Comment Re:Fair-weather power sources are lame... (Score 1) 337

by Okneff on Saturday November 15, 2014 @10:41AM (#48391441) Attached to: Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps

Radioisotope thermoelectric generator requires plutonium and they weren't able to use it mainly for political reasons.

Comment Re:Uebersetzungsfehler? (Score 1) 325

by Okneff on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:09PM (#43833151) Attached to: German Brewers Warn Fracking Could Hurt Beer

It's even allowed to use chemicals (PVPP, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone) to filter out unwanted tanning agents. After the (complete) removal of the PVPP the Reinheitsgebot by definition is not violated...

Comment Re:Typical (Score 1) 596

by Okneff on Friday February 10, 2012 @03:45AM (#38992915) Attached to: US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors

Today (2012/02/10) France is buying not selling energy. Germany delivers :-)

Comment hypothesis (creds to #arlenarlenarlen) (Score 1) 768

by Okneff on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @11:41AM (#36436822) Attached to: Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin

Is bitcoin just a scam, invented by nVidia to sell GPUs?

Comment the homeopathic solution (Score 1) 342

by Okneff on Saturday April 09, 2011 @05:20AM (#35766248) Attached to: 30 Years To Clean Up Fukushima Dai-Ichi

1. Dilute the contaminated water
2. Dilute it even more
3. ...and more
4. Sell it to homeopaths
5. Profit!

Comment Some more analysis & advice (Score 1) 167

by Okneff on Saturday September 18, 2010 @06:34AM (#33618740) Attached to: Stuxnet Worm Infected Industrial Control Systems

"German IACS security researcher Ralph Langner has successfully analyzed the Stuxnet malware that appeared to be a miracle. Stuxnet is a directed attack against a specific control system installation. Langner will disclose details, including forensic evidence, next week at Joe Weiss' conference in Rockville. " http://www.langner.com/en/index.htm

Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components 169

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @03:54PM from the venturing-to-gain dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Amazon's wildly popular Kindle 2 got a good old fashioned tear-down from the folks at market research firm iSuppli. According to the organization, the Kindle 2's manufacturing cost is almost half as much as its retail price."

Comment CCC congress (Score 1) 550

by Okneff on Sunday March 20, 2005 @05:52PM (#11993032) Attached to: Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute?

The german Chaos Computer Club has an archive of lectures/talks/workshops from their anually congress .