Comment Re:This makes sense! (Score 4, Insightful) 277
I know he is joking, but I suppose they mean a production reactor as opposed to a research reactor.
Comment Re:guilty eh? (Score 1) 964
I was always under the assumption that a uniformed officer knocks on your door and hands you a slip of paper to escort you "downtown."
Not anymore. Blitzkrieg raids have become SOP for anything more severe than unpaid parking tickets, and will probably remain that way until more citizens start greeting these home invasions with kinetic resistance.
Has anyone tried to sue (this is the US after all) for excessive use of force?
Comment Re:Too little too late... (Score 2) 143
Anyone with some knowledge about economic theory will know that income you get in 20 to 50, not to mention 50 to 95, years from now should have almost no impact on your decision about whether or not to invest time ( = money ) on creating a copyrightable work today.
Unless you calculate a extremely big income or a absurdly low interest the present value of that income is negligible.
Comment Re:Oracle made a big mistake (Score 1) 181
Why? Gosling isn't the one holding the patents, he has no standing in this.
No, but he may have lots of good information about what was common knowledge (among experts in this field) at the time of the development of Java. Also what pre-existing knowledge and systems the inventors of Java had for inspiration when developing it.
Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers 246
YokimaSun writes "The war between hackers and Sony over the PlayStation 3 has now taken an even more sinister turn, with Sony going after not just shops but actual buyers of the PSBreak dongle, threatening them with fines of many thousands of Euros and forcing them to sign cease-and-desist letters. It seems Sony will use any means necessary to thwart both homebrew and piracy on the PS3."
Comment Re:They already do... (Score 1) 96
There is a difference between buying extra content for a game, and buying Items to give you a head start you could achieve by playing.
As games are for your own entertainment I am not implying one is better or worse than the other but it is different.
Comment Re:Pro / cons (Score 2, Insightful) 2424
U.S.A is a socialist country and have always been a socialist country.
You pay taxes and those taxes and those taxes are spent on "the common good": roads, schools, military, police, firebrigades...
Healthcare is just one more ting on the list of what your taxes pay for
Comment Re:Conveniently forgetting the details (Score 1) 929
Military grade explosives will not go off from being hit by a bullet.
They require a blasting-cap (I hope that is the correct word in English)
or similar to detonate.
They require a blasting-cap (I hope that is the correct word in English)
or similar to detonate.
Comment Re:That's bright! (Score 1) 451
I think requiring a full production model on sale is to steep a requirement.
But a working prototype should definitively be required.
But a working prototype should definitively be required.
Comment Re:Guns vs. melee (Score 2, Insightful) 215
Mythbusters often use pigs when testing that kind of damage.
Comment Re:we need to tell Disney et. al. to screw off (Score 1) 278
Yes, but only the actual original works, reprints are about worthless on a one by one basis. Of course as mass-production it is alot of money there.
Anyway, after 10 years most artist/writers makes little money from their works because they almost always have to sell the copyright to a publisher/record company to get them to produce and promote it
Comment Re:American cars.... (Score 1) 378
Norwegian car tax used to be calculated by weight, engine volume and engine effect.
I'm not sure about the details about the new system but now its at least partially based on CO2 g/km emissions of the car measured by some EU-test.
I'm not sure about the details about the new system but now its at least partially based on CO2 g/km emissions of the car measured by some EU-test.
Comment Re:I always thought... (Score 1) 344
Not knowing the details on cotton the answer is maybe not.
For example your hair does not contain any DNA if it is cut off without the hair sack. Hair does not consist off cells but of a substance prodused by hair sack cells. Of course the hair can easyly be "contaminated" with dna from somewhere else on your body.
Skin on the other hand contains DNA as your topmost layer of skin is actually dead skin-cells.
So it is possible the fibers of cotton used for cotton produkts does not consist off plant cells but off a substance prodused by the cells
Comment Re:"This is mine, and this is mine...." (Score 1) 344
I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfish schools nibbling at my toes
Fun, Fun ,Fun ...........
Goldfish schools nibbling at my toes
Fun, Fun
Comment Re:CSI to the rescue (Score 2, Informative) 344
Actualy there is a process when making the sex-cells that mix the genes from the two chromosomes in the chromosome pair. So none of the chromosones in the semen is actually a direct copy
of the ones in the rest of your body.
