Comment Black squares can't hide things... (Score 1) 104
Just select all, copy and paste somewhere else. Then you'll be able to see what's under those black squares right?
Comment Access Denied (Score 1) 118
It looks as if my company realizes that nobody gets paid enough to be able to place a bid on this site. They've gone ahead and blocked it so we won't be tempted to bid on items out of our price range. How thoughtful...
Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674
Ponca City, We love you writes "Temple University physics professor Rongjia Tao has developed a simple device that could dramatically improve fuel efficiency in automobiles by as much as 20 percent. The device, attached to the fuel line of a car's engine near the fuel injector, creates an electric field that thins fuel, reducing its viscosity so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine. Because combustion starts at the droplet surface, smaller droplets lead to cleaner and more efficient combustion. Six months of road testing in a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz automobile showed an increase from 32 miles per gallon to 38 mpg, a 20 percent boost, and a 12-15 percent gain in city driving. 'We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones,' Tao wrote in the study published in Energy & Fuels. 'This discovery promises to significantly improve fuel efficiency in all types of internal combustion engine powered vehicles and at the same time will have far-reaching effects in reducing pollution of our environment,' says Larry F. Lemanski, Senior Vice President for Research and Strategic Initiatives at Temple."
Comment Re:the laptops have no net connection .. (Score 1) 290
The emails are sent to / received from the Space Station at certain points in the day. It only happens periodically because there has to be the correct satelite coverage for transfering larger amounts of data. Before you go claiming that email is relatively small, so why wait for larger pipes, think about all of the other data that is more important that needs to be transfered off. Telemetry, Voice, Video, etc.... I'm sure crew email is at the bottom of the list.
Journal Journal: Free or Cheap Video Conference Software 2
I am member of a family with 6 kids. Currently there are 3 of us out of the house and spread throughout different parts of the country. We all have webcams and we are all on some sort of highspeed internet. We're trying to organize a video chat with everybody on a weekly basis, but we can't find the right software. Currently, we're using IM4Cam, but people seem to not be able to see each other at times, and there's tons of lag. The text chat lags majorly at some times. Does anybody have any soft
