True, but only relevant to North Korea if "free" straw is plentiful. Though really, it's hay that rabbits need to thrive. Straw is basically the leftover shafts of harvested grains, which doesn't have near the nutrients of hay.

To get lots of straw you'd need lots of grain crops, anyway, so they'd have lots of food. And to get what you you really need, hay, you need to harvest the crops before they seed, so you are basically giving it to the rabbits instead of the people.

"Inquisitiveness" is great, but it seems selfish to try to impose one's own specific interests on a 4 year old when there really isn't a great reason to do so. IMO inquisitiveness implies letting them explore their own path.

Who me? No, that was just an example. For some reason I wanted to be an architect. Somewhat oddly, I now, am, just not designing buildings...

It totally depends on your goal. If you want to immediately disrupt all communications, financial transactions, etc in preparation for an attack, you probably want to crash a lot of those machines (and by crash of course that means disable, not just reboot).

An the article already said it was a particular 48,000 machines that ended up taking down several South Korean TV stations and banks. 1800 "soldiers" taking out significant resources in South Korea near instantly? Sounds a hell of a lot more effective than anything 1800 (or 18,000, or probably 180,000) North Korean infantry could accomplish.

Also, please explain to Sony Pictures how the North Korean cyber warfare group is just propaganda. While it's not proven yet, signs are pointing to that group being responsible for completely taking down almost all operations at Sony Pictures for the last week, as well as stealing several high def copies of upcoming movies. Probably cost them tens of millions of dollars so far, maybe more.

It was a stupid idea, anyway. You don't breed (relatively) large animals to feed a starving population since the food they'd consume to grow large would be much more efficiently distributed directly to the starving people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

He's not a jerk, no, but it was a stupid intro to the topic which basically destroyed the article from the start.

And the fact is, many boys do not decide on an engineering path until college, so motivating girls towards engineering/science pre-teen is not likely to be the solution.

THE HUMANITY!

Oh, wait - and 95% of the Fortune 500 CEOs. And still in dozens of countries, the only gender allowed to go to school and walk openly on the street. Yes, we men are SO oppressed in today's society...

This alone makes the entire premise completely idiotic.

Most 4-year-old *boys* want to be professional athletes, firemen, or, astronauts. I am a "principal architect", and I only decided I wanted to be "an engineer" at about age 23 (about a year after I actually worked in the field).

The only "critical development" for a 4 year old should be learning how play well with others and talk in semi-coherent sentences.

In my case (since I don't have A/C, I guess, and my electricity usage is pretty low) it was > 10 years to pay for itself. And of course, motors wouldn't even help much (another example of the many variables that go towards estimating efficiency/return on investment) since there are 2 large (but awesome) trees providing evening shade on the west side of the house (also a reason A/C isn't necessary :)

I don't know either, IT'S AN AWESOME FUCKING TREE!

(seriously though, it's a 60 year old Juniper shading the whole patio. As long as the (ironically in the solar article) PG&E powerline tree butchers manage not to destroy it, it's the highlight of the back yard...)

Except excluding maintenance costs on what, a dozen or more motors means that's not a good estimate.

Not to mention it's absolutely impossible to even estimate payback period with any accuracy unless you know the exact cost of the installation, the homeowner's usage, the policies of the utility company and/or government organization that manages the utilities, etc.

Even without taking aesthetics into account, I don't even have a west-slanting roof, just north and south. And there is a giant tree on the west side of the house so angling them west wouldn't do any good, either.

Ok, then you just aren't doing it right. HDMI or USB cable can easily run 15-20m without issues. If that's not far enough I think you don't need a new cable, you need a new wife...

"Adversary!?" Jesus. Seriously? Get a life, dude. I'm not your "adversary", just someone who disagrees with something you said on a random tech blog.

Solar calculators have been around since the 1970's and have perfectly capable since then without the technology mentioned in the article. Your example is bad, deal with it, it's ok, everyone shits the bed once in a while...