Comment Plasteel.... (Score 1) 149
I always think of Plasteel whenever I hear about this.
Comment Re: No... (Score 1) 92
I can think of better things to do with one hand.
Comment The damage is already done (Score 5, Insightful) 813
People are still going to ignore all the retractions from the real medical and scientific community in favor of Jenny McCarthy saying on TV that "Vaccines gave my baby autism!"
Comment Re:That show is total soul-fluff. Meaningless. (Score 1) 246
There are two times a man is allowed to cry. Once at his mother's funeral and the other at the end of Jurassic Bark.
Comment Re:More than the Great Lakes? [citation needed] (Score 2, Funny) 255
Firstly, the water is in the form of hydroxyl and the mineral apartite
Well then, the South Africans should have no problem extracting the water, given their recent history.
Can Transistors Be Made To Work When They're Off? 89
An anonymous reader writes "Engineers at the Belgian research institute IMEC are looking at the use of silicon transistors in the sub-threshold region of their operation as a way of pursuing ultra-low power goals. A chip the engineers are designing for biomedical applications could have blocks designed to operate at 0.2 or 0.3 volts, researchers said, according to EE Times. The threshold voltage is the point at which the transistor nominally switches off. Operating a transistor when it is 'off' would make use of the leakage conduction that is normally seen as wasted energy, according to the article."
Comment Re:which is better (Score 1) 326
And that's what happened to the Martians.
Comment Re:TV pitchman? (Score 1) 280
Most noting that his book Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About contains no actual cures.
Not so; the book itself cured Mr. Trudeau of poverty.
Comment Re:Cool, but... (Score 1) 379
Those issues can be addressed by particulate filters and urea injection, as the current diesels from VW/Audi, BMW and Mercedes demonstrate. I'm familiar with the VW/Audi technology, having just bought an A3 TDI -- their 2.0l TDI engine uses a particulate filter & is 50-state legal. Their larger engines use urea injection, as do the BMW/Mercedes -- the urea reacts with NOx to produce CO2 and NH3 -- the NH3 is subsequently catalytically reacted to produce N2 and H2O.
Comment Re:NOx and emissions? (Score 1) 379
NOx can be handled the same way it is in the newer "clean diesel" engines -- either through particulate filters or selective catalytic reduction (SCR -- basically injecting urea into the exhaust stream to convert the NOx into CO2 and NH3, which is then converted catalytically to N2 and H2O).
Comment More goverment disinformation... (Score 2, Funny) 208
In truth, the NSA is hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to cryptography.
Comment If a student was dressing in front of their laptop (Score 1, Redundant) 941
You could probably nail the school for possession of child pornography.
Comment Re:conundrum (Score 1) 464
If you think the police don't care that much then you must not know how they can take everything you own over simply having an immature plant in your home. Dealing or not dealing, if you're manufacturing they will probably own you and all of your possessions.
What's worse is they will also take your WoW account, shard all of your purples, and sell all of your gold for money to fund their War on Weedcraft.
Comment Re:Bacteria kit (Score 1) 368
Most teenagers already have bacteria kits -- their bedrooms.
Comment Re:It's the LHC (Score 1) 418
Great; it's not like we don't have more than enough bogons as is.
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