Comment 300 (Score 1) 341
I think we should agree to stop at 314 comments, as a mark of respect.
Submission + - Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support for Renewables (technologyreview.com) 1
TravisTR writes: A report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance details international government energy spending on biofuels and renewable energy.
Sound Generator Lethal From 10 Meters 314
penguinrecorder writes "The Thunder Generator uses a mixture of liquefied petroleum, cooking gas, and air to create explosions, which in turn generate shock waves capable of stunning people from 30 to 100 meters away. At that range, the weapon is relatively harmless, making people run in panic when they feel the sonic blast hitting their bodies. However, at less than ten meters, the Thunder Generator is capable of causing permanent damage or killing people."
Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead 292
Barence writes "Social-networking site Facebook is planning to preserve the accounts of dead members. The new 'memorialized' accounts will continue to display photos and wall posts, but remove 'sensitive information' such as status updates and contact information. Friends or family who want to report the death of a Facebook member are encouraged to fill out the site's Deceased form. The form asks for proof of death, such as an obituary or news article, although it's not clear how Facebook can validate the death of a member if neither of those pieces of information is published on the internet. How long before someone snuffs it on Facebook before their time?"
Comment Re:ESO Press Release (Score 2, Informative) 146
More details can be found in the Press Release of the European Southern Observatory. They have been using a new instrument called HARPS on the "old" ESO 3.6m telescope, which has ben around since 1976.
And HARPS has been operational since 2003.
Blueprint For a Quantum Electric Motor 97
TechReviewAl writes "Alexey Ponomarev from the University of Augsburg in Germany and colleagues have revealed the blueprints for an electric motor built with just two atoms. The motor would have one neutral atom and one charged atom trapped in a ring-shaped optical lattice. The atoms jump from one site in the lattice to the next as they travel around the ring and placing this ring in an alternating magnetic field creates the conditions necessary to keep the charged atom moving round the the ring. A team from the University of Glasgow in the UK in fact built one of these quantum motors back in 2007, which they called an optical ferris wheel for ultracold atoms. 'The next step, say Ponomarev and co, is to attach the motor to a nanoscopic resonator, such as a spring board or nanomushroom, and make it vibrate. If you can do that, they say, you'd be powering a classical object using a quantum motor.'"
Comment Re:Geniuses Don't Hallucinate? (Score 1) 215
They don't say geniuses don't hallucinate, just that people with lower IQs don't experience any positive insights because they don't have the advantage of an elevated perspective.
Comment Re:First Question (Score 1) 291
yes
Office 2010 will run on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
Comment Re:Exchange-Outlook-SharePoint, baby! (Score 1) 394
Incidentally in the above post, IE stands for Internet Explorer, not id est. SharePoint doesn't play well with Firefox, Opera or Chrome - another lock-in.
Comment Re:Benchmarks be damned (Score 1) 510
Here's another: type /. in Opera's address bar!
Vertical Farming 503
SolFire writes "The BBC is running a look at the potential for Vertical Farming in the Big Apple, a concept that promises to reduce the environmental impact of farming and increase the efficiency of food production by building multi-story farm complexes in urban areas. The vertical farm is envisioned as a self sustaining complex of greenhouses stacked on top of each other. More details can be found on the project web site."
