Magnin's comments

Yes, but I was disappointed that he didn't at least change the password so that future FTP connections from the bots were refused.

He doesn't work for one either: his boss (Chancellor) is an EE. http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/about/index.html

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Why? 1) Lower Barrier to building Nuclear reactors (No Not-in-my-backyard in China) 2) Government fast-mover advantage. China's government can ram through approvals in a year for what would take a decade in the USA. 3) Highest DEMAND. Energy consumption is SKYROCKETING in China. 4) biggest environmental benefit- shift coal burning heaters to electric, reducing pollution. 5) Stabilize region energy competition. The more renewable/sustainable energy available, the less likely they are to conflict over resources with neighbors or the global market.

Also: If you want Programming Tutuorial Videos, check out http://www.thenewboston.com

While I like Khan Academy in general for their Math lectures, the selection of CS lectures leaves much to be desired IMO. What they call "Computer Science" I call "Intro Programming".

They don't want to do that. Marching you past the 1st class passengers already sitting with their drinks is advertising!

"You are the company that names your beta builds after candy, ice cream, and sugared cereals. Apple names their betas after things that will eat your things along with the tasty human wrapper that eats that crap. Do you honestly think anyone can take you seriously?"

Really? That's his biggest dig against Google is that they like to have fun with their beta names?

A high-speed pulsing current running nearby.... Should throw off radio and/or magnetic waves along with the light.

Edison only had you beat by 100 years

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Photophone

Or you have a "networked" light socket in each room and a discovery protocol to figure out what room to route the data to. More work on the initial infrastructure side, but then you don't have to worry about mesh- your room is covered.

You'd network your light sockets to get around the room-to-room issue. Each room would have a light bulb "port". Some simple communication could then figure out which room your in (similar to access-point hopping used in large wifi distributions)

I can see this as a potential technology for sideband data: stream the video over the light, but the control data would still go through WiFi (and then you wouldn't bog down your wifi with torrent downloads)

My parents actually pulled us out of PRIVATE school and put us into PUBLIC school because we were outpacing the curriculum, being bored, and losing interest.

My sister got to 4th grade in the private school and suddenly didn't want to go to school anymore. She wasn't challenged. The private school's solution when my parent's talked to them was to assign my sister MORE BUSYWORK. The public school had an actual gifted & talented program we were able to exploit.

It wasn't all roses though- my mom had yell at several Administrators to get us the programs to challange us (my brother was in AP Calc, the highest math available, his freshman year of HS). It's true though: the biggest indicator of success in school is parental involvement.

Need an Alan Turing, Larry Wall, Stroustrup.

Maybe Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc), Charles Babbage, John von Neumann, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

I love that he protests the "He is not a lawyer" with "Some of my blog posts have been recommended by leading legal websites"

So they want "Corporate Free Speech" and now "Right to privacy".....

If corporations are people, and you can't own people... then every stockholder is a Slave owner and the Stock exchange is the largest slave market ever.

Ok, so buying it and immediately putting it back into the bank is not nice... but what about people who pay cash for everything?

Would it be worth it instead of pulling the cash out of the ATM to instead buy coins every few weeks and spend those? You get the best of both worlds: you get the reward points, and you control your spending by only having a fixed amount on you at any time. Bonus is that you're not going to carry $100 around in $1 coins, so your spend is likely to drop more. (or you have to plan ahead)

I'm sure cashiers wouldn't like you (what, you want to pay for your new computer in 1000 $1 coins?)