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  1. 50 Years on Using Fusion To Propel an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 0

    I'm guessing we should have this technology in 50 years...

  2. Ride quality on Electromagnetic Automobile Suspension Demonstrated · · Score: 0

    How did they come up with metrics for something like "ride quality". And how did they get it so precise. I hope they just made it up...

  3. $6.5 billion in an all-cash transaction on Texas Instruments Buys National Semiconductor For $6.5B · · Score: 1

    That's going to be a hell of a lot of suitcases.

  4. A word about Vinyl on MakerBot Introduces Printable Vinyl Records · · Score: 1

    Though it's April 1st it doesn't mean every piece of news has to be complete twoddle. It's no news that sound quality of vinyl is far superior to anything that has or is currently on the market. If this is serious, and there is no reason this could be technologically impossible, this would be a massive treat for anybody who appreciates the quality sound of music. Now, I'm not an audiophile to the extent that can spot the difference in quality between AAC and MP3 (though not WMW, admittedly) - the first time I heard contemporary vinyl records spin back in 2004 I was completely blown away!

    Take note, young scuts - vinyl is going to stick around yet - even if not in tabletop-recorder factor just this month...

  5. Black screen of death, etc... on Nintendo Downplays Reports of 3DS Flaws · · Score: 1

    Ah, plenty of options for jailbreaking then... ^_^

  6. Star Wars on Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's · · Score: 1

    But all this technological terror is nothing compared to the beauty of these images.

    I love how the author is an obvious Star Wars fan. But nonestly, I'd put "technological terror they'd constructed". There, fixed. :)

  7. Biofeedback on California Healthcare Provider Wants Illness-Predicting Algorithm · · Score: 1

    does a similar thing - but apparently requires effort.

  8. UPenn tried doing on California Healthcare Provider Wants Illness-Predicting Algorithm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    something similar - http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/
    All they have to do now, is get the source, fork it on github, and add a few conditions for... well, conditions.

    Let's see some academic collaboration happening OSS style!

  9. Helicopter Parents on Man In Trouble For Using Helicopter to Water Ski · · Score: 0

    The term gets a new meaning! Ha.

  10. Get better results (tm) on MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection · · Score: 0

    Well done Oracle.

  11. Re:Sensational! on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 0

    ZERO observable health effects

    Which is why two workers get beta burns and daily radiation 30km away from the plant tops annual natural limit. Refer to this easy to understand chart explaining the effects of exposure to anything above the usual limits:

  12. Mechanism? on Gtk 3.2 Will Let You Run Applications In a Browser · · Score: 0

    I wonder whether the the UI would be "painted" in the browser or the code "streamed" to the client and assembled in-situ...
    The again, it probably helps thinking when you're not sleep-deprived.

  13. Link? on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 0

    Where's the link to download?...

  14. Et tu, Flickr on Flickr Censors Egypt Police Photos · · Score: 0

    And you, Brutus, I mean Flickr!

  15. Re:I've done this before! on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: -1

    Why not? Is there a difference between "fusion" and "fission" electrons? Last I checked electrons only had one flavour. Besides, aren't the last two steps of any sort of nuclear power the generation of heat and its subsequent capture and conversion to electricity via generators? How would it make fusion different to any other type of fuel burning? Unless electricity can somehow be directly induced in the grid, I don't see how power lines would have to be any different - electricity travels by wire!

  16. Unlimited power on Researchers Develop Biofuel Alternative To Ethanol · · Score: 0

    Now, if they came up with GALT bacteria that would convert food into caffeine directly in your (my) gut it would be a real revolution on the global energy market!

  17. Re:Call me when it's on shelves. on Researchers Develop Biofuel Alternative To Ethanol · · Score: 2

    There might have been one about fusion power, but there was one specifically about isobutanol.

    Gevo has been developing their own fermentation technology for over 8 years, until a patent issued to a JV between BP and Dupont on Dec 2010 is suddenly seeing Gevo in court

    If IP battles are going to go on in such a raging manner it will be decades before we (as consumers) see anything useful come out of these technologies.

    And we all know where things are heading while we linger...

  18. Patents, patents, lawsuits... on Researchers Develop Biofuel Alternative To Ethanol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, isobutanol provides many benefits over ethanol and petrol, but there's bound to be an IP issue pretty much any time these days, as Gevo is currently finding out. Of course at a time when solutions are needed fast.

    Perhaps (un)surprisingly BP is the plaintiff here...

    http://corporate.lexisnexis.com/news/corporate-counsel,intellectual-property/cat200003_doc1373404955.html

  19. Animated Series Uses Kinect For Motion Capture on Animated Series Uses Kinect For Motion Capture · · Score: 0

    They must be pretty poor...

  20. Or treat it as a reward on Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex? · · Score: 0

    Because too few people know how to use sex as a higher, richer form of communication and spiritual growth, and probably because most videogamers' (and I'm sorry if I'm making too bold of a generalization) association with sex is getting caught in the basement jerking off... Why else would one "snigger"?..

  21. But first on Scientists Give NASA Planetary Marching Orders · · Score: 0

    Captain, set your course for Alderan...

  22. Paradox on Former MI6 Chief Credits WikiLeaks With Helping Spark Revolutions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's a pity not many people have the balls to make such comments while they're in office. The saddest thing is that thinking is actually arguably impaired while people are in office. It's baffling, but people do the stupidest things when their level of assumed responsibility notches up. It's a paradox...

  23. Re:Authortarian Vomit on China Pledges To Step Up Internet Administration · · Score: 0

    I'm going to man up and assert that child pornography and videos portraying human and animal abuse - available in abundance, regardless of their legality - are unjust an immoral.

  24. Re:Authortarian Vomit on China Pledges To Step Up Internet Administration · · Score: 1

    If it's filtering things like child porn and mass produced soap operas - information shaping is fine by me...

  25. Han on Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon · · Score: 0

    "This is no asteroid, sweetheart!"