

Ant colonies? WTF?

Re:Cling : C++ REPL using Clang and LLVM on Saturday February 18, 2012 @09:25PM (#3608443)
It may not be awesome. But it works.
Re:Cling : C++ REPL using Clang and LLVM on Saturday February 18, 2012 @09:21PM (#3608433)
To be clear: the python interface does use CINT underneath; it's just that the user is less exposed to the subtle "features" that give CINT it's unique character.
Re:Cling : C++ REPL using Clang and LLVM on Saturday February 18, 2012 @09:16PM (#3608422)
Nobody, and I mean nobody, likes CINT.
Re:Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org? on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @02:32AM (#3423210)
> it would be easier for Elsevier to shut down arxiv.org.

It is disheartening to think that such a thing is even remotely possible.

Re:Pi is wrong... really. on Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:05PM (#1990417)
Did you read the article? So many fundamental equations become more elegant when pi is redefined in this way. Isn't pi/2 = half, pi=whole more direct?