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• Tornadoes in Brazil
• Tornado brings death in Brazil
• Earthquake in western Brazil
• 16 dead, thousands homeless from floods and mudslides in Brazil (and here)

Do you leave it on in your pocket when you fill up with "gas" (petrol) too because it's ridiculous that a spark could cause an explosion of fumes ?

Ridiculous.

Do you smoke while filling the car up too ?

Not ridiculous.

Hey, that's a great application: if I had a 3D wireframe interface for my fridge I *could* see what was in the back behind the other 3 bags of romaine.

A man with three buttocks has two *'s. Dont you ever follow those goat sex links?

In Norway they seem to go for that cross-country endurance thing.

Sullivan, of Tauranga, confessed to having "had a few". (Amazing, I would have thought he was racing semi-naked with his a** on fire and perfectly sober!)

no goats

Of course Brazil was just a movie. A Buttle/Tuttle foul-up could never happen in real life.

The next phase of major research project designed to produce very short pulses of light over a million, million, million times brighter than a household bulb has been given the go-ahead. [snip]

(Keep in mind that those are British millions.)

You have some real warped sense of 'self defense.' Or maybe you can provide some evidence of when and where the US was attacked.

The UN has authority in this situation, not the bush administration.

The bush administration has lied about aluminum tubes supposedly acquired for enriching uranium, "the war will take weeks, not months", Iraq was actively trying to acquire uranium, the "coallition of convenience" is made up of nations who support the bush administration's invasion, 35 countries are providing "critical support" in the coallition of convenience, the "coallition of convenience" is larger than the 1991 gulf war, 8000 soldiers of the 51st division surrendered, Umm Qasr was taken on Sunday, er... no, Monday... no, make that Tuesday.9 times Umm Qasr was "taken."
I could go on and on and on, but I know I'm probably just wasting my time.

Since this thread started, you've consistently said, "show me proof" while making outlandish claims about bombs strapped to buildings and misfiring SAM launcers. Since this thread began, you haven't provided a whit of evidence to support your position. Since this thread began, I've consistently provided links. So unless you want to start posting evidence to support your claims, don't bother asking for it anymore.

Here is your link, picture included. I hope you like green.....

For those of you too lazy to search Google for "Japanese invisibility cloak", here is the link that started it and the project home page (with movies).

The objects are NOT truly transparent. They just appear that way due to optical tricks. Basically, they project what is behind an object to what is on the front of it using cameras, projectors, and mirrors. It's a neat idea, and he suggests some useful applications, but nothing like most were expecting upon seeing the pictures. Still, makes for some kick-ass videos.

Story here. Neat stuff. :)

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UFOs are really just electrocuted cats, according to this breakthrough news story.

See news article here.

Three pencil-necked geeks are better than two.

Or a vanfull.

I would recommend looking at Ananova as they have some of the most up to date information. The coverage is not very indepth, just rapid publishing of facts searchable by time date stamp or topic. It is England based (run buy Orange) but a very useful source for forming your own opinions based on the latest information. The same information tends to find its way onto the BBC news site (which rocks) a couple of hours later.

All this makes me wonder what's going to happen to the 4000 PS2's Saddam bought back in '00...

Should we send our boys 4000 copies of GTA:VC?

Original Ananova story

When I worked on the Ananova project, we started off using Tamino by Software AG, which was great while we were in development, but we had trouble scaling from tens of stories per day to dealing with thousands of stories per day when we went live. Backing up, moving data between versions, and restoring onto higher spec boxes proved to be a nightmare, and we soon moved to Oracle instead. This was 3 years ago however, and the product may have matured since then. It would meet your requirements as stated certainly, and would be worth checking out. There are also Netbeans modules to aid development in Java.

darn, eh?

Bah! Uganda is just so January! The hot new development is moving in the direction of Zambia The Scam Industry moves fast, and you have to be a leader in new innovation!

Oddly enough, penis extensions are the most popular plastic surgery operation in the UK for males.

And many rock stars live right next door...

Kiwi caught speeding semi-naked on motorised bar stool Do not underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Well if you've used a SUN recently (I have one on my desk at work), you'd probably know they have a full 8-something extra buttons. These include cut, copy, paste, stop, volume, and other such nonsense like that. To be honest, I don't use them, except for STOP. The new ones have USB connections on the back, so they're actually somewhat nice because they plug into anything. Having extra buttons can be fun if you like to play with your keyboard mapping.

If you want to go the other direction, the whole wearables scene has come up with some good ones, especially the twiddler.

And finally, if you're interested in other keyboards that might be questionably functional but still look cool, you can find virtual keyboards, a lit keyboard, and a rollable keyboard. But I think in your situation, you might find the twiddler the best bet for "cool and useful item".

Such claims are worth the paper they're printed on, and no more. (And the paper is important too. Man prosecuted over selling land on moon)

As for the TLD, I thought it was the national governments that set the country TLDs. Thwate is just being silly.

"It could revolutionise optical instruments because it reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections."

You're right- Optical Camouflage doesn't hold a candle to this story. Here's another linky.

2003-02-05 21:06:34 Optical Camouflage a Reality(articles,tech) (rejected)

so says a couple news reports
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Three (yeah yeah, someone posted this last one above)

Here is another example.

yup

Here's a link with other pictures I wonder if it comes in black? "Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Okay, she's got all the personality of Clippy, but give it time.

