Comment An even easier way to attempt (Score 2, Insightful) 10
Although it would only keep you from getting a ticket, while the above would "help" everyone, this doesn't obscure your license plate.
Tape to the left of the license plate:
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Comment Re:No One Would Notice (Score 1) 336
Are you trying to send a secret message with your misspellings? They have a surprisingly high density in your post...
Try Firefox, it has a built-in spell check feature when typing in textarea inputs.
Comment Not that impressive (Score 1) 379
That is a lot of effort to make a diesel engine run on gasoline...
I'd guess the 50% improvement includes increasing the cylinder compression ratio and excludes the fuel pre-treatment. This won't displace gasoline direct-injection systems in the market.
Comment Re:An onion on my belt. (Score 1) 329
I had a similar experience where I was in the hospital for 2 weeks, but my exercise was tuba in the college marching band. That probably caused the hernia that laid me up, actually. The nurse woke me up and the automatic machine couldn't find my pulse. She did it by hand and came up with 42 bpm.
Comment Re:From the license... (Score 1) 419
Oh no. Now you get to be hammered by the pedantic amongst slashdot crowd. They will explain the difference between assembly language and machine code for you...
Comment Re:Worst ask slashdot ever (Score 1) 688
+1 for the reference to Fifteen Animals (My toddler loves it)
Either that, or you know the name of my car from high school... that 1965 Mercury was the only machine I ever named "Bob." He was named after something very obscure: if anyone remembers a magazine from around 1994 with a comic of a group of clueless D&D players let me know. (Player: "I attack the gazebo with Magic Missile!")
Either that, or you know the name of my car from high school... that 1965 Mercury was the only machine I ever named "Bob." He was named after something very obscure: if anyone remembers a magazine from around 1994 with a comic of a group of clueless D&D players let me know. (Player: "I attack the gazebo with Magic Missile!")
Submission + - Major New Function Discovered For The Spleen
circletimessquare writes: "The spleen doesn't get much respect. Those undergoing a splenectomy seem to be able to carry on without any consequences. However, some studies have suggested an enhanced risk of early death for those who have undergone splenectomies. Now researchers have discovered why: the spleen apparently serves as a vast reservoir for monocytes, the largest of the white blood cells, the wrecking crew of the immune system. After major trauma, such as a heart attack, the monocytes are disgorged into the blood stream and immediately get to work repairing the damage. '"The parallel in military terms is a standing army," said Matthias Nahrendorf, an author of the report. "You don't want to have to recruit an entire fighting force from the ground up every time you need it."'"
Submission + - Another New AES Attack 1
Jeremy A. Hansen writes: "Bruce Schneier gives us an update on some ongoing cryptanalysis of AES:
Over the past couple of months, there have been two new cryptanalysis papers on AES. The attacks presented in the paper are not practical — they're far too complex, they're related-key attacks, and they're against larger-key versions and not the 128-bit version that most implementations use — but they are impressive pieces of work all the same.
This new attack, by Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Adi Shamir, is much more devastating. It is a completely practical attack against ten-round AES-256.
While ten-round AES-256 is not actually used anywhere, Schneier goes on to explain why this shakes some of the cryptology community's assumptions about the security margins of AES."
Comment Re:$18 million for a website (Score 1) 434
It reminds me of a road sign (that a friend subsequently stole, and which still resides in his garage). Around ten years ago the Michigan government had just finished spending money to fix up a pretty rural road. When they were done they put up the round, brown sign featuring a dollar bill in a hard hat with a shovel. It read "Your tax dollars at work".
Comment Re:Why bother (Score 1) 152
Cows are spherical, as every mathematician knows.
And every physicist will tell you that a cow can be reasonably approximated as a point mass.
Comment Re:definition of human (Score 1) 409
Can we breed and produce viable offspring? That is (mostly) what defines a species. Let's not get ahead of ourselves by trying to figure out what will change in the future. (Sign me up for the cybernetic enhancements, though.) What we choose to do with our life does not change what kind of animal we are.
Comment Re:How is this a SATA switch? (Score 1) 131
So I'm not the only one! I did that almost a decade ago, and that computer is still kicking around the basement. I switched between Win98 and Win2k. Today I would just toss in GRUB and call it a day (which is exactly what I did to get my laptop running Ubuntu/WinXP/Vista).
Submission + - Researchers create gravity in lab experiment
jcgam69 writes: Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step towards the long-sought-after quantum theory of gravity.
Submission + - Scientists create attosecond(1e-18s) laser. (laserfocusworld.com)
BytePusher writes: "Collaborators at CEN Saclay (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), and the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont., Canada) have used a chain of plasma mirrors to create extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) pulses that they predict to be on the attosecond timescale, all with a tabletop laser." http://www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/294 636/12/ARCHI/none/News/ULTRAFAST-LASERS:-Plasma-mi rrors-generate-high-harmonics
Submission + - MLB Denies Blogger Media Credential for ASG
Joliet Jake writes: "A few of my readers suggested that I submit my story to Slashdot. I have to admit I'm pretty ignorant about your site so forgive me if I've wasted your time here.
crib notes: I asked for media credentials as a blogger from Major League Baseball to the 2007 All-Star Game. I was denied, as expected. I mentioned it in my post here: http://buccoblog.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/2007/05/asg _media_crede.html
I didn't realize how much of a controversy this subect was until my email box started filling up this morning. Email after email suggested that I continue to push for access.. from lawyers, government officials, and even journalists. I was pretty surprised.
After I modified my post adding that I should look into putting a sports bloggers association together, every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the country decided to email me saying that was a great idea. But is it?
I'm really curious what everyone thinks about the subject. I'm torn between not wanting to see bloggers in the clubhouse from the ex-player side of me, to wanting to see these sports giants swing the doors open more as a blogger because I'm well aware of how much real news never gets out that should.
Thank you for your time."
