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What, no ".../NASA" ?

I attended SpaceShipOne' first successful space flight. SS1 was being towed up and down past the crowd after the flight. A spectator nearby was holding up a sign that I couldn't quite see. Burt Rutan (who was riding on the tailgate of the pickup towing SS1) saw it, and ran over to grab it. He handed it up to test pilot/astronaut Mike Melvill to display for all. It simply read:

          SpaceShipOne
          GovernmentZero

(Photo at http://tinyurl.com/l3rrkdj)

The Americas have always been two continents; North and South, for as long as the concept of continents and the name America has applied.

Well, that is shockingly ignorant of you to say.

The term America precedes the existence of the USA by over 270 years. In Waldssemuller's map the label "America" is well entrenched in the South American part of the generally unexplored territory (hint: third row, first column, near the top), and there was a reason for that (hint: first row, third column, right at the top: the guy who charted the South American coast but never visited North America). Even in much more modern maps that do include most of the territories the label America is placed next to South America (but probably only for layout reasons).

Of course, in the 1770's the people of a very small percentage of America gained independence and decided to call that small strip of land "The United States of America", a name as brain dead as calling a very small country in the middle of Africa "The Central African Republic".

Why is it brain dead? Because now Central African refers to either someone from that country, or from any other of the adjacent countries that by some criteria are located in the center of Africa. In fact, the case of the USA is even worse, as the new "America" wasn't even close to being near the center of the old America.

And regarding the definition of "continent" you need to realize that there are at least five different definitions for that word using different criteria. You were taught a particular one that separated North and South America, but other people (in particular outside the USA) are taught other definitions and most of those don't make that distinction.

By the way, according to the CIA the conventional short name for the United States of America is "United States", not "America" (look in the section "Government").

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"Marijuana plants like direct, intense sunlight. Unfortunately LEDs aren't very scalable. As you increase the current they start to run into physical limitations and the efficiency goes to hell. A 100W led may only put out 50lm/W, where a 1W led could put out 100lm/W."

I'm sorry, we've got plenty of LED systems out there pushing 2,000+ umol from several feet away, like any HID. And typical 100w LEDs are about 130 lumens per watt. Cree has LEDs available for the consumer that at 1w drive get 200+ lumens per watt (Cree MK-R) We figured out the Auger/watercooler effect and are working around it. We've got LEDs that dump 150+ lumens per watt at 5-10A drive current, now (Cree XPG2.)

"HIDs are actually extremely efficient (Around 100lm/W) and scalable (bulbs go up to 1kw+)."

We've got 1,000w LED packages in 70mm x 70mm size, with better efficiency.

" To get and equivalent amount of light out of LEDs with some sense of efficiency, you'd need thousands of them."

Plants care about photon flux, not lumens, which is weighted at green wavelengths for human vision. That's not saying that green light isn't useful in itself, but lumens mean jack shit when it's overall photon flux density making the real difference. I'm questioning how out of date your information is. Seems like way early 2000.

And thousands? Seriously?

http://tinyurl.com/mxq5w2b (PDF WARNING)

Try a couple hundred, easily fit on a 30mm x 30mm COB array board. Those are 5W LEDs each. The Cree MK-R is a 15W LED. 100 of those is 1.5kW.

" This may be suitable for plants that can deal with indirect sunlight, but it is not ideal for Cannabis."

http://i.imgur.com/5sCX9NX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KDI9NNX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cu2IsVO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0sJiDxs.jpg

Uhhhhhh..... what? Speaking as a medical cannabis user and grower, and as a landrace genetics preservation specialist for a Dutch seed bank, you're totally, absolutely, utterly wrong.

