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  1. Re:Hockey Sticks on Sports Technology? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, they're also adding far more broken hockey sticks to the game - this last Stanley Cup was literally littered with pieces of player's sticks.

  2. Re:26" Rim??? I'm Surprised Nobody's Nitpicked Thi on Building a Better Motorized Bicycle · · Score: 1

    26" is the diameter of a standard mountain bike rim. And if you run a larger circ. wheel at the same RPM as a smaller, you go faster, not slower.

  3. Low Earth Orbit? on Ask Larry Niven · · Score: 1

    What, in your opinion, would be the most useful sort of structure to have in LEO? Is the ISS useful, or would something more utilitarian have been a better choice? I ask, keeping in mind that many of your books showed a thriving asteroid mining industry, which depended on bases out of gravity wells.

  4. Tired of duplicates. on NEAT Comet Crossing: Internet Telescopes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I posted this story 37,000 years ago, the last time the comet came through. You'd think Taco'd get these things straight.

  5. Re:Performance improvements on Phoenix 0.5 Has Arrived · · Score: 1
    You forgot:

    Cowboy Neal

  6. Re:Still... on Artificial Vision for the Blind · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I haven't checked today, but that could be 6 million Canadian dollars.

  7. A shame for Einstein... on The Perfect Plate for the Nuclear Family Car · · Score: 2, Insightful


    to have his most recognizable work put on a licence plate celebrating nuclear weapons - which he came to oppose.

  8. Re:Nuclear paranoia on Why Batteries Haven't Kept Up · · Score: 1
    Yes, in the same way that you are powered by your parents.

    In any case, smoke detectors can also be made with photodetectors and so no ionizing radiation is needed.

  9. Re:Nuclear paranoia on Why Batteries Haven't Kept Up · · Score: 1

    The ionizing radiation is not a power source. The battery or house current is. No smoke detectors are powered by nuclear decay.

  10. Re:americium decay on Why Batteries Haven't Kept Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    It produces alpha particles, actually. High mass, low energy - just enough to knock electrons away.

  11. Re:Nuclear paranoia on Why Batteries Haven't Kept Up · · Score: 3, Informative

    Smoke detectors aren't powered by nuclear decay. The americium is only a source of ionizing radiation, knocking electrons off of oxygen and nitrogen. When smoke enters the chamber of the detector, the drop in current between the upper and lower plates (supplied by a battery or house current) triggers the alarm.

  12. From the GPL preamble... on MusicCity's Morpheus violating GPL · · Score: 1
    You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code
    (they being whoever is using the product).

    The install puts a legal.txt file in the install directory. Contents:

    You may receive a machine readable copy of the source code for this software from http://www.musiccity.com/ . This offer is valid for three years after the date on which you downloaded the binary version of this software.

    So maybe the GPL isn't being violated after all, and there's a bit of gun-jumping going on.

    Not a violation. Just because most people include source doesn't mean it's a requirement.

  13. Re:Abortion still involved... on Designer Babies, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1
    This is no more abortion than what happens to unused embryos at fertility clinics is abortion. The clinics routinely destroy embryos that are no longer necessary.

    If implantation in the uterus has not occurred, it's not an abortion.

  14. Well, you learn something every day. on New Zealands's Mysterious Sponge-like Creature · · Score: 5, Funny
    Embeds itself on the victim and then slowly feeds on it?

    I didn't know sponges even went to law school.

  15. Re:Come on... on Home Server Rooms? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You stick a movable baffle inside the main duct to take the warm air outside. Then you swear off of CFCs for the rest of your life and the global warming balances out.

  16. Don't networks already do some of this? on TiVo Issued Additional DVR patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about live broadcasts that have a 10 second delay built in to allow bleeping? Isn't that kind of the same thing? Perhaps I'm off in left field, but if it is, wouldn't there be a prior art case there?

  17. Re:FWIW, there's an election this month. on Ontario Defies U.S. Company Over Cancer Test Patent · · Score: 1

    Ummm, no. There's no provincial election in Ontario this month, or this year, for that matter. Maybe there's some municipal elections, but not provincial.

  18. Re:GPS becomes mandatory in USA for mobile phones on Authentication Via Geographical Location? · · Score: 1

    911 Calls. Makes it much easier for the dispatcher to route an ambulance/cruiser/firetruck to where the old lady is having a cardiac/being mugged/burning to a crisp.