Comment Already have one: the power button. (Score 1) 434
Or is turning it off just too much to ask?
Element 114 Verified 142
ExRex writes "A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has observed the production of superheavy element 114, confirming the results of researchers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. Those researchers first reported producing element 114 in 1999. Such independent verification is important, particularly given the evidence of fabricated results for other superheavy elements. If you're a subscriber to Physical Review Letters, you can download the full article."
Comment Re:UAE - no surprise (Score 1) 116
Never been to Vu's Bar, have you?
Comment Even money bet that Northrup Grumman (Score 3, Insightful) 76
has created a sizeable percentage of the space-junk it's now offering to track.
Nifty business model, that.
Comment NOTHING to do with the American Const. Society (Score 1) 50
Except for that, very amusing.
Comment This isn't the Internet - it's filter data access (Score 4, Insightful) 502
The free service could be slower and would be required to filter out pornography and other material not suitable for children.
Right, the same FCC that is fining stations hundreds of thousands of dollars because they didn't bleep out Bono's "fucking brilliant" in time will determine what is and isn't suitable content accessible through this service.
Fuck that.
Comment They're in my yard, dude, in Arlington County (Score 1) 474
Feel free to come pick them up (along with all the ()*#!@!@ squirrels).
Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics 425
zogger writes in his journal, "The guy who put together the concept of geographical location combined with cheap transportation leading to 'like trades with like' and the rise of superindustrial trading blocs has won the Nobel economics science prize. He's a bigtime critic of a lot of this administration's policies, and is unabashedly an FDR-economy styled fella. Here is his blog at the NYTimes." Reader yoyoq adds that Krugman's career choice was inspired by reading Asimov's Foundation series at a young age.
Journal Journal: Testing
Testing my permanent record.
