I ride the train into town, more often than not. If we get cut off by a texting driver, it's not a big deal - other than it making us late while the cops do the fatality investigation.

If that happens while I'm on a Metro Transit bus, the bump might make me spill my coffee though.

He probably will, sooner or later - hopefully without taking someone else with him.
 

No it's not. It's about spending a lot more bucks to get a bigger bang.

And the fact that the idea "stood out as a favorite" at a meeting of particle physicists is not particularly relevant. The money has to come from somewhere, and that "somewhere" is probably going to be at the expense of many other science and engineering projects.

Sure, on one level it's interesting. The probable discovery of the Higgs Boson was interesting. But if (as implied by the summary) that's really the main reason the LHC was needed, though... I don't think it was worth the money. They could've gotten a "bigger bang for the buck" by dispersing the $6 billion to many, many other researchers in other fields.

Thank God we can still depend on ActiveX!

Stop me if you've read this before... but this one's a dupe.

Monaco.

Non of my current coworkers smoke - however I have seen this work in practice with some previous coworkers. But you don't have to smoke yourself... just go with them and participate in the conversations.

Learn to stand upwind though.

I can vouch for this approach.

I was in a similar situation, except I wasn't a contractor. I had a manager whose memory was terrible - legendarily terrible. We had weekly meetings (one that was just him and me, one that was the whole group); but he and I kept banging heads because "he didn't know what I was working on".

After a couple years of that, I started sending him an email at the end of each week that very briefly touched on everything I'd worked on that week. It didn't cover any new information that wasn't already discussed in our one one one meetings; but it basically completely solved the problem. When we'd talk, half the time he still didn't remember what I worked on... but he remembered that I sent that email.

The article doesn't really talk about the plant culture at all - "sunlight and seawater" is what they're using to maintain a favorable climate for the plants in the greenhouses.

It's still pretty cool tech, though.

If that warehouse operator, manufacturer, or supplier insisted on carrying an active camera with them whenever they came onto the customer's own premises - yeah, I imagine the customer might quite reasonably refuse to do business with them.

Plus submissions were actually edited...

Except your plan does not jibe with their business model.

One can be opposed to the "Google" part without being against the "Glass" concept - although I do somewhat lean in the direction you mention anyway (I've got a smartphone and don't really see the added value here).

I would not be opposed, in theory, to something like Google Glass that was completely under my control. But I've come to realize that using free services from companies like Google and Facebook means I also have to give away something I'd prefer they not have - more or less unfettered access to much of my personal data. And, perhaps more importantly, I've learned that even if I choose not to use those services, they're slurping up my information without my consent (via shadow profiles) if any of my acquaintances are using their services.

We have a wood stove. We haven't used it much for a couple years; but when we did, we did our best to let our wood dry out for a year before burning, and also to keep our fires hot and well oxygenated. As such, you generally wouldn't see smoke coming out of our chimney, just hot air. (That still releases some particulates, I realize)

But a lot of people around here burn wood that's been cut fairly recently, so it still contains a lot of moisture. On top of that, they often manage room temperature by damping - limiting the air flow to the fire . Both practices throw huge amounts of smoke/particulates into the air. I always cringe when I go by a house with smoke belching out the chimney as if it were an old coal-burning freight train.

People bitch and moan about the government meddling in their homes, but in this case it's their own fault. We all have to breathe that exhaust.

I was thinking, for the Slashdot crowd, it could be a tattoo of a neckbeard...