"Last updated: Aug 14, 2012"

There's a 30% tax credit expiring in 2016. Not sure what you mean about an "idea" and being "scalable"; it's just a bank projecting in what areas photovoltaics will be worthwhile when. After 2016, you'll presumably still have new installations worthwhile in the south of the country and the area creeping northwards as prices continue going down.

You know they're desperate when the only argument against new technologies they can come up with is that they're ugly.

There are loads of Higgs impostor models where something else mimics the Higgs. Perhaps they're unlikely but it's not easy to come up with alternative explanations that are both mathematically consistent and don't contradict observations.

Nothing like an invisibility cloak. If I understand the paper correctly they're just heavy enough that there are few enough that we haven't seen them.

This sounds like a way to detect many of the possible positions of a particle at the same time. Could this be useful for quantum computing?

The guy was just afraid the evolution of the species would be screwed up if individuals were immortal.

I don't really like the arguments that a character drawn looking like a human child could be older according to the story, but I do think the opposite is a minefield. Loads of manga/cartoon porn features adult-looking characters that are underage in the original non-porn story and (I'd assume, lol) lots of people fap to these without knowing or caring that the original wasn't 18.

In addition there's a lot of hentai where many wouldn't think twice about the risk of someone being underage but looking more carefully at it one could make a fairly convincing argument someone is under 18.

A Swedish case had the entire court room laughing when the prosecutor claimed a manga character giving a blowjob was obviously underage because of the undeveloped boobs when it was actually gay porn.

I don't feel any attraction to underage women and have never to my knowledge seen actual child porn on the net (Samantha Fox's boobs and Scorpion's Virgin Killer album don't count) but fapping to completely normal manga could technically land me in jail. That's fucking scary. I'll have to fap to non-normal manga for now.

Getting even 2k in 50s would be annoying. Alko can usually give change on a 500 if you need to break it. (Alko = state booze monopoly for the non-Finns)

I can't see how using hundreds would really inconvenience criminals either. A quick search says a million would weigh 2kg in 500s, meaning 10kg in 100s. Smuggling huge sums across national borders might become harder but otherwise, who cares.

Funny to see a branch of the US government that actually has to deal with reality.

800 euro locally. A GTX 970 seems like overkill / waste of money for my purposes, so I guess I'll wait a month or two.

Thanks again for the help!

So upgrading to about 40" with 4k shouldn't be a problem

Ok, so it's a somewhat reasonable idea to get 60Hz on a TV without spending the cash for a 4k monitor.

Thanks, I'll have a look at these.

Good info, thanks

I'm thinking about upgrading my monitor to 4k but I'm a bit confused about the current situation with both connectors and screens. How is running 4k@30Hz for normal desktop purposes, with no 3d gaming? Are the cheap 4k 39-40" TVs completely fine for those purposes? What connector(s) do I need from my GPU? How long would I have to wait for GPUs and TVs/monitors to support 4k@60Hz (HDMI 2.0? Displayport x.y?). Can I connect more than one screen to a single GPU card if I want 4k?

This might be a candidate for Ask Slashdot, I guess