How much stronger would a field have to be to protect a hypothetical ship the size of the space shuttle from solar winds and other non-EM ionizing radiation in interplanetary space?

If 100 tesla is achievable now, then I can imagine it wouldn't take long before a field can be generated which would be powerful enough to provide a buffer against most ionizing radiation a la Earth's own magnetic field, but I could be way in the realm of science fiction with this thought.

Google, Bing, et al. will just stop linking to sites which enforce this.

Who thought this was a good idea?

That's precisely what hyper-accurate atomic clocks allow you to correct. The distortions manifest in less accurate clocks. The more accurate your time, the better your algorithmic corrections between the ground and the satellites.

Although perhaps not for daily use, the technology could prove valuable in science experiments

You kidding me? The prospect of GPS-guided bullets accurate to the millimeter will have the US military pursuing this in next-gen GPS satellites as soon as the technology is viable. Hell, this'll be the most valuable update to military hardware in decades.

That's at least one major lawsuit per protest broken up. Good luck getting any major civilian police force to risk that. The only place this has any use would be a battlefield, where lawsuits are irrelevant.

It's just converting the electricity into light very efficiently with a great ratio

No, it's not even using the electricity to generate light for the most part. The electricity is effectively reducing the remaining threshold needed for ambient heat to be converted to light. In terms of overall energy efficiency, one would find it would still be under 100% if the amount of ambient heat lost could be measured.

So I used the chat box at the bottom of the page and got this answer:

We don't release the funds until we verify the campaign. If the campaign is not legitimate, we return the money. [...] At the same time, we check it from our end. We just don't put up a barrier in the sign up process.

That explains it.

Well in my case, I'm taken. Still, I know a few people (cousins, friends, what-have-you) who constantly stress about their height to the point where I've gone from lying about height's irrelevance to them to proposing alternative solutions just to get them to hush a bit. Granted this was back when the people I knew cared more about this sort of thing, but this submission did a good job of reminding me. hah

That would've been appropriate for me... 7 years ago. I'm asking in hypothetical terms because my height is dead-average for the US.

There exist treatments overseas for increasing a person's height which rely on repeatedly fracturing leg bones and spacing them such that they heal at a distance, essentially lengthening the bone.

Do we have any osteopathologists on slashdot who can comment on whether this can theoretically shorten such a procedure's duration to make someone taller in a matter of one or two weeks? The current procedure takes at least a few months, if not a year.

it might be best to couple the modifications currently being done with a recompression of the mp3 itself.

It's like real life! No one's going to want an mp3 that's changed 20 hands at that point.

Looking at the top of the sphere in the image, it's apparently to me that the image itself is a 3D rendering resulting from many land shots of the Earth stitched together.

NASA readily admits that this is a composite image, but perhaps mentioning that it's a composite of land-pass images stitched together on a 3D sphere modeled after the Earth would make more sense. People might otherwise just assume this is a composite of photographs taken from and stiched together in 2D.

It does make me wonder why the rendering wasn't anti-aliased, though.

They wanted to show that they tried every option, but they didn't actually want to sell Palm.

Why sell it and have someone else potentially give it a heartbeat again? They put it down and kept its assets in the event that they could use the narrowed field to their advantage in deep-diving back into the mobile market in the future.