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  1. Re:Sounds promising on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    > Nature just doesn't leave large sources of energy lying around un-tapped.
    So true. If "Nature" did, we would be able to make fission piles. Oh wait...

  2. Re:I would invest in this on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Rossi's hot cat runs 1200C and can power a high-efficiency turbine generator. The peer review report is antipated in March: http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/02/rossi-to-josephson-report-publication-probably-around-end-of-march/

  3. Re:Not sure if believe... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    there's about 7 quadrillion of those in one watt second of the incoming thz. which, at 10% absorption, means you get about 14x the power out that you put in.

  4. Re:I can think of 3 reasons on Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy · · Score: 0

    Extroverts should work in an office. Introverts should work from home. Extroverts are good at marketing. Introverts are good at invention and problem solving.

  5. Re:At you desk! on Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy · · Score: 2

    Most people are not comfortable with different. I prefer not to work with those people, in part because they are unlikely to do anything innovative. The most creative, innovative, and diligent people I know are remote workers. They sometimes have one or two bad experiences before they find a team that can collaborate effectively in multiple modes and media. When they do, the results are magic.

  6. Re:No, it shouldn't on Should the Start of Chinese New Year Be a Federal Holiday? · · Score: 1

    At least its better than a day off to worship Washington and (imperialist pig dog) Lincoln.

  7. Re:Well... on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    Ever since the last legitimate president was assassinated.

  8. Re:Well... on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 0

    Congratulations on the re-zoning. Now bring back a million dead Iraqi children. Then I'll consider that meaningful change might be possible within the system.

  9. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    Why are H1Bs more privelidged than the Mexicans who provide our farm labor or the Guatemalans who serve in restaraunts in New York, illegally?

  10. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 2

    And thats why Americans don't want STEM degrees. The H1B program is a scheme to prevent upward mobility for intelligent lower to middle class Americans.

  11. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    American is not a race.

  12. Apply these standards in the U.S. on Behind the Scenes With Samsung's Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    I can't count on my fingers and toes the number of months I've worked more than 100 hours overtime -- and I didn't get paid a dime for it. It's what you gotta do if you want to keep up with the H1Bs in tech.

  13. I think you just rendered the concept of rape obsolete, and deprived rape victims of their right to redress

  14. untrustworthy computing on Sealed-Box Macs: Should Computers Be Disposable? · · Score: 1

    computing in which you have no control over what they do with your data

  15. Re:Wrong scare on The Panic Over Fukushima · · Score: 1

    #3 was too exothermic to be hydrogen

  16. Re:Radiation in Denver is unavoidable on The Panic Over Fukushima · · Score: 1

    You're undercounting the exploded reactors by a factor of at least 3.

  17. Re:Radiation in Denver is unavoidable on The Panic Over Fukushima · · Score: 1

    I think you meant "the moving of livestock and killing people would also be a government function in any situation"

  18. assassination platform on Grumman Building Football Field-Sized Robotic Surveillance Blimp · · Score: 1
  19. Singapore on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    If you can take the heat, and don't mind the orderly government.

  20. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Also, convex optimization is crucial for decision making applications.

  21. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    The most interesting jobs involve stochastic calculus. Also, the most highly paid. You can't do stochastic algorithms property without a smattering of ergodic theory. You can't do machine learning without a good background in statistics and calculus and linear algebra. You can't do physical system simulation without differential equations. In future, quantum computation will replace classical for many tasks, and it is likely that software engineers for quantum computers will need a good grasp of banach spaces.

    Or you could code games and accounting programs. Me, I'd die of boredom.

  22. Re:Yes. on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    And if necessary I will trash my pants stock and get bigger pockets.

  23. Re:If consumers didn't want big phones on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    Skinny jeans demand a thin phone, not a narrow one.

  24. Re:Bigger != Better on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    Nor would grammar check, since a prefect phone is a perfectly reasonable construct in English. Now a semantic checker would probably have flagged the sheer creativity of the clause as suspicious....

    Back to the topic, I wish I could buy a bigger phone, but they don't make them big enough for me. I want 1920x1080 in a 7 inch phone, please, so that I can read on my phone. 5 inch phones are too dang small for proper reading, and 7 inch tablets don't work well as phones.

  25. Re:Contempt of Court? on Witness In Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury Hearing Posts Transcript of Questioning · · Score: 1

    > That whole spirit of the law is pretty big nowadays.

    If by this you mean that the law appears to be possessed by the devil, yeah.