Comment: Re:You're wrong (Score 1) 152
The *external* part of the fuel cell should run much cooler, but the internal part may need to be quite hot, in order to work at high efficiency.
Comment: Re:You're wrong (Score 1) 152
A fuel cell will create less heat as a by-product, but that doesn't mean the parts of the engine are running at a cooler temperature (e.g., you could have a very hot, but very well insulated engine that releases very little heat).
Comment: Re:half million? (Score 1) 195
Money is the abstraction of human effort. The point isn't who prints it or how much of it there is, the point is the hard work it represents, whether that work is pouring concrete or managing a hedge fund. To say that it doesn't really belong to individuals, but rather the government, is to say the fruits of their own labor does not belong to the individual, but rather to the collective. Sounds pretty communist to be.
Comment: Re:half million? (Score 1, Insightful) 195
But I'd rather fund a new startup that fails, rather than fund the good-ol boy network that siphons money off the top to fund their retirement account.
Or they could refrain from confiscating people's hard earned money at gunpoint to hand out to favored group, whether it's the good-ol boy network or some green nonsense.
Comment: Scary quote (Score 1) 220
Wow, talk about a terrifying thing for a prominent senator to say:
It's time for us to take a new look at this problem and find a way to solve it once and for all.
Comment: Re:That's nice... (Score 1) 244
To everyone saying "there's always waves!", see this quote FTA:
There are often waves when there is no wind
So, there's also often not.
Comment: That's nice... (Score 1) 244
What's the cost? Since it wasn't mentioned anywhere in the press release, er, article, I assume it's still absurdly expensive.
Also, I still want to know what happens when the wind stops blowing, the sun stops shining, or waves stop coming.
Also, I still want to know what happens when the wind stops blowing, the sun stops shining, or waves stop coming.
Comment: No actual information (Score 4, Informative) 188
There's no technical information here, just that they can now make a more powerful diode laser. More info here.
Comment: Re:Does anybody really believe this? (Score 1) 409
The opening line in TFA says "annually".
Comment: Re:Interesting 7-2 division (Score 1) 458
and the court is generally bound to prior rulings unless overturned by new legislation.
Or the court overturns itself, which it usually reluctant to do, but certainly can be done.
Comment: Re:Working for stock options (Score 1) 374
In all likelihood, your lawyer would not have advised you about the possible implications of that clause since it is simply something that is not done.
IANAL, but that sounds like the sort of thing that would be legal malpractice.
Comment: Re:Known issue (Score 1) 66
Sounds like this issue became known because of these guys:
Once the problem was evident, Schneider said they contacted Amazon Web Services at the end of April. Amazon acted in a professional way, the researchers said, by notifying those account holders of the security issues.
So it certainly was an issue until they looked into it (and still is an issue if some fraction of their users are too lazy to fix it).
Comment: Re:Of Course Drone Attacks Are Hostile (Score 1) 892
A claim that the US is more of a terrorist organization than Al Qaeda, modded up to plus 5. What liberal bias on /.? (Incidentally, I'd be ashamed to be a liberal, with this kind of position being mainstream enough to warrant community praise through this moderation.)
Comment: Re:GAAAAAH! (Score 1) 462
George Washington didn't campaign. Neither did some of the other early Presidents.
Comment: Re:Wave diode applicable to light? (Score 2) 177
There is such a thing for light, an optical (or Faraday) isolator, which uses the Faraday effect. It relies on the fact that light is a transverse wave, not longitudinal, so it wouldn't work for sound. Note that because of the large magnetic field required, most optical isolators only have an aperture of a few millimeters (or less), so it would be impractical to build a "one-way" mirror of appreciable size out of it.