Sheesh people! Who the hell left the front door unlocked? Next thing you know we'll have Twilight fans wandering in here. Perhaps it's time to add a "Poser" moderation category.

At one time, about five minutes ago, I would have agreed wholeheartedly. But now that I've seen grim humorless clueless trolling dicks in action, I'll take the lame geek humor. That's what comment moderation is all about.

(2) So the government should employ every single person required to do any high security level work it requires? That's practical and completely feasible.

(3) As AC notes, this is a standard term used to discuss people suspected or charged with a crime. To state a person is guilty before the result of a trial proves that guilt leaves the author open to a defamation suit, particularly if the person is found innocent.

(4) Yeah. People are that fucking stupid. And not high school drop-outs either... Ph.D.'s are really that stupid. It boggles the mind.

No, the buyer ONLY has rights to the "winning" design he paid for if he pays for it, and only the rights stipulated in the proposal. Losing designers keep complete ownership over their work.

Web design? Nerd stuff. Icon design? Nerd stuff. Computer art, graphics, illustration? Nerd stuff. If it weren't SIGGRAPH would be a LOT more boring.

If the design isn't picked, the designer still owns all rights to it and can submit it again. It's also part of his or her portfolio. "Real" designers work the same way, often developing several candidates for consideration or being pitted against other designers.

So, do you believe Apple will create/buy a new ad delivery platform to deliver "Advertisement in Operating System" instead of using iAds?

I third it. Excellent book for getting started, and interesting to read.

The title of this article is an absolute embarrassment. This is beyond inaccurate, it's inflammatory. Photography is not banned. A reasonable safety margin has been set around the response equipment and boats - and it's about fucking time. Scuba divers and other special activities are routinely given a 75 foot (more or less) safety margin, and it seems absolutely reasonable to make everyone stay clear while these people are trying to work. Frankly, 300 feet would have been completely reasonable. It's bad enough this "news" is already ancient (par for the course on /. lately), but now we have to deal with mind-boggling bias... is this /. or Greenpeace?

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Even the word loan is in both the title and in the URL.

In the second article, not the /. title or text, which says something quite different. Yes, we should all rtfa, but perhaps the /. posting should be a bit more accurate and a bit less biased and misleading. Frankly, now that I think about it, the entire submission is way too political for /. Why aren't we focusing on the technology here?

Agreed - I'd be far more upset if this deal were with China instead of Spain (after all, I'm willing to buy a European sports car, so why not European solar power?). Right now, any money leaving the country is a bad thing in my opinion (ianae). Keeping the profits here (i.e. with domestic companies) is likely to have the greatest positive economic impact for the U.S. From what I can tell from glancing at their website, they'll build and operate the plant and sell the power to the local power company. The long term profits from power sales bothers me even more than the short term profit from building the plant. Actually, I'm probably bothered the most by the embarrassment of having to depend on another country to build the technology for us, like we're a bunch of third-worlders who need to be taught how to use a plow.

If I understand how this works (this is similar to federally backed student loans and small business loans I'm assuming), I'm okay with offering a company loan backing (though I'm not okay with the misleading title). But, aren't there U.S. companies that can do this kind of work? Using Abengoa as a consultant would be fine--you know, teach a man to fish and all that--but to build the plants? Are they required to use Abound as the panel provider? And when the plants are built, who owns and runs those plants? 85 new jobs are nice... but more importantly, where do the profits go?

But think of the jobs we've created in Spain!!!