It's OK, there will still be jobs for the C-levels, managers, and a small number of technical staff, so the shareholders will make more money.

I wonder if the current drones will be asked to stay on to help train their new robotic replacements?

Yes, it's burned also into my brain ... /rnd = "Range -> Name -> Delete" etc.. I calculated torpedo drop trajectories in Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day ... good times ....

US weather forecasters tend to agree with Congress. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-climate-weather-idUSTRE81120K20120202

Banks are presumably outraged at the lack of Chinese walls between Bloomberg's technology provision and their journalism.

Are they equally concerned about failures of the Chinese wall between, say, the corporate advisory arm of a bank and the investment division?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/weekinreview/13segal.html

One suspects not.

A 190,000 tonne object at 12.7km/s has an energy of 15*10^15Joules, or 4,256,263,888kwH, equivalent to 106 million barrels of oil worth USD10.3 billion.

Harvesting that ought to be about the same level of difficulty as extracting the mineral wealth, I'd say

Does the phrase "Bread and Circuses" mean nothing to you?

You sir, have just bought yourself a Ticket to the Grand Canyon*!

Next stop, Adventure!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valles_Marineris

Yeah I've heard that, but I wonder how true it is. You'd think that the "sleep scientists" referenced in the article would mention it if it was, as they'd be advising that Nasa seek out people who match the longer rhythm, and it'd be something of a slam-dunk to include that in the article.

I'm suspicious that it's one of those scientific urban legends.

Didn't see this linked on /. but that long Mars sol takes its toll even on Earth-bound humans. I wonder if the experiments on isolating astronauts for the duration of a Mars mission took this into account?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=step-into-the-twilight-zone-can-earthlings-adjust-to-a-longer-day-on-mars

Ironically, as gravity reduces and the ease of building a space elevator increases, the costs of the regular alternatives to an elevator decrease.

I wonder if we would ever find anything on Mars that is so rare and expensive that it would be worth fetching it from there? It seems doubtful.

Poll sponsored by Boeing and Mars exploration group finds public opinion agrees with their own wishes. Here is essential information on how polls work, courtesy of "Yes, Prime Minister": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA

$5.3 Million in political contributions from AT&T? http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000076. I doubt that Andrew can match that level of purchased justice.

47th most free press in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

They could squeeze another couple of percent out with a coffee can exhaust, easy.

Yes indeed -- then management would yell for the phones to be answered and follow it up with a company-wide email berating the phone shirkers.