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  1. Why nuclear is okay now on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    I think its a bit funny that nuclear energy is okay now basically it comes down to fucking up some fairly small areas of the planet for 100,000 years or the whole planet for 5,000 years. Friggin funny except we already fucked the whole planet.

  2. Bah I'm waiting for high pressure experiments on More Evidence for Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Everything I see on this shows there doing the work under atmospheric pressure. I really think they need to move to very high pressures and check the fusion rates agianst pressure. Although sonolumnescence under extreme pressures is probably a big research area in general you would expect the liquid/phase to become more ordered resulting in higher collapse energys potentially very high somewhere in the phase diagram. In fact if I'm right then there is a very high probability that gas giant planets actually heat themselves via this sort of high pressure desktop fusion instead of simply heat from contraction. I bet with the wealth of organic/organometallic substances/mixutures and high pressure phases you can hit the perfect system. I googled around to see if anyone has measured neutron emission from gas giants and drew a blank. Does anyone know if its ever been measured ?

  3. Re:Why not using KDE ? on Red Hat Lays Groundwork for Fedora Foundation · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is true. Generally I think Redhat chooses Gnome because they feel that the future is in higher level languages and since Gnomes object model is written in C it can be altered to match the needs of high level languages such as Python java C# etc. C++ on the other hand does not have this flexibility. The GCJ implementors chose the route of using the C++ object model and its not been a resounding success people are not writing C++ java objects in general.

  4. What the name of the button ? on Microsoft's 911 Patent · · Score: 1

    Would the name be the any key ?

  5. Cool po.... on Google Announces 'Mini' Search Appliance · · Score: 1

    Just 5,000 bucks to manager your porn collection thats cheap.

  6. SemiClassical mechanics on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1
    These are exactly the states determined by semiclassical mechanics. It a bit intresting that semiclassical methods should fail for dechoherent states thus a semiclassical analysis can determine how "quantum" a state is. Not also that the classical mechanics of all real systems are chaotic at some level which means they cannot be precisly defined with a quantum computer.

    I find it intresting that quantum people ignore the presence of chaos in classical systems when doing there analysis. Since these same states are the regular trajectories in a purely classical chaotic system.

    Maybe one day we will find a mathamatical link between quantum mechanics and chaos.

  7. Neutron Diffraction mirrors on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these balls could be made into neutron diffraction mirrors to focus the neutrons and further reduce the load of radioactive elements and increase the absorbtion by the remaining fission load. Also the mirror could defocus at or above a certian temperature and below a certian temperature "really" shutting down the system.

  8. Page broken on SCO Spreads Rumors About IBM Lawsuit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It seems the first link for posting is broken.

  9. Re:Without connectors? on Sun Working to Eliminate Circuit Boards · · Score: 1

    Umm sounds likes they need
    stochastic resonance man to the rescue !!

    Seriously stochastic techniques may be very useful here especially to help with the alignment problem.
    <p>
    If they add a little noise to the system then it will be less susceptable to misaligment. Think of a bunch of tuning forks sitting around a piano as a two year old jumps up and down on it while your playing bach by very lightly hammering the strings.

    Mike

  10. Re:this may give a push to harddrive mp3 players on Toshiba Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    Actually you could. Methonal is normally manufactured from something called syn gas. A mix of CO and H2 and H20 and other stuff CO2 etc. My point is the ingredients for methonal are available from air and probably a local water source. Maybe some additional C02 source like baking soda. With that you can make a mini methonal plant that runs on electricity and if you want just air and probably additional water supply. Although a solid state peltier color or simple refrgeration cycle could condense the water between runs. NaOH could be recycled to extract C02 from air or a membrane filter could be used. Then you run the Reverse Water Shift reaction followed by catalytic methanol synthesis. Some of the best info on small scale usage of these reactions can be found in the Nasa Mars project liteature. http://www.pioneerastro.com/Mmispp/mmispp.html In short given electricity and air and a bit of extra water you can make methonal.

  11. Re:Why am I responding to flamebait? on Gentoo/PPC64 Beta Live CDs Released · · Score: 1

    I've never seen them avialable on any machine that's had rm -rf / installed.

  12. Re:Swing? SWT? on EIOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Swing

  13. Language Families on Extensible Programming for the 21st Century · · Score: 1
    Intresting I'm working on a similar project called lingual in addition to what the paper mentions I've added the concept of language families that have share a portion of there data and call model allowing the languages to interoperate at a high level without requiring complex runtimes like java or C#. My first language JaC bridges C and java and is basically a simple version of ObjectiveC with java syntax. I plan to ad HLA (high level assembler ).

    I also want to do the XML data bases / meta data storage for the source.

    Cool this really validates a lot of my views.

