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> Mimicking their structure, the researchers say, could lead to stronger and lighter composite materials.

News like this makes me weep for all the data that has been lost forever to us with the mass extinction of smaller lifeforms over the past couple of centuries.

Flipkart recently moved away from the Amazon warehousing model to an online marketplace model and I've heard nothing but complaints from customers regarding the switch. Even their own presence in the marketplace is unable to keep up the quality of service as it scales, and all kinds of scammy retailers have set up shop now which has made it relatively more dangerous to purchase on their service now.

Time will tell if they pay that billion back.

The second law is an empirical statement. This entanglement based approach is an attempt to understand the underlying physical mechanism that controls the spread of entropy. If this picture is right, the next question is what is the physical process behind entanglement.

This is what I see as soon as the page opens: http://i.imgur.com/XQlQfXl.jpg?1

Note that it's hard to read the white text in the foreground.

I love the idea! I wish there were more paid equivalents of "free" webservices/apps so that users knew the exact transaction cost of signing on. As your data on these websites/apps grows over the years and lock-in sets in, it becomes all the more important to have complete control over your data and trust in the service provider.

Do you mind sharing the complete list of poems that you read daily?

Something relevant: Symbian has had a microkernel architecture for most of it's life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

For a brief shining moment, it was open source. It's legacy is very interesting, worth a read to see just how far the little OS that could has come along since it first ran on PDAs. In fact, it's atypical architecture gives Symbian some advantages over contemporary OSes in terms of absurdly low power and CPU requirements. It is also quite secure, offering granular security settings for almost anything - the only Symbian malware that ever made the news were those that the user installed him/herself. Sadly this also gives it a very complex programming model (for example, it uses an obscure variant of C; also many basic services like audio need to be accessed through a server running on device) and a difficult threading model. Qt provides a beautiful API that wraps over the native layer these days, but it seems it's simply not fashionable among the majority of developers.

Jesus Christ, at least warn us about the NSFW! I barely had time to close it after seeing the title.