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Comment Re:Very theoretical research (Score 1) 316

by rde on Saturday August 02, 2008 @02:26PM (#24449485) Attached to: New Results Contradict Long-Held Chemistry Dogma

This is fascinating. I know it is all very theoretical, and based on computer models of how a material behaves under extreme pressure.

But frankly, I fail to see any practical applications for this. We are talking about 1,5 million atmospheres and 3000 Kelvin - hence not a typical lab environment.

The point isn't that they act differently under high pressure; it's that they act differently. Whenever we've got a model that's proved wrong - and it happens all the time - then new theories come forward to explain the new behaviour. It's those new theories that lead to breakthroughs (or breaks through).
And even if it doesn't, it doesn't matter. We still know more than we did before.

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Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites 146

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 01, 2008 @01:38PM from the hey-slashdot-jp-what-does-this-mean dept.

RemyBR writes "A Japanese government panel is proposing to govern "influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated." The panel, set up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said Internet service providers (ISPs) should be answerable for breaches of vaguer "minimum regulations" to guard against "illegal and harmful content." The conservative government, led by the Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, is seeking to have the new laws passed by Parliament in 2010."

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Submission + - Internet Uses 9.4% of U.S. Electricity (prweb.com)

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ribuck

on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @02:43PM

ribuck writes: "Equipment powering the internet accounts for 9.4% of electricity demand in the U.S., and 5.3% of global demand, according to research by David Sarokin at online pay-for-answers service Uclue. Worldwide, that's 868 billion kilowatt-hours per year. The total includes the energy used by desktop computers and monitors (which makes up two-thirds of the total), plus other energy sinks including modems, routers, data processing equipment and cooling equipment."

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Harvard Law Professor Urges University to Fight RIAA 180

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 05, 2007 @02:56AM from the you-know-you-want-to dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Distinguished Harvard University Law School Professor Charles Nesson has called upon Harvard University to fight back against the RIAA and stand up for its students, writing 'Seeking to outsource its enforcement costs, the RIAA asks universities to point fingers at their students, to filter their Internet access, and to pass along notices of claimed copyright infringement. But these responses distort the University's educational mission. ...[W]e should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students.'"

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Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux 450

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 30, 2007 @05:23PM from the twelve-cases-of-ballz-later dept.

mrneutron2004 writes "A French physician and ardent Linux supporter is the one man you can all thank for adding support for 352 webcams in Linux. The Open Source OS world may still be a bit of a mess when competing with the ease of Windows, but efforts like this make you wonder. One man with drive, tenacity, and no funding does what no one else can do. And none of the major Linux distributions back this guy's efforts, even the big players dipping into the corporate world's coffers."

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Submission + - Scientists regrow chicken wing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17, 2006 @07:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: Unlike salamanders and lizards, most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. But a research team in San Diego has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo — a species not known to be able to regrow limbs — suggesting the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including humans.

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Journal SPAM: Nobody was sure if he was really from the House of Lords 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday November 17, 2006 @06:57PM

the Mail online

'Aliens could attack at any time' warns former MoD chief
By CHARLOTTE GILL

UFO sightings and alien visitors tend to be solely the reserve of sci-fi movies.

So when a former MoD chief warns that the country could be attacked by extraterrestrials at any time, you may be forgiven for feeling a little alarmed.

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