Comment Microsoft wouldn't by the whole of Nokia (Score 1) 222
Nokia is a 150-year-old storied company. The Finns may not be too keen to let it go to an American firm.
Nokia may be 150 years old, but Microsoft would only want their technological branch. That branch is much younger. The question is who gets the brand name, though.
Submission + - Cryptic codes in Oslo-terrorist manifest (no.net)
repvik writes: The 1500 page manifest of terrorist that killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utøya two weeks ago, contains a series of seemingly encrypted URLs. There are 46 of them, and the initial part of the URLs appear to be GPS coordinates. An effort to analyze the codes have been launched.
Comment Re:Not quite as advertised (Score 1) 61
As a skydiver, I can testify to the fact that you can "impact" a gas:)
Comment Unless this article is complete rubbish: (Score 1) 892
In the gentle words of the virgin mary: COME AGAIN?
Comment Re:Age of universe 13.75 billion years... (Score 1) 69
Easily explained: The actual figure is redshift 8.2, putting it about 13 billion light years away.
Comment Hmm, logged in or not? (Score 1) 1
This discussion was created for logged-in users only.
Why am I not allowed to view or post in this article?
Comment Another paradox (Score 1) 332
About sending information back in time...
To paraphrase Fermi,
If this theory is true, why haven't we done so already?
Submission + - FUKUSHIMA core cooling pools R HOT (iaea.org)
DarkStarZumaBeach writes: "Reactor fuel cooling pools need to be kept at 26 degrees Celsius. The reactor 4 cooling pool caught fire when used reactor fuel overheated earlier this week because water either evaporated or leaked out due to primary structural failure. The reactor 3 cooling pool is also very low — and both 3 and 4 are exposed to open air. And, reactor 5 and 6 cooling pools are registering increasing temperatures ..."
Comment Re:Actually... (Score 1) 1200
The pilots would have to ignore the PAPI glide slope indicators too. These are rows of light which shine all red when you're coming in too low, a clear warning that you should go around.
And that's even if you ignore the altimeter, 200 meters should be about 20hPa too low on the (in that weather already low) QNH?
Comment Re:Little difference? (Score 3, Funny) 839
And the settlers marsupials?
*ducks*
Comment Re:Not as clear cut as that (Score 1) 178
I think these numbers are from the joint union agreement (fellesavtalen). Your rights as granted by law are a little worse, eg. 40 hour weeks and 140% overtime. Still, very good by international standards.
Comment Re:Why would FIFA have this data? (Score 1) 128
Absolutely! And it certainly doesn't need to be collected by private organizations either. If a hooligan commits a criminal offense, his data should be collected by the local police.
If a permanent ban from sports is needed, that information should be sent back to the authorities in the perpetrators home country according to international agreement.
For later matches, border control in the hosting country could then request a blacklist from each participating country.
Comment Re:It will be a critical ability. (Score 1) 64
Poor intellectual judgement on his part? It's the accepted term. Just look at
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html, and the about 1,430,000 other results just at nasa.gov pages.
Comment Re:This is why I hate most science reporting (Score 2, Informative) 167
I totally agree with you, this is too insubstantial even for science reporting.
The article is at adsabs, but it's on subscription only:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010GeoRL..3714107D
Maybe someone with a subscription to "Geophysical Research Letters" could voice an opinion?
