TFA referes to "capability recently demonstrated for iron atoms by IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif"

I remember that place. It used to be one of the biggest research parks in the are. Then an few years ago it became Hitachi, say "Inspire the Next", research after Hitachi bought that division of IBM many years ago. I think they shut it down a few years ago, because it all became tall weeds, and now a brand new Lowe's store emerged in its place.

BTW, someone should collect slogans of Japanese companies: "Inspire the Next", WTF does that mean?

Have built systems for quite a few years, and it seems like you can overclock the hell out of intel chips using just good air coolers while AMD pretty much are running at peak speed. Both regarding heat and not crashing.

Built a dual core core 2 Duo 1.83GHz. It is running stable at 3.5GHz.
Intels 32nm i5-650 3.2GHz easily overclocks to 4.7GHz (not sure if stable yet)

If you compare Intel with AMD after you take this headroom into account, intel is on par with if not more cost effective than AMD.

I thought "free" was pretty good until I listened to these fine senators and their helpful business friends. Now I understand that there is a slippery slope from skipping through that commercial to piracy, and to terrorism.

NIST has not defined "cloud in a box" as a deployment model. The document you copy from It is more of a journalistic storytelling than a standard. NIST defines units of measure and probably verify encryption methods that is part of the internet, but they are no authority on "cloud computing" anymore than WSJ. IEEE has an annual conference on cloud computing, and NIST has not shown up in discussions not as a presenter on any other level than secure transport verification.

a "private cloud" in a box is kind of an oxymoron. Not that I am a particular fan of marketspeak like "cloud computing". But the idea at least is that you can access computer resources without really knowing where they are, and scale your needs many orders of magnitude without worrying about floor space, air conditioners and lightbulbs.

For binary it is trivial:
Since it is an infinite, noncyclical number, there must be a zero some finite digits after any one. This must repeat ad infinity, so there must be an infinite numbe of zeroes.

Alternative would be that all digits after, say, digit 1,000,000,000 are ones. This could be written as a fraction, and would not be an irrational number.

You can make a similar argument for a decimal representation for pi. If you can come up with a good one, please reply.

an so are an infinite other digits in that number

Design parameters for a fusion reactor:
1. Shielding: 10m of water or similar as well as magnetic shielding
2. Energy density 10kW/m2
3. Politics: Not in my backyard

Conclusion:
Sun
1. Atmosphere and earth magnetic field: perfect
2. perfect almost anywhere
3. 150 million km away: perfect

Correct: You can pick any non-accelerated reference frame as center.

Earth is accelerated around the sun, and the sun is, to a lesser degree, accelerated around the milky way, as well as around the solar systems barycenter. It is anyway usually implied in the phrase "heliocentric reference" that a non-accelerated reference is picked.

Try to write simple laws of physics if your reference point is accelerated in a gravity well.

There has been a long and hostile fight between the Flat Earth Society (FES) and the Geocentrists. The conservative FES claim ancient heritage, and will not accept any newfangled ideas from the Geocentrists.

0. Buy a sacrificial computer. Keyboard and optical mouse can be $10 each.
1. Take a mouse and wire all buttons so they all are "left buttons".
2. Now open a browser to pbskids.org by default.
3. Also set your desktop up to accept a single click to "open" icons on desktop
4. And go from there

Your toddler will first have fun for days on pbskids. Will discover the desktop after that. You can sprinkle it with some icons of interest.

Can MIT come up with something else than "solar powered nano technology autonomous robot swarms". Is this the "Build a really cool solution, and then spend a decade looking for the problem it solves"
Would be nice to see some innovation there. Are they not supposed to have the skills and intelligence to think outside the box and go in new directions?
- a NON-autonomous robot
- a FOSSIL powered something
- some new MACRO technology.

where is that Æ again?