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  1. Re:Use it to recharge electric cars on Solar Power Minus the Light · · Score: 1

    Hmm thinking about my car, let's make it airthight as my whole car is quite hot,
    and creating a seccond gas chamber on the roof on my car.
    A sterlin engine can be used to transfer the heat differences to power my car.

    The faster i drive the faster my roof cools, the faster i will go.
    Altough then i think i'll requires some rocket engines as brakes.

    :)

  2. Re:Why? on Catalytic Carbon Extraction in Fuel Cell Production? · · Score: 1

    I would like it if it could be, done but people often forget how much grass is required for such solutions, the required additional area is way to large for this planet. The same counts people who think wind energy is a solution they forget how much energy we use and thus how large the windpowerparks areas should be. I'm not happy about it neither wished it could be done. Perhaps someone has to invent a cheap sollarpannelroof cheaper then normal house roofs. Perhaps then if had such we all roofs our extra required energy demand would be smaller. Atough we would require also a breaktrough in sollar pannel efficency/price rato. Current pannels wouldn't be able to furfill my homes energy demand during the winter.

  3. Re:an answer from a semi-expert on Catalytic Carbon Extraction in Fuel Cell Production? · · Score: 1

    I think those ideas are nice in principal. Altough i wonder if bacteria can convert those reaction fast enough to get a car driving fast. altough this might be an idea to get rid of waste from certain types of engines.
    But I do wish you lots of luck with you science it would be nice if somthing like this can be don.

    However I think if we get into a H2 economy, it's most likely we will gonna see some nuclear plants who create H2 in mass (as it's a verry green way to create massive amounts H2 with no CO).

    On the other side, i gamble on iceland or another geothermal place. Just using the energy sources of the warmth of the earth to produce H2 would be the most clean and riskfree method. Iceland has had toughts on exporting energy but it's a to isolated distand country. Perhaps instead of electric energy they should focus on exporting H2.

    (hmm baloon based export hehehe, no i gues to risky)

  4. Pigs in space !!! on Suspended Animation Tests Successful · · Score: 0

    this is mrs piggy to ground control: Hiiiiii---Ya! (remember the muppets)

  5. Re:why not let someone else have a try. on DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System · · Score: 1

    we'l made you believe you signed up for four years insted of two days. Or There is no salery needed as you where made believe you had an accident and are just out your coma. (as somehow people allways use tech in a bad way, take fireworks for example).

  6. Re:Slaved by machines ???.. on DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System · · Score: 1

    I think you didn't read the article it is indeed scarry It isn't an interfacce for you typing in your data. Or helping handicapted who cann't speak. It's different, it's sponsered by DARPA used for inteligence processing. Because image processing can be done faster by humans then by computers, so on this image satelite does your brain detect a rocket launch, or detect hidden tanks etc its that kind of technology. This has nothing to do with you typing, a brain is used as 'front end CPU' for their computers. It works faster then your own awarnes processing speed, and it is not guided by your awarnes (so term slaved are not that wrong) i over act it a bit just to show people the danger of such tech. it's easy to that again, you know 666 and they all wear his sign (some darpa implant?). Although to me 666 has no meaning but to some it does.

  7. Re:How is this different from security guards? on DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System · · Score: 1

    "There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that know binary, and those that don't."

    One would have enough with one bit of humanity, to differ 2 kinds of people - those who know binary and those who don't.

    While probaply you require 2^10 to define a single standard for HTML :))

  8. Slaved by machines ???.. on DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System · · Score: 1

    I hope someone will bring this kind of science to a court. God didn't make humans to become slaves of machines.
    Computer hardware that uses your brain, thats sound dangerous. Some people think some radio singnals of mobiles are bad, but this is much more worse. What would do this to the human spirit?

    humans are not a set of tools to be used in computer hardware this is dangerous technology. It should be the other way, we should use computers to do our things.

    Don't let someone else use your brain for them in this way. Because what is going to happen after this a kind of "the matrix" will someone program you to hate some person that badly you will kill him (because you where also programed to love guns). Or will you without choice become someonelse soldier?.

