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I'd rather have a system that does it better without having to resort to scripts all over the place to make up for deficiencies in the system.

You seem to be making the tacit assumption that everything works perfectly. If I am debugging a system then I would much prefer to deal with scripts (usually all in one place or otherwise easily found) than have to try to debug C and C++ code and XML schema. See Theodore Ts'o comments that were linked to above.

It reminds of me dealing with Microsoft systems (many years ago from the NT days, maybe they have changed since then). *IF* everything works pefectly then it is fine but as soon as you are in the mode of tracking down problems then it becomes a nightmare. This is why I made the switch from Windows-NT to Linux when I was doing sysadmin at a university. If I wanted to use a system that was like that then I would use Windows. This tacit assumption that the system was designed perfectly so there is no need for any intervention is one of the reason people don't want to give up init scripts on their Linux systems and replace them with systemd.

> Even birdshot is only effective at 40yds (120ft for you metric weenies

Just curious, how is 120 feet any more metric than 40 yards? The length of a meter is pretty close to the length of a yard, as shown by a metric conversion, so saying 40 yards gives a pretty good approximation of the range in meters.

Is it even worthwhile to use an app like that to save a few cents on gas?

Not EVERY TIME you need to fill-up, but it's very good for finding which gas stations in your area are consistently inexpensive, which ones play games with pricing (occasionally cheap to bring-in business, then crank-up the prices). And when traveling it absolutely INVALUABLE for avoiding gas-traps that can be $1 per-gallon more than the gas station half a mile ahead...

If I have to spend even 5 minutes looking up gas prices and driving out of my way to go to a cheaper gas station, it's not worth saving 30 cents a gallon on gas.

At $8/hour (a reasonable minimum wage), 5 minutes of effort is worth 67 cents, making even a 5 cent/gallon price difference worth the effort.

Personally, there's nothing I would love more than an app (or maps/navigation feature) that would show me which cheap gas stations are along my route, rather than a dumb radius search that might tell me to do a U-turn and drive a 10 mile loop to save 1 cent/gallon, or going 5 miles away from the highway, when in both cases continuing on my route for 5 miles to the next cheap gas station is most often the far better option. GasBuddy's map is utterly useless for such things, and would take an hour of clicking-on each pin to figure out the answer to that simple and frequent question.

I see Gas Guru is a solid competitor to Gas Buddy. I'll have to compare their terms and see which is slightly less evil.

Here's a copy published in 1911 (words only, but it makes it clear that this song well predates the 1935 date the copyright claimants are pegging their millions on).

Title: The Elementary Worker and His Work
Author: Alice Jacobs, et al
Year: 1911

https://books.google.com/books...

For that application, I'd be more excited about Project Tango. I'm not sure exactly how good it is, but that type of technology has the potential to be used to (for example) detect the deflection of failing structural members, etc.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to mount sensors on stop lights or buildings? You'd get a more consistent measurement. That is probably not what this is about. If you can't related it to self-driving cars, it can't be the next big thing. Innovation in Silicon Valley is petering out.

If we compare the number of the 250 Google street view cars to the 311,000 traffic signals in the United States we can easily see that your suggestion would require a lot more sensors.
Add to that that your suggestion requires that someone goes to the traffic signals to mount the sensors while the cars can be modified when they are in for service.
The project in the article could probably be done for $250,000 or so depending on the cost of the sensor and how they are planning to mount it.
I don't see how your suggestion could possibly be done for less than $100,000,000.

I agree they should not prosecute the bloggers, but exactly what the hell were these bloggers thinking? They were going to shut down or change the nature of spying? Make it respectful and transparent? What kind of quixotic cluelessness about reality is this?

The bloggers published some budget plans of the "Verfassungsschutz" indicating that they were working on monitoring social networks. This should not be secret information at all and is not about spying but about controlling the spies. Or do you think the agencies should be allowed to operate without any supervision?

Currently the Verfassungsschutz is sponsoring right wing terrorists ( https://translate.google.com/t... ) instead of doing what they are supposed to do. So there is a severe lack of supervision.

You need to teach your baby to use the nipple, too.

I wonder how many of these nipple-challanged babies grow up and go to work for Microsoft.

You need to teach your baby to use the nipple, too.