Priorities? How about saving NASA at this point? Space X CRX-3 to ISS delayed some 8 times (program failure); Commercial Crew program to launch from the US to the ISS, and not use Russian Soyuz; Congress was told operational in 2015. Now 2017 maybe?? Historic launch pads that took Americans to the Moon. One a hole in the ground one to be given to Space X for whatever; No backup plan to deal with the Russian problem. Our most important partner on the ISS; Trashed the Space Shuttle, parts and all the tooling. No going back; Just some of the examples of where we are and why we should throw the bums out. The NASA management must go to save NASA, spread the word! National White House petition filed for the removal of NASA Administrator Bolden " http://tinyurl.com/nx7vdjv"

Assuming the projections are correct, wouldn't it make sense to eliminate using maize (corn in the US) as an additive to gasoline? When 30%+ of the corn currently being planted in the US is done so to get the Ethanol subsidy, it removes quite a bit from the food supply. I do not claim that all would be planted for food (corn price would plummet), but arable land is being used to for this 'not green' fuel additive. I say 'not green' because even the UN has acknowledged that the use is counterproductive.

And here's a picture of one: http://tinyurl.com/pew26cy

too bad these games end up being more about your tech than your personal ability

Indeed, let's be totally fair:
- too bad these games are more about your country's wealth than your personal ability
- too bad these games are more about your country's education system than your personal ability
- too bad these games are more about your country's climate than your personal ability
- too bad these games are more about your ancestors genetics than your personal ability
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Can Slashdot survive user revolt?

Because Android is the model of security. /facepalm http://tinyurl.com/leuy8y5 I have a wp8 and have not had anywhere near the issues that came along with an android device.

Hi Rick. The Hexacopter has a lot of thrust (and with different sized rotors more thrust and less stamina)
but don't confuse "pounds of thrust" with "ability to lift weight other than itself."

The unladen hexacopter can lift less than a six-pack. Here's a google search with lots of cool info including
videos: http://tinyurl.com/lweb6bd

Remember that thrust (if it was perfectly vertical) would equal lift, and that the hexacopter itself has a weight
that reduces from the thrust. However ... with 6 small props it's not all lift, and the end result is that it can't
do the job.

cheers,

E

As interesting as Snowden is, this is a distraction from the more important (and probably more urgent) question of... when are the criminals at the NSA going to be brought to justice?

Also, when do we fire the people that sold out our actual spy talent - with their far more targeted, far more 4th Amendment compatible tools like THINTHREAD - instead of continuing to give a paycheck to the assholes that let 9/11 happen so they could keep funneling money to their contractor friends to develop the far more expensive TRAILBLAZER? The families of the victims that died do this willful neglegence will probably want to file civil lawsuits, too.

A cornerstone of the very idea of "justice" is equal protection before the law, and these people need to get their day in court. If they do, then maybe we can start to put this feckless imbroglio behind us and move on, with only the usual political drama to worry about.

On the other hand, if we fail to accomplish this task - if we fail to obtain some basic symbol that the Constitution is still respected as the highest law of the land - then we've really given up any last pretense that this is any kind of civilized nation with a social contract.

Can we skip the name calling in favor of some references, please?

So what do you want the deniers to be called? Gotta have some reference name.

Mann's initial investigation was regarding the infamous Hockey stick diagram.

There was broad and general support by the science community in the year's since. I'll include some citations of freely available work:

Really long url, so I provided a tinyurl

Stalagmite records http://tinyurl.com/m2yhtgl

Reconstruction of regional and global temperature for the last 11,300 years. http://www.sciencemag.org/cont...

Millenial Temperature Reconstruction. http://www.clim-past.net/3/591...

Borehole heat flux data. http://www.earth.lsa.umich.edu...

There is a lot more, but you might be able to do a little research after digesting this initial stuff.

After hackers stole the emails with the University of East Anglia, Penn State made two investigations of Mann. They cleared him of misconduct, but criticized him for sharing unpublished manuscripts.

Virginia Attorney Ken Cuccinelli, then Attorney General of Virginia (before this gets too contentious, yes, the Ken Cuccinelli that wants to make oral sex illegal) demanded that the University of Virginia release documentation of Mann's work via a Civill Investigation Demand.

The first demand was overruled by a judge. Cuccinelli revised his subpoena, and appealed to the State Supreme court. He lost there also, with the judgement that he had no authority to demand the work.

Note that Mann aided in the subsequent election efforts of Terry McCauliff, who was running against Cuccinelli in the 2013 Gubernatorial election.

Mann was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General of the National Science foundation in 2011, and exhonorated Mann of any professional misconduct.

http://www.science20.com/uploa...

