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Comment Re:Standard practice... (Score 1) 192

by Jerry Smith (#46129093) Attached to: Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success"

generally on the order of 1/100000000000 000000000 000000000 0000000 0000000 0000000 00000 00000

So basically, one molecule of the thing in a gallon of water?

No. It's much, much less than that. The quoted value there is one part in 10^60. A mole is 6.02x10^23. There's about 200 moles of water molecules in 1 gallon (3.8 liters and 55 moles per liter for water). So one molecule of water in one gallon is one part in 10^26. To get one part in 10^60, you'll need about 10^34 gallons of water. Wikipedia indicates this is the volume of Betelgeuse (a massive star that's about a million times the volume of the sun.)

And this is why I don't skip AC's.
*stands up and applauds*

Submission + - Harvest Energy from Internal Organ Movement (phys.org)

Submitted by TempeNerd
TempeNerd writes: A consortium of research institutions have published research on a new implantable piezo-electric device that will harvest energy from internal organ movements (lungs, diaphragm, heart) to power devices like pacemakers.
As reported in Phys.org, this appears to be the first time that such a design is actually powerful enough to do so without any external charging or other inputs required.

Of course, this is still in the animal testing phase, but this tech seems attainable and life changing.

Submission + - Bitcoin exchange operatores arrested, BitInstant now down (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Grantbridge
Grantbridge writes: "The Department of Justice said Robert Faiella, known as BTCKing, and Charlie Shrem from BitInstant.com have both been charged with money laundering.
The authorities said the pair were engaged in a scheme to sell more than $1m (£603,000) in bitcoins to users of online drug marketplace the Silk Road." from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

It seems that BTCKing and Bitinstant have had people arrested over money laundering charges, and are now unavailable. If running an exchange counts as money laundering, then is the USA making itself a no-go area for bitcoin exchanges? Or will a reputable bank step up and run one complying with money laundering regulations.

Submission + - How Do You Move a City? (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: The town of Kiruna in Lapland, Sweden, is known for its Jukkasjårvi Ice Hotel and for hosting the recent Arctic Council summit. It also sits within the Arctic Circle, on one of the world’s richest deposits of iron ore. Now in danger of collapse due to extensive deep mining, the city center is to be relocated.

Submission + - Canada (quietly) offering sanctuary to data from the U.S. (thestar.com)

Submitted by davecb
davecb writes: The Toronto Star's lead article today is Canada courting U.S. web giants in wake of NSA spy scandal, an effort to convince them their customer data is safer here. This follows related moves like cisco moving R&D to Toronto. Industry Canada will neither confirm nor deny that European and U.S. companies are negotiating to move confidential data away from the U.S. This critically depends on recent blocking legislation to get around cases like U.S. v. Bank of Nova Scotia, where U.S. courts "extradited" Canadian bank records to the U.S. Contrary to Canadian law, you understand ...

Submission + - The True Color of Ancient Sea Creatures (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Looking a bit like a dolphin, but with a long slim snout filled with pointy teeth, one species of ichthyosaur was practically invisible in the murky depths of Jurassic seas, thanks to dark pigmentation that covered its entire body. That’s one conclusion of a new study that provides an unprecedented peek at the coloration of sea creatures alive during or soon after the dinosaur era. The approach involves bombarding fossils with charged particles and then analyzing the particles that are knocked from the surface, which reveals remnants of ancient pigments. Dark pigmentation may have helped ichthyosaurs and other predators camouflage themselves in the murky depths while they hunted prey.

Submission + - Chang'e-3 lunar rover landing tomorrow at 13:40 UTC (planetary.org)

Submitted by savuporo
savuporo writes: The Chinese Chang'e-3 probe will be landing on the moon tomorrow, 13:40 UTC. CCTV is likely to carry the event life as they did for initial launch. According to technical overview of the mission scenario and instruments the landing will be fully autonomous with active landing hazard avoidance, which is the first time this has been attempted on any planetary landing. More real-time updates can be found on Twitter with ChangE3 hash tag and NASASpaceFlight forums live event section.

Comment Re:What a bunch of idiots (Score 1) 462

by Jerry Smith (#45625187) Attached to: U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013

As a conservative, religious man, I find the religious anti-vaccination crowd a bunch of blind ninnies. I have a few at my church like that, and I want to smack them as they put my children who are too young to receive these vaccination at risk of catching a deadly disease.

Yet you still go that church? Might as well stop that, for your childrens' health.

Submission + - Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto (nytimes.com)

Submitted by wabrandsma
wabrandsma writes: Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht, the recently arrested operator of the Internet black market known as the Silk Road, and the secretive inventor of bitcoin, the anonymous online currency, used to make Silk Road purchases.

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