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Comment Impressive when you consider... (Score 2) 46

... that the Core i7 processor containing 731,000,000 transistors weighs approximately 386 g. 731,000,000 Silicon atoms weighs roughly 34 fg (femtograms) - using Avogadro's Constant and assuming I did my calculation correctly. That's a pretty huge space savings, even if you were only using binary computation.
Idle

Submission + - Real Life Super Hero Arrested (cnn.com)

Pat Attack writes: An ironic twist lands Phoenix Jones, a self-styled super hero from Seattle, in jail on Sunday morning. Jones happened upon a group of people fighting in the street and tried to stop the fight using pepper spray. He was arrested by police on four counts of assault.
The New York Daily News quotes Jones : 'I've been shot once and I don't really want it to happen again. I've been stabbed twice, hit with a baseball bat and had my nose broken,' he says. 'But in all those incidents I helped someone who was in danger.
'If someone is going to take that punishment it should be the guy in body armor,' he said.

Submission + - Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! (wired.com)

gregg writes: Today another geek legend celebrates a birthday. Best known for portraying Captain James T. Kirk, William Shatner has cemented himself into geek science fiction lore forever. Today he begins his ninth decade on this planet — yes, Captain Kirk is now 80 years old.
Nintendo

Submission + - Super Mario Bros. As First Person Shooter (ibtimes.com)

RedEaredSlider writes: If you ever wanted to see Mario finally those little mushroom creatures the what for, this is the game for you. The experience of a side-scroller as first-person shooter is a bit surreal, tho.

Submission + - Xmarks may not be dead after all

gatorfan writes: Xmarks announced it is shutting down in January of next year, that was reported a couple of days ago. Well since the out cry of people willing to pay for the service was so profound, they have since posted a pledge that users can sign if they are willing to pay for the service.

http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1945

I was wondering if this would be something you guys would like to do an update to the post from earlier this week to get the word out. The post I am referring to,
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/1548245/Bookmark-Synchronizer-Xmarks-Hangs-Up-Their-Hats?from=rss

Thanks for your consideration.

Ryan
Devoted Xmarks user
Hardware

Submission + - First human powered ornithopter (thestar.com)

spasm writes: "A University of Toronto engineering graduate student has made aviation history, successfully flying the first ever human-powered flapping-wing aircraft continuously."
Censorship

Submission + - When The Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones (techdirt.com)

An anonymous reader writes: With the Senate now looking to have the government block access to websites it deems to be bad (which seems to be called "censorship" in other countries), it's worth pointing out that the Senate doesn't exactly have a good track record when it comes to deciding what technologies to ban. Back in 1930, some Senators came close to banning the dial telephone, because they felt that it was wrong that they had to do the labor themselves, rather than an operator at the other end.
Idle

Submission + - Canadian Cannabis Car (www.cbc.ca)

sykobabul writes: The CBC is reporting:

"An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation.

The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced."

Leave it to us Canadians to come up with all sorts of uses for cannabis.

Comment Old news that isn't (Score 1) 318

First of all, this references an article that is 2 months old. Since that time, Shat and officials in the Canadian government have confirmed that Bill isn't being considered for the post of Governor General.

Second, Shatner was never on a list, short or otherwise. This whole thing came about as a result of a Facebook group nominating him for GG.

It wasn't going to happen back in April, and it isn't going to happen now. Which is kind of a shame. I would have loved to hear Capt Kirk reading the throne speech.

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