Presumably the whitebox device would include as core components all of the FCC-approved hardware necessary to use said frequencies. Upgrading the GPU, the amount of RAM, or the battery shouldn't have anything to do with this.

When you build your own PC from separate components, you don't have to worry about whether it can be powered by 60hz AC. The power supplies sold in this country are built to handle the electric supply found in this country and come with all of the UL (etc.) approvals.

The idea is that open source and the freedoms that come with it facilitate and ensure that you can continue to do cool and interesting things, often things the original designers didn't think of. It's certainly easier to be creative when you have the full specifications, source code, and documentation. It's easier to share your creativity with others when you can legally redistribute your derived works without violating someone else's copyright.

Obsession with anything is not good; on that I agree. However I haven't seen that in this thread. To cry "obsession" merely because someone points out a controversy isn't helpful (and ironically raises the question of whether you have an obsession with the perceived obsessions of others). All I saw was someone stating that they wish to avoid certain Broadcom hardware because it does not provide the degree of open source access that he or she desired. That people have their own criteria and express a desire to choose products that best suit their own needs is a good thing. Your own priorities being different is not surprising and doesn't indicate fault with anyone else.

My great grandmother drank a can of A&W root beer every afternoon and ate a small bag of potato chips. Until that horrible habit cut her down at the tender young age of 101 years. Avoid sugary carbonated drinks!

vinegar makes a good cleaner too for many things. so do other acidic edible things. do you have a point?

wrong, chemical reactions in the real world don't go 100% and reagents show up in the final product. HFCS has a number of processes for production and some quite nasty reagents are used

Never heard of any of those. Fellow fraudsters with a sheepskin are impressive. Rossi has a track recond of taking money and failing to deliver.

The FACTS are that Andrea Rossi takes investor money and never delivers. This is not his first or second or third time. He parts gullible investors from their money. Why do we have to have this junk science on slashdot?

India is bringing two thorium reactors online next year. India's roadmap is to have 25 of its energy from nuclear power by 2025.

China has 21 nuclear plants running, and 27 more under construction. They are also building reactors for other countries now. In the next six years they will triple their nuclear power capacity, and triple it again by 2030.

You show your incredible ignorance. The rangers do in fact hunt with those rifles (are required to do so as part of survival training), and of course as armed forces practice and patrol with those arms.

Wrong, stock will melt if left under vehicle curved window in summer. I speak from experience.

Came for the Robotics Notes reference to Mizuka Irei's prosthetic legs walking her off a cliff, and left hungry

How about an "I'm dead" button, cool creepiness factor there.

There is a very good theory known for over two centuries to explain heat meaurements, disimilar conductors in an electrolyte form a galvanic cell. Ascribing that to fusion is junk science. Storm seeks popularity and hooplah, never mind his credentials.

no, you are confused. The worst case is exactly what LFTR addresses and of course its engineers talk about that. Blow a hole in a LTFR reactors, the fuel drains into collection tanks and cools like glass. The salts are chemically stable and don't burn, decompose or explode.

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

Smarter countries than the USA are racing ahead with smarter U235 reactor designs and thorium reactors. Growing, not dead.