Comment Re:This just in, spy wants spy rules to stay (Score 1) 316
That tiger protection rock had a hidden microphone. We're going to have to take you in for questioning. What do you know about the Tamil Tigers?
Comment Nope... (Score 2) 186
Here are the real lessons of Sci-Fi movies.
Comment The mystery of how the story got out (Score 5, Funny) 218
Slightly overweight visitor: "Ok, Glass..."
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "What did you say?"
Slightly overweight visitor: "Uh, I said... looking classy... Looking classy, Mr. Salinger!"
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "Shh."
[ later that day ]
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "I wonder why that guy was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask."
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "What did you say?"
Slightly overweight visitor: "Uh, I said... looking classy... Looking classy, Mr. Salinger!"
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "Shh."
[ later that day ]
Heavily-Armed Librarian Guardian: "I wonder why that guy was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask."
Comment About time (Score 5, Funny) 419
They were supposed to close years ago. They never got the memo because they only communicate by telegraph.
Comment Finally some hard Sci-Fi (Score 1) 438
Comment Re:How is this surprising? (Score 1) 110
You're deluding yourself. Your furry parasite can't remember anything except his cold, unrelenting loathing for all humans and you in particular.
Comment Makers of the robot (Score 1) 41
Here's the lab at Harvard that developed this robot. There's more cool stuff on the YouTube channel.
Comment Re:Physical objects wear out, digital objects don' (Score 1) 240
Of course! All new technologies must be handicapped to make sure that the sellers of old technology can continue to make money. All digital photos should come with auto-deletion code to make sure that the makers of photo paper continue to stay in business. And a guy with a sledgehammer should show up every five years at your door to make sure you don't just keep using your artificial knee replacement forever.
Comment Re:A daily unreality (Score 1) 412
Pff! I only read "The True Scotsman." No "True Scotsman" would ever print letters like that.
Comment Re:Yes, but (Score 3, Funny) 168
The appropriate demo of the dangers of AC data center power will be to show an elephant losing his entire database due to a power failure. Ominous voiceover: "Unlike an elephant... AC-driven data centers always forget!"
Comment Hmm... (Score 1) 221
These 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance... surely these will be cakes?
Submission + - New Technique for Mass-Producing Microbots Inspired by Pop-up Books and Origami (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: Inspired by origami and children's pop-up books, Harvard engineers have pioneered a means of mass-producing bee-sized flying microrobots. The breakthrough mechanizes the already state-of-the art process of making Harvard's Mobee robots by hand, by mass producing flat assemblies by the sheet which can be folded and assembled in a single movement. The technique, which cunningly exploits existing machinery for making printed circuit boards, can theoretically be applied to a multitude of electromechanical machines.
Submission + - Harvard engineers develop new manufacturing process for robotic insect hordes (harvard.edu)
KBehemoth writes: According to a press release from Harvard: "A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and folding process enables the rapid fabrication of not just microrobots, but a broad range of electromechanical devices."
Comment All too familiar. (Score 5, Funny) 107
I think we know the number one culprit here, ahem [citation needed] ahem.
Comment Re:No pictures!~ (Score 5, Funny) 272
Couldn't find any pictures of the aliens, but I did locate schematics of the exploration vehicle: http://i.imgur.com/gER2w.jpg
