Another option is an angel investor. You don't need a patent to talk to investors, they just want to know if it's a viable business.

Most areas have local groups that hook up inventors with angel investors.

NASA really needs to move to a research and incubation role, similar to what it does in the aeronautical world. Given the constant changes in direction each new administration brings, and the whims of budgeting each new congress brings, NASA can't continue to be the primary source for launch vehicles.

They should license out the Ares technology, promote competitions among the multiple private rocket vendors and focus on scientific and development missions using private vendors to provide the launch capacity.

History Block fixes this problem very nicely. It let's you setup a block list of urls that should not appear in the history.

Set it up as a loan from the company to purchase the laptop, payable over x months. If you leave before x months, you owe the remainder, if you stay the full x months, you don't have to repay it. That way the laptop is yours, not the companies.

Exploratorium in San Francisco
Balboa Park in San Diego
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Earmarks account for only 1% to 2% of the budget. What is really needed is a wiki that encompasses the whole federal budget (all $2.9 trillion of it). Then the crowd would really have a chance of finding waste in the budget and of making some really progress in bringing spending into line with revenues.

Sexual content in a movie that would earn an R rating by the MPAA, earns an A (adults only) rating in game. See, for example, the Hot Coffee version of GTA.

This applies to retailers as well, the same retailer will accept the content in a movie but not in a game. It's not just chilling, it's deadly to a game.

CJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which constitute the main East Asian languages. The term is used in the field of software and communications internationalization.
The term CJKV means CJK plus Vietnamese, which in the past used Hán t/Chinese characters and Ch Nôm prior to adopting Quc Ng.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_characters

It's not Windows vs Linux.

No, it's Microsoft vs Linux.

Microsoft had full control over the stack of tools they used (Windows Server 2003, C#/.NET, Sql Server 2000, I believe) and they invested a lot of resources, both technical and marketing, into making this system run. It was suppose to show that Microsoft software could handle this kind of system as well or better then *nix. And it was a failure.

See Get the Facts for more details.

First of all it's "north of San Fransisco" and by North they mean it's actually North of Santa Rosa. And it looks to be about 20 miles north of that up near Clear Lake.

That's not that far away if a large (6-7 magnitude) quake hits. If you don't believe me, read up on the Loma Prieta Quake in 1989. 42 people died in the collapse of the Cypress structure over 50 miles away from the epicenter. It also took out a section of the Bay Bridge and destroyed many building in San Francisco. This was from a quake that was centered south of Santa Cruz.

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

This is the info sharing site for bio-hackers. Has everything from courses for the gene-script kiddies to protocols and other neat stuff. It's a better resource then the corporate site for those who want to know about it.

You can always join the peace corp. They need IT people to help out in other countries:

You obviously don't remember the blink tag

System administrator/Network administrator - if you like playing with hardware Sales Engineer at a software company - if you like to travel and interact with customers Software Development Management - if you like telling people what to do.

Crude Oil Futures vs Dollar Index

Any question as to what's causing the price change?