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Comment Neocubes (Score 1) 458

Neocubes are small spherical magnets (about 5mm diameter). You buy about 256 or more for about $12, and you stick them together to make whatever you want, constrained only by geometry and the rules of magnetism. This is some of what you can make: http://picasaweb.google.com/damox99/Neocube# Find them on ebay with search terms like 'neocube', 'sphere' and 'magnetic'.

Comment No cross-links, not a living document (Score 1) 355

It was interesting to read the 'quantum physics article', but it had no cross-linking and was very much one person's view. This will matter much more for contentious articles (e.g. 'Keynesian Economics', or 'Islam'). These documents are not 'living documents' and its hard to see how they can be, without crowd sourcing.
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Most Consumers Support Government Cyber-Spying 247

scurtis writes "Nearly two thirds of computer users globally believe that it is acceptable for their country to spy on other nations by hacking or installing malware, according to Sophos's mid-year 2010 Security Threat Report. And 23 percent claimed to support this action even during peacetime. Perhaps more surprisingly, 32 percent of respondents said that countries should also be allowed to plant malware and hack into private foreign companies in order to spy for economic advantage."

Comment shouldn't we be test LIBRARY readability? (Score 1) 186

This test is only on readability of a single book (quite validly, and they pretend nothing else). Being able to access and/or transport a huge list of books easily on digital media is also good, not to mention being able to access the net for other reasons, and all without carrying around a separate device. Given that I like to carry a laptop, and that its screen makes it HANDS FREE on a table, or at night on my doona (mouse under doona!) I will stay with the laptop.
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Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."
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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

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