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Comment Re:Leak DRM? (Score 1) 287

by Mogster (#34453964) Attached to: With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger

For the record it is not particularly easy to use a printer to duplicate, say, 250,000 diplomatic cables and walk out with them under your arms.

True, however if said documents were already in deadtree format then all one needs is a camera.

And a microSD card is a lot less painfull than a roll of film... or so I would imagine ;-)
Science

Submission + - Kiwi scientists make atomic 'breakthrough' (stuff.co.nz)

Submitted by Mogster
Mogster writes: "University of Otago scientists have made a "major physics breakthrough" with the development of a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving single atom. A team of four researchers from the university's physics department are believed to be the first to isolate and photograph the Rubidium 85 atom"

Good to see Kiwi's following in Rutherford's footsteps

Submission + - Gravity Theory Mod May Rule Out Dark Matter 2

Submitted by pupitetris
pupitetris writes: Newton may prove himself right again when he stated that we should better find the forces that explain the movement of the stars, rather than claiming the existence of misterious and undetectable substances: S. Mendoza and X. Hernandez, two mexican astrophysicists, postulate a modification to the equation of the theory of gravity that explain the current observations of large-scale phenomena that couldn't be previously explained using gravity alone, while still retaining consistency with medium and small scale observations. This renders the Dark Matter theory unnecessary, and provides a cleaner and more ellegant solution to outer-space observations that have startled scientists for decades.
Politics

Submission + - Happy Petrov Day (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by ChienAndalu
ChienAndalu writes: This day in 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world from a potential nuclear holocaust.

Comment Re:Darwin +1 Creationism +0 (Score 1) 293

by Mogster (#33671404) Attached to: Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil

By that logic, Creationism = Big Bang Theory.

I would suggest splitting Creationism into two parts
1) Initial creation
2) Flora, Fauna, etc created as they are today

The first part can fit nicely into the theory of Evolution - belief dependent of course

One of the early pioneers of the Big Bang theory was also a Catholic Priest. Georges_Lemaitre

And before someone else brings it up there is also 'Intelligent Design'. However I can't speak for that as I'm not overly familiar with the tenants of its proponents and am not in the mood for a flamewar :-)

Comment Re:This is why science rocks. (Score 1) 311

by Mogster (#33656180) Attached to: LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe

Didn't they tally up the numbers in 1650. So it's at LEAST 6360 years old now.

Given all the monkeying around with the calendar over the years, taking into account leap second adjustments every-so-often and the uncertainty of when the year 0 was based on Jebus' actual DOB, etc

It's now roughly 6314.15926535897932384626433832795 years old

Comment Re:Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser? (Score 1) 216

by Mogster (#33223370) Attached to: The Vending Machines of the Future

Lets hope the "Central Server" doesn't do something important in its spare time like run traffic signals or something. It could be quite a disaster is somebody feeds in all this information about the history of the East India Company.

As long as someone ensures that the manufacturers are first against the wall when the revolution comes.

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