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Comment: MS, Community College (Score 2) 412

by MickLinux (#40194527) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree?

With an MS, you can teach at a community college. A lot of the students there are really trying to learn. A lot of them are among the smartest you could hope for (my roommate 23 years ago was a computer engineer who graduated near the top of his class at VPI... who did 2 years at a community college, and then 2 years at VPI. Now he has a PhD.)

Arguably the job teaching at a community college is better than that at a 4 year institution, especially if you use your time for such things as textbook / study guide creation.

You write the handwritten pages and sketches, and let the publishing company pay for a person to do the compositing / typing / proofing / photoready copy, and you can do quite well.

Comment: It would kill potato yields (Score 2) 164

by MickLinux (#40179835) Attached to: Solar Geoengineering Could Lead To Whiter, Brighter Skies
With too much sun(>10 hours) , potatos yield seed instead of tubers. Specifically, they flower and die. Brightening the sky would also increase the effective day length, destroying the staple crop of much of the world's poor. I think there is a huge arrogance popping its head up again.

Comment: Re:This is too simple to fix (Score 1) 487

by MickLinux (#40050335) Attached to: Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies

Okay, here are several methods:

      (1) Passwords you have to change: Base it on a song you like, and work through the song. Change enough characters to numbers, and pick capitalization, to make it meet the policy.

      (2) Key codes (pins). Start by making a story up that describes the motion of your hand. Your hand will quickly memorize the pattern on its own... the trick is to get your brain to memorize it before your hand learns it.

        (3) Key codes (long codes). Similar story: Make a picture swype, and learn that. Then go through the motion of the swype, right before entering the code. Punch in the keys that your hand would have touched, had it swyped. (That's swype as in Skype, and refers to the Android and perhaps IPOD way of unlocking a phone.)

      (4) Long, seldom used passwords. Sorry-- for this one, you're going to have to have a password-encoded wallet, in which you record your seldom-used passwords. Ideally, you won't keep really secure information in such accounts, anyhow, but we know how stupid the information gathering policies are in the US. The alternative, is just don't use such accounts.

Comment: Re:I am Zachary Dovel (Score 1) 541

by MickLinux (#39922211) Attached to: Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans

Please call the suicide crisis line at 1800-273 Talk. I know someone who took that route, and it is bad all around. And no, I don't think it "made a difference" to those who did the damage. Only to those who were already also hurting beyond belief, and then hurt even more, including her mildly retarded son.
Though it isn't the advise those people could give, my only advise is to turn to God and seek his Word and His face. Nobody else is going to have answers on the "why".

Comment: Re: that's nonsense (Score 2) 257

My uncle lives up in Toronto, and basically lost his job at the [conservative ] university 15 years ago when he made an incoming conservative candidate appear ridiculous with some well-thught out questions. The candidate was dropped as unviable, but there were repercussions.
Point being, Canda has long been hostage to US fascism. What makes you think that publishing vote fraud evidence will result in anything but
. . . repercussions?

Comment: Re:Will black hole devour dark matter, anti-matter (Score 1) 127

by MickLinux (#39882193) Attached to: Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole

No, gravity *is* energy. We view it as potential energy, but all energy is carried by particles [up to gravitons, which we are still looking for, but have not found yet].

The energy of gravitational wells has the ability to warp space, as is found in special relativity, and confirmed by experiments.

Now, I am not a physicist either: I have a degree in engineering [and did take physics, and have a family of physicists]. However, I am going to propose that I've long thought that gravity is a by-product of space, and that space is properly viewed as an energetic particle. But I will let you know that that is probably heresy.

The fact is, we don't understand everything about everything, including about physics and energy. But the energy of a black hole is its gravity [or whatever else formed the black hole: spin, charge, or whatnot].

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