  9. mailserver broken on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    So there i was in the netherlands at a dutch phone company.
    Their mail server was running for his last minutes since they had hardware memmory errors.
    Allready i had lots of errors and the mail-database had gone corrupt.
    This server was going to starve in realy a few minutes.

    Their topshot top IT manager flown in specaily frome france for their problem

    I say this server should be shut down safely as soon as possible or it will be in beyond repairable state, we should do this quickly and now!

    So this topshot IT manger insisted that "he needed to write an email to everyone informing them that their mail server was down".

    (Most people allready knew that by experience, still he wanted to mak that mail. While i told him not to do... well he did ... it crashed)

    (Lessons learned : Managers are just like kids screaming but don't no meaning.)

  10. intrestingly , and how will it go down? on Shuttle Launch Success · · Score: 0

    As an european i found it to be verry intresting that it launched again still wit foam falling off. Such rocket designs are an old-aged design, while there have been lot's of crash investiagtions no lessons have been learned nor changes have been made.

    Ofcourse i hope for it's passengers it all will works well the way down (i wouldn't feel that comfortable about the foam). Or is it planned to simply deliver crew to the international space station and then fly home in automatic flight (that's the only hardware improvement they made as far as i know, now it can be controlled from the ground computers(like the Russians mega clone of the space shuttle who could do the same).

    I wonder if it will have people on board for the way down.
    Perhaps thinking of it, it's better to use it as an automated big transport vehicle and let the international space station crew do the human based work on it. Until a renewed transport device is made. (what ever happened to the delta clipper??)

  11. criminals and fools go sadly together. on Portrait of an Identity Thief · · Score: 1

    When one watches a magic show it's easy to see; people pay money to get fooled. Apperently people like to be fooled a bit (people don't seu a magic artist). I think lot's of people behave like a mass, in way cows follow a leader.

    And that's quite dangerous, there should be a constant allert and investigation of public resources who use the internet. For example how safe is money transfer over the internet?. You think it's safe, as your sure inteligence serivices never cracked a root certificate from for example verisign? (and if they do this who else might do that)

    Perhaps it's time to create a seccond internet, one which is not anonymous but registrated by owner by IP (using IP6) it would have some impact sure, but how lang can the internet be a wild west place? Tough good thoughts should be given to privacy, a goverment tracing your data isn't also what people want. Today we pay for the internet, so the current internet is in a way our freedom place and no one realy owns it.

    This seccond internet could be funded by banks and various bussiness, who want to asure the creditability of their secured connections with you the consumer. Perhaps more seperated nets will become a reality as :
    - who want's his six year old kid to be able to watch the current pornbased-internet?
    - Perhaps goverments should go on their own on the internet (to protect your privacy).
    - Perhaps insurance companies should have their own net toe (to protect your privacy).


    Well it's hard to imagine that the internet will noy evolve in about a 50 years to deal with these kind of wild west problems. As for sure we will see quantum computer in this time frame (being able to crack verisign keys in a few secconds...)

  12. Top secret defense on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    So somewhere in a deep underground basis allready the next step in advanced defence is under devolpment...

    a mirror

    (oops there goes the top secret idea).

  13. disagree on Why Email is a Bad Collaboration Tool · · Score: 1

    People communicate it's just a fact. by direct contact or by phone or by writing. If you think you cann't use email to colaborate then think again when the web was introduced java junk and asp fastfood came all over, money seeking people went to web services to write their own gadgets. For a great deal mimicing plain old conversations acka mail flow, the realy smart kids went back to their mail servers and wrote colaboration software on it. So at these environments you see a mail client open yeah.. only one app instead of having lot's of screens lots of databases lots of databases (out of sync) and all require a lot of IT overhead. The worse thing is just most people don't program against a mail server for workflow, because i think it requires a bit more knowledge, while creating a web page in a develpor environment is almost plain out of the box. Terrible because it result in hundred of company apps, which in large companies becomes a management nightmare.

  14. not an improvement on Holographic Solar Collectors · · Score: 1

    Just red the article, so a hologram based 'miror' ads about 10% wel imagine they can improve 20% of light. While a real mirror adds 100% or more a by redirecting light focus. They better could have went to cannon or some lens company building cheap plastic micro lenses on top solar materials, or use micro mirrors. So what's their technology improvement, esthetics ????? the next B&O electronics company for solar pannels ????

