Comment Re:Awesome (Score 2) 156
Shotgun!
Comment Re:Wow. Get a load of that. (Score 5, Insightful) 263
It totally should, although until then I think that iiNet's court victory coupled with the un-earthing of the clandestine activities of the record company & US embassy will hamper any cases brought by the recording industry in the near future. Or is that just wishful thinking?
Comment Re:Bubble? (Score -1, Troll) 761
The workers committing suicide in their Chinese factories know what's going on there...
Comment Re:Plan, or just study it to death? (Score 1) 197
Hahahaha Classic.
US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? 461
bednarz writes "U.S. companies are locating more of their R&D operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science and technology economies, the National Science Board said in a report released this week. The number of overseas researchers employed by U.S. multinationals nearly doubled from 138,000 in 2004 to 267,000 in 2009, for example. On the education front, the U.S. accounts for just 4% of undergraduate engineering degrees awarded globally, compared to China (34%), Japan (5%), and India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand (17% collectively). 'The low U.S. share of global engineering degrees in recent years is striking; well above half of all such degrees are awarded in Asia,' NSB said in its report."
Comment Re:Reading the early comments... (Score 5, Insightful) 536
I thought so too at first, but most of the tasteless comments have been modded down pretty quickly by the rest of the community. The asshole group isn't representative of the rest of us, they just post quick.
Comment Re:bad data source (Score 1) 309
My thoughts exactly! How the hell is flickr data useful unless you know what percentage of all photos taken are uploaded to flickr in the first place? If they actually *could* get that data, and it turned out to be something like 80%, well then that might be different.
FTA: "(Admittedly, the number of images on Flickr is about 5% of that on Facebook. It would be interesting to repeat this analysis using Facebook data, but there is no reason to believe the results would be substantially different.)"
BS article FTW!
Comment Re:goog: pls try harder! (Score 0) 124
You misspelled mum.
Comment Re:goog: pls try harder! (Score -1, Troll) 124
It warms my heart to know I got so far under your skin :)
Comment Re:goog: pls try harder! (Score -1, Troll) 124
TL; DR :D
Comment Re:goog: pls try harder! (Score -1, Flamebait) 124
Doesn't your iPhone come with malware from the factory? Why re-invent the wheel?
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/20/1357248/apple-logging-locations-of-all-iphone-users
Comment Re:Body count... (Score 1) 120
If you read TFA you'll see it's not actually a manned structure. Confusion understandable given the sloppy title.
Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure 120
cylonlover writes "An audacious project to construct a vast infrastructure housing a neutrino observatory at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is being undertaken by a consortium of 40 institutes and universities from ten European countries. The consortium claims that KM3NeT, as it is known, will 'open a new window on the Universe,' as its 'several' cubic kilometer observatory detects high-energy neutrinos from violent sources in outer space such as gamma-ray bursts, colliding stars and supernovae. On the scale of human constructions, it will be second only to the Great Wall of China."
Comment Re:soory (Score 1) 139
If you use a spy, tech stolen. If you use an engineer, structure cap'd.
Comment Re:Now these guys have some balls (Score 1) 663
Also would be interesting to see what China is bidding.
