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Comment: Anonymous-shmanonymous (Score 2) 175

by leob on Sunday October 16, @01:47AM (#37728722) Attached to: DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrikje_van_Andel-Schipper#Genome

Comment: It's clearly a seisure! (Score 1) 594

by leob on Sunday May 10 2009, @03:13PM (#27899157) Attached to: Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court

Adding weight to the car reduced gas mileage, thus it is a fuel seisure. The amount may be negligible, but the question is, is it reasonable?

Researchers create 'rubbery metal' 0

Submitted by Space_donkey on Monday July 23 2007, @03:26PM

Space_donkey writes "Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new type of metal that also has the vibration-dampening properties of rubber. That's according to a patent filing discovered by New Scientist. Ultimately, it might be used in aircraft engines and other systems that experience a lot of vibration. In the shorter-term it could also be seen in sports equipment such as tennis rackets and baseball bats."

Advertising on WIkipedia?

Submitted by on Wednesday January 03 2007, @01:01AM

An anonymous reader writes "Some Wikipedians have objected to Virgin Unite's participation in the Wikimedia Foundation's fund drive, calling it adverising. But there's a strong case that Wikipedia should run advertising. The funds raised could support dozens of Firefox-scale free knowledge and free software projects, outspending all but the wealthiest foundations."

Awesome iPod Speakers - Apple iPod Hi-Fi - Review by PC Magazine->

by vmaz on Tuesday January 02 2007, @11:38PM

Link to Original Source

IOCCC 2006 is now open

Submitted by leob on Tuesday January 02 2007, @11:35PM

leob writes "The 19th International Obfuscated C Code Contest opens one minute before the New Year to qualify for the 2006 designation. Entries accepted until the end of February. Start writing and submitting your entries now!"

Classical Chinese Combinatorics

Submitted by h9xh9xh9x on Saturday December 23 2006, @11:06AM

h9xh9xh9x writes "A computational linguist in a federally-funded research project at UC Berkeley has solved a 3,000 year-old mystery, in a new book entitled Classical Chinese Combinatorics. A mathematical proof found hidden in an ancient Chinese text shows how the Chinese invented binary mathematics 600 years before the time of Euclid."