Exactly. Screw that noise. The TV broadcasters need to give up their white space.

The goal is obstacle penetration.

I don't use this service. If they can kill off the spammy phishing e-mails along with the bogus post office and FedEx ones, I'll be happier.

Give me a wifi router that whose signal can penetrate the walls and floors of your average 10-story building.

I'd say the best book has to be the collection of his papers taken by government agents from room #3327 on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker.

Has anyone ever asked the guy what he wants? Does he want a lot of money? Does he want fame? He's already got notoriety. Accolades? The guy has to want something.

Google appears to be jumping on the rental business model. If you have to store stuff in the cloud, chances are you'll have to store stuff in their cloud (hey hey you you get off of my cloud). Eventually, you won't be able to move your data off of their cloud and once they get a captive audience, they'll start charging for it somehow.
Some might say that Google has now become "The Man" so stick it to The Man and buy a real computer.

As an employer, I would care far less about how people do on a test then I do about actual projects they've worked on or finished programs they can demonstrate. IMHO, STEM jobs are far less about theory and more about practical applications.

Wouldn't it suck (literally and figuratively) if we discovered that the waste product of a fusion reaction are gravitons?

I'm forced to wonder if "environmental scientist" is now a euphemism for "60s flower child."

I hope somebody involved with the project has enough brains to make the code power efficient.

I call B.S. on playing the sexism card. Trolls are trolls regardless of who the target is. This particular troll is particularly obnoxious. Had Ms. Sierra used a gender-neutral nom de guerre, I dare say that the results would have been similar with the exception of the SSN aspects.

This is what happens when uneducated, uninformed Peter-Principle bureaucrats dictate fuel efficiency standards without checking with real engineers to find out if it's even possible.

I believe that 30 year figure can be significantly shortened if our level of motivation is high enough. Take, for example, the Hoover Dam. It was built in 5 years. Or the first Transcontinental Railroad which was built in 6 years. If these projects were undertaken today, they'd probably take several times longer or quite possibly they'd never get built at all because of the quagmire of bureaucracy. Look at Boston's Big Dig which took 15 years to complete.

The war on terror or southern border control or even California's high-speed rail project could be completed very quickly but people would have to be willing to cut through the bullsh*t to get them done.

Want smart kids? Marry the geeks and the nerds.