Your math is idiotically incorrect. 0.18 parts per trillion = 0.00018 parts per billion. 0.18 parts per trillion * 7000 = 400 parts per billion, or 0.4 parts per million.

Holy shit, how did I not know about Miracast already?

Coolness has been less of a factor for a while. The iPad was far and away an excellent piece of hardware. It was the first time I started to think we could really use the "third device", instead of thinking that the three-device paradigm was a corporate marketing scheme. There is a lot to be said for well executed tables for content consumption (different than those for productivity). The iPad was fantastic, and its hardware and OS excellence is what opened the consumer market. Advertising and coolness got more attention, but the product itself closed the deal. If they can continue to make the best hardware around, they have a sound business strategy.

I'm sorry, but this is a sick attitude. We have the resources to keep these people alive, any person saved from suffering and death is a success story - full stop.

I don't know about you, but here in North Carolina we still have a shit-ton of mosquitoes.

It's nice to see a voice of reason in a sea of people who just can't wait to point out all the ways this won't work. Everyone successfully vaccinated is a success story, this isn't a binary effort.

I want to second f.lux. This program is AWESOME. During the day it reduces eye strain from 6-8 hrs of monitor use by just softening the display, and at night I find it a lot easier to fall asleep after exposure to the warm tint and suppressed blues.

I found this very interesting. I work on a Model M at work, and a Das Keyboard with the Cherry MX Brown switches at home. I was always a little disappointed in the Cherry switches, they feel slightly "gritty" or not as snappy, as the author of this article found as well. My next keyboard is likely to come from Unicomp now that you pointed it out!

Somewhat wrong. Research and development (R&D) is a relatively small part of the budgets of the big drug companies.

If this is actually true, I'd like to see some figures or at least a link.

When my laptop's videocard died, I was able to replace it myself for $80, which is a hell of a lot cheaper than a new, decent laptop meant for serious work.

Does anyone find it ironic that the problem was caused when a giant, nuclear electricity plant was damaged by a lack of electricity?

I guess after the Indian Ocean tsunami of '04 they should have considered the possibility...

They did consider the possibility. It was built to withstand a 5.3 meter tsunami, which would have been of record size. Instead, less than half an hour after successfully dealing with the worst earthquake in history, they were hit with a 10 meter tsunami. This knocked out the diesel power to the cooling systems, but backup batteries actually kept it going safely for another 10 hours.

It sounds like the young hire knew something the older professional didn't know, so even if the older person was "intellectually curious", they no longer had the desired qualifications and skills. It sucks, but it's also the case.

Have you ever used a visual diagrammatic code language before, such as LabView? Every scientist I've ever met that had any experience writing code vastly prefers the C based LabWindows to the diagrammatic LabView - diagrammatic is simply a fucking pain in the ass. Reading someone else's program is an exercise in pain, and they are impossible to debug. Black and white, unambiguous plain text coding may not be pretty to look at but it is damn functional. Coding requires expressing yourself in an explicitly clear fashion, and that's what the current languages offer.