  15. The cube on Junk Super Computer Assimilates All · · Score: 1

    And so the first cube was born. There was no new technologie invented for it to work. But all kind of technologies had been assimilated in it. It was an intrestic peace of hardware and was running neurologic software. So it could improve and adept to new hardware. Trough a tiny speaker we could even hear it talk.

    I'm a the borg you'l be assimilated and adepted to my collective hardware, Resistance is...

    Well then the sound stopped as one peace of hardware broke, and we're now trying to make a kind of cluster of cube's so they can repair eachother. It is also thought that this would be more impresivly powerfull.

  16. agree on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 1

    Art is skillfull worksmancraft, take look at jugend styl. Computer based art is like garden art, sure one can make a great garden but i won't suspect the next van Gogh to be using a computer. As art is more about artistic feeling giving other people a view of how a painter or drawer looks at reality. This isn't learned with the next version of adobe but learned by practicing.

    You might check my webiste as i have drawn a lot of models at http://www.peterboos.tk/

  17. just wondering on Neutrino Mass Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Ok the particle has mass..
    might it be that having mass is also a side effect of having energy and speed?.

    E=Mc^2

    As we now have a mass (altough tiny) flying around at light speed. Isn't that verry much like the equation ?
    Just wondering between a link of mass and energy. Hmm how much energy does it require for a photon traveling at light speed. I tought einstein had some theories about that.

  18. Scott Adam understood this.... on Why Sony Should've Put Its Weight Behind Hi-MD · · Score: 2, Insightful
  19. proof of alien life? on Quasars Used for Encryption · · Score: 1

    So there is at least proof of alien life, look in the sky they abondoned their cryptograpic devices in space. (we call quasers)

    But what if they didn't left them, they could decrypt everything we send. Since they hold the master scramble key.

    ohno I smell an evil alien ufo story here..

  20. Good idea put some stingers on them too. on Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S. · · Score: 1

    Finally a good idea. It's no longer if your not with us your against us. No this politic can turn potentialy much more effective Vote for Bush or we give you our latest aerial cover, homing in on your cellphone. oh and BTW check the anarchist cook book for a cracking guide on those drowns.

  21. Re:doesn't make sense on Warmer Oceans linked to Stronger Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    The icecaps melting is a resulting action. It's not a reaction that balances something else. But you got an intresting point as this water would indeed be quit cool. While they measure warmer water, it could thus mean that the flow of water streams inside the oceans slows down. Giving water at the equator more time to warmup,.. what's next iceage ?

  22. Re:Indian and Pacific Oceans hurricanes down on Warmer Oceans linked to Stronger Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    perhaps GW does play a role, but what they did was just measuring the sea temp what causes isn't their topic. In a way sea temp (wherever it occurs) seams to have an effect. If you remember physics you would now that temperature of air makes a difference in how much vaporized water could exist in air. The speed of vaporizing is also effected by the temperature of the liquid. So these small changes play a role in the creation of bigger events. (could be similiar to utterfly effect) i hope it explains, personaly thinking of GW i think a big cause is our sun next is our industrialization, but i don't now how to stop either of them.

  23. Re:holodeck on ATI's 1GB Video Card · · Score: 1

    :) actualy thinking again my first PC had less video memmory. So i can increase the number of screens and lower my holodeck application to edlin This idea idea turns a holodeck into nightmare, as i forgot most of edlins commands. (altough i'm not sure either if Shift f7 would have got me to wp5.1's print menu, might have been shift F5 too.)

  24. holodeck on ATI's 1GB Video Card · · Score: 1

    That's a lot, my first pc had16mb video ram. So this device is capeable of 10024/16 ... wow.. 64 monitors ? what to do with that amount of screens..thinking.. Ehm well what did i run in those days ehm WP5.1 Having text all around me would be verry much like my desk and would resamble my desk. So that's enough for a verrry first holodeck !!

  25. it works but.... on Hot Pepper Kills Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1

    it's so hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot.