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  1. Oxygen Sequestration on DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 1

    Is it me ir does this scheme seem a tad short sighted. It's still not a chemical equilibrium.
    We might be better off without it.

  2. Re:Wonderful on Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome · · Score: 2, Funny

    How can this be attributed to the Finite State Machine. Typically things like this have massive parallelism.
    Though I donot usually draw a weiner when designing a FSM, its appendaged are pretty noodly.

  3. Early Apple ][ reset key over return on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    The early Apple ][ Keyboard had the reset key right over the return key. This would always cause me to accidently reset the computer. This is only matched by the new keyboards with the power key in place of printscreen key. Absolutly Retarded!

  4. Re:Dinosaur robot overlords... on Pleo Review - A Toy Robot Triumph? · · Score: 1

    Oh! But the robot would not need to be destroyed and recreated of an evolution type algorithm to work. That screwed up limitation is only exhibited by biological life forms. Please see "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm" there is a vast growing field of unsupervised learning algorithms. The codes controlling the robots systems could be slightly altered in several versions then these versions tested and the best ones chosen combined and altered. Lather rinse repeat. They may even go so far as to start with the simplest systems then freeze those then build the more complex ones. This is cool if it's what I think it might be.

  5. Re:National average for thermal plants is 35% on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    HornWumpus is wise. Coal it is. At least for now.

  6. Re:Coal Power... on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    Touché, but could this eventually cause depletion of free oxygen seeing as we are burying it along with the carbon.;)

    I say we should use nuclear and solar power to gererate methane from CO2 and water. It would require alot of electrolysis. Then pipe that around and burn it. This would have less long term effect. I'm thinking of the same cycle nature does but faster.

  7. Re:Coal Power... on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    I think we should use nuclear plants located in nevada and have them generate ammonia or methane that could get piped around and burnt for energy.

  8. Re:Coal Power... on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that coal releases much more CO2 per amount of energy released. The logic being that coal is prettymuch 100% carbon where gasoline has a few Hydrogen atoms for each Carbon atom. There is breaking the Carbon - Hydrogen bond energy to consider but we would still release less CO2 in the reaction. Also there are some energy losses in transmission of the power through the grid and conversion from one form to another is also a killer.

    gasoline:
    C?H? + O2 =>
    CO2+H20+Pressure + Heat =(inefficient engine + drive train)=>
    (more heat)+ Kinetic energy

    Coal:
    C + O2 =>
    CO2 + heat =(Efficent engine + generation)=>
    Electricity =(grid)=>
    Electricity at car + heat =(charger+battery)=>
    stored charge + heat =(enectric motor + drivetrain)=>
    Kinetic Energy + heat

    I think there are more conversions with electricity. The main advantage here is the ability to get the energy from various abundent sources. Maybe some one knowns if these losses acutally sum up to be less the losses associated with the gasoline system. We probably shouldn't neglect the Mining Drilling and refining which could also tip the scales.

  9. Re:Coal Power... on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    OK, maybe a bit cynical. Electricity can be produced in other ways. This could sitll open up future opertunity for cleaner power.

  10. Re:Not a Solution on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen is just a storage medium. The energy to produce it will come primarily from burning coal.

  11. Coal Power... on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1

    EV's are great. They preserve our oil supply since they run on coal.

  12. Re:Happy-land on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 1

    Please see http://laptopgiving.org/ .
    I don't think you will get voice recognition but who knows once the OSS community gets these. I suspect much of its tech will make it to commercial laptops eventually.

  13. Today's Laptop is a kluge on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 1

    It should be simple, small, light, solid state, be extremly low power with really long battery life, also viewable in direct sun light. The wireless should seemlessly connect to all surrounding machines in a kind of mesh pattern. It needs to me moisture dust and resistant. It could also be really stylish maybe a froggy green color.

  14. Re:I got my order in this morning ... on OLPC Launches Buy One, Give One Free Program · · Score: 1

    I made it a 6:00am. Parly because I did not know if the demand would be too high, but mostly because I'm excited about having one of these solid state things in person. I plan to use it to run a gcc complier and various console progs.

