I think the norm in the US for exempt employees is twice monthly, with non-exempt being paid bi-weekly.

You could be trading one kill for another

Consider this: Mugger demands your phone, but knowing that you may just kill it when he runs away with your phone, kills you instead and takes your phone.

Yea no thanks Would rather not have to find myself in a situation having to reboot my weapon because it has a required update while an intruder is aiming his own non-hindered weapon at my chest.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -Arthur C. Clarke

Their ZPM may be close to depleted

The surrounding ice around the detector array acts as a scintillator which generates a minute track of light as the particle passes thru the area. That immediately gives directionality, and energy in eV is computed by summing the light response from the entire detector array during that "event".

I got it from Amazon.. http://www.amazon.com/Stamina-55-1610-InMotion-Elliptical-Trainer/dp/B000VICRO8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1363286153

I use a portable elliptical trainer that can be used standing or sitting down in a kind of peddling motion. It's non motorized and pretty quiet.

Reduce tenfold seems legit, I've heard that used before meaning N / 10, increase tenfold would be N * 10

You're correct this is the same approach as Rossi and others, altho the implementation details are probably slightly different. I think the goal of the NASA experiment is to find out what is actually happening (mentioned in a press release from the NASA Langley director which I can't seem to pull up at the moment) rather than throwing around some buzzwords and trying to sell a product.

Actually WoW is very multithreaded and can make use of up to 3 cores. They even make use of some multithreaded OpenGL ( I know little about this).

C'mon scientists!

Except in Lua where it replaces !=, not to mention =~ in Perl :P

You can buy bitcoins with cash pretty anonymously.
1. Create anonymous identity on a site like bitcoin247 using tormail
2. Do a cash deposit transaction into that BTC account (the bank doesn't even ask for your name)
3. Trade your BTC thru a few instawallet sites using different quantities
4. ???
5. Profit!

The DoE does a whole lot more than just "supply power" and "energy" research. It runs a large number of national laboratories including Brookehaven, Fermi Lab, Jefferson Lab, Oak Ridge, SLAC, etc. Many of these labs are not single focus and have research facilities ranging from biofuels to medicine. For example many cancer treatment technologies have originated from DoE labs, I would hope that most people here would agree that cancer research is important :)