At this juncture, I doubt that those who would deny AGW will accept any evidence, and would simply accuse Penn State and the National Science Foundation of corruption or worse. Note that there are many who likewise think of that University as a tool of the energy industry. Some interesting irony there.

Cuccinelli's failure to subpoena University of Virginia's records is probably the groundwork for claims that Mann refuses to share data with others. However, a pretty compelling case can be made that it was blatant politicizing of science.

Furthermore, Mann's campaigning for Cucchinelli no doubt really raised some hackles. Pretty much all out war. I suspect Mann would say he is just fighting back against those who have made it a mission to destroy him.

Voting on your computer at home, or on your cellphone, or anything like it, means the elimination of the secret ballot.

The point of the secret ballot is not only to allow you to vote without any person knowing how you voted, but to compel you to vote secretly, and thus prevent bribery, coercion, and other evils.

That's not just me talking, that's The American and English encyclopædia of law, Volume 10, from 1899, page 585.

But voting on your own device on your own time opens up for possibility all manner of coercion. This is probably where we're headed, and if you don't care about the issue, fine, but at least educate yourself about it first. I hope that's not too much to ask.

No - you are thinking of the Bush Jr. Library. The vendors are still designing content for that one: http://tinyurl.com/menud68

Twin towers on Johnny Bravo: http://tinyurl.com/pvblodn, however I'm sure it's a cloud, something photoshopped/gimped or 'not meant to be that'. Intriguing to look at images that 'shouldn't' be too though.

"What are the books that everyone should read? I don't care if it's been banned by schools, burned by communists, or illuminated by 15th century monks. If you think everyone around you should read it, I'd love to know about it." I provide links to the full text but encourage people to purchase the books to support the Authors (apart from the deceased ones I guess!). 1. Jewish Supremacism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/mzpaczb) 2. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Israel Shahak. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jvlho5v) 3. The Secret Behind Communism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jwv6j45) 4. Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/nxqxcwn) 5. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt. (Full text of paper: http://tinyurl.com/yh7sojq)

"What are the books that everyone should read? I don't care if it's been banned by schools, burned by communists, or illuminated by 15th century monks. If you think everyone around you should read it, I'd love to know about it." I provide links to the full text but encourage people to purchase the books to support the Authors (apart from the deceased ones I guess!). 1. Jewish Supremacism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/mzpaczb) 2. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Israel Shahak. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jvlho5v) 3. The Secret Behind Communism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jwv6j45) 4. Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/nxqxcwn) 5. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt. (Full text of paper: http://tinyurl.com/yh7sojq)

"What are the books that everyone should read? I don't care if it's been banned by schools, burned by communists, or illuminated by 15th century monks. If you think everyone around you should read it, I'd love to know about it." I provide links to the full text but encourage people to purchase the books to support the Authors (apart from the deceased ones I guess!). 1. Jewish Supremacism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/mzpaczb) 2. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Israel Shahak. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jvlho5v) 3. The Secret Behind Communism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jwv6j45) 4. Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/nxqxcwn) 5. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt. (Full text of paper: http://tinyurl.com/yh7sojq)

"What are the books that everyone should read? I don't care if it's been banned by schools, burned by communists, or illuminated by 15th century monks. If you think everyone around you should read it, I'd love to know about it." I provide links to the full text but encourage people to purchase the books to support the Authors (apart from the deceased ones I guess!). 1. Jewish Supremacism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/mzpaczb) 2. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Israel Shahak. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jvlho5v) 3. The Secret Behind Communism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jwv6j45) 4. Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/nxqxcwn) 5. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt. (Full text of paper: http://tinyurl.com/yh7sojq)

"What are the books that everyone should read? I don't care if it's been banned by schools, burned by communists, or illuminated by 15th century monks. If you think everyone around you should read it, I'd love to know about it." I provide links to the full text but encourage people to purchase the books to support the Authors (apart from the deceased ones I guess!). 1. Jewish Supremacism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/mzpaczb) 2. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Israel Shahak. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jvlho5v) 3. The Secret Behind Communism, David Duke. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/jwv6j45) 4. Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein. (Full text: http://tinyurl.com/nxqxcwn) 5. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt. (Full text of paper: http://tinyurl.com/yh7sojq)

I don't think a professor can demand that of the students. What if a student cannot accept the EULA of Twitter? Will the school refund the tuition and other expenses incurred before knowing about this requirement?

