Comment Re:this is beautiful - Inkblot (Score 1) 111
So, who else is seeing a giant hand?
Comment new plan same as... (Score 2, Insightful) 141
...the old plan, twice the spin.
Just think, with the ISPs on board they can be sure they sue the right people this time round (probably).
Just think, with the ISPs on board they can be sure they sue the right people this time round (probably).
How To Cloak Objects At a Distance 136
KentuckyFC writes "All invisibility cloaks to date work by hiding an object embedded inside them. Now a group of physicists have worked out how to remotely cloak objects that sit outside a cloaking material. The trick is to make the cloaking material with optical properties that are exactly complementary to the space outside them. Complementary means that the material reverses the effect the space has on a plane wave of light passing through it. To an observer this space would appear to vanish. The scientists say that to cloak an object sitting outside the cloaking material, first measure its optical properties and then embed a "complementary image" of the object within the cloak. So a plane wave is first distorted by the object but then restored to a plane by the complementary image of the object within the cloak (abstract). An observer sees nothing. This method has another benefit. Objects hidden in conventional cloaks are blinded because no light enters the cloaked region. But objects that are remotely cloaked like this should still be able to see their surroundings."
Comment Re:Eh, whatever. (Score 2, Insightful) 70
Although possibly not, if the ISPs are declared responsible for policing the 'net then they become the next target for the recording industry lawsuits.
Slashdot Top Deals
If computers take over (which seems to be their natural tendency), it will serve us right. -- Alistair Cooke
