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  1. remeber Curiosity slipped a launch cycle too on Mars InSight Mission To Launch In 2018, After $150M Failure and Delay (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mainly due to problems with its new nuclear power plant. Its doing OK now, but slower getting to Mount Sharp than some people had hoped for.

  2. language compiler was early AI on 1 in 3 Developers Fear AI Will Replace Them (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Compilers resemble expert systems. They helped early programs become ten times more productive than machine /assembly language programs. You could argue the contrary then that AIs opened up software to more developers and types of software products. Compilers and new computer languages continue to take on new tasks like parallelization and dynamic memory management.

  3. we dont have to wait for Ted on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pongyang will be ashes even under Obama if Kim launches a nuke.

  4. reminds me of the original Tesla Tower on Google Building a 100kW Transmitter at Spaceport America (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    He built in New York and Colorado Springs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. value of the "million genome project" on DNA 'Knockouts' Reveal Genes Humans Don't Need (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    I heard there are between 10 and 20 thousand human genomes fully sequenced now. Both Craig Venter and Obama are trying to jack that up to a million. Then Analytics will replace a lot of painstaking lab work. (but not all)

  6. they should move it to junior high school on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    God, I was so bored by slow math progression in grade school. Even though I accelerated two years and eventually went to MIT, I feel I could have accelerated math another 2 or 3 more years. I know plenty of bored stiff people too.

  7. no, flawed business logic on IRS Taxpayer Data Theft Seven Times Larger Than Originally Thought (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    GetTranscipt just requires three taxpayer identifiers, while a tax filing requires five. You get #4 hacking GetTranscript.

  8. NBC poll 52% for FBI, 38% for Apple on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Main street is viewing it differently than tech world. People fear security more than privacy.

  9. significant divest fossil fuel movement on Scientists Urge American Geophysical Union To Cut Ties With Exxon (insideclimatenews.org) · · Score: 1

    Both Stanford and MIT have had a decent fraction of their faculty/students sign petitions asking for full fossil fuel divesture. I think one if not both have already divested the more timid, but dirtier coal industry. Until recently energy stocks were a major upward force of endowments. And both schools receive significant oil industry research funding in engineering and earth sciences.

    The AGU, of which I am a many decade member, is 95% academic and pretty much following this trend. I do have to watch for over-bias in climate change papers. Although the data appears valid, the complex causality issues are summary.

  10. 500 Euro becoming popular on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    Its worth about 6 or 7 hundreds.

  11. couple states made gold, silver legal tender on Austrian Minister Calls For a Constitutional Right To Pay In Cash · · Score: 0

    Utah, Oklahoma, maybe some others. That would only apply to transactions within a state.
    I wonder if anyone has paid state taxes this way?

  12. studies says school shooters played lots of games on Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A shooter investigation called the Spiral Notebook said James Holmes and Eric Harris played lots of violent video games.

    But this doesnt imply the reverse. Say half the 20 million males between age are frequent gamers. That would mean only 1 in 100,000 become shooters. In fact gamers could be blamed for every ill in society because it is such a common hobby.

  13. same number of launches planned as UAL on SpaceX Sets Feb. 24th Target Date For Next Launch · · Score: 1

    Both SpaceX and United Launch Alliance plan 14 launches this year according to nasa launch maniefest. Antares and Orbital two each. Russia plans 17 Soyuz and Proton launches.

  14. if it was my $15K or even my $100 on Survey: Average Successful Hack Nets Less Than $15,000 (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I would not be happy.

  15. the speed of a Craiglist/Hacker Nees forum on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Craiglist forums are fast enough to be real time discussions, like the dialup bulletin boards of old. Slashdot is a place where you type something and come back hours later to see if there are any responses. Or wait for an automated email message. Craigslist probably does this by being primitive 1990s html with almost no formatting and zero re-edit ability. Slashdot is unnecessarily ornate with filtering, accordion displays and so on.

  16. a layoff can be a gift in dying company on Former Yahoo Employee Challenges the Legality of Yahoo's Ranking System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Force you to move to a better place rather than go through a hundred cuts of this or that.

  17. first launch date was 2007 on The Future of Astronomy: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    According to slippage history in Wikipeadia, But it seems to have held a 2018 date since 2011. Cossing fingers.

  18. unless you invest in the stock market on Tim Cook: What's Good For the US Dollar Is Bad For Apple · · Score: 1

    Where Apple is the largest holding in every equity index fund (because its the largest company in every index). And growth funds have loaded up on it extra.

  19. they dont call it The SpaceShip for nothing on Tim Cook: What's Good For the US Dollar Is Bad For Apple · · Score: 1

    For five billion dollars theres probably a propulsion system in there someone. It can takeoff and land in whatever country is most tax-advantaged at a given time.

  20. pop sci book on interesting properties of integers on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    I believe it was Paul Erdos who said he never met a number [integer] that wasnt interesting in some way. I saw a book that went through all the integers from 1 to 1000. There is a new one from another author that just does 1 through 10.

  21. new physics? on Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Clock speeds are sensitive to the structure of the gravitational field. Maybe other aspects of the Universe.

    GPS times have all sort of noise. Some geophysicists use this "noise" to figure things like the atmospheric temperature and density. The GPS signal wavefront bend slightly then. You can tomographically invert for spatial location of the travel time anomalies to locate temperature and density changes. There are papers on this every year at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

    Microsecond size anonalies are huge and may have more mudane causes like software.

  22. Did it work with their daughter? on How Melinda Gates Got Her Daughters Excited About Science (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    She is a sphmore at of the top ranked tech schools in the world, but I was unable to google her major. Hint, its near the upcoming superbowl.

  23. 90% of boomers still have licenses on Senior Citizens Hit the Road For Uber · · Score: 1

    And only 40% of millennials. The latter are using Uber to get around.

  24. She has been in Russia for a whlle on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Near the end of Citizen Four is shot of them dining in their apartment

  25. Wrong- most of the world believes GMO is dangerous on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont share that view. But Europe, Africa and Asia believe you have to prove a GMO safe before it can be used. I personally dont share that belief.