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  1. pimply-faces teens interviewing each other on Facebook Interviewer Heckled at Web Conference · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just because one of the two was really smart and rich, doesnt mean they have well developed social skills yet. Zuckerberg cratered on 60 Minutes when Leslie started asking hard questions.

  2. not a myth to US college students on IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth · · Score: 1

    They responded by dropping computer science enrollments to a ten year low in 2007 - half of the 2000 peak. They know you must love computers and not the money. And that may not even be enough to keep a job in the US.

  3. stirling engine generators use 1/5th plutonium on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    I read NASA is close to replacing their current RTG generators with something based on the ancient stirling engine. It has more moving parts, but uses less fuel or lasts longer, and is lighter. The Pu-shortage may be an incentive.

  4. Bravo on European Space Agency Launches New Orbital Supply Ship · · Score: 1

    The organizations with more space capabilities, the better. Private ones too.

  5. Does Japan have less or more ID theft? on Japan IDs All Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    I wonder in countries that use national IDs more comprehesively than the US if they suffer from more ID theft. The US's problem is in part due to the laziness of commercial datbases to use US tax ID numbers. Its only been recently this has been partly prohibited. But the horse is long out of the barn.

  6. "Atom" is a clever name on Intel Ramps Up 45nm Chip Production, Announces 'Atom' Line · · Score: 1

    Its distinctive, high tech, and suggestive of the character of this CPU.

    Intel has been running another clever commercial on TV news programs. A bunch of professionl hold the chip die (smaller than the chip case itself) and mention the remarkable contribution this tiny computer makes in some aspect of their life.

  7. another whiney Brit on Jonathan Zittrain On the Future of the Internet · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only people more fearful than American news are the British. If I see another "panic" article Slashrot, the odds are its from the UK.

  8. plaintext ID controversery some years ago on New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy · · Score: 1

    I remember a huge uproar when Intel had a unique chip ID retrievable by software. This was intended to assist internet advertising and decrease chip piracy. Privacy advocates said this would cause computer tracking and Big Brother. (Since then hardware ethnet numbers turned out to be almost the same thing.)

  9. Goldilocks and the three cosmological clocks on The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Before WMAP, the other two age indicators gave contadictory ages of the universe. The Hubble expansion constant suggested a young age 10 B.Y., though there was a wide error range depending on the distance measure.
    Low-metal stars in globular clusters are thought to be the universe's oldest and from nuclear-synthesis physics thought to be 15 B.Y. The disagreement among the two clocks was so bad for a while, some astronomers thought the big-bang hypothesis was flawed.
    The third and most recent clock - spatial power spectrum of the background microwave radiation- gives a percise age within the error range of the other two ages. Further observations of the other two clocks seem to be converging to this one. Astromenrs are now happy, kissing and making up.

  10. collaborative homework encouraged at MIT on Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group · · Score: 1

    They even mention this in the high-school admissions orientation. Homework has to be designed a little bit differently with fewer, but more substantial problems. You have to show all your derivations and everyone sign the paper.

  11. JavaFX? on Little Demand Yet For Silverlight Developers · · Score: 1

    Is a scripting language fully integrated in the Java environment and JVM. No more clunky 2nd and 3rd languages and glue.

    Supposedly this platform will be Flash-interoberable before Silverlight, Android, or iPhone SDK.

  12. Marx/Hegel classes versus trickle-down on The Myth of the "Transparent Society" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Marx/Hegel says that a limited economic resource creates opposing classes: the Haves versus the Have-nots. Survellience information may be one these dividing resources.

    A counter theory says that although a new resouce may appear in one segment of society first (e.g. cellphone internet), demand pushes supply creation to satisfy society.

  13. MicroSoft Research not commercial whore (yet) on Microsoft Singularity Now "Open" Source · · Score: 1

    Remember this comes out of the research lab of MicroSoft. They arent expected (though it would be nice) to produce commercial products that corner the market. In this way they resemble Bell Labs and Xerox PARC which were attached to less-reputable parent companies.

  14. 25 year old reserach topic on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 1

    Glad the Japs finally catching on.

  15. sometimes affects more than Iran on Iran May Shut Down Internet During Election · · Score: 1

    Curring underseas cable, changing the name-server like Pakistan just did and shutting off YouTube for hours, sometimes affects alot more than thie own country. The InterNet is robust from attack but not invulnerable.

  16. is this an "I am Legend" promo? on A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer · · Score: 3, Funny

    The premise of several of the zombie movies is a brain virus that gets out of control. "I am Legnd", "28 days"

  17. Just go to MIT, Caltech, CalPoly, etc on Canadian University Puts Tech Whiz Kids in 'Dormcubator' · · Score: 1

    Where the whole school is that way. Its an amzing experience to be surrounded by people with 140 IQs 24/7 and interested in technology.

  18. blanket subpeonas a standard legal practice on Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case · · Score: 1

    Teh laywers grasp every straw or put up a massive leagal wall to intimidate the opposition. I got dozens of subpeonas when I was a minor player in costly auto accident.

  19. US progressing on robot soldiers on Robots Entering Daily Life in Japan · · Score: 1

    The USA has robot-tanks that can drive through cities without flattening buildings. The USA has "smart planes or bombs" that can supposedly kill the bad guy in one bedroom without hurting the people in the adjacent bedroom.

    "Make war, not love"

  20. contibuting to today's market crash? on Microsoft Cuts Vista Price In 70 Countries · · Score: 1

    MSFT is in the DJIA and one of the largest valuations in the S&P500. Cuting the price of your flagship product doesnt help profits.

  21. I heard it was too large an anomaly on More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies · · Score: 1

    Dark matter affects appear over galacatic scales, not AUs. Thats a million times larger.

  22. big software thefts in past too on Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    If you cant engineer it, then steal it.

  23. "nuclear enery is almost free" on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline · · Score: 1

    Populr claim from the 1950s when it was mistakely though nuclear-generated electricity would solve the world's power problems.

  24. he who can move atoms can move the universe! on IBM Measures Force Required To Move Atoms · · Score: 1

    famous saying

  25. the Shadows in Bablyon 5 ... on Giant Sheets Of Dark Matter Detected · · Score: 1

    are real!