  14. Re:My thoughts... on Nanotech or Nano-Not? · · Score: 3, Informative

    We do it all day long its called chemistry. Nanotech is for all intents and purposes simply the ability to do position depenedent chemistry in a homogenous enviroment. Now its a huge leap forward don't get me wrong but we have be suffering and enjoying nanotech since we sythesised the first chemicals over 5000 years ago. Whats actually intresting is that this huge base of chemical knowledge will allow nanotech to advance very rapidly once we understand more about it. What it does is allow us to produce materials that have the complexity of biological systems instead of simple homogenous materials we use today. Goo type fears are easily repudiated via simple thermodynamic arguments for example even algae blooms natures equivilent of gray goo dies out. Now you can certianly fear nano based weapons but we have had plenty of scary bio weapons and nuclear weapons for years nano weapons simply add one more way amongst many we can use to destroy our society. I think nanotech and the new bio enginering will effect us as much as the original discovery of fire since for the first time we can actually control our environement and ourselves at the molecular level. We are on the doorstep of becoming the first self evolving species trying to frame this capability in terms of todays society is like a caveman arguing over merits of superconductors. So don't worry about it since your really not capable today.

  15. Re:performance parameters? on Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award · · Score: 1

    That's the whole point. It doesn't retain cold, it creates cold. Put on a wet Tshirt on a chilly day and go outside. Get it? It works by heat loss, and thus that's what you're striving to accomplish. The exact opposite of the way you think of a cooler. You mention a wet Tshirt on a chilly day ahh the memories. Do you have any idea the effect this has on a drunk coed ? Ohh wait this is slashdot.

  16. Spinnerets are the Key on Yarn Spun from Nanotubes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Intresting with a lot of work on the spinneret this may improve rapidly. Also we have a lot of experience in this area so refining the process is not new tech. Sort of like with inkjet printers or spiders the magic is in the nozzle. I think using electrostatic nozzles may be intresting

  17. Re:Great... on Mounting Evidence for Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    Generally these are whats called sex stones. Just another fucking rock.

  18. Lots of stuff on javalobby.org on Beyond An Open Source Java · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want to read quite a bit of diffrent views on the subject there are several threads on http://www.javalobby.org I think they cover this topic in painful detail. My favorite quote is by Guillaume http://www.javalobby.org/thread.jspa?messageID=917 90106&threadID=11559&forumID=61

  19. Links please on 'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police · · Score: 1

    I don't see how I can comment without actually reviewing these sites in person. Links please :) If someone whats to post links to less contraversial non mainstream sites involving naked bodies I'd be happy to review those too.

  20. How do I connect my printer on Gov't Vulnerability-Disclosure Program Draws Heat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Okay I have a USB printer and a small child I'd like to hide the printer in a "safe" place can I use this to get it on a wirless network or are there save places. I know that I can get a wirless hub that supports USB printers but I need to split where the printer is and the hub. Should I wait for WUSB or is there a solution avialable today. Anyone with small kids knows wires are a the preferred toys of small children outside of remotes.

  21. Re:I say yeah! on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then they need to clear out the legal minefields scattered through java ( patents and shared source ) In a legal document. More important they need to clear up how much if any of the specifcations and documentation can be used for a open source project. Later they need to clear up how compatibility testing work. Sun may be busy with 1.5 now but these issues have existed for years. If the explicity support Gnu Classpath in a verbal letter thats fine. Unless Suns lawyers are coding on 1.5 I don't see how these legal issues are affected by work on 1.5. SCO is the only company I know where the lawyers are also coders.

  22. Re:I say yeah! on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For J2SE part of the Spec is shared code so controlled by Sun. Also the spec is controlled by Sun and so are the test. They have not clearly stated that they would not attack a clean room effort. So in general your statement is not corrent. The JVM spec is open except for a patent held by Sun on what are called quick opcodes Sun does not say what they would do to someone who implemented them. So there are enough minefields in this to make creation of a open source java a careful endevour. This is why Gnu Classpath is following a strict clean room approach to development. Which does slow the process quite a bit.

  23. Re:Start from Office for Mac? on IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No the OSX api at the application level are very different from Linux. Win32->linux is far more mature than OSX->Linux. Now if IBM could intice Apple into allowing the OSX ui to be ported to Linux it would be verry intresting. But for X86 you would still need to recompile Office for to work on a OSX/Linux hybrid solution. I suspect Apple could have the OSX api on Linux in a weekend. X86 linux in a few weeks.

  24. Re:Optical Speed Limit... on Intel Devises Chip Speed Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I think its limited only by how fast and how much ram you have for the most part. Probably your looking a a gigabyte buffer some of this. At least 256 meg of dedicated buffer.

  25. Re:32k x 32k with only 256 MB? on Details Of Palm OS 6 - 'Cobalt' · · Score: 1

    Wow this is so wrong. The lcd controller is built into the cpu yes but its still a simple frambuffer controller with memory and refresh to the LCD. Sometimes there is a second memory cache on some lcd's between the cpu and the real lcd.