Comment: Re:It's not really a problem (Score 1) 72
It could be worse, what if its mission was to probe soil samples 8-(
UC Berkeley Group Working On Creating Inexpensive 3-D Printer Materials 61
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from the make-it-good-then-make-it-cheap dept.
phrackthat writes "A UC Berkeley group, in a bid to drive down the costs of 3-D printing, has been focusing on more natural materials such as salt, wood, ceramics and concrete (the last two, while not naturally occurring, are made of naturally occurring components). The use of these materials create new avenues for architecture, such as printing buildings. Professor Ronald Rael, the head of the project, stated that these materials and the designs they enable will require new IP protections — 'This is going to require some IP protection for designs, so if you design architecture in the computer, you're protected, just as music and movies are.' I wonder if he's ever heard of design patents?"
Comment: Re:Dump Fuel? (Score 1) 93
True I was giving the quick explanation of what they mean.
Comment: Re:Dump Fuel? (Score 1) 93
actually it does work that way. The decompression is so fast that it puts out the fuel.
Comment: Re:Terrorists win again (Score 1) 298
If governments would stop making terrorism so incredibly effective then maybe people would stop doing it.
Comment: Re:Fuck you for bringing in political correctness (Score 2) 236
Although it's never happened before, theoretically a white civil rights group could exist and be an actual non-racist civil rights group rather than just another thinly veiled hate group.
It would just be the most unnecessary and probably idle civil rights group that ever existed.
Comment: Re:Sad legitimate researchers (Score 2) 393
As a side note.... you thought global warming was bad with coal plants and such, just wait until everybody is turning out gigawatts of energy on a personal basis and wondering where all of that heat is going after it has been used for something else!
Huh? Production of heat in the atmosphere would have very little effect compared to augmenting the atmosphere's ability to retain heat. Your hypothetical scenario would more likely solve the problem of global warming instantly.
Comment: Re:Mains humm can help, for once (Score 1) 231
It might work for a battery-powered camcorder if it can visually pick up the hum from indoor lighting.
Comment: Re:Dump Fuel? (Score 2) 93
The key to making a solid fueled ballistic missile is the ability to turn it off. They do that by blowing out vents on the side of motor to vent the exhaust. AKA dumping the fuel.
Comment: Re:Need Clarity (Score 1) 260
Actually conclusion is backwards. If it was the GNU tools that provide the interface people love then Linux would not be popular since those tools run on many other kernels. What people love about Linux is the stability and performance of the Kernel. And the interfaces that people love tends to be things like Apache, MySql, Postgresql, PHP, Perl, Postfix, and or Samba for servers. For the desktop it is it is KDE, Gnome, or name your desktop. So I would say the GNU tools are just tools running on Linux.
Comment: Very cool (Score 1) 112
And very useless. The only thing crappier than the payload of a quadcopter is its range while carrying a full payload.
Comment: Re:Of course (Score 3, Informative) 258
Except that it made $3.370.000,000 in net profit. I have to wonder why people keep talking about can Yahoo stage a comeback. It is still making a lot of money. I wish I was failing by only making 3.75 billion dollars.
Comment: Re:Software Robotics?!? (Score 5, Funny) 145
At our office we use software hardware. It really saves on the hardware hardware costs.
Comment: Re:Requires more metal (Score 3, Informative) 515
You don't understand how they work. They work more like radar than a magnetic sensor, non-ferrous metals don't stand out as much but they're still very much detectable.
Comment: Re:Requires more metal (Score 1) 515
Around December last year, entering a convention center where politicians often speak.