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  1. Apple already does this on Nokia To Release Lumia Case Design Files For 3D Printers · · Score: 0

    Apple releases dimensioned drawings for it's portable devices so that accessory manufacturers can create functional products without taking their own tedious measurements. Shapeways, a 3D printing company, ran a contest to make iPhone 5 accessories.

  2. Re:If it's not cancer, it's renewable energy on Scientists Create New Type of Superconductor Wires · · Score: 2

    Superconductors have a finite thermal conductivity, so there are temperature gradients. The substrate material (in this case sapphire) is actually responsible for most of the local heat dissipation in high temperature superconducting wires.

  3. Re:No engineering? on Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating · · Score: 1

    Purdue.

  4. Re:No engineering? on Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating · · Score: 1

    As a physics undergraduate, I wrote a grand total of 0 papers for my physics courses.

  5. Some reasons are better than others. on US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation · · Score: 1

    He claims he did it to secure funding for his fusion research. It was more noble than doing it for the cash, I guess...

  6. hong kong film industry on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised nobody has talked about the decline of the Hong Kong film industry. Though there are certainly other contributing factors, piracy has taken a serious toll on cinema in HK cinema.

  7. ...not all EM radiation on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Otherwise the plants would be dead!

  8. Re:Good article on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    One can only assume that all of the nicotine isn't absorbed in the user's lungs.

  9. Re:Yawn on Saturn's Strange Hexagon Recreated In the Lab · · Score: 1

    Old news. This article from 2006 details a similar experiment.

  10. Re:Camouflage on Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or the enemy sends you a virus, and you end up with a bullseye on your forehead.

  11. Theremin on Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A Theremin makes a good project for undergrads. We probably put ours together in about a day once we got the parts.

  12. No on Thinking of Security Vulnerabilities As Defects · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course they aren't defects, they should be treated as features!

  13. Re:A integrity checksum or a crypto checksum? on New iPod Checksum Cracked, Linux Supported · · Score: 1

    If you download and read the code, it seems like they implemented a SHA1 hash.

  14. Fewer patches... on Surprise, Windows Listed as Most Secure OS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wait...I'm supposed to think that fewer patches makes for a safer operating system?