Comment Sad day for Afghanistan (Score 0) 163
and their 1 trillion worth of lithium.
Comment ITER is on the biggest seismic zone in France (Score 0) 470
There's still room for a much bigger crisis.
Comment Re:O Really? (Score 0) 149
That's scheduled for december 2012
Comment Cochlea implants aren't standard (Score 0) 226
and aren't recommended at all because the operation destroys the working part of the ear and you still have to learn reading on people's lips and learn a special sign language to help understanding the pronounciation, plus the regular sign language. I just hope the VGA implants will be upgradable (unlike cochlea implants) because seeing in 320*240 may not be much and may need real life adjustments.
The Blind Shall See Again, But When? 226
An anonymous reader writes "Restoring hearing with cochlea implants that replace the inner ear with an electronic version has become standard procedure for many types of deafness. Now it looks like the same thing might happen for many types of blindness. With five national labs funded by the Department of Energy, this third-generation artificial retina promises to enable the blind to see again soon. Already it has been successful in over a dozen test patients, but at resolutions too low for doing much more than proving the concept. However, if the DoE can perfect this larger version of an artificial retina, then the company Second Sight promises to commercialize the implant, aiming for VGA resolution within the decade."
Comment Re:The only feature I want is Gmail and iGoogle (Score 0) 143
For more than 2 weeks I've been getting 552 errors on these sites in Opera, but now today it's working again I don't really know what to say. iGoogle Rss are still showing just 1 news piece but other than that everything is working including gmail in iGoogle.
Comment The only feature I want is Gmail and iGoogle (Score 0) 143
The only feature I want is being able to run Gmail, iGoogle without bugs, and being able to log in Youtube and any google service. I've been using Opera for a while but it's really annoying to have to switch browser just to be able to read the news and emails.
Comment Why not making the Chinese pay ? (Score 0, Flamebait) 173
I'm feeling the Chinese are the only ones that can benefit from the ipv6 and they would get the help of everyone for free ?! Economically it would be foolish to make the world switch to ipv6 for nothing. China is not fair to anyone they don't respect patents and counterfact items so I don't see why we should make them the ipv6 gift.
Make them trade this ipv6, let every ISP in the world test it and then regroup and ask China to trade ipv6 for something. It doesn't have to be money : pollution reduction laws or human rights sound fair. Anything they can do fast and not just a promise would do.
They're the ones who'll run out of addresses not us.
