Comment Huh? (Score 1) 65
Am I the only one that thought this article was about a new wrench for repairing fiber optic cables?
Comment Re:Apples to oranges (Score 1) 445
According to some more recent reviews, they have stopped using the blue azo pigments in these CDs. They are now the basic silver-blue phthalocyanine.
Comment Re:Accuracy (Score 2) 861
No, actually the summary says "the shield is destroying 90 percent of missiles and rockets IT AIMS AT." The system is not aiming at rockets headed toward unpopulated areas. I think what they are claming is that 90% of the interceptors hit their intended target. If true, this is quite impressive.
Comment Re:Illegal (Score 2) 289
What happens when that master key gets out in the wild? It's bound to happen eventually...
Comment Not bad, but not spectacular (Score 1) 1
Price on the iPad mini is too high relative to competitors at $329 for 16gb and $429 for 32gb. AAPL stock price dropped $10 the moment they announced pricing. And for cripes sake, in what world (other than Steve's reality distortion field) does 16gb of flash memory cost $100? You can get a 16gb micro SD card for under $15. Oh, that's right, Apple doesn't think it's sheeple have the brain power to use an SD card.
Comment Zuned (Score 1) 1
They should have called this the Zune tablet. At this price-point it is going to fail miserably. I had high hopes that Microsoft might get aggressive to get a toe-hold in the market. I'll give 10 to 1 odds that this thing is a total bust, with the primary blame on pricing.
Comment Re:I will tell you below why that option is absurd (Score 1) 524
Or maybe they defied, denied, descried, freeze-dried, hogtied, misguide, pied, plied, popeyed, refried, or just plain tried.
We may never know, you insensitive clods!
Comment Re:Slashdot post, Dateline 2085 (Score 0) 156
Who'd have guessed that this is the only page on all of the intertubes that has the word 'blertify'. Better go ahead and copyright that one!
Comment Re:Massive sky-grid. (Score 1) 345
Wow. Everyone on /. is now dumber for having read that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3JzbWVDzac
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 729
What I'm saying is that the US spends more per student than any other developed country, yet we consistently score in the bottom quartile in science and math. The entire system is broken, and spending more days per year doing the same dumb crap isn't going to make the system better.
http://mat.usc.edu/u-s-education-versus-the-world-infographic/
Comment Re:No (Score 1, Insightful) 729
The education experiment in the United States has consistently shown that the more resources we throw at it, the worse the results are. If history is any guide, extending the school year will make our children dumber, not smarter.
Comment Re:Fuck Firefox 14. (Score 5, Funny) 505
That is SO last month!
Comment Mmmmm sewage! (Score 1) 1
It used to be nice following a biodiesel on the road, with the delicious smell of french fries wafting back at you. Sewage... not so much.
Comment Thank goodness (Score 1) 1
If I'm stuck on an ultra-low calorie diet for the rest of my life, the last thing I'd want would be to live longer and prolong the agony. Somebody give me a cheeseburger, stat!
Submission + - Calorie Restriction May Not Extend Lifespan (sciencemag.org) 1
sciencehabit writes: Slash your food intake and you can live dramatically longer—at least if you're a mouse or a nematode. But a major study designed to determine whether this regimen, known as caloric restriction, works in primates suggests that it improves monkeys' health but doesn't extend their lives. Researchers not involved with the new paper say the results are still encouraging. Although the monkeys didn't evince an increase in life span, both studies show a major improvement in "health span," or the amount of time before age-related diseases set in. "I certainly wouldn't give up on calorie restriction as a health promoter" based on these findings, says molecular biologist Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
