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Comment Re:Glenn Beck is a fucking moron. (Score 1) 413

by Bucky24 (#41527867) Attached to: Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful
I used to watch Beck (though this was three years ago, I imagine he's gotten a little crazier since). I have to say I did agree with a lot of his points, mostly concerning the constitution. I mostly stopped watching when he started saying that we needed to get the country back to religious roots.

Comment Re:"Political Correctness" (Score 1) 1223

by Bucky24 (#41482537) Attached to: Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks

Now, when Romney was asked "Isn't it the government's responsibility to provide health care to the fifty million people who don't have it today?" he answered, "“Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance. If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and — and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care." Now that was a f**cking moronic answer, and he deserves to be mocked for it.

Why was that a moronic answer? I'm sure the reason is apparent but for the life of me I'm unable to see it...
Hardware

Submission + - Sharp develops see-through solar panel for windows (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Solar power may hold the promise of free energy from the sun, but the panels used are expensive and do take up a lot of room. Typically you’ll find them installed on a roof or filling an area of land next to the building requiring the green energy. But now Sharp is offering up a third option: solar panels that double as windows.

Sharp has managed to develop a solar panel that takes the form of a sheet of glass and only partially blocks light passing through it. That allows it to still generate energy, but also act as a window. Sharp achieved this by cutting tiny slits in thin-film silicon PV cells. The trade-off for cutting into the cells is lower energy generation. Sharp can currently produce the see-through panels at sizes up to 1.4 x 1.0 meters, and a thickness of just 9.5mm. Each panel weighs 33kg and can produce a maximum output of 95W. Pricing has not yet been revealed.

Submission + - Programming Above and Beyond Your Ability (typepad.com)

Submitted by pHatidic
pHatidic writes: Alex Krupp writes about using a FOSS mind mapping program called FreeMind to become a better programmer. The essay explains how organizing programming language documentation in a mind map can help coders to program above and beyond their actual ability. He gives examples of how using this tool (or one similar) can help programmers to better understand their tools, to think more creatively, and to remember techniques they’ve used previously.
Digital

Submission + - Federal Law Needed to Safeguard Digital Afterlives (illinois.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new paper from Professor Jason Mazzone at the University of Illinois calls for federal laws to regulate what happens to digital accounts after the account holder's death. Mazzone argues that Facebook and other online services have policies for deceased users' accounts that do not adequately protect the individual property and privacy interests at stake. The full text of the paper (called "Facebook's Afterlife") is also available at this link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2142594
Biotech

Submission + - First mammals observed regenerating tissue (nature.com)

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ananyo writes: "Two species of African spiny mouse have been caught at something no other mammal is known to do — completely regenerating damaged tissue. The work could help improve wound healing in humans.
The species — Acomys kempi and Acomys percivali — have skin that is brittle and easily torn, which helps them to escape predators by jettisoning patches of their skin when caught or bitten. Researchers report that whereas normal laboratory mice (Mus musculus) grow scar tissue when their skin is removed, African spiny mice can regrow complete suites of hair follicles, skin, sweat glands, fur and even cartilage (abstract). Tissue regeneration has not been seen in mammals before, though it is common in crustaceans, insects, reptiles and amphibians."

Comment Re:just wait for the clueless Congress to ban linu (Score 1) 343

by Bucky24 (#41468783) Attached to: Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism
Considering that most of the major tech companies use Linux servers, I suspect that such a bill would not go very far. Then again, if it did succeed, expect to see a mass exodus of most major tech companies from this country. I imagine our economy wouldn't fare so well if that happened.

Then again, I've never failed to be surprised at how stupid people can be...

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