Comment Re:when dick cheney did it he wasn't charged (Score 0) 338
Except it wasn't him. It was Richard Armitage.
Comment Re:Hope and change (Score 0) 338
Richard Armitage (former Clinton appointee) was the one who revealed Valerie Plame's identity. That information was known to the special prosecutor before speaking to Libby.
So, no, you don't know what's true.
Comment Re:Global warming (Score 0) 259
I think the two atmosphere's are substantially different to the degree that extrapolating data from Venus and applying it to Earth is invalid. It may make for good PR, but it doesn't equate.
In Venus you have substantially thicker atmosphere and substantially more Solar radiation. What Venus does show is that atmosphere can affect temperature because it's hotter than Mercury. However, I think the case is attempted to be made too often that Earth is going to turn into Venus because of human activity, and I think that is a mistake.
Comment Re:Global warming (Score 0) 259
Venus is not a good analog. Sure it's hot as hell, but it's atmosphere is many times larger than ours (93 times denser). CO2 makes up an very small percentage of our atmosphere (approx 0.0387%) versus 96% on Venus.
You do make a good point about the warming by the Sun, however. But you would also need to factor in changes in wind patterns and other factors before you can completely negate any solar effect.
Why Chilies Are Hot and Yogurt Puts Out the Fire 184
bazzalunatic writes "The hottest chili in the world was made by Australians earlier this year, but how did they get the chilies so hot? Seems that worm juice is the key to revving up the capsaicin. And milk and yogurt are best to douse the heat, as they have fats that can absorb the capsaicin — which actually hijacks the neurons that detect heat."
Comment Re:Can anyone explain that in English? (Score 0) 86
I see potential for things like a share intent that would then let me decide what service (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, G+) that I want to use instead of having a thousand buttons on a webpage that do the same thing. Look at the mess that AddThis is, just a huge list of sites to post to. Intents would be a way to avoid all the junk you don't use.
Intents for web could also be for retrieving content, or triggering video chats.
Just a couple off the top of my head.
Comment Re:Funny how (Score 0) 504
No, Obama said that the stimulus would keep unemployment from going over 8%. Didn't work out so well, did it.
Comment Funny how (Score -1, Offtopic) 504
when something positive happens for a Republican or something negative happens for a Democrat it is considered "unexpected". Unemployment goes above 8% and stays there, it's "Unexpected" even though there were plenty of people saying that a trillion dollar slush fund wouldn't do squat for the economy. Bush won, and won twice. Get over it.
Researchers Reprogram Voting Machine To Run Pac-man 132
Philom writes "Numerous scientific studies have demonstrated that electronic voting machines can be reprogrammed to steal votes, so when researchers Alex Halderman and Ari Feldman got their hands on a machine called the Sequoia AVC Edge, they decided to do something different: they reprogrammed it to run Pac-Man. As states move away from insecure electronic voting, there's a risk that discarded machines will clog our landfills. Fortunately, these results show that voting machines can be recycled to provide countless hours of entertainment."
Man Takes Up Internal Farming 136
RockDoctor writes "'A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.' Just that summary should tell you enough to work out most of the rest of the details, but it does raise a number of questions unaddressed by the article: How did the pea roots deal with the patient's immune system? What would have happened if the situation had continued un-treated? I bet the guy has a career awaiting him in PR for a pea-growing company."
