Comment Doesn't Matter (Score 0, Troll) 249
It doesn't matter, all the privacy activists will find something wrong with it / find something else to fight about anyway.
Comment They Deserve It (Score 1, Insightful) 242
If you don't have a password on your voicemail, you deserve to have it hacked into. Plain and simple.
Comment Re:When is it going to happen dammit! (Score 5, Insightful) 373
Yeah...I know. I'm delusional because they hold almost all the cards and have the gooberment in their pockets.
That's the sad part
Comment Re:Damping, not dampening. (Score 2, Insightful) 199
i feel sorry for the poor lonely fool who voted this witty comment as 'offtopic'.
Comment interesting (Score 0, Redundant) 199
sounds like a cool technology
Comment terrible poll (Score 1) 343
terrible poll
Comment This story has it wrong (Score 1) 151
This isn't a new initiative... NASA has been working with about 20 private organizations to promote private spaceflight for years.
Comment Re:Stalker's log, WOWDate 2010.01.20 (Score 1) 318
this ^
Submission + - Windows 7 has lots of ‘GodModes’ (aviransplace.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Those intrigued by the “GodMode” in Windows 7 may be interested to know that there are many other similar shortcuts hidden within the operating system. teven Sinofsky, Windows division president, said several similar undocumented features provide direct access to all kinds of settings, from choosing a location to managing power settings to identifying biometric sensors.
Comment Re:google dialing (Score 1) 141
maybe it will have something like safari's "private browsing" so you can still call your phone sex line without anyone knowing...
Comment Re:Electrical Memristors Don't Exist Yet (Score 1) 184
I completely agree. Right now, the memristor is more of something theoretical physicists splooge over rather than something that will be anywhere near useful in the foreseeable future.
I believe its like a lot of the quantum innovations currently being worked on (read IEEE potentials, there are a bunch)... lots of potential, but nothing concrete yet.
Comment Agree to Disagree (Score 5, Funny) 519
You haven't lived until you've been in a car with the Denzel Washington sat-nav voice.
"Take a MOTHERFUCKING left turn. NOW"
If only there was one for Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007...
Comment Re:Go for it. (Score 2, Insightful) 91
"For its part, the DOE has ambitious plans saying it expects wind to provide up to 20% of the nation's total electricity needs by 2030."
There is no way that will happen.
But this will definitely help with getting rid of those pesky birds and bats.
US Offering $45M For Huge Wind Energy Test Bed 91
coondoggie writes "On a day when one of the largest wind farm plans bit the dust, the US Department of Energy is offering up a five-year, $45 million grant to design and build a large dynamometer facility for testing 5 to 15 MW rated wind turbines and equipment. The DOE says such a facility is needed as the US has fallen behind other countries in the race to build ever-larger wind turbines for energy production. According to the DOE, the average size of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2007 increased to roughly 1.65 MW. Additionally, turbines already developed range in the 2.5 MW to 3.5 MW capacity sizes; with plans being developed for even greater power ratings. The larger wind turbines have outpaced the availability of US-based testing facilities, the DOE stated."
