Scientology, Amway, and Herbalife are still going strong and earning big $$$ for their founders. Government doesn't seem to care one way or the other. Why shouldn't the guy who dreamed up Mars One get a piece of the action?

"Apple could be working on a more powerful tablet, something that could compete with Microsoft's Surface Pro line.

Perhaps because Microsoft sells tens of millions of tablets every quarter while nobody even knows Apple's tablets exist. Oh wait...

on their cell. See if they still wanna go through with this.

See: http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

This method is great because ships are already making bubbles in their wake. We just make it whiter with smaller bubbles. Basically raising the ocean albedo.

In the "What can possibly go wrong?" department, this method is far better than any of the other geoengineering proposals. And it's cheap.

Simply retrofitting existing large ships to produce smaller bubbles could reduce global temperature by 0.5C. If we want more cooling, we could float dedicated solar-powered bot ships that do nothing but cruise the equitorial seas making wake.

Do you actually make a living selling those 99 cent apps on App Store? As in, you don't have another day job?

That's pretty hard. Very rare.

That's not true at all. Small devs sold on their own website (and they still do). I bought all kinds of Windows software from small devs. A few examples of stuff I bought (there are many others but not all of them are still around):

flashpanoramas.com
sourceguardian.com
supertintin.com
easypano.com/virtual-tour-software.html

They have trial versions they distribute on download sites like CNET download.com. If you like it you buy the full version. This model works. Yes there's piracy but if your program (let's not call it an app) is good and useful you'll get many paid buyers.

He probably does want a desktop but his boss heard that desktops are old and dying (Netcraft confirmed it), and mobile is the new revolution. Laptops are kinda mobile, right?

but they only send up 3 people at a time to ISS. Seems like a waste. They should set up a lottery for an extra person or two, seems reasonable. I'll buy some tickets.

My hat's off to the murder victims. They had the guts and the courage of conviction to take on Islam. Let us honor these brave Frenchmen and their country.

My fellow Americans like to joke about French surrender and Googling French military victories ('no results found"). But that seems absurd to me because it's the French doing all the brave things while Americans cower in fear.

I do not see CNN or Fox News or Huffington Post or any other American paper taking on Islam. Politically correct cowardice is rampant in America, home of the chickens. American activists bravely take on Silicon Valley tech firms and Xbox gamers for misogyny while completely ignoring the Islamic treatment of women. That's like attacking a kid for playing with water balloons while ignoring the mafia guy next to him planting C4 car bombs. But I guess even cowards have to make themselves feel good by doing something... as long as there's no danger to themselves. Safety is important!

The sun is going down.

Better make Bill Gates drink my piss

when HP realized their webOS was going nowhere, they open sourced it to save a little face and gain a little goodwill, and then abandoned it.

It probably occurred to Toyota recently that hydrogen is not a good idea because:

1. hydrogen molecules are tiny and thus tend to leak out of everything

2. storing hydrogen is costly because of its low density (lowest in the universe) and the insanely cold temperatures required to liquify it

3. the chicken-and-egg problem of getting gas stations to carry it

According to the DC-X team (via Jerry Pournelle's blog) hydrogen is a very frustrating fuel to work with for reasons 1 and 2. Initially they were attracted to it for performance reasons (cryogenic fuel is the most powerful chemical rocket fuel in the universe) but after working with it for awhile came to the conclusion that kerosene/LOX was a far better choice from the standpoint of operational efficiency and cost. Lesson which SpaceX is using now to great effect.

depends. But in the case of SpaceX merlins, a lot. They were designed with reusability in mind and also they don't throttle it up to max capacity for longevity. What exactly is a lot? Nobody knows, not even SpaceX. They'll know after they try it a few times. But a dozen reuse doesn't seem unreasonable at this stage.

Today most P-51 and Corsair owners don't use WEP (war emergency power) on their precious warbirds to save engine wear... same principle.

delayed. Rocket launches get delayed often. If you're new to this, get used to it.

Stratolaunch does kind of makes sense from the delay perspective, if we're gonna aim at something like daily orbital launches in the future (although of course in this case, the delay wasn't weather-related). Jets are much more tolerant of bad weather than rockets, so being able to fly above the weather or move away from it is pretty appealing.

Clueless stupid person gets hit by virus. News at 11.

Now if you, as a knowledgeable person, want to help your clueless friends/relatives avoid this fate, install adware / adblockpro / flashblock on their computers. Nuke the ad system.

This was an article on NY Times. Capitalism = Bad. Socialism = Good. Got it?

Understandable given that 99% of engineering profs *are* men. Not interesting at all.

Now if he had that bias when talking about McDonald's fry cooks, that would be interesting. Because that sector is well diversified with a near 50-50 male/female distribution.