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  1. Energy from water... on New Solar Cell Harvests Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 2, Funny

    First they want to make energy from our food. Now they are making it out of our drink. What's next... Soylent Oil?

  2. Did they find any trace of him? on Steve Fossett Declared Dead · · Score: 0

    I still think he was abducted by aliens. You can't just disappear like that in planes, especially in the Nevada desert.

  3. It's all been done. on Australia's Geekiest Man · · Score: 0

    Other than having a "one remote to control them all" wasn't this all implemented in the MS/Gates house like... a decade ago.

  4. Four Letters on A Peek Into Tomorrow's Linux · · Score: 0

    HURD

  5. Battery on Li-Ion Batteries Hit Final R&D Phase for Plug-in Cars · · Score: 0

    It's all fine and good, but do electric cars really help the environment. In order to dig out and process the amount of lithium needed for a car the size of Tesla Roadster, a great deal of CO2 had to have been produced. I would like if someone could carbon impact of the Tesla, from the acquisition of raw materials onwards.

  6. Re:All well and good on Low Voltage Is Key To Energy-Efficient Chip · · Score: 0

    It's an interesting article. Even if the processing power of these radically redesigned processors is pathetic, you could maybe figure out how to distribute sufficiently threaded commands over an entire network of processors. It's not like they produce tons of heat. When I read the heading though... I just thought P=IV. It's sort of obvious...

  7. Gundam tech in your computer? on Intel Doubles Capacity of Likely Flash Successor · · Score: 0

    It's soon to be more likely than you think.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED

    I'm still waiting for giant robots.

  8. Hmmm... so it doesn't react to anything, and it travels around the body and gets excreted. However, nanotubes are still indestructible. They are probably causing cellular damage traveling everywhere in the body. This will force cell repair machinery to become more active, which will lead to an eventual increase in the rates of cancer. Still... if engineers can make miniature robots with nanotubes, it'll be cool. As long as they prevent or treat more cancers than they cause.

  9. Why they can't use Apple on Work Progressing on Army's Future Combat Systems · · Score: 0

    http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant --- read the bottom.

    I think Theo of OpenBSD said that he allows the users of OpenBSD to use it to make weapons to destroy where he was living at the time... somewhere in Australia if I recall correctly. However his anti-Iraq war comments made DARPA cut his funding.

  10. Re:The Eco-Nut replies are telling on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 0

    Even if it wasn't banned... DDT would probably less useful by now, as the mosquito population was slowly growing immune to DDT. Reproduction of the survivors and all that. Mosquitoes don't have the mutation frequency of HIV, but their population is varied genetically.

    Also won't the few surviving mosquitoes have more of their progeny survive in this GMO system. I believe they should drain stagnant bodies of water where mosquitoes breed...

  11. Nick Fury said to be first secretary general on 'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium · · Score: 0

    Seriously though, isn't there Interpol. This is exactly what they specialize in.

  12. Re:How is the beam manipulated? on NC State Creates Most Powerful Positron Beam Ever · · Score: 0

    Well... since positrons have charges... I guess magnets would allow manipulation. Also positron pretty have negligible mass. so when they meet up with an electron and make a photon, the photon will have negligible energy... far too little to probably used as a weapon even in a continuous beam. Anyways air has electrons too, so it probably won't good range outside of a vacuum. And it probably uses far more energy to make a positron beam than you get from one... so it won't be useful as a fuel.

  13. Radar on Wireless Video Transfers 100X Faster Than WiFi · · Score: 0

    Isn't this going to interfere with Radar. I thought radar worked in the millimeter wavelength.

  14. Happiness is a frontal lobotomy on Happiness Is A Warm Electrode · · Score: 0, Troll

    Isn't this basically an electrical frontal lobotomy.

  15. Naruto on The Other Side of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Someone once kept direct downloads of the translated Naruto episodes on an MIT HTTP server. I hear that the MTRG from that server hit 300MB/s for a few hours after release.