Comment It's clearly a seisure! (Score 1) 594
Adding weight to the car reduced gas mileage, thus it is a fuel seisure. The amount may be negligible, but the question is, is it reasonable?
Submission + - Researchers create 'rubbery metal'
Space_donkey writes: Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new type of metal that also has the vibration-dampening properties of rubber. That's according to a patent filing discovered by New Scientist. Ultimately, it might be used in aircraft engines and other systems that experience a lot of vibration. In the shorter-term it could also be seen in sports equipment such as tennis rackets and baseball bats.
Submission + - Advertising on WIkipedia?
An anonymous reader writes: Some Wikipedians have objected to Virgin Unite's participation in the Wikimedia Foundation's fund drive, calling it adverising. But there's a strong case that Wikipedia should run advertising. The funds raised could support dozens of Firefox-scale free knowledge and free software projects, outspending all but the wealthiest foundations.
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Submission + - IOCCC 2006 is now open
leob writes: The 19th International Obfuscated C Code Contest opens one minute before the New Year to qualify for the 2006 designation. Entries accepted until the end of February. Start writing and submitting your entries now!
Submission + - Classical Chinese Combinatorics
h9xh9xh9x writes: A computational linguist in a federally-funded research project at UC Berkeley has solved a 3,000 year-old mystery, in a new book entitled Classical Chinese Combinatorics. A mathematical proof found hidden in an ancient Chinese text shows how the Chinese invented binary mathematics 600 years before the time of Euclid.
