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  1. Is it just me ... on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... or is all the whining about a *black* stormtrooper on the youtube comment thread beyond embarrassing.

  2. Re:Nuclear on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Yeah right, living of Hartz IV is just great.

    Historically Germans always preferred renting over owning a home.

    It is pretty much impossible to evict somebody, and there is strict rent control. So there is no downside for the tenant, (believe me I know, I own a house in Heidelberg and there's hardly any profit in it. Just got lucky that the renter is building himself a house, so I can sell it fairly soon untenanted).

  3. Re:Very surprised to read this. on "Advanced Life Support" Ambulances May Lead To More Deaths · · Score: 1

    See some information lives outside the Internet.

    This little factoid was related to me by my sister who is a German M.D. and happened to intern in the US so she got to practice both approaches.

    Want to check if this is correct? Then Google is your friend.

  4. Re:Nuclear on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Yep, these Google engineers are clearly Maoists.

    And German Maoism totally ruined that country.

    Oh dang, that link is to Google, they are of course in on it.

    Man, they've almost got me.

  5. Very surprised to read this. on "Advanced Life Support" Ambulances May Lead To More Deaths · · Score: 1

    Thought that was settled. Stabilizing victims for transport has been SOP in Germany, and has been shown to provide worse outcome than the simple get-them-into-the-ER approach previously favored in the states.

  6. His problem is that he wasn't Dropbox on Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" · · Score: 2

    They have Condi Rice on the board of directors and know how to 'play nice'.

  7. Re:It boils down to energy storage costs on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Note, it your paper uses computer models or least squares curve fitting, it is worthless for proving causality.

    OK then, no computers. But in fairness I then request that you also start checking your email on your trusty logarithmic slide ruler.

  8. Nuclear on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Nowhere does the article mention nuclear. They argue for distributed and dispatchable power, hardly features of any nuclear design.

  9. Re:Gave back my green card and moved to Canada on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    Yes, no doubt the budget is much easier to balance. I don't think most Americans have any idea how much of their tax money goes to the DoD.

    Was certainly a factor in my decision. I left the US when the Iraq war was still going strong. Didn't like the idea that my tax money was helping to pay for this tragic foolishness.

  10. Re:Perspective on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    Beats walking behind a ox in a rice paddy, don't it?

    So did you miss the fact that he's from the UK, or just suffer from US public school education?

  11. Gave back my green card and moved to Canada on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    Make more money here in the GTA and the schools are better. The politics are also far less toxic.

    Feels generally more immigrant friendly as well.

  12. Micro case study ... on Gridlock In Action: Retailers Demand New Regulations To Protect Consumers · · Score: 1

    ... of why libertarians are wrong about the role of governments.

    Free markets are nothing that comes about naturally. It is the governments that create the regulatory framework that allows for free markets to function.

    Business hurt when governments fail in this most important job.

  13. Re:What this means in practical QIS terms on Photon Pair Coupled in Glass Fiber · · Score: 1
  14. What this means in practical QIS terms on Photon Pair Coupled in Glass Fiber · · Score: 1
    • Potentially longer quantum encryption transmission via optical cable (record at at this time).

    • Better quantum information channels would also help with qubit teleportation.
  15. Over and over again ... on Rhode Island Comic Con Oversold, Overcrowded · · Score: 2

    ... my con experiences demonstrated why a managerial class exists.

  16. Best summary of this result on How Curved Spacetime Can Be Created In a Quantum Optics Lab · · Score: 1

    Really excellent succinct and easy to follow summary.

    And that on /. of all places, where article summaries usual go to die.

  17. Backup Plan? on Elon Musk Hints 1st Person To Mars May Go Via New Brownsville Spaceport · · Score: 1

    Many CEOs have emergency plans for a retirement out of reach from shareholder class action suits, but this seems a bit excessive.

  18. Maybe instead of ranting about it ... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    ... how about starting a blog where you try to make science more accessible to lay people.

  19. 20 meter holes ... cool on Why You Can't Manufacture Like Apple · · Score: 1

    20 m holes in aluminum ... with a LASER! And Apple bought the company,

    iDefense is going to be awesome and really sleek looking.

  20. "When antibiotics are used to kill them, ... on Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood Using Magnets · · Score: 1

    ... , dying viruses release toxins ..." that quickly act on /. editors and make them forget the most basic biological facts.

  21. If a few hundred thousands complete a course ... on The MOOC Revolution That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    ... I'd hardly call it a failure.

  22. What he should have written is ... on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 1

    ... Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

  23. Re:By far not the only design that does this. on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    One advantage that is purely political is that sub-critical reactors will be more political acceptable.

  24. Re:By far not the only design that does this. on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 2

    Don't think accelerator reliability issues are much of a concern any more, the systems are pretty mature at this point. I see the many advantage in being able to produce tailored neutron energy spectrum to process as much waste as possible.

    The latter is the main focus in my mind. Excess energy is just an added bonus. We need a process like this as burying the nuclear crap has become a politically untenable.

  25. By far not the only design that does this. on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 4, Informative