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  1. Why not make money when giving it away? on Tor Onion Browser's Creator Explains Free Version For iOS (mike.tig.as) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The landing page of the browser can alway have a featured sponsor listing fed in and displayed without compromising anything. Could also promote their own site and list a bunch of tools, maybe some that are sponsored.

    Thoughts?

  2. Why (Fair Trade Goods != Fair Trade Currency)? on Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't tax rates be part of the mix in global cooperation? Those that undermine the rest should be punished by the rest.

  3. Re:Does this include online content? on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 1

    Good question. mod up

  4. Laying the Groundwork for Future Camera Tech on Vector Vengeance: British Claim They Can Kill the Pixel Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    Future cameras will use algorithms in real-time to assess the windows environment and assign these colored vectors to the image. This spec should also include dimension to make it more future proof.

  5. A Different Story on Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You · · Score: 1

    take the money out of the studies and you'll get a different story

    Natural News Organic Foods Mainstream Media Psyop

  6. Home Stenographer on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    A brand-new service makes your friends and employees accountable for their conversations. (2:09)min.
    Dave Chapelle's Home Stenographer

  7. Yellowstone Geothermal Energy on Yellowstone Hot Spot Shreds Ancient Pacific Ocean · · Score: 1

    How come places like Iceland are able to tap into this type of energy and Americans barely seem to recognize it? Yellowstone should be tapped.

  8. Will P2P Grow? on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    If net-priority-purchases becomes the norm for web app access and the comcasts of the world 'downgrade' everyone else, what is a small startup to do? They can purchase lane space by piggybacking on expensive Google priority lanes, or they will be left to being slow and unresponsive in the consumer eye. My guess is P2P will become more relevant at this stage. People will download and install apps that will serve from decentralized nodes as the only way to get around the money hording behemoth ISPs. But, even this road will be hard to maintain without a real net neutrality law.

  9. The Plugin Plug Challenge, Street Parkers on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The challenge is bringing the ability to self-charge vehicles to more people.

    Apartment people are not going to be able to charge their own electric car anytime soon, so they are out of the self-charge market (they’ll have to go to a station). At least until there is some portable battery pack...

    Few people in America have Garages to charge their electric cars.

    More have Street parking in front of their townhouse or single family house.

    Target market=In front of your home street parkers.

    There are two hurdles in this market
    1. Biggest=Legislation. Allowing homeowners to install a plug near the curb (like a parking meter, but less obvious: could even be delivered via the route in the existing gutter drain from the house).

    2. Technical Challenge=Developing a fully waterproof (top to bottom) electrical cord, that requires a key or combo to unlock it, and installed on a retractable coil. This is where potential $millions await.

    Of course we cannot forget the unmentioned challenge = fighting for that exact public space to do the charge.

  10. Notion Ink's Adam on Facebook Is Transcoding Video For iPad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope the iPad is trumped by Notion Ink's Adam tablet (due in June I think). 16+ hours of battery full HD...Android. Sounds like a winner...

  11. Bloombox on The Arctic Is Leaking Methane · · Score: 1

    Too bad we can't simply hook this methane up to a Bloombox or fuelcell generator. Wish we could do the same for the cows...and maybe some friends of mine too.

  12. CERN's Blowing up the Earth on The LHC Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    This site gives us a 78% chance of blowing up the earth. I'm totally going to eat that KFC now.

  13. Vitual Items Could Be Claimed on DC Sues AT&T For Unclaimed Phone Minutes · · Score: 1

    Wow. When you think about it the same could apply to virtual items in different online game worlds. For example there are many video games that have items to buy and sell for real money. So same rules would apply for unused accounts and the $ items that exist within them. The state could sell the items online if not claimed.

  14. Who's Watching the Watchers on NSA Ill-Suited For Domestic Cybersecurity Role · · Score: 1

    Not a Watchmen post.

  15. More Code Efficiency=More Elecricity Efficiency on Can "Page's Law" Be Broken? · · Score: 1

    I wounder how much energy and money this would save for a server hog like Google. Reminds me of Blackle

  16. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back on Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    In most regards it is THE solution to our CURRENT rapid charge systems. Here is the (evil) part of this battery swap equation: it may somewhat stifle rapid charge development. What does this mean? It means we now have to now rely on the company that sells you the battery. A battery that is now standardized and must be instantly removable and that has a fixed input system.

    Rapid Charge development provides you the customer to choose your electrical source. You may choose municipal energy (like Pepco here in DC), the company that sells a rapid charge, or your choice if you choose to fuel it from your personally generated source such as solar, wind, etc. That is why rapid charge as a fuel distribution method of is by far superior to a standardized and source weakened swap distribution system.

    Tesla motors a very small barely known company was recently able to develop a 45 minute rapid charge battery system. Instead of two steps forward and one back, lets take three steps forward. Our nation can spur development and make this benchmark come down to 5 or even 1 minute rapid charge and offer ubiquitous fueling source distribution if we put our minds and money to it.

  17. "Do not alert me again." Checkbox on Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they set it up with all the crazy user restrictions in place and then just add that nice little checkbox that says: "Do not alert me again."

    Most of the computer users on the planet will think twice if the alert is made simple and clear.

  18. Einstein vs Hawking regarding blackholes on Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Einstein vs Hawking CERN LHC blackhole warning

    I hope Einstein was wrong about black holes, before CERN lights back up.

  19. Re:Hawking vs Einstein video on Second Snag This Week Could Delay LHC for Weeks · · Score: 1
  20. New Land discoveries should go the the UN on Russia Claims Large Chunk of North Pole · · Score: 1

    After all that is the ultimate goal "a world government". Would be the best step in the right direction.

  21. Fujitsu Color E-paper from 2005 on LG.Philips Develops World's First Color E-Paper · · Score: 1

    Check out this article on Fujitsu's color epaper from 2005:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/fujitsu_ep aper/

  22. Patent Search Using Google Would be a Huge Mistake on Google Patents the Design of Search Results Page · · Score: 1

    When searching for a patent you don't want ANYONE to know even remotely what you are thinking. By using a Google supplied tool you are subject to Google reviewing your searches. You'd be saying: "hey google here's kinda what my patent is" and they'd say "thanks we'll look at what you're thinking is a unique and private idea". Even Patent Attorneys use secure patent search services that contain a database of the downloadable USPTO data. They don't even trust the USPTO admins....so if you're going to a private company and doing a search you're saying to them "here have my idea". Deee deee dee.

  23. Cowardly on Bionic Bugs To Fight Terrorists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's very unfortunate. It will not be only for terrorists. We will soon have "terrorists" and our political and business leaders simply picked off by a small, unseen remote controlled insect carrying a poison payload.

  24. Re:90% of all Cells in our Body are Non-Human on Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government · · Score: 1

    Based on the fact that we CANNOT survive without being symbiotic with other lifeforms (relying on miroscopic organisms to create most things we need). And having the majority of our body composed of non-human lifeforms that in many ways dictate who we are is DEFINATELY a step away from non-evolutionist beliefs (that we were spit out 100% intact and independant of other lifeforms). Clearly we evolved along with our suroundings in such a way that we have become dependant on them and they on us.

  25. Re:Health Hazards? on Ultrawideband Signal Passes Data Through Walls · · Score: 1

    Yeah not all of the waves simply pass through your head. Just like not all of the waves pass through the walls. Absorbtion must take place. The good thing is we've adapted to cosmic rays pouring down since the dawn of time. The bad new is we are a test generation for this new wireless revolution. We will not know for sure what effect the wireless revolution will have.