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Comment Easement != Eminent Domain (Score 2) 291

An easement is a limited right or interest in the land of another entitling the holder to use, privilege or benefit.

Eminent domain is the legal right and procedures for a municipality to take title and possession of private property for public use.

You might be able to get an easement by using eminent domain, but the more normal process is to purchase an easement. Another way is what happens in a subdivision, where the developer defines where the easements are for such things as utility services (wires, fiber optics, water mains, sewer pipes).

Comment Re:There are a _LOT_ of candidates out there now (Score 2) 465

The problem is, there are a lot of candidates out there now. A LOT.

That's the exact opposite of the experience at the company I work for. My department has been trying to hire 6 software engineers with two or more years of C# experience for most of this year. So far, we've managed to hire two. Not sure what the reason is, but there is a dearth of applications from people with said C# experience.

Maybe it's that we're not a typical software company doing web stuff (we do PC apps that configure our HW products).
Maybe it's HR filtering wrongly.
Maybe it's that we're in Wisconsin, instead of either coast.

Any more ideas?

Comment Re:So a commission to cut your own throat? (Score 1) 80

For the books I usually buy, the price of a Kindle edition is half that of a hardcover. When the book goes to paperback the price usually drops to a buck or two less than the paperback. Seems about equivalent (or better) to buying a paperback and then reselling it to the used book store. Plus I get to keep my Kindle editions forever (even if the book has DRM unless something unusual happens -- and if I really wanted to, I could break the DRM and keep it anyway).

Comment Re:Blowing out of proportion (Score 1) 118

No one seems to realize the NIF is just to study fusion for weapons research. It has no hope of ever leading to an energy source.

People don't realize this because it is NOT true.

NIF does not have a single mission. A big part is weapons research, but that's not all they do.

Below is a quote from their web site:

Achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory is at the heart of the directorate's three complementary missions:

* Helping ensure the nation's security without nuclear weapons testing (see National Security).

* Blazing the path to a carbon-free energy future (see Energy for the Future).

* Achieving breakthroughs in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, materials science, the use of lasers in medicine, radioactive and hazardous waste treatment, particle physics, and X-ray and neutron science (see Understanding the Universe).

Comment Re:Don't count on tasks relevant to your skillset (Score 1) 196

Hmmm... We must be getting a better crop of interns than you. Our interns start out testing products and a year later are usually writing code for testing those products. Several interns have written code that ended up in our products -- these are the ones that we usually hire when they graduate.

Comment Re:"The only problem? It's GMO." (Score 3, Informative) 400

Last sentence of your quote from Wikipedia:

"Since then, improved strains of golden rice have been developed containing sufficient provitamin A to provide the entire dietary requirement of this nutrient to people who eat about 75g of golden rice per day.[4]"

Average rice consumption per capita per day is higher than that it the Philippines according to a number of sources.

So it is "high enough in and of itself to solve vitamin A deficiency."

Submission + - The Smog to Fog Challenge: Settling the High-Speed Rail vs. Hyperloop Debate (xconomy.com)

waderoush writes: Elon Musk thinks California should kill its $68 billion high-speed rail project and build his $7.5 billion Hyperloop instead. It's a false choice. We should pursue all promising new options for efficient mass transit, and let the chips fall where they may; if it turns out after a few years that Musk's system is truly faster and cheaper, there will still be time to pull the plug on high-speed rail. But why not make things interesting? Today Xconomy proposes a competition in the grand tradition of the Longitude Prize, the Orteig Prize, and the X Prizes: the $10 billion Smog to Fog Challenge. The money, to be donated by big corporations, would go to the first organization that delivers a live human from Los Angeles to San Francisco, over a fixed ground route, in 3 hours or less. Such a prize would incentivize both publicly and privately funded innovation in high-speed transit — and show that we haven't lost the will to think big.

Submission + - Experiences and Realities of an Homesourced IT worker (blogspot.com)

toygeek writes: Some companies have small corporate offices with a few desks and some basic staff, and the balance of their staff works from home. I have worked for two companies that have home-sourced their staffing. I wish to take you through my journey in working from home in the IT world and share some facts that I've accumulated along the way.

Submission + - Prosecutors charge man with child porn in encryption case

jsrjsr writes: Remember the software engineer accused of possessing child pornography who was refusing to decrypt his hard drives? He was having some success in court, but it sounds like the FBI was able to decrypt some images without his cooperation. Here is an update from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A West Allis man who has been fighting federal prosecutors' efforts to make him decrypt computer drives seized from his home as part of a child pornography investigation was arrested Tuesday...

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