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Comment Re:Mystery Pits (Score 1) 552

by Redoubts on Thursday January 22, 2009 @01:47PM (#26562203) Attached to: Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump

Iran has one of the largest oil reserves in the world, yet they have to ration fuel because of shortages. What they need to do is get their heads out of their asses before we start giving them materiel that can vaporize our allies in the region.

Comment Re:Do they run vista? (Score 1) 785

by Redoubts on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @08:29AM (#25898261) Attached to: Ethical Killing Machines

If everyone had a gun, the perp would probably get shot on site. See Israel for details.

Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore 465

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @01:28AM from the billions-and-billiions dept.

zootropole alerts us to a press release issued today by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, announcing the production of 'billions of particles of anti-matter.' "Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma 'jet.' This new ability to create a large number of positrons in a small laboratory opens the door to several fresh avenues of anti-matter research, including an understanding of the physics underlying various astrophysical phenomena such as black holes and gamma ray bursts." The press release doesn't characterize the laser used in this experiment, but it may have been this one.

Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux 329

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 17, 2008 @12:46PM from the flash-in-the-pan dept.

Rinisari writes "Finally, the day has come. Adobe has released a pre-release version of the 64-bit Flash player. It is available at the Adobe Labs Flash Player 10 download site immediately. Where are the Windows and Mac versions? 'Release of this alpha version of 64-bit Flash Player on Linux is the first step in delivering upon Adobe's commitment to make Flash Player native 64-bit across platforms. We chose Linux as our initial platform in response to numerous requests in our public Flash Player bug and issue management system and the fact that Linux distributions do not ship with a 32-bit browser or a comprehensive 32-bit emulation layer by default. Until this pre-release, use of 32-bit Flash Player on Linux has required the use of a plugin wrapper, which prevents full compatibility with 64-bit browsers. With this pre-release, Flash Player 10 is now a full native participant on 64-bit Linux distributions.' Windows and Mac OS X 64-bit versions will follow, and the final versions all will be released simultaneously. Tamarin, the JIT compiler in Flash, is now capable of producing 64-bit code and nspluginwrapper is no longer required. There are, however, no plans to release a debugger version of the 64-bit plugin."

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