please let me know. I'll be happy to volunteer

Really? Wow. Who would have thought ;)

we should make them a superhero class!

Hire a lot of unemployed and offer a bonus for finding something.

What they did isn't within the contract he agreed to. That's what lawyers are for.

That said, if that's all this guy wants then a burner phone is probably about 1/4th the cost of his AT&T plan, and it's 1/10th the cost of what most of my colleagues at work pay for their plan.

This is very comparable to the field effect transistor. So the flow of electrons is controlled with magnetism instead of an electric field. Ok, but it still requires energy to create the gating field. Unless it requires less energy to create the magnetic field than it does to create the electrical field I don't see how this is in any way superior.

There's nothing that explains how the transistors are going to be dynamically reconfigured either.

I think either the reporter didn't understand or this is a joke.

Lots of interesting questions now pop up.

Does it pull over for cops?

Does it communicate with other cars and stop lights so they can all apply the gas simultaneously when the light changes?

Does it ask parking garages if they're full? Better yet will it ask if any cars are moving in the garage and go faster if it's got a clear shot?

The opening line here is a bait and switch. "Can a farmer commit patent infringement just by planting soybeans he bought on the open market?" The answer is no. He's not in violation for planting the seeds he bought. He's in violation for planting the seeds derived from that seeds he bought. Will you please grow up and write honest stories instead of this sensationalist garbage?

If the semiconductor has a high flux density quench then we could make a small toroidial coil and dump a large current into it. The stored power could then be extracted by magnetic coupling using a coil wrapped around it.

There's a down side though if you can store large amounts of power. If you break the circuit the power will need to go somewhere and you get a large explosion. It would make a good bomb, EMP weapon, replacement for gun powder (rail gun anyone?), car battery, etc. (I'm using this in my up coming MMO)

If you can store really large amounts of power then why bother with small power plants? Take your town battery to Niagra Falls, charge it up, then truck it back. No more power distribution grid problems and power loss over long haul lines.

Seconded. His comment was uncalled for. Though I can't agree with your sentiment. They don't get negative for no reason. They get negative for no discernible reason. They're still not usually well thought out reasons.

Your parents weren't as stupid as you thought.

Yeah, really! WTF?

XML was designed to be readable by humans. The opposite of encryption. There are lots of good encryption methods available already.

Slashdot really needs an editor to weed out stupid stories

Grey listing is much better.

A news organization would not have repeated this drek. The author has either no brains or is ignoring the obvious to generate controversy. Either way, how about editing it out in future?

but so what. It's likely not to be useful for much other than to prove a point. Too bad the authors couldn't spend their time on something useful instead.