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Case in point: the American tax payer has payed for about 4.5 years of my graduate CS education, which, according to my visa documents, exceeds $200,000 in total cost. I'd like to …

Thanks! I am not sure what reports to believe anymore...

Where are you getting the milli from? Kyodo reports 8000 micro sievert. So it's an ~5.5x increase from the previous high-water-mark of 1,500 microsievert. http://english.kyodonews.…

Oh, sure, Springer will also let you publish "open access" articles. However, the publishing fee goes up from a few hundred dollars to a couple of thousand. Now find me a prof that…

Not to forget that IEEE/ACM also take a big cut out of every conference budget. In fact, the cut is significant enough that budgets are fudged (frequently at that, I suspect). This…

2. Hot war breaks out (precipitated by the DPRK or the South or the US), the North loses fairly quickly, there are catastrophic civilian casualties in the South and the North and p…

> I can only conclude that many scientists are not confident at all with their theories, or they are purportedly cheating. That's really not an insightful conclusion. I think it's …

Besides being a door-opener for research jobs, pursuing a PhD is also a great chance for personal growth. You will be challenged on many, many levels and thus likely develop skills…

The '=' vs. '==' example actually nicely demonstrates the limits of automatic bug hunting. The variable 'rig' is NULL when it is being dereferenced, thus the program will segfault …

So according to their lawyers you can view their RSS feed as long as you haven't purchased the viewer? No, you, the consumer, are not making commercial use of the NYTimes.com newsf…

Not so ironic if you consider that Apple probably has a legal agreement with the NYT company to do so. Just look at how frequently the NYT is featured in Apple commercials and pres…

The bandwidth overage fee for DataPro is a reasonable $10 for each extra gigabyte. Verizon and Sprint charge around $50 per extra gigabyte in overage fees. If you use more than 2 G…

Setting off a massive explosion with the well at the center. Massive enough to move sufficient amount of material towards the well to essentially clamp it shut. Of course, the oil …

Regarding the IANAL aspect you can see here http://tinyurl.com/2bd45en where the #1 act in the world understand the stakes and where the true money is made. Oh, I don't doubt that …

Bonus: Watch American TV on Hulu and Listen to music on Last.fm / Pandora even if you don't live in the US From a user point of view, I think that's pretty cool. However, are you s…

[...] said Chad McGimpsey, who moved to Boulder a month ago and is now a regular at the twice-a-month coffee club. Wow, I wish I could recognize trends that quickly. At most two ob…

The Simplest Java IDE That would be notepad.exe. No, I'm not kidding. I learned Java using nothing but notepad.exe and javac on a Win98 box. Syntax highlighting seemed quite magica…

Fully agree. I gave up after four stories that I all disliked. Two were totally out of my area of interest (celebrities and horse racing, huh?), and two were tech stories that didn…

In conclusion, given a traversal of an artificial graph with natural statistics, the graph database Neo4j is more optimal than the relational database MySQL. I get what they mean, …

(AFAIK Gruber isn't a lawyer, so it's just an uneducated opinion) That's a bit harsh; there's a large difference between an "uneducated opinion" and a "carefully researched assessm…

I do not perceive a double standard here. