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  1. I've Got a Couple of App Ideas on NASA Announces Space Apps Challenge · · Score: 1

    1. Going and getting a bucket of Helium3 from the surface of the Moon

    2. Retrieve a Comet, and place it on the Moon.

    3. (Optional) Rewrite Angry Birds, use likenesses of @$$hole$ that get in the way of man going into space; it's for the children.

  2. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    i RTFA. I think it would be accurate to state that Americans that pay their taxes, willingly or not, are becoming more intolerant to those faceless ones that play games when it comes to taxes. When a prudent and reasonable person can not see an event like a check for a tax bill, then one can safely conclude that a corporation has become Rogue.

  3. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GE Paid? The U.S. GAVE GE 2.5 Billion Dollars. WTF!

  4. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Here's the business model that has crippled Japan, is hemorrhaging America, and is beginning to suck Ireland dry.
    1. Use American talent to invent new technologies, processes, and products.
    2. Contact China, or India to manufacture, or handle product there.
    3. Train Chinese, or Indians to do the job.
    4. Begin manufacturing the product in China, or India.
    5. Sell, THEN Ship the product to America,(HP business model is a good example).
    6. Create artificial corporate accounting that sucks the wealth out of the company that sold the product in America.
    7. Result; No Income, No Taxes, period.
    Oh, and the Bush tax cuts, for some insane reason, are allowed to live.

  5. Re:Money on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at how these types of businesses handled their wealth in Japan, United States, and now Ireland; it's like watching a vectored virus. I don't comprehend this type of business model, but the end result is the community has not prospered, much, people are trained for jobs that don't exist, the wealth that came to the community has left, and the only winner is the wealth that has leaped to the next community. It takes decades for the community to recover, the only thing equal in devastation is an apocalyptic event. Another symptom is that the rhetoric used by this incoming wealth that has no sense of community. This wealth will say anything that the listener agrees to, but this wealth will exit given its personal agenda. I'm seeing trends developing, and they are troubling. Given the end results, I see this type of organized wealth as Rogue, and Sinister.

  6. Re:Money on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 2

    There are a group of grinning predators that will not stop you. Your prosperity is their food; and you would embrace them; why? You want us to believe that you'll be spared?

  7. Re:Money on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These series of past corporate handled events affecting entire governments causes me to ask, "why are multinational conglomerates allowed to enter a country, suck it dry of wealth, then leave, unjudged."

  8. Re:Such a waste on Purdue Students Building Moon Lander Rocket · · Score: 1

    I believe that if Purdue anodizes the engine blue, then I would hope that the crew wakes up in time.

  9. Re:Communications failure? on Soyuz Capsule Return Marred By Mystery Communications Blackout · · Score: 1

    I think this is one time when the "Party is looking for you" is most likely, a good thing.

  10. Re:Such a waste on Purdue Students Building Moon Lander Rocket · · Score: 1

    Given that the design is from Purdue, not Evansville, one hopes that when metric conversion is discussed, it isn't considered a religious subject,(SNAP! Purdue). But all inner university rivalry's aside; given that the name of the project is, "Morpheus"; I would hope that Purdue's students would anodize the engine red.

  11. Re:Got my vote on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    Yes, I believe they do.

  12. Re:Got my vote on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    Actually, litigation would be easier, especially if the Groper were photo graphed during the event. I can imagine him running his hands up and down me now; ka-ching. I think all freedom groping should be put on Youtube, and criminal acts are still criminal acts, no matter who sanctifies them.

  13. Re:and it's thwarted with...... on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 1

    With the global recession affecting every businesses profit, by far the cheapest way to handle both inappropriate downloading, and the cost of monitoring inappropriate downloads is to create a law that allows it, otherwise one is expensively breaking the law.

  14. Re:I want to support this on MIT Researchers Create New Tiny Energy Harvester · · Score: 1

    I can see where certain manufacturers would be very unwilling to buy into this technology. :]

  15. Re:So basically, they're reinventing the Saturn V? on NASA Unveils Design for New Space Launch System · · Score: 1

    Upon reflection of observing the talent that administrates NASA. I've noticed that 1., physics hasn't changed since Newton. 2., the Saturn V launch gets the job done for 3 people to the Moon and back. 3., the Shuttle gets the job done for 8? into earth orbit. 4., there's a space platform in earth orbit right now that one can use to help build final assemblies with. And 5., there multiple space launches all over this planet, so why can't new technologies be applied accordingly.

