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Top Ten Advances in 2004

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blinded-me-with-science dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Research News has released it's top ten picks for advances of 2004. Something for everyone here including notable advances in biotechnology, communications, computing, engineering, energy, security, nanotechnology, applied physics and the Internet."

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  1. Ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They forgot Poland!

  2. eye-dee-ten-tee by zmilo · · Score: 4, Funny

    However much they make computers better, they still haven't solved the classic PEBKAC problem...

  3. Premature by SlayerofGods · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey! I've still got 1 more day to invent cold fusion.

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  4. Speaking Silently? by scooteratl · · Score: 4, Funny

    "And scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center developed speech recognition technology that allows users to speak silently. The scheme uses throat nerve activity rather than acoustics to glean information about what a person is saying. "

    It'd be better if the device could make people -think- before speaking (silently or otherwise). Lincoln noted "Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt".

    Now doubt can be removed without opening of a mouth!!

    <SILENT>hehehehehe - the fools!!</SILENT>

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  5. I'd pick MPAA and RIAA improvements to P2P by faramir_fr · · Score: 5, Funny

    MPAA and RIAA makes the P2P community evolve at a geometric rate... enjoy EXEEM folks.

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  6. Great Advances of 2004 by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    The balance on my credit card :-(

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