You know, it occurs to me that we have had the technology to send a one-way mission since about 1998. Though it would be more mass-efficient to just shoot the astronauts on the launch pad. Think of all the savings on food, water, air, and radiation shielding.

No no no. That doesn't result in more bits. Each bit is twice as wide. Pretty clever when you think about it.

Personally, I don't want a currency with intrinsic value. I want it to have value as a currency only. I do not want the price of my cheeseburger be directly affected by the amount of yellowish (and inedible) metal some guy managed to dig out of the ground this year.

Slashdot is becoming such an interesting place. The level of ignorance and (perhaps deliberate) misunderstanding I see on a daily basis is difficult to put into words. How are we to have a conversation (to say nothing of debate) with a person who has such a poor understanding of the terms involved?

Humans may need vehicles, but vehicles don't need humans.

And how long do you think it will be before engineering gets automated?

Four sheets of A4 is one sheet of A2. If you are going to go ISO 216, you might as well go whole hog.

The unnamed insulator is Spam. Not sure if that makes it toxic or non-toxic, though.

Well, is he using metric skies?

I am embarrassed to say that I stared at the screen for some minutes before realizing that "Eveready Rabbit" was not some cutsie release name for the latest Slackware release.

We casually accept tyranny from our employer that we would never accept from our government. And in this economy, it is not practical to abandon an employer over our rights because (a) other employers are just as bad, and (b) they ain't hiring.

Of course it runs netBSD.

Leave programming to the programmers. If you want to get science done, use LabView.

Living in Houston is like living in a dog's mouth. Hot, wet, and smelly.
It is the armpit of Texas.

This one never gets old
http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html