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Comment I don't think so. (Score 1) 389

I agree with the others that Chinese academics tend to be unreliable to put it nicely, and Spain's claim is much better. As to how it works for communications, if you remember your chemistry, this works equally well for electrons as photons. Take two hydrogen atoms, and if you entangle their electrons, one electron will have a quantum state of: n=1, l=0, m=0, and s= +1/2 and the other electron has the quantum state of: n=1, l=0, m=0, and s= -1/2. Once they are entangled, if you change the s-state on the first electron to s= -1/2 the s-state on the second one will immediately change to s= +1/2 regardless of its location, and if you change the s-state on the second electron the s-state of the first electron immediately flips. The trick to communications is you need something that can read the s-state and change it on both ends. Then you code one end to read +1/2 as 1 and -1/2 as 0 and the other end the opposite way, you can send and receive any digital information almost instantaneously, regardless of the distance. Bill

Comment Who cares (Score 1) 1

Screw MS. I have the OEM disks and there are plenty of sites out there that I can get anything else I need from. I run LINUS on another partition besides. Eat Me MS. Bill Owara.

Comment Re:The fatal flaw is: (Score 1) 255

Not for vehicles, like they are trying, but for individuals maybe it could be done. Think of arrays of those micro LEDs that have the cameras build in them to detect gestures the Japanese developed, densely and flexibly mounted on a garment. Then with a dedicated quad-core keeping track of movement to maintain the axial opposition of individual camera to LED over the entire garment a person would be effectively invisible from 30 feet or farther. Bill.

Comment Re:Oddly Enough (Score 1) 776

As an US Army sniper I had standing orders to kill Vo Nguyen Giap, Nguyen Huu An, and about 2 dozen others. I imagine todays soldiers have Osama Bin Laden and another 2 dozen shoot on sight names, the drone pilot just have longer range weapons with much better and much clearer sights to ID who they are shooting. PS: Don't look to me for sympathy for traitors who have gone over to the side of an enemy who declared war on us and attacked us on our native soil.

Comment Re:So (Score 1) 260

I think you are right in the theory of why the selection occurred. The article stated that with the regeneration gene switched on, that apoptosis was also switch on, so any carcinogenic cells with their damaged DNA would self-destruct rather than replicate.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Thought of the Day February 19, 2010

Our governor seems incapable of stepping above his parties political platform to save the people and businesses in Nevada. With his plan our best bet is admitting we can't govern ourselves and reverting to a federal territory.

Anime

Toei Animation Thinks Mobiles Could Save Anime 69

andylim writes to share that according to a recent interview, Toei Animation, producers of Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball z, think that mobile phones and tablets could help save the anime industry, which is being heavily damaged by piracy. Unfortunately the difficulty is getting all of the players to move in the same direction. "We think it's an incredibly exciting opportunity. Manufacturers and networks are going to need more than touchscreens and Twitter to shift phones in the future — content such as Toei's will hopefully add that extra value. Unfortunately, Ebato and Song haven't been inundated with requests for information. 'There's no convergence... the tech people and the content people aren't talking,' adds Song. In fact Song's last statement to us is much more than an anecdotal truth, it's the heart of the matter. It's not enough that Apple and Amazon are talking to content creators, everyone should be doing it. Of course, a good start would be to not hide people like Ebato and Song in distant exhibition halls, where only we can find them."
Privacy

I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me 403

nk497 writes "Developers looking to prove a point about the information people are sharing on social networking sites have unveiled a new tool called Please Rob Me. It hunts out tweets from people who are also using location-based services telling the world that they're out of town, and then directs the world to go rob their house. The creators of the site said: 'Don't get us wrong, we love the whole location-aware thing. The information is very interesting and can be used to create some pretty awesome applications. However, the way in which people are stimulated to participate in sharing this information is less awesome.' How long until the first actual robbery takes place?"
Graphics

20 Years of Photoshop 289

benwiggy writes "Photoshop turned 20 on 10th February 2010. Here's an excellent history, including how the Knoll family created one of the biggest apps of all time. The article also has screenshots of the workspace through the versions."
Science

Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? 546

garg0yle writes "As if relativity wasn't enough to prevent us traveling at light speed, Professor William Edelstein of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is now claiming that the interstellar hydrogen, compressed in front of the ship, would bring the journey to a shocking end. 'As the spaceship reached 99.999998 per cent of the speed of light, "hydrogen atoms would seem to reach a staggering 7 teraelectron volts," which for the crew "would be like standing in front of the Large Hadron Collider beam."'"
Science

High-Speed Video Free With High-Def Photography 75

bugzappy notes a development out of the University of Oxford, where scientists have developed a technology capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. The researchers started out trying to capture images of biological processes, such as the behavior of heart tissue under various circumstances. They combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors. What's new is that the picture and the video are captured at the same time on the same sensor. This is done by allowing the camera's pixels to act as if they were part of tens, or even hundreds, of individual cameras taking pictures in rapid succession during a single normal exposure. The trick is that the pattern of pixel exposures keeps the high-resolution content of the overall image, which can then be used as-is, to form a regular high-res picture, or be decoded into a high-speed movie. The research is detailed in the journal Nature Methods (abstract only without subscription).

Submission + - high-speed video free with high-def photography (upi.com)

bugzappy writes: "University of Oxford scientists say they've developed a technology that's capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. (...)
they combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors"

"What's new about this is that the picture and video are captured at the same time on the same sensor" said Bub. "This is done by allowing the camera's pixels to act as if they were part of tens, or even hundreds, of individual cameras taking pictures in rapid succession during a single normal exposure. The trick is that the pattern of pixel exposures keeps the high resolution content of the overall image, which can then be used as-is, to form a regular high-res picture, or be decoded into a high-speed movie."

The research is detailed in the journal Nature Methods. http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmeth.1429.html

Also in:

http://www.isis-innovation.com/news/news/camerasofthefuture.html
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2010/100214-cameras-of-the-future.aspx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7234552/Camera-invention-could-make-conventional-photography-obsolete.html
http://www.scientistlive.com/European-Science-News/imaging_microscopy/Revolutionary_photographic_technique/24075/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100214143129.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/179160.php
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/41952.php
http://azooptics.com/Details.asp?newsID=7317
http://www.techeye.net/science/heart-scientists-invent-high-res-photographic-technique
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/photography/275782/new-camera-sensor-could-make-all-current-devices-obsolete
http://www.sidewaysnews.com/science-technology/camera-future-invented
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1823048/heart_researchers_create_revolutionary_photographic_technique/

User Journal

Journal Journal: Daily Thought 14FEB10

What was it Benjamin Franklin said? "They who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.". and in my experience they receive neither because of who they are trading with in the first place.

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