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Comment Re:Whimsy (Score 2, Interesting) 335

by DkY on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @09:41AM (#21348471) Attached to: Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive

US national debt is about $9 trillion http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/06/notebook/main3238787.shtml

You might have been thinking about the federal public debt which was $5.04 trillion.
You get from 5.04 to 9 by adding in intragovernment debt obligations which include among other things, money that individual states owe.

How the Japanese figure is arrived at seems to be less well documented though I'm sure its out there somewhere..

Submission + - Terminator gene ban suggested in Canada

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb on Monday June 04, 2007 @05:56PM

innocent_white_lamb writes: A member of the Canadian Parliament has proposed legislation to outlaw the development and deployment of "terminator genes" that prevent seeds from germinating so farmers have to re-purchase seed every year instead of saving the seeds from last year's crop. The legislation is not expected to pass due to opposition from the Agriculture Minister.

Submission + - Does SPF really work?

Submitted by

Intelopment

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @12:08AM

Intelopment writes: "My Domain name has recently been used a lot as the REPLY field by some inconsiderate spammer and my ISP has suggested that I consider using the Open SPF service (http://openspf.org/) as a way to stop spammers from using my domain name for their REPLY field. From what I can tell it requires the receiving mail server to actually participate in the SPF service, which is where I get my doubts. Does anyone have any experience with this service? Does it work? Are many ISPs using openSFP?"

Feed iPhone delayed until October, Leopard delayed again until January (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @11:52AM

Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops

This one doesn't bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as of today, the iPhone launch is being pushed back from June to... October (!), and Leopard is again seeing a delay, this time being pushed back to January. The WWDC beta will still be handed out, but it looks like Apple quality takes time, and we're sure Jobs would remind everyone that it's not always about "throwing money at the problem". Just how much time are these two hotly anticipated products really going to take, though?

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Submission + - Better communication with non-technical people?

Submitted by tinpan on Monday May 14, 2007 @01:19PM

tinpan writes: I've got a communication problem. When non-technical managers ask me to explain technical choices, they often make choices I recommend against and they later regret. I can tell that they do not understand their choice because of how they are explaining things to each other, but they usually refuse further explanation.

So it's time for some education. I want to get better at communicating technical subjects to non-technical people. More accurately, I want to get better at helping non-technical people make better technical decisions and I'm willing to accept it may include some understanding of "selling your idea."

What books, online courses and/or seminars do you recommend and why?

Feed Scientists Have Mice Eating A High Fat Diet Without Heart Risk (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday May 07, 2007 @02:32PM

A new study in mice raises a tantalizing possibility -- that humans may one day be able to eat any kind of fat they want without raising their risk of heart disease.

Feed Antimatter 'factory' may have sparked brightest supernova (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Monday May 07, 2007 @02:13PM

The brightest supernova ever recorded may have been triggered by an exotic process involving antimatter, new observations suggest

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