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  1. Your math may have missed the part that says "Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms." Brain Drain rate would be about 30%.

  2. Re:Bad news on Demand For Unmanned Aircraft Outstripping Their Capabilities · · Score: 1

    OK, I feel safe from 3rd world wedding parties now. Thank you for your considered explanation.

  3. Re:What I find astonishing... on Why AT&T Should Dump the iPhone's Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > ... people come into the shop to pay bills where they have exceeded the 3GB, month after month. and what I find astonishing is that people who consume over 3GB/month of iPhone data take the time and effort to pay their bills in person.

  4. Re:Unfortunately I'm a Bit Skeptical on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 1

    OK, but eeYick! -- if you caught a gazelle by running only 5 mph it would take a lot of wishful thinking to believe that that particular dinner would taste very good.

  5. it's a twonge tister on Build Your Own Open Source Twittering Power Meter · · Score: 1

    I would not want to be a tweet-a-watt sales person if I were prone to spoonerisms.

  6. Re:There are MANY more applications! on Graphene Sheets Get Easier To Manufacture · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only way graphine sheets would allow me to "easily drive from Seattle to Los Angeles without stopping" is if they could also be used as a, um, ya know ... incontinence product.

  7. Let them chase WMDs on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 1

    But since exercise is important for health, instead of something dangerous like tag, they can do something completely safe ... let them run around and look for WMDs!

  8. Re:White light? on The Light Bulb That Can Change the World · · Score: 5, Funny

    Up until recently (ie, the last six months or so) most of the bulbs you'd find in the typical discount stores were 4000-5000 degree.

    Great ... since I installed CFL's over the last two years, I have to wait only about 8 years before I can start replacing them with the 2700 degree ones.

  9. lie vrs. lay on Chicken and Egg Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    yeah, but ... is that why geek guys don't have girl friends? Because they try to woo with

    Lie, lady, lie, lie across my big brass bed
    (she is looking at you funny)
    Lay yourself, lady, lay yourself, lay yourself across my big brass bed
    (she is already headed out the door)

  10. Re:If they enforced this on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 1

    Yes, indeed! In fact, if the Mayor enforced his own rules consistently, he might have to fire himself:

    "I expect all city workers, including myself, to work hard," the mayor said. "There's nothing wrong with taking a break, but during the business day, at your desk, that's not appropriate behavior."

    So what was the Mayor's behavior doing during his business day?

    Bloomberg made the rounds with his photographer, greeting workers and posing for pictures.

    Wasting time, interrupting workers, wasting tax payer's money.

  11. Re:How to market!? on Solar Energy Becoming More Pervasive · · Score: 1
    but I don't think your numbers are that accurate

    but from the BART page you yourself linked to ...

    $48 Ticket Costs Only $45!
    $64 Ticket Costs Only $60!

    Not that much of a discount.

    And your comment "I don't know of any public transit system that charges that high of a rate for a monthly pass" overlooks the fact that this traveler has to use three different transit systems: SF Muni, Bay Area BART, and San Mateo Transit.

  12. Re:Huh??? on Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable · · Score: 2, Informative
    The bug was that the utility used a poor way to attempt to verify that the user was in the admin group, so a non-privledged user who could modify an environment string could do some damage ... the offending code:

    char *envStr = nil;
    envStr = getenv("USER"); //dum dee dum dum!
    if ( (envStr != nil) && UserIsMemberOfGroup( inDSRef, inDSNodeRef, envStr, "admin" ) )
    {
    return true;
    }

  13. Re:Government Secrecy on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to reconcile the posting:
    I for one will just sit back and be comforted
    with the sig:
    All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

    cheers!

  14. Re:The real crime on Crank Blogging, Like Phone Calling, Now Illegal · · Score: 1

    depends ... as long as you went after Hymn constitutionally, it'd not be a crime, even if you lost the case. If you went after Hymn unconstitutionally, then it would be a crime, even if you won the case.

  15. Re:Attention Slashdot editors: Edit is a verb. on DirectTV to Pay $5.4M in Privacy Fines · · Score: 1

    I thought it was "I before E except after C"??
    That is counterfEIt rule, and not a sCIEntific one.

  16. Re:Some key points missed on NPR discussion on When Hybrids Do (And Don't) Make Sense · · Score: 1

    Oh so that's what's going on. Oh well.
    I guess it's just a coincidence that my hybrid's battery looks like a cold fusion reactor. You know, all those tubs of Pond's cold cream and Fleischman's Margarine in the trunk.

  17. Re:Horraty! on Google Wins 'Typosquatting' Dispute · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like the corte of justis held up lah and orduhr to me.

  18. Fort Worth Museum implies Dinosaurs could return on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1
    From the Museum's website: Coming soon!
    Death of the Dinosaurs - June 3 - Nov 23, 2005 They ruled the earth. Then suddenly ... they vanished. What happened, and could it happen again?

    Yes, it could happen again if the dinosaurs returned (because God resurrected them, cloning DNA would be too controversial, like evolution).
    Presumably the dinosaurs die off due to drowning in great floods because they're too big to fit through the door in an Ark.

  19. A science museum showing anything BUT science? on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1
    The director of marketing for the Fort Worth Science Museum says they are not showing the film because some people objected to the science content ... yet look at what this same museum is scheduling in their Planetarium (according to their website):

    The Christmas Star Noble Planetarium November 25 - December 23, 2005 Explore legend and fact surrounding the Star of Bethlehem, as well as holiday customs of different cultures.

  20. Re:dev thoughts on University Launches Semantic Web Interface · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I think the demo may be destracting us from seeing the innovation in the underlying mSpaces.


    When Bach and Handel show up in the Classical Era (they were Baroque) and the interface looks like it could just be showing results of traditional SQL queries, then naturally our attention is focused towards the manual tagging of information and so it looks like the project is showing us nothing new: "See, someone mis-tagged Bach and he is showing up in the wrong list box ... ho hum.

  21. where does having confusing metrics fit in? on Is Your Development Project a Sinking Ship? · · Score: 1

    OK so the higher the risk number, the lower the risk of the project. got it. i think.

  22. Compensation for putting up with Stark admin on Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes but ... there are some compensating features at Stark State campus ... when I went to their website I checked the Campus Building Map and noted the cool Fire Science training tower (Fire Science apparently gets two dedicated parking lots) and a nifty Diebold Incorporated Advanced Technology Center.

    I want to find out how to incinerate paper backup copies of electronic voting.

  23. Re:Protocol faster than DSL? on BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the protocol rates You!

  24. Re:Voodoo Cosmologics? on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for setting me straigt ... the Econmist looks like a great journal! (I had been confusing it with that EconoMist that they use to make the interior of my car smell like a pine tree at the EconoWash.)

  25. Voodoo Cosmologics? on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So "The Economist" is running an article about how a theoretical framework in Physics may come crashing down?

    Can it be that Economic theories have proven so certain and stable over the centuries there just isn't much to write about the possibility of an economic theory being subject to re-thinking?