Yeah, I thought the same thing when the local public school (a mandatory-attendance government-run institution) required kids to sign up for Turnitin(TM). Certainly I didn't have an option as to whether to pay my school taxes in light of this requirement.

I think it is bogus, but good luck getting the majority to go along with it.

And if you didn't want to buy the textbook the course demanded? Of course, there is the conundrum of what happens if you disagree with something the Professor says. Can you retroactively refuse to pay for that textbook? or sue the university for the damage that a Twitter account caused you?

My only advice is that people realize that if they are going to have extremely stong convictions that will not allow them to participate in requirements of various courses, or even professions, they will need the courage of those convictions. Blind people cannot demand to be issued drivers licenses, even if it is discriminator,p>y. People who have such an objection to using Twitter need to resign themselves to the fruits of that refusal. Twitter isn't an illegal or immoral service, only a stupid one. What is even more bogus is that stuff like the National Electric Code or United States Pharmacopoeia is copyrighted. It is basically illegal to tell somebody what the law is - you need to pay the appropriate corporation for the right to know the law.

I don't think you meant what you wrote. What you wrote is saying that you can't discuss the NEC with anyone unless they buy a copy.

And you can always try this link to pdfs

https://bulk.resource.org/codes.gov/

Pardon the tiny url, the website is the nfpa

http://tinyurl.com/n6hvw8v

That is for online viewing only.

Much ado about not a whole awful lot.

Again, EPUB is completely safe from being "taken away", and hardware issues really don't matter when you have a format that can be read on virtually any device. As for "censorship", read about how you can no longer get the original version of this book in a physical book, yet my eBook version has the deleted text added back, because I did it myself. Sure, you might be able to hunt down a first edition and pay big money for it, but I'd rather spend far less money and a few minutes of my time to get the same result.

I spent a few minutes and found the 1966 Penguin version for under $10, shipping included: http://tinyurl.com/q2hf2rr

And I'd really like to hear the rest of the story. It would be trivial to rant against fireworks in general, without using the manufacturer's name. So what pressure could they bring about? And why are there no cites? (They do preface the article with the "This article needs additional citations for verification" disclaimer).

http://tinyurl.com/oaaktbc

That links to an awesome PDF.

Of course you can still buy Varicaps. When did you check?

http://www.digikey.ca/product-search/en?x=0&y=0&lang=en&site=ca&KeyWords=varicap

Maybe it's time to re-think your approach??

In other news yesterday, CBS 60 Minutes Pelley Award for reporting on the electronics industry, "2008 "The Wasteland", was discredited by the 5th major exhaustive study of "e-waste" exports (this one done by MIT) which shows CBS report that 80% of all "e-waste" exports are not recycled but dumped overseas. From the report, "Quantitative Characterization of Domestic and Transboundary Flows of Used Electronics 12/2013":

""The results show that approximately 258.2 million units of used electronic were generated and 171.4 million units were collected in the US in 2010. Export flows were estimated to be 14.4 million units, which is 8.5% of the collected estimate on average. On a weight basis, 1.6 million tons of used electronics were generated in the US in 2010 and 0.9 million tons were collected. Of the amount collected, 26.5 thousand tons were exported, which is 3.1% of the weight collected."

It is not that CBS 60 Minutes gets the story wrong that bothers me so much as the organization's stonewalling of these studies, after 41 export traders were arrested just in the past year, and after the source organization in Seattle who told them "80% of all e-waste is exported" not only abandoned the "statistic" but claimed never to have said it. http://tinyurl.com/lr7z5n3 What relates this to TFA is that both the ability by the manufacturing country to "brick" PCs they have made and sold, and the original hype about export for reuse, is PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE. If the PCs were bricked, would the economy really collapse? Or would there be a bunch of PCs ready to sell which had a different bios chip? Want to know about OEMs bricking the secondary market, and where "waste" comes from? Read Vance Packard's 1960 book "The Waste Makers", available both in print and on Kindle.

