Comment If you spend $80M, buy a sextant. (Score 1) 140
And spend the money on it BEFORE you install the jacuzzi.
Comment Re:Honesty? (Score 1) 440
"why are they calling it "Climate Change" now, rather than Global Warming? "
For the same reason why we call a certain diagnosis method Magnetic Resonance Imaging
instead of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Because sometimes you just have to make compromises to appease
the ignorance of mundanes.
Comment Re:50K. 120K. Same work. (Score 1) 473
They do offer that deal for children of staff. But when half your kid is still in your testicles, you have other concerns. When #1 turns 15, I'll look at MIT jobs again.
Comment Re:50K. 120K. Same work. (Score 1) 473
Do disagreement there. I left MIT as soon as it looked like I might one day have a kid.
Comment 50K. 120K. Same work. (Score 4, Informative) 473
I made 50K doing IT for a department at MIT.
I made 120K for exactly the same work at a hedge fund.
THat's a 70K price to pay for the intense satisfaction that comes from helping scientists engage in science. Worth it IMO.
Comment "past"? (Score 1) 136
there are still slaves there.
Comment Europe's not relevant (Score 1) 136
Most Israeli Jews have ancestors who fled Arab countries to come to Israel.
Comment and... (Score 1) 136
any publicly open channel you are 'listening to' [are] a bunch of fuckwits.. infiltrated by the cia, fbi, the mainstream media and normal armchair commentators/criticizer/dumbasses such as yourself.
No shit, Sherlock.
That didn't stop the Anonymous twatwaffles from DDOSing Sakhnin College. And I checked: it fell off the web shortl afterwards.
Im sure those students are having a really annoying sunday when they are all at the mosque
Sunday's a regular workday in Israel, dumbass. Including in the Arabic schools.
Comment "Jewish" media, eh? (Score 1) 136
Your mask is slipping
Comment And then some. (Score 2) 136
I'm listening on IRC right now, and these twatwaffles just got trolled into DDOSing Sakhnin College, an Arabic trade school.
It's funny to see these idiots fall for it, but Sakhnin's students are probabl having an annoying day.
Way to go, Anonymous.
Comment Utterly pathetic. (Score 4, Insightful) 136
One of the big scores for Anonymous was that they defaced the page for Adalah.
Adalah is an organization providing probono legal help to Israeli minority citizens for discrimination cases.
Way to go, Anonymous. What a bunch of fuckwits.
(Added style points for starting this op on Holocaust Memorial Day, and trying to DDOS Yad Vashem.
And for getting this op led by a citizen of Mauritania, the one remaining country that still has slavery.)
Comment Re:"Anonymous" is CIA/Mossad (Score 2) 136
The only people on the planet not livng in a "stolen house" are the Icelanders.
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There is a wide variety of really neat stuff in the technical blog which is also being used as a repository for general Arduino and LED Lighting know-how. Some examples which generally include both media and code are autonomous audio responsive mode, a deriviation for how to convert from HSI colorspace to RGB+W optimally, how to get 4 channels of 16-bit PWM on any ATmega32u4 based device (including Arduino Leonardo), a color changing surface that can be used as either a beautiful table for artwork or as a neuroscience tool to study the function of flicker phosphenes in generating geometric hallucinations, how to get arbitrary color correction functions using HSI colorspace, cool shades that make neat patterns on walls, and a start to extensive documentation about how the device works from a low level to a high level. On top of it all, they plan to run events like the myki Challenge and donate a portion of their lights to schools and hackerspaces if they get funded.
There is a wide variety of really neat stuff in the technical blog which is also being used as a repository for general Arduino and LED Lighting know-how. Some examples which generally include both media and code are autonomous audio responsive mode, a deriviation for how to convert from HSI colorspace to RGB+W optimally, how to get 4 channels of 16-bit PWM on any ATmega32u4 based device (including Arduino Leonardo), a color changing surface that can be used as either a beautiful table for artwork or as a neuroscience tool to study the function of flicker phosphenes in generating geometric hallucinations, how to get arbitrary color correction functions using HSI colorspace, cool shades that make neat patterns on walls, and a start to extensive documentation about how the device works from a low level to a high level. On top of it all, they plan to run events like the myki Challenge and donate a portion of their lights to schools and hackerspaces if they get funded.
Comment plantsneedco2.org? (Score -1) 122
Is there anyone here on
Comment Re:He's not just a researcher... (Score 1) 1198
Starner and Mann worked together at the MIT media lab.
