Mr_Nitro - Slashdot User

Comment hmmm (Score 1) 470

by Mr_Nitro on Sunday May 22, 2011 @03:33PM (#36210968) Attached to: Swiss To End Use of Nuclear Power

I keep reading quite childish comments about the 'unknown' Switzerland. Get informed please. I find the exiting statement very interesting and I strongly wish they formalize it with a parliament decision. Nuclear power is clearly not the answer , expecially for such a small country where even a single site failure would compromise the entire nation. They have and will have more hydroelectric power plants and solar, and that's it, same strategy as Germany and Spain. It can be done, and the naysayers are just the politicians and industrials with their hands deep into the nuclear exploitation wealth.

Submission + - Online Guitar Tabs being banned (mudcat.org)

Submitted by Mr_Nitro on Monday May 16, 2011 @08:34AM

Mr_Nitro writes: It seems that recently a number of major online free tabs websites are being filtered with custom per-country blocking ad that reports : "This tablature contains content from a third party publisher and has
been blocked by the Music Publishers Association in your country." is this the end of free music tabs?

Submission + - Stephen Hawking Says Heaven Is a Fairy Tale (reuters.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn on Monday May 16, 2011 @08:19AM

eldavojohn writes: If you have any doubt of his criticism of faith, the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has stated that heaven is a fairy tale saying, 'I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.' Hawking has beat the odds for 49 years when his life was estimated to terminate at age 20 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (although not to ignore some scary moments). Hawking is still facing fallout from his book The Grand Design that has raised concern from religious leaders of all faiths. Hawking has increasingly made politicized remarks saying recently in an interview, 'I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.' When queried on the purpose of life, Hawking's answer was simple, 'We should seek the greatest value of our action.'

Comment the goverment worldwide toyed with us (Score 1) 481

by Mr_Nitro on Sunday April 10, 2011 @01:15PM (#35774698) Attached to: FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO

to the point that they can even disclose real material without any fear for any reaction anymore, mission ******* accomplished. so sad. mrn

Comment Re:Poor Article (Score 1) 336

by Mr_Nitro on Friday April 01, 2011 @06:02AM (#35686774) Attached to: Case Closed On Jerusalem UFO Video

I agree on most things, just one detail tho, how we do consider the approach of a different lifeform 'extraordinary'? it's like bumping into your neighbour, and we 're statistically certain that there are quite some, too. Marking the event of bumping into 'alien technology' as extraordinary is a totally anthropocentric point of view. imho. mrn

Comment just remember (Score 1) 336

by Mr_Nitro on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:55AM (#35686748) Attached to: Case Closed On Jerusalem UFO Video

that sometimes some people make the 'hoax debunking' a career. It would be funny to put some real equipment in the field and see that 'debunked' as totally fake 2d/3d effect by these 'pros'. I bet there would be so many people with a bitter taste in their mouth. Often reality of facts is the most amazing discovery and it is hardly accepted. (ohh surely we can't be in any way related to those monkeys! can't we??) mrn

Comment reflection... (Score 1) 760

by Mr_Nitro on Monday January 10, 2011 @07:54PM (#34830306) Attached to: Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects

now and then we read articles about new researches that unveil animals behaviour under a more and more humanzied way, we read about their social bonds, new skills, unforseen communication abilities, higher empathy levels, recently, deliberate use of drugs(plants) for 'recreational' purposes. But yet we fail in considering breeding a cow just to shortly after shot a nail in their brain and devour it , as an abomination. We should spend billions (and maybe it's not needed a so great amount) into modifing vegetables so they taste and feel like chicken , and I dont care if it's not 100% the same, we have brains , we can choose. For those of you who think slaughterhouses are nice places and everyone there is playing the good boy, I advice you to google for it.. and watch some videos, if you are worthy living being you will at least agree that the less we kill and eat our fellow animals, the better.. as for the insects, as they usually lack a central brain and their neural system is so relatively simple, I would advise to use them as a transitory solution...

Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch 398

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @03:51PM from the please-take-my-freedoms-I-don't-deserve-them dept.

Orome1 writes "Sixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack, according to research by Unisys. The survey found that while Americans are taking proactive steps to protect themselves against cybercrime and identity theft, only slightly more than a third of Internet users in the US regularly use and update passwords on their mobile devices – creating a potentially huge security hole for organizations as more consumer devices invade the workplace. The findings illustrate that recent events such as the Stuxnet computer worm attack and the attempted Times Square car bombing may have heightened the American public's awareness of and concern over global and domestic cybersecurity threats."

Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning 175

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2010 @04:20AM from the slashdot-design-philosophy-revealed dept.

arkenian writes "Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. The finding is about to be published in the international journal Cognition. Researchers at Princeton University employed volunteers to learn made-up information about different types of aliens — and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later. The article goes on to note a second test in a real school environment: 'Keen to see if their findings actually worked in practice, the Princeton University team then tested their results on 222 students aged between 15 and 18 at a secondary school in Chesterfield, Ohio.'... 'Students given the harder-to-read materials scored higher in their classroom assessments than those in the control group. This was the case across a range of subjects — from English, to Physics to History.'"

Zombie Ants and Killer Fungus 125

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @07:59PM from the level-1-random-encounter dept.

nibbles2004 writes "An article in the Guardian newspaper shows how parasitic fungi evolved the ability to control ants they infect, ultimately leading the ant to its death. The fungus controls the ant's movements to a suitable leaf and causes the ant to grip onto the leaf's central stem, allowing the fungus to spore, which will allow more ants to become infected."

37 States Join Investigation of Google Street View 269

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 22, 2010 @03:44AM from the loking-into-the-lookers dept.

bonch writes "Attorneys General from 37 states have joined the probe into Google's Street View data collection. The investigation seeks more information behind Google's software testing and data archiving practices after it was discovered that their Street View vans scanned private WLANs and recorded users' MAC addresses. Attorney general Richard Blumenthal said, 'Google's responses continue to generate more questions than they answer. Now the question is how it may have used — and secured — all this private information.'"

Scientists Discover Biggest Star 202

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @10:58AM from the bigger-than-miley dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered the most massive stellar giant, R136a1 measured at 265 solar masses, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile and data from the Hubble Space Telescope. It's in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small 'satellite' galaxy which orbits the Milky Way. Previously, the heaviest known stars were around 150 times the mass of the Sun, known as the 'Eddington Limit,' and this was believed to be close to the cosmic size limit because as stars get larger, the amount of energy created in their cores grows faster than the force of gravity which holds them together. 'Because of their proximity to the Eddington Limit they lose mass at a pretty high rate,' says Professor Paul Crowther, the chief researcher in the Sheffield team. Hyper-stars like R136a1 are believed to be formed from several young stars merging together, and are only found in the very heart of stellar clusters. R136a1 is believed to have a surface temperature of more than 40,000 degrees Celsius, and is 10 million times brighter than the Sun. Crowther adds that R136a1 is about as big as stars can get. 'Owing to the rarity of these monsters, I think it is unlikely that this new record will be broken any time soon.'"

Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island? 323

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 15, 2010 @12:26AM from the welcome-to-malignancy-island dept.

thefickler writes "The Pacific Ocean trash dump is twice the size of Texas, or the size of Spain combined with France. The Pacific Vortex, as it is sometimes called, is made up of four million tons of plastic. Now, there's a proposal to turn this dump into 'Recycled Island.' The Netherlands Architecture Fund has provided the grant money for the project, and the WHIM architecture firm is conducting the research and design of Recycled Island. One of the three major aims of the project is to clean up the floating trash by recycling it on site. Two, the project would create new land for sustainable habitation complete with its own food sources and energy sources. Lastly, Recycled Island is to be a seaworthy island. While at the moment the project is still more or less a pipe dream, it's great that someone is trying to work out what to do with one of humanity's most bizarre environmental slip-ups."

NASA's Plutonium Supply Dwindling; ESA To Help 173

Posted by timothy on Friday July 09, 2010 @11:03PM from the fire-up-x10-and-k25-again dept.

astroengine writes "NASA's stockpile of the plutonium isotope Pu-238 is at a critical level, causing concern that there won't be enough fuel for future deep space missions. Pellets of Pu-238 are used inside radioisotope thermoelectric generators (or RTGs) to generate electricity for space probes traveling beyond the orbit of Mars — solar energy is too weak for solar arrays at these distances. Blocked by a contract dispute with Russia to supply Pu-238 and the US Department of Energy that has not been granted funds to produce more of the isotope, NASA lacks enough of the radioisotope to fuel the future joint NASA-ESA mission to Europa. However, the head of the European Space Agency has announced that they have plans to commence a new nuclear energy program to alleviate the situation."

Black Hole Emits a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Gas Bubble 145

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 09, 2010 @05:59PM from the reminds-me-of-a-buddy-of-mine dept.

PhrostyMcByte writes "12 million light-years away, in the outer spiral of galaxy NGC 7793, a bubble of hot gas approximately 1,000 light-years in diameter can be found shooting out of a black hole — one of the most powerful jets of energy ever seen. (Abstract available at Nature.) The bubble has been growing for approximately 200,000 years, and is expanding at around 1,000,000 kilometers per hour."

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