Actually I am wondering why an Na or Cl ion would be smaller than a water molecule with 3 atoms. Are they dragging polarized water molecules with them that would prevent them from passing through holes that are small enough for water? This is bit vague so far.

As said at http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/cms-search-standard-model-higgs-boson-lhc-data-2010-and-2011, they have excluded 128 – 525 GeV at 99% confidence level. I am not sure they measure higher than 525 GeV with LHC for now. I would expect that existing theories for the Higgs put limits on its mass. Of course theories can be wrong, but if all theories about the Higgs are wrong, then there is no such particle.

There is no way heat could cause a nuclear decay unless you get to 50 million Kelvin or so. With a laser it could conceivably be done, if the laser is powerful enough to reach that temperature. The reason is that things happen in the atom's nucleus, and you need to interact with via strong and/or weak forces (don't remember the details), not electromagnetism. Neutrons can do it, but that means radiation. Since the article doesn't say where the energy comes from, it's surely a scam.

I haven't sifted through the actual information, but my impression right now is that the leaked information is mostly embarrassing gossip, with very few actually interesting revelations. If things stay that way, it seems childish to piss off so many people by publishing private communication. I would hate to see WikiLeaks degraded to the level of tabloids, but right now they seem to be on their way.

Look again. Everything is strongly typed, including primitives.

That's what I wanted for while, too. Finally I could do something else on those long drives! I really can't wait for this, but unfortunately I am not sure I will live to see it in action, not least because of the legal ramifications. Which car maker wants to be sued first for an (alleged) autopilot malfunction?

Just saying, because the material is from 2006/2007...

The logarithmic scale in the graph at the HotHardware link is really confusing. I think a linear scale would show the differences between the drives much better.

You are not counting the weight of the engine. An electric motor is much lighter than any gasoline engine or turbine. Therefore the energy density of an electric propulsion system is better than 1% of a gasoline system.

Most of the things he complains about would be bad practices for any business. How can a business keep customers at arm's length and expect to have a good relationship with them? How can a business let its customers completely dictate how they do their work? If you run a business, you are responsible for keeping it sustainable, and sometimes that means you have to say no to your customers.

At a glance, nearly 50% of my source code lines are either empty or contain just a '}'. I use an IDE which generates a lot of code for me. And 'find . -name *.java|xargs wc -l' on a hobby project I have been working on for several years results in 110185 lines. So 1 million lines doesn't sound like a problem at all.