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  1. Exposure 600x federal guidelines? on Grand Canyon Visitors May Have Been Exposed To Radiation For Years (azcentral.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm not understanding the flippant comments here. It certainly seems significant that children were receiving at least 600 *times* the radiation guidelines.

  2. My copy of the Anarchist Cookbook... on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    I took a copy of the older Anarchist Cookbook to PAX, shortly after the airing of Leverage in which Wil Wheaton played the hacker Chaos.... and asked him to sign it as such. He thought for a moment, then handed this back. Too meta? :)

  3. Re:Maybe they can't be detected on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is why the laser is split, and sent down two perpendicular paths. Sure, a wave might stretch the spacetime of the X axis... but that same stretching wouldn't effect a similar increase in the return time of the Y axis. This very stretching of the measuring device itself against one axis(thus modifying the round-trip time of the split laser as compared to a perpendicular path) is the very thing that they are measuring.

    Your pet theory, and their experiment, match. :)

  4. Re:There is only one true keyboard... on Review of Das Keyboard · · Score: 2, Informative

    I highly recommend the Microsoft Ergonomic 4000. Everything that started going wrong with keyboards has been overturned with this model. I know I sound like a shill, but I bought two myself for both home and for work. Inverted T arrows, 3x2 home keys, number pad, and media buttons. Throw in the fact that they finally support tilting it *forward* (think of your piano teacher telling you to have a ball in the palm of your hand... tilting the keyboard so that the hands rest naturally is a good thing), and it's been heaven.
    http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=043

  5. Re:Gee. on Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways · · Score: 1

    Yup. They made a movie about it. :)
    http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/ABC/Batman_Begins.html

  6. Re:Too little too late on Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways · · Score: 1

    New Zealand, which has no indigenous mammals
    Minor nit: There are two species of native bats...
    http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/summary.aspx?id=33095
  7. He spoke at the Penny Arcade eXpo.. on Interview With Initiator of DirectX · · Score: 1

    A couple of people took pictures: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=alex+john+pax

  8. Re:One can only hope. (anecdotal) on The Death of Domain Parking? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you were looking for a Kona Cladera, you might try searching for "Kona Cladera" ;)

  9. Ahh.... on Using AI to Monitor Kids Online · · Score: 1

    This must run on the 1st generation Maas-Neotek biochips. One can only hope...

  10. Re:Oracle is more complex on Oracle Has More Flaws Than SQL Server · · Score: 1

    SQL Server's documentation has gotten so large that they only ship it on-disc. 6.5 had 10lbs of books.

  11. Just use a Mass Driver on Space Elevators Could Be Lethal · · Score: 4, Funny

    The solution, of course, is more speed! With a mass driver, and 1000+ Gs acceleration, you too can zip right through that hazardous Van Allen belt in record time!

  12. Re:Sony doesn't much care how they compare to Xbox on History To Repeat Itself With PS3? · · Score: 1

    And if they did their homework... they'd know better.

  13. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. They say that you can... not that they should or will.

  14. Re:wrong question on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    I believe he was trying to show this video. That link isn't working for me. Here's the MetaFilter version.

  15. Re:can do the same with a sheet of copper mesh on Nanotube Paint Blocks Cell Phones on Demand · · Score: 1

    What's the big deal here?

    Uh, it looks nicer than a huge faraday cage in your concert hall?

  16. Re:Difficult to measure material's properties? on Flexible Body Armor · · Score: 1

    I read a PDF on the internet (can't find it now) that contained pictures of non-Newtonian-enhanced fabrics exposed to varying forces by sharp and dull metal spikes. The highest-forced test had some penetration... but ended up bending their spike!

    Wish I could track it down.

  17. Re:Tabletop fusion on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    Dilithium

  18. Re:It's easier to LEAVE the moon from the equator on Should We Land on the Moon's Poles or Equator? · · Score: 1

    Except... the moon doesn't rotate. Well, it does, but very slowly. I doubt it would give you much of a boost.

  19. Re:Is there a name for what *I* have? on Brain Surgery Patient Trapped in a Mental Time Warp · · Score: 1

    I suffer from this as well. When I first met my wife-to-be in an office setting, I had to keep referring to the name on her door. After two weeks, she took it down in frustration, forcing me to figure out a mnemonic.

    Anomia is apparently a generic loss of naming capability (a match isn't "match," it is "that which makes fire"). Prosopanomia is the proper-name-specific version, and has apparently been pinpointed.

    I never thought that there might be a name for this condition. I've always had to just live with it, and thought it was this hard for everyone (except those crazy memory gurus).

  20. Re:The answer is simple on How to Survive a Bad Boss · · Score: 2, Informative

    Interesting anecdote... but ulcers are not caused by stress. Two weeks of antibotics should set you right as rain, thanks to Dr. Marshal and Dr. Warren.

    When Australian researcher Barry Marshall, MBBS, first suggested in the early 1980s that stomach ulcers were caused by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori, he was nearly laughed off the stage at an international infectious disease conference. But 20 years later, H pylori is acknowledged as the chief cause of peptic ulcers, and antibiotics are their preferred treatment.
    http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/514219?src=hp3 0.lead

    To prove it, he downed a whole load of pylori, giving himself the mother of all ulcers. Now that's science (both in the mainstream refusal, and the evidence required to prove it).

  21. First new method in 50 years? on A 'salty' source of coherent light · · Score: 1

    What about those newfangled Semiconductor laser devices that were all the rage a few years back? Or are they still considered a plain old lasers?

  22. Re:"Surfacing, Captain" on Toyota Prius Under Fire For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    20 years, same as Europe (mostly; From issue date vs. from filing filing date).

  23. Fixed link on Dead or Alive 4 Data Corruption Issue Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Hmm. That controller link have pointed pointed here: http://www.steelbattalion.org/controller.php

  24. Re:Taking a beating on Dead or Alive 4 Data Corruption Issue Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Much like Steel Battalion, the ">40-button-controller XBox game that, when you die (i.e. doesn't flip up the cover and mash Eject in time), deletes that character's saved game. An amazing game.

  25. Re:"Patch?" on Dead or Alive 4 Data Corruption Issue Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Use a Memory Card if you don't have a Hard Drive.