"They are experts in their fields, often with master's and doctoral degrees. They earn at the top of federal pay scale, with the highest taking home $148,000 a year."

When I was a senior in college, the USPTO was at a career fair trying to snap up as many new grads as possible for patent examiner positions.

New grads are not experts in their fields. Period. No matter what degree they're walking away with.

That said, if I can make $148K working at home for USPTO, where the hell do I sign up?!?

My tablet is quite useful. It makes a great bathroom buddy.

It's not just intellect.

Remember when it was somehow racist to point out that the reason blacks are better at athletics was because they had a genetic makeup that produced stronger and longer muscles capable of higher power output?

That was racist because to say it was to imply they had an unfair advantage.

I think being a geneticist is a pretty impossible job. No matter what your data suggests or how you present it, you're going to be labeled a racist. You'll either be accusing a minority race that is good at something as having an unfair genetic advantage, or you'll be implying that a minority race that is not good at something is so because of genetics - and therefore their skin color.

This is how the PC establishment thinks. If there is a conceivable way to twist and distort what is said so that it can be labeled racist, they will do it.

This may be a stupid question, but why is the Austrian government calling up the Chinese embassy in Vienna to ask permission to print an Austrian citizen's image on a custom postage stamp?

"Even if the FCC supports the petition, however, sports leagues can and probably will privately negotiate blackouts to boost their revenue."

That would be illegal, Poindexter. Corporations cannot collude to control prices.

In other words, they're bring back OCZ.

Compound Annual Growth Rate

Our local city government is doing the same thing with its entire fleet - police, fire, electricity, water/sewer, and trash. It's not that many units, perhaps 100 computers (we're a small city), but they're still saving $250K by "refreshing" instead of replacing.

Nothing makes a slow computer feel faster than an SSD upgrade.

No, you're not :)

I've been addicted to that game for a long time. My favorite strategy is to do whatever it takes to keep the disease from producing symptoms, even at a great upfront cost. The key is to let it spread as far as possible before it mutates symptoms.

Fun fun fun!

The WHO's timing is impeccable. 5:15 on the dot.

This is not really related to T-Mobile, but I do know that the battery life on my wife's HTC Vivid **DOUBLED** when I installed CM11 on it.

It used to last 7-8 hours and now she can comfortably go all day and not have to carry a power pack around with her everywhere she goes.

No, but they have likely taken up short positions and are now trying to drive the price down.