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  1. Re:This isn't all that new a thing.... on Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1


    yep, they've been using these for at least 9 months in LHR airport, rotated to a vertical aspect ratio for displaying lists of arriving and departing flights.

    Also, some newer McDonalds are using them instead of fixed displays across the top of the counter, where the menus are shown.

    Its quite freaky when they periodically 'bounce' the otherwise static menus as an attention grabber.

  2. Re:WAKE UP!!! on Perpetual Motion Delorean? · · Score: 1

    Except that the US government DOE is seriously investigating the theory behind zero point energy because of various lab demonstrations that POS>1.0 is possible (by tapping the four dimensional 'Gauge' distribution of energy, not just three dimensional thermodynamics). The 'laws of physics' (or more specifically, those of classical Maxwell theromodynamics) of which you speak are severely in need of a re-write. See here for a summary: http://www.ott.doe.gov/electromagnetic/history.sht ml

  3. Re:A more balanced description on Water + Salt + Energy = Clean! · · Score: 1

    Similar report here, complete with effects on biological matter http://www.datadiwan.de/iib/ib_004e31.htm

  4. Re:The obvious thing to do now... on Sigma Designs/XVid Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    What we really need is an anonymous way for employees to turn in these kinds of company or post publicly for further investigation by someone such as FSF without risking their own position. Many times its someone not related with the GPL violation who comes across the issue, but doesn't have an easy way to 'blow the whistle' without putting themselves (the innocent party) at risk of disciplinary action. GPL violations *are* more common in proprietary software than people assume, the question is what can be done about it. I've seen embedded software systems where GPL code was statically linked to a proprietary close source codebase by engineers who didn't understand the ramifications of their actions.