Comment: Re:Nice to have a Sec of Energy actually Read the (Score 1) 712
I think this is a good idea, and if Chu can make it happen (again, colour me cynical)...
Nah, I'm gonna color you white. It saves me energy.
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Comment: This is easy to defeat (Score 2, Funny) 75
I know how I can bring their system down: "I've just landed in N/0"
Good luck mapping your division by zero!
Comment: Your Mark (Score 5, Insightful) 226
I take it all back, I think this is a dumb idea.
Signed,
Keir Thomas
Signed,
Keir Thomas
What?
If trademarks are a restriction of freedom, then me using Keir's name to endorse my own ideas sounds like exactly the type of freedom he's arguing for. So what if it breeds confusion and implies an endorsement that doesn't actually exist?
Comment: Re:Betamax Redux (Score 2, Informative) 164
The other day I was thinking the same thing about radio. "They can listen to our songs for free!?!"
Of course the way the RIAA is talking now, radio isn't getting a pass for much longer.
Comment: Re:...This got greenlit? (Score 1) 719
Forget that. I'm going to undercut the SOB and sell my cables for $498.99
+ - Black hole seen swallowing star (and belching)
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mcgrew (sm62704) writes "New Sceintest reports that the Swift satellite has detected GRB 070610. From the article:
Raise shields, Mr. Sulu!"A black hole has been spotted belching out a burst of gamma rays after gulping down part of a nearby star, something never seen before. Such violent burps may actually be the most common type of explosive "gamma-ray burst" in the universe.
Astronomers led by Mansi Kasliwal of Caltech in Pasadena, US, traced the burst to a star system in our own galaxy, where a black hole and a star slightly less massive than the Sun are orbiting each other.
Observing this black hole outburst from nearby would be a risky prospect. "If you were as close to the black hole as the [companion] star, things wouldn't be pretty," Kasliwal told New Scientist. "I don't think you'd want to be near it."
