Not this crude matter.

So then why does Zuckerberg desperately want to hire foreign workers? If he really needs workers and can't find the skills he needs with US workers, then they aren't being trained in currently marketable skills (I believe that based on personal experience) and he should fund training for the skills he needs which would take less money and time than a four-year college program. If he needs workers but doesn't want to pay what Americans are willing to work for then he's no different than every other company that outsources to China or wherever and any claims of altruism are total B.S.

Heh, that whole thing was B.S. Having grown up in NJ and commuted to school in New York every weekday for 12 years, traffic on the GWB is always a nightmare.

Why doesn't Zuckerberg take what amounts to beer money for him and give out a few hundred full four-year scholarships for STEM programs to native-born Americans? He could take the interest alone (at 1%) for one year on his net worth and foot the bill for probably a thousand students.

"I watch you very carefully. Green mean go. Red mean stop. Yellow mean go very fast."

Seriously, assuming that this isn't an April Fool's joke posting, this tech now effectively gives more control to the big brother folks running the traffic control centers. They could retard the timing of the lights to slow people down. Some irritating bureaucrat wants his limousine to get across town faster? One phone call and the lights all favor his route. How long will it be before self-driving cars have to check in with the traffic control center to get a speed request approved?

Seriously, somebody needs to find a way to eliminate the wave propagation of heavy traffic. IMHO, those entrance ramp meters are a dumb idea. It just backs up traffic onto the local roads. Foot on the gas, people!

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In my experience, it's isn't really about political ideology as it is about people who feel the need to make sure you know where you stand in the pecking order. If you, as a student, complain to a teacher's superior about something and it gets back to that teacher, the very next day you can expect a pop quiz or a paper or additional reading or something to make sure you feel the consequences of your actions even if they are justified. That happens in every situation where there is even the slightest bit of hierarchy and there are petty people involved.

This sort of reminds me of the Y2K scares 15+ years ago. Back then, there was a lot of FUD about Y2K and consequentially a lot of money being spent to deal with it. A lot of new equipment was being purchased. A lot of software was being modified along with a lot of older programmers being hired to perform those modifications since nobody else knew how to deal with it. Once Y2K came and went without any catastrophe, all that capital spending evaporated overnight. One could argue that this may have been a catalyst for the dotcom crash but that's a separate issue. My point is that a lot of very expensive equipment is being built to mine bitcoins. A lot of real money and resources, particularly energy, is being spent in an effort to mine something that has no other use besides virtual currency unlike metals. So when the last bitcoin is found, all that capital spending will vanish. Is this hardware good for anything else? If not, there will be residual effects.

This girl is now going to be subjected to a lot of insidious B.S. until she leaves. Teachers will likely be very harsh for any sort of subjective grading. School staff is going to be watching her like a hawk. If she steps one toenail out of line, she's going to be in a world of hurt. If it's one thing I know, when you have no power and she really doesn't, the people who do have even a little power will make your life miserable. And this crap is going to follow her for a very long time too because it's now got a life of its own online.

IMHO, this is what's so insidiously wrong about the patent system. Spherix didn't actually invent the stuff. They didn't do the work. The invention didn't come from the brains of the people who work there. IMHO, therefore, they should have no standing for a patent lawsuit.

If doomsayers used a number such as 6,967,231 nobody would believe the report. Yet somehow saying 7 million is totally believable. Humans are such a gullible species.

Why isn't Personal Audio suing the companies that make the software to allow podcasts to be created and served? Do they think those companies have a much stronger legal team and therefore are choosing to go after the defenseless?

I regularly find myself needing to make ultra short run parts i.e. a few every year. Not nearly enough to justify doing them in a CNC mill and I don't want to spend a lot of money on a few parts only to have them sit on the shelf because that's capital that could be better spent elsewhere. One of my real world examples is a custom electronics enclosure. The boards I need to house sadly are just a little too big for a COTS enclosure from Hammond or Bud and the next size up is ginormous. So I decided to look seriously at 3D printing. Sending the design to Shapeways or Protolabs was insanely expensive at over $600 for a brick-sized part. That may be fine for a one-off research project but not for short-run production. Then I looked at the sub-$3k offerings. I was at first impressed with the CubeX until I learned that you don't feed it with rolls of filament but instead have to buy their cartridges and they refused to tell me how much material is in each one. They said "Oh, you can print about a hundred cellphone cases." GAH! A cellphone case is not a standardized unit of measure. So their business model is stupid for the customer. Then I looked at some others that could handle the size part I needed to make and discovered how slow they are. I figured it would take about 8 hours to print one enclosure. Well, I suppose I could click "Print" and go do other things. But then I wondered how reliable the process is and I realized that I'd be pretty pissed if the print screwed up 7.5 hours into it. That possibility is pretty much confirmed by the fact that you can now get a shredding machine that recycles your failures into new filament. Finally, the quality of the results came into question when I read about people buying home fryer machines, filling them with acetone, and dipping the parts in to smooth the surfaces.

I still want one but IMHO, 3D printing is at the same stage computers were in the late 70s. Back then, if you were a geek, you totally wanted one but nobody did much real work on them. What's needed is the IBM-PC or Macintosh of 3D printing.