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  1. Re:Why not a real bird? on $10M For Unmanned Aircraft That Can Perch Like a Bird · · Score: 2, Funny

    And maybe they could carry this camera.

  2. Re:Kobayashi Maru? on NSA Wages Cyberwar Against US Armed Forces Teams · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damnit, Jim -- I'm a doctor, not a tactical officer!

  3. New product idea for Apple on Fly An R/C Plane With an iPhone · · Score: 1

    to go with the military-version iPod Touch. An iPhone-controlled UAV, called the iDrone.

  4. Re:Heh on How To Have an Online Social Life When You're Dead · · Score: 1

    It's good to see that Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged has started a company.

  5. A third form of tunneling? on Physicists Propose New Kind of Quantum Tunneling · · Score: 1

    I believe it's actually the fourth. Quantum macroparticle tunneling was first documented in 1987.

  6. Re:Rickrollin on Google Losing Up To $1.65M a Day On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Well, they sure as hell aren't spending it on royalties.

  7. Re:My heart leaped on Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth · · Score: 1

    and Duluth, GA (my home for the last 16 years) is worse yet.

  8. Re:Now if only California can use this... on Major Study Concludes That Cloud Seeding Is Effective · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, California has been cloud seeding since 1948, with varying degrees of success. I suppose another arrow in the quiver couldn't hurt.

  9. Re:Interesting, and a little concerning on "Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy · · Score: 1

    At my work we have a secure Xerox machine, too (the output goes directly to the shredder).

    If the copies go directly to the shredder, what's the point of making them in the first place?

  10. Re:Earthmate? on The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Playboy? More like Hustler, since everyone knows that earth girls are easy.

  11. Re:I don't see any fnords on The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009 · · Score: 1

    That's why the project exists -- by keeping the skies dark, the Illuminati will ensure that you can't see them.

    If, however, you're pining for the fnords, I have a lovely parrot you might be interested in.

  12. Re:In My Opinion, Cisco Should Be Worried on Google Router Rumors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Simple solution -- quit buying crappy (i.e. Linksys) routers. I've used Netgear routers for 10+ years, and have never had to reboot or replace a broken router.

  13. Re:Man those Burt Rutan planes sure are ugly on SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight · · Score: 1

    Maybe this guy?

  14. Re:Obscure reference provided here. on Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead · · Score: 1

    It's also the middle name of J. N. Hummel, Austrian classical composer of the 18th/19th centuries. AFAIK, he has nothing whatsoever to do with those cutesy ceramic figurines old ladies like to collect.

  15. Re:Pneumatic tubes over long distance? on 100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes · · Score: 1

    However, if you could maintain a perfect vacuum in a frictionless tube, you wouldn't need any pnuematics -- the earth's gravitation would pull the matter from one end of the tube to another in about 45 minutes, no matter how long the tube is.

    At least that's what I recall from freshman physics back in 1982. Anyone got a 1980's vintage copy of Halliday & Resnick?

  16. Re:Dental Applications? on Injectable Artificial Bone Developed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About 5 years ago, I had an apicoectomy to treat a chronically abscessed tooth. The abscess had been around long enough to eat away some of the bone surrounding the root. The oral surgeon replaced the missing bone with a special mixture of cadaver bone in a protein matrix. Since it was open surgery and the root end of the tooth was exposed, he just packed it in there the same way a bricklayer would pack mortar into a joint. It seems reasonable that it could also be injected if one had a wide enough needle so that the bone bits wouldn't get stuck.

  17. Re:Gift for understatement on First Superconducting Transistor Created · · Score: 4, Informative

    Back in the 80s, I remember LN pricing (in commercial/industrial quantities) being around $0.05 per liter (roughly $0.20 per US gallon). This FAQ suggests that the price is now around $0.50 per gallon in quantity.

  18. Re:Human computers on A 1941 Paper-and-Pencil Cipher · · Score: 1

    Not counting this guy.

  19. 33 out of 33 right for me... on US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge · · Score: 1

    not bad considering that my last goverment/civics/poli sci class was 25 years ago.

  20. Re:It's Nick's, all Nick's on Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You've overlooked Nick's greatest contribution to humanity.

  21. Re:Just fill in the remaining genes on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 4, Informative

    the tasmanian devil is still alive and well

    I don't think "well" is the right word to describe the Tasmanian devil's status.

  22. Re:MORE spying? on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 1

    Considering that Bond is 007, I'm guessing they have at least 6 more just like him.

  23. Re:Best quote ever on Dispelling Myths About Geomagnetic Reversal · · Score: 1

    My first job out of college (1987-90) was designing embedded controller hardware/firmware for inertial nav systems. Nothing quite as critical as keeping aircraft on track -- our systems were used to measure in-flight deformation of aircraft wings, and to track pipeline flows; nothing requiring real-time processing of the data. Back in those days, GPS was still classified; one of our platforms was built to take GPS signals as a calibration input; as I recall we didn't have a GPS receiver in house, so testing it was out of our hands.

    Since our company's main product line at the time was tuned-rotor gyros, our main INS platform used two gyros and three single-axis accelerometers to provide full 3D position/velocity/acceleration info. I also had to write DOS-based post-processing software to integrate the accel data.

    When I first started there, I had just gotten my degrees in physics, maths, and computer engineering, so the software wasn't too big of a challenge, as I had taken a few numerical methods classes as part of my maths curriculum. The only part of the job that really challenged me was understanding how the gyros worked -- I even tried slogging through Klein/Sommerfeld to gain understanding. Fortunately, I didn't really need to know too much of the theory to get the job done.

  24. Re:They are other ways to get HD capture on Nero Unveils LiquidTV, TiVo For Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Another QAM solution is the HDHomeRun, a dual-tuner box that sits on your network and streams video to your MCE/MythTV/etc box over UDP. I've been using one on my Media Center PC for about 18 months now, and it works brilliantly.

  25. And tomorrow they'll announce on China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch · · Score: 1

    the invention of a time machine.