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Comment: The body is not built for processed foods (Score 1, Interesting) 232

by mtippett (#43787401) Attached to: 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA

Although it can be nutritionally appropriate, it may still not be good for the body. I am not a biologist, but I don't believe that the body is built for finely processed food. I am assuming that there is some research correlating highly processed/refined foods and the some of the common ailments in the western world.

A great example I have seen showing processed vs non-processed foods is to simply put the food in a bowl of water. A lot of processed food will within a matter of minutes puff up to a multiple of their size, and when stirred will simply break up into a liquid solution. Natural (unprocessed, even minimally processed) foods will generally stay together for a lot longer.

Give it a couple of centuries, and we'll see how the human gut and digestive system evolve. Oh wait, we'll have medical systems to prevent natural selection, so we're going to be co-dependently evolving with our technology.

+ - Forbes Takes a Second Look At Rossi's E-Cat Cold Fusion Device->

Submitted by Baldrson
Baldrson writes "Forbes technology contributor Mark Gibbs reports that: "I haven’t posted about Rossi and his E-Cat since last August simply because there wasn’t much to report other than more of Rossi’s unsupported and infuriating claims ... What everyone wanted was something that Rossi has been promising was about to happen for months: An independent test by third parties who were credible... much to my, and I suspect many other people’s surprise, a report by credible, independent third parties is exactly what we got. Published on May 16, the paper titled “Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device” would appear to deliver what we wanted...And now, the big reveal the authors’ conclusions are (again, the emphasis is mine): ' if we consider the whole volume of the reactor core and the most conservative figures on energy production, we still get a value of (7.93 ± 0.8) 102 MJ/Liter that is one order of magnitude higher than any conventional source.'""
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+ - Independent Academic Validation of Industrially Useful Cold Fusion Device 2

Submitted by Baldrson
Baldrson writes "An energy revolution has been reported in a joint paper by scientists from Bologna University, Uppsala University and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, titled "Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device containing hydrogen loaded nickel powder." This is the long-awaited independent validation of the infamous "E-Cat" or "Energy Catalyzer" by controversial inventor Andrea Rossi. Quoting the paper: "Even by the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements, the result is still one order of magnitude greater than conventional energy sources.""

Comment: Re:True Americans Need Reservations (Score 1) 578

by Baldrson (#43762893) Attached to: Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns
That's a joke, son.

Do the hive-"people" really believe they will be able to keep the pro-freedom folks from seceding, taking with them an amount of land value commensurate with their population? After all, not only does the Declaration of Independence defend the moral principle, but the whole point of the abolition of slavery was to subdue those who thought they had a right to keep others from leaving them.

Comment: True Americans Need Reservations (Score 1) 578

by Baldrson (#43762045) Attached to: Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns
Clearly, the kind of people voting for disarming The People are not the kind of people who originated the United States in any meaningful way. Perhaps their perspective is that the Nation of Settlers was barbaric compared to the subsequent Nation of Immigrants and therefore Civilizing the Barbarians is necessary, as it was during first millennium in northern Europe. You know. The cultivars got out into the wilderness of the New World and went feral. "Smething must be done."

Well, how about Reservations?

+ - Canada courts, patent office warns against trying to patent mathematics->

Submitted by davecb
davecb writes "The Canadian Intellectial Property Office (CIPO) warns patent examiners that ..."for example, what appears on its face to be a claim for an “art” or a “process” may, on a proper construction, be a claim for a mathematical formula and therefore not patentable subject matter.” (Courtesy of Paula Bremner at Slaw)"
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+ - Is Quantum Computing just round the corner?->

Submitted by Big Hairy Ian
Big Hairy Ian writes "For the first time, a commercially available quantum computer has been pitted against an ordinary PC – and the quantum device left the regular machine in the dust.

D-Wave, a company based in Burnaby, Canada, has been selling quantum computers since 2011, although critics expressed doubt that their chips were actually harnessing the spooky action of quantum mechanics. That's because they use a non-mainstream method called adiabatic quantum computing.

Unlike classical bits, quantum bits, or qubits, can take the values 0 and 1 at the same time, theoretically offering much faster computing speed. To be truly quantum, the qubits must be linked via the quantum property of entanglement. That's impossible to measure while the device is operating. But in March, two separate tests of the D-Wave device showed indirect evidence for entanglement.

Actually reading the article it seems a bit biased"
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+ - State Department Demands Takedown of Printable Gun Schematics.->

Submitted by moeinvt
moeinvt writes "In the latest episode of the 3D-printed gun saga, Forbes reports that the U.S. Department of State has demanded that the plans and blueprints for the 3D-printed gun components be immediately "removed from public access". In a letter sent to Cody Wilson, the feds claim that the plans must be reviewed and approved by the "Directorate of Defense Trade Controls" (DDTC) to ensure that making them publicly available does not violate the "International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)" rules. Full text of the letter published in the Forbes article."
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+ - 'Liberator' 3D Printed Gun Blueprints Removed By US State Department->

Submitted by coolnumbr12
coolnumbr12 writes "A notification on Defense Distributed’s website, says that the blueprints for the “Liberator,” the world’s first 3D-printed handgun, have been removed by the US Department of Defense Trade Controls.
The U.S. State Department has issued the following letter. In summary, the letter states that the Liberator may fall under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation and that Defense Distributed did not have the proper authorization to publish the blueprints."
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