10 micron design rule is not "nano"-anything!! Nano means nanometer, 1000x smaller than 1 micrometer or micron. Marketing BS 100%

Contrary to what the average lay-person imagines about DNA testing, it does not involve actually matching all of the DNA present or even most of it. Only a small bit of a person's entire genome is used. And then only statistically in comparison to some presumed statistical population reference.

To put it in other terms, DNA testing is like identifying Dickens as the author of a suspect text by comparing the first word of each chapter to a reference that is the average first words of chapters of some, but not even most, of his known works which is combined with some other unknown and undetermined books written by other authors.

Once you understand this, you quickly realize the margin for error is far bigger than typically presumed.

This actually has future application because as we shrink geometries from here on out, the probability of trusting any given bit will be declining toward 50%. Ultimately the limit of computing will never be down to the atom or molecule (at room temperature anyway) but will be a bit higher but only with technologies like this.

Actually there's a story about some municipalities requiring someone walk in front of automobiles with flags to avoid frightening the horses. This FM radio mandate is just as stupid.

Would that be the benefit concerts that have demonstrably done nothing to actually help their claimed causes.

Sorry, you were being rhetorical. :-)

I've already done most of this. I don't listen to any broadcast radio (AM or FM) at all - it's crap programming (the NAB's bailiwick, btw), it's all ads for crap I don't buy or would ever buy, it's obsolete, through and through. NAB is a walking zombie that doesn't yet realize it's already dead!!

What's interesting is that 99% of my music play list is all non-American bands and most who don't associate with the big name record agencies like RIAA. They simply are more creative and interesting individually than the entire RIAA catalog of artists combined!

I stopped listening to all AM and FM radio more than a decade ago because it's pure crap in terms of programming and pure advertisements over programming. There is zero reason to waste time with mandating FM radio. This only adds costs that do not provide value.

I, for one, welcome our new grammar Nazi overlords!

Plenty of us have.

I'm not sure what you do for living but frankly if you time for tweeting all the time, but what you do must be fairly lightweight stuff, uncompetitive and you must be pretty shallow. Academic? Or low-level line employee? Really hard kinds of work don't allow for the Twitter kind of luxury or openness of communication.

Frankly what I do is none of these. My competitors gain far more from knowing what I do than my company or our customers. I work in high tech, but not the Web 2.0 faux tech, but with real hardware, firmware and software. It's no one's business how I spend my time other than those who pay me and only when working for them. Any other time, not even. Boundaries, son. Learn about them - live them.

Peet's gives you an hour only and then you need to buy something to get another ticket. Seems reasonable to me.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/30/1216230/How-Terahertz-Waves-Tear-Apart-DNA?from=rss

Indeed. The illusion of space safety largely comes from the fact that the space shuttle uses only LEO where radiation is only a bit higher than terrestrial (but still higher) and the gullible fantasies of SciFi stories. Get to a higher orbit or deep space and it's radically higher normal radiation levels. The mission profile of Juno is like the Earth's van Allen belts fully charged. Very nasty.

Most commercial semiconductor technology is burned up by the high orbit and deep space radiation levels shortly after being powered up - back in the day we tested off-the-shelf Intel processors and SNL clones of the same and the first small 10KRad dose destroyed the Intel processors dead while the clones (designed from scratch for rad hardness) lasted to MRad doses.

Humans beyond LEO? Don't make me laugh! This is the Achille's Heel of any Mars mission. There is no existing technology that can fix this either. Even the Juno shielding comes at a heavy price: using high Z shielding increases cosmic ray and ion spallation which results in increased total dose that the shielding is nominally trying to reduce - because the process occurs *inside* the shielding material and actually gets worse with Z, it's a trade-off between bad dose levels and really bad dose levels. That's what is alluded to in the article as well. Strictly there is no way to shield down to human-tolerable levels.

As someone who's personally worked in military radiation hardening of electronics let me assure you this is 30-year-old military technology that is being re-used by NASA, not the other way around. You paranoia is admirably but misplaced in this case.

All the women I know say size really does matter. Fortunately I have no problems in that department.

There are limits to speed by the inherent design of HDs though be aware that the raw data rate of most heads today is already in the 2 Gb/sec range. Which if you never seek the head, you'll be a-ok. :-)

For home use, probably a USB oscilloscope is best. They generally perform as well now as legacy/obsolete Tek or HP scopes and are even cheaper new.

In the professional world, Tek has largely been displaced by Agilent's Infinium series (and this with most of the Infinium's UI tricks simply duplicated in Tek and other scopes).

In terms of "how much oscilloscope" is needed, probably the best document to systematically determine this is from Agilent as their app notes (warning all PDF):

AN 1606 oscilloscope fundamentals - http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5989-8064EN.pdf

8 Ways 1 - http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5989-6387EN.pdf

8 More Ways 2 - http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5968-8756E.pdf

5th Harmonic... - http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5990-3600EN.pdf