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  1. Re:Big Falcon Rocket on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And the B is actually for Belgium

  2. Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe, by Erik P. Verlinde, hypothesizes that the dark-matter gravitational effect is a result of an elastic effect within the universe.

  3. Re:Lots of typos on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    All stamped with a legitimate digital signature from google.....

  4. WORLD HOMEOPATHY AWARENESS WEEK on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re:First Victory! on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump also finished off the remnants of the Clinton crime family by humiliating Hillary and her sycophants with the greatest upset of the modern political era

    Forgot to stir the ashes: Chelsea Clinton Is Reportedly Gearing Up for a Congressional Run

  6. Re:Karma! It IS a bitch! on "Most Hated Man In America" Martin Shkreli Arrested On Suspicion of Fraud (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 0

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  7. The real reason behind corporate inversions on With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Unlike that of most other developed nations, the U.S. tax code imposes income tax on the profits of American corporations' foreign subsidiaries.

  8. Re:What innovation? on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    occam is a concurrent programming language that builds on the Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) process algebra,[1] and shares many of its features. It is named after William of Ockham of Occam's Razor fame.

  9. Re:Characters were not always 8-bit on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It was even worse than that on the PDP-10s.... The operating system used both SIXBIT characters and 7-bit ASCII characters using variable-length bit-field instructions (36 bit words => 5 chars and 1 bit left over).

  10. Re:This American Life on The Rise of the (Financial) Machines · · Score: 1
  11. Re:decent on The Innovators' Ball · · Score: 1

    At least we sleep better.

  12. Linux Tipping Point on The Near-Term Future Of Open Source Desktops · · Score: 1

    Dvorak's latest on Linux (rejected as a story submission). I had been trying to figure out what might create a consumer rush to Linux, but for some reason, I had not considered the obvious: the development of the must-have critical application. This means an end-user killer application that runs on Linux only.

  13. Re:For the naysayers... on Contactless Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    I've got an idea for paying for that expensive equipment....

  14. Re:This will answer the age old question... on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 1

    If they do put RFID tags in Snickers bars, that'll take care of the implantation... Temporarily...

  15. Re:Noone really understands the GPL... on Derivative Works And Open Source · · Score: 1

    Have a look at this whitepaper by Matt Asay. It's been a while since I read it, but IIRC he argues that linking has come to be viewed as not creating a derivative work, and thus linking does not invoke copyright law. Thus you are not required to accept the GPL license in order to link. [IANAL.] The whitepaper was originally discussed in this article.

  16. Re:Usage on Do People Really Use Their PDAs? · · Score: 1
    How come which? :-)
    • I tend to get a large number of large emails, including attachments, tables, etc. Too difficult for me to play with on a tiny screen. It's bad enough on a 19-inch CRT.
    • Our corporate email is Lotus Notes. I'm pretty sure someone told me that the POP or IMAP or whatever-it-was interface into Notes is disabled. Also, I'm not aware of any way of getting through the Corporate firewall from a PDA. I haven't investigated it seriously on account of the can't-deal-with-it factor. (This only applies to wireless; for wired I have a solution.)
  17. Re:Usage on Do People Really Use Their PDAs? · · Score: 1
    I've had a Palm Vx for several years. Over time, these applications turned out to be useful:
    • AvantGo -- Great for reading the news when you're bored to death at a meeting.
    • Date Book -- syncs with my shared calendar. I forget how I lived without this.
    • Memo Pad -- less messy than Sticky Notes
    • Calculator -- I use RPN , for people that never got over their first HP calculator.
    and the less-useful:
    • Address book -- I don't trust the security
    • Mail -- can't deal with my inbox on that small screen. Also, wireless replication to my company's email system is probably hopeless (just don't ask).
    • Maps -- if somebody out there can read black-on-silver road maps at that resolution, my hat's off to you.
    • M-commerce -- I've never felt the urge to buy stock/books/other goodies so strongly it couldn't wait until I got back to my desk. Or even tomorrow.
    • eBooks -- I tried Stephen King's "Riding the Bullet". Not the worst experience I've ever had, but call me back when the screens are better.
  18. Re:Highly pre-mature attempt.. on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition · · Score: 1
    John Dvorak has a good column on Tablet PCs ( What's Wrong With This Picture? ). His conclusion:
    Success of the Tablet PC depends on it hanging on until it gets to $499. It's that simple.
  19. Knew this was coming on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 2, Funny
  20. Read "Fiasco" on Milky Way Inhospitable? · · Score: 1

    For a good story built around the narrow-window-of-time idea, read Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem (ISBN 0156306301). This was probably my favorite Lem story, although probably also the most pessimistic (basically the title says it all). A lot of cute sci-fi ideas, none provably wrong so far IMO. This one was translated by Michael Kandel, who made all the other Lem translators pale in comparison.