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Submission + - Scientists find that the Sun is so round, it's scary (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: "If you thought the Sun was round — you'd be right. But astronomers this week said the Sun is so round it's nearly perfect in its roundness. So round that astronomers said if they scaled it to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narrow diameters would be much less than the width of a human hair."

Comment Re:Dumb (Score 1) 122

Ya, they do. But so what. I very much enjoy using my bluetoof headset while driving, or whilst typing with both hands, or while working on a cabling job, or any other sort of thing where I need to be on the phone and require both hands. I imagine there would be very many applications where the google glasses could come in handy as well. That being said if you're wearing either a bluetoof or google glasses to make a pretentious fashion statement alone, you should be slapped.

Comment Brother AirScouter (Score 2) 122

When I first heard of the Project Glass, I thought they had found a way of doing what some Japanese companies have been doing for a while...rather than displaying the image in *front* of your eye, they actually draw the image line by line directly *in* your eye on your retina with lasers. I still hold out hope that this is the long term goal of Project Glass, but who knows. A bit of reading Here

And Here

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Comment More regulations = more regulators (Score 0) 652

Why the hell can't *I* choose the safety features of *my* own new car? Maybe I'd rather spend that extra money on a car with traction control, or maybe I have a very limited budget, but just want a basic no-frills new car that won't give me any trouble for the next few years. This just smacks of regulators trying to justify their jobs by creating regulations for the sake of regulations. Cars are really, really safe now. Do you really think that Ford would stop putting seatbelts in cars if the government didn't tell them they had to? The car company that kills fewer of it's customers than its rivals can sell more cars based on this fact. The car company that is consistently killing its customers will likely be out of business soon. I'm not saying there's no place for regulation, but this is getting ridiculous. Maybe next they'll say you can't have a black car because they're harder to see at night, after that, they'll say all cars have to be CalTrans Orange because they're safer. Regulators regulate, regardless of the necessity of regulation. A regulator that doesn't regulate is out of a job.

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