Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 664
Nah...
I'm giving the lecture.
Comment Re:radiochromics ? (Score 1) 133
There just isn't enough energy in a radio frequency photon to mess with the electrons in material to cause this kind of effect. Perhaps if you jack up the power (the number of radio frequency photons per second) hitting your material then you might get it to change. Put it in a microwave oven for instance. By then you're already talking about dangerous levels of radio frequency energy.
Submission + - Penny-sized flash module holds 16GB (linuxdevices.com) 1
nerdyH writes: Intel describes its new 2GB to 16GB SSDs (solid state disks) as "smaller than a penny, and weighing less than a drop of water." The parts are "400 times smaller in volume than a 1.8-inch hard drive," Intel boasts, "and at 0.6 grams, 75 times lighter." Sampling now, with mass production set for Q1, the Z-P140 is described as an "optional" part of Intel's Menlow chipset, built in turn as part of Intel's vision for Linux-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).
Submission + - Australia cracked US combat aircraft codes (news.com.au)
SpamSlapper writes: FORMER defence minister Kim Beazley has told how Australia cracked top-secret American combat aircraft codes to enable the shooting down of enemy aircraft in the 1980s. The radar on Australia's Hornets could not identify most potentially hostile aircraft in the region, but dispite many requests, the codes were not provided, so "In the end we spied on them and we extracted the codes ourselves".
The Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made.
Submission + - Coop Discourages Notetaking in Bookstore (thecrimson.com) 1
mikesd81 writes: "The Harvard Crimson reports that the Harvard Coop asked Jarret A. Zafran to leave the Coop after writing down the prices of six books required for a junior Social Studies tutorial he hopes to take. The apparent new policy could be a response to efforts by Crimsonreading.org — an online database that allows students to find the books they need for each course at discounted prices from several online booksellers — from writing down the ISBN identification numbers for books at the Coop and then using that information for their Web site. The coop claims the prices are their intellectual property. Crimson Reading disagrees. "We don't think the Coop owns copyright on this information that should be available to students," said Tom D. Hadfield, co-creator of the site. According to UC President Ryan A. Petersen, discussions with an intellectual property lawyer have confirmed Crimson Reading's position."
Submission + - BBC kicked out of school
h2g2bob writes: "Ben Goldacre reports that the BBC Panorama team, while scaremongering over wifi were told to leave the school because even the kids could see it was dumb:
Should we be pleased that the kids can out-think TV producers?"When the children saw Alasdair's Powerwatch website, and the excellent picture of the insulating mesh beekeeper hat that he sells (£27) to "protect your head from excess microwave exposure", they were astonished and outraged. Panorama were calmly expelled from the school.
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