Comment Re:Duh! (Score 1) 169
would mod you up if i could, but since i made so many typo's in my post i hope no one else does it
Comment Re:Duh! (Score 1) 169
Eartj will remain for a lot longer than the human race will... we are merelly destroying ourselves, not the planet we live in
The ecosystem will simply find another way to live one, and florish once we are gone
Comment Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog (Score 0) 1065
for some reason i cant quite see the UK as a democracy, u know ?
Comment that awkward moment (Score 1) 112
when you learn something about your own country in a foreign news site
Comment that awkward moment (Score 1) 85
when you get news about your own country first in an international news site
Comment Re:Lost in (Score 1) 340
but he didnt speak span... ah, i give up
Comment Taxes (Score 1) 233
yay, more taxes for me to pay as an excuse for the government to justify the media corporations why it fail so bad to fight music piracy... i hope they stop the annoying anti-piracy commercials after that
mod me troll if you want, but as a brazilian i am not that happy about this piece of law which adds more taxes than we already have to pay
Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion 147
katarn writes "General Fusion is a startup proposing they can create commercially viable fusion using acoustic shock waves, triggered by 220 precisely controlled pneumatic pistons. Their approach is based on a US Naval research concept called 'Linus' and old research done by General Atomics. They feel we now have the high-speed, digital processing capable of pulling off this feat, where decades ago the technology was not available. I think we can hold off on the 'vaporware' claims for a bit; everyone is aware of the horrible track record for turning fusion concepts into reality, but they don't claim to be the first with the idea or that there are not substantial challenges in the way. If nothing else, it is a fascinating concept."
Los Alamos National Laboratory has further details on this type of fusion, and longtime LANL researcher Ronald Kirkpatrick did an external assessment (PDF) of General Fusion's plans. Popular Science had a lengthy story about the company a while back. The reason they're back in the headlines now is that they've secured enough funding to begin work on a prototype reactor.
Comment Re:The web is NOT the OS (Score 1) 1089
you know, no one is forcing you to use it or any other google app
Sunspots Return 276
We're emerging from the longest, deepest sunspot drought since 1913 (we discussed its depths here) with the appearance of a robust group of sunspots over the weekend. Recently we discussed a possible explanation for the prolonged minimum. The Fox News article quotes observer Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, Calif.: "This is the best sunspot I've seen in two years." jamie found a NASA site where you can generate a movie of the recent sunspot's movement — try selecting the first image type and bumping the resolution to 1024. The magnetic field lines are clearly visible.
Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed 436
johndmartiniii writes "Farhad Manjoo has a review of Firefox 3.5 at Slate.com this week. From the article: 'Lately I've been worried about Firefox. Ever since its debut in 2004, the open-source Web browser has won acclaim for its speed, stability, and customizability. It eventually captured nearly a quarter of the market, an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation. But recently Firefox seemed to go soft.' The worried tone in the beginning of the review gives way to excitement over the HTML5 features being implemented, saying that thus far Firefox 3.5 'offers the best implementation of the standard — and because it's the second-most-popular Web browser in the world, the new release is sure to prompt Web designers to create pages tailored to the Web's new language.'" The final version could be here at any time; Firefox 3.5 is still shown as a release candidate at Mozilla's home page. Update: 06/30 15:31 GMT by T : No longer marked as RC; the Firefox upgrade page now says 3.5 has arrived.
Comment Re:Sugar cane not corn (Score 5, Informative) 894
At first, ethanol in Brazilian fuel is nothing more than a subside for northeastern Brazilian farmers
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Comment ethanol scam? (Score 1) 894
weird... we use ethanol over here in Brazil for a long time already, and aside from one crisis on availability of fuel in the past, we never had any problems with our cars. And we blend 25% ethanol into our gas.
Comment Re:Uh, no (Score 1) 503
Weren't the Soviets the first ones into Berlin?
yes they were, but that only happened in the end of WW2 (in the european front atleast), AFTER the US joined the war.
the point was that, without support from the US, the world would look a lot different.
Comment Re:Fun Read? (Score 1) 397
I belong to your sister-cult, the Fuck-this-shit-i-will-only-read-the-headers-and-bolded-words cult.
