Completely missed the second link to the university's release. Still not a very informative article however.

Both the summary and TFA are devoid of anything concrete on how this is actually done. It basically says what the title does, they created a diode. Telling me that light entering the opposite side doesn't make it through really doesn't tell me anything the word "diode" in the title doesn't. I'm sure the science behind this particular device is both clever and interesting but you'd never be able to tell since that information is completely missing. Reporting on stories is nice, but shouldn't journalists actually strive to make their articles contain actual information on what they are covering? You'd think a story about a new discovery would actually contain information about how it actually works (since that's the actual "new" part anyway).

I was once in the arcade of a Dave&Buster's with my family and one of the picture booths failed to work when my sister was using it with her boyfriend. An employee came over and restarted the machine for her and I was able to watch it boot up. It turned out to actually be running an older version of Fedora (I'm not sure the exact version but it was back when the name was "Fedora Core").

Exactly! The most expensive part of my PC is always the video card. I just last month put down $750 USD for a GTX 580 w/ a matching waterblock.

Apple has already had problems in the past with low-stock at launch. Why would they risk having even worse problems using unproven tech at a fab they haven't used before? There's always problems with supply when dealing with smaller fab tech, which will probably be worse with 3D being thrown in.

Just got back from a very long vacation across the US and racked up almost 20GB worth of data usage through tethered laptops/devices. I used a combination of physical tether apps like EasyTether and WiFi hotspot creators like Barnacle WiFi Tether. I never hit any such wall saying I was required to buy a tethering plan. I am on a rooted and flashed Droid 2 Global on Verizon with a Grandfathered Unlimited data plan. I was getting full speeds (depending of course on signal quality). There was no disconnection, throttling, or warnings about tethering whatsoever. I am still tethered on my laptop here at home too without problems. I suspect this is with the official app, like you say. Other apps work just fine as of now and I dont really see how they could crack down on it in the future. Android phones can generate almost any type of traffic that a similar linux or windows PC can. And even if they were performing deep packet inspection to test for PC-only data, a simple VPN would completely nullify their searches. I dont see this being enforceable at all for any of the tech-savvy people out there.

Close enough without needing to read it, that's good enough for me.

I would think the effect itself would dissipate quickly after the magnetic field is turned off or removed from the subject.

Dunno if your kidding or not but if you're serious then I wonder how 2 of the possible sites were let out.

Anyone have a link to the full list of sites proposed to be blocked? I couldn't find it in the source link.