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  1. Re:Really? on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can still make wrapped coils, methinks. Just build them up in cross-sections. The printing resolution would likely limit how tight you could get it, though.

  2. Re:15 miles across? on Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Antimatter would just make the problem worse- antimatter still has positive mass-energy, so it would contribute to the gravity.

    Now, the effect of negative mass-energy (if it can physically exist) is anyone's guess.

  3. MOD PARENT UP on Material Converts Radiation Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    +1 Funny (Don't you know an iPhone joke when you see it?)

  4. Re:Javascript vs LISP? on Head First JavaScript · · Score: 1
    It supports the basic functional programming stuff- closures, for instance. You can define a function within a function, return it, then call it anonymously. Like such:

    function generateAdder(incr) {
    function add(oprand) {
    return incr + oprand;
    }
    return add;
    }
    alert(generateAdder(2)(3)); // Pops up "5"
    alert(generateAdder(20)(3)); // Pops up "23"
  5. Re:Apple != MS$ on Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install · · Score: 1
    1. Microsoft:
    • X-Box
    • Zune

    2. Apple:
    • iPhone
  6. Re:Meh. on Web 2.0, Meet JavaScript 2.0 · · Score: 1

    If I recall right, no. ISO only requires patents be licensable on "reasonable terms" or something like that. Now, W3C standards are required to be patent-unencumbered.

  7. Re:That's an easy one! on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    The Novikov self-consistency principle posits that it would be impossible to cause such a paradox.

    Think of it this way: anything you do in the past happened before you ever left. Thus, you are living proof that you didn't do anything to imperil your existance. You can still affect what happens, though- your appearance might frighten your ancestors into each other's arms, for instance.

  8. Re:thats great and all.. on A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize LOLcode had gone object oriented.

  9. Not just Australia. on Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy · · Score: 1

    I just heard a radio public service announcement to that effect here in Virginia.

  10. Re:Why not do it like AZ? on Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea, certainly. But what type of interpolation would you use?

    More troublesomely, what do you do about latitude? Polar employees would have to work ~5 months straight.

  11. Re:Transporter someday? on IBM Measures Force Required To Move Atoms · · Score: 1

    but AFAIK we've never converted energy to mass. Sure we have. We can make electron/positron pairs from high-energy photons. It's the principle behind PET scans. (Not sure how we got the antiprotons for the antihydrogen we've made.)

    Haven't done anything large-scale, though.
  12. Re:just like OOXML! on Comcast Gets Hard Up At FCC Meeting · · Score: 1

    Do it!

  13. Not to knock PHP, on Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP · · Score: 1

    but I'm fairly sure Slashdot runs on Perl.

  14. Shouldn't be that complex. on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 1

    Couldn't one just run photocells in series in a band around the equator? The current loop would generate a magnetic field, and one could use the extra energy for heating. Mind you, building a device on that scale is an elaborate undertaking, but the principle seems simple enough.

  15. Re:Haz? on Yes, You Can Haz Punitive Damages · · Score: 1

    But see, the title implies somebody sued ICHC or something.

  16. Re:Lots o' jet fuel on Robotic Telescope Installed on Antarctica Plateau · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, Antarctica is largely a desert. The little accumulation it does get simply never melts.

  17. Re:Huckabee on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Actually, Huckabee has rather clearly stated that, while creationist, he is agnostic over the age of the Earth here. I would think acknowledging that a young-earth-created-to-look-old and an old earth are indistinguishable, as well as noting that the origins of the world really don't affect the presidency either way, is evidence of reason and logic.

  18. Re:Easily hacked? on Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it's to prevent them from accidently viewing taboo material- obviously, if they're hacking the filter they don't care about the taboos very much.

  19. Re:My kids did not "start" it has just always been on When Are Kids Old Enough to Play Videogames? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't go so far as to call my family a "gamer family", but Super Mario Galaxy has baecome quite a social game for us. My 5-year-old sister loves playing in the "Co-Star" mode, and can even manage as the first player to some extent. (She panics at the sight of bosses, though.)

  20. Re:Am I missing something? on Has the Higgs Boson Particle Field Been Hiding in Plain Sight? · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, it has something to do with the Uncertainty Principle- a varient of it links energy with time, meaning that a high mass-energy virtual particle can only exist for a very short time.

    Photons and gravatons (should the latter exist), however, are not so limited due to their much lower mass-energy.

  21. Re:XSLT with ad banners? on W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    I can't say; I use Google Pages, and just upload my own files. XSLT works there, anyways.

    If your host simply requires you to have ads on the site, but gives you the liberty of placing them (like some webcomic sites, I think), then you can just put the ad code in the style sheet. XSLT only needs well-formed input- the output can be any text-based format you like.

  22. Re:First thoughts on W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    XSLT is a way to do that. Today. Seriously, even IE6 suppports it.

  23. Re:First thoughts on W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    Still no client side include (no, object doesn't cut it...). XSLT covers all the usages for client-side includes I can think of; it's actually surprisingly well supported- even IE6 supports much of it.

    I'm surprised you don't see much more of it.
  24. Re:Death and Rebirth on Teleportation — Fact and Fiction · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good (if creepy) exploration here: To Be.

  25. Re:The Market Speaks! on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 1

    For the record, the Big Bang != evolution either.

    Some interpret 6 days of Creation to actually refer to 6 geologic events, based on a possible dual meaning of the Hebrew word used- "day" vs "epoch".

    Personally, as there is no measurable difference between a universe created with a Big Bang then allowed to run for eons and one created already in the current configuration, I don't find the age of the Earth particularly important.