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Comment Re:Seriously (Score 1) 422

by novas007 on Thursday March 19, 2009 @05:12AM (#27252933) Attached to: Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery?

Also, for landing on Mars, NASA takes some precautions against contamination. This page talks a little bit about the bio-barrier around Phoenix's arm: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4265740.html?page=7&series=35

Submission + - spacecraft that ride magnetic fields

Submitted by

Maggie McKee

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @03:49PM

Maggie McKee writes: "Future spacecraft may surf the magnetic fields of Earth and other planets, taking previously unfeasible routes around the solar system, according to a proposal funded by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts. The electrically charged craft would not need rockets or propellant of any kind. To get charged up, the spacecraft could either fire a beam of charged particles into space or simply allow a radioactive isotope to emit charged particles. Because long thin filaments have large surface areas for holding charge, the spacecraft might look like Einstein's head — with wiry filaments sticking out from all angles — or a weird space 'stocking'."

Submission + - EU Commissioner slams closed music ecosystems

Submitted by Nonu on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @03:43PM

Nonu writes: EU Commissioner for Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva has come out against DRM lock-ins like Apple's iPod-iTunes combo. Kuneva said she believes the tie-in that keeps music bought from the iTunes Store from playing on MP3 players other than the iPod was unreasonable. '"Do you find it reasonable that a CD will play in all CD players, but an iTunes song will only play on an iPod?" asked Kuneva. "It doesn't to me. Something must change."' The EU is in the midst of an effort to harmonize its consumer protection laws, and long with the question of DRM tie-ins, it is also looking at mandating "cooling-off" periods whereby customers could "return" downloaded music.

Journal Journal: The Great Global Warming Swindle 3

Journal by MightyMartian on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @03:39PM

It seems that UK's Channel 4 "Great Global Warming Swindle", which the anti-global warming crowd, including Janet Daley of the Telegraph (see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/03/12/do1201.xml) has run into a bit of a problem; mainly that the only swindle going on was the program.

Submission + - Microsoft Quietly Releases Windows 2003 SP 2

Submitted by Misterfred22 on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @03:30PM

Misterfred22 writes: Microsoft quietly released 32-bit Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 today for download. You can download it here. Be sure to read the very long list of fixes, too. The 64-bit edition is still showing as a release canidate on their site.

Comment Re:Hello there, Comrade Molotov! (Score 1) 174

by novas007 on Saturday June 24, 2006 @02:05PM (#15596961) Attached to: PHP and Perl in One Script?

*Shrug* they both do, actually. It's because you have to declare hashes or arrays to make that work properly under strict. I didn't think it was fair to have strict on when comparing it to php, because php has no strict.

Comment Re:Missunderstanding (Score 1) 1523

by SaucyWrong777 on Friday August 26, 2005 @11:22AM (#13407941) Attached to: Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women

The bigger problem with this, the way I see it, is that before we even get to comparing men vs. women, we need to define what "intelligence" is and how to measure it.

You might find the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory interesting/relevant.

http://www.iapsych.com/CHCPP/CHCPP.html

http://www.iapsych.com/hornmod.htm

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