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901.
by iwwr 16y ago
Those look like Eskimo bone glasses, made to cut down on glare from the snow. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Inuit_Gog... Note that if the slit is narrow enough, it will still focus light thought the pinhole effect (al
902.
From code to flesh and blood (DNA to proteins)(youtube.com)
3 points by iwwr 16y ago|0 comments
903.
by iwwr 16y ago
With all this talk of domain name seizure, I wonder if any ISPs (big, small, whatever) support alternate DNS or the .i2p domain name.
904.
by iwwr 16y ago
Weren't they all banned in the US a few years ago? Illegal even for banks to process transactions to them.
905.
by iwwr 16y ago
Consider it this way, the worst that happens when a corporation is involved, you may get some spam. There is no limit to how bad things can get if your profile suddenly gets flagged (everything from air travel harassment to Guantanamo).
906.
by iwwr 16y ago
The future of space mining is being built right now with systems like these.
907.
by iwwr 16y ago
How would this neutrino beam work, as there is no feasible material that can really focus these particles? Won't a neutrino emitter (the sort we can build) be essentially isotropic. Perhaps higher-energy neutrinos would have a higher intera
908.
Intel will bribe tablet manufacturers to use Atom(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by iwwr 16y ago|0 comments
909.
by iwwr 16y ago
The hypothesis is neither explosive, nor new. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic...
910.
by iwwr 16y ago
Potentially, optical (laser) transmitters have a lot more bandwidth, but need very fine aiming control. At those distances, a high-gain antenna would have to be too large to be feasible, even with an extensive upgrade of ground-based receiv
911.
by iwwr 16y ago
While the Sun's radiation extends up to 100au or so, its gravitational influence goes to over 100K au (2 light years). In this deep freezing wasteland we may find many more orbiting bodies than in the solar system proper.
912.
by iwwr 16y ago
The hunter-gatherers did not necessarily chose a farming lifestyle, they were likely displaced by the sheer numbers of the farmers. However, modern agriculture requires very few people (proportionally), under 5%. The second worst mistake in
913.
by iwwr 16y ago
One of the great boondoggles of our history is finally wound down. The sentiment should not be nostalgia, but rage for all those wasted resources. Consider just the kind of unmanned probes that could have been sent out there.
914.
by iwwr 16y ago
This may work if your server's RAM is already capped out. You can already use RAM as virtual disk space, so this looks more like a way to add more RAM to a system through the SATA bus (perhaps with some extra interface sugar). Although, the
915.
by iwwr 16y ago
Another fascinating idea is to consider the split-complex numbers (and their split-quaternion cousins) as ways to express hyperbolic geometry (in 2 or 3/4 dimensions respectively).
916.
by iwwr 16y ago
They surely can't call them "freedom reduction" or "anti civil liberties" laws.
917.
by iwwr 16y ago
We are already following the bots, Googlebot in particular.
918.
by iwwr 16y ago
In no way should he blamed for refusing to sacrifice himself. If the PS3 hacker community can't live without Hotz, the war is already lost. But Hotz is one head of the Hydra, as Sony will find out soon enough. Besides, it's a bad idea to ha
919.
by iwwr 16y ago
After much drama and negotiations, they agreed to cut $37bn, or less than 1/40th of the deficit (>$1600bn). Try slicing a pizza into 40 parts and take out one of the bits in order to 'save weight'.
920.
by iwwr 16y ago
If taking the market away from ARM were that easy, Intel would have done it already.
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Planets could orbit inside black holes(technologyreview.com)
10 points by iwwr 16y ago|0 comments
922.
by iwwr 16y ago
Quicktime just had horrible (breaking, crippling) support for Windows. Have things changed significantly in the last 2 years?
923.
by iwwr 16y ago
Is it now a given that any fledgling designer will pirate Photoshop?
924.
by iwwr 16y ago
The key part: As it happens, the disk that formed around the black hole was face-on to us, so one of those beams was essentially aimed directly at us. Anyone know just how focused these beams are?
925.
by iwwr 16y ago
You may be vaguely interested in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government
926.
by iwwr 16y ago
I have some ideas how it could be done, but it's a bit of a conundrum to say the least. Would you mind sharing some of that?
927.
by iwwr 16y ago
Rich men may find it difficult (socially) to chose a bride below their social class/caste and traditionally the daughter's parents have to pay the hefty dowry. But either way, it's generally the choice of the parents and not the bride or gr
928.
by iwwr 16y ago
Strangely, Western response to famine or war in impoverished countries has tended to exacerbate (or even create) the crises at hand. Doing something may be seen as a sensible thing, but perhaps Africa would have been better off if the West
929.
by iwwr 16y ago
Perhaps a rehash of the theft of the Sabines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women
930.
by iwwr 16y ago
Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions.

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