A 'badly-damaged' suitcase has also been found in the same area: Google Translation of French-Language news report

Both the heavy battery pack and the motor-generator-plus-flywheel (I never called it magical or weightless, but this data suggests it can weigh a lot less than a battery pack) need at least one electric motor to drive the car wheels (did you know one electric motor can drive a pair of wheels without a mechanical differential?). If the battery charges/discharges at 90% efficiency, while the flywheel does it at 95% efficiency, guess which is superior? (And "rare earth" metals are not actually all that rare; the problem has been chemically separating them from each other, to get the particular ones we actually want to use, and the pollution associated with the process. Obviously that technology needs to be improved.)
Another poster has claimed that modern lithium batteries can have better-than-95% efficiency, making them better than a motor-generator-flywheel. If accurate, the only advantage a flywheel would have is a very fast charging time.

Both the heavy battery pack and the motor-generator-plus-flywheel (I never called it magical or weightless, but this data suggests it can weigh a lot less than a battery pack) need at least one electric motor to drive the car wheels (did you know one electric motor can drive a pair of wheels without a mechanical differential?). If the battery charges/discharges at 90% efficiency, while the flywheel does it at 95% efficiency, guess which is superior? (And "rare earth" metals are not actually all that rare; the problem has been chemically separating them from each other, to get the particular ones we actually want to use, and the pollution associated with the process. Obviously that technology needs to be improved.)
Another poster has claimed that modern lithium batteries can have better-than-95% efficiency, making them better than a motor-generator-flywheel. If accurate, the only advantage a flywheel would have is a very fast charging time.

You are sounding like a zealot. I did do significant research quite a few years ago, and back then the energy efficiency for charging/discharging electric batteries was only about 2/3, not the 3/4 I estimated in the prior post. I was aware that there have been improvements over the years, but there are still efficiency losses due to electrical resistance inside batteries. Why else do laptop batteries overheat!? If today's battery efficiency is about 90% instead of the 75% I estimated, GOOD. But you still have to "whack it down twice" because you have to charge the battery to make it usable, and you have to discharge the battery to actually use it, and there are internal resistance losses both ways. SO: 50% power-plant efficiency, and 90% twice for the batteries, and 95% for the electric drive motor get us to about 38% (add some for regenerative braking).
Next, you ignored the fact that there are a lot of Diesel cars on the road, that run at greater efficiency than gasoline engines, even if the production-car efficiency is less than the ideal. But that's why the cost of Diesel fuel is no longer less than the cost of ordinary gasoline, like it was before all those cars hit the road (and with turbocharging, they are as quick to accelerate as most ordinary cars). The cost of Diesel fuel, relative to gasoline, has prevented wider adoption. You can expect Diesel-car owners to be among the last to switch to electrics, if the efficiency isn't improved. Not to mention one other factor: as more people do switch to electrics, the demand for gasoline will drop, and its cost will also drop (has famously dropped months ago because of an increase in supply, but the Law of Supply and Demand isn't done with it yet). Cheap gas will keep those cars on the road longer.
Next, you are not making sense, talking about "Fuel cell storage efficiency", because fuel cells don't do storage; fuel is stored separately from the cells (and I specified that with sunlight production, the efficiency of fuel generation can be ignored). Since internally they work basically like batteries, if batteries can work with 10% internal electric-resistance losses, fuel cells should be able to do the same. It is just a matter of design. That's why I estimated 75% for fuel cells, just like I did for batteries. I am aware that hydrogen fuel tanks are bulky, but electric-car batteries are bulky, too, and weigh more, because of the oxidizer they store along with the fuel.
Finally you need to do some research about flywheels. They are NOT necessarily heavy, because the energy they can store goes up as the square of the rotation speed; if Flywheel A rotates twice as fast as B, then A stores 4 times the energy of B. Modern use of carbon fiber can allow the construction of flywheels that spin many times faster than heavy steel, so weigh considerably less while storing more energy. This was known back in 1970! Not to mention, you ignored what I wrote about only using flywheel energy-storage for rapid car-acceleration, no need for even a 50-mile range.

