These days, the data comes from high-energy interactions, and often involves highly improbable events. If you don't already know what to look for, you will have to slow down and analyze every event. If you do know what to look for, you can dial up the frequency of events tremendously, paying close attention only to the ones that surprise you in some way. This cuts observation times from well beyond human lifespans, to a matter of a year or two. It makes them practical.

Job postings are evidence, moron.

However, I think in at least some cases, the active recruiting of women and minorities is not just about meeting quotas, but about busting up cliques.

While I have also never seen a lady plumber or cable installer, the latter would be because I don't deal with cable installers. On the mechanic point though, I've known two. One of them I would trust (to be competent, not talking about malice), the other I would not. While that's a small sample size, that's about the same ratio of "trust or not" that I'd allocate to male mechanics.

Male social workers do exist. It's just that they seem to end up isolated from the actual work and sucked up into the bureaucracy, so you wouldn't see them.

Add me to the list of those using this configuration in a home setting, unless you need to exclude me for actually having three monitors -- one is a TV that is usually off or being used for other purposes. (Having both AGP and integrated graphics active at the same time is... interesting. I get lots of odd behavior out of it.)

I have to admit that this is actually brilliant, except for the fact that you still have to return the videos. That too could account for some of the cars in the parking lot.

Disasters don't always strike independently.

You survived The Big One. Great! You reported yourself safe. Even better! Too bad the ensuing tsunami got you, and nobody thought to go looking for you.

Or an aftershock.

Or a fire from a broken gas line.

Or a shortage of water and/or food.

You're not fine until you can get on with your life.

Not true. There is a California version of almost everything, because the emissions equipment requirements in California are stricter than the national requirements. It would be perfectly legal to supply California-legal cars to the other 49 states, but the extra equipment costs extra, weighs extra, and typically eats about 5 HP.

Not necessarily. If you got tax-exemption vouchers every year, you'd "spend" them along with your money. No voucher? Pay the tax. Insufficient vouchers? Pay tax on part of the cost.

It's not often that there is too much information packed into a /. headline, but this is one.

Thing is, "PeTA Is Not Happy" would not be news. They're never happy.

Dolphin to Orca: Hey man, you need to get checked out. It looks like you blew a seal.

Orca to Dolphin: Nope, it's just ice cream.

This isn't the first time Belkin has implemented a hare-brained feature, only to have it cause backlash when it induces catastrophic failures across the world. I stopped buying anything with their name on it (except the occasional cable) over a decade ago, over this little feature.

What are the dead/stuck pixel rates acceptable on a TV? GGP asked about displays, not TVs. Although you can press a TV into service as a monitor, and it might even do the job well, the level of blemishes deemed acceptable in a TV is considerably higher than that of a computer monitor.

This is also quite noticeable even if you're not a mutant, just by munching on potato chips while looking at something that flickers, or by using an electric toothbrush.

It's time for more electrical tape, this time within the cradle, at the end opposite the contacts. This way the remote will be tipped toward the contacts instead of rocking back and forth. It may take more than one layer of tape to do this, and the aluminum tape you used on the garage door may be better still.

Yes, it is, at least with current manufacturing capabilities. Small high-density screens are exactly that -- small. If you have one defect every 30 cm (linear) on average, this may affect one screen out of five -- and even then, there's still some non-critical use where that screen will be just fine. (The front panel of a radio, for example.)

If you're trying to produce large panels with that same defect rate, your rate of defect-free panels is going to be astonishingly low, and there won't be much of a market for the defective ones. Even if Yamakasi is willing to buy and package them, it hurts the image of 4k in general that they hit the streets at all.

This high failure rate means the panels are going to be expensive, because you're not just paying for the one you get. You're also paying for the ones that didn't make the cut.