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The Internet

Schools Buy .xxx Domains In Trademark Panic 231

bs0d3 writes "Schools nationwide, including The University of Missouri and Washington University, are snapping up .xxx domain names to avoid people making porn sites with their names in the url. The new .xxx domain will be launched later this year, and before that, everyone with a trademark will have the opportunity to reserve names during what's called a "sunrise period". Someone is promoting the possible horrors of what could happen as a way to sell these domains, which cost up to $200 dollars per domain per year. Even though these schools may already be protected from defamation and trademark infringement, they still feel compelled to buy these names."
Television

Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' 273

PolygamousRanchKid writes with an excerpt from SlashGear about Sony's efforts to reinvent the television set — a task many suspect Apple is focused on as well. Quoting: "'There's a tremendous amount of R&D going into a different kind of TV set,' CEO Howard Stringer told the WSJ (in a paywalled article). ... [W]hat Apple and Sony agree on is that the traditional TV paradigm must evolve if the segment is to become profitable again. A new model is 'what we’re all looking for,' Stringer confirmed, suggesting that 'we can’t continue selling TV sets [the way we have been]. Every TV set we all make loses money.'"

Comment Re:Really cool (Score 1) 220

You have to realize that if what you are saying is true, you are unique among mankind. Several controlled studies have been unable to find any difference between HFHP diets and other diets of the same caloric value. Occam's razor therefore strongly suggest that you either
1: have made some kind of mistake
2: suffer from an inability to make absorb fat/protein (e.g. colon damage)

If none of these would be true, volunteer for a scientific study your claims are extraordinary and understanding of how your body works would surely be a benefit to society.

Comment Re:Really cool (Score 1) 220

There is no evidence whatsoever that a high fat/high protein diet of equal amount of calories as a high carbohydrate would lead to increased weight loss.

Most likely you are severely over estimating the energy amount of your high fat/high protein diet as high protein diets have been shown to lead to a voluntary decrease in caloric intake in controlled trials. Try carefully documenting your intake of calories over an extended period of time and you will probably see that you are actually eating much less than you think you are.

If you are seriously eating many more calories a day of fat and protein without significant weight gain, I suggest an urgent visit to a doctor. With such a significant difference in caloric intake without any effects you are very likely to be having severe colonial malfunction which could lead to internal bleedings, infections and death.

Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 688

control.Enabled = false;
control.Enabled = true;

That you couldn't find a simple property searching through msdn says a lot about you.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.enabled.aspx

Hell "disable control c#" gives you an answer in the first hit on google. The msdn page might be a little to technical for you so might I suggest starting with:

http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/csharp/csharp.html

Comment Re:Dr. Roy Spencer... (Score 2) 954

While I'm pretty certain that you are a troll that doesn't actually care about science that will contradict his world view. I'm going to post a citation for you anyway. I can't link to the article directly since it will be behind a paywall however it's not like you were going to read them anyway (and if you did you wouldn't understand it). You can find the abstract if you google for the article name for most of them (an abstract is a summary of what the article says) in case you're genuinely curious.

Pope, C Arden, Richard T Burnett, Michelle C Turner, Aaron J Cohen, Daniel Krewski, Michael Jerrett, Susan M Gapstur, and Michael J Thun. 2011. Lung Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Associated with Ambient Air Pollution and Cigarette Smoke: Shape of the Exposure-Response Relationships. Environ Health Perspect. . (ISBN: 15529924)

Education

Girls Go Geek Again 378

nessus42 writes "Computer science has always been a male-dominated field, right? Wrong. In 1987, 42% of the software developers in America were women. And 34% of the systems analysts in America were women. Women had started to flock to computer science in the mid-1960s, during the early days of computing, when men were already dominating other technical professions but had yet to dominate the world of computing. For about two decades, the percentages of women who earned Computer Science degrees rose steadily, peaking at 37% in 1984.... And then the women left. In droves. ...it looks like women are now returning to computer science."

Comment Re:So does this mean I can stop seeing those ads (Score 1) 187

I agree with you, battery technology is the problem holding back widespread adoption of electric vehicles. However, for some applications, mopeds, short-distance automobiles and ultra-light aircraft (the articles example) battery technology has already reached sufficient capacity (and those application will use predominantly battery technology once economies of scale kicks in, it has already happened with mopeds).

Though an order of magnitude more capacity is far more capacity than needed. Currently the most energy dense batteries are not used for economical reasons (recharge times also play a big part) and cars with the highest capacity batteries would have enough juice to replace modern heavier weight cars due to the much more efficient electrical engine (roughly 4 times as efficient) and more lightweight motor system. Given time the prices of these batteries should fall down to reasonable levels making their way into consumer vehicles.

An improvement by a factor two would make electrical vehicles capable of replacing trucks (the diesel-cycle is about third as efficient as electrical engines) and an improvement by a factor four enough for commercial airlines (jet engines are about half as efficient as electrical engines)

Now in my post I discussed fuel efficiency because these markets are very price sensitive to the cost of fuel. Airplanes in particular might even go so far as to switch to battery technology even when the system is a net loss (x kg of battery gives you shorter range than x kg of synthetic fuel) given that the route is possible with battery technology since synthetic fuel would cost about ten times as much as charging the batteries and a major cost per flight is fuel.

Comment Re:So does this mean I can stop seeing those ads (Score 1) 187

Synthesizing hydrocarbon fuels, though possible, is not only expensive. It is really expensive.

If you exclude other fossil fuels as a suitable candidate (while they can be synthesized into liquid hydrocarbons at an efficiency of about 0.5 they are also running out). The chain electricity->synthetic jet fuel->combustion engine is about one tenth as effective as electricity->battery->electric engine.

So while battery tech might not be quite there yet, even if wide scale synthesis of jet fuel was already existing, there would still be a drive force towards electric airplanes.

Comment Re:Not in any practical sense (Score 2) 187

While what you're saying is true (that todays batteries are not energy dense enough). There are other advantages to a purely electric battery system making energy density not the only factor.

1. Higher efficiency of electric motors
2. Lower cost of fuel
3. Lower weight of electric motors

In fact, the article mentions that before it would be feasible to replace fuel with batteries for heavy aircraft battery capacity needs to increase by a factor of 4. When it does the switch-over would be fast due to the very high costs of flying air-planes.

In the meantime, we will have to settle for ultra-light airplanes using battery systems and watch as it becomes feasible for heavier and heavier aircrafts over time.

Microsoft

Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code 348

sfcrazy sends this quote from the H: "The 343 changes made by Microsoft developer K. Y. Srinivasan put him at the top of a list, created by LWN.net, of developers who made the most changes in the current development cycle for Linux 3.0. Along with a number of other 'change sets,' Microsoft provided a total of 361 changes, putting it in seventh place on the list of companies and groups that contributed code to the Linux kernel. By comparison, independent developers provided 1,085 change sets to Linux 3.0, while Red Hat provided 1,000 and Intel 839."

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