Comment Drop it (Score 1) 147
...off the roof of a building!
Comment That's just smart thinking. (Score 3, Funny) 691
Now when the same problems cause a second leak we can 100% confirm those problems are the cause!
How else will we address the third leak?
Comment Re:For all the bleeding hearts (Score 1) 539
Wow, $6.79 of purchasing power per hour for 15 hour shifts! Where do I sign up?
Gotta love the libertarian view of "screw them, they're a different color."
I've pretty much stopped posting to slashdot because I'm so disgusted with you people.
Comment Re:More companies too (Score 1) 481
Yes, I have. Your position that excessive protectionism is bad, therefore ALL protectionism is bad, is wrong and silly.
Comment Re:More companies too (Score 1) 481
Protectionism is quite often useful.
And 1930, the great depression, would not have been helped by outsourcing to Chinese children.
NASA To Cryogenically Freeze Satellite Mirrors 47
coondoggie writes "NASA said it will soon move some of the larger (46 lb) mirror segments of its future James Webb Space Telescope into a cryogenic test facility that will freeze the mirrors to -414 degrees Fahrenheit (~25 K). Specifically, NASA will freeze six of the 18 Webb telescope mirror segments at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in a test to ensure the critical mirrors can withstand the extreme space environments. All 18 segments will eventually be tested at the site. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures."
Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels 269
afabbro writes "Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 once offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home. Now with Japan enduring its worst recession since World War II, it is becoming an affordable option for people with nowhere else to go. The Hotel 510’s capsules are only 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide. Guests must keep possessions, like shirts and shaving cream, in lockers outside of the capsules. Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas says, 'It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep. You get used to it.'”
Antarctic's First Plane, Found In Ice 110
Arvisp writes "In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. The plane – the first off the Vickers production line in Britain – was built in 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers executed the first powered flight. For the past three years, a team of Australian explorers has been engaged in a fruitless search for the aircraft, last seen in 1975. Then on Friday, a carpenter with the team, Mark Farrell, struck gold: wandering along the icy shore near the team's camp, he noticed large fragments of metal sitting among the rocks, just a few inches beneath the water."
Comment Re:H-1B is a Fraud (Score 5, Informative) 605
What you have written is false.
H1B Visa holders almost to a man get paid less than regular salaried employees. In fact, law firms have seminars to educate management on how to rig the system to hire H1B employees, how to advertise jobs in areas where they won't get applicants, and how to advertise so that they can obtain green cards for foreign employees.
Here's one such seminar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards 230
An anonymous reader writes "So far, there are over 35 pages of people posting about why EA released Pandemic Studios' final game, Saboteur, to first the EU on December 4th and then, after knowing full well it did not work properly, to the Americas on December 8th. They have been promising to work on a patch that is apparently now in the QA stage of testing. It is not a small bug; rather, if you have an ATI video card and either Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the majority (90%) of users have the game crash after the title screen. Since the marketshare for ATI is nearly equal to that of Nvidia, and the ATI logo is adorning the front page of the Saboteur website, it seems like quite a large mistake to release the game in its current state."
Comment Re:Such as? (Score 3, Interesting) 300
"nonsense. what happened was people acted in their own rational [so they thought] interest..."
Whether people think they're rational doesn't make their acts rational. Professors Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith challenged the old Libertarian thought that people act in their own self-interest. "human decisions, rather than being based on a full analysis of the situation, often rely on shortcuts or rules of thumb. The studies developed the idea of representativeness, in which people are too quick to see patterns in data that are actually random."
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They won a Nobel prize in economics for this.
If someone believes that it is in their best interests to sell their stock it would be irrational of them to just sit there and watch their wealth erode away... but it would also mean that if they did sell their stock under incomplete information conditions the entire system becomes comparatively irrational... Again, no. Your premise is wrong that they are acting in their own self-interest, your premise is also wrong that they are acting rationally, and your presumption that the entire system becomes irrational because people act on incomplete information is... well, incomplete. This is behavioral finance.
Comment Re:Fuzzy logic is killing Google (Score 1) 62
Not only is the search getting worse, adsense is critically broken. I wrote a gag DVD rewinding joke webpage and despite using keywords Google ran irrelevent, stupid, non-joke ads for the years the page was active. Then after all these years the adsense people decided, perhaps, although they wouldn't say, that people might take the jokes seriously (!) and so they banned the site and me, forever. Google's a mess.
Submission + - Google bans ultimate in innocuous site (blanksheetofpaper.com)
Helpadingoatemybaby writes: When did Google jump the shark? Blanksheetofpaper.com a static paged, unchanging joke website with utterly ridiculous content, such as rewinding DVD's, has after years now been banned by Google adsense as "a significant risk." The question is — when did Google adsense descend, and has Google broken as a company? Are we witnessing the falling of a behemoth?
