Now please raise the defense budget 12% per year, so that we may relocate naval bases to higher ground and do more maintenance on equipment damaged by severe weather.

Signed,
Colonel Trout

The audiophiles will jump all over this though. Sure your current ISP will barely stream 1080p and service often degrades into SD, but now there's a badge on your Netflix screen that says 4k, so it must be superior quality!

Power of advertising. Same people who successfully convinced a whole nation that Valentine's day is when you're supposed to buy overpriced chocolate and greeting cards. And that any romantic occasion must be accompanied by giving of diamond ("Diamonds are Forever!").

Excellent points. I have thought about the same issue myself.

My conclusion is that you should not patent if it's possible to build a good demo device with your own resources (max out your credit cards, 2nd mortgage on the house, borrow from family etc). Show your working demo unit to Paul Allen or some other billionaire, let his own people test it, and go into a partnership. Keep everything a trade secret, and sell electricity (not the device). You will become the biggest power company in the world.

But if it costs too much to build a convincing demo, and the patent office rejects your ideas as being impossible, you'd have a real chicken-and-egg problem. You might end up being a bankrupt old man in an asylum somewhere =O

Not a prius, a Tesla. Prius runs on gasoline.

But yeah that's a good idea, bolt it to a Tesla Model S and drive it 3000 miles. If Rossi did that then I'd believe him.

The one in Texas is a registered nurse, and you do not get to be a registered nurse unless you fully comprehend the Germ Theory of Disease.

And unless that nurse has an IQ of 80 and been living under a rock for the past month, she would've been aware of what Ebola is and how easily it can kill you if you get it.

There isn't anything special about Ebola containment that one needs vast amount of experience to master. Any competent healthcare professional would've learned it long ago. It's just a matter of being scared enough to do it religiously.

I am not an Obama basher. I think other men in his position would've done the same thing given the information he's been told by CDC and the other experts around him.

However it should be clear by now that that information is not entirely accurate and that Ebola is a greater danger than he's been let on. As president of the United States he needs to do his damn job now and stop incoming flights from Ebola-stricken countries.

get rid of it. That's what I'd do. America was doing fine before these douchebag agencies were ever dreamed up.

*cue scumbag Democrat/Republican politician shouting "National security! We need them to protect our freedoms!"

Bullshit, America was far safer and freer without NSA CIA and the rest of the military-industrial-congress complex.

*cue coolaid-drinking sheeple parroting, "Times have changed and the world is a more dangerous place. Gov't needs more power to protect us!"

Yeah the world is more dangerous now because you douchebags made it more dangerous. Meddling in the affairs of Middle East and other places all over the world, playing God, creating enemies where there were none.

Note the level of hatred for America that existed in the Middle East prior to the creation of Israel (by US/UK). That would be zero.

why would Kmart even have your social security number?

I suspect this will be quietly dropped in the near future when they see their supply of young recruits dwindle to nothing.

with new maths

and transparent GIFs. The day I found out you can use a 1x1 transparent GIF to fill any space by using "width=xx, height=yy" in the tag, was the greatest day of my life.

Also for UK readers: TFA is talking about meeethane gas.

First line of the summary says "I'm a computer science professor"

His students are 18-23.

quad core. Is it better than the PS/4 CPU?

I seem to recall a prize started by a internet billionaire to rival Nobel, and he was giving out like $3 million per prize instead of Nobel's $1 million. Can't remember the name though...