Comment Plasteel.... (Score 1) 149
I always think of Plasteel whenever I hear about this.
Comment Re: No... (Score 1) 92
I can think of better things to do with one hand.
Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question 410
Martin Shkreli has agreed to answer your questions. Shkreli is the co-founder of the hedge fund MSMB Capital Management, the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the biotechnology firm Retrophin, and the founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Shkreli has been active on Twitter about a wide range of topics, including the 2016 presidential election. Most recently, he expressed interest in buying 4chan.
Ask him your questions here, and we'll post the full interview with Shkreli's answers in the near future.
Ask him your questions here, and we'll post the full interview with Shkreli's answers in the near future.
Comment Re:dayummm (Score 1) 229
I was at class when logins were launched...definitely registered the first day, though. It's a bit humbling to know that my login is almost old enough to drive.
Comment Re:Thanks for all the Fish Wrapper (Score 1) 1521
Same here, Rob. You've had an amazing run. Good luck!
-Tim
Can Transistors Be Made To Work When They're Off? 89
An anonymous reader writes "Engineers at the Belgian research institute IMEC are looking at the use of silicon transistors in the sub-threshold region of their operation as a way of pursuing ultra-low power goals. A chip the engineers are designing for biomedical applications could have blocks designed to operate at 0.2 or 0.3 volts, researchers said, according to EE Times. The threshold voltage is the point at which the transistor nominally switches off. Operating a transistor when it is 'off' would make use of the leakage conduction that is normally seen as wasted energy, according to the article."
Comment Re:which is better (Score 1) 326
And that's what happened to the Martians.
Comment Publicity? (Score 1) 139
This is a really neat idea since it might give NASA some much-needed good publicity. That, or it will let those in the midwest/southeast get one last good look at it i the sky before it's in museum.
Comment Re:conundrum (Score 1) 464
If you think the police don't care that much then you must not know how they can take everything you own over simply having an immature plant in your home. Dealing or not dealing, if you're manufacturing they will probably own you and all of your possessions.
What's worse is they will also take your WoW account, shard all of your purples, and sell all of your gold for money to fund their War on Weedcraft.
Student Killed By Exploding Gum 10
A 25-year-old Ukrainian student, who had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid, died when the gum he was chewing exploded. An examination of the gum showed that it was covered in an explosive substance. Officers found citric acid packets and a substance which looked similar, believed to be some kind of explosive material, on a table near the young man. It is suspected that the student forgot which packet was which.
Comment This isn't new? (Score 1) 281
Didn't AOL have a feature like this a while back?
Not that I ever used AOL *cough*
Comment Re:Wish I were living in Fargo, ND in February (Score 1) 434
Hey - I live in Fargo, damn it! It might be colder than I care to acknowledge, but our TV is in digital and our beer is nicely chilled.
We're living the good life....
Comment Re:"Just needs wifi" (Score 1) 175
I can confirm this in my area (Fargo, ND), too. It seems the average user has learned how to turn WPA on.
On the flip-side, I've noticed more and more restaurants offering free wifi.
Has the Higgs Boson Particle Field Been Hiding in Plain Sight? 163
sciencehabit writes with a link to the ScienceNow site, noting an article saying the Higgs boson may already have been found in previous observations of the known universe. A theorist at Michigan state is arguing that scientists may have already found evidence for the elusive particle. The key appears to be that the particles that make up the Higgs field are of various 'strengths', and some of those particles may tug on others very weakly. "The lightest Higgs can be very light indeed, but it would not have been seen at [CERN's Large Electron-Positron (LEP)], because LEP experimenters were looking for an energetic collision that made a Z that then spit out a Higgs. That wouldn't happen very often if the lightest Higgs and the Z hardly interact. 'Just within the simplest supersymmetric model, there's still room for Higgs that is missed,' Yuan says. However, this lightweight Higgs is not exactly the Higgs everyone is looking for, says Marcela Carena, a theorist at Fermilab. 'The Higgs they are talking about is not the one responsible for giving mass to the W and Z,' she says. It can't be because it hardly interacts with those particles, Carena says. Indeed, in Yuan's model, the role of mass-giver falls to one of the heavier Higgses, which is still heavier than the LEP limit, she notes."
Comment Not Very Pretty (Score 2, Insightful) 371
I don't know what it is about these cars of tomorrow, but they do not look attractive at all. Apparently the people who buy these cars feel like they need to announce to the world that they just bought an overly expensive golf-cart all under the guise of saving the planet.
When are we going to see high-range electric cars that don't look like something out a bad video game?
When are we going to see high-range electric cars that don't look like something out a bad video game?
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