Comment Re:Simple Fix (Score 1) 268
> can't be made in/sold to/bought from other countries
That's what the Economic Complexity Index is about:
Comment Roberts Supreme Court. (Score 1) 420
It's useful to remember that this is not the Supreme Court of 20-30 years ago. This is the Supreme Court of Citizens United. This is the Roberts Supreme Court. The number of decisions the present court has made that are injurious (as it were) to most of the American population is now adding up and I suspect that Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, et. al. are going to earn a very different place in history books than their predecessors.
Comment Seamicro (Score 1) 56
Upon learning of this, I thought it a clever idea for a next step in addressing the heat issue - at the level of rack servers; data centers; etc.
Not your One Ring that Rules Them All but some problems (most) need to be attacked in pieces.
Comment Tevatron data and software. (Score 2) 82
It's interesting that the Tevatron is still producing scientific results even though the particle accelerator was shutdown Sept 30 of 2011. And that's because there's still a massive quantity of undigested data from the experiments that stopped running at that time.
If one reads about the LHC, one sees the same phenomenon. Which proposes that one of the things that could kick particle physics (and many other areas) forward the fastest is better software. Or maybe that's already obvious to everyone else?
Comment Daniel Bell - 1976. (Score 1) 326
Daniel Bell (a sociologist) coined the term 'post-industrial'. And in this book on that subject:
he made the assertion that post-industrial society would need a worldwide network to connect individuals and organizations.
The book was first published in 1976.
Comment Re:Destroying peoples life (Score 3, Informative) 745
Horizontal drilling isn't fracking. You frack frist to break rock which then allows horizontal drilling.
And of course the environmental impact of fracking is increasingly being called into question.
When Smart People Make Bad Employees 491
theodp writes "Writing for Forbes, CS-grad-turned-big-time-VC Ben Horowitz gives three examples of how the smartest people in a company can also be the worst employees: 1. The Heretic, who convincingly builds a case that the company is hopeless and run by a bunch of morons; 2. The Flake, who is brilliant but totally unreliable; 3. The Jerk, who is so belligerent in his communication style that people just stop talking when he is in the room. So, can an employee who fits one of these poisonous descriptions, but nonetheless can make a massive positive contribution to a company, ever be tolerated? Quoting John Madden's take on Terrell Owens, Horowitz gives a cautious yes: 'If you hold the bus for everyone on the team, then you'll be so late that you'll miss the game, so you can't do that. The bus must leave on time. However, sometimes you'll have a player that's so good that you hold the bus for him, but only him.' Ever work with a person who's so good that he/she gets his/her own set of rules? Ever been that person yourself?"
Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage 151
ByOhTek writes "CNN reports that in July, rocker Ozzy Osbourne became one of few to submit his blood to have his full genome sequenced and analyzed. The results are in, and it turns out his genome reveals some Neanderthal lineage. What does Ozzie have to say about it? 'I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,' he wrote."
Comment Re:Came here looking for some relevance between GN (Score 1) 301
I think Ellison approves of Hurd's core values.
Comment Re:Trial by fire (Score 1) 219
Allen was diagnosed last year with a non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This is about Microsoft but it may also be about Alllen's 'legacy'.
Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon 415
According to Russian political scientist, and conspiracy aficionado Andrei Areshev the high heat, and poor crop yields of Russia, and other Central Asian countries may be the result of a climate weapon created by the US military. From the article: "... Areshev voiced suspicions about the High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP), funded by the US Defense Department and the University of Alaska. HAARP, which has long been the target of conspiracy theorists, analyzes the ionosphere and seeks to develop technologies to improve radio communications, surveillance, and missile detection. Areshev writes, however, that its true aim is to create new weapons of mass destruction 'in order to destabilize environmental and agricultural systems in local countries.'"
Good IC / Electronic Component Inventory Software? 70
Smerky writes "As I've been getting more and more into hobby electronics I have been finding it difficult to keep track of all the different ICs and other electronics that I have (resistors, capacitors, etc.). What are Slashdotters' recommendations for some inventory software? Certain qualifications that I'd be looking for personally are that it has to run on Linux/OSX well or be web-based (to run well on an Apache2 server)."
FDA Approves Vaccine For Prostate Cancer 194
reverseengineer writes "The US Food and Drug Administration has given its first first approval for a therapeutic cancer vaccine. In a clinical trial 'involving 512 men, those who got Provenge (sipuleucel-T) had a median survival of 25.8 months after treatment, while those who got a placebo lived a median of 21.7 months. After three years, 32 percent of those who got Provenge were alive, compared with 23 percent of those who got the placebo. ... "The big story here is that this is the first proof of principle and proof that immunotherapy works in general in cancer, which I think is a huge observation," said Dr. Philip Kantoff, chief of solid tumor oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the lead investigator in Dendreon's largest clinical trial for the drug. "I think this is a very big thing and will lead to a lot more enthusiasm for the approach."'"
Comment Re:Morality? (Score 1) 586
"as long as you bring no harm to another". Which would imply that harming yourself, as part of whatever you want to try, is OK. I mean, "I'm going to bear the responsibilities - right?"
Umm, I've always had a problem with this. It assumes an atomized social existence. My assumption is that when someone harms him or her self, they usually harming someone else as well.
If you're a husband and a father and you kill yourself in a car crash (let's say because you were drunk) you haven't harmed the family the depends on you?
Whatever happened to:
"Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
So let me see - in the current dispensation we want to believe simultaneously that a) we're socially atomic and b) all beings on the planet are connected by a web of life and if you touch it at any point there's a ripple effect that spreads outwards.
Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome 168
MacGene noted that Google has announced plans to include Flash with Chrome. This step will make Chrome easier for Mom & Pop to use, but comes with a host of issues that have been discussed here before. I expect them to announce Silverlight Thursday.