Thanks, but you are sounding somewhat like a zealot. I first researched the data quite a few years ago, but hadn't known what recent improvements have done for electric battery charging/discharging. I DO know that electrical resistance inside batteries can be a source of significant energy loss; in the old days efficiency was only about 2/3, not the 3/4 I estimated in the prior post --and that is why I asked for better numbers! What I didn't know was how much those resistance losses have been overcome, and if the overall efficiency is more like 90% than 75%, that's cool. Next, you ignored the fact that a lot of cars have Diesel engines, which are more efficient than gasoline engines, even if the production-car efficiency numbers are less than the ideal numbers. NEXT, I "whacked it down twice" because you have to charge the battery, and then you have to discharge the battery to use it. Both ways have internal-electrical-resistance energy losses!
Your talk about "fuel cell storage efficiency" is meaningless. A fuel cell works very much like a battery, converting chemical energy to electrical energy. So if a battery can be 90% efficient, a fuel cell should be able to have that efficiency, too. There is no "storage" inside a fuel cell; the fuel is stored in a separate tank. I do know that hydrogen fuel-storage tanks are bulky, but electric-car batteries are bulky too, and weigh more (because of also storing the oxidizer). You do know that overall automobile weight is a factor relating to how big/powerful its drive system has to be?
Flywheels are NOT necessarily super-heavy, especially when they don't have to store energy for a long travel range. Kinetic energy stored goes up with the square of the rotation speed. So if flywheel A spins twice as fast as B, and both weigh the same, A will be storing 4 times the energy. Modern use of carbon fiber can allow construction of flywheels that spin many times faster than ordinary heavy steel flywheels, for greater energy storage with less weight. This was known back in 1970. Do some research! (Not to mention, you appeared to ignore what I wrote about only using a flywheel for rapid acceleration, no 50-mile range needed).

And yet they still support POWER. Odd.

https://www.debian.org/ports/p...

It's not odd at all.

At present, the TCO is about the same because the lower maintenance and fuel costs are offset by the increased up-front cost. And that is with the government tax credits included. A search for electric car TCO gives dozens of articles that seem to corroborate this.

In the long-term, I believe the TCO of electric cars will probably become lower. I'm betting that electric cars will last longer, the maintenance curve will not increase as the engine ages, and that green electricity sources will widen the gap between gasoline and electricity costs. But at some point we will lose the tax credits.

Just so no one thinks I'm cherry picking my search results: Here are the first 6 Google hits (other than PDFs) and they all agree:
http://www.plugincars.com/tota...
http://www.pluginamerica.org/d...
http://tdworld.com/site-files/...
http://www.greentechmedia.com/...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/to...

Most of the results are tepid, arguing things like "hey, electric cars are NOT actually more expensive" or "well, it's about the same long term." but are hesitant to declare a clear winner.

Again, this works in the US with big suburbs where everyone has a parking lot with an electric outlet. In other countries (like good old Europe), where most people live in apartments and there is just no way you can plug your car at night, it doesn't work. It is just impossible until you can refill your car in 5 minutes like with gasoline...

That's not a long term issue. See (pdf): Electric vehicles in Europe: - McKinsey & Company

The EU’s Clean Fuel Directive, as proposed in January 2013 and being discussed in EU Parliament in March 2014, sets a target of 800,000 publicly accessible EV charging stations to be installed throughout Europe by 2020 – with individual targets being set for each member state. This requirement for publicly available charging infrastructure recognizes that many EV owners, especially in cities, will need to rely on access to charging stations in collective parking lots, at apartment blocks, offices, or business locations, and suggests that member states focus on charging station density in urban areas.

Oh, and many Europeans travel 1000+km on a single streak with their cars on holidays. Again, if the cars you want to sell have to wait 2 times 4 hours to refill in such travel, you're not going to sell many of them.

Ecars are good for commuters that live in houses. There are not many of them outside the US.

Auto ownership has probably hit it's peak, self-driving cars will make the expense of individual ownership less and less appealing in general. And owning an ICE for road trips is ridiculous. Just rent the car.

That's just BS.

No it isn't. It is a fact of human development.

That doesn't mean helicopter parenting is in order or that they can't manage at home by themselves for a while with generally increasing autonomy, but it does mean that expecting adult thinking about longer term life choices will be hit and miss at best. It makes no more sense to hold them forever responsible for their actions than it does to teach calculus in kindergarten.

While pulling everything off the internet forever isn't really possible, we can certainly disallow use of old information from childhood when deciding on employment or credit at the very least.

You'll have to get Mitch to poke his head out of his shell first. Good luck with that. Mitch is a bigger pussy than Patty G's. Actually, that kind of looks like him.

