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Comment Re:logmein (Score 1) 418

i use it with my mom who can't teach honors calculus but can't figure out changing desktop icons

What *can* she do?

All mocking aside, I'll give another upvote for LogMeIn. Unfortunately, they are switching to a limit of 10 computers in the free edition, so I'll have to trim back a few of the older ones.

Comment Re:Need some advance planning (Score 1) 520

Firing lasers at the moon from Earth means it runs into a couple hundred thousand miles of various gases before it reaches space.

200,000 miles of atmosphere? I think you might be off a bit there. That's about 84% of the distance to the Moon.

The Karman line, commonly used as the boundary between atmosphere and outer space, is at 100km. Even shooting a laser at the Moon on the horizon won't come close to your number.

Comment Re:Neil deGrasse Tyson (Score 1) 520

Yes, I see, it has limited merit, and is inferior to impactors and suited only to the bag of orbiting gravel and very long time frames because it is so very very weak.

Thank you for that admission. However, your level of condescension detracts from that markedly.

I would like to see a ssimilar report that rated other methods in more detail

Then why don't you get on that right away, Bill? With your superior brain, they should be done in no time.
Please post them here when they're ready. And I promise I won't call them "fool's work".

Honestly.

Submission + - Soluto apologizes for Microsoft Azure 62 hour downtime (soluto.com)

Festeron writes: I got an email on Sunday night from PC remote support company Soluto. They apologized for 62 hours of downtime because of problems internal to Microsoft.
The email said that starting on Jan 3, "the “storage service” in [Microsoft] Azure’s main data center went down. Machines running code could still run code", but they could not access the data, and diagnostic and self-help processes failed. The email also claimed that some employees were "working over the weekend to resolve it".

Soluto also said in the email that they are "going to start migrating some of the more critical elements of our architecture to a redundant solution, some of which will probably reside on both Azure and Amazon."

Transportation

Submission + - Futuristic Highway Will Glow in the Dark for Icy Conditions

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Will Oremus reports that a glow-in-the-dark highway will be installed in the Netherlands that will replace standard road markings with photoluminescent powder that charges in the daylight and glows through the night for up to 10 hours. But the new highway's most interesting feature is when the temperature drops below freezing, the road will automatically light up with snowflake indicators to warn drivers of icy conditions (video). “One day I was sitting in my car in the Netherlands, and I was amazed by these roads we spend millions on but no one seems to care what they look like and how they behave,” says designer Daan Roosegaarde. “I started imagining this Route 66 of the future where technology jumps out of the computer screen and becomes part of us.” The first few hundred meters of glow-in-the-dark, weather-indicating road will be installed in the province of Branbant in mid-2013, followed by priority induction lanes for electric vehicles, interactive lights that switch on as cars pass and wind-powered lights within the next five years. “Research on smart transportation systems and smart roads has existed for over 30 years — call any transportation and infrastructure specialist and you’ll find out yourself,” adds Emina Sendijarevick. “What’s lacking is the implementation of those innovations and making those innovations intuitive and valuable to the end-consumers — drivers.""
Science

Submission + - America's Real Criminal Element: Lead (motherjones.com) 1

2muchcoffeeman writes: The cause of the great increase in violent crime that started in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s may have been isolated: lead (chemical symbol Pb). This leads directly to the reason for the sharp decline in violent crime since then: lead abatement programs and especially the ban of tetraethyl lead as an anti-knock agent in gasoline starting in 1996.

There are three reasons why this makes sense. First, the statistics correlate almost perfectly. Second, it holds true worldwide with no exceptions. Every country studied has shown this same strong correlation between leaded gasoline and violent crime rates. Third, the chemistry and neuroscience of lead gives us good reason to believe the connection. Decades of research has shown that lead poisoning causes significant and probably irreversible damage to the brain. Not only does lead degrade cognitive abilities and lower intelligence, it also degrades a person’s ability to make decisions by damaging areas of the brain responsible for emotional regulation, impulse control, attention, verbal reasoning, and mental flexibility.

Another thing that stands out: if you overlay a map showing areas with higher incidence of violent crime with one showing lead contamination, there's a strikingly high correlation.

Comment Re:Knowledge Limited (Score 1) 233

No, you're not the only one.

Microsoft produced a PowerPoint slide along the same lines, listing the new features in SQL Server 2005 a while back. They had to use a 9 point font to get them all onto the same slide. [I believe they referred to SQL 2k5 as a "9 point release" because of this] Again, the point was "Wow - look at all the new features" and certainly not "Let's go through this list of new features one at a time".

I see that the slide is available as a .JPG image. Can anyone point me to an actual .PPT file with this slide? I suspect not.

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