Remember the collapse from the housing bubble burst? Who predicted that? Precious few men and women knew it was coming, and damned near none had any idea how bad it could be.

    Jesus H Christ! How about everybody aside from lefty morons? It was inevitable as soon as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were more-or-less required to lower their lending standards by legislative fiat.

      Go back into the record and note the conservative opposition to these bills, based on exact the perfectly predictable end results you are whining about.

      We had something like 2000 years to develop standards for loaning money, guess what, when you piss that away for social engineering, this is exactly what it going to happen. The current "fixes" actually make it worse, so you also have to have a spate of new regulation to prevent the banks from kicking people out of their house for the insignificant problem that *they can't afford to pay for it*. Then you bail out the banks with taxpayer money. It's a death spiral.

        Brett

Take all the Beats intellectual property, drawings, and inventory, throw it in a wood chipper, and then set fire to the resulting chips.

You ever actually been to a gym? Like 24-hour Fitness? You will not find exceptional physical specimens there.

It's not particularly good among "groups", either.

The idea that you would join a society dedicated to separating you from "regular people" based on your supposed superior intelligence is a pretty strange notion. Most of the people who I know are Mensa members are the type that couldn't get accepted to any other club.

Isaac Newton was highly religious, even to the point of nutty u ==in his era. He invented modern science and calculus as a side project

Thanshin is much sharper, he posts smart-ass comments on the internet from his mom's basement.

There you have it, folks, another tolerant Slashdot mind!

But teachers unions, inefficiency, and alternative curricula and teaching styles are what has made the educational system a miserable failure despite astronomical sums of money being wasted on it. Long past time to blow it up, and purge almost everyone associated with it.

Hmm, I am surprised that they don't know. I think there are plenty of other people who do. RF effect from meteorite trails is a well-known phenomenon from radio (people were using it to bounce messages in the 30s)

    Here are some people using it to track meteorites - very near the frequencies in question:

http://spaceweather.com/glossa...

        The necessary condition for bouncing a particular frequency is that the path lengths of the plasma are the right length (say, half a wave length or maybe 2ish meters) which seems entirely plausible as a distance associated with the width of the plasma trail. It would not be at all surprising if a tiny amount bounced back and forth like a cavity resonator, OR, reflected ambient signals that the telescope wouldn't have otherwise detected.

So it doesn't seem that mysterious.

Or, just jump on a stagecoach pulled by unicorns. If you don't mind getting rainbow sparkles on your clothes, it's a good way to go.

    What point is there in calling this a "first-world problem"? Of course it's a first-world problem, the first world is the only place with enough overkill wealth to consider these impractical baubels like electric luxury cars with batteries that get melted down and rebuilt from scratch every 1800 miles. And are used going back and forth to Starbucks, while you whine about the injustice in the world caused by the 1%ers.

If the code can't modify itself, what good is it?

My idea - don't hook a toaster to the internet. If you want to set it to toast before you wake up, I can get you $5 60-year-old clock radio that will switch the power on when the alarm goes off.

    Same with every other trivial example in this thread. Critical embedded system = don't hook to internet.

      Brett

Starring Angelina Jolie!

Replaced by a new batch of equivalent fools.

        This is why nerds almost always end up living in mom's basement.

Right, but UNIX (all varieties) is rancid dog shit as an OS, compared to VMS. Everybody bitching about Windows burying Unix/Linux even though Windows is shit - the same relationship applies to VMS and Unix.