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Comment Re:The advantages aren't clear (Score 1) 195

These are lithium cells fabricated in a fancy way. This sort of nanoscale construction of the electrode materials affords massive surface area so you get advantages like improved capacity, power, lifetime, etc.

As with all lithium cells these are suited to applications which benefit from high energy density and low power, i.e. laptops, mobile phones etc.

'Mega-efficient' is probably a bit misleading, don't get carried away thinking all of a sudden there's a new portable energy source with the potential to replace all existing batteries!

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Journal SPAM: Benazir Bhutto Assassinated 2

Benazir Bhutto and others were killed by a suicide bomber today. I try not to comment on politics too much, but this is not a good sign of things to come. I imagine this will be all over the news - so if you want to know more just check your favorite news source.
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Journal Journal: Poor choice of words 5

My uncle is an assistant for a senator in a state legislature. Recently, they enacted a bill requiring government documents to be stored and transmitted in "electronic format."

Comment Re:M4 + anything (Score 1) 139

tex4ht seems to do a pretty good job - it can handle complicated macros, because it runs LaTeX itself to produce a DVI file, and converts that to HTML. (I think it fiddles around with the styles to put \special commands in the DVI file, so it can recover the structure of the document.)

A good-looking Postscript file isn't the same as a good-looking HTML file, though, so in my experience the output isn't quite so pretty as a hand-written HTML file (it indents paragraphs, for example, as that's what the style says to do, even though most HTML files don't do that). I suppose changing the style a bit could fix that, but I haven't got round to trying...

MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy 448

goldaryn writes "Valence Media, the parent company of Torrentspy.com, one of the web's largest torrent search engines, has filed a lawsuit against the MPAA for allegedly hiring a hacker to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets. From the suit: 'The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"

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