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  1. Re:OH BLOODY FUCKING HELL on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but if you were to use a good old fashioned screwdriver...

  2. Re:Net life + real life = IRONY on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's anything like that, I may well decide to pay the people in marketing a visit, and I will have brought my neutron bomb.

  3. Re:OH BLOODY FUCKING HELL on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 1

    The problem is easily solved, however, simply by fixing a large magnet to the side of the trolley, as we all know what magnets do to computers...

  4. Re:Possible unethical use on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 1

    This is just one of those times when, all of a sudden, communism doesn't seem so bad.

  5. Re:Figures.... on Cut Curiously Precise Holes With Femto-Lasers · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's always been some strange link between new discoveries and rats:
    Radiation: Used to kill rats
    Gene therapy: Used to make rats glow in the dark
    RNA Interface: Used to stop rats from glowing in the dark
    Pesticides: Used to kill rats
    Femtolasers: Used to make faster, better glow-in-the-dark ratsThe trend is obvious.

  6. Re:Old stuff - Heinlein "invented" it years ago :- on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    diesel may have lower CO2 emissions, but they do produce more soot. Result: Lower short-term pollution and global warming, unknown (and potentially much worse) long-term environmental damage.

  7. Re:High-temperature cells. on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    BUT, it is supposed to be possible to create a 'diode' for heat by using certain non-linear materials (apparently, things like DNA). Of course, if you're just referring to electricity flowing both ways, that's easily solved by a simple semiconductor junction.

  8. Re:Orbital Manufacture - REALITY CHECK on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    If efficiency becomes a problem, couldn't we simply put the panels into a low solar orbit, failing that, antimatter is the way of the future, 100% efficency.

  9. Re:Waste Disposal on Cut Curiously Precise Holes With Femto-Lasers · · Score: 1

    Probably, but couldn't we just use good old-fashoined Anti-matter?

  10. Re:What should I believe? on Fast-Moving Black Hole · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remember, in science, no theory is ever actually correct, merely proven to be beyond reasonable doubt.

  11. Re:I wonder... on Fast-Moving Black Hole · · Score: 4, Informative

    Black holes the size of protons would evapourate in seconds, due to the hawking radiation, and somehow I don't think you want to get too close to a large one. I'd love to see someone try, though, that would be a great stunt to see on Jackass.