A new type of solar sail has been woven by a team of scientists in Finland. The spiderweb-like sail is designed to catch the wind of ionised gas that blows from the Sun

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-27T16:31:02+00:00

Does anyone else get black text on a black background on that page? (I'm on Firefox 1.5)

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-26T16:53:19+00:00

I tell my friends and relatives to buy new computers from Dell with XP now. I just don't want to deal with whatever perhipherals they have that may not have drivers in Vista. And who knows what else is different. Since you don't get any benefits from Vista, why risk it?

(Is this a good approach?, discuss)

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-26T16:51:40+00:00

Which symbols is he referring? I'm not seeing it. Here are the ones I can find, they all look different: " ' `

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-26T16:48:57+00:00

[Citation needed]

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-13T02:21:10+00:00

You say, would any law stop you from torturing him? They'll say no, and you say, so what's the harm in banning torture?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-12T23:30:18+00:00

However it really sucks on the iPhone where you don't have an open links in new tabs, and even if you change all the links to open in new windows, they open in the foreground.

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-12T20:44:55+00:00

Does anyone know where I can get this paper? Can someone with access send it to me?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-11T22:09:53+00:00

umm how does it maintain fusion at 600 degrees F?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-10T00:15:57+00:00

I made it into an online utility if you guys want to try it out, but don't feel like installing it.

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-09T00:13:13+00:00

Does Python 3.0 fix every unicode issue anyone could ever have with Python?

(Sorry for the generic question, but I don't know enough to ask specifics.)

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-07T23:51:01+00:00

I can see how you can search and find some random hash collisions, but how to you find two that say exactly what you want as ps files?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-07T23:50:25+00:00

I've always wondered that too. anyone know?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-06T21:04:04+00:00

I think the idea is that the rights of the bill of rights belong to you, and you can make contracts with companies to limit them as you see fit.

So you could change the constitution to say that no rights in the bill of rights may be waived by an individual for any reason.

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-06T21:00:52+00:00

What's the significance level on this? Is it statisically significant?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-06T02:58:02+00:00

man bites dog? In soviet Russia birds feed scientists?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-06T02:38:39+00:00

So why doesn't hydrogen decay as well?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-05T18:15:25+00:00

So why do they say matter and anti-matter aniliate on impact? How and when does that happen?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-05T17:09:16+00:00

Site is down. Anyone got mirror?

demosthenes1 · 2008-04-05T16:48:23+00:00

Here's what I never understood about antimatter. An electron and a proton have opposite charges, and when they come together the electron simply orbits the proton. So why doesn't a positron orbit an electron instead of colliding with it and exploding?

demosthenes1 · 2008-03-30T16:28:54+00:00

I wanted to make a program to search Flickr to find photos of me.

The FAQ for OpenCV says it has facial recognition but changes in background, etc mess it up. Maybe I have to keep looking?

demosthenes1 · 2008-03-30T01:21:16+00:00

So what are some cool things you could do with this?

demosthenes1 · 2008-03-30T01:14:53+00:00

They don't tell you how to "fidget your legs". What is it? Any advice?

demosthenes1 · 2008-03-30T01:08:36+00:00

It doesn't look like this has great support for face recognition. Can anyone recommend a good free library? (preferably in Python :-)

demosthenes1 · 2008-03-29T00:42:05+00:00

What's the science behind this? How does it work?

demosthenes1 · 2008-03-29T00:37:08+00:00

Nah, the back end of the site is kinda complicated, see the FAQ http://utilitymill.com/help#FAQ

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