Err... Happy Birthday?

The whole thing confuses me. Why are these extremely intelligent people doing research work for NetFlix that would otherwise cost them many times the price of the prize if they paid them in-house? Are there at least share options down the road? I hope the ultimate solution(s) end up in the public domain.

Damn, and I thought it was just because I spent so much time reading /.

First of all, not all lung cancer is caused by smoking, just as not all smokers get lung cancer. Secondly, perhaps we could give the benefit of the doubt to the cancer researches and to the scientific method that they must have employed. Put another way, if you were able to think of this, you can be sure they would have realized early on that smoking might be a variable to take into account.

That would be LAME.

Is the kernel compiled to be tickless? http://kerneltrap.org/node/6750

Ever been married?

Yes, but I don't like to think about it.

"Google Six Months Into Resurfacing Parking Lot"

And it's still in beta.

Comcast quite possibly will be watching you, but more likely for ratings gathering than for ensuring an audience of no more than x or at least y. I expect this box will be part of a voluntary program for monitoring household TV viewing habits. This would be similar to the existing Neilson electronic ratings system, only automatic, i.e. instead of requiring you to log into the system whenever you start watching TV and log out when you leave, it just detects how many are present.

A 40 hour week is far too much time to spend in a workplace; it does lead to slacking off, simply because most people can't maintain a high level of concentration for such long periods. And in reality we're talking about a minimum of a 45 hours a week, not 40, as most of us eat lunch at at our keyboards instead of leaving the office and taking the mandated break. This 40 hour work week minimum seems to be mostly an American tradition (misfortune?) too. Britain's typically have 35 or 37.5 hour weeks, often including lunch. I expect other European countries have similar or even shorter work weeks.

We should also not discount the effect long commutes have on our performance, either. I recently swapped a two hour daily round-trip commute for a 10 minute one and feel so much more capable each morning and much less dead at the end of the day.

I'm also unhappy about the insanity of the two weeks of vacation a year that most of us get starting new jobs, that just isn't enough to relax and recuperate, especially as it tends to be spread over a year and not taken as a single chunk. We should be aiming for a minimum of 4 weeks to start.

So to answer the original question - not a minute more and leave your work behind at the end of the day. Tell your employer that time spent outside of work with family and friends (and actually living life) will ultimately improve performance and productivity in work.

Shhhh, we're hunting pwanets, not wabbits.

Does The Sun content really count as news?

Wow, this is quite literally huge!

Actually, today we have 2TB drives. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=576

Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer in 1893 and then patented it in 1897. I think the point was not that he invented wireless, but that he considered it as a potential future method of energy transmission.