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  1. Re:This is not going to work. on ESA Shows Off Quadcopter Landing Concept For Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    He's right though, that thing will drop like a rock. ...aaand apparently it actually is an official release: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activit...

  2. Re:I see immediate practical applications. on Tractor Beam Created Using Water Waves · · Score: 1

    More like, large scale: nuclear submarine wrestling matches.

  3. Not to worry on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 0

    Soon the market for US based programmers will be flooded by a new wave of corporate-sponsored graduates fresh and ready to be burned out, thus driving programmer wages down to "competitive" levels.

    Thanks Google!

  4. Re:Absolutely Awesome on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    Yes, the shut-in is high in this story. Epic, mega, fabulous. Everyone else can stick their mountain dew/Dworkin monologues up their arses and die.

  5. Re:Congrats EU on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Does the ruling apply only to Google or to search engines in general? If as I suspect it's the former, we should really be asking further questions like how one commercial entity came to represent the entire value of the internet...

  6. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1

    I'll admit I'm a bit confused by your comment, the link you provided directly contradicts the sentence above it. Also the Mediterranean is already half covered and they're laying the groundwork to go the rest of the way to Africa, so er yeah..

  7. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 2
  9. Re:Sounds about right... on Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean HVDC cables? They're installed all over Europe and are working fine, thanks. It would be pretty straightforward to have several of them piping solar power from the Sahara and wind power from the North Atlantic into the same grid with very minimal transmission losses.

  10. Re:Need doublethink training on Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities · · Score: 3, Informative

    And yet the Irish were persecuted, savaged, slaughtered, enslaved, and treated as badly or worse than almost any other ethnic group in the US, and even today there is still quite a lot of racism against them, despite which they and their descendants appear to be prospering just fine as a community and as individuals without any affirmative action.

    Perhaps the secret is to allow people their own agency and stop infantilising them by telling them they start out handicapped, which might be why Michigan banned affirmative action in Universities.

  11. Re:This means nothing without context on Tech Workforce Diversity At Facebook Similar To Google And Yahoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As for women, there's a lot more evidence that HR departments do discriminate

    Which is ironic given that almost 60% of HR staff are women, apparently. Maybe HR companies should start hiring more men to bring a male perspective and lived experience to these roles?

  12. Pedestrian on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 3, Funny

    Construct mighty engines of fearsome complexity and madness-inducing size to redirect the gyronormous aetheric power of these "tornadoes" towards the hated enemy.

    Nobody thinks cyclopean these days, that's what's wrong with society.

  13. Nook! on Barnes & Noble To Spin Off Nook Media, Will Take It Public · · Score: 3, Informative

    I love my nook. The form factor is perfect, the interface is almost perfect (please let me have several books open at once and let me scribble notes), and I have a snazzy embossed leather covering so they'd better not alter the shape or size of any future models. Also user-changeable batteries for longevity would be splendid. Besides that though screen contrast is the only needed improvement, no attaching LEDs to the inner face isn't the same thing. Actually i could go for customised bodywork too if they made the design moddable.

  14. Re:Text adventure game on Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky · · Score: 1

    Elite did something similar as far as I recall.

  15. Re:Thank you for that. on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    Almost no electrical energy is produced using oil, as far as I'm aware.

  16. Re:Slush on Searching For Ocean Life On Another World · · Score: 1

    Indeed, and I'm unclear as to why you'd want to crawl along the underside of the ice in any case when you can just... swim.

  17. Hm on What Happens If You Have a Heart Attack In Space? · · Score: 0

    I'm thinking first world problems here.

    Find the pause button on your forks folks.

  18. Re:records go back to 1880, very funny on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll take the cold any day. It's easier and usually more fun to warm up than it is to cool off.

    Also, snoooowwwwwww!

  19. Re:Revolutionary American weapons... on The Revolutionary American Weapons of War That Never Happened · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah I was hoping for some steampunk goodness as well, a la Brisco County Jr.

    In other news you cannot, cannot have an article about wacky war machines without prolific pictures, it contravenes no less than six seperate articles of the Internet Convention on Clickbait Guidelines.

  20. Re:Not the Big Bang on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    Cosmic inflation has always puzzled me - so the distance between particles of matter is slowly widening, without the particles themselves actually moving, why can't we observe this at the molecular level? Or do we? Even if its only a miniscule expansion at the smallest scales it must surely show some sign, and wouldn't it have some effect on say chemical interactions?

  21. Re:I have a better idea on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    The problem is we need to actually talk about what's going on, not misinterpret the data. It's profoundly disturbing to me that your original post was just modded up without evidence, since it implies that many people here just assume what you say is true... even though it's not.

    Against a backdrop of spiralling male suicides, title IX abuses in many colleges, massive gender based sentencing disparities, “predominant aggressor” policies in domestic violence and many more issues it can hardly be a surprise that the widening gap between men and women in third level education is cause for concern and indeed serious questioning as to why females are getting special treatment> when they're already ahead by most metrics.

    Having more women with better credentials might allow them to advance more easily and solve the pay equity problem.

    There is nothing stopping women from making the same decisions as successful men - no discriminatory laws or policies, no patriarchy lurking in the background twirling its moustache. The differences in average pay are due to life choices, experience, qualifications and hours worked.

  22. Re:I have a better idea on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that's an interesting point. So, you don't feel that these graphs are something worth talking about?

  23. Re: Want to code? on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    Of course its the feminist argument. Create a false perception of victimisation both current and historical (the latter in particular being foundational to the fable of patriarchy theory), find an eMANnuel goldstein to blame for it, then cast feminism as the only possible solution to these monstrous injustices. Why do you think so many people found that tiny historical snippet so interesting? And there's much more out there.

    So much more.

  24. Re:title should be... on Scientists Successfully Grow Full Head of Hair On Bald Man · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it works on people without chronic alopecia. It probably has no effect on age related male pattern baldness, given its original purpose.

  25. Re:I have a better idea on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    So tell me, who is lying here: http://www.avoiceformalestuden...

    Because these two sets of data appear to directly contradict one another. The only disparity I can see is that the NY Times graphs specify a particular age group, why, I don't really know.