About the voter registration: http://tinyurl.com/7y484fn
Mexico has about 95% of eligible voters on the registry (US is 66% at best), not as good as other countries, but it's not mandatory or enforced by any government agency. Argentina has a 100%, but their ID practices would be considered fascist by US standards.

Second generation Mexican-Americans have an average of 4 more years of school than their parents. http://www.pewhispanic.org/ is an excellent source for statistics about Hispanics in the US.

Lyrics are a separately copyrighted work.
The copyright holder is in most cases not the person who even wrote, sang, or recorded the song.

Again you don't even understand what we are talking about here.

Click this link to show a typical google books text search so you can at least be vaguely acquainted with the topic under discussion http://tinyurl.com/p4xq4w9

Data caps in Canada are terrible. I go through what is essentially a reseller (teksavvy) which operates on either Rogers (cable) or Bell's (dsl) backbone. Teksavvy still offers much better service at a much cheaper price, here's a link to Rogers package offers http://tinyurl.com/mzfghb. Bell is comperable. Teksavvy offers 300 GB usage per month for about $50 after taxes.

they don't always. But there's some sketchy validation for it in the fact that we are all descended from Africans. Never mind that Africans evolved just as much as the rest of us since our differently-colored populations split from the seminal herd.

Sometimes they do it like this:
http://tinyurl.com/kov942a (Slashdot wouldn't accept original URL because it's Russian and "too long"

The best guess would be to give them neutral racial characteristics. We have no clue when skin colors and hair types diverged. They might have been just as varied among h. erectus as they are among modern humans, since they had just as long or even longer to adapt to varied conditions and climates.

You should all do some homework before throwing out all this prejudice. Flow based programming has been successfully used in many implementations ever since it's invention in the 70's at IBM. One Canadian bank has been running (and maintaining) an FBP program continuously for over 40 years!

You are right that FBP (or something very close) can be found in successful systems such as Unix pipes, LabView and Apple quartz composer. If you read FBP inventor J P Morrisons canonical book on the topic (linked below) though, you will notice that there are some details to the FBP specifications that should be observed, in order to gain all the full benefits of a full-featured FBP implementation.

Some homework suggestions for you all:

1. Why not start with NoFlo creator, Henri Bergius' excellent post, "NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective":
      http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/
2. Watch the intro video to FBP and NoFlo:
      http://vimeo.com/72065207
3. Read up/watch some more on the NoFlo (finished) kickstarter page:
      http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noflo/noflo-development-environment
4. Read up a bit on FBP inventor J P Morrisons website:
      http://jpaulmorrison.com/
5. Join the discussion in the FBP group:
      https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flow-based-programming
6. Join the FBP Google+ community:
      http://gplus.to/flowbased
7. Last but not least, read the book!
      http://tinyurl.com/fbpbook

I was eyes wide reading the list of companies involved in this story, alas no Boston Dynamics with their prestigious DARPA funding. Let me know when they've put a gun in Petman's http://tinyurl.com/3ombduo hands and have him on the battle field.

Every digital thermostat I've ever used had 0.5 degree increments for Celsius.

Mine (a Lux WX500, similar to this one: http://tinyurl.com/qcahk9q) does not. In fact, I did not see any in their product line (luxproducts.com) that does. Not surprising, as that would require making room on the display for a decimal point and an additional digit (or double that, if the actual and set temps are both displayed) - neither of which would be used in Fahrenheit mode.

Why couldn't you pull over and send text messages from a rest area [...]?

You could, but I get the impression that other areas (park & ride, other unnamed parking lots) are being opened for legal temporary stopping and texting. Also, the signage looks useful - at least you know if a texting area is close: (flickr)

http://www.tinyurl.com/silkroadbitch

Apple's share of the smartphone market is the best it is have ever been.
http://i.imgur.com/EVirL7S.jpg

...which is sad - considering that it's only 17%
http://tinyurl.com/p2l3vkz

The NSA can crack 4096-bit PGP keys? I doubt it. Seems like FUD to dissuade people from even attempting to use encryption

Doesn't say they cracked a PGP Key, they "acquired" them.

