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  1. Alternative Earth in science fiction on 2 Planets Can Share the Same Orbit, In 3 Different Ways · · Score: 1

    Exactly on other side of Sun so you would never see it. But I dont think this is stable. Also since Earths orbit is ellipitical, the speed is not uniform through ot the year. So part of the years wouldnt be halfway apart and possibly visible.

  2. Fed student loans already do this on Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans · · Score: 1

    Called Income Based Repayment. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/r... However it only applies to some kinds of loans made in the pasr ten years. Some politicians want it to be retroactive and universal.

  3. FCC blacks any such attempts in USA on UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The FCC and cell companies wont allow any intentional cell-free zones in the USA. Nominally the say its a safety issue for legal users. Inmates are very clever in obtaining, hiding and charging their phones. Plenty are found in any deep sweep of US jails. Did for theaters and schools.

  4. NASA may be reduced to FAA status on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That is that NASA regulates and approves human space worthy craft rather than build much of it itself. Shrinking budgets and trend toward privatisation may force NASA's had. I prefer NASA pay a big role in space travel. But that may not be realistic in the long term.

  5. dark energy may be more related to aether on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    As an intrinsic property of vacuum energy. Most dark matter proposals still treat it as a special substance that varies in density around the universe.

  6. multiple lines supporting evidence on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Too rapid galaxy rotation, too rapid galaxy cluster movements, too strong gravitational lensing, cosmic microwave background spatial spectrum. Alternative theories like Modified Newtonian Dynamics may explain one or two of these, but not all of them.

  7. Dozen years ago I posted here "TV everwhere" on What Is the Future of the Television? (ben-evans.com) · · Score: 1

    This was before smartphones, youtube, mandatory HDTV broadcast TV and G3. Icould see hints in video podcasts and plasma wall screens. Now that we have video screens everywhere ranging from watches to jumbotrons, the hardware dream has been fully realised. Content distribution still has to catch up. Cable monopoly bundles still dominate. But that is fading.

  8. In Asia, more male college degrees are engineers on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    There are a number of reasons for this: (1) family expectations of males to go into STEM, (2) STEM is more prestigious in Asia than it is in America or Europe and (3) colleges fold near-STEM majors into STEM, e.g. an accountant here might be called some sort of engineer in Asia. I've notice this in all parts of Asia- China, India, Syria, etc. A prime example of this that China's last three presidents have engineering degrees. Only two of the 45 US presidents had engineering degrees (Hoover, Carter).

    So my point is that if a lot of educated mideast males are engineers, it is more likely the radicals will be engineers too. I see nothing intrinsic in an engineering degree that would radicalize.

  9. Did JJ Abrams think of this first? on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    Sounds a like Red Matter in His first Star Trek movie.

  10. Time Magazine recently on private plasma fusion R& on French ITER Fusion Project To Take At Least 6 Years Longer Than Planned (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Time had a cover story on a half dozen private fusion projects costly less than billion dollars apiece. Some are based on clever unconventional physics ideas. Its a lot like private space travel. They is a possibility the little guys could have breakthrough.

  11. Digital crutch for people who cant say what they m on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Goody, another App for an immature generation who cant cant make up their minds or assert what they mean. That didnt seem to be a problem for those growing up in the 20th century. Tech can solve any problem!

  12. US has reverse problem? on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Although the numerical balance of genders is even, there may be defacto shortage of marriageable men. Men generally wont marry above their education level. At even degree level, women now outnumber men, sometimes as much as 25%. I read speculation in the New Yorker(?) this encourages the hookup culture.

  13. India: 120 guys for every 100 girls on The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Of marriageable age. Due to gender selection technology and popularity of sons. This imbalance probably aggravates Indias rape problem.

  14. Now and then for HARMFUL supplements on DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But unlike drugs the maker doesnt have to prove saftey nor effectiveness in advance.

  15. "5 years in future" since 1960s on The Next Gold Rush Will Be 5,000 Feet Under the Sea, With Robot Drones (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I read this article all the time. They were not called drones then.

  16. Sounds like a kook post on DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    No link to proof

  17. does aspergers give me an excuse then? on Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs (cam.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    So there may be a biological reason for my introversion and social awkwardness. Does that mean I should give up improving myself to fit in better? Many of us can improve with enough effort and motivation. Some cannot.

  18. exoplanet searches found nothing like our system on Leading Theory of Solar System's Formation Just Disproven (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Kepler found several dozen multiplanet systems. Most of these were planets as large as Neptune orbiting is less than two years. There is a bias toward fast and large planets in the current technology.

  19. Re:10 years was a decent rest on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a Hollywood writers strike during much of the first two years STNG too.

  20. "IBM Envy" on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Wanted to be the largest PC hardware company just as the mobile wave was hitting. IBM sould their PC hardware to Lenevo in time.

    Wanted to be a services company, buying up DEC and EDS. I havent heard how that half is faring. They get the brunt of layoffs.

  21. "party like theres no tomorrow" on Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    The mother of all riots like in Asimovs Nightfall.

  22. 10 years was a decent rest on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Running the 2nd thru 5th season in a row and overlapping probably exhausted the genre. Its had enough rest now for new ideas.

  23. just below water freezing w/o atmosphere on NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice (google.com) · · Score: 1

    The atmosphere traps some heat. Water vapor, C02, and CH4 are the most important traps in that order.

    The Sun is about 15% brighter than when the Earth first formed. The the atmosphere was import for the evident liquid water the first couple billion years. It may have been at least half CO2 then.

  24. taught grades 4-8 in 1960s new math on Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    The 1960s New Math movement was similar to the 2010s Common Core: alternative ways of teaching math make you learn it better. I dont agree. You have to tighten up and memorizes tables, formulas and algorithms, especially when you have a strong child's mind.
    The school year started with a week of set theory with some Boolean algorithms. I never used the stuff in real life until college digital circuits.

  25. you need to get a life on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    There is a time for each holiday.