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  1. Infrastructure for Terraforming on MIT Wants You To Print Your Own Paper Robots · · Score: 1

    So all you'd need is a bunch of super industrial robot printers and a robot maintenance infrastructure to supply ingredients to run major mining on the moon or mars. Advanced concepts boiled down to bare core like software programming that's built on infrastructure like printable robots on an industrial scale is really a leap forward. Congrats to MIT for the concept; next step is contests so programmers can compete for best in show for best robot printers and best robot printing applications.

  2. More Needed on Cryptology Research for High School Student? · · Score: 1

    Be wary of lock-in mechanisms like in some EU states where H.S performance dictates -generally- one's educational path. But with this aside, America should pursue challenging coursework for H.S age students. Linking market demand with student interest. It is underapprecatied how Indian math education [c.s probably also] is ahead of the U.S in highschools. Too bad there's no standardized certification program for such advanced h.s coursework mediated through the web by a federal authority...

  3. organizational nervous system on IBM Announces "Blog-Spotting" Software · · Score: 1

    organizations recognize that many employees may feel the same way but may not communicate it overtly, so a balance has been struck for organizations that deploy this system: they trust employees to self-percieve, much different than the most conservative of command and control structures. the management crux of such a system is to throttle messaging so risk is mitigated.. IBM's ceo did have a chat session that had trolls etc, but in the end the openess resonated with employees...

  4. NASA Plasma Propulsion on Magnetic Field Thruster Developed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Further implications of magnetic nozzle control can be found http://www.ess.washington.edu/Space/magbeam/NIAC20 05/NIACmagbeam2005.ppt

  5. merger on Korean FTC May Investigate Apple/Samsung · · Score: 1

    they should merge, samsung had the yepp player out well before ipod which was actually more compact. apple is the great packager, while samsung is the woz. do it!

  6. Re:I work for Google on a contract/ part time basi on Moving from a Permanent Position to Contract Work? · · Score: 1

    Because, as IBM said it, services have higher margins...

  7. I work for Google on a contract/ part time basis. on Moving from a Permanent Position to Contract Work? · · Score: 1

    The economy is moving, in terms of multiple phases within decades even hundereds of years, from an essentially supply vs demand percieved dynamic, to a subscription based more liquid dynamic. So in a sense jobs are like subscriptions, if you have multipple contracts.

  8. Google is with the CIA! on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: 1

    The cold war ended when Russia started running IBM servers, in the same way; Google is using Chinese market penetration, and appeasement of Communist officials to infiltrate the market to the point where Google has such 'capital' within Chinese society that it can then wait for the opportune time to represent American values of democracy and freedom of speech, dont take it from me i just work for google part time.

  9. Flapping on Musical Wings Reduce Aircraft Stall Risk · · Score: 1

    In effect the wings are flapping, on a very very small scale.