It's still a lot easier than eating warm live fish, and the scales.. they always get stuck in your teeth.

Antennas obviously.

Garbage in.. garbage out.

I'd be interested to see if they could be used in a larger scale system, obviously, straight garbage isn't particularly useful, but for example, if they were fed plant material like algae grown in the natural sewage processing farms as part of the process?

It's not 1+1 =2 obviously.. and that probably wouldn't be enough alone.

I guess it depends on whether Tonga can claim it, since it's in their territorial waters..

Yes, but more problematic, it's such a small molecule that it's really, really hard to keep contained.

I wonder if it will let toilet owners rate the visitors, because some people have no respect for other people's things (especially women in public toilets, if my SO is to be believed)

64k should be enough for anyone..

Well, considering that peregrine falcons can reach 300 Kph+ it looks like they'd be easy prey.

In my defense, I had a horrible night of sleep wednesday night. Also, the font on this site is awfully small on my 4K monitor, and...

30 ft must make them pretty vulnerable to things like peregrine falcons..

I think that the use of can is a bit wrong here, I'd put it as "is used to edit", can seems to imply that it has a choice, or prefers to edit other proteins instead of building up muscles, or causing holes to form in your cerebral tissues.

Yeah, no maybe about it.

I've never needed extra credit :P

Anyhow, a space suit with a nuclear battery and oxygen generation capabilities, it would only leave heat or pressure.. as I'm no space suit engineer, I'm pretty sure that the temp increasing to 460+ C or pressure approaching 93 bar would do some irreparable harm to the integrity of the space suit, allowing boiling hot sulfuric acid into your lungs.. yummy.

Probably when your oxygen, or heat source runs out.. that said, I don't think most spacesuits can survive temps upwards of 200C, and I'd be surprised if you didn't hit those temps somewhere around mercury (give or take a few thousand miles).

Plus, alterations in the Atlantic currents could be disastrous for a good part of europe.

Your point is that he built his theory from the work of people before him? Like pretty much every scientist throughout history?

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -Newton

Run off back to stormfront..

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they can force window focus, and probably that it remains in focus for a certain percentage of the video running time, and the person|bot not skipping/closing/muting is enough to count

Say I had to guess who is making the cash.. I think it's probably the site owner serving the ads that they hire botnets to view, more than enough money to go around.

It's probably a pretty safe investment too.. yeah, you're hiring botnet dudes, but there's probably no paper trail between the two groups, and as they're not using the botnet to DDOS, or steal CC info, I'd imagine they're pretty low down on the LEO most wanted lists..

We'll put it up there next to Napster and Limewire, et al.

Testaments to the fact that just because tech can do something, and do it really well, that doesn't naturally translate into it being legal/just/unnecessary to evolve.

Or it could have been to the acute shortage of the fissionable material, don't assign to malice, etc etc.

Well, you can still see the apartments that were around Rome in places, but yeah, it is entirely possible that the importance of a building might make people less likely to use it as a building site.. or it might have made the Vandals less likely to light it on fire when they invaded, and so on.. there are many many explanations for why much of the cement romans used hasn't survived, being crap is only one on a long list of possibilities.

Yeah, it would be, but it's not unheard of.. the Murano glassmakers of Venice seem to have help onto a lot of their secrets for a long while.

I just find it odd that the examples we can see are often projects that were started by emperors, which would have then had little impediments either monetarily, or hiring the best cement mixers, etc.

You are ignoring a third possibility, that making good cement was something that you had to be part of a guild to learn.. and guilds can be very protective of their trade secrets. That's why there is very little written down.

While I don't disagree that your premise may be correct, what makes you think that a society noted for its obsession with bureaucracy and incredible ability to organize (look where they built, and how they managed to keep garrisons weeks from Rome supplied) would not have had some recipe for cement, but that the amount of work or scarcity of materials prevented it from being used always?

Are you speaking from experience.. you were a Roman architect/builder?

In fact the article is much more specific "..suddenly produced nine flowers, each with the normal five petals, compared with about 30 flowers on the parent tree."

So, does the cherry blossom normally have 30 petals, or does the cherry tree normally have 30 blooms instead of 9?

Pedantic minds want to know.

Stacking ports is easy, stacking with another 4 radios is another issue entirely.

Not exactly fruity loops, is it.

I can't see how vaporized nicotine is anywhere near as harmful as cig smoke, no tar, no combustion byproducts, not cyanide, or other nasty monoxide combinations..

blake2sum just doesn't have the same ring to me, and with a sufficiently dirty mind, could suggest a double liason with a pair of blakes.

I actually really liked the multiverse one, where it was bubbles containing the universe popping into and out of existence, the math on all of them is way over my head though.

Are you related to Kali?

BTW, what excuse does anyone over 12 have for pointing a laser at anything besides their own eyes, or a whiteboard.. or maybe the floor in front of their cat or dog? I am of course assuming that the guy wasn't developmentally disabled.

I was watching a program a few weeks ago which talked about inflation being one of the multiple competing theories vying for title of the "current best theory", it's good to see that they have been able to get some solid proof to support it.

I think that getting rid of attenuation would be the actual breakthrough here. Probably breaking some fundamental law of physics too.

I think you're using the wrong word. It's not ugly so much as unattractive. Beauty is a part of that, but attractiveness is far more important, as if you're not attractive, you won't find a mate, and your genes will hit a dead end. Attractiveness is a much more complex beast, and involves things like fitness as a parent, which is why wealth makes a difference to women, and so on.

Exactly what space needs, ten years from now these will be obsolete, and just end up being further impediments to future orbiting objects.. hopefully, they're designed to de-orbit after a few years.

I only forget the salt when cooking, but when cooking, you can usually add the salt later with no negative impact to food safety and security.

and legalize proper opiates already. It's some stupid equivalency game, opioids are the best treatment for chronic pain (until they find a way to get true endorphins past the brain cell barrier) but they're illegal because they make people feel good, so we'll create something that's close, it gets banned, rinse and repeat.

Protestant morals and fascist population control seem to go hand in hand.

GE is outsourcing to Arcam Systems, everything in the article points to Siemens doing it inhouse, though they don't mention if the machinery is theirs or purchased from someone else. Found a few other articles from them, http://www.industry.siemens.com/topics/global/en/magazines/industry-journal/1-2013/pages/3d-printers-the-future-has-already-begun.aspx and this video shows the machine they're using: http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2013/12/siemens-3d-prints-toughest-christmas-tree-ever which seems to come from MCP systems.. found this talking about their tech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4odUhDjKHzo, though I think they may have been renamed.

It also brought us no end of weed jokes too.

"Oh, yeah! Medicinal! Why, without it I could, uh, go even blinder, right?"

I'm mostly in agreement with you, de-duplication and large files do make tools like rsync quite efficent, but there is a lot of "enterprise" use that doesn't fit into those categories, mailstores being a good example..

Even with SATA and SAS 6G connectivity, you're still looking at a lot of time for file system verification, backups, even just using dd. I think they're fine for general usage, but the size of them is making a lot of the things I suggested earlier pretty time prohibitive..

Well, I hope that this place takes off, cuz I got the awesomest UID.