Google is the largest in the real-time-bidding area, and they clearly care a lot about getting the bids in a short time. They directly suggest that you have machines physically located near their trading locations, and encourage you to peer with their routers: https://developers.google.com/... It's possible some of the other exchanges behave badly, but the benefit of waiting longer is going to be fairly small. All their bidders designed their systems to meet that 100ms time window. The benefit of waiting isn't going to be that great when all the heavy bidders already have bids in.

The patent points to PCM. Maybe they're applying the same X-Point structure to a different material system, though. I'm guessing, however, that they're just saying it's not PCM in an attempt to dodge other patents.

This has been done before. Back in the 1980s people were able to drill into a pond of molten lava for some distance and boil water with it:
https://books.google.com/books...

The interesting thing about doing such a thing that the high temperature is half the problem, the other one is that molten magma is highly corrosive.

There really aren't any NFC capable stores anywhere, and the only one I know of requires you to show a physical ID, which defeats the purpose, as it's less hassle using a card.

IMO, the marketing for NFC was completely botched. There are so many people that keep hearing "convenience" being associated with it, and anyone with half a brain can tell that is bullshit. I have to get my phone out, unlock it (hopefully nfc doesn't bypass that), possibly enable nfc (it chews battery and is a possible security risk to keep on 100% of the time), swipe it, probably click something on my phone then, then lock my phone again and put it back. Versus a magswipe credit card, where I take it out (possible out of the card slot in my phone wallet, or out of my wallet, or just out of my pocket), swipe, sign, put it away. The magswipe is also lighter, replaceable, and very cheap.

IE. the NFC conversation should avoid the "convenience" topic, not make it the focus (unless they're trying to kill it).

NFC has some very very very strong benefits over magstripe. Some implementations are better than others, and there are some trade offs (ex. apple pay versus the way google wallet did it versus chip-and-pin versus chip-and-signature). Finding out how these are implemented is difficult** and confusing. It should be the front and center selling point.

Examples of the "convenient/easy" push:

https://www.google.com/wallet/ : "An easier way to pay. Google Wallet makes it easy to pay - in stores, online or to anyone in the US with a Gmail address. It works with any debit or credit card, on every mobile carrier".

http://www.apple.com/apple-pay... : "Your wallet. Without the wallet. Paying in stores or within apps has never been easier. Gone are the days of searching for your wallet. The wasted moments finding the right card."

Come the fuck on. I've never had a problem finding my credit cards, and those "wasted moments" are less time than it takes me to unlock my phone. Even if the phone was faster somehow, it's just a minute amount of time that it's not the thing I need to be faster. It takes far longer for them to run the number (do the transaction). At restaurants (my most frequent use), I get a check and have plenty of time to ready my card before the waiter comes back, and then plenty more time before it's run. Finding my card is not the problem.

** yes, you can find the info, and a lmgtfy.com link won't suprise me, but it's not obvious or clear and no one is making it readily apparent when marketing their digital wallets. They just keep saying they are so convenient and easy.

AFAIK here's the Patent

Bah, screwed up the link. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablogs.msdn.com%2Fb%2Foldnewthing+%22It+rather+involved+being+on+the+other+side+of+this+airtight+hatchway%22

"Oh yes, I thought of something," panted Ford.

Arthur looked up expectantly.

"But unfortunately," continued Ford, "it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway." He kicked the hatch they'd just been through.

That is NASA's job and not the job of The Smithsonian. We can do both, trivially, and this is not something you are forced to participate in. As such, you really do not get a say in the matter other than to whine online about it. You can send your few dollar donation to NASA if you want. You can not tell them that the condition for your donation is specifically for a space suit, however. More information can be found in a number of links from this page:

https://www.google.com/search?...

Keepass is also (correct me if I'm wrong: I'd love to hear there is another) the only password manager I know of which is fully cross platform.

