Comment Re:Don't use science talk (Score 1) 487
Maybe the Fox News crowd would understand it better if the guest "intelligently designed" it for them.
Submission + - Wormholes Can Be Built, Scientists Say
An anonymous reader writes: According to Wired News' DANGER ROOM blog, scientists have theorized a way to build "Wormholes — those hypothetical short cuts in the space-time continuum — that have been theorized to allow everything from warp speed spacecraft to time travel. Now, researchers are suggesting we can actually create a type of wormhole using those fun metamaterials that everyone is all excited about lately."
Submission + - RIAA Opposes 'Fair Use' Bill
fishyfool writes: "Link to story
There's a new bill in congress aimed at preserving our fair use rights. It should come as no surprise that the RIAA is against it.
this quoted;
"The Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship (FAIR USE) Act, introduced Tuesday by U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and John Doolittle, a California Republican, would allow customers to circumvent digital copy restrictions in six limited areas when copyright owners' business models are not threatened, Boucher said in a press release. So-called fair use doctrine allows customers of copyright works to make limited numbers of copies, particularly for reviews, news reporting, teaching and research.
The bill would allow exemptions to the anticircumvention restrictions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by Congress in 1998. The bill is revamped from similar bills introduced in the last two sessions of Congress, Boucher said.""
Submission + - Whatever Happened To The Electronics Hobbyist?
plcurechax writes: Louis Frenzel asks Whatever Happened To The Electronics Hobbyist? at Electronics Design, a magazine for EE designers. The article touches on kits, radio, Moore's Law, economics, education, and robotics.
Submission + - Vacuum tube turns 100
wenko writes: "The device that heralded the beginning of the 20th century electronics industry first saw the light of day in late 1906, just over a century ago. This was the triode electron tube, or audion, as its inventor called it."
Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Build Mars Lander 258
Lord_Slepnir writes "Lockheed Martin has won a contract to build the Orion crew exploration vehicle that will eventually take humans to the moon and then on to Mars. This vehicle will hopefully also replace the aging space shuttle fleet. According to NASA the vehicle will have manned missions by 2014 and moon missions by no later by 2020."
Journal Journal: I love beer
I love beer...a lot.
My top three favorites are:
1) Guinness
2) Smithwicks
3) Harp
Have a favorite beer? List yours below.