    So can someone explain why we're "reinventing the wheel" here?

    And if the reply argument is, "it's all top secret." is applied, then google China. They're biggest librarian on the planet, but not the happiest.

  16. Re:Good for insurance on Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law · · Score: 1

    Think about it, "who will be impacted by increasing by an order of magnitude of ways folks are Diagnosed?" The short answer is Medical Biller's for Medicare, and Medicaid. Biller's typically get 8% to 5% of the gross; it looks like they'll be staying up late working on their "billing skills". And not to be ignored are the various tasks doctors need to do given the diagnoses, they bill for that also. The other group of people are the ones who write Medical Billing Software. For us software types, that means someone will have to insert the codes into the data base, then test. I'd figure this looks to be like a 2 to 3 day task for the junior programmer over there in the corner; or a 4 hour task for the senior staff. What I find interesting will be the various tasks doctors will get to bill for. A lot will be the same, but the exceptions will be so vast that only WATSON could sift through it in any reasonable amount of time. I wonder if IBM has any openings for support to maintain WATSON?

  17. Re:Probably costs a lot on NASA Sells Space Food, Shuttle Tiles To Schools · · Score: 1

    I think that if NASA were serious in considering the generation significant funds; then maybe NASA should take a hard look to selling Helium-3 obtained from the Lunar Surface, that would cause their funding to dramatically increase.

  18. Re:This is not about public domain works on Authors' Guild Goes After University Book Digitization Projects · · Score: 1

    This law suit paints an image in my mind of all the litigants holding hands in a circle while singing, "Kumbaya"; around a burning library, in Alexandria.

  19. Re:Why the government should subsidize? on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    I'm not renting a room from my mom. And I'm getting the feeling from the "love" letters from the I.R.S. that if i don't pay my taxes, that the Capitol will be boarded up. Hay IRS, where's the love? Am I the only person that's asking, "what are the Tax Breaks?" How about a reference to those tax codes that folks like EA get? Maybe something good could come out of this "openness" stuff. Wait, I think I just considered a task that WATSON could be used for...

  20. It Would Be Amusing If... on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    Turnitin's Sources, and Database were made Public? Oh what a web I weave...

  21. Bloom Boxes? on Google Details and Defends Its Use of Electricity · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Google use Bloom Boxes? And my personal vex with Bloom Energy is that they don't make a small business version, (cue Sour Grapes Face).

  22. Well, This a Surprize on Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash · · Score: -1

    I thought the Soyuz rocket impacted the planet because of gravity?! Let me double check my numbers.... The math shows a strong indication of to much gravity.

  23. Dear Santa, What I would like to have for Xmas. on Heathkit DIY Kits Are Coming Back · · Score: 2

    A Heathkit Hero Kit.
    A kit for converting Solar DC to the Community Power Grid AC.
    A Heathkit Hero Kit.
    A kit to plug in my electric car to charge up with.
    A Heathkit Hero Kit.
    A Heathkit Hero Kit.

    My P.O. says that I haven't been all that bad this year.

  24. Possibly a Filter Method for Radio Active Waste? on Microbes Produce Power As They Clean Nuclear Waste · · Score: 2

    FTFA, “Our findings clearly identify nanowires as being the primary catalyst for uranium reduction.They are essentially performing nature’s version of electroplating with uranium, effectively immobilizing the radioactive material and preventing it from leaching into groundwater,”

    The biggest bleeding hemorrhoid of New Clear Power is the Radio Waste. Filter the radio active part away from the trash, and the trash can recycled. The Radio Active Waste part can then be recombined into something else that is useful. I was thinking of expensive blast furnaces with a combination of fractionating columns. But if some type of Bacteria can do the job, all be it one atom at a time, then my giant blast furnace patent could be in real jeopardy. So this now begs the question, how could one test it? Maybe a road trip to Chernobyl?

  25. Re:Slashdot presents: The Unholy Shit on Microbes Produce Power As They Clean Nuclear Waste · · Score: 0

    I kind of liked the setting of the story being a,(wait for it), "dark and stormy night..."