What about the slashdot article a few weeks back about the Dallas Cowboys complaining that Facebook wanted to charge him three grand to send out one update to his facebook friends?
Also, what about the fact that, at that level of users (100k+ish) Facebook *won't* post your update to each of your facebook friends? They just silently drop messages.
I don't know - just a thought.

The only reason I'm upset is because Slashdot editors are treating this as a 'Hoax'. It's not. It's crappy journalism reporting on some nutjobs' intellectual porn site as though it were news. What's next, reporting on the Onion press releases?
I've been here for years, but slashdot getting bought out has really ruined the last toehold on reality and relevance they had.

My understanding has always been that the road has a dotted white line regularly, and at an intersection that dotted line changes to solid at the point where it is still feasible to make it through the light without gunning it (given driving at the speed limit, of course).
Of course, I've also read (and seen) the reports of cities not getting enough revenue off of the red light cameras that they shorten the yellow lights.

When I was doing work in that line, my motif was "lets build a dozen, test em all, and use the one that worked right." Nothin redundant about it. Sure, the other eleven might be saved somehow, but let's not forget that when you're talking materials that have to survive in extreme conditions, you test your systems on the ones that won't survive, and ship the one that will.

Ever since slashdot's parent company got bought, I've noticed a notable change in the articles. Namely, the "ask slashdot" questions have gotten absolutely remedial, the science articles are wholly off kilter (see this one), and the paranoid anti-TSA articles have all but disappeared. I don't so much mind the last one, but only because it'd gotten pretty over the top.

Well, she *was* his biographer. I'd guess 20-30,000 emails probably had a lot of "I don't really want to look like a douche", or "I had no idea that was happening, but lets spin it like I meant it to happen".

Again, I'm going to reiterate my point. I don't care if they spend a billion dollars on a campaign (I prefer my privacy, thanks) on one condition:
Use your datamining to actually get government right. Figure out what everybody wants, and find a solution. If you're going to "run 66,000 campaign predictions a night", how many can you run that analyze the effects of your policies, actions, and decisions.
Cause honestly, it looks to me like government has gotten really good at screwing things up. I'd hate to lose my faith in humanity before I'm dead.

Well yes and no. You don't care as much about the Mass, you care about gravity, i.e. downward acceleration. That *is* essentially Thrust, just in the wrong direction. His equation where he divides the FlyingMass by the LiftToDragRatio accommodates that issue seamlessly.

My apologies for the threadjacking; I'd really like to raise a key point I seem to think these campaigns tend to overlook.

If campaigns are so keen on doing whatever they can to get one guy into office .. why can't they do enough research to model the effects of their decisions over the next dozen years?

I'll make it very simple: If you want my vote, prove to me that your choices will benefit our Country. A Billion dollars spent to obtain a four year career ought to be sufficient to prove that. Do *that* FIRST! Then you'll get my vote.

Their cold air is essentially room temperature, as they're using 80 degrees (presumably F) for that side. So really they've just contained the servers, sucked all the heat out, cooled it down to room temperature, and dumped it back into the room. It's far more efficient because they're not using the servers to heat a whole room / building, then air condition each room for human usage.

That isn't even what the article indicates. The article indicated that US Military tested a dolphin named Say for 15 days before a storm halted their experiment. The only other notable information in the article is that the dolphin achieved a 99% accuracy throughout the course of the experiments. That's better than your average (burger) flipper.

Seriously! If I wanted my vehicle to drive for me, I'd take the bloody bus!

If they're so hot on not letting me actually drive a vehicle I own, why should I pay for it?

No! I asked for a *CAR* analogy! No, the D is not silent!
More like, Asians produce toyota - those popular cheap cars that people drive, the ones that have all the essential parts to make a car go (you know the asian cars), and europeans produce those sophisticated luxury cars that have all the nice, leather seats and air conditioning (like those european cars do).

I might note that the article you referenced shows many uses of the gate that you purportedly reserved "especially for him".
Reading comprehension FTW.

Just had to point out how appropriate this xkcd is:
http://xkcd.com/447/