Sounds to me like you didn't put ANY effort into preserving the battery.

"a lot" of effort would have involved learning what kinds of things drain the battery beforehand and then avoiding them. Apple has a web page devoted to eeking the most you can get out of your iphone battery at http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

A minimal amount of effort would have been turning the thing off, because turning a battery powered device off to save the batteries isn't exactly a revolutionary idea.

So what exactly did "a lot of effort" entail?

You managed to get the values for both 3 sigma, and 5 sigma wrong
+/- 3 sigma = 1 in 370 (which is what clued me into them being wrong, 1/81 + 0.997 isn't close to 1)
+/- 5 sigma = 1 in 1,744,278

People basically had bots (or a bunch of their friends) play their songs over and over allow them to rack up large play numbers.

I believe Amazon charges a significant fee to use their borrowing service (IIRC you need Amazon Prime) and puts limits on the number of books you can take out in a given period of time, so this shouldn't be an issue with them.

Maybe if you want to know what the invention is you should look at the part of the patent where they tell you what the invention is, rather then reading the abstract?

How do you know that?

More specially, how do you that once he had access the hacker didn't introduce new vulnerabilities into the system?

You seem to be the one who is trying to redefine work. Work = Force * Distance. One the "initial push" is over, Force becomes zero, and any further movement results in zero work.

(as an aside, I have to admit that if I was on the Apollo 10 mission and everything was working out, I'd be tempted to yell "Fuck you, Neil!" into my radio and land on the Moon. What's NASA gonna do?)

Watch as you die on the moon because the ascent stage lacked the fuel needed to return the Lunar Module to the Command Module from the surface of the moon.

It's supposed to be 40,000 square meters (check the press release) which would be >400,000 square feet.

Yeah, because more supply in the market for batteries that weigh tens or hundreds of pounds will have all sorts of influence on the market for sub-1 pound batteries used in laptops, cameras, tablets and phones.

The thing that gets glossed over is that the "moneyball" draft of 2002 wasn't very good. Oakland had several first round picks and only the first two (Nick Swisher, and Joe Blanton) did anything significant in majors. Add to that the fact that a number of good players who had the sabermetric stats to suggest they were good were ignored, often for some really stupid reasons.

If Beane had really stopped looking at the human equation he would have drafted Prince Fielder.

Those are "Young Adult" novels so they were probably actively cut from the list if they were present.

Then maybe he shouldn't be a physicist with the word "chair" in his title.

You know, people keep saying that these guys are geniuses and would spot trivial errors but I can only think of two things when I read that:

1) I work in research with some incredibly smart people, and see them make the occasional really dumb mistake. All it takes is one stupid error made by some guy years ago that never rechecked to mess things up.

2) I can still very vividly remember when Lyne, Bailes & Shemar announced they detected a planet around a pulsar by detecting the pulsars timing changing and in the end it turned out they didn't account for the movement of the Earth correctly.

Apparently part of your job isn't basic math. 100,000 / 300 is about 333, about a factor of ten off from your 3000 number.

Where in update New York? National Grid offers "SC1C Residential Optional Time of Use" service, which has three different rates (peak, off-peak and shoulder) and also a "Market Rate Service".

http://www.nationalgridus.com/niagaramohawk/home/rates/3_service.asp