For my school, I have not found any policy by which they attempt to claim copyright, or a copyright assignment form I would have signed.

I also have not found any document in which they explicitly acknowledge that under law, copyright belongs to the (student) author.

Thanks for mentioning that. I'll check my school's policy.

I just looked at the policies for five universities. Four of the five explicitly acknowledged that students own their work. The fifth had a "copyright assignment" form that I didn't read, so that school may have tried to get copyright assigned for student works, or it may be like Yale, where SOME works be employees, done as part of their employment, is owned by the university.

there is only one thing I install on a box that already has windows. Linux!

I may submit a paper. I have to spend a couple of months writing the paper anyway, for school. I see no reason that I wouldn't send the already-written paper to Cisco and see if they send me back $70,000 and the recognition from the conference.

> huge electricity consumers in the county. It's the world headquarters of a company that makes photovoltaic

The company making solar panels buys huge amounts of electricity rather than using their own product? Why?

> (under 3 cents/kWh for industrial customers)

Oh, that's why. Using their own solar panels would cost them 35 / kWh, twelve times as much.

I'm sure glad they caught it. China has a similar series of hydroelectric dams. A failure caused a domino effect and when the Banquai dam failed it killed 200,000 people. I know TFA says the failure of this one dam wouldn't kill that many people, but that assumes the sudden tidal-wave-like flood doesn't effect the downstream dams. A domino failure on the Columbia river would be a catastrophe.

The only way you can remain forever ignorant is by choice, by refusing to learn. By choosing to argue your first guess as fact, you make the only choice whereby you can continue to be clueless.

If you hold stocks in an account setup under 401k, the trustee is required by law to send you a proxy form. If you opened your mail and read it, you'd see the form. If you hold mutual funds, you can vote your shares.

You may be too busy or to lazy to do so, or decide that it's not worth shattering your illusion that you already knew everything the day you were born, but you most certainly do have the option. I can understand if you refuse to do so because in so doing you'd be acknowledging that you do make choices, that it's not "the man" holding you down, but only your own decisions of passivity.

For things like receipts, I use a half-bucket sort, which runs in N time.
There are 12 piles, one for each month. Items from the first half of the year go on the bottom of the pile, items from the second half go on the top of the pile. That of course means that physically there are 12 stacks, but logically there are 24 buckets - early January, late January, early February, late February, etc.

The next step is - nothing. For receipts, sorting into 24 buckets is close enough that I'll be able to find what I'm looking for later.

The trustee sends a proxy form to each 401k account holder. You fill that out to instruct them to vote your shares as you desire.

That's actually EASIER than voting directly held shares. The trustee sends someone to the meeting for you, who announces "50,000 shares yes, 40,000 shares no" or whatever their account holders voted.

Your mama. That's who most investors are. If your parents, or you, have a 401k, a 401b, an IRA, or any other savings for retirement, they are investors, and the most common kind.

Sometimes, your mom might invest her savings in a mutual fund or other instrument. What that means is simply that she lets a professional pick exactly which stocks she's investing in. It's still her savings she's investing, there's just a bank or broker assisting her.

Did you forget that you're on Slashdot? On Slashdot, if it can be written, it's "software". Never mind that it's a written description of physical objects. Just last night, some here on Slashdot were arguing that machines made of gears and levers can be described in writing, which means machines made of gears and levers are software, which means ______, which means machines made of gears and levers aren't patentable.

They never do quite fill in that blank space. Sometimes they say something about math, but they never mention wtf math has to do with anything.

"Investor" is a subset of "human", so investors want the things that humans want. To "think as an investor" means to think as a human being. Dollars are not the only thing human investors want, so the ROI isn't measured only in dollars.

  I own the most of the stock in one company, which gives me control of the company. I don't work there, so I don't make the day-to-day decisions, but I could fire the people who make the day-to-day decisions, so they listen to me on the big stuff. I regularly make decisions as the primary investor which negative or neutral to profits. Some things are more important than money. I believe that money is a tool, a means to some end. Money is not an end itself. I, the greedy capitalist pig, make money so that I can use that money to be of service to people. If the company can be of great service to people and lose a little bit of money doing so, that's a great deal and we do it. The comparison, the alternative, is how much good we can do if we get the money as profit, give 30% to government, then spend the rest being of service.

I could point to a study citing dozens of solid sources, but the bottom line is this:

Geothermal is great where it's available (California).
Wind power is great, when the wind is blowing.
Hydro is great, where it's available, but requires a 100 mile reservoir.
Solar panels, which catch energy several l hours per day, are super expensive crap. As in it costs TEN TIMES as much as natural gas. A $1,500 / month home electric bill? No thanks.

Geothermal, wind, and hydro can each provide 2%-5% of our power needs. The rest needs to be provided by either fossil fuels or nuclear. The co-founder of Greenpeace agrees that nuclear is the only feasible option, since he doesn't think fossil fuels are feasible long term.

Looking at the safety record of each option, coal is the worst, hydrothermal is the second most dangerous. Nuclear is the safest (by far).

Even if his policies are bad, 97.5% of stockholders voted to do it his way. The owners want to be green, so green it is.

The stockholders voted with Cook, saying that they, the owners of Apple, want their company to be environmentally responsible AND to acquiesce to government mandating how they do so. That puts him on solid legal ground, I believe.

What would get Cook in trouble would be putting his OWN well-being ahead of stockholder interests. If Apple were paying TimCook Inc a billion dollars for green services, that would be a problem. Cook is carrying out the expressed wishes of the stockholders, and is not enriching himself at their expense.