Comment no access to POT... (Score 0) 449
that's unconstitutional!
Comment hmph (Score 2) 143
yeah sure... let's just bash it before it gets anywhere.... so many planes and birds in the fucking frozen deserts of Alaska.... let's go oil mmurica!!
The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine 143
Daniel_Stuckey writes: "In far-flung rural Alaska, where electricity can cost as much as $1 per kilowatt hour — more than 10 times the national average, according to the New York Times — a wind turbine encased in a giant helium balloon is about to break a world record. The Bouyant Air Turbine (BAT) is about to be floated 1,000 feet into the air in the name of cleaner, cheaper, and mobile energy. That single airborne grouper—it's sort of a hybrid of a blimp, a kite, and a turbine—will power over a dozen homes. The BAT is the brainchild of Altaeros, a company founded by MIT alumni, and, if everything goes according to plan, it's going to be the highest-flying power generator in history. Since winds blow stronger and more consistently the higher above the ground you go, and the hovering BAT harnesses that gale and sends electricity down to earth through the high-strength tethers that also hold the machine steady. "
Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials 357
New submitter Budgreen writes: "Knife-wound or gunshot victims will be cooled down and placed in suspended animation later this month. The technique involves replacing all of a patient's blood with a cold saline solution, which rapidly cools the body and stops almost all cellular activity. 'If a patient comes to us two hours after dying you can't bring them back to life. But if they're dying and you suspend them, you have a chance to bring them back after their structural problems have been fixed,' says surgeon Peter Rheeat from the University of Arizona in Tucson, who helped develop the technique. 10 gunshot and stabbing victims will take part in the trials."
Comment geek republic (Score 1) 172
How do you propose to create a regional , nation leased, geek republic? somewhere where people can be free of doing and experiment anything they want (with the no-3rd-party-harm clause). Is Belize available? Thank you
Comment A.C Clarke quote (Score 1) 870
"The Goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play" ... 100% agreed.
We are in front of a perfectly renewable and balanced dinner table/house (our planet), everything is there , for free, for everyone. Why we do allow some of us to have more and to create unbalance ? why is someone allowed to keep more than what he can enjoy fully?
This is the ruin and culprit of all.
Submission + - Vaccine-Autism connection - Lawyer:'' Coming dozens of complaints'' (google.com)
Mr_Nitro writes: Italy — The lawyer Luca Ventaloro, an expert in child health law states: "Given the amount of the civil cases, it was inevitable that criminal justice was aware of this potential correlation between the vaccine and autism or other disorders, has now become a national emergency. We have a case of autism in 80 births in healthy children. Born with an high APGAR (newborns viability index) and after vaccinations begin to feel bad. They can no longer deny the evidence.'' They seem pretty strong footed on the connection, commission is all completely made of doctors and experts in the field. Not an excuse for irrational vaccines fears , but an occasion to improve and acknowledge the possible dangers.
Comment By all means (Score 1) 914
Let's fuck up already fucked-up persons more. Way to go civilized society.
Someone stop the world, I want to get off here.
Comment Re:Duplicity. (Score 1) 983
I'm sure there must be something I'm missing in your reasoning.
How do you make sure that the files on the "other side" are not read by anyone? Sounds like you just transfer the files (presumably using rsync over ssh) and leave them plain on the remote server. With duplicity, the encryption and decryption is all handled on the client side.
Comment Re:Duplicity. (Score 1) 983
Sounds nice. I'll have to try that.
Comment Duplicity. (Score 1) 983
What, noone mentioned duplicity yet?
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Comment Re:Wait for better robots (Score 1) 167
Also RT covered the Europium:
http://rt.com/op-edge/chernoby...
Now you can say they are no better, but do you really want to tell us to
trust the "operation mockingbird" media ?
Comment Re:Wait for better robots (Score 1) 167
But I think Japan's best bet for stable power is likely something like the Aquanator,
and Geothermal.
Comment Re:Will this be cheaper? (Score 1) 167
Agreed, they can learn from what they went thru at Chernobyl.
No need to reinvent the wheel except in a case where it can be proven as viable.
I think one thing that might make it cheaper for them would be hybrid concrete called
papercrete.
Comment Re:UnStAbLe (Score 0) 167
Printing $65 billion a month is the only reason the US hasn't had a Economic collapse.
The US is technically bankrupt if it was run as a business.
Back in 2010 the FDIC even had a negative balance sheet.
The US in financial terms can't rescue a little girl's lemonade stand except
by printing more funny money.
The only reason it is working now is due to the faith of all the ppl on the treadmill.
