I don't think anybody would want to be able to edit an old tweet.

Oh. Yeah... you're right. The slashdot article mis-quoted the parent article. Okay. That's less insane now.

It'll stand. This is in the Affidavit.

9. Harvard University was able to determine that, in the several hours leading up to the receipt of the e-mail messages described above, ELDO KIM accessed TOR using Harvard’s wireless network.
10. On the evening of December 16, 2013, an FBI agent and an officer of the Harvard University Police Department interviewed ELDO KIM at the building in which he resides on the Harvard University campus. During the interview, the FBI agent advised KIM of his rights under Miranda. KIM read and signed an advice of rights waiver, stating that he understood his rights. KIM then stated that he authored the bomb threat e-mails described above. KIM stated that he acted alone. He further stated that he sent the e-mails to “five or six Harvard University e-mail addresses” that he picked at random from the university’s web page. According to KIM, he was motivated by a desire to avoid a final exam scheduled to be held on December 16, 2013.

The hotel can sue this individual for slander. The only way you have a case for slander is is you can prove that the accusations are unfounded. That's not easy. The only reason they would be suing is because they think they can win. Well... either that or they're stupid.

Sounds about right. You would only lose the boot time improvement by getting ram instead of NAND memory. I think you're wrong about the pricing though. The NAND memory of an SSD drive is cheaper than RAM. Otherwise, these drives wouldn't exist in the first place.

Yup!
Points 1 and 2 are accurate though. From TFA:

"...the G-forces involved are tremendous with the projectile subjected to up to 60,000 times the force of gravity.
It’s questionable whether any rocket system could survive such stresses..."

Disagree! It's not questionable!!! Have you even seen a rocket? Do you have ANY idea how finicky those things are? Have you considered that the ROCKET FUEL inside the ROCKET might be a weeeeee bit unstable?

The article says that a heat shield is necessary. You can dump the heat-shield once you leave the atmosphere and before you perform your burn.
The concept is silly, but not for this reason.

Agreed. This does not help at power plants.

But, forget about the efficiency game for a second. We're talking about waste heat. For instance, the catalytic converter under my car gets wicked hot, and that heat just gets swept away by the draft. This thermal gradient is free. So long as the device itself is cost effective, I think we have a winning combination. It's infinitely more "efficient" than an alternator which draws useful energy away from the engine.

But. In the big scheme of things, removing the alternator isn't going to make a drastic improvement in gas mileage. The biggest advantage I see is that the thermocell has no moving parts (I think...) and should be quite a bit cheaper to manufacture than an alternator.

Ooops, wrong parent. Sorry

This is one of my favorite trolls, because you can set your watch by how long it takes for someone to post a link to the Jitterbag and saying, "here you go, Gramps."

Oops, that was supposed to be "except when you have a sitter." And then, unless you are insane, you will get the hell out of the house.

Everything will become so needy you will have no time at all.

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You can get it (Calculus Made Easy) for free: http://books.google.com/books?id=BrhBAAAAYAAJ

The people running the UC system now come from the world of business. Most are Republican appointees (look up the list of regents) with little background in education or the public sector. They see the UC as a brand, and that brand as an asset to bring in revenue. That's why they're destroying it.

This story attracts the usual solipsistic ignorance of IT drones about what other people actually do. Excel is simply more advanced than Google Spreadsheets. For many casual spreadsheet users, that doesn't matter. But accounting and finance (especially for firms doing business internationally) requires a lot more than figuring out sums and averages.