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  1. So employees are property? on Apple, A123 To Settle Lawsuit Over Poached Battery Engineers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't own your employees and there is no such thing as poaching them. Offering a better deal is a perfectly legitimate business move.

  2. Re:Yep, they were... on Keurig Stock Drops, Says It Was Wrong About DRM Coffee Pods · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I use a French press and a straight razor. Both will still be working in 25 years.

  3. Saw it in person on SpaceX Launch Abort Test Successful · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was like a big model rocket launch. Quick burn, coast to apogee, chutes deploy, and landed in neighbors yard.

    It was neat the engines shut off before I heard them start.

  4. Re:Depends how you evaluate the curve on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    Nearly anyone can generate a profit if the pay is commensurate.

  5. Re: Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 2

    I never understood this hatred of AC but not to heat. I live in Florida and I consume much less power than I did in the North East. My average power bill is $250/mo. That's with all electric appliances. When I lived in the NE my gas bill alone would top $400/mo.

  6. Re:Not Holograms on Microsoft Announces Windows Holographic Platform · · Score: 1

    I see. Yeah there is no way it's holographic.

  7. Re:Not Holograms on Microsoft Announces Windows Holographic Platform · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it is technically augmented reality.

  8. Re:Somebody can do it cheaper? Fire that costly CE on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    I can't wait until Disney has a Sony like insider breach and Star Wars is leaked before it is released.

  9. Re:Well... on Russian Cargo Spacehip Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    You are right. It didn't even slow them down when they killed about 500 people due to crappy range safety.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

  10. Should be simple on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 1

    Each person gets 1/2 the embryos to do with as they want and they give the other 1/2 up for "adoption" to the other person. If in the future either decides to implant them the other party has no say or financial obligations to the other.

  11. Re:It doesn't depend on how big they are on Giant Survival Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year On an Iceberg · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I could kill you by smashing 2 100 ton pillows together with you in the middle.

  12. It doesn't even need to be that grandiose. on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    Even if your job is figuring out a way to shave a couple percent off of the cost manufacturing of a product that helps society become wealthier as well.

  13. Re:Allow me to be the first to call bullshit. on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 2

    Strawberries are typically grown as annuals. I live in Florida and we have many acres of abandoned orange groves still producing oranges with zero input from anyone. It is simply too expensive to pick them and bring them to market. Nobody will pay that much for an orange. It's interesting because every once in a while when OJ prices spike due to a bad harvest somewhere you will see people show up at these groves and clean them out. But typically they just fall off the tree and rot.

  14. Christen it the Unsinkable Titanic II on Giant Survival Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year On an Iceberg · · Score: 2

    So it can survive being crushed between icebergs? I guess it depends on how big they are.

  15. Electric Comet? on Rosetta Spacecraft Catches Comet Eruption · · Score: 1

    Can we finally admit the Electric Universe guys are at least right about comets? This "jet" is coming from the dark side of the comet? Doesn't seem likely.

  16. Re:Give the money to Elon Musk on Incorrectly Built SLS Welding Machine To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    NASA has paid Musk Billions already.

  17. So basically he is acting like every other MD? on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess they are just jealous he is doing a better job at it.

  18. Re:These ARE the Droids that you are looking for! on Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could also find a protocol droid familiar with programming binary loadlifters. I've heard it's pretty close.

  19. Electric Geyser on Enceladus Spreads Ghostly Ice Tendrils Around Saturn · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    It will be the AirForce that makes the call since they run the Missle Range at Cape Canaveral. The range is designed to handle these types of accidents. The pads are seperated by miles of scrub brush. They also have flight termination system if the rocket goes outside of the flight path they destroy it.

    I'm thinking it's going to be pretty soon they will be able to attempt a landing there.

  21. Re:Education has been in decline since women's lib on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 1

    But a teaching degree doesn't teach you to master the material you are teaching. At most it can allow you to manage a class and teach from a book which is exactly the problem we have today. I'm not saying 5 weeks is enough but I would take someone that worked as a biologist their whole life and took a 5 week course over someone with a teaching degree that studied biology for 5 weeks.

  22. Re:Education has been in decline since women's lib on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by actual degree?

  23. Re:Education has been in decline since women's lib on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 1

    Same here. Even my typing teacher had a PhD which is why I can touch type so well.

  24. Education has been in decline since women's lib. on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 1

    This is a natural result of women's lib. Before that the smartest women (those that are today's scientists, engineers, doctors) would be awesome teachers. Today most teachers are either C students or the hold outs that truly find education as their calling. I'm not saying we need to go back to the old days but we can't keep the same system in place and expect better results.

  25. Re:Lifestyle on California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's always cheaper to save water or save energy,.

    That's not true at all. There are diminishing returns.