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  1. sounds prettry dense if she cant figure that out on Citizenfour Director Sues To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew · · Score: 1

    The feds view Snowdon as one of the biggest cases of treason in modern times and she was a link.

  2. scammers cleaned up on $12B of reparations on How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing · · Score: 1

    There was virtually no requirment to show direct damages. I was inudated by email from scammers to let them help me join the reparations process (recently ended). I think it was partly beacuse showing cause of economic harm was difficult and much of the Gulf coast operated on an undocumented underground economy. Even the famed reparations lawyer Ken Feinberg of 9-11 and Colorado Theater Shooter fame was kicked off the case for wanting a minimum level of standards for reparations.

  3. Earths sky will have half dozen milky way streaks on Study Details What Happens When Galaxies Collide · · Score: 1

    During the collision era from simulations I've seen. However in two gigayears the planet will be too hot for life. In a few hundred million years the atmosphere will have too little carbon dioxide to support photosynthesis multi-cellular life. Existing carbon is gradually sucked into limestone formation. Earth will revert to a bacteria planet unless there is teraforming (burning the limestone to release CO2).

  4. Concorde technology goes back 50 years on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    Its been feasible for a long time, but not economical.

  5. inflation on Rich and American? Australia Wants You · · Score: 1

    These so-called rich visas used be in the $500K to $1000K range until recently. Basically you'd prove that you had the funds to live on and would not be a welfare case. However in recently years the Chinese snapped all such visas in the US and Canada and probably the rest of developed world too. The US and Canda ones are suspeended for further study.

  6. Hint of simpler DNA system inside current one on New Letters Added To the Genetic Alphabet · · Score: 2

    The 64 three letter codons specify 20 amino acids and punctuation. For some amino acids the third element of the codon doesn't matter or has couple redundancies. This suggest an earlier two element codon with 15 amino acids or less.

  7. Human classes before/after money on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    A money-based economy is a fairly recent addition to human society. People mostly made their own stuff and traded without for most human history. Perhaps in a society of perfect abundance money will fade. That doesn't mean that human power structures will fade also. They were around since the beginning of settled society. Future ones may not based on money as they have been in recent centuries.

  8. journals like Science have news summaries in front on Towards Public-Friendly Open Science: YouTube Alongside Journal Articles? · · Score: 1

    Not all journals do this. But I can usually understand about 80% of the news summaries, even ones outside my field, but only about 20% of the technical articles. Once in a while the news article might interview an author for additional perspective.
    I think some of the newsfeeds with science sections (e.g. NY Times) then pick up some of the these new summaries.

  9. some successes with this in the 1970s on Chinese Zoo Animals Monitored For Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 2

    China predicted a couple of significant quakes supposedly based on animal observations in the ealry 1970s. Then they missed the largest Chinese quake in decades in Tianjin, near Beijing, in 1976. Strange animal behavior has part of Chinese peasant folklore for millennia. Various US groups tried to replicate this methodology since the 1970s without much success. A geologist in San Jose counted lost pet ads and claimed some success. But his prediction windows were so wide they were not statistically significant. Perhaps 21st century social media could help gather observations.

  10. Fortunately the reverse is happening too on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 1

    Washington. is filled with staid contractor types not versed in the fast-paced new methodologies and technology. Witness the near failute of healthcare.gov. Now more SV types halping Washington.
    http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-th...

  11. I would have done dry run of entire sequence on Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found · · Score: 1

    A few months or years ago to look for possible race conditions. A software simulator or backup craft is not quite the same. The main sequence is less than a day due to the high velocity of the spacecraft.

  12. 1983 movie Brainstorm similar theme on Someone Will Die Playing a Game In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
    It was about full brain recording and playback, kind of a super VR that Mark Zuckerberg talked about this week. (plot of many scifi stories)
    In the movie someone dies during a recording session. Then it becomes a tug of war for the recording between police who are investigating a suspicious death and scientists who want to see if there is life after death.
    Plus there is an ironic twist that the lead actress dies of a drowning "accident" during the filming. But some people dont believe it was accident and the debate resurfaces periodically. The lead actress is Natalie Wood, who played the little girl in Miracle on 34th Street and Maria in West Side Story.

  13. you havent read his bio carefully on "Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story · · Score: 1

    Musk didnt start paypal but merged into it.
    Musk bought Tesla from a couple of creative engineers. He didnt start it.
    However he great job of making both prominent companies.

  14. degrees count more during slowdowns on How Computer Science Education Got Practical (Again) · · Score: 1

    And believe it or now the computer industry has cylic slowdowns, like after dot.bust and just before the Web.

  15. 30K for 10MB washing-machine size drive 1977 on New Manufacturing Technique Halves Cost of Lithium-Ion Batteries · · Score: 1

    It was attached to a PDP 11/70

  16. alleged danger of Artiifical Intelligence on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: 1

    Some computer experts like Marvin Minsky, Larry Page, Ray Kuzweil think A.I. will be a great gift to Mankind. Others like Bill Joy and Elon Musk are fearful of potential danger. Where do you stand, Linus?

  17. $6K a course for a "free video lecture" on New Google and CMU Moonshot: the 'Teacherless Classroom' · · Score: 2

    (Assuming the average student takes 8 courses a year.) So this is to get the CMU name on your diploma and certification you passed the exam?

  18. 0.5% people are clones identical twins on Building the Face of a Criminal From DNA · · Score: 1

    Anything you'd wish on a clone, think of a twin.

  19. rents going for 3x my housing payments on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 0

    (Denver) And I did not buy that many years ago. The kids have get out their apartments.

  20. whats that yellow thing in the sky? on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Wont have to worry about tthat in London.

  21. movie "Good Kill" about this with Ethan Hawke on USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators · · Score: 1

    Its been doing the Indie cirucit and I hope has general release this year.

  22. jam the frequency ranges? on North Korea Blocks Data Access For Foreigners · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a weakness of GPS in times of war too.

  23. the first google server was 10x4 GB on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 1

    About 18 years ago. You could copy substantial parts of the then Internet. Today that would be a medium size memory stick.

  24. severe plutonium shortage on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 2

    NASA has only enough for about 3-4 more missions before it runs out.
    http://www.wired.com/2013/09/p...
    The US doesnt manufacture the kind they need. They got some from dismantling Russian warheads, but no longer. The upcompiong Juno-Jupiter mission was converted to solar power, about the distance limit they can do with solar cells.

  25. Petroleum engineers screwed this year on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Past few years a PE could get almost 6-figures with a BS. Departments jammed with students. Many recent PE grads dont have jobs with the oil price crsh.