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Comment Re:Why convert the steam to electricity? (Score 1) 937

by reeno49 (#37071650) Attached to: 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars

Because then the steampunks will be PISSED. Could you imagine spending that much money on a fantasy hobby and then turn around to find out it's become reality? Not only will it not be cool anymore, but they won't even get any credit for pushing the idea into (sorta) pop-culture.

Oh, the humanity...

Comment Re:Jumping the Gun (Score 1) 162

by reeno49 (#36664820) Attached to: Google To Rebrand Blogger & Picasa For Google+ Integration

I've always thought that fragmentation of their products (possibly due to the large number of products having been purchased from their creators) is part of what has halted or slowed their popularity. While it's still too early to tell if Google+ is going to be the force they hope it'll be, I can only imagine that bringing all of their socially geared products under one roof will simply add to the surge of people joining up.

Think about all of the people who don't know about Picasa or blogger, now they see this new shiny Google+ with these things integrated? If it were me, I'd probably just be impressed with how well rounded the network is so early (assuming they do it in a while that's impressive). Google has a great brand to geeks and non-geeks alike and I, for one, hope they do well with this.
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Submission + - Military and Government e-mails hacked (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is reporting that 16,959 e-mails were exposed by Connexion Hack Team. Included in the data dump are military and government accounts which are listed in the article. Numerous other accounts were also compromised which include GMail, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL accounts.
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Submission + - New Approach for Laser Weapons (xconomy.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Laser guns and other "directed energy weapons" have remained in sci-fi lore because of their inefficiency, bulkiness, and poor beam quality. Now an MIT Lincoln Lab spinoff called TeraDiode is developing a diode laser that uses "wavelength beam combining" to create what it calls the brightest and most powerful laser of its kind. The two-year-old company, backed by $3 million from the U.S. Department of Defense and $4 million from venture capitalists, is working on a compact airborne laser system for planes to shoot down heat-seeking missiles. Eventually, the lasers could be mounted on a tank or ship to destroy enemy UAVs or even incoming artillery shells. That's still at least three to five years away, but with advances in semiconductor lasers there seems to be quite a renewed interest in weaponry.

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