FTA:

by getting their voluntary collaboration, forcing their cooperation with court orders or surreptitiously stealing their encryption keys or
altering their software or hardware.

To get a key, you give it to them, they take you to court, they install malware. or mechanical key logger.

A PGP message has been cracked by using Distributed computing (think Folding@home) and lots of time.

But just that one message you would have to do the same thing all over again to another message even if from the same person.

Security is a strong PGP key kept safe and away from your PC, using a spare computer running DOS PGP version 2.6.Xg.
PGP commercial versions of course are useless.

Never under estimate the power of the press and what "they" want you to know and/or believe.
http://tinyurl.com/lc8znnf links to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish–American_War
a link /. breaks - even preview at tinyurl breaks it. (damn weird link)

http://tinyurl.com/k72g6rq

Maxo-Texas, You completely correct, they have to cut the price by far more than $100 or face total loss of value into a dumpster?
I suspect they took this first step to see how it goes and they will cut more later.
A breakdown shows they can easily drop the price a lot further, as this shows
http://tinyurl.com/q2ncynh

So one must come to the conclusion that upper manglement of Microsoft is in the grip of a fool or a cabal of fools and is incapable of seeing the harsh economic reality of their position. After all, they are used to selling software, with near zero reproductions costs, and yet they are similarly greedy.

The entirety of upper manglement must go. Only their strangle hold on Windows has allowed such an inefficient corporation to struggle on.

Apple could kill them in 2-3 years, by selling their operating system in such a manner that well performing Apple clones could be legally made - if only Apple would settle for less greed as well.
Still, Apple is entering into sunset mode now, and will be forced to adapt.

Bear in mind, I placed "insects" in quotes, as I was referring to the various life forms that occupy similar niches, both predators and herbivores.

The ones we eat, some like lobsters, shrimp are chitin covered, others like whelks and octopi are not, nontheless, we found ways to eat them.

Krill overlap with shrimp, I wonder if they have a muscular and tasty body we may find edible, although msny seem quite small, I wonder if they can be bred and selected for size and serve as a food source. They are, of course, used as bulk food for animals, I wonder if fine krill, guts and all, made into a powder would serve as a protein source to make a tofu-like meat substitute? Of course, we will soon be growing meat, in tanks, and once we do that, why not chicken, lamb, shrimp etc.

http://tinyurl.com/lgjp7e2

I run a University Program for a US company that specializes in multicore processors (Cavium). We have SW engineers in India like everyone else, but also two large teams in the US, including the previous DEC team of computer architects in Boston. I conduct an annual multicore programming contest; last year's winners were from Pakistan, which might support the theme of this commentary, but we are seeing strongest interest this year from US. Most likely this is due to our recent US outreach - we have been on campus at MIT, CMU, Cornell, Harvard, UW, Stanford, UT, UWash, ...since January. I also work with the IEEE on multicore programming curricula for ongoing education, and we see strong interest there too . My point is the passion and need is here in the US, but it needs to be better supported and understood. By the way, our contest is open to any undergrad in any major in any country, and some profs are considering it for a 1 credit project this Fall. Previous experience in C/C++ or architecture is NOT required. We provide examples, online seminars, sample code, etc. to get rolling http://tinyurl.com/oy75hdd

It looks to me more likely the problem was excessive weight at the bow and stern rather then midships, the effect is called hogging and is a known way to snap a container ship (or oil tanker) in half, both have occured in the past.
Basically the keel (The BIG beam running all the way from bow to stern down the bottom of the hull) can only take so much sheer stress and if the weight distribution does not match the localised boyancy implied by the current displacement you can very easily bend the ship.

When I first saw the phrase "severe hogging" first thing I thought was a reference to overloading (hogging the weight ones allowed) ie: being overweight.
Figure it came from reading the summery first, so I checked it out here's a PDF named Container Ships http://preview.tinyurl.com/ogy89e8
Page 8 shows Hogging and it's opposite sagging, now sagging I could of understood.

