Comment Re:Deja vu (Score 2) 311
Yes, its not like anyone would put in a road made from modular hard materials. I mean, the cobblestone roads of Rome are only two thousand years old.
Comment Re: Eight years? Might work if... (Score 1) 81
I'm glad thats not my Subaru. It went 220,000 miles before needing a major repair. If you consider replacing the alternator major.
Comment Re:Flawed reasoning (Score 1) 765
this is why a guns should be able to prevent unathorized people from using them. yes, i know its a liberal site but the facts kind of speak for themselves. and why not let the people who want smart guns buy them? why send death threats to gun shops for daring to sell them?
Comment Re:Camera gun (Score 0) 765
are you part of a state militia? is it a well regulated militia? then why would you think that the 2nd amendment applies to you?
FCC Chairman Will Reportedly Revise Broadband Proposal 105
An anonymous reader writes "FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said he will revise proposed rules for regulating broadband Internet, and is offering assurances that the agency won't allow companies to segregate Web traffic into fast and slow lanes. From the article: 'The new language by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to be circulated as early as Monday is an attempt to address criticism of his proposal unveiled last month that would ban broadband providers from blocking or slowing down websites but allow them to strike deals in which content companies could pay them for faster delivery of Web content to customers.'"
Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams 138
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "A new study suggests that mild current applied to the scalp while sleeping can help people become aware of, and even control, their dreams—a phenomenon called lucid dreaming. Researchers recruited 27 men and women to spend several nights in a German sleep lab. After the volunteers had plunged into REM sleep, a state in which people are unable to move and the most vividly recalled dreams occur, researchers applied electrical current to their skulls near the forehead and temples. This boosted neural activity in the frontotemporal cortex, a brain region associated with conscious self-awareness, which normally gets tamped down during REM. Researchers then woke the participants and asked them to detail any dreams they could remember. People who had received 40 Hz of current were lucid in more than 70% of their reported dreams. The researchers suggest that the technique could potentially be used to help people who suffer from chronic nightmares."
Comment Sounds like school paper time. (Score 0) 482
Quit asking us to do your homework for you.
Comment Re:Fermi paradox (Score 1) 608
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."
Comment Re:Maybe not extinction... (Score 2) 608
That's a myth. http://www.straightdope.com/co...
Comment Re:Internet access should be a socialized service (Score 1) 520
The US Postal Service accurately routes and delivers over 500 million mailpieces each and every day. We could do worse than the post office.
Comment Re:Internet access should be a socialized service (Score 1) 520
The US Post Office inefficient? Would you like to define efficient? Because by my definition, a company that can accurately route 500 million pieces of mail each and every day is pretty fucking awesome.
Comment significantly more (Score 1) 270
now that my son is old enough to play video games with me.
Comment By the same (lol) logic... (Score 1) 363
Staying on Earth will end up with you dead too, which must also be tantamount to suicide. Therefore, if you are Muslim, you shouldn't be allowed to live anywhere.
Comment We all know (Score 1) 241
That any implementation of Android taken over by Microsoft will be completely forked.
Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years 225
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center have created a pizza that can be stored for up to three years while still remaining edible. 'It pretty much tastes just like a typical pan pizza that you would make at home and take out of the oven or the toaster oven,' said Jill Bates who heads up the lab. 'The only thing missing from that experience would be it's not hot when you eat it. It's room temperature.'"
