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  1. Re:Home Automation on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    Sensors are not a viable option in many situations, they ought to control banks of lights to offset
    the constant trickle of current they draw. This is why people push for occupancy and daylight sensors
    in office buildings but not homes.

  2. Re:Bigger question on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    We don't give honorary degrees.

  3. Re:The thing that leaps out at me in comments is on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    You need a fucking clue.

    1. Affirmative action in general, but especially at MIT, is not about selecting for non-standard groups except when the candidates are otherwise the same.

    2. Not eloquent, but fine.

    3. See opening sentence.

  4. Re:fovnder on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    Right, still no indication of the originally stated full professorship though :-P Wikipedia's
    not much help either. This indicates that he did continue to teach, as does this,
    but not what his title was. There are full (tenured) professors, associate professors, assistant
    professors, visiting scientists and lecturers. All may teach, but they are not equivalent. However
    this book, poorly written though it may be, does seem to indicate he held some title
    of professorship. Which I suppose will have to do, as it's not clear the same distinctions
    were made then.

  5. Re:fovnder on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    Umm, not to be nitpicky but that says he was a professor elsewhere and a president here.
    There's nothing about him being granted a full-professorship.

  6. Re:...why did it take 28 years? on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    No. What is with you people? "She was doing a good job for 3 decades" She was hired as a
    secretary, she's only been doing this job for 10 years. Yes, that's a a rather long time,
    but it sure as hell isn't 30 years of stellar decision-making which ought to somehow
    exempt her from the repercussions.

  7. Re:Merit vs Education vs Scandal on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    No, you've conflated us with Caltech. MIT is about 60/40.

  8. Re:Additional Reporting on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    Actually the Tech's article is incredibly crappy; a shame, I was hoping they'd get out in
    front of everybody on this. It's no better than the local NPR news blurb I heard the day
    before. On the other hand, The Boston Globe's (boston.com) article had a fair bit of
    substance.

  9. Re:Glad she's gone on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    Mrs. Jones doesn't dictate policy to that degree. Alas, for sometime, the Institute has
    felt that they needed to compete with Ivy leagues; in part because some people ignorant
    schmucks outside are prone to. Not realizing that if the kids don't *want* to come to
    MIT as one of their first choices, then you probably oughn't try to twist things around
    to get them there because the results are not likely to be happy.

    There's well-rounded (circular) and well-rounded (Pepto Bismol bottles), both roll, and nothing wrong with taking a few HASS-Ds or continuing to having a massive number of
    sports teams. No sane person is pushing for Tech to convert to a liberal arts school,
    though that may be the end result of siphoning off those students and babying all the
    Millenials/post-Kruger reforms.

    I think one of the more unfortunate aspects of this affair is that it's Yet Another top
    administrator position cycling through, of which there have been many in the past few
    years. It seems as though much instituional memory has been lost, and the place is
    chugging along on inertia.

  10. Re:I Forget Where I Heard It... on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    That may be (ignoring how little dissent there was during the red scare),
    but it would seem they certainly managed to raise a massive crop of them, eh?

  11. Re:well... truthfully... on Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment · · Score: 1

    Bob knows how you got modded insightful. Orders of magnitude (pushing things until they're measurable)
    is perfectly reasonable and useful.

  12. Re:It's HIV not AIDS on Human Blood May Contain A Cure For AIDS · · Score: 1

    AIDS *results* from HIV infection, it's an immuno-defficiency syndrome (says so in the name!)
    not a disease i.e; you end up prone to infection by any random pathogen you are exposed to.
    It sounds like this protein inhibits viral infection, with no indication as to whether or not
    it can wipe-out an existing infection: If you no T-cells left it's of little benefit to have
    something which prevents them from being killed.

  13. Re:Good book, big ego on Monkey Business and Freakonomics · · Score: 1

    I thought this was the reporter's influence on the product, whoring out the humble academic?

  14. Re:An Example "Why First to File" is a good thing on Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System · · Score: 1

    No. This is not a benefit of first-to-file, it's a drawback of granting patents for nonsense and fill-in-the-blank templates.

  15. Re:US copying the rest of the world on Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System · · Score: 1

    Howdy Mr. Ignorant troll, nice to meet you.

    The U.S. does use metric and has for some time. It just so happens that we use the old
    Imperial system as well, and this is in more common use by the public. As for Kyoto:
    we signed it but Congress did not ratify it. Such are the joys of a system designed not
    to accomplish things.

    Nevermind the question as to whether this change is a Good Thing (doesn't seem to be)
    or the fact that are other aspects of the the PTO which are more deserving of attention.

