Unfortunately we've been buried under decades of "too cheap to meter" and "clean" lies by an industry that spends orders of magnitude more on PR than R&D while picking up enormous amounts of government welfare. In recent years however there have been organisations outside of the nuclear lobby that look as if they will make it a commerical reality. Examples are non US solutions like pebble bed, accelerated thorium and startups like Hyperion (lots of little modern submarine style reactors instead of one big dangerous dinosaur from Westinghouse). It's time for all the liars to get buried by those that really did the R&D.
Don't blame the hippies, they really didn't have the political power you credit them with. The nuclear industry of the 1970s simply showed they were a waste of space and they are still stuck in the 1970s.

I'm sure this device has a lot going for it, but for my reading enjoyment, I'm still waiting for devices with better screens from qualcomm/mirasol or pixel qi. In nicer packages, I hope. I don't need two flawed screens hinged together, I need a single screen that's more functional than e-ink.

Normally that would work - except we have proof that the peer reviewed journals were intentionally kept from publishing anything that disagreed with the idea that we're all going to die unless liberals are elected to save us all. That's what you're not acknowledging is that things were rigged to prevent any disagreement (well, any publicly acknowledged disagreement) among scientists.

Since you want to claim that by pointing out the lies and manipulation that I'm "a conspiracy theorist", here's a question for you - if we really are doomed unless we stop the boogeyman of global warming (sorry, "climate change"), what reason does any scientist have to lie and say that it's not happening? Do you think that they have some nefarious plan to kill off the human race?

People use digital cameras to make heat images all the time.

No, they really don't.

I wasn't going to try to pimp out my own site in this thread, but since you posted this type of comment twice, I wrote a fairly lengthy article about it, with pictures. Claiming that a modded digital camera is a "thermal imager" is like saying that your eyes are thermal imagers because molten lava appears to glow. True thermal imaging requires expensive, specialized sensors and lenses, and it allows the device to create an image in complete darkness (e.g. deep inside a cave). Near infrared imaging is basically just like a regular camera, it just happens to involve a wavelength we can't see with our own eyes (for the most part).

No. The problem with mars is that it lacks the gravity to keep gaseous particles bound to it's atmosphere, such that the solar wind removes a really small % of it's atmosphere annually.

I definitely have some fond memories of looking through my dad's stacks of OMNI. Of course, I also liked looking through his stacks of Penthouse...

OMNI had a lot of neat-o stuff, like some pretty awesome paper airplane designs. It was also the first place I saw a stereogram, which at the time was just an array of black and white dots, but started showing up everywhere a few years later, in colour, as those "Magic Eye" pictures.

Didn't care too much for all the supernatural stuff, but I always liked that montage scene in the middle of Ghostbusters where the dudes start showing up on magazine covers, and an OMNI cover goes by with pictures of their proton packs and ghost traps.

>>With Google Voice, you have one Google phone number that callers use to reach you, and you pick up whichever phone--office, home or cellular--rings. You can screen calls, listen in before answering, record calls, read transcripts of your voicemails, and do free conference calls. Domestic calls and texting are free, and international calls to Europe are two cents a minute. In other words, a unified voice system, something a real phone company should have offered years ago.'>>

Funny thing - Skype App allows much of the same, and it's not blocked. AT&T does not suffer much from it - I'll still pay my monthly fee. Probably just one more glitch in approval process.

>Anyone with any common sense, including a judge, would immediately note that you're supposed to use text from the article you're claiming to be taking excerpts from.

Yes, the original article just makes fun of AP. But this brain dead software can easily be exploited for profit, too. Here's an outline.

Many real (not fake) parts of AP articles are uncopyrightable. > 6 words, $17.50. But do they own a copyright for these 6 words? And who owns: politician? NBC? Doubt it: political speech. I've already paid the congressmen to pronounce it, haven't I? One thing sure: these words do not belong to AP.

They sold it to me anyway? Nice. If California law sticks, they own me $500: false advertising, deceptive business practices. Under NY law - up to 3 times damages. Just make this quote long enough. NY had some online small claims filing services, $14 per case...

>I like parent post's concept, but suggest that slashdotters with a little extra pocket change license some RIAA protected lyrics from AP.

Their screwed up software is charging per word. Word is counted by blank. So: paste any lyrics, replace blanks with "-" and you will be charged for 5 words only ($12) no matter how long the song...

It's so stupid, I can't believe it.

>You can, however, relicense something that's in the public domain. You're not even obliged to tell them it's public domain.

It will be a deception (if not an outright fraud). New York (AP is in NY, right?) General Business Law #349 prohibits deceptive business practices. Up to 3 times damages.

>These industry groups lobby for strong copyright protections to...guess what...make money! Which does...guess what...increase the tax base! Which leads to...guess what...

Huh? Your reasoning will be correct, if for each song I downloaded for free, my bank balance increased by $1. But it does not! Each month's end there is the same amount in my account: $0 - not matter has I downloaded something or not.

That means: downloading has absolutely no impact on taxes. No social services or programs are damaged by it. Hey, even police are not damaged, bastards.

>Cox -> submits code which apparently caused a bug
>User -> Reports breakage
>Cox -> Can't replicate breakage and asks user for debug info so he can fix it.
>User -> Says they don't know what to debug for, but is willing to work with Cox.

Here they have found the bottom issue: emacs was expecting some reasonable behavior from the kernel: data delivery before notification of producer's termination. The behavior was broken.

>Linus -> Jumps in and calls Cox's code a buggy piece of shit before any debugging took place, and before it is established if the code is buggy or not.

Hello? The code broke a reasonable expectations of its users. Not buggy? That's technically is a DEFINITION of a bug.

>Cox -> Continues to troubleshoot the issue.
>Linus -> Flames Cox personally and says Cox is unwilling to work on the issue.

Cox was proposing some strange solutions.

>Cox -> Takes his ball and goes home, except in this case, it is OSS so he doesn't really take any ball with him. He just leaves.

Then they had a technical discussion, and it appeared that Linus was right.

>It's not Windows vs Linux.
>It's TradElect vs MarketPrizm, which happen to run on Windows vs Linux respectively.

Bank is having problems with its IVRs (strange slowdown in the software). The first thing they do in troubleshooting is... You can guess, don't be shy... R-r-right: they turn off their anti-virus! (Real problem was: logging system was adding 3 new files per minute, not per second! - into the same directory, Windows can't handle such an abuse for long).

But think about it: trouble? turn off antivirus, now!

Do you see the picture? You can't run mission critical applications WITHOUT anti-virus on Windows: too risky. And you can't run mission critical applications on Windows WITH anti-virus: the anti-virus will cause you problems sooner than later.

So, you can write a better application for Windows than some application for Linux, sure. But you will not have a platform to run it.

This worm spreads through laptops? My MacBook laughs at that.