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Comment Re:What could go wrong? (Score 1) 195

by tancque on Friday August 29, 2008 @02:27AM (#24790843) Attached to: MIT Secretly Built Mega-Efficient Nano Batteries

you would be well to worry about any bacteria getting near your batteries. If the viral particles decide to infect en multiply on a convenient bacteria that strayed on your batteries you might get more voltage then you bargained for.....

Submission + - Holes found in black hole theories -No black Holes

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15, 2007 @07:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a discovery that may have profound implications, an Indian theoretical physicist and his British collaborator have given a surprising new twist to one of the great mysteries about black holes. More...

Submission + - Dutch reject USB flash drive tax

Submitted by Sandburd on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @04:35AM

Sandburd writes: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/13/dutch_reje ct_levy_on_usb_keys/ Dutch minister Hirsh Balin has rejected calls to levy a copyright tax on flash drives. The tax was proposed by the SONT (Stichting Onderhandelingen Thuiskopievergoeding) claiming that about 20% of the flash drives contains music and otherwise copyrighted materials. However after a heated debate the proposal was rejected by the minister.

Submission + - Aussie video surveillance leaves rivals for dead

Submitted by

raasdnil

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @03:15AM

raasdnil writes: "ARNnet reports that ‘National ICT Australia has developed an operating system and software package designed to recognize and match positive identifications of faces from distance and impaired angles that leaves current technology for dead.

‘The project, called iBox, has been developed by NCITA's Safety and Security group and has already secured considerable investment from multinational conglomerate Trantek. The technology converts analogue video data into a digital format which can be then used for motion detection, facial recognition, and behaviour prediction.’"

Submission + - Nanotechnology leading to molecular machines

Submitted by dr_nomad_x on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @11:33PM

dr_nomad_x writes: a number of enticing research papers on the use of catalysis and molecular motors to produce movement. One paper mentioned sounds particularly useful: an overview of progress on Synthetic Molecular Motors href="http://dottrans.blogspot.com/">Read More...

Submission + - Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Submitted by Forrest Kyle on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:20AM

Forrest Kyle writes: A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has recieved multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. From the article, "'Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,' said the professor. 'I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal.' Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...recently claimed: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science.'"

Submission + - Indian reseller discover the cost of MS addiction

Submitted by

the_womble

on Monday March 05, 2007 @05:42AM

the_womble writes: "It looks as though Indian resellers have found out the hard way how the Microsoft monopoly works. After decades of being tacitly encouraged to sell pirated copies of Windows, they now find themselves being forced to pay up.

Are people dependent enough on MS for this to work in countries where the cost of a Windows license relative to incomes is several time higher than in developed countries? Will this open more opportunities for FOSS? I live in Sri Lanka, a country where MS backed off from a planned crackdown because even corporate users threatened to switch if they had to pay."

Submission + - Hybrid Recommendation

Submitted by whisper_jeff on Thursday March 01, 2007 @01:06AM

whisper_jeff writes: I finally had the chance to watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and it got me thinking (which all good documentaries should do and this was a good documentary). One thing it got me thinking about was hybrid cars, which are becoming more and more popular. I was wondering if slashdot readers had any insights into good hybrids that are worth taking a serious look at. Which are most effecient? Which maintain high performance while cutting emissions? Which cut operating costs drastically to offset the higher purchase price of the hybrid technology? Which, all things considered, are worth considering?

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