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  1. Leaving real farms to grow the industrial foods we all love so much (Barf). There is a nice niche market for leafy greens that are directly consumed by humans grown aeroponically. Not hydroponically. Too heavy, too bulky for the amount of nutrient solution. LED lighting and the membrane technology are the key points to built on. Check out www.aerofarms.com

  2. Leaving real farms to grow the industrial foods we all love so much (Barf). There is a nice niche market for leafy greens that are directly consumed by humans grown aeroponically, not hydroponically. Hydroponics require much heavy amount of nutrient solution. The weight prevents going vertical. LED lighting and the membrane technology are the key points to built on with aeroponics. Check out www.aerofarms.com

  3. Mr Musk sells hope to the hopeless at the expense of his shareholders. The folks in buffalo ny certainly are hopeful the solar business pays off. Almost as hopeful as the cuomo folks that have force feed nys funds to drag his dream machine to buffalo. Yes, these are the same folks convicted of bribery to bring business to ny state. This hope is built on what? More hope from the past, over automated car factories and exploding starships. Hope is a drug. And Elon is a dope dealer.

  4. Shortage of words on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There is an interesting story behind the story. We have run out of words. It is true. In a world now run by unique Identifiers such as 32 character GUID strings. The world has just plain run out of words that can be re-purposed. Charles

  5. The Real Innovator on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 1

    The real innovator in this space is www.aerofarms.com . The LEDs are not as efficient as you might initially think. Although you can vary the wavelength and duty-cycle easier than incandescents. Phillips and their billions will try to capture the market, but the true technology lies with aeroponic farming and going vertical. Enjoy your leafy greens.

  6. The position type is better known as on Cybersecurity Czar Job Is Useless, Says Spafford · · Score: 1

    an "organizational attenuator".

    Someone has to dampen energy that might elsewise get into the mechanisms that matter to the the alphas.

  7. What About my 2meter handheld? on No Hand-Held Devices In Ontario Cars · · Score: 1

    What about microphones for the police? I get it. The police are more professional and mentally equipped to handle the additional multitasking. Please don't try this at home. Go about your business.

  8. AhHah! You have a smoking gun! on The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School · · Score: 1

    Let us consider that the schools in which you are talking about having this mandate is in our public school system (AKA Socialized School). Of course this mandate will never happen. It should, but it won't. I bet dollars to donunts our private schools already have made this mandate.

    I can't help but think that we may be in a similar situation with health care if that becomes socialized.

    How would you like having a claim turned down for a preventative gene test early in life that will be a precuror or something that helps your health success many many years from the date of the test.

  9. It's the soft stuff on the inside. on The Myths of Security · · Score: 1

    It is a common understanding that the weakest link in information security is people. Until we are able to tell what people are thinking and protect ourselves from either their malice or ignorance it will be a problem.

    Education of users is clearly a fundemental pillar in information security. I am sure social engineering schemes will continue to improve in their effectiveness in exploiting vulnerabilities.

    Working againist this cause is that no one will be able to concretely say that an information security program created revenue (except of security product suppliers). The only real hook that keeps executives funding security is the criminal and civil exposure they deal with. Keeping the execs out of jail is worth funding.

  10. The Big Media-of-Media Shift on AOL Picking Up Journalists Shed By Conventional Media · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think this is pretty big news.

    It seems just like when Virgin Atlanic airlines took advantage of complacent and poorly managed (at the top) Pan Am Airlines and cherry picted talent. Look who is around now. I think we may finally be seeing the shift in media from print to web for newspapers. It is a big ship and it takes time. Industries reinvent themselves, sometimes as other companies.

  11. Expert Criteria on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    Consult experts, those who have been married several times. You know how repetition sets the learning experience.

    Oh Yeah. Have lots of sex. And explore sexual frontiers together. It is not what you do today. It is about what you look forward to tomorrow.

  12. Phrasing Please! on Microsoft Uses Human Computing Game To Tune Bing · · Score: 1

    The director of this department is Alex Trebeck.

    When they happen on an AVI or WAV the score is doubled.

    The final round consists of a handwritten query and a wager of how many hits the target query will actually manifest.

    It is all so exciting. Exciting enough on which to base a TV show!

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    Drive Fast. Take chances.

  13. Simularities Bizzaro World on What If the Apollo Program Had Continued? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We would still be driving around the planet in gasoline driven speedsters.

    We would not have not cured world hunger.

