Oh yes, I am full gear all the time! But most riders, like you said, don't have anything on but the legally required helmet (in some states not even that!).

As a motorcycle rider, I welcome this awesome advancement in bio-3d printing. Wake Forest is also doing some incredible stuff with this technology. I'm hoping they can use the superior 3d printing capabilities of stereo-lithography to create a super-detailed biomesh that can later have cells grafted onto it. Currently we have to strip off the cells of a donor organ to get the structure then put the patient's cells in a slurry over that. While that is still amazing, creating the scaffolding is the next big ticket.

Now there's an interesting idea! I'd also like to see in-lamp support for multiple LED types...Like a 'night mode' that puts out orange-red spectrum light. Of course, you'd need custom LEDs to work with this type of lamp. If you could make it work then you'd have some pretty decent lock-in. Possibly allow for the straight LEDs from the manufacturer plug straight in (heat issues would have to be addressed somehow around that socket).

This is sounding more and more like a nerd's dream lamp but nobody elses :-\

I had no idea what besan or jackfruit were... I will now stop comparing the two.

They measured in days, not hours....a trick to hype up the amount.

TFA is pretty poorly written, but the pictures are pretty awesome. IMHO the biggest innovation here is the use of those circular mirrors veruses some custom curved mirror that pretty much all existing parabolic-type solar arrays had used. These can be mass produced super cheaply so replacement is more about fixing individual components versus chucking the whole array. They are also likely able to fine tune each mirror to guide the sun towards the center the best. I wonder if they could actively change via computer control. The actual PV section is also pretty smart, as it is a relatively smaller footprint than unamplified PV arrays. Hopefully that'd translate to few materials and lower costs. These always bring up more questions though...like: What about stray reflections? Could they blind people or melt cars if placed in a parking lot (like the example given in TFA) What is the lifespan of those solar arrays if they're getting blasted with such high amounts of light. How fast would they fail if the coolant system ran out? Would it fail catastrophically?

I was going to say pretty much this.

I remember reading it when I was 13 thinking 'Mix bleach and ammonia together on the stove on high heat? Yeah fucking right!' Of course, for everybody that had enough sense to see that it was clearly dangerous without any actual proof/background behind their choices there were probably four people who tried it.

Of course, I did end up making napalm and lighting it in my backyard!
Mom coming home early from work seeing a 15ft high flame with a column of black smoke 100s of feet in the air: IS THAT A GREASE FIRE?!?!
Me:.....yes?
Mom: Salt puts it out!
*salt does nothing*

We eventually snuffed it out with a pan lid. It was pretty stupid of me in hindsight...live and learn (if you still live).

Protip: Get a sense of humor. You are the reason why he had to qualify it.

The only legit reason I continue to use Facebook is that it is good for keeping track of upcoming events (parties, concerts, etc). G+ did not have any comparable feature. If it did, and did so cleanly without all the other FB-esque trash that went along with it, I'm sure many (of at least my)people would have dumped FB.

Personally, I'd like to survive long enough to be able to extract my brain and place it into a self-contained support system. It'd of course have to have a substantial sensory input/output system to allow me to interact with my 'surroundings' ie a networked virtualized world. I think this is the only realistic way to 'download' your consciousness to a machine. The brain is simply too complex to abstract to a computer...why not just preserve and support the brain itself? It'd solve all the strange philosophical problems of consciousness transfer and whatnot.

There's nothing requiring breaking the laws of physics for this to work. Obviously it is technologically quite a ways away from today. Given that we're accelerating our technology at an exponential rate, I don't think it is totally out of the realm of possibility that it could be available within the next 50-70 years. It'd certainly cut down on energy/space requirements for me (and possibly billions others), and also allow me to 'live forever'...kinda.

Thanks for the tip about the Mill CPU!! People have been bitching about how Slashdot has gone down the shitter since I was in High School (~2002). There has always been a variable signal to noise ratio, but the signal has consistently proven to be worthwhile enough to come back. Case in point: this.

http://millcomputing.com/docs/belt/

...or if it didn't get billions of dollars of US aid....

It has? We must be getting our news from two vastly different sources.

I also didn't say "millions" because I desperately hope it not to be true, but based on where this is happening it isn't impossible.

The fact that these cities contain millions of people in deplorable conditions before Ebola even touched it.

The symptoms include severe diarrhea and vomiting. There is little to no sewage system in these cities. Where do you think it's all going?