I like keepass, especially since there are so many ports of it to so many platforms. However, if someone is looking for something more akin to lastpass, here's a few open source ones:

https://clipperz.is/ - clipperz seems most similar IMO. It's open source and all in the browser via javascript, thought signup and site desire are a little wonky.

http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/... - Password Gorilla (also on github: https://github.com/zdia/gorill...). It's also open source, but it's a TCL/TK application. I'm not sure what their andriod status is (there is some info on their site regarding use of HECL to port the TCL parts to android, but I don't know the status).

  https://www.passpack.com/ - Passpack works on chrome, firefox, ie, and safari. It's similar to lastpass in many ways. It's not fully open source, but they did open source a bunch of the libraries they use/made (aes/rindael, xxtea, json2, sha-256 in js, etc: https://code.google.com/p/pass... ).

https://www.passlet.com/ - passlet. The SSL cert for that site expired in 2010, so I don't think I'd use this, but it is cross platform and built according to the host-proof-hosting concepts. They open sourced their PBKDF2 methods: http://anandam.name/pbkdf2/

http://aaronboodman.com/halfno... - halfnote is just a notepad, but it's encrypted in browser, and it's open source (https://code.google.com/p/halfnote/)

All that said, I'd probably stick with keepass and/or lastpass.

We see reports here is exploits like this or RSC Android last week (Link), the reports more than 99% of all mobile malware targeting Android (Link) etc., and it makes me wonder... Why would anyone trust a vehicle running Android?

If your phone stops working you can get another one (less than 1% of mobile malware targets Apple iOS, Windows and Blackberry combined), if your car stops working or gets hacked, it can kill you. Just wait until the first time the brakes are not available until you pay the ransomware (Link) money.

Disclaimer: I am the user of an old dumb phone, it is not very smart...

We see reports here is exploits like this or RSC Android last week (Link), the reports more than 99% of all mobile malware targeting Android (Link) etc., and it makes me wonder... Why would anyone trust a vehicle running Android?

If your phone stops working you can get another one (less than 1% of mobile malware targets Apple iOS, Windows and Blackberry combined), if your car stops working or gets hacked, it can kill you. Just wait until the first time the brakes are not available until you pay the ransomware (Link) money.

Disclaimer: I am the user of an old dumb phone, it is not very smart...

As it happens, the script itself was very easy to write. It's about 30 lines of bash script, making use of wget for HTTP and xmllint to extract the link to the next page. Inputs consist of the URL of the first page and the contents of the Cookie: header as set by Chrome and captured through Wireshark. It took all night to run, though; there are over 30,000 separate pages.

Anyway, in case anyone's interested, here are the main contents of each of those pages spliced together into a single HTML file: gacode.zip. The uncompressed HTML is 78 MiB; even compressed it comes to over 13 MiB. (The original 30,000 pages totaled to nearly 1 GiB.) There is some room for improvement, as I didn't strip out the redundant section headers.

Most technical work doesn't create a visual means to tell that someone works in the field.

COBOL programming being a notable exception.

Yes, we can date them. There is extrapolation and assumptions, but it is NOT mindless or guess-work. All the assumptions are well understood, and errors can be corrected for.

I recommend you read MacDougall's Nature's Clocks for a broad overview of how the process works.

She has already been caught deleting emails relevant to State Department. One of her friends (Sydney Blumenthal) turned over emails in another investigation from Hillary and they were not in what she disclosed to Congress. She claimed deleted emails had to do with a wedding or yoga class.

So she illegally ran a private email server.
Deleted requested emails after a subpoena for them.
Emailed classified information from an unsecure server to Sydney.
Lied to Congress about it.

Those above have been proven and no one is questioning that they happened. What they are questioning is if doing the above is wrong/illegal and if something should be done about it.

Let's go through this:

So she illegally ran a private email server.

Debatable. Bush's guys used gwb43.com email addresses, Colin Powell had his own private address, etc. They only actually made it illegal for people at that level to use a private email server after Kerry took office.

Deleted requested emails after a subpoena for them.

She claims to have done it on December 5th. There was no subpoena until March 4th. They could subpoena the physical server, but don't do so because it would be terrible politics if they tried to nail the strongest female candidate for President this way and failed to turn up anything interesting. Especially given that Bush/Rove/Powell deleted all their emails. Bush and Rove did so after a subpoena from Congress.

Emailed classified information from an unsecure server to Sydney.

I don't know how unsecure it really was. You keep your software up to date, don't have a real web-facing address, etc. you're probably a lot more secure then most government sites. Haven't read anything about Classified Info to anybody. It wouldn't surprise me, but a) it's actually probably legal for her to disclose a lot of that (for example, anything classified by the State Department can be divulged by Hillary without any legal penalty because Hillary is considered to be over-ruling her subordinates on the decision to classify), and b) the number of government officials who have conversations with non-officials in which they don;t say something that some idiot has decided to classify (google "over-classification") is roughly nobody.

