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Comment Re:"Clean Coal" (Score 5, Informative) 464

by resonance378 (#27590403) Attached to: Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal"
From the recycling article regarding the US and reprocessing. "In October 1976, fear of nuclear weapons proliferation (especially after India demonstrated nuclear weapons capabilities using reprocessing technology) led President Gerald Ford to issue a Presidential directive to indefinitely suspend the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the U.S. This was confirmed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. After that, only countries that already had large investments in reprocessing infrastructure continued to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. President Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, but did not provide the substantial subsidy that would have been necessary to start up commercial reprocessing."

Comment Re:Surprise? (Score 1) 724

by resonance378 (#27387713) Attached to: Reliability of Computer Memory?
This is also similar to the 'Linux' guys who want to 'fool around at home' with Ubuntu etc. on a Pentium 2 with 128MB of ram and 20Gig hard drive - and then call it slow, no drivers, hard to configure, etc. Ah well reason and realism seem to go out the window when people 'try' a new operating system of any flavor.

Comment Re:Palm keeps falling flat? (Score 0, Flamebait) 300

by resonance378 (#26829861) Attached to: Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS
Apparently you've never supported the Palm Pilot mX Magical Pony Edition or you would not be saying such things. Of the few POS that are still in service where I am employed - our team spends at least 6 hours a week supporting palms for their issues. Users love them for their calendaring and contact lists and don't want to give them up for that. Blackberry just doesn't have it yet when it comes to that in the users eyes. Apparently losing data, duping data, not synching every other day, bursting into flames, and killing babies to a dark lord are all things they can live with in order to use those two functions.
Displays

The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow 324

Posted by timothy from the cheaper-than-a-kevlar-vest dept.
Ev!LOnE was one of several readers to point out an interesting LCD stress test: "ASUS recently came out with Asus LS201 — a TFT monitor with a protective panel made of crystal-sapphire. What I didn't imagine was the amount of punishment that thing can take. Apparently some Ukrainians shared the same concern and went for a test." Translation not necessary, but some clues about the narration would be appreciated in comments.
Editorial

Submission + - 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared

Submitted by rbgrn
rbgrn writes: With all of the hype surrounding hybrid vehicles today, I thought I'd do some research and post my findings on the next generation of fully electric and plug-in hybrids. The fully-electric EV has had a bad name in the past, mostly due to insufficient battery technology, politics, lack of performance models and other factors. Starting this year with the Tesla Roadster, the EV is going to take on a new form in the eyes of John Q Public. Quiet, efficient EVs will start to become commonplace in the next few years as major manufacturers go into production with the newest generation of vehicle sporting more powerful motors, efficient generators and the latest battery technology.
Slashdot.org

Slashdot's Setup, Part 2- Software 151

Posted by CmdrTaco from the its-all-just-ones-and-zeros dept.
Today we have Part 2 in our exciting 2 part series about the infrastructure that powers Slashdot. Last week Uriah told us all about the hardware powering the system. This week, Jamie McCarthy picks up the story and tells us about the software... from pound to memcached to mysql and more. Hit that link and read on.
Supercomputing

NEC SX-9 to be World's Fastest Vector Computer 137

Posted by CowboyNeal from the better-faster-stronger dept.
An anonymous reader writes "NEC has announced the NEC SX-9 claiming it to be the fastest vector computer, with single core speeds of up to 102.4 GFLOPS and up to 1.6TFLOPS on a single node incorporating multiple CPUs. The machines can be used in complex large-scale computation, such as climates, aeronautics and space, environmental simulations, fluid dynamics, through the processing of array-handling with a single vector instruction. Yes, it runs a UNIX System V-compatible OS."
NASA

Hundreds of Black Holes Found 208

Posted by CowboyNeal from the no-not-the-view-studio-audience dept.
eldavojohn writes "Hundreds of black holes that were thought to exist at the beginning of the universe have been found by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes. From the article, 'The findings are also the first direct evidence that most, if not all, massive galaxies in the distant universe spent their youths building monstrous black holes at their cores. For decades, a large population of active black holes has been considered missing. These highly energetic structures belong to a class of black holes called quasars. A quasar consists of a doughnut-shaped cloud of gas and dust that surrounds and feeds a budding supermassive black hole. As the gas and dust are devoured by the black hole, they heat up and shoot out X-rays. Those X-rays can be detected as a general glow in space, but often the quasars themselves can't be seen directly because dust and gas blocks them from our view.' This is pretty big, as it's empirical evidence proving the existence of objects that theoretically had to exist but could not be detected previously."
Space

Huge Balloon Lofts New Telescope 85

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the not-just-hot-air dept.
Science Daily is reporting that a new solar telescope has been launched via an enormous balloon filled with helium. Dubbed project "Sunrise" the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), NASA, Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar Physics, Spain's Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands, and the Swedish Space Corporation all partnered to launch the balloon in order to view never before see features of the Sun. "The project may usher in a new generation of balloon-borne scientific missions that cost less than sending instruments into space. Scientists also can test an instrument on a balloon before making a commitment to launch it on a rocket. The balloon, with its gondola of scientific instruments, was launched successfully on the morning of October 3 from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. It flew for about 10 hours, capturing stable images of the solar surface and additional data from the various instruments of the sophisticated payload. The gondola then separated from the balloon and descended with a parachute, landing safely in a field outside Dalhart, Texas."

Feed Wired: Added IMAP Support Makes GMail King of Webmail (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
Google adds support for the IMAP mail protocol to GMail, its web-based e-mail service. IMAP enables easier management of mail across multiple devices and computers, and positions Google's service ahead of competing webmail services from Microsoft and Yahoo.


Space

Submission + - New Hydrogen Engine Test Shows Future of Aviation (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Boeing has successfully completed tests for the engine that will power HALE, the extreme endurance plane that will be able to fly for seven days non-stop in the stratosphere. The wünderengine, developed by the Ford Motor Company, went for three days under the simulated conditions of a 65,000-feet flight, which is definitely better than a Taurus and apparently exceeded their expectations on fuel economy. Chris Haddox at Boeing's Advanced Systems said that while it will be several years before HALE flies, the key to this aircraft is the propulsion system and this recent test was very promising.
The Internet

World Series Ticket Sales Overwhelm Servers 86

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the first-error-of-the-series-goes-to-the-owner dept.
vlakkies writes "The Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team decided to only sell tickets for the World Series games at Coors Field online. As a result of overwhelming interest, the ticket vendor Paciolan experienced a system meltdown resulting in a suspension of all ticket sales."

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