Comment Re:Fatah is a moron (Score 1) 398
Maroon actually, haven't you seen Rodger Rabbit?
Comment Re:The Secret Life of Plants (Score 1) 628
The score was by Stevie Wonder, really quite wonderful, but the only thing at all worthwhile about that film.
But while listening to the score, you just know your Ficus loves you.
Comment Re:Now if only the UN... (Score 1) 252
If they were actually cool and clever the new tag would be
Very Dynamic
Comment Think now, there is something very, ah, right (Score 4, Insightful) 252
It's TV show, it is not how the real world works... oh, wait
It's the UN, it is not how the real world works.
Comment Re:yeah...not so good (Score 1) 561
Many models are effective for a sufficiently small segment of a curve. (In this case while the market is going up).
Comment Three and Two (Score 1) 599
If you have a large number of small objects to count spread out on a table, shift three in one hand and two in the other. Every second 'touch' is ten. This all can go very fast. The key is fingers can accurately grab groups of two and three without a tiny pause of awareness, more than three the mind needs to conceptualize a number however slightly.
Comment The millennium problems (Score 1) 630
The millennium problems : the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time / Keith Devlin
This is a survey of the problems with history, why each is important and how it relates to other fields. Very readable with a few dips into actual math.
Comment sailmail over HF (Score 4, Informative) 504
There is a free email option. It requires a HAM license (note: morse code is not required anymore) and a SSB transmiter and a hundred foot antenna. A good SSB unit is around a thousand bucks.
It is only for text based non-commercial emails but functions anywhere (under most weather conditions).
Doesn't sound like a solution for a students desire to surf the web for free anywhere/anytime but email is available and pervasive just about anywhere.
Comment He was used (Score 1) 313
...by hackorX, the true ruler of the hacker underground. You've been warned script kiddie hacker wannabes.
Submission + - Fungi Make Biodiesel at Room Temperature
SoyChemist writes: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology have used pellets made from the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae to produce biodiesel at room temperature. Usually, biodiesel is made by brewing vegetable oil with methanol and lye at high temperatures. That wastes a lot of energy, and thus partially defeats the point of making an alternative fuel. The researchers in Hyderabad mixed sunflower oil with methanol and trickled it through a glass column filled with fungus pellets. A lipase enzyme in the fungus converted the brew into biodiesel with a yield as high as 85 percent. Considering that the U.S. Department of Energy and BP are have pumped tons of money into synthetic biology for making alternative fuels, it is amazing to see what an apparently underfunded lab can do with natural organisms.
Submission + - Paramount rejects Blu-ray, adopts HD DVD
Bdazed writes: After more than a year of testing both formats, Paramount Pictures has picked HD DVD as its format of choice, abandoning Blu-ray despite having released more than 20 Blu-ray movies in the last year. Paramount says HD DVD is cheaper and more suited for the market.The fact that HD DVD is getting new support despite being in second place underscores how unsettled the market is.
