I am sure he would enjoy a GERT board for his RaspberryPi http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/RASPBERRY-PI-/83-14460

CFL's suck, they are only more efficient than an Incandescent lamp, which is a fairly easy mark to hit. LED's, though more pleasant to use, are marginally more efficient than CFL's, but not as efficient as a standard T8 florescent lamp (100 Lumens per Watt). Polymer based Electro Luminescence is not new; I am very interested in this efficiency they are talking about (which is painfully missing in the article, 5x more than what????)

Health Information Privacy and PORTABILITY Act,
Sort of growing tired of fines being thrown around for the Privacy portion of this $@# piece of paper, where is the Portability enforcement?

I recall the real fight was between the Z80 and 6502 camps; the original RISC vs CISC discussions. The 6502 was certainly simple to program with its I/O being memory mapped. But as things evolved CPM certainly shaped up to be more of an operating system than what Apple's Basic Language OS variant.

I was routing for the 68000 to be the next step, but when Apple announced that the MAC was going to be a closed system (Pay for the SDK) I, as did many, jumped ship to the PC's 8088.

I am a big ROI type so I concur with the "If it a'int broke.." crowd.

That being said, a low power consumption (cool) CPU mixed with ECC RAM and a RAID 5 comprised of Enterprise disks will keep things up for years (or at least it has for myself and my clients). Power Supplies are an odd subject as I have not seen many failures, but some of my decade old ones are now losing caps.

"15% believe that humans evolved without any supernatural help"

Wow, I would say this 15% is a pretty noisy group given all the concessions granted to them then.

I guess this places you (i.e. the "rest of us") firmly in the 15%?

When there was a article posted about the NASA's bias against science to promote the Green agenda; someone remarked that NASA should stick to Aerospaceâ¦. I agreed with that; even if I knew from first hand knowledge of the bias.

While I understand there is going to be spin off technologies from the Space program, I would rather they focus on their primary responsibilities.

Indeed, turns out a hockey stick looks like a ball bat...

Might be a power backup issue.
For instance Roadrunner, a cable companyâ(TM)s broadband here in the States, has power backup at the head end, battery backup of the customer equipment, but no power backup for the distribution infra-structure. This has led to large service disruptions in the past which could/would be catastrophic in an emergency event.

I think it was very nice for the group to provide alternative targets for the would be marksmen to sharpen their skills.

It is worth mentioning that CONTRACTIALY the SRB’s were rated to handle such weather. Who failed there? Why is this not mentioned or reported?

Then there is Lockheed’s nonsense with changing over the foam insulation on the Shuttles external tank to an “Environmentally Friendly” one which exacerbated the issue of blowing holes into the flight vehicle. Somebody knew enough about the potential problem to get a exemption from the EPA to use the old foam, yet the new foam was utilized.

The problem with your dialogue is the underlying premise is wrong. There is nothing in Christianity that forbids or blocks science. Quite to the contrary, as good Stewards, Christians are called to reach out and forward. (And have, we just don't go around shouting “Eureka I have found it, and by the way I am a Christian”)

You can point out the ‘Dark ages’ of the faith, but my pointing out the ‘Dark ages’ of other systems would be akin to shooting fish in a barrel.

Sorry you are so disgruntled about something faith based, but try to stay logical.

Perhaps you are referring to other Countries in the world where their faith has them stoning, maiming and removing peoples heads.

To be human is to be weak and flawed. Christians are called to acknowledge this and strive to become better than this. It would seem others simple acknowledge and make excuses for the condition.

It is amazing to me Lockheed was not counter balancing the GPS with some sort of Inertial Guidance system as a sanity check. The computer assumed it was at its point of landing in such short notice? Bad check and balance programing on someones part.

I would Mod you Up, but Slashdot is behaving strangely. The only bizarre part of the 48 volt telecom standard is the positive ground. From an Engineers perspective, no stranger than a negative one though.

Aren't we still measuring CO2 in Parts per Million? http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/