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  1. Re:Arghh... on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 1
    Ahhh...still don't understand how it could have "fallen off" (assuming it ever made it on) their RSS feed, though, since the last story on the RSS feed is October 17th and your link is dated October 21st.

    Oh, well...all the venture capitalists would ignore it now, anyway, since the the Wall Street Journal has officially announced the death of solar energy:

    Global demand for solar power is still growing—about 8% more solar panels will be installed this year compared with 2010, according to Jefferies Group analysis—but it is expected to flat-line next year.

    lollll....

  2. Re:Arghh... on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Was it, perchance, bumped by a story about the Kardashians? ;^)

  3. Re:Hourly income was $55,600 annually! on The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist · · Score: 1

    lollll...I hear you. Before I read that, I thought the only place you could make that much an hour was by pilfering 401Ks on Wall Street.

  4. I make it simple on 'em... on The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist · · Score: 2

    While I have a "good" (but small) cable company (right down to putting paper booties on when they enter the house), when I have a line problem and they talk about coming out, I always disconnect all of my other other routers and subnets and pipe the cable modem to one dedicated dumb little PC.

    Habit formed from experience with a "bad" (but huge) cable company that would always blame the problem on my equipment if there was more than one wire between their modem and the PC.

    If the big cable companies have gotten better at all, I would point the finger at their having better test equipment - equipment that obviates the need for knowledge.

  5. Re:Not comcast on The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next time, I'll show him how to speed up his PC and search for Nigerian princes.

    Cut the guy a break - and show him how to search for Nigerian princesses. It sounds like he'll be a "stay-at-home" spouse soon.

  6. Re:So, what? A month, six months, a year? on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Thinking that is by intent: What better way for a big box retailer to ensure that their labor is cheap, than to destroy higher-paying manufacturing jobs that would - without question - successfully compete for their workers?

  7. Re:Arghh... on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 3, Informative

    Further tracing of the story reveals it came out of a MIT publication on December 13th way back in 2011 ;^)

    A much more creditable provenance regardless of the lack of information at NREL's website.

  8. Re:So, what? A month, six months, a year? on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 4, Informative

    lolll...no, the Roman Empire - its power structure, and so its government - took about three decades to decay to the point that Alaric could sack Rome on August 24, A.D. 410.

    About as long as "flood-up/trickle-down" economics has been dictating policy in the U.S., in fact.

  9. Re:So, what? A month, six months, a year? on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ouch!, on your behalf....on a larger scale, America seems to be in the grip of this attitude of "If it won't make us a lot of money today, we don't want to play!" at the Wall Street/venture capital/NHWI level.

    To our detriment; Rome wasn't built in a day - but it took about a day to fall.

  10. Re:Arghh... on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seeing as this breakthrough is as yet not even on the NREL RSS feed... http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/rss/rss.xml I reckon either somebody is "talking out of school" which likely means this technology will indeed show up in production in some other country other than NREL's source of funding first or it does not, indeed, exist.

    Still, one can always hope that Big Carbon's throttling grip may one day be broken...or even act upon that desire: http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/

  11. So, what? A month, six months, a year? on Optical Furnace Bakes Better Solar Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Until I read a Slashdot article about a facility in the PRC manufacturing photovoltaic cells using 'highly reflective and heat-resistant ceramics to ensure that the light is absorbed only by a silicon wafer, not by the walls inside the furnace'"?

  12. Bummer... on Verizon Backtracks On $2 Convenience Fee · · Score: 1

    It was a right proper example of increasingly monopolistic corporations levying private taxes, too.

  13. Re:I'm so "high brow" [sic]... on Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting · · Score: 1

    'Cuz you made it obvious that you can't or don't care to differentiate between satire and realism, and I'm always willing to help someone get a proper "mad" on if that is their intent.

  14. So in this story "the West" wants better games... on UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation · · Score: 2

    ...while in the very next story China is looking at moving into space in a big way. I take it there are lower "labor" costs and higher profit margin in games?

  15. I'm so "high brow" [sic]... on Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting · · Score: 0

    ...that just reading your post made me want to mod parent up.

  16. Looks like story is already dated... on ISO Updates C Standard · · Score: 4, Informative

    The standard is known unofficially as C1X

    GCC already says:

    A fourth version of the C standard, known as C11, was published in 2011 as ISO/IEC 9899:2011. GCC has limited incomplete support for parts of this standard, enabled with -std=c11 or -std=iso9899:2011. (While in development, drafts of this standard version were referred to as C1X.)

    Syntax is everything in C.

  17. "Safe to eat"? Second on my list of concerns... on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 1

    I'm way more worried about corporate control of the food supply; you only have to look at oil to see what happens when real and collusive monopolies attain the ability to levy the private taxes they call profit without restraint because the consumer has no alternative.

  18. Re:Well... on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 1

    You may be right, at least for those people who only need a web appliance. But for those who need a computational device...

  19. No doubt also true in America, but no big deal on A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web · · Score: 1

    We have National Rifle Association mailers and Fox News providing reliable information in lieu of the internet.

  20. Was confirmation of the Age's story their intent? on E-Crime Police Raid Melbourne Newspaper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ain't nothing that says "Labor Party held the personal details of thousands of Victorians" like a police raid because it is apparent that the Age had to have accessed that data to know about it.

  21. Re:We could learn a thing or two.... on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 2

    Yeah...is why I put systems on line crunchin' to find new materials for solar alternatives.. The carbonaceous industry has too much wealth...too much power...too much distaste for the many of humankind (I extrapolate that last assertion from their behavior).

    So I figure if you can't beat 'em, obsolete 'em.

  22. Re:New York City? on Facebook Prepping For Massive Hiring Spree · · Score: 1

    Maybe Sandberg is anticipating reduced labor costs offsetting the square foot price of real estate? Reduced 'cuz of not having to pay OT to IT people?

    Get the talent in, get 'em committed to a NYC city apartment lease, and then when the no OT for IT kicks in they can never leave 'cuz they can never save enough money for moving expenses...can't leave, and can't afford to be late for work or be viewed as "unproductive", either.

  23. Well, if they're worried about being caught... on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    It should be difficult enough for anybody in a Big Bank to separate out whatever pennies Anonymous diverts to someplace they weren't supposed to go from the real money the Big Banks are routinely found to be diverting - but if Anonymous is still concerned about being caught, just tell 'em to put "U.S. Congress" in the transaction comment block.

  24. Re:Won't work. For more than one reason. on Reading, Writing, Ruby? · · Score: 1

    Won't get an argument from me. But regardless of the veracity of their assertions, it certainly makes them liquid enough to afford the rental of a lot of politicians.

  25. Re:A link about "really, really heavy subsidies".. on The Problem With Carbon-Cutting Programs · · Score: 1

    The so-called "1%" doesn't have that power.

    lolllll...yeah, I'd start bobbin' and weavin', too.