    I guess it pays not to have ever acually signed up for paypal. Seriously I hope there is a large demand just to get this thing in to volume scale production.
    --------email log
    Nov 08, 2007 16:35 10k One Laptop per Child Give One Get One starts soon
    Nov 12, 2007 06:01 18k service@paypal.com Receipt for your Payment to OLPC Foundation
    Nov 12, 2007 06:03 12k One Laptop per Child Give One Get One starts today!

  15. Re:Other options? on OLPC Launches Buy One, Give One Free Program · · Score: 1

    I ordred an XO at 6:00am. I did not see accessories offered explicitly. It seems like with the low power requirment, you can find all kinds of hooptie ways to charge it.

  16. Attemps at lifelike featres always look creepy. on Why the US Consumer Doesn't Deserve A Decent Robot · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil vidio games. Those zombies and monsters are great but the person who is supposed look normal looks disgusting. The features are never controled right to look healthy.

  17. Re:Not Exactly New on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 1

    I remember reading about a product called Oxygent that was undergoing clinical trials a couble years back. But I could never find much about the results. There is a wikipedia page but it's very sparce.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygent

  18. Can you plagerize your own work? on Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service · · Score: 1

    If I write a term paper and my professor uses this system. What happens if I do further research and polish up my paper for another class? It's my work I should be able to use it, reuse it, publish it, or line my birdcage with it if I choose to. I do not assign exclusive rights over to my professor.

    Note: It is not work for hire that's why they don't pay you for it.

  19. Use the space shuttle to retrieve it on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 1

    The space shuttle was specifically designed to retrieve spy satellites.
      Retrieving things from orbit it the only good reason to bring that heave vehicle with you all the time.
      Since we have this capability we should make use of it while we still have it.

  20. How can we expect to rewrite history? on Google News Removes Belgian Newspaper · · Score: 1

    "...one of the key issues was evidently that some of what Google was carrying was no longer available on the newspaper's website itself,..."

    How can these papers expect to rewrite history if their old articles can be found, unfiltered, on Google Cach?
    This violation of these news papers Intellectual Property must be stopped for the public good.

  21. Re:This is an awesome way to treat cancer on Genetic Engineers Working to Reverse Cancer · · Score: 1

    ...and we never heard about it again.

    Seriously, how often do we hear about break throughs, that never make it to people dying of cancer. Perhaps, I'm just missing it. Is there a webpage that has a timeline of various breakthroughs, when they were discovered, approved by the FDA and used on the general public, and how many lives saved. There has to be somthing if just improvements in chemotherapy.

  22. Re:Vista? on Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.' · · Score: 1

    Are you sure?
    XP by default does a reeboot when it blue screens.
    This way if you're not looking the only sign is all the open programs are missing.
    Try checking your system logs.

  23. No! Never eat the red ones! on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry' · · Score: 1

    Serously, I'm sure you'll really have to watch what you say on these.
    Does anyone know if these will be controlled directly by the central government. I wonder if the Blackberry would provide any more or less privacy than these.

  24. We could call it McCoy. on Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die · · Score: 1

    If we called it McCoy, it could imply that it is the "Real McCoy". Without even using the word Real(TM). Which we all know is intellectual property of the Real(TM) company.

  25. Re:Unpopular views.... on More Bad News About Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Yup, Since this is a consensus it is true. We all know that if evidence is found to conflict that comes from oil interests. That makes it false.
    It's logic.
    For example. Ralph doesn't like George because George got rich catching fish. Ralph says George will ruin the fishing for everyone because in 50 years George will have cought more fish than are in the lake. George points out fish have an uncanny ability to reproduce and points out that his take is neglegable conpaired to other factors like otters and disease. Ralph points out that George's reasoning is flawed because George makes money by selling the fish. The money makes the reasoning false. it's logic.

    It can be seen in the following truth table.
    T or T = T
    T or F = T
    F or T = T
    F or F = F
    T or $ = F
    $ or T = F
    F or $ = F
    $ or F = F
    $ or $ = T (Every one has there price)

    Geroge Bool had it all figured out.