As for the lying to Congress about it, you just made four allegations against her, and three turned out to be bullshit. The fourth is violated every day by numerous policy-makers.

Here, allow me to filter it for your 1950's style ears:

Profanity Filter for Chrome

https://www.google.com/search?...

If you read the same stories you will also come across many instances of Ms Wu harassing others. Take a look at those pictures. Half of them are her claiming to be harassed, which may or may not have happened, but many of them are also her harassing others, such as the second one where she calls someone else a "gross f'ing aspie", how is this someone you want to defend?

Google TiSP?

Google seems to be censoring 127.0.0.1: https://www.google.com/#q=site:127.0.0.1

Yeah, really - Android. And an old phone. It has WiFi (can even act as a hotspot), a decent enough camera and there's an app for that - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam - which serves the video stream and a nice web frontend to it. You can even tell it to take a full resolution snapshot. I've been using it as a digital babysitter and were quite happy with it.

electrical arcing of instruments

electrical arcing of instruments?
electrical ARCING of instruments?

No thanks, I'll take chances with Roberto. He may be crazy, but he just wants to stab you, not stab and electrocute you.

1. 1. Install the app from the Play Store
2. 2. Click on the option to install MultiROM's bootloader (and patched kernel if yours doesn't have kexec)
3. 3. Once the app has taken care of that for you, click on the other option in it to install Ubuntu.

It's all pretty automatic, nearly zero user knowledge needed. And then you can test it out for yourself instead of doing something both scandalous and in this case useless anyways like RTFA'ing. But no, seriously, if you're curious at all, it really is quite easy to set up, and I do think worth it since you'll far more easily discover what Ubuntu Phone (and any other Linux-based smartphone platform you feel like tinkering with, or other Android ROMs) really is and how you do or don't like it.

Oblig link:

https://www.google.com/search?...

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Headlights that turn have been around a while. Citroen & BMW seem to have had them. The American car, Tucker, had many such innovations. BMW also had side lights that help in tight turns. Here are some links:

1948 Tucker- great photos: http://www.laubly.com/1948tuck...
How Adaptive Headlights Work: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/...
1934 patent US1952346 A: https://www.google.com/patents...

Interacting with a car or motorcycle on a country road or mountain curve can be a pleasure, a form of meditation sometimes. We will lose that as vehicles get smarter and more independent.

Hmmm.... not sure what happened to my attempt at putting html into my commment. Let's try that again (and hit preview before submit this time...)

For chrissake look the phrase up in a dictionary.

Okay, that time it worked.

but the headlights should not concentrate themselves on that corner/dip/bend because your mind has already processed pretty much all that there is to see

Here's something that you may not believe: You haven't already processed pretty much all there is to see. Your eye has focused on small bits of the road ahead and whatever is on it or nearby. Your mind then uses conjecture to fill in the missing details. It's called inattentive blindness and is the result that your eye can only accurately focus on a tiny area out of your entire field of view. It's one of the major reasons why automobile drivers have a hard time with pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists - they aren't expecting any of them, so they don't see them.

Here's some more information.

Current average is almost 11 years

Actually, it has increased to 18 years already.

Current average is almost 11 years

Actually, it has increased to 18 years already.

Is it PC compatible?

This is interesting but I'd like to see some proof of it.

"(Nerval's Lobster) actually worked for us before the acquisition, writing for our standalone news site experiment. Later on he moved over to Dice and took over their news site instead.

He goes through the same submission process as everyone else, and we don't post everything he submits." source

Not everything, just 570/767 stories. All of of the current ones have at least one link back to a story on Dice. The really old ones (from 2012 or so) all link back to his own stuff at the ill-fated SlashBI

"Nerval's Lobster (nkolakowski@slashdotmedia.com, nkolakowski@geek.net) submissions start to show up. We've [slashdot.org] already [slashdot.org] established [slashdot.org] that Nerval's Lobster is Nick Kolakowski, a slashdot employee submitting paid content as user-submitted stories"source (with lots more interesting comments linked)

See also: The Slashdot FAQ which lists him as Slashdot editor, his Twitter profile which lists him as a Slashdot editor, homepage which lists him as a senior Slashdot editor, Google+ page (same), LinkedIn (same), and so on and so on.

So, yes, can we stop with the charade already?