    We would have more than enough nuclear warheads to destroy the planet.

    Wars would not have been abolished.

    The 747 wouldn't still be the largest airliner.

    Oh yeah.. wait a minute, where have I been?

  14. Duh. on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    I mean the technology exists already. What do you think the dish in front of NCC-1701 is for?

  15. it Kant be science on Classic Books of Science? · · Score: 1

    C'mon.. from the best selling Author of the Golden Rule. "The Critique of Pure Reason" Immanual Kant

    It is not the easiest read, but the discussion of the nature of scientific thought is provoking.

    How do you know when it is really science? How can you be so sure? Slash-dotters are so sure.

    http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4280

  16. Re:Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith on Classic Books of Science? · · Score: 1

    In these times we probably should remember that Economics is a scientific discipline. When reading it it seems it could have been written yesterday, but was really written in 1776.

    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/adamsmith-summary.html

  17. Underappreciated on How Do You Document Technical Procedures? · · Score: 1

    There are many skills in this area that stay the same through the technology bubble we are witnessing in information technology. When you write you need two things. 1.) Purpose 2.) Target audience.

    Concentrating on Audience for this reply... a very good technique is to use a "personna" or "profile." Create a fictious person providing an age, gender, education level, personal habits and so on. You then write that that target. Of course, not everyone who reads will fit in the personna exactly, but your personna will will have a bell curve associated of applicability to other audiences. Agree on the personna with all who are contributing material.

    It works almost like magic.

  18. Welfare state on New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads · · Score: 1

    New York is a welfare state.

    It is real condition http://mises.org/story/2225

    OUR system needs fuel in form of money. Anything that can be considered (at least to a tipping point) as a social negative will be taxed like crazy to keep the machine running. It is a process like perpetual motion. It will attrify and die eventually unless we come to our senses and correct the current system.

    Tax revolt NOW!

  19. Re:Not a first on Students Call Space Station With Home-Built Radio · · Score: 1

    It is a dissapointment that the frequency and mode were not described in the article, esp. since it was a science article. The frequency, mode, power and antenna certainly provide "a never been done before" criteria.

    Ham radio was and still is at the forefront of comunications technology. This article describes a simple publicity stunt to promote a particular school.

    73's N2TYQ

  20. Productivity on Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times? · · Score: 1

    In a well run company the engineer is graded through both quanity and quality of output. Being a nice guy (if slanting the outcome) will be a plus in not loosing their job.

    Everybody wantes to be around a good guy, bosses and co-workers alike.

  21. Related to Saul Wurman, yes on O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing · · Score: 1

    You may find it interesting that Joshua is the son of Saul Wurman. The Information Design icon. His dad coined the term Information Architecture!

  22. Sceptical to say the least. on Talk-Powered Cell Phones Won't Need Batteries · · Score: 1

    OK. Do some simple math. Let's say the RF output of the phone (radio) is 250 mw (low). The generaly rule of thumb is that the power in to an RF stage is twice that of the output. So we need 1/2 watt to power the rf amplifier. The voice out of a human lets say is 1 watt. Again the efficiency is not 100%. Let's say it is again 50 % or 1/2 watt. That is doable you say? Well, everyone knows there is no free lunch in radio, physics or insurance salesman. Look at the duty cycles, the voice is not 100% duty cycle. The radio will be closer to a 100% duty cycle than voice because of channel overhead. Given the need to power the receiver, the modulator, the LCD screen, the microprocessor, there is no way it will work. Interesting concept. But not for another 50 years.

  23. Re:Worse than that. on Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Having worked in marketing and well as puely technical roles it is clear as a bell what is going on here.

    When new product uptake isn't up to projections the marketing dept. has a few options. One of the options in its arsenal is to "relaunch". Windows 7 is clearly a "relaunch" of Vista. With all the development time and Money put into Vista don't think for a second that they can develop yet another code base in a fraction of the time. It is the same product with a different name.

    Relaunches are used when there is a perceived problem in the marketplace and the engineering dept.says the product is sound.

  24. Control the power. on Low-Bandwidth, Truly Remote Management? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it is important that you have all the equipment you can on IP addressable Ethernet Power strips so you can physically cycle the power remotely independent of higher level computer control. Something like this: Power Strip

    There is no substitute for the ability to toggle the most significant bit--for sure.

    It sound like this is for Science in Antarctica.

  25. The Moody Blues on Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? · · Score: 1

    "Just what you want to be you will be in the end."