Posts by Benjamin Kunz

Boffins build World's tiniest 'laser'

Hm.....

Sounds like another way to invent a Star Trek and Harry Potter style cloak =)

Earthquake-squelching, sonar-invisible 'active cloak' unfurled

I don't get it.

Just watching the video and reading what's here i don't get it. Seems infeasible to me. On any scale. You'd essentially need three circular omni*-directional emitters around the whole object and an insane amount of realtime processing power.

*) As in any direction, any time (As opposed to just any direction). How do you refer to this.

Russian schoolgirl invents inertioid-driven Venus rover

Point of this article?

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?forumID=13&threadID=93551&messageID=466670

Hehehe.

The internet's up sh*t creek, but at least we have aliens

wrt: sewers..

I'm sure some of you remember http://www.google.com/tisp/ ?

Now the question is just - when will google sue for infringement?!

Germans send teen tearaway to Siberia

Die Hesse komme!

While "Hesse" is the correct pronounciation for "Hessen" if you grew up in Hessen, it's still spelled Hessen. =p

Genghis Khan didn't much like gays

More often than not..

..those laws spring from the simple fact that huge armies are significantly lacking women.. and discipline was even more important than today.

So, they're mostly motivated by simple, practical considerations rather than anything else..

Microsoft, Feds, and Chinese authorities seize $2bn in pirated software

Neusprech..

I can't help but wonder how pirated software can be "worth" it's retail price in the first place anyway.. How much money would have been made, and lost to MS, if those people had not been caught?

Apple iPhone

Shameless plug!

If you'd like your "iPhone" open.. you'll just have to wait a bit longer!

http://wiki.openmoko.org

Telstra in Second Life 'Ayers Rock' kerfuffle

Also, ..

Don't tell them about google earth - which links straigth to imagery of the northeast face.. here - http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1504501 http://www.panoramio.com/photo/50085

I'll file this as "Second Life hype", tyvm.. (The Matrix has you.)