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  1. For that amount of money... on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    Just launch this stuff into the sun. Hopefully the rocket doesn't explode on take off though.

  2. Re:i use it to find and kill anyone who writes a b on Google Store Sends User Information To App Developers · · Score: 1

    Are you a radio jockey in the Tampa Bay area by chance?

  3. Seems backwards to me on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1

    After reading the article it seems the gun manufacturers should pay the game companies for advertising if the developer shows the gun in a good light. Based on the article gun sales can be significantly higher when they are featured in a game.

  4. What photon detector are they using? on Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music · · Score: 1

    I have been scouring the internet and can't seem to find a detector that looks like the end of that device. Anyone know? I am sure it is outside my price range though.

  5. Re:Stalking vs Surveillance on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 1

    "Almost everyone being filmed there, on the other hand, acted aggressively"

    We do not know how many people were actually tested in this way. This might be the 25 out of 2000 which were the most disturbed. The other 1975 people might have gracefully handled the situation. I don't believe that but we just don't know.

  6. I found a third party google maps for ios6... on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 1

    I was browsing appshopper.com and found a new third party google maps app today. It doesn't have voice navigation it seems but it does have street view.
    http://www.appshopper.com/navigation/mapipo-6-g-maps-street-view-and-navigation

  7. Re:If I recall..... on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 2

    I read an article that researches slowed light down to an almost stand still awhile back. So what would happen if you slowed light down on one of the two entangled particles and then read the one that was not slowed down? Would the slowed down light particle then flip to what it should be or would is take awhile for it to do so? It would be an interesting test I think.

  8. Re:If I recall..... on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 2

    Taking it to a simple level...

    You take 2 pieces of paper. Mark one as A and mark the second as B. Without looking at them you randomly put each into an envelope and send one to a remote location. You both open them at the same time and know that the other person has the opposite paper. The remote envelope had to travel by normal means. It was not teleported anywhere. The travel time is how long it took for you to send the envelope to the remote location.

    They really should rename this to quantum encoding or something along those lines.

  9. iOS has a note taking app with that ability on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 2

    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audionote-notepad-voice-recorder/id369820957?mt=8 "...Each note acts as a link directly to the point at which it was recorded, taking you instantly to what you want to hear! Didn't take any notes during the meeting? No problem, you can add them later!"

  10. Re:been there done that 17years ago on Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Blows Past Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 1

    That resolution is not really correct for Virtual i/o glasses from the 90's. I still have the setup in a box in my closet. The maximum input resolution is correctly 640x480. What you actually get displayed though is half of that per eye. It is most noticeable with text. The resolution is not good at all.

  11. Re:Wouldn't surprise me. on US Security Services May 'Have Moles Within Microsoft,' Says Researcher · · Score: 1

    That is the first thing that came to my mind. I would be surprised if other governments didn't have moles in most big software companies. It wouldn't even take that because some of the software is created in other countries like firewall software which has potential access to a lot of networks.

  12. Re:Teach her to sign on Apple Yanks Toddler's Speech-Enabling App · · Score: 1

    "By a year, he was telling us what he wanted to eat at mealtime and asking questions like "where is my bear?"." I read that as beer the first time I read the sentence. It required a double take :).

  13. Re:Completing another piece of the jigsaw on Google's Quickoffice Purchase Takes Aim At Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    You must not have tried Lotus Notes. I am a heavy Linux user at work and home and generally try to use non-microsoft stuff when I can but after being forced to switch to Lotus Notes from Exchange I now realize how good we had it with Exchange.

  14. Everyone should be outraged. Even RIAA employees. on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That fine is way out of line from what a person could ever pay back. I can't even save enough for my 3 kids to go to college let alone 675,000. I can understand they would want some amount of penalty but that is way out of line. Hmmm.... I wonder how much the judges get every year salary. Maybe that is the disconnect. They think the person can just save for 5 years and pay it back. We need a part of the government that is working for the people to look for punishments that are way out of line for the crime. Why don't we have a part of government that does this? They would have to not be allowed to accept third party donations of any kind. Congress is supposed to be doing this job but based on verdicts like this it is obvious they are failing us.

  15. Re:Website half gone on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    Probably because they have to determine how to make a real device now that they have an empty box on the table and their movement that was choreographed to sync up with the computer display video. There is way too little info on the website to make me believe it is even slightly a real demo.

  16. Re:(Self-replying, I apologize) on Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles · · Score: 1

    You are of course correct. The naming of this is very misleading to everyone that hears it for the first time (and probably 100 times after that). The data is encoded on one side. You keep one local. You send the other entangled half to another remote spot and then read them both. This should be referenced as quantum encoding or quantum entanglement only and not have the name teleportation at all in it when discussing the process.

  17. Re:Two basic steps on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 1

    It doesn't even need a reboot for that. I have been using ksplice on my CentoOS servers for awhile now.

  18. In other news... on 11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air · · Score: 1

    Afghanistan walls have been increase to 31 feet.

  19. Hmmm... I forsee Muslim religion catching on there on Japanese CCTV Camera Can Scan 36 Million Faces/Second · · Score: 1

    Nniqabs for everyone.

  20. Re:It goes without saying on Amiga Returns With Lackluster Linux-Powered Mini PC · · Score: 1

    What do you expect when you have a computer with Fat Agnus? Oh how I remember the days my friend and I took turns playing with her blitter and sprites. And then sometimes inviting her friends Denise and Lisa to the party. She finally started smoking so we had to part ways.

  21. Re:umm... reflection on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Or just make sure the path of the warhead stays in a path which would cause damage to something the group sending the laser owned if the beam went through the missile. You would then blow the missile up right as soon as it detected a laser beam first touching it. Then the laser beam would continue on to a friendly target with nothing to dissipate it until then.

  22. Re:umm... reflection on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    So are you saying there is no possibility to reflect said laser beam without destroying the missile? Materials are certainly available that can take the heat while reflecting a good percentage of the beam reducing the amount of heat on the missile itself. Some high power lasers actually reflect the beam internally to help get to a high power level.

  23. Re:Is it feasible to bounce the beam off satelites on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    If you can bounce the beam then missiles would just need that same ability to divert the laser energy back at the source rendering the laser worse than useless because it could destroy the source of the beam.

  24. umm... reflection on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    And what if missiles start using mirrored surfaces that reflect the light back at the source? Doh!

  25. Re:buh? on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    It seems obvious to me too that rolling back transactions is a major sign of instability. At any moment your transfers could be declared invalid (not related at all to your transaction) and rolled back. If that doesn't show a major sign of problems with the bitcoin system I don't know what does. Could you imagine the uproar with vendors if Visa or Mastercard decided to rollback the last days worth of transactions? I actually was interested in bitcoins because of previous articles but I would say this isn't for me after this.