There are 1,008 in-state power plants in California, 2 of which are nuclear (though one of them is offline this year).

Are you just completely ignorant or what? Apparently you know how to use a computer but still haven't figured out Google yet.

Reading the summary, I thought: "Open the gate and let loose the quackery!"

Inviting EVERY random idea seems more like desperation than progress. For this to ever be effective, they'll need to filter out the previously debunked nonsense.

Is it really altruism if you're doing it because you figure you'll be dead before you suffer any ill effects? Seems clearly rational to me.

This message is encoded using the English alphabet, but it is not encrypted.

They actually teach Engrish instead of English in Japanese public schools, which perpetuates the problem. Your anecdote is sadly one of so many... I forget her name, but there was a well-known native English foreign exchange student in Japan who had English class with them and the teacher would "correct" her English until she spoke Engrish....

Except that there is a very slight pitch accent that can help distinguish ambiguous words like hashi and hana... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent

But yes, it's infinitely more reliable if you rely on kanji instead.

Bzzzzzt! (That's my bullshit-buzzer). They don't read the bible. They go to church to have it read to them and interpreted for them.

Click the picture in the original blog post. Grammar is misspelled in TFA. Don't quit YOUR day job.

The WebOS gestures and card interface are actually easy to learn and enjoyable. WebOS itself is much more open than Android or iOS. The development tools and SDKs are pretty clever, cross-platform, easy to use. I find it to be a much more geek-friendly OS with a better user-interface than Android.

I doubt that, considering that the last pair of rovers were running VxWorks

I first heard about this idea over a decade ago as a possible hypothesis for dinosaur extinction. I believe a paper was written up by someone at UC Santa Barbara and I learned of it on college geology field trips.

It was not discussed in the context of "global warming" at that time--it was just stated that the methane gas could have affected the climate enough to have directly or indirectly prompted a mass extinction. We tended to favor the impact theory (as evidenced by the KT boundary) as a more likely explanation, but the idea of dinosaur farts affecting climate has been around for a long time.

Neither one of them were talking about network socket "ports." The first thought "port" as in "port the OS to another architecture." The second tried to explain that in *BSDspeak, "port" doesn't mean port the OS, it means port a 3rd party software to the BSD build system. This involves applying BSD specific patches to build and install according to BSD-specific paths etc. You can also build the source into a redistributable binary "package."

Citation?

It gets even better than that -- this article claims that this technique can double the output of solar cells. According to the summary however,

if you have X electrons that can be captured, then you have Y electrons that are too hot to be captured. This technique takes Y and splits it into two X-type electrons, both of which can be captured.

Before: Your output is energy from X electrons

After: Your output is energy from X + 2Y electrons.

They claim now that X + 2Y = 2X, which only happens when Y = X/2. But what if your Y value happens to be much lower than that--say Y = X/8. Then output would be X + X/4 which is not equal to 2X....

There seems to be something fundamentally unimaginative and backwards about discussions like this. Let's say your world is inside a Honda car. Now you're thinking "Gee, isn't this amazing. In order for life to exist, we just had to have this protective red paint, the CRX logo, a perfectly sized stick shift, blah blah blah." Maybe Earth IS rare, but we also found unexpected things on our planet such as apes and crows using tools, life thriving around volcanic vents. Life has adapted to take full advantage of the situation here on Earth. That doesn't mean that life is any less likely to spring up in similar but different places. We wear clothes because we lack full-body hair to warm and protect us. That doesn't mean life would be fucked on a planet without clothing, right?