Comment Re:Nothing to worry about (Score 1) 379
+1 Correct.
Comment Re:Protect the innocent! (Score 3, Insightful) 662
So your argument is that because it exists, children are forced to play it and become rapists?
Comment Re:It's a ROM hack (Score 1) 455
They aren't releasing the ROM. They're releasing a patch to the ROM. The patch contains entirely their own work.
To fix your comparison: You can't sue me for making a script that turns the characters in your non-free program blue.
Comment Re:ATTN mods: parent is a troll (Score 1) 148
"I don't want to read a wall of text so I'm assuming the mods didn't want to read a wall of text and assumed it was a troll."
- Spazztastic
Comment REALLY now? (Score 4, Funny) 290
"Researchers from HP Palo Alto studied videos uploaded to YouTube and found that popularity has little to do with quality or persistence."
Let me be the first to say "I told you so."
Comment Re:only works with (Score 4, Funny) 240
I wish there was a +1 Correct mod. This isn't exactly insightful or interesting.
Comment Duh (Score 3, Funny) 610
Of course breaking out of jail isn't legal.
What next, Apple claims that water is wet?
What next, Apple claims that water is wet?
Comment Re:So basically (Score 5, Informative) 217
Wrong. Dolphin is already playing two or three Wii games perfectly.
Comment Re:Won't Ever Work (Score 1) 229
Not really.
Submission + - MIT's mini tractor beam
An anonymous reader writes: MIT scientists have developed a way to use light to grab and move minuscule particles on a microchip. The research could lead to fine-grained biological sensors and other precisely built nanoscale devices.
Optical tweezers have been used on transparent media — like a microscope slide — that let the light shine through and hold objects in a tractor beam-like embrace. (This is possible because light's individual photons transfer minuscule amounts of force to particles they hit.)
What's new in the optical tweezer from MIT's Matt Lang and David Appleyard is the use of infrared light. Unlike visible light, the infrared does not bounce off the silicon used as the basis for microchips. That means that MIT's optical tweezer can be used not just for study but to build structures on the surface of chips.
Lang and Appleyard proved their technique by getting 16 live E. coli cells to spell out "MIT" on a chip.
