Comment This is great (Score 1) 90
UK has cleaner oil, nukes, solar, and wind.
Comment Re:Global warming shouldn't threaten nuclear plant (Score 1) 86
Part of the fix was 2 sensors instead of 1, and dealing gracefully with the sensor gone bad.
I did A330 MRTT software verification in the USA in 2009. This testing involved new system to pump jet fuel automatically. They had many dead-sensor tests.
Comment In a bear market (Score 1) 160
People would sell like crazy on Monday, based on weekend news or rumor.
Comment Better app? (Score 1) 92
Skype. Loads quicker, past the bug stage.
Comment Hopeless (Score 1) 78
Don't use Wikipedia, it's a hopeless mess now.
Comment Phage has respect. (Score 1) 78
It needs ERs to appreciate its antibacterial value.
Comment Jim Webb was no scientist either. (Score 1) 529
He did budgets during Truman's term.
Comment Computer Power and Human Reason... (Score 1) 71
At most, AI will help subject-matter experts avoid mistakes.
Comment Abolosh cleaance (Score 1) 78
AIA, a trade group, said 700,000 jobs were in the clearance process. This hurts national security, not helping.
Robert Oppenheimer losing his clearance was obviously politically motivated.
Junk it.
Comment Re:Where are the missing women? (Score 1) 243
At Cisco in 2000, I met a tech writer in another building (so as not to have to see each other every day). We went to dinner and concerts. 3 months on, she yells at me; I had me as I had not planned a Valentines Day getaway. Ouch.
Comment Personals online and a condo ownership helped us. (Score 1) 243
My spouse and I met when I was working in Berkeley at Ion Systems and she had part-time work at universities. This was sixteen year ago. She was impressed that I had saved up to get a loan to buy a condo in San Bruno.
Journal Journal: en.wikipedia.org split?
I was blocked "indefinitely" (later reduced to one day) by a British reviewer who bought into the commons vallacy ov signing articles = bad and wrong, signing talk = good and right. Real sins include copyright infringment and sloppy editing, as well as verbal abuse. I saw British spelling all over -- whilest in place ov while. Only once did I see "American English" (on talk -- ignored).
Why not put the articles into am.wikipedia.org and uk.wikipedia.org?
Comment Music (Score 1) 16
I was tempted to put a few lines of "Good Vibrations" in my dissertation as it explains the experimental side perfectly.
Comment I did (Score 1) 167
At UCSD, I majored in Computer Engineering and minored in Business Economics. This combines lower division economics, and upper division accounting. It does help me think of money and time's value to managers, and understand the jargon of the business world.
Comment Re:Science is not subjective (Score 1) 490
Except sometimes all science can do is narrow a cause to a subset of the possible causes.
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