On an iphone, the 30% cut goes directly to Apple. On an android, the 30% cut goes to the carrier. This bribe from Google was obviously a component in the widespread adoption of android by the carriers - although I've no idea how large of a component. I wonder how much that affects marketing issues like this. I don't see why they wouldn't be throwing a few more advertising dollars in favor of the phone that nets them a higher income.

Coincidentally, FSU has degrees in Computational Science: http://www.sc.fsu.edu/education

http://www.deus-consortium.org/a-propos/dark-energy-universe-simulation-full-universe-run/ says each particle has the mass of the Milky Way.

That was Gallagher, not Carlin. But it is indeed a great idea.

http://slashdot.org/~St.Creed ? :)
Based on a google search for site:slashdot.org "anonimity" "Bonus points"
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2467532&cid=37655486

Is this just a way to get extra money to buddies through the revolving door or is there some rational reason for using ex-military/contractors instead of current military/national guard?

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -- John von Neumann
Reply to Felix T. Smith who had said "I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics." -- as quoted in The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1984) by Gary Zukav footnote in page 208. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Incidentally, there was a pretty decent movie with Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland about the hunt for Chikatilo called Citizen X.

"Round numbers are always false." -- Samuel Johnson

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.