Comment Re:I hearby pledged my oath and rifle... (Score 1) 524
With friends like this, who needs enemies?
Comment Re:Fascinating ... (Score 2) 320
"Not being able to figure out the difference is what will doom you."
Thinking there is a difference, or that you have choice, will doom us all.
Comment Re:temperature in celsius (Score 2) 132
A proper scale? Shouldn't it be in Kelvin then?
Researchers in Singapore were able to cool the semiconductor cadmium sulfide from 290 Kelvin to 250 Kelvin
Fixed it for myself
Fcuk, I shouldn't comment after flying (Kelvin are absolute units)
Comment Re:temperature in celsius (Score 1) 132
A proper scale? Shouldn't it be in Kelvin then?
Researchers in Singapore were able to cool the semiconductor cadmium sulfide from 290 degrees Kelvin to 250 degrees Kelvin
Fixed it for myself
Comment Re:temperature in celsius (Score 1) 132
A proper scale? Shouldn't it be in Kalvin then?
Researchers in Singapore were able to cool the semiconductor cadmium sulfide from 290 degrees Kalvin to 250 degrees Kalvin
Comment Re:Advantageous Position (Score 1) 2
Cleaning all of those mirrors is going to be, uh, fun.
Comment Advantageous Position (Score 1) 2
I wonder what the optical quality of the latest imagery has been?
Here is more info on the Siding Spring Observatory
Here is more info on the Siding Spring Observatory
Comment Re:Not 60 C or 140 F (Score 1) 165
Temperature extremes for the USA are strangely absent from that list.
Submission + - Alcohol, Not Marijuana, A Gateway Drug (isciencetimes.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: While it may not settle the debate over how drug use begins, researchers found that alcohol, not marijuana, is the gateway drug that leads teens down the path of hard drug use, according to a new study that will be published in the August edition of the Journal of School Health
Comment In the mail? (Score 3, Insightful) 33
Why were they taking information, which they have electronically, and putting it on a physical medium where it loses its usability, presumably so someone could use it. And they used regular mail? Seriously? Is this April fools or something, this is just too much fail to be real.
Submission + - If You Resell Your Used Games, The Terrorists Win (hothardware.com) 1
MojoKid writes: "Game designer Richard Browne has come out swinging in favor of the rumored antipiracy features in the next-gen PlayStation Orbis and Xbox Durango. "The real cost of used games is the damage that is being wrought on the creativity and variety of games available to the consumer," Browne writes. Browne's comments echo those of influential programmer and Raspberry Pi developer David Braben, who wrote last month that "...pre-owned has really killed core games. It's killing single player games in particular, because they will get pre-owned, and it means your day one sales are it, making them super high risk." Both Browne and Braben conflate hating GameStop (a thoroughly reasonable life choice) with the supposed evils of the used games market. Braben goes so far as to claim that used games are actually responsible for high game prices and that "prices would have come down long ago if the industry was getting a share of the resells." Amazingly, no game publishers have stepped forward to publicly pledge themselves to lower game prices in exchange for a cut of used game sales. Publishers are hammering Gamestop (and recruiting developers to do the same) because it's easier than admitting that the current system is fundamentally broken."
Submission + - Asian Call Center Workers Trained With U.S. Tax Dollars (informationweek.com)
gManZboy writes: "Despite President Obama's recent call for companies to "insource" jobs sent overseas, it turns out that the federal government itself is spending millions of dollars to train foreign students for employment in some booming career fields--including working in offshore call centers that serve U.S. businesses.
The program is called JEEP, which stands for Job Enabling English Proficiency. It's available to college students in the Philippines through USAID. That's the same agency that until a couple of years ago was spending millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to train offshore IT workers in Sri Lanka.
Congressman Tim Bishop (D-New York), told about the program on Tuesday, called it "surprising and distressing." Bishop recently introduced a bill that would make companies that outsource call centers ineligible for government contracts."
The program is called JEEP, which stands for Job Enabling English Proficiency. It's available to college students in the Philippines through USAID. That's the same agency that until a couple of years ago was spending millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to train offshore IT workers in Sri Lanka.
Congressman Tim Bishop (D-New York), told about the program on Tuesday, called it "surprising and distressing." Bishop recently introduced a bill that would make companies that outsource call centers ineligible for government contracts."
Comment Re:No child left... (Score 1) 663
At least they are using the metric system.
Comment Re:A better name (Score 3, Interesting) 298
Nova Scotia, you mean near where the french colonized what would become Canada? Where people still speak Acadian French... yeah, no french history there.
Submission + - Kapersky quits BSA; SOPA not supportable (betanews.com)
Cmdrm writes: Kapersky to release additional information as to why it is intent on leaving the Business Software Alliance. "Kaspersky Lab would like to clarify that the company did not participate in the elaboration or discussion of the SOPA initiative and does not support it. Moreover, the company believes that the SOPA initiative might actually be counter-productive for the public interest, and decided to discontinue its membership in the BSA as of January 1, 2012", said a Monday press release.
