That's not what I meant, but kind replies are always nice. I understand the function, but just like most of us don't spend our off hours learning string theory and pondering just how small plank's constant is (at least, rarely), I doubt many of us keep abreast of experiments that use this type of precision or what truly interesting things that will come of it - at LEAST what truly interesting things that justify the seemingly inflated giddiness of the article.. Hence my dissatisfaction.

Just when you start to think you know everything you read something and fail to grasp it's significance and feel dumb or naive all over again.

Well, then you just hope it helps make a warp core.

Is this (another) failed sarcastic statement, or did I really just read that. I'm taking away the point that the world needs less true believers, and people need to stop writing sarcasm online.

Don't all newspaper writers wish the Internet didn't exist? And just replace 'Washington Post' with 'all' while you're at it. You're only supposed to read those when you want to feel sad about human stupidity or see 'legal' corruption in action.

The biggest threat to a nation is not other nations. The biggest threat is corruption and tyranny within itself as history has shown a thousand times over. Look what else he has shown - how hypocritical we (US) has been. I see it talked about no where, but do you think Washington will be talking about Chinese hackers so one sided any longer? Sullying a nations reputation from truth is one thing, but doing it hypocritically is quite another. What would u think of an individual person who did this? Would you not scorn him? Treat him like a bigot? When a nation lies to me, or treats me like a fool, I treat it as I would any other person.

I hate you. Good bye.

yah why don't we go there again and again and again and while we're at it, repeat all science experiments we did before, then show off our videos to China and Russia again and wave our flags and sing the national anthem and be gay. Or let's go do something more productive with today's budgets and do something new while we try to figure out how the hell to get to Mars.

Has nothing to do with the size, has everything to do with one mind (or rarely two) that run the company (or who no longer runs it). And I see correlation with how old they are (related to being driven perhaps). Companies aren't a democracy, when they lose their big innovator they just become run-of-the-mill from what I can observe.

Nothing like taking the most complex misunderstood piece of machinery and just throwing wattage up in there willy-nilly! Next thing i'll try is stabbing myself to hopefully become more pain resistant. Then eat some metal because I hear iron's good for you.

... 75+% of murderers (relatively easy) but only 0.01% of hackers (relatively tough) you up the sentence a bit just for the annoyance. :)

When most people think of math/computers/etc they think it's boring. You need a bridge to show all the great things that can be done, I suggest make games/mods using UDK/CryEngine/Unity (unity especially for new comers picking up simple javascript/C#). Does more than teach com sci, teaches various math disciplines, physics, it's fun, most people have played several games and can relate.. relevant to most people.. If i had to learn linear algebra without games to visualize it I would have been bored out of my mind. Visualizing and applying it in a game environment was the difference.

Sure, governments are all corrupt. Sure, McAfee isn't the world's greatest human. Sure, no one here can possibly deduce what is truth and what is fiction. But sure, many here will offer their feeling-based opinion.

These type of questions always need more details, but deciphering it mostly sounds like basically two colleagues, where the younger one has no power to affect change and his older colleague is same/higher level.

Handling people there's always something that pushes their buttons.. you have to wisely find their's:

• * Chummy Inspiration: such as mentioning how you use it to save time (and that it takes little time to learn is always good). People who are resistant will relent in the face of it saving them time later..best combined with some gambling inspiration after assumed initial resistance.
• * Fun Inspiration (Gambling): Put your money where your mouth is, offer to pay him or buy/bring him lunch for a week if he can do it faster with his tech, and if you win, he must recode it by learning the new technology.
• * Make Fun Inspiration (ego challenge): Bet him he's too old to learn new stuff and is becoming outdated, doubt him and offer to personally buy him a plaque that you were wrong if he can. (you gotta give something to get if it's that important to you)
• * Dirty Inspiration: Talk about how old he is he can't even learn x-technology. If he's using y-tech, maybe his name from now on is y-tech John..
• * Backstabber Inspiration: .. think of your own if ure that big of a dick. :)
• * Sex Sells inspiration: Get him laid/buy him a hooker if he can learn it in a week.
• * Blackmail:...uh. see Backstabber
• * Self-Deprecation inspiration: Sub in for gambling inspiration
• * Kidnap inspiration: force him at gunpoint. Highly effective, very high cost to self