It's okay, I heard they brought back the Brontosaurus.

Although Google for some reason still brings up an information panel about Apatosaurus if you search for Brontosaurus.

Any normal person would have their security clearance revoked after a breech of much lesser magnitude, which interestingly makes you unable to perform a job that requires handling classified material, it's one of the few ways to actually get fired from a government job.

Just another facet of our societies aristocracy, they are above the rules. (note this has nothing to do with party, both side get far too many free passes)

Bring in the undomesticated bee strains as pollinators.

The European /North American bees have been bread for docility for centuries to the point where we transport hives on trucks to pollinate where needed, is it any wonder that they are not migrating "naturally" they are for all intents and purposes domesticated, it's like expecting cows to migrate on their own.

I would expect that so called "killer" bees would be adapting better to climate change.

This makes me think of Hyman G. Rickover, Admiral in the US Navy and founder of the nuclear fleet.
He once drank a glass of primary nuclear coolant (tritium laced water) in front of congress to demonstrate how safe the nuclear reactors were.

The problem with modular addition is that the power conditioning equipment and professional installation required to sell back to the grid tend to cost several thousand dollar, regardless of the amount of energy your selling back.

Starting small can work if you want to play around with it yourself, but when you connect to the grid you get into big trouble if you don't meet all of the utilities requirements.

I figure keyboards were like the bathrooms on TOS, they were there, just never on camera.

Voice controls are okay, but in a crowded noisy engine room you don't want everyone trying to talk to the computer at once.

Hello Computer... [no response] oh how quaint [begins rapidly using keyboard]

I still greet my computer this way sometimes.

This reminded me of some of the plowshares experiments (where they tried to come up with non-war uses for hydrogen bombs) Link

One of the ones I remember being interesting was the use of underground detonations to break up rock and free natural gas (think super-fracking), it was tested and worked with only one problem, it was horribly inefficient and not cost effective, oh and all the natural gas was radioactive. As with all the plowshares crazy ideas this one didn't quite pan out, but it amazed me that they actually tried it. Oh and just to be sure they did it 3 times.

The thing is I don't want to play a game with the best business model, or revenue.
People want to play games because they are enjoyable and fun.

This is one of the big problems with the large game studios.

In the pacific northwest (Seattle Area) my calculations show break even at around 18 years, which is pretty bad given that, the panels are only usually rated for 15 years.

Every few years I get to thinking about doing it and I run through the calculations and come up with similar numbers, panel prices are down, but power conditioning set-ups are still a big part of the cost, and then you have to pay for a contractor to install the setup (one of the largest parts of the cost) if you want to get any of the tax credits or connect to the grid.

Looking at my last utility bill, 99% of my energy is coming from non fossil fuel sources, hydroelectric mostly. So green guilt is not going to get me to put PV on my house and it doesn't really make economic sense either.

I'm sure I'll run the numbers again in a few years when I need to re-roof the house; I like the idea of energy independence, but where I live Solar PV is just not cost effective.

It targets files associated with single-user games Call of Duty, Star Craft 2, Diablo, Fallout 3...

Seriously Diablo?? WTF is that a typo and supposed to be DIablo II or 3, are people still playing single player Diablo, a few years back I installed it in a VM to get some nostalgic gameplay and it was horrible.

Don't Blame Me I Voted for Kodos!

I predict that these tracking badges will show that the employees remain at their desk hard at work throughout the workday, while the employees will continue to take breaks, visit others in the cube-farm, and take long lunches.