Thats the whole story? I was sort of expecting more. Well, to the final question of that rather short article. It was most likely the area where they kept their spent fuel bundles. I know in some nuclear power plants, the spent fuel bundles have to be kept in a pool of water for a number of years until their half life is met, and they can be transfered to a dry storage facility. Normally the "pool" is not guarded or locked due to personel constantly going in and out, but there is radiation checks that are done upon exiting the area, also you wear a device for monitoring your radiation dose.

As for the blue glow, you can read all about it on wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

I could see this being a good thing, and a bad thing. If online accounts are using hardware to determine the user account, whats to stop someone from just "borrowing" your hardware and connecting to your account? Sure, they could still have user names passwords and such as backup, but then what would be the point of doing the hardware authenication? Plus how much of a pain in the ass would it be to upgrade your computer and notify the online account to expect changes in your hardware for the next time you login?

Bah, i think i'm rambling now... need coffee... or beer... beer sounds better

Ha! "HER medium" must of been one of those certified psychics!

I can't wait to see what SGDarkKnight does when he finds out what I'm posting on slashdot with his account!

On the main website they don't really mention anything about interaction, but in the deviceguru link they state it outright that you "have the freedom to move and interact with people as if you were there". Isn't this just a glorified version of a mobile chat device. I remember the episode of TBBT where Sheldon built one similar, but it did have the "hands" so to speak which I consider "interaction" and not just "chatting" which is what this one appears to be.

Don't get me wrong, I love a spicy dish, as long as it has flavor. Can someone here who likes things "hot" explain this to me? Really, whats the point of eating something that will make you sweat like a pig, and have no taste or flavor to it?

I had a friend take me to a pub once, because they had a special deal, where if you ate 4 chicken wings in thier "hot sauce", then the meal was free, your picture taken and put on a wall. I ate one, and wanted to throw up. Yes, I was sweating like a pig, but the sauce they used had a god awful after taste. Now, one of my pubs back home made a special blend of hot sauce for their wings (this wasn't on the menu). I would have to say, that sauce was hotter than the previous mentioned one, but the flavor was the best I've ever had. I could only manage to eat 5 wings, but I wanted more, just couldn't take it the heat.

That combination of flavor and heat, I have not found again since moving away from home. I can't understand how anyone would eat anything that is hot for the sake of being hot, all the while forgetting about flavor.

FTA: "Currently, the fluid is pulled in from a reservoir, but in the future it could be incorporated into the robot's body."

Im not sure if you're joking with this comment or not. I know that there is much debate currently going on regarding the great lakes, and how much water (both the USA and Canada) are entitled to take. Places like Las Vagas, who need far more water brought in than say a regular city thats not built in a dessert.

Water treatment is becomming a far more important industry than others, most people just haven't realized it yet.

I made a medical robot semi-autonomous in my final robotics project back in my college days. Basically, it was able to teach itself locations, detect objects, determine the shape of the object, determine the best way to pick it up, identify the object and sort it; all using nothing more than simple math. I never needed to go into any advances mathematics to make it all work. I thought I was biting off more than I could chew at the time, but once I found out that simple math was all I needed, the program was simple to write.

well, i would have to agree with you on this one. My old doctor that I use to go to was a huge pill pusher. I mean, he had pills for everything, and on more than one occasion, the pills he was giving out, turned out to have some major "unknown" side effects and got recalled. Thankfully, I didn't take any of them.

I'm sure my old family doctor wasn't the only one who was a pill pusher. So if it happened a couple of times to me, I'm sure it's happened to many others.

You mean that the smartest and brightest are not all born in the USA? I'm shocked.

I once asked Siri where the closest tittybar was, it directed me to the nearest high school. I'm still not sure if that was a mistake or not....

Umm, unless your native american, all "American" names are foreign.

sounds like you need some sleep

This will probably get modded all to shit since i dont have a referance, but do you think this technology will actually hit the market?

I remember back in the good old days of CD's, there was a company that created a new type of recording information to CD's using fluorescent lighting. They had a working model they presented at a technology expo, and it was all the rave saying how it will blow CD's and DVD's out of the water with the amount of storage capacity (they were able to get close to a hundred layers on a disc the size of a CD). I can't remember what the exact storage capacity was, and a google search comes up with nothing anymore. I just remember that the company suddenly disappeared (probably bought out and the tech scrapped).

Makes me wonder if the same thing might happen again, although, with a company as well known as seagate, I think it might be harder for them to disappear.