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Comment: Re:Force (Score 0) 142

by TheDarkMaster (#43741841) Attached to: Newegg Defeats Alcatel-Lucent in Third Patent Win This Year
"Nice web site you got here, it'd be a shame if we had a court order you to take it down. Give us $100,000 and nothing bad will happen to it, or you risk losing a $100,000,000 in court if we win."

Well .. My answer in such case is silence, followed by several bullets in the troll head. Much better.
Earth

Global Warming Shifts the Earth's Poles 471

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the elves-just-wanted-a-summer-home dept.
ananyo writes "Global warming is changing the location of Earth's geographic poles, according to a study published this week. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet — and to a lesser degree, ice loss in other parts of the globe — helped to shift the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005. From 1982 to 2005, the pole drifted southeast towards northern Labrador, Canada, at a rate of about 2 milliarcseconds — or roughly 6 centimetres — per year. But in 2005, the pole changed course and began galloping east towards Greenland at a rate of more than 7 milliarcseconds per year (abstract). The results suggest that tracking polar shifts can serve as a check on current estimates of ice loss. Scientists can locate the north and south poles to within 0.03 milliarcseconds by using Global Positioning System measurements to determine the angle of Earth's spin. When mass is lost in one part of a spinning sphere, its spin axis will tilt directly towards the position of the loss — exactly as the team observed for Greenland."

Comment: Re:Shorter answer (Score 1) 121

Bill Gates is a crude example. If you prefer a more refined example, for you have a good job, a house (not renting) and maybe a family is not enough "just work hard", is a myth. You also must be in the right place at the right time, otherwise you will end up without a job or in a job lower than your skill allows. Hard work helps, but is not the only needed factor.

Comment: Re:Shorter answer (Score 1) 121

Oh (insert your favorite deity here)... Yet Another "Self-Made-Man".

Dude, you also believe in Santa? Easter bunny? You can improve with hard work, yes, but that is only 10% what is necessary. Yes, that's right you read, 10%. I can be the best programmer on this planet, but I NEVER will be a "Bill Gates" if I not in the right place at the right time and having the right friends. And please, stop spreading bullshit that "just work like hell to be rich", it is fiction.
Earth

"Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals 690

Posted by samzenpus
from the it's-getting-hot-in-here dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station in Hawaii, which sets the global benchmark. More than half of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 if current trends continue."
Education

How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich 666

Posted by samzenpus
from the paying-the-price dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A change from 'need' based financial aid to a 'merit' based system coupled with a 'high tuition, high aid,' model is making it harder for poor students to afford college. According to The Atlantic: 'Sometimes, colleges (and states) really are just competing to outbid each other on star students. But there are also economic incentives at play, particularly for small, endowment-poor institutions. "After all," Burd writes, "it's more profitable for schools to provide four scholarships of $5,000 each to induce affluent students who will be able to pay the balance than it is to provide a single $20,000 grant to one low-income student." The study notes that, according to the Department of Education's most recent study, 19 percent of undergrads at four-year colleges received merit aid despite scoring under 700 on the SAT. Their only merit, in some cases, might well have been mom and dad's bank account.'"
Transportation

Researchers Are Developing Ad Hoc Networks For Car-To-Car Data Exchange 125

Posted by Soulskill
from the hey-buddy-your-blinker-is-on dept.
Lucas123 writes "Researchers are developing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technology that allows cars to exchange data with each other, enabling vehicles to know what the cars all around them are doing, and perhaps, where they're going. Intel is working with National Taiwan University on M2M connectivity, an idea came from caravanning — an available, but-not-yet-deployed technology that uses direct line of site infrared (IR) and a range finder in order to automatically adjust the speed of cars so they can travel at a measured distance from each other. In other words, they're electronically tethered to one another. Now, imagine a group of cars traveling down the road together as an ad hoc network, each one aware of the location, any sudden actions or even the travel route of other vehicles as uploaded to the cloud from a GPS device. 'We're even imagining in the future cars would be able to ask other cars, "Hey, can I cut into your lane?" Then the other car would let you in,' said Jennifer Healey, a research scientist with Intel."
Ubuntu

Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer 466

Posted by Soulskill
from the anything-they-can-do-we-can-do-better dept.
An anonymous reader writes "While complementing Debian APT/DPKG, Canonical is now developing their own package format. The new package format has promised highlights of having no dependencies between applications, each package would install to its own directory, root support wouldn't always be required, and overall a more self-contained and easier approach for developers than it stands now for Debian/Ubuntu packages. The primary users of the new packaging system would be those distributing applications built on the Ubuntu Touch/Phone SDK. The initial proof-of-concept package management system is written in Python and uses JSON representation." This quote from the post by Canonical's Colin Watson bears repeating: "We'll continue to use dpkg and apt for building the Ubuntu operating system, syncing with Debian, and so on."

Comment: Re:...wont make me shop at "traditional" (Score 1) 675

by TheDarkMaster (#43657791) Attached to: US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27
The point is that we can't order everthing online, some things are too big, to fragile or have tight time limits (I can't order pizza from another state). Or, the store is too far causing the delivery take months. Amazon may can deliver fast for you who live in the "first world", but do not think that everyone can or should do the same thing when we live on the other side of the globe.

It was all so different before everything changed.

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