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Solar power satellites are obviously a bad idea: they may increase efficiency by a factor of up to maybe 2-4, but at a cost that is orders of magnitud... read more
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From WP: An object is considered a PHO if its minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) with respect to Earth is less than 0.05 AU (7,500,000 km; 4,... read more
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The first subway I tried was in Berlin, Germany and it was somewhat daunting experience for someone who hadn't got used to the system. Previously I've... read more
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How do you know someone is a suspect? If there's already some other evidence, however light, that someone is a culprit (such as a witness statement)... read more
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First time accepted submitter cvenky writes The Indian Government is proposing to create an intergovernmental body 'to develop internet policies, ove... read more
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mcleland writes I'm not getting the bandwidth I paid for from my DSL connection. My '3mbps' fluctuates between about 2.7 during the day down to 0.1 o... read more
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astroengine writes Scientists have found superflares more than 1 million times more powerful than flares generated by the sun occurring on sun-like s... read more
Posted 13 Hours Ago in Tech
Years before, he had invented a module that, when a television commercial appeared, automatically muted the sound. It wasn't at first a context recogn... read more
Posted 13 Hours Ago in Tech
he didn't need bittorrent, all he had to do was go to a mirror site that didn't have bandwidth issues. Bittorrent can be usefull but speed is not one ... read more
Posted 14 Hours Ago in Tech
The shiny new phone that will only work on Verizon, non-US carriers after an unlocking, and the crappy regional CDMA carriers after an unlocking. Only... read more
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First time accepted submitter Maow writes Despite a recent story claiming that Canada's Bill C-30, covering internet surveillance, has died a 'lonely... read more
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TheGift73 writes in with news about an over-the-counter HIV test getting the backing of a panel of FDA experts. American consumers may soon be able t... read more
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AlistairCharlton writes Facebook has made yet another amendment to its S-1 filing, adding a further 96 million shares, pushing its initial public off... read more
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First time accepted submitter zyborg writes Here's 44 photographs of the Baikonour Cosmodrome used by the ISS program. The pictures range from traini... read more