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  1. I wonder if... on MIT Developing Self-Assembling Computer Chips · · Score: 1

    ...self assembled computer chips program themselves in self-assembly language.
    And do they also self-debug ?!? It would be a dream for every programmer...

  2. I am worried... on Nose Scanners — the New Face of Biometrics? · · Score: 1

    will they scan also the inside of the nose ?!? It would be very awful to analyze...

  3. Re:Is the insurance fee virtual too? on N.Y. Health Insurers To Offer Virtual Doc Visits · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, only the insurance refund is virtual :-(

  4. Re:Ham radio types are a bit like audiophiles on Amateur Records the "Sound" of Mars Express · · Score: 1

    > What many people do not realise is that hams have often been at the forefront of communications technology.
    From the amount of surplus equipment used by radioamateurs, it seems to me that they are quite on the trailing edge of technology...

  5. I do not understand on SCO Zombie McBride's New Plan For World Litigation · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...who is the zombie: SCO, Mc Bride, or both ?!?

  6. I planned buying a smartphone this year... on Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones · · Score: 1

    ...but since Apple, HTC, Nokia and others are busy suing each other rather than improving their products, I think I'll wait further. Losing a patent suit can put out of the market a company, transforming your costly smartphone into a piece of junk with no more support at all. No thanks, I'll keep my old faithful 3-years old cellphone.

  7. Quoting Orson Welles... on Switzerland Pursues Violent Games Ban · · Score: 1

    "You know what the fellow said - in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

    Don't know if story repeats itself, but maybe...

  8. This is cool... on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 1

    and warm at the same time... Being capable of controlling freezing point of water with an electric field could have very interesting applications in automotive and building industry.

  9. This can be dangerous on Japan Will Start 3D TV Programming This Summer · · Score: 1

    you could be hit if you stay too close to a 3D TV showing a boxe match.

  10. Re:You just don't understand business on Newsday Gets 35 Subscriptions To Pay Web Site · · Score: 1

    Redesigning the web site costed 4 millions of USD. The real profit is done redesigning web sites for newspapers...who is the next one ?!?

  11. It has been done many years before... on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    ...but you had to dial a very long number. I hope they will offer a better solution.

  12. Re:Bubble burst ?!? on Whatever Happened To Second Life? · · Score: 1

    From my post:

    > It would be interesting to study the distribution of active second-life users with time.

    I am not considering the amount of tweets one makes in a day, but the number of users who actually login at least once. This is the quantity that I expect to be significant to analyze, to see if a bubble-like signature appears with time. Unfortunately I do not know if it is freely available...

  13. Car makers should take this into account on Giant Black Hole At Milky Way's Core Stays Slim · · Score: 1

    The discovery that black holes can reduce their gas consumption of two orders of magnitude should help car makers to build better SUVs.

  14. Bubble burst ?!? on Whatever Happened To Second Life? · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to study the distribution of active second-life users with time. I guess that some kind of well-known pattern will appear. Be ready to see the same fate to apply for twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc.

  15. In his estimate he forgot to include... on One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion · · Score: 1

    ...the cost of web servers put out of service by the slashdot effect. However now he has the opportunity to improve his model.

  16. Use chmod on Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? · · Score: 3, Informative

    chmod 744 /var/log (modify the directory name as needed so that it points to where your logs reside) and they will be able to look at your logs without root password. If this is not enough for them, remember that internet is full of service provider that are eager to host you for the same money (if not less)...

  17. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think that business relations are flying away from US as well. I work in the R&D dept. of a large european company, and since when security rules for entering US have been tightened, I started preferring non-US based contractors and universities as business partners (most of them are now in Canada and EU): I found that I could get the same services offered by US-based companies, but without the inconvenients dictated by TSA rules. Before 9/11 I used to come to US at least 3-4 times a year for business, now I come only once a year, unless I cannot delegate the travel to somebody else. What surprised me was to find that several colleagues of mine acted the same like myself. I suppose that further enforcing rules for entering US (like for example withdrawing the visa waiver program for EU countries) will make us prefer doing business with Russia rather than with US.

  18. Re:Redneck crap on $25,000 of Communications Gear In a $500 Car · · Score: 1

    Actually it matters. You are forgetting that this guy is the living proof that exposure to electromagnetic fields is harmful to the brain....

  19. Why not... on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...ask google ?!?

  20. Re:Nothing new here, move along... on Tapering Waveguide Captures a Rainbow · · Score: 1

    Elastic wave equations can be transformed into Maxwell's electromagnetic field equations and viceversa, see for example W. Chew's textbook for a demonstration. Funny, isn't it ?!?

  21. Nothing new here, move along... on Tapering Waveguide Captures a Rainbow · · Score: 2, Informative

    Selective absorption is a well known effect that takes place whenever a wave propagates in a medium where two boundary conditions have to be fulfilled at once. We observe it regularly in our lab while sending acoustic/elastic waves into a pack of slabs of material. The same thing happens with electromagnetic waves, just like Isaac Newton observed a few centuries ago. Sending the light in a direction parallel to the lenght rather than perpendicular does not discover anything new. Next post, please...

  22. Re:I Just Installed a Google Camera in my Bedroom on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 1

    Please can you share with us the url ?

  23. I see a problem here. on Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    In case of emergency, RFC1149/RFC2549 transport protocols cannot be used. I think NASA should find a workaround, in order to increase reliability of space communications.

  24. Re:GOTO ... on Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer · · Score: 1

    A NOP is better. Further developments will make available an indexed NOP, so that the CPU will jump and do nothing at the same time.

  25. Bill Gates comment: on Former Microsoft CTO Builds Kitchen Laboratory · · Score: 0, Troll

    640 calories a day is enough for anyone.