Dang, it ate my link! Let's try the magic word again: Mitsubishi!

The long-planned launch came as Russian space officials offered condolences to their American colleagues and said the disaster may put Moscow's cash-strapped space programme under more pressure to deliver crews and supplies to the station.

"Cosmonauts and astronauts are one big family, and I personally - and I believe all my colleagues - are suffering this like a personal loss," cosmonaut Yuri Usachev, who commanded the space station's second crew in 2001, said.

The US has reportedly launched a military and intelligence effort to track down and possibly kill Saddam Hussein.

The plans emerged as the chief UN weapons inspectors ended two days of talks in Baghdad, during which they again urged Iraq to co-operate with their disarmament efforts.

USA Today newspaper said US special forces, CIA paramilitary units, satellite imagery, radio intercepts and airborne reconnaissance are all being used in the operation against Saddam.

After reading Slashdot, the CIA has also said that anyone who does discover the location of Saddam will receive a typical computer geek's prize of a case of Coke and $100 of Linux merchandise.

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I don't think so...check this

I've been immersed in Wiproans for the past several months, and instead of my job (as lead architect) becoming easier, it's become harder. We have to keep constant watch for the shortcuts they take, we spend hours upon hours helping them get their designs and their documentation to an acceptable level -- and even then we have to tell them to re-do things three or four times before they actually make any changes.

Onsite work is bad enough, but the offshore work often ends up being immediately and completely "refactored" onsite by local talent. Oddly enough, it seems the time we spend scrambling to make things work added to the time and cost of having Wipro blunder through the first time still seems to be less than if local talent handled the entire project from the start.

And it's not an "Indian thing", either. Most Indians I've worked with in my career have been very thoroughly educated, knowledgeable, and detail-oriented people -- and a hell of a lot friendlier than your average American Cowboy Coder. I just find it interesting that my company is unwilling to hire anyone with less than 8 years IT industry experience, but we'll take a Wipro contractor straight out the chute of some unknown third-world university where the students riot if they're not allowed to cheat on exams.

Well, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it's funny.

the first human clone has probably already been walking around for a while

And you base this on what? Your abundant lack of knowledge about cloning technology and basic biology?

The first adult mammal cloned was Dolly the sheep. She has some rather serious defects as a result of that cloning, such as rapid aging. It took 277 attempts to produce a viable clone.

A cow was cloned in 1998 without the aging problems, and it took a "mere" 104 attempts.

China cloned their first cow in October of this year. Brazil attempted to clone a cow and wound up with a bull instead.

Cloning isn't easy. It's not like you can just go to the corner drug store and buy a clone'o'matic. It requires a great deal of lab resources, time, and lots of money.

And while you may very well find scientists who would try to clone a human, you also have to find 50-100 women willing to be implanted with a cloned embryo, given that 90%+ of them will miscarry (the human body is pretty good at detecting and aborting non-viable fetuses -- and I apologize right now to anyone who has had to deal with a miscarraige in their family, I know they are deeply traumatizing). This immediately increases the number of potential leaks.

Right now is about the earliest it would have been possible to clone a human... after all, no matter what you try to do, it's going to take 9 months from implantation until birth.

It has nothing to do with fear, at least not for me. I think the ethics are questionable at best, primarily due to the large number of failures in current cloning methods. For the record, I'm pro-choice, but that doesn't mean that I would want dozens of women subjected to the trauma of a miscarraige (or worse), or that I think playing with human life this way is a good thing.

I posted a similar comment to yesterdays RIAA story

Of course their declining record sales have nothing to do with the public is now fed up of mass marketed pop music where record contracts are won not by original musical talent and song writing , but by nieve and desperate individuals in f***ing competitions while real talent falls into the gutter, leaving a trail of destruction in its path while the instigators get rich.

The only thing killing music is not kids downloading mp3's or pirating dvds at market stalls but by the industry killing itself, kids are simply getting ripped off by these marketing/record companies and have just started to realise globally they are being taken for idiots

why is it that so many companies in the industry (or others for that matter), have so much contempt for their customers and choose short term monetary gains instead of actually concentrating on producing superior products ?

of course their declining record sales have nothing to do with the public is now fed up of mass marketed pop music where record contracts are won not by original musical talent and song writing , but by nieve and desperate individuals in f***ing competitions while real talent falls into the gutter, leaving a trail of destruction in its path while the instigators get rich.

The only thing killing music is not kids downloading mp3's or pirating dvds at market stalls ,but by the industry itself, kids are simply getting ripped off by these marketing/record companies and have just started to realise globally they are being taken for idiots

why is it that so many companies have so much contempt for their customers and choose to be greedy instead of actually concentrating on superior products ?

You can get one. Just ask this guy who built his one.

It's all down to supply and demand. The seller only sold one because virtually nobody is willing to pay $3.4 million on a toilet. If he could reduce the price to about $24.99, then he would sell a lot, but he wouldn't make a profit.

The cost of overly restricted DRM is too high. Unless you give it away, nobody will want it.

No, but we're getting better. Check out Asimo and his home page. (Yes, I submitted it. ;^)