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Top Science Stories of 2004

Posted by michael on from the out-with-the-old dept.

borkbot writes "New Scientist has several round-ups of 2004. They include one for technology , space and biology . There's also an interesting peice about the most popular stories of the year."

6 of 85 comments (clear)

  1. Eh? a peice? by dep01 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's a peice? ;)

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  2. ive read the article and still no comments? by shwouchk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow, this is a new glorious time for /.!

  3. What about The Passion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about The Passion of the Christ? The movie made huge money, and American's re-elected Jesus' choice - George W Bush.

    America turning back to Christianity in this time of turmoil is the biggest story of the year.

  4. Re:Variable Speed of light by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "The meter is an arbitrary measurement of distance"

    in contrast to the foot.

  5. Stupid Goatse link... if that wasn't obvious by macz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mod this whole thread troll.

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  6. SIPPhone by bennomatic · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    SIPPhone is cool. No monthly fees; just buy minutes in $10.00 increments, and they don't expire.

    I needed to call indonesia, and my long distance provider gave me a rate of over $6.00 per minute without a special intl calling plan. With a calling plan, it was $0.80/minute, but the plan was $9.00 per month, so even if the call was only going to be a minute long, I'm still paying almost $10.00.

    So I went to SIPPhone, bought $10.00 worth of minutes, used it to make my five minute call to find out why a furniture maker I'd contracted with had not shipped out the items (they had, just not the paperwork), and had $9.00 left. I've called Germany and Japan with it since then, and I've still got $7.00 left. I've even used it to check my messages while stuck on hold on my regular land line. It's pretty sweet.

    Don't know about using the software behind corporate firewalls. I'm just behind a basic NAT box with minimal filtering. And I don't know about open source, but their basic software is indeed free, at least as in beer.

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