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  1. they already did that in T4 on Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator · · Score: 1

    There was the skynet factory with young versions of the terminator.

  2. years of drug use taking toll on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    amazing fantasies

  3. very exclusive club threatened on Professors Say Massive Open Online Courses Threaten Academic Freedom · · Score: 1

    The $300K a year full professor at a top college . Of course that takes 12 years of elementary schooling 10+ years of college and grad school, and another 7 years of stressful tenure work to reach that plateau. Universities have used this exclusivity to charge costs that rise much faster than general inflation. And this is being threatened now by new educational technology.

  4. "multi-domain knowledge' on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    In many of these cases its being an expert in computers and something lese like finance or geophysics that gives an edge. A large fraction of my classmates from the 1970s and 1980s are in software, but did not major in computers. Its dual dmain knowledge that helped them.

  5. pre-retirees have similar fears on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    Although nearly everyone I know has not realized that fear. If they have the money and health, some travel more. Some volunteer at museums or park management. Some audit classes. Some write open source software.

    I've heard some complain they've are too busy and have taken on too much.

  6. Oil industry or top secret clearance on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    My software collegues in Houston average this salary according to professional society surverys. I make a less to live in a more interesting place.

    The NSA-leaker claimed to have had gigs in this range even though he never formally completed high school or college. having a TS rating helps.

  7. up to a quarter of MIT grads do this on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    I was just looking at the 2012/2013 MIT career stats with a quarter of the MIT grads entering financial services, investment banking or consulting. You get to stay on the east coast and make lots of money. I would find the work boring.

  8. Washington Post: "self made computer wizard" on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    $200K job without only a GED (high school equivalency). Home in Hawaii. I am impressed. story

  9. "not nice to fool with US spy agencies" on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    They will be ruthless. May not James Bond type assassinations anymore, but years in jails and courts as Manning, Assange and dozens of Anonymous have learned.

  10. open systems exploded into commerce on Why Chinese Hacking Is Only Part of the U.S. Security Problem · · Score: 1

    Hackers did not not want develop on closed systems like DEC VMS with its deep levels of security. That was very painful for the few months i had to wrok with that. Now we are paying for this.

  11. other colleges started big Tech companies on MIT President Tells Grads To 'Hack the World' · · Score: 1

    Harvard dropouts started MicroSoft and Facebook. Stanford/grads dropouts started CISCO, Yahoo, Google, HP ... I dont see MIT with an "elephant" for all its bravado.

  12. they might get rich from all the royalties on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    Which probably frowned upon by the Amish. "Easy money" makes it hard to stay close to God.

  13. archeologists will love our era on Atomic Bombs Help Solve Brain Mystery · · Score: 1

    It will be so easy to date from the poisonous chemicals and radiactivity, You figure up to a century earlier we didnt have all these chemicals. And a more than a century hence we will have finished cleaning up our pigsty.

  14. can Kepler do micro-lensing? on Proxima Centauri To Bend Starlight For Planet Hunt · · Score: 1

    The idea is to look for bightenings in the Kepler data rather than dimmings. Solar storms can masquerade as brightenings. But they may have a different shaped time history than lensing. And storms should occur more than once.

    I asked the Kepler Principal Investigator about micro-lensing in a talk she gave five years ago, but she dismissed it. But Ihave seen other news articles talk about this possibility. We could look for these ourselves by downloading Kepler data.

  15. 3rd most used planet hunting method on Proxima Centauri To Bend Starlight For Planet Hunt · · Score: 1

    Micro-lensing has found the 3rd most number of planets after the doppler-shift and transit methods. #4 is direct imaging of "warm" planets in IR. Micro-lensing has the least bias toward large-close planets of the three methods.

  16. Rasberry PI plus sensors and actuators on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Simple Robotics As a Hobby? · · Score: 2

    The PI gives you a cheap, but fairly capable Linux computer in size of a cigaratte pack and under $50. Then you can plug sensors,e.g. range finder, and actuators, e.g. rolling motor feet, into its I/O ports. Some of the other vendors mentioned in this thread sell these devices. Then you stick a monitor & keyboard temprarily into the PI to program it as a computer.

    I havent done this myself, but saw a demo.

  17. Nature: online science papers 1/2 printed cost on Apple E-book Price-Fixing Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Nature had a breakout of costs of publishing science papers on line compared to print versions. Its not an exact comparison, but overlaps. This included editor salaries, office overhead, printing, mailing, computer servers, etc. If you paid for the time PhD/professors spent peer-reviewing each others work for free, then the online cost would be more like 2/3rds.

  18. in time for the Blade Runner 2019 year on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    It was set 40 years in the future from when the screenplay was written. It predicted some things like computer moguls, the asiafication of world culture (wrong country however), runaway pollution and cyborgification.

  19. vegetables inferior to a good steak on Full Details Uncovered on Chinese Tianhe-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    The misguided notion that if you dont eat a large hunk of meat at most meals you neither nouroushing or filling yourself. Modern science says vegetarianism is at least as good as a carnivore diet.

  20. Who else would be brave enough to take on the American and Euro spooks and hope to get away with it? At least he stil has a bit of a life left, though highly restricted.

  21. pre-800 AD burials rare on Richard III Suffered an Ignominious Burial, Researchers Find · · Score: 1

    For the most part classical graves were plundered during the dark times. Although they had longer to decay, that is not as big a factor. Christian graveyards are still somewhat respected. I remember reading about Alexanders body drug around the classical world for half a millennia until it was lost.

  22. core heat flow thousanth of solar on NASA TESS Observatory Will Hunt For Alien Life On "Super-Earth" Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    1400 watts solar per square meter compared to about a half fwatt rom internal heat flow. However the core heat flow causes the magnetic dynamo and plate tectonics. Large planets like Jupiter the interal flow rivals the solar radiance Jupiter is still creating heat from grivitational shrinkage, but too small for fusion.

  23. "My kingdom for a parking space!" on Richard III Suffered an Ignominious Burial, Researchers Find · · Score: 1

    I felt like that futilely searching downtown for one yesterday. No parking restrictions on Sundays, so its impossible to find anything.

  24. when I first saw it at the Homebrew Club on Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record · · Score: 3, Interesting

    back in 1976 at the Stanford Linear Acceleration I thought the Steves would take all the fun out of building a computer if you buy one already made. I was wrong.

  25. older things do fade with time on Eric Schmidt: Teens' Mistakes Will Never Go Away · · Score: 1

    Search engines do weight more recent information. And they seem to drop older stuff. I had seme early usenet I posted under my full name (thats what college accoutns did back then). I cant really find it anymore. Nor little of my internet activities from the 1990s.