But that's not all the article said; it isn't just more surface area, but with plasmonics tuned so that electrical resistance is lower and the maximum number of electrons can get knocked loose by a photon.

Don't expect a physics class in a magazine article, but for someone not in the field wikipedia will do. I looked up plasmonics before reading the article and it made the article a lot more informative.

Penny? Is that you?

Somebody doesn't like to learn. If you read just a little of the wikipedia article about plasmons you can figure out what a plasmonic nanostructure is.

Thanks, I've been running kubuntu on the old tower for a few years, switched from Mandriva when I heard rumors (which weren't true) that it was dying.

I'll look at the Lo link, thanks.

It seems that I'm portraying the character as I envisioned him, so I guess I'm doing ok. To tell the truth I'm not sure where it's headed, I think an alcohol-fueled fistfight between a couple of the women.

Have a little Asimov!

Along with a million other people whose hands it passed through.

Don't allude yourself.

Did you mean "don't indirectly suggest or call attention to yourself" or did your spell checker incorrectly "repair" a misspelling of "delude"?

There's a coded inscription outside CIA HQ that they haven't been able to crack, that may be the inscription. You can't crack this, either:

jkskJJou jn 7yF!0 GGorbmal

It's uncrackable because it's gibberish. Here's an easy one:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 30 (3)20-31

That actually says "IF TIME WERE SUDDENLY TO TURN back to 1919, you would hardly know that you are not in the nineteen-thirties"

All you need to know to crack it is the title and chapter of a book.

Considering that most things cost ten times as much as they did fifty years ago (a new VW bug was $900 in 1964, a McBurger, fries, and small coke was thirty two cents, a gallon of gas was a quarter, a candy bar was a nickle) a dime is now equivalent to what a penny was then.

The government doesn't issue checks down here, either. I still pay my bills with checks, almost everything else is cash.

Googling certain items results in a visit from the FBI.

The one time I read of that happening it was on a work computer, the IT staff saw it and called the FBI. He googled for a backpack for hiking, his wife googled for a pressure cooker for cooking, and as it was right after the Boston bombing. It wasn't the NSA, it was his employer spying on him.

That makes no sense, you can't trace cash. When I hand you a twenty that twenty has no information about me whatever, nor does it have information on who handed it to me.

I've said for a long time that if you're liberal you should vote Green, if you're conservative vote Libertarian. Both are on enough ballots to get elected (but the Ds and Rs are financed by corporations, who own the mass media).

Of course they do, I'm sure they did even before the internet.

What I got is that there's only two kinds of people in a shipwreck, those who can make decisions for themselves, and those who are at substantial risk of dying while they wait for someone else to make decisions for them. I watched a documentary on the incident and many people were just sitting around waiting for someone to save them.

Actually four kinds of people: those too dumb to leave when they're in actual danger, those smart enough to get out of danger, those smart enough to know they're not in danger and wait for rescue, and those stupid enough to have the mindset "do something, anything, even if it's wrong." HHGTG is right: Don't panic. Nothing is more dangerous than panic.

Whether to wait or act depends on the situation.

I don't know why you used a shortened link, but I hit it despite the possibility it might be goatse. Here's where that link takes you: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Alang,+Gujarat,+India&hl=en&ll=21.401534,72.199316&spn=0.023614,0.027723&geocode=+&hnear=Alang,+Bhavnagar,+Gujarat,+India&t=h&z=15

500 engineers don't come cheap. Neither does all the fuel and equipment they'll need.