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  1. Re:Fill me in on EA Reconsiders Overtime Position · · Score: 1

    EA is not evil - they know the labor law, how obsolete it has become. They are working on updates just as we speak. Repeat after me: "The challenge is everything. We are in packaged goods business."

  2. Re:This is a real shame on DOE Report on Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    The miners in deep pitchblende mines were surviving for long time (20+ years) without using respirators. The highest hazard was inhalation of radon gas. Yes, they suffered high rate of lung cancer and had high incidency of birth-defect children. But considering the massive exposure, pitchblende - even as a dust - is not very poisonous.

    But some secondary uranium ores are surprisingly toxic. Gulag prisoners knew that being shipped to uranium mine was sure death from poisoning within few months.

  3. ...inside job, of course on What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? · · Score: 0, Troll

    is that white-colar enough?

  4. Obligatory quote on Lunar Helium 3 Could Meet Earth's Energy Demands · · Score: 1

    "Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine"
    Ernest Rutheford, 1933

  5. Is the Faraday Cage the same thing as padded cell? on Tin Foil Passports? · · Score: 1

    They have been putting these chips into dental fillings for years...

  6. Yes, they can on Can People Really Program 80+ Hours a Week? · · Score: 1

    "In the past, some employees of EA have claimed to be able to get away with as little as 80 hour per week. The current management does not encourage such attitude."

  7. Most of people in US get rabbies from bats on 15-Year-Old Girl Survives Rabies Infection · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also, it seems that the symptom profile from bat rabbies is slightly different than the textbook rabbie from rabid dog. The initial spastic phase is somewhat less pronounced with bat rabbies. Anyway, if the patient survives through the spastic phase, it is usualy the paralysis that gets him at the end. The very few survivors are vegetative.

    The brain pretty much self-destructs because of the inflamation. So in this case, they induced the coma and avoided the immunization to limit the inflamatory process.

  8. I think I would like her on A New Elena Story · · Score: 1

    ...this days people forget their history, ask anyone in downtown where is bunkers, they don't have no idea what is bunkers. They can only show pubs and I can show both bunkers and pubs

    (and she knows how to cook, too)

  9. Re:Next can some enterprising physics student do. on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1

    This can make long meetings more enjoyable. But I am worried about commutes.

  10. Re:Umm.. on Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man' · · Score: 1

    ...in large fonts. Long words are listed and explained in executive summary.

  11. Re:But then... on Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches? · · Score: 1

    by the time the robots become a problem, science will be advanced enough to design robot-eating cockroaches

  12. Re:Why did we build this? on Utah Desalinization Plant Causes Earthquake · · Score: 2, Informative


    Try to irrigate your field with brackish water and after few years nothing will grow there.

    Ridiculous portion of Colorado water gets diverted upstream from Utah. Plus, some Utah tributaries have natutaly high salt content. So what flows down after Utah is more salty than it is acceptable for agriculture. Since they have no spare water to dilute it, they have to desalinate.

  13. Re:The LED Pimp Bed... on DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber · · Score: 2, Funny

    nah, he is probably gonna write a paper about adjustable LED spectrum influence on man performance. That's why he put there all these potentiometers.

  14. Re:Walmart does drop your income on Wal-Mart's Data Obsession · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Walmart is succesful because customers like what they get - substandard stuff for rock-bottom price.

    They are pretty big. I wonder what will happen once they become too arrogant to behave rationaly.

  15. Re:This is not serious! on Ukraine Holds 4th Largest Programmer Population · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they are near the top - in the virus developer's community.

  16. My mom was disappointed by the article on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 1

    No reciepe. All she wanted to know was how to bake this Mandelbrot.

  17. This paper is a concentrated piece of PR on A College Guide to EA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This paper reminds me very much the Navy/Army recruitment pitch.

    The guy wants to teach a master-level course tailored so that the graduates can go and apply for EA positions right away. So, this guy goes to EA and 'studies' its management culture for half a year. Then he writes a paper how tough-but-fair the company is.

    If there is something fishy you will not learn it from this propaganda - quite opposite, it would make you think that the *real* reason why you end up hating your rude slave-driving overlords is that you are not talented and focused enough to measure up to the highest standards of this "ruthless meritocracy".

    The value of this white paper should increase - if they print it on a soft foldable sheets.

  18. Re:Modern Techies Cut Off From Cycle Of Life on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    in rural southern accent: IT bumtown

  19. Re:Blackbird and the Swedish fighter Viggen on NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week · · Score: 1

    Ingesting boxfull of Hershies would certainly add injury to the insult

  20. Re:Practical application - Preview not post... on NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week · · Score: 1

    Your math is wrong. If you use LOX, the maximum oxidizer/fuel weight ratio is 8 (or less if you fly on kerosene fuel as opposed to LH). If you use a heavy oxidizer like nitrous oxide (Spaceship One) the ratio will be likely higher than 8

  21. Re:To Bad for the sonic Boom. on NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week · · Score: 1

    You need 8 kilos of LOX to burn 1 kilo of LH. Weight matters.

  22. Re:another possible experiment on Understanding Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    sure, but in steel mills they have lots of it - and molten already (more than you ever wanted) and they pour it, so the stuff flows and you can make it go where you want it, etc.

  23. Re:sorry, should have previewed... on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very, very good system. I think they should start actively harrasing their unprofitable custommers and sue the journalists that are writing about it. It's only the logical next step. Best Buy is obviously aiming for the kind of recognition the Church of Scientology already achieved.

  24. another possible experiment on Understanding Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    spinning 14 tons of molten Na is impressive - but sodium metal is not not very paramagnetic - the atoms have only one unpaired electron per atom, unlike iron. What's wrong with doing experiment with molten iron? I wonder if somebody tried to bring a magnetometer into a steel mill - to detect the changes in magnetic fields generated by hundreds tons of molten iron flowing around. While this may not be as controlable experiment as playing with the sodium sphere I think it is more relevant to the actual conditions in earth core.

  25. Re:Confusion... on Do Honeybees Defy Dinosaur Extinction Theories? · · Score: 1

    Small things are more likely to survive - their evolutionary advantage is in their sheer numbers and in their food survival treshold. Also, do you realy think it is easy to hit a bee with asteroid?