Comment The prototype was heard to say ... (Score 1) 270
"Nobody throws a robot!"
Comment Re:Energy storage? (Score 1) 867
This article doesn't mention anything about mass energy storage
Already solved by the Better Place people, there's nothing more to add than "do it".
Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers 31
nk497 writes "The Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) doesn't index content like a standard search engine, but looks at markup, style, scripting and the technology behind pages. Based on those existing MAMA-ed pages, 80.4 per cent of sites use cascading style sheets (CSS), while the average web page has 47 markup errors and 16,400 characters. Should you want to know which country is using the AJAX component XMLHttpRequest the most, MAMA can tell you that it's Norway, with 10.2 per cent of the data set."
Additional coverage is available at Computerworld, and a deeper explanation is up at Opera's Dev site.
Comment Re:Asteroid Deflection how? (Score 2, Informative) 124
Vapourising asteroid mass causes thrust by virtue of the gaseous ex-rock moving away from the body of the asteroid.
