Comment Just piss off the FBI (Score 1) 296
They'll do it for you.
Comment Re:What you call optimize, they call cooking? (Score 1) 285
No, no, no. This isn't Nazi Germany, this is America! We have algorithm czars !
I respectfully apologize, but I am going to invoke Godwin's Law. Please refrain from posting any further comments about this story.
Comment Re:But how do they work? (Score 1) 320
Oh what I would give for mod points right now...
Comment Re:are these the same scanner in use in the usa? (Score 1) 91
That's where the "random" pat-down comes in to play.
Comment Re:What, no one size fits all solution? (Score 3, Insightful) 496
Exactly. There is no magic bullet; My brother and I both went to a Montessori elementary school. The educational model worked really well for me, but my brother needed more structure (and he will freely admit this), and didn't do all that well. Once my parents noticed this, and sent him to a more traditional school, he did much better.
Comment Re:I agree 100% (Score 1) 495
I have a huge ego. I freely admit it. I work from home because I can't fit my ego in the office doors.
On a serious note, I prefer code reviews. From the ego-centric side, it has two major benefits: it allows my ego to show off, second it helps the less-experienced/newer developers to learn new techniques, or just learn the code, often in areas they haven't spent a lot of time looking at. That means less time helping them later. It also happens to have the side benefit that their questions can make me think about the problem harder, and not-infrequently uncover typos, thinkos, under-developed (or over-developed) features, or plain bugs. Even for us egomaniacs.
Exactly. When I was the "new guy" at my place of employment, "reviewing" the code of other, more experienced people was very beneficial for me. Not only did it expose me to areas of a very large, complex codebase that I wouldn't have otherwise interacted with, but seeing other (also more experienced) people's comments helped me to understand how many modules interact (or, are supposed to interact) with each other. For the curious, I'm talking about hard drive firmware. I put reviewing in quotes above because, when I was new, I wasn't able to contribute anything substantial to the review process (we're not talking about c++ syntax issues here).
Comment Re:The question remains: WHY? (Score 1) 210
Can you seriously think of any movie where you'd want to experience every smell?
No, not me personally. But this will give much more hilarity to those Two Girls, One Cup reaction videos! Imagine the reaction when grandma actually gets to smell along!
Comment Re:If ever an article... (Score 1) 417
They already have one, it's called "Two Girls, One Cup". I didn't watch this one, but I expect that it's similar, except without the T&A.
Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing 266
Ponca City, We love you writes "The number of children with asthma has been rising for many years. About 1 in 10 children in the UK develop asthma, compared with about 1 in 25 in the 1960s. The reason for this isn't clear, although several theories have been put forward such as keeping our homes cleaner, and having central heating and more soft furnishings where house dust mites can multiply. Now based on more than 3,000 children whose respiratory health was tracked from birth to 11.5 years of age, researchers have found a new correlation with young children who spend more than two hours glued to the TV every day doubling their subsequent risk of developing asthma. 'This study has shown for the first time a positive association between increased duration of reported TV viewing in early childhood and the development of asthma by 11.5 years of age in children with no symptoms of asthma in early childhood,' said the researchers, led by A. Sherriff, from the University of Glasgow. It's not clear exactly how sedentary behaviors like television watching are tied to asthma, but there is some evidence to suggest exercise and deep breaths that come with it stretch the smooth muscles in the airways, while lack of exercise may make the lungs overly sensitive. The results add asthma to a catalog of undesirable outcomes, including obesity, diabetes, smoking, and promiscuity, tied to TV viewing."
National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse 438
An anonymous reader writes "The construction and test firing of the National Ignition Facility have been completed. NIF was designed as the first facility ever to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and, in particular, to reach the point of ignition in which more energy is generated from the reaction than went into creating it. While the recent 192-beam pulse only produced 80 kilojoules worth of energy, all signs point to NIF being able to reach an order of magnitude higher (PDF) than that in the coming year."
Comment Don't pick based on compensation (Score 2, Insightful) 231
I recently graduated from college with a BS in computer engineering. My second year, I cooped with a company as a firmware engineer getting paid $19.75/hour.
I went back to the same company upon graduation, and my starting salary was over $60,000 year.
My advice to you is the same that everyone else has given you: Don't pick solely based on compensation. I had to turn down 3 other offers in order to coop where I did, with one of the other positions paying more. I picked it because it was an awesome position at an awesome company, and I don't regret it one bit.
That's just my binary dime
