>> will Chinese-built cars be just as good as European-built cars, and will consumers be able to tell the difference?

Initially, they will feel the same, but about an hour after they drive the Chinese model they will be hungry for an all-European experience instead.

those pesky photons are at it again

...which already logs unique uris and often classifies using server- config'ed tags?

>> Gitmo is that it was attempted to be closed but was blocked via procedural means. Only certain penitentiaries can accept prisoners from outside of US soil and in order to do so they must have authorization from the (state) Governor...all of the penitentiaries that were able to take the prisoners had Republican governors. All of them were asked in turn by the administration, and all of them said no.

Pretty sure your facts are wrong here. For example, Illinois, an all-Democrat state, had exactly the kind of prison needed, and was proceding down this path. Long story short, there's no "blocked via procedural means" argument here, and if there were, do you really think Obama would hesitate to break the law (again) to get this done?

A quick Google search may help you...
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

>> compared to Gitmo and the phoney wars we had because of George W Bush

I hope you realize Gitmo is Obama's mess now. He's had six years now to clean it up - in fact ran on a platform to clean it up - and has done little there except release some pretty evil dudes back into the wild.

>> Worst summary ever.

You must be new here.

i remember reading a harvard business case study about a similar product called biopure in the mid-00s - that didn't end well if i remember right

>> cadre of people...vendor sponsorships

So...what you've basically set up is a Kickstarter internship that will land you and a few of your friends in the wing of a defense contractor's marketing department that pitches space dreams to the public to keep political winds blowing in their favor. (Even the original poster uses the word "market.")

>> visualization ...crowdsourcing ...analytics...Kickstarter...in the industry...BINGO!!!

I noticed that she called out some crappy PAC in questions about Congress, but I didn't see her note how Obama or his FCC plays into these issues. Don't you think having the president out in front rooting for net neutrality would be the best possible thing right now? (Or will "net neutrality" just fade into a "wedge issue" that will be used to drum up funds but never really get solved to anyone's satisfaction.)

>> Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members

The manager. Badoom-cha!

>> That's especially true for open source projects, where you can't really reject someone's help

New to open source, are we?

>> How LEDs Are Made

Because SlashDot is news for 10-year-old nerds. (New Editors: WTF do you think SlashDot is - the text version of the Discovery channel?)

>> If all DVDs purchased in 2011 were streamed instead, the energy savings would have been enough to meet the electricity demands of roughly 200,000 households.

Or, if you're like my family, the energy "saved" from spinning up DVDs on two different TVs has now gone into a more powerful wireless router (to support better streaming), bigger TVs (bought with money saved from cancelling cable), a digital antenna booster (so we can watch HD network TV without cable), and personal tablets that none my three kids had in 2011.

It's spelled "baguette" - the French were in on the whole crusty but tasty conspiracy from the beginning.

>> 47% to 70% of physicians and medical students admitting to using [Wikipedia] as a reference.' At issue in the study is the small sample size the researchers used: 10 medical conditions.

Uh...between 47% and 70% of people means you surveyed what - 3 people? 4? (OK, I looked - it's a range of numbers from OTHER people's surveys.)

Here's just one possible flaw with that conclusion: If I was a doctor, I would look up what Wikipedia says about a condition just to see what my patient is going to read when they get home, so I could arm him or her with the right information (rather than Wiki's).