A nasty accident, but nobody died, and the hull and cargo will have been insured, so a better outcome then is sometimes the case.

From the PDF in the Summery, on the The cost of losing a week
"In a recent Maersk Line survey, one global retailer explained that 70% of his cargo loses on average 25% of its retail value when it is a week late. With an average cargo value per container of EUR 30,000, the cost of delay equals EUR 7,500 per container."

goes on to say electronics lose even more, had to calculate a value on should of's...

Hope that explains why it is not just about total weight.

If I'd of taken the time to of read /. first, it would of help a lot :}. Thank you for post does explain how hogging is induced

"The rule is that you use a before words that start with a consonant sound and an before words that start with a vowel sound."

It's all about sound. "N" is pronounced "En." Hence, "an."

Grammar Girl: http://tinyurl.com/nuj8h5a

I wonder if it's not so much a function of age, but rather that "older" programmers want to live in a place where they can own a home and raise a family. That is exceedingly hard in the Silicon Valley, even for someone with a well-paid tech job. The cost of a rundown three bedroom bungalow in Cupertino is in excess of one million dollars (Zillow link: http://tinyurl.com/lq2wpcq). A four or five bedroom home is closer to two million. Purchasing such a home is a challenge for even a family with two tech incomes, harder for a family with one tech income and one "normal" income, and damned near impossible for a family with a single breadwinner. Even if you manage to pull off purchasing a home, you've still got a rundown bungalow. Why not go somewhere where you can better enjoy the fruits of your labor?

As a tech worker in his early 30s in the Valley, guys my age talk constantly of moving to Austin, Raleigh, or some other non-Valley tech hub---some place where the idea of raising a family doesn't boggle the mind. I suggest that while age discrimination may be very real, we must also consider that "the old guys" are merely moving out of the Valley. Thus, the average employee age of any company that has the bulk of their operations in the Valley will skew towards the young side. I don't believe it's a coincidence that the average age is less than 30, since 30 is about the age many educated men start a family.

Go to it - it's easy to do... Host a Tor Hidden Service .onion forum!

an example is HackBB:

http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

which is easy to remember and leads here:

http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/

What are you waiting for?

http://tinyurl.com/o8qke5f

I think of this song when arguments on the internet devolve completely form their original point into criticisms of grammar

Might want to include "dark web" forums, too, like:

HackBB
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion

Above tinyurl requires Tor as it's a link to a Tor hidden service .onion discussion forums site.

"Pro-rape" comments apparently include this and this[PDF warning].

If you think either of those endorses rape, you might be a redneck^Wfeminist.

Modbomb incoming. Come at me, bro.

"Pro-rape" comments apparently include this and this[PDF warning].

If you think either of those endorses rape, you might be a redneck^Wfeminist.

Modbomb incoming. Come at me, bro.

But you have to check the PDF to find that...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/kyp6ypz

Selected quote: "The variation between websites and the technology they use seems to be far more significant, with YouTube clearly burning up to 3W more power than other popular sites such as Google. And more complex media experiences, delivered by sites using Flash or HTML5, appear to burn even more energy, with heavy HTML5 and Flash sites causing an increase in power draw of up to 8W or 9W (effectively adding 50 percent to the machine’s power draw)"

So maybe IE can make more power-efficient use of Win8 when playing YouTube videos? Not really a surprise...
Put noscript, adblock etc. into Ffox and save! (Also on bandwidth..)

Would have been nice to have seen Fraunhofer (who conducted the survey) try and retain some shred of dignity by comparing performance on other platforms.
How about Safari on PC & MAC? Chrome & F'fox on Linux also?
Maybe because IE only runs natively on Windows?

"Among the S-80's celebrated advancement is a diesel-electric propulsion engine that, ironically,
promises to be 20% lighter than comparable systems while delivering 50% more power."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/spain-submarine-s-81-isaac-peral-cant-float_n_3328683.html

I love this "story" it's a top of the heap WTF, destined to become an "I told you so" link to www.snopes.com

If you haven't seen it, here's a PDF of what one will look like, inside and out. (linked from the above article)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qda7omq (1,125 KB) of course it's shown cruising proudly on top of the water.