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Comment Re:Cost of policing illegal traffic in recycled ca (Score 1) 740

The initial wording of the bill puts these restrictions on it.

Only in 2009 can they buy car and get the federal rebate.

They must have owned the previous car since before Dec. 31st 2008.

The new wording puts a spin on this.

The rebate goes from 1500-4500 depending on how much cleaner the new car is in comparison to the older one.

Personally, I think the US should lax up on safety regulations and work with the EU to make a worldwide standard on auto safety regulations.

That way, auto manufactures can create vehicles that meet the minimum safety requirements and produce fewer emissions than older vehicles. While at the same time offering premium demanded vehicles that offer greater safety for consumers.

Comment I agree, they don't need more broadband (Score 2, Interesting) 161

They could use it, sure.

However, countries in Africa could really use a 4 billion dollar investment into Concentrated solar power.

4 billion is all that it would take to make the necessary power for the entire continent out of sun power, mirrors, and liquid salt and some high power lines.

Once you get past the corruption anyways.

Feed A Mac gets whacked, a second survives (theregister.com)

CanSecWest PWN to Own contest beaten

Shane Macaulay strode into the conference hall at the CanSecWest conference on Friday afternoon, balancing a MacBook Pro on his palm and making a beeline for the table displaying two more of the silver laptops.


PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Hacked DX10 for Windows appears

Oddscurity writes: According to The Inquirer someone managed to write a wrapper allowing DirectX 10 applications to run on platforms other than Vista. The Alky Project claims to have reverse-engineered Geometry Shader code, allowing Windows games to run on Windows XP, MacOSX and Linux. The Inquirer is understandably cautious about these claims, urging readers to investigate the releases themselves to assertain whether or not it's a hoax.

Feed UK and US agree plan for joint space missions (theregister.com)

Collaboration

The UK and the US have signed a memorandum of understanding that paves the way for closer collaboration on missions to explore our solar system, including robotic exploration of the moon and trials of technology that could one day be sent to Mars.


Feed NASA gunman: police blame work grudge (theregister.com)

Performance review triggered shooting

A NASA employee who killed a colleague, took another hostage and then turned his gun on himself, was lashing out at the man he thought was responsible for his poor work review, police investigators have said.


Power

Bussard Gets Navy Funding For Fusion Research 146

UnreasonableMan writes to let us know that Robert Bussard, the fusion researcher whose talk at Google was discussed here a few months back, has won continued funding from the Navy. The word on this spread from Kent Brewster at the Speculations blog, who reportedly had the word from Bussard himself. (The link is to another blog that reproduces Brewster's post, because Speculations has no permalink.)

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