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by marze 16y ago
If you can build a centrifuge, you'd think you could build a variable speed motor drive which is about 100 times easier.
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by marze 16y ago
They've probably switched to homegrown motor drives now, but other weaknesses are probably waiting to be exploited.
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by marze 16y ago
Quite interesting. The fact that native people eating their traditional diet do not have the western diseases of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, etc., is well documented, as is the fact that those same native peoples who adopt a western di
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by marze 16y ago
The article is incoherent. In any case, if the early adopters of Apple products are getting a bad deal as the author seems to be saying, where are these unhappy customers? Shouldn't such unhappyness show up in customer satisfaction surveys
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by marze 16y ago
It can and does happen at both temperatures.
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by marze 16y ago
You needn't make any irrevocable decisions immediately, obviously. Three things that could help that come to mind are to try new things, a short vacation, and lots of time outdoors. Like this: Take three weeks off over the holidays and sp
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by marze 16y ago
From the article: "It may well be that the crust generates more low frequency waves in the build up to an earthquake but there may be other mechanisms that produce a similar signal but are not linked to quakes."
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by marze 16y ago
The large contract with NASA is for future launch services, NASA has only paid SpaceX $250M or so to date. Bang for buck is good, $1/4B vs $25B for Constellation.
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by marze 16y ago
Perspective: SpaceX total expenditures $0.4B Result: Launch vehicle developed, capsule successfully launched into orbit and recovered Government-run Constellation program total expenditures $10B Result: at least eight years and $15B from su
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by marze 16y ago
Ok, now that's funny... "The first app in the list that’s exclusive to Android is #6, Lookout — an anti-virus app."
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by marze 16y ago
Take that, Mr. Kurzweil.
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by marze 16y ago
Interesting question. I would try do diversify more aggressively than Google seems to be doing presently. Even though Google has a excellent grip on the search market, market share in the internet arena has been demonstratedly ephemeral in
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by marze 16y ago
Airport in Orlando opts out of using TSA to screen their passengers: http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-national/florida-airp...
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by marze 16y ago
Events that are just part of our generally-interesting day to day tech landscape will probably be analyzed for decades by future historians.
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by marze 16y ago
This discussion is properly focused at the core of the matter, the cost benefit analysis. Some of the costs are easy to see, like the acute embarrassment some experience from an intimate "pat down" if they elect to avoid any risk from x-ray
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by marze 16y ago
I wonder how many approaches to health that are considered "quacky" now will be mainstream in 15 years.
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by marze 16y ago
I'm waiting for the Yes Men to take on airport security.
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by marze 16y ago
This scanner is not an x-ray scanner like the ones deployed to scan air travelers. X-rays are ionizing radiation, the kind which can cause cancer. The machine in the picture uses millimeter waves which are not ionizing, and produces a muc
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by marze 16y ago
These images are from a different type of scanner that produces much fuzzier images than the x-ray based scanners being used on air travelers. It would be naive to think the government responded to the freedom of information request and rel
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by marze 16y ago
Even if this anonymous post is completely fictional, I am certain this exact scenario plays out every single day at various US airports. Why would it not? A simple improvement would be to have separate scanning machines for males and femal
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by marze 16y ago
The public doesn't know very much about these scanners. There are only one or two public images allegedly taken in a scanner, but not with the “arms in the air” pose required for actual air travelers. To correct this, in every airport a co
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by marze 16y ago
The really crazy thing about this is the technology itself. Back in the day in the back pages of Popular Science, you could buy "X-Ray Glasses" that would supposedly let you see through cloths (I assume they didn't really work but never tr
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by marze 16y ago
These new policies should improve TSA recruiting efforts, at least among the pedophile fraction of the population. Anyone who thinks the stories are exaggerated should check out: http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/ Folks experiences
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by marze 16y ago
Serious topic, but some humor. Best response to give your TSA patdown-partner when he asks if he can feel around your crotch area: "Who do you think I am, a U.S. Senator?" (joke credit Adam Curry at No Agenda)
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by marze 16y ago
Incorrect. If you get a bite to eat and miss the last boarding call (flying US domestic) the flight will leave without you but with your luggage. The system would grind to a halt if this was not the case.
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by marze 16y ago
How idiotic: As he was leaving the airport after being escorted back to the ticket counter, an official told him to return and be searched, "he explained that I may have an incendiary device and whether or not that was true needed to be det
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by marze 16y ago
So what sort of opportunities does this new "pat down" policy offer? Buy put options on airline stocks. The public is not like lawmakers. They are conservative in a way I believe is hard for lawmakers to identify with, and this will be t
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by marze 16y ago
I'm not sure I'm catching your point, but I was thinking of comments such as these: walnuttrees in Boston Globe comments (Sept. 3, 2010 ): Still kneeling, his face less than a foot from my crotch he advised me he would pass the back of his
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by marze 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray Well, it does use x-rays, they are called "x-ray backscatter scanners". Serious scientists have expressed concern. The concern is with the fact that inadequate testing has been performed, an
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by marze 16y ago
If you read through this collection of accounts, an opposite sex patdown-partner does not seem uncommon: http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/

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