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  1. Reduce turnover on Weblogs as Base for Knowledge Management Systems? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The most important and accessible location of information is in your experienced employees' heads. It's great to have things written down and all and it should certainly be encouraged, but even with such knowledge, it is much easier to interpret the writings if the person is still on staff.

    So bottom line: Pay the engineers a lot. Don't let them leave the company.

  2. Thanks for the pics... on Pinhole Viewer for the Partial Solar Eclipse · · Score: 1

    Now has someone done the same thing with welding goggles?

  3. Mmm... Time machine on Can Superconductors Block Gravitational Fields? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe they'll go back and rename the school correctly. Berkel. It is to laugh!

    As for the theory, it doesn't seem plausible, but physics is full of implausible concepts that work out in real life. Since gravity is a manifestation of a warpage of space-time, does this also mean that he is claiming superconductors are equivalent to gravity wells?

    No doubt that the symmetry between Maxwell's equations and Einstein's equations is stark, but does this also mean that they are equivalent in meaning and applicability? Though the article puts a dig into superstring theory at the end, isn't it exactly this type of theory that is needed to unify such disparate theories as gravity and electromagnetism? If there is a symmetry there, wouldn't it make sense that the two equations would derive from a common principle?

    My elementary physics is no match for the mathematics in the paper.

  4. USB Specs on Rolling Your Own USB Devices? · · Score: 2, Informative
  5. John Gotti dead at 61 on Freecharge Windup Mobile Phone Power Source · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On the heels of the death of British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith and Dee Dee Ramone, John Gotti joined the world of the dead at age 61.

    John Gotti, 61, the stylish but murderous "Dapper Don" who rose from poverty to head of the entire Mafia structure in the United States, died Monday from complications of throat cancer at a federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo.

    Gotti, who was also know as the "Teflon Don" for beating a series of federal prosecutors in court, had been in declining health for several months, members of the Gotti family told NBC affiliate WNBC-TV in New York. He underwent a tracheotomy, in which a breathing tube is inserted through a hole in the neck, and could no longer talk, they said.

    John Joseph Gotti Jr. was one of 13 children born into a poor family in the South Bronx. By age 14, he had already been arrested for allegedly stealing a cement mixer.

    Before long, he was stealing cars and hijacking trucks, NBC News correspondent Dan Abrams reported. After serving five years behind bars in the late 1960s and early '70s, he was leading a crew of mobsters in the Gambino crime family, the most powerful branch of the U.S. Mafia.

    You may never have been involved in a mob hit nor believed in the Mafia's complicity in the assassination of Kennedy, but the reach of the Gambino crime family is far and wide. Truly an American icon. He will be missed.

  6. Re:Uh. on Freecharge Windup Mobile Phone Power Source · · Score: 1

    That's what it must be. It's well known that Americans have really big phones. Asians have some of the smallest.

  7. Uh. on Freecharge Windup Mobile Phone Power Source · · Score: 1

    The Freeplay link is not really a good link... :-/

    As for cell phones, I've got myself a Docomo F211i. It weighs practically nothing and I can use it without charging for about a week.

    When will the US get their act together and stop relying on those massive bricks?

  8. Portmacinema? on Slashback: Gopherectomy, Portacinema, Disunity · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's nice to see how quickly the password was hacked into. Now maybe people will realize how encryption and password protection is simply a smokescreen for system infiltration by hackers.

    Did the data need to be encrypted? Nope.

  9. Great! on Battle of the Secure Distros · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now we just need to get everyone to switch from RedHat! That'll be a piece of cake!

  10. Re:Heard a dude talk about it... on Hong Kong's Octopus · · Score: 1

    Mmm... The West entrance. Probably a few dents in the ceiling these days with all the European fans here for FIFA.

  11. Please read this article on Comcast in Court, AT&T Gets Greedy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This guy was like you. There are places you can go if you need to talk to someone about your depression and Internet addiction. There are lots of resources that can help.

  12. Re:Internet access is a privilege, not a right on Comcast in Court, AT&T Gets Greedy · · Score: 1

    I don't think I could say the same. As much as I am constantly surrounded by computers and have Internet access at work and at home, I think I could possibly give it up and suffer no ill effects save /. posting withdrawal. Even that would clear up in a few days.

    My wife, on the other hand, is completely dependent on it. She's overseas now and has made sure to get a local access number from a relative living in the area. Funny, I was the one that introduced her to the Internet. Now she's a web developer and I'm back in QA.

  13. Re:Internet access is a privilege, not a right on Comcast in Court, AT&T Gets Greedy · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I'd die without the Internet!

  14. Internet access is a privilege, not a right on Comcast in Court, AT&T Gets Greedy · · Score: 1

    As true as the title I've affixed to this post may be, and as much as the broadband companies use the concept to justify their actions, there is also another truth. The choice to subscribe to a company's service is a right which cannot be taken away from you.

    You will not die without broadband. You will not die without the Internet. Probably, your life will be enriched without it.

  15. Re:It's not as bad as the post says. on Hong Kong's Octopus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why does the Royal Mint have a .COM address?


    Duh. They're in the business of making money.

  16. Re:What a great movie on Java Powers of Ten · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought the plot was pretty one-dimensional.

  17. Re:Teddy Bear appeal... on Techno Teddy · · Score: 1
  18. Fosters on Java Powers of Ten · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's Australian for Russian cubism, mate!

  19. Re:Taking currency out of the consumers hands on Hong Kong's Octopus · · Score: 1

    If Y2K hit tomorrow and everything went haywire, neither the cash in your pocket nor the credit cards in your wallet will have any value beyond their ability to line up your coke and help you snort it.

  20. DC Metro system had this on Hong Kong's Octopus · · Score: 1

    No retailer signed on because they liked the cash (there's more to it than that, of course, but the value of the system didn't outweigh the cost, in short).

    Is such a system really necessary, though? And of all the things to link cash to, does mass transit fares make the most sense?

    Certainly cash is overrated (unless you're a privacy nut and have nightmares about the serial numbers on your bills), but it doesn't seem like bringing everything down into one card that can be easily lost makes much sense.

  21. Re:Area vs Volume on NASA's Kepler Mission Coming in 2006 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you trying to contradict the Word of God?

    Burn in the Lake of Fire, heathen!

  22. Re:US Media on Blogging for Dummies? · · Score: 1

    Freedom of the press is one of the most cherished freedoms we hold in this country (the US).

    My first sentence hopefully establishes my frame of reference for readers.

  23. Re:I've seen these before on Take a Peek Inside the Dane-Elec Memory Plant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Today I'm having trouble speeling. Please bare with me.

  24. Web resources on Current State of the International IT Market? · · Score: 1

    Monster.com has a European job listing site. You might want to check out what's going on over there.

  25. I've seen these before on Take a Peek Inside the Dane-Elec Memory Plant · · Score: 1

    They had one at the local Pizza Hut!

    I love how space age technologies trickly down into everyday use.