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  1. revoked MIT degree on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    The MIT degree of student who embezzled nearly $100K from the student newspaper was revoked, and his convicted pre-degree associates lost all their course credits. However this is extremely rarely done only in the case of a campus-related felony conviction. I recall a similar debate about a Harvard student convicted of murder two years ago, and a Harvard freshemen who hid a teenage murder conviction on her application.

    But we are just talking about a suggestive picture, no conviction in this case. The ridicule should be enough punishment.

  2. we should we believe the astrophysicists now? on Powerful Supernova May Be Related To Death Spasms of First Stars · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    After 70 years of computer simulations and observations they failed to predict this new kind of supernova. Its interesting to read speculations about degenerate lepton gases, but arent they just hand-waving again? Just goes to show you the arrogance of physicists- they claim answers and grandiose Standard Theories, but are frequently revising them because they mis things like accelerating expansion and 150SM supernova.

  3. Homeland Security makes me feel secure on Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices · · Score: 1

    After they've spent months determining coloured Canadian coins wouldn't kill us.
    What will they do next to wow us? Stop terrorists from using airplanes? Rescue hurricane victims?

  4. whats the aspect ratio of these long tubes? on The World's Longest Carbon Nanotube · · Score: 1

    Nanometers wide, millimeters long. Isnt that an aspect ratio approaching a million?

  5. F/X cant hide crappy plot, characters, acting on The Future of Cinema - 'Real' 3D · · Score: 1

    You can tell the dreaded "comic book summer movie season" is about to start. Movies made for 15-year-old boys by those with the talent of 15-year-old boys.

  6. under thrity years old on Want To Work At Google? · · Score: 1

    Tremendous ageism at Google.

  7. hides crappy software on Does Moore's Law Help or Hinder the PC Industry? · · Score: 1

    Lots of sloppy, inefficient software out there. (I did not say MSFT.) It gets "rescued" by faster, larger computers. I am not advocating the old days of assembly code, but there is room for better coding.

  8. voters like deductions on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    They feel like they are getting more "deals" with more deductions. I perosnally like to see all deductions eliminated expect the dependents one and one tax rate for every kind of income. Then the IRS would send you a pre-filled postcard size tax return and you'd sign it or correct it.

  9. scooped by another frame-dragging results on NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1% · · Score: 1

    During the 40 years it took to implement this experiment several other observations of interplanetary probes already proved it.

  10. people do CS because they love it, not $$ on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 1

    All the negative publicity about outsourcing and immigrant labor discourages the students who would enter the field for money. People say theres lots of high-paying jobs out there, but the press refutes that.

  11. How to you inform students of emergency? on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the complaints I heard is the first notification was a email two hours later. Students are fairly notorious for being "off the broadcast grid" rarely watching TV or radio. Is email sufficent? If you get 5%-10% immediate penetration, can you count on word-of-mouth for the rest? Many students will stil asleep at 8AM when the shootings started. what about soemthing more intrusive like txting to every known cell. I fear some of the intrusive channels would co-opted for some non-emergency message, then instantly lose their credibility.

  12. airplanes with feathers and flapping wings? on Building Brainlike Computers · · Score: 1

    Immitation doesnt result in the best engineering, even though Nature has invented amazing things.

  13. silicon valley has many superfund sites on New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light · · Score: 1

    The early circuit companies were awful in containing their toxic chemicals.

  14. quantum plant monster ... on Photosynthesis May Rely On Quantum Effect · · Score: 1

    lands space ship in anarctica and eats people.
    Sound like the plot of a movie.

  15. NASA has very strict software testing on Radical Transparency at NASA Via Second Life · · Score: 1

    I doubt thery'd let "open" stuff into critical systems.
    NASA errors on the side of very old OSes and hardware because the stuff has been tested zillions of times.

  16. city and greyhound busses on FCC Says No to Mobile Phones on Airplane · · Score: 1

    Cell phones all the time. Worse thing is that they main users spread themselves maximally apart to not interfere with each other. No mercy for the rest of us. I'd prefer some all in one section protocol.

  17. can it help me sort p0rn faster? on New Algorithms Improve Image Search · · Score: 1

    So many boobs; so little time.

  18. industry asking for unlimited visas since 1990s on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 1

    Who is blocking industry? I am surprised no one has successfully snuck in a "midnight admendent" (too late to delete) for unlimited visas. I am guess its a some pro-union dems looking out for american workers. When you see abuses like Circuit City and Enron, I am surprised its not worse than it is for developers.

  19. socialism gone beserk on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 1

    Regulate everything you can to death. Thats probably why we see so little new technology coming out of EU.

  20. article wrong on two counts on Despite Aging Design, x86 Still in Charge · · Score: 1

    First Intel tried to replace the architecture at least three times resulting in expensive commercial losses.

    Second, since 486, the Intel has been RISC at core and merely emulates the old instruction set. The amount of transistors need to do this shrinks proportionately each generation. I think the emulations is less than one percent of the real estate currently.

  21. giant garage for alien spaceship on Architect Claims to Solve Pyramid Secret · · Score: 1

    pyramids

  22. last years laptops $400 on OLPC Manufacturer to Sell $200 Laptop On Open Market · · Score: 1

    Keep your eye open and you can find two year old models (512MB, 80GB) laptops in the $400 range. Will run 3rd party software.

  23. "sister marathons" in iraq on Astronaut to Run the Boston Marathon From Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many of the popular marathons in the US have same-day events in Iraq. Sometimes the courses are pretty cramped and soldiers do many laps. Probably good for morale.

  24. i'll scream if I hear XXX next Silicon Valley on Siberia - The Next Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Like there have been dozens of such articles since the dot.com boom.

  25. chimeras not all that rare on Semi-Identical Twins Discovered · · Score: 1

    Chimeras are possibly the limiting factor in DNA testing reliability. Chimeras include absorbed twin, maternal cells, sperm mitochrondial surviving fertilization. There is a short time window in the early embryo when this can occur.
    I remember seeing a case on Dateline TV where a child was removed from a mother because the standard DNA test did not match, even though the immediate footprint taken at birth did match. Turned out to be a rare case of father's mitochrondia. Same issue with the identification of the Russian Czar's family bone id. Many of the familys' tissues had mitochronia DNA from both parents.
    Too resolve these ambiguities you have to employ much more expensive and quirky nuclear DNA testing. And there can be ambiguities there.