I think we will meet aliens, and here is how:

1. 1. A remote civilization will recognize our planet and send a probe at sub-light speed (3% or less) for a journet of 1000 years, or whatever.
2. 2. Within a few years of arriving at Earth, the probe will download (at light speed) a new Firmware update from the home planet, which has the newest technologies, innovations, and informations.
3. 3. As the probe nears our solar system , it will begin growing biological versions of test-tube baby aliens.
4. 4. The probe, using robots, will educate the newly born aliens just in time for their arrival at Earth.
5. 5. The aliens arrive and say Hello.
6. 6. The robots destroy us all.

Saw that crash coming from a mile away. I think everyone did. Bitcoin was hyped up pretty good by the media over the last few months and this crash was easy to predict.

That's no problem. They use platics for that.

It is probably that exact experience that gave Marissa Mayer the perspective she needed to make a call on this. She probably experienced first-hand that being at home was more unproductive (towards her job).

Getting a computer science degree is just idea-gathering. To really become a computer scientist you need to practice writing code. The rule of thumb is that it takes 10,000 hours of your life to become really good at something.

What I want is a FreeDOS shell for Linux: FreeDOSH . If that existed, it would be exciting to write DOS batch scripts on linux. LOL

At the end of James Mitcher's book "Space" , he does a calculation for estimating the number of planets.

Thats a tough question since whatever you choose, you would want integration with online social communities and a nice comment system. Because of that fact, the choices narrow...

Doesn't work on Windows Server however...

Really, when it comes down to it, all of the United States anxiety over Iran originates from banking rather than nuclear weapons. The western world is based around a capitalist system with a core of "interest based lending/banking". Iran represents monetary ideas that show that modern societies can work without interest based banking. The Banksters want to snuff out all evidence of this in order to make sure that all the people of the world are never educated to believe that there is an alternative to "interest based" money systems. But there is! A world money system could exist that "outlaws" interest based "fractional reserve" lending and which requires all lending be backed 100% by an equal amount of reserve money. Dennis Kucinich has presented this as a Bill to Congress. Now Iran is making a move away from risky "fractional based" US money and suggesting an alternative money for world oil transactions. This obviously angers all of the "fractional reserve" banks of the world and so they have to make up this story about Iran being 6 months away from nukes. The problem is that for the last 15 years, the news media has been claiming Iran is 6 months away from nukes and year after year it never happens. IF they say it enough the American people will believe it. I could go on and on about this...

I disagree. CentOS leaves power relatively in the hands of root and doesn't prevent a user from logging in as root. It is probably able to do this because of SELinux.

I was watching QVC this weekend and they were selling Flips (in a bundle with a at-home media streamer device) for a sale price of $150, down from $250 . Someone is trying to dump lots of product line.

Gold doesn't outpace inflation in the long run. In the short run, people run to gold for safety when they would rather not be in the stock market. For that reason, the "apparent" value of gold is not the same as its actual value.

Sounds sorta like the "nuclear Iran" theory. Since 2003, they have been 1 year away from Fission.