Hah thanks for pointing this out. I'm getting very confused by these number to be honest and I mixed up the 75% efficiency improvement of CFL the article says over traditional incandescent with 75% efficiency overall. But then again, 75% efficiency improvement over 2% is just 3.5% overall, still nowhere near 8% lower bound of the CFL report by the Wiki. Now I wonder where NYT got their numbers from...

I'm sorry but this so called new technology is a farce. 30% improvement in efficiency over 5% efficiency is still just 8% overall. At $5 apiece, which is way more then a CFL, which goes around $2.5 to $3.3 apiece, and it's 75% efficiency, I'm going for CFL.

One incident in a static subsystem in isolation with the rest of the system may disprove a theory about that subsystem, but the universe is dynamic whole, so this incident doesn't say much except for what it is, a weird incident. For all I know it could have been a Death Star committing suicide by shooting at a sun 200 million years ago.

I somehow have a hard time finding her pic on the net. Care for a link?

If she can somehow become the poster girl for geeky women and bring more of those into our line of work to lighten up the workplace, that'll be awesome. Now that's progress my friends.

Fact:
H1-B workers in this country get paid the same as US-citizens. Companies pay by merit, not country of origin.