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  1. Re:Prior Art on Samsung Researching How To Let You Control Your Phone With Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Apple works somewhat differently to what is proposed here. With Apple you don't control the phone to perform an action, you bend reality into one where the phone has performed the action.

    Samsung is trying to do it the hard way.

  2. Re:Gravity? on Bigelow Aerospace Investigating Feasibility of Moon Base for NASA · · Score: 1

    The life raft 1km away is worth closer inspection. And is that an island with a few trees on it over yonder? I wonder if I got into the life raft, could I possibly reach the island and then see where that leaves me.

  3. Re:Gravity? on Bigelow Aerospace Investigating Feasibility of Moon Base for NASA · · Score: 1

    Even if he's wrong, this is a problem to be solved, rather than a reason not to try.

    100% agree, and as another poster commented, the reason for de-calcification and atrophy is not 100% understood, so the spinning habitat may not be the solution.

    Shielding against the radiation, recycling of water (closed loop) and growing of suitable flora (mushrooms) for food etc have already got numerous ideas for how to overcome them, the gravity differential, though, seems to me to be the big hurdle to keeping a person healthy on the moon, if it's the gravity that's the cause of the bone problem.

    She may have some back in significantly better shape, but Shannon Lucid did not come back unaffected. One may hope that 1/6th gravity + rigorous exercise is enough to prevent any and all degradation.

  4. Gravity? on Bigelow Aerospace Investigating Feasibility of Moon Base for NASA · · Score: 2

    Is the gravity on the moon sufficient to prevent the bone de-calcification and muscle atrophy in humans there for a prolonged period of time? I know that people who go up to the ISS for a few months are irreparably damaged, though the idea of making a spinning station would counter most (if not all) of that. At 1/6 earth gravity, would humans suffer the same fate as they do in micro? Can they build a spinning habitat on the moon?

  5. Re:What will a Disney Star Wars be like on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    You didn't hear the Hoth theme-tune then?

    "Can you feel your toes tonight?"

  6. Re:Milking It to Death on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    Yeah, look how they are milking James Bond for all its worth, producing yet another terrible movie (Skyfall) just to milk the franchise.

  7. Re:And Now the Crowd-sourcing Cleanup Phase on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    And people will then be up in arms whenever something threatens Anonymity on the web. Here is one of the major downsides to being able to post things Anonymously online.

  8. Re:recovery, not prevention. on Boston Tech Vs. the Bomber · · Score: 1

    There have been studies done linking lead poisoning to aggression control -- after banning lead in gasoline, the crime rate in every country that did so dropped within a few years by double-digit percentages.

    If only there was some kind of drug that could produce the reverse effect of lead poisoning. Waaait, that sounds familiar....

    [Mal and the crew watch a holographic report on the Mirandans' fate]
    Dr. Caron: There's thirty million people here, and they just let themselves die.
    [Everyone jumps at the sound of a brutal attack in the distance.]
    Dr. Caron: I have to be quick! About a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the Pax. Their aggressor response increased beyond madness. They have become
    [A crash is heard in the background, now closer]
    Dr. Caron: [sobs] Well, they've killed most of us. And not just killed they've done things
    Wash: [Realises] Reavers... They made them.
    Dr. Caron: I won't live to report this, but people have to know. We meant it for the best to make people safer

  9. Re:Keep it for themselves on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 1

    Don't you get it? They said it would only be a platform to browse the web. We all know there are no adds on the web.

  10. Re:Misleading statement in TFA on Harvard Grid Computing Project Discovers 20k Organic Photovoltaic Molecules · · Score: 1

    I didn't read anywhere that the PV material was itself a paint, but that the cost per area was similar to that of paint. They could have said Carpet (though the value of carpet varies quite a bit)

  11. Re:Small Boats on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Lamnidae Attached "Zappers" Outfitted for Riparian Zabernism

  12. Re: That doesn't mean it wasnt jammed on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 2

    I could be accused of stating the obvious. It could be set to turn on all the time and we'd be done with carriers.

  13. Re:Small Boats on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Using a process I like to dub: Pulse Emitted Waves.

    It takes advantage of how light is both particle and wave. Patent Pending ofc.

  14. Re:Avoid CFL mistakes on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    We have a pair of circular CFLs that were in the living room of one house for atleast 10 years, and have been working in the kitchen of our other house (we moved) for the last 16.

    One of them does take quite a bit sometime to blink on, but I'm told that you can replace the starter in them easily, and that the remainder of the bulb is essentially fine.

  15. Re:Seems to be missing something... on Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness · · Score: 1

    Well, Bin Laden is pretty dead, the documents can't have been of THAT much aid...

  16. Re:Why not? on Microsoft Game Director Adam Orth Resigns Following Xbox Comments · · Score: 2

    I'm waiting for EA/MS or others to start offering a subscription service a la Netflix or more accurately a Cable TV company, where you pay a sub to them to get their entire catalogue.

    Basic packages give access to older games, while you can get an addon for EA Sports, an addon for EA Premium and an addon for EA DLC 'channels'.

    Would be just like them. That way you never get to own the games, or sell them on. And if you stop subscribing, then no games access for you!

  17. Re:Another resolution layer? on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 1

    But we have seen how the reduction in pirates has led to an increase in climate temperature. TPB are just doing the bit to reverse that.

  18. Re:not a complete success on 'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming · · Score: 1

    GP wrote the joke in Java.

  19. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    RAID0 Stripes?

  20. Re:Pre-written? on Yokohama Accidentally Tweets That NK Missile Is Inbound · · Score: 1

    Because we'd hear an air-raid siren in our soundproofed basements?

  21. Re:My emotions as I started reading... on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 1

    You can't watch content because of artificially added blockages? I know some people who might help.

  22. Re:I'll miss the old school special effects on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 1

    You're remembering through rose-tinted glasses.

    I see what you did there.

  23. Re:Flying abobe clouds on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 1

    And then there's the reverse stroke. Flying above them isn't safe.

  24. Re:Why haven't we seen the effects then? on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 1

    Placebo Effect.

  25. Re:FUD summary as usual on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 1

    You owe me a new computer. I tried to stick a pencil in it to rewind the video you linked and I think I broke something.