  16. Re:Back up at the wire on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    Huh, my understanding was that it came from setting crappy type like Linotype. Personally, it bugs the hell out of me to see text with extra fucking whitespace after a period, it seriously breaks the flow of non-justified text: Have you ever read a real book with that shit? It's an outmoded practice and is no longer justifiable.

  17. Re:Waiting for FOX News' take on this... on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. There's disenfranchisement, laziness, ignorance...

  18. Re:Some more interesting info from dKOS: [2] on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    Doh! Well to be fair, you gave a very brief and inaccurate summary there.
    RTFA? Who Me? :-P

    It also seems like the KOS "blournalist" wasn't too keen on clarity either,
    with the half-dozen updates after the initial post.

  19. Re:Some more interesting info from dKOS: on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    ping is inadequate for determining availability.

    % hostinfo gwb43.com
    Desired host: gwb43.com
    MX address: mailscan1.smartechcorp.net.
    MX address: mailscan2.smartechcorp.net.
    % traceroute mailscan1.smartechcorp.net
    traceroute to mailscan1.smartechcorp.net (64.203.97.101), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
            . . .
    11 te-3-1.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.71.172.109) 15.577 ms 14.811 ms 13.262 ms
    12 0.ge-2-0-0.BR2.NYC4.ALTER.NET (204.255.173.53) 20.576 ms mci-level3-te-newyork1.Level3.net (4.68.110.234) 15.729 ms 0.ge (204.255.173.53) 15.711 ms
    13 0.ge-5-0-0.XL4.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.3.117) 15.413 ms 0.ge-5-1-0.XL3.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.3.125) 15.201 ms 0.ge (152.63.3.117) 18.699 ms
    14 0.so-4-0-0.XL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.81.17) 34.805 ms 0.so-6-0-0.XL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.10.105) 38.896 ms 63.189 ms
    15 0.so-4-0-0.GW13.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.84.97) 36.034 ms 0.so-5-0-0.GW13.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.84.101) 36.256 ms 0.so (152.63.84.97) 36.690 ms
    16 bellsouth-atl-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.73.110) 37.530 ms bellsouth-atl-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.73.98) 36.744 ms bellsouth (157.130.73.110) 73.220 ms
    17 axr01asm-so-1-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.7) 38.011 ms 36.194 ms 35.507 ms
    18 axr00aep-so-0-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.238.40) 40.095 ms 42.120 ms 42.476 ms
    19 axr01aep-ge-5-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.238.35) 39.650 ms 42.134 ms 38.509 ms
    20 ixc01cha-pos-6-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.239.29) 43.106 ms 43.612 ms 44.527 ms
    21 her00cha-ge-1-3-0.bellsouth.net (205.152.151.85) 41.564 ms 42.695 ms 52.534 ms
    22 65.14.206.46 (65.14.206.46) 45.602 ms 40.197 ms 39.976 ms
    23 cha-core-02-edge.smartechcorp.net (64.203.96.97) 40.110 ms 40.595 ms 40.037 ms
    24 cha-cust-01-core-02.smartechcorp.net (64.203.97.138) 41.611 ms 41.195 ms 44.987 ms
    25 mailscan1.smartechcorp.net (64.203.97.101) 41.105 ms 47.314 ms 39.960 ms

  20. Re:I think this is great on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    >They need to REALLY separate layout from content.
    That be the general definition of CSS (for better or worse).

    As for the rest, CSS3 requires none of said hackery. Of course, nobody's actually done it yet;
    fucking W3C takes half a decade to decide something. And no, -moz-column-width etc. are not
    acceptable. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to prefix standards to be as fucking
    proprietary extensions? So you have to write -moz-column-width, -webkit-column-width, column-width
    to cover current and future implementations.

  21. Re:Update CSS not XHTML/HTML on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    That might be nice, but I think a more fundamental ability would be to be able to refer to the values of other properties:

        blarg { wuz: 9em }
          . . .
        mangle{ yoz: blarg.wuz }

    And no

        blarg, mangle { wuz: 9em }

    is not a solution as it's not dynamic. Nor should one need to revert to JavaScript for such simple dynamicity.

  22. Re:I think this is great on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    WTF? Whay are you people modding *questions* about *CSS*
    (from somebody who isn't even aware of HTML 5) "Insightful"?!
    "Interesting" *at best*, but actually OT.

  23. Re:Picture on Linux Fund Loses MasterCard Funding Source · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

  24. Picture on Linux Fund Loses MasterCard Funding Source · · Score: 1

    What about a picture of said card??

  25. Re:Phone patches for radio? on EFF Patent Busting - Prior Art Needed for VOIP · · Score: 1

    I know my best friend's father used Packet radio with his PC,
    I was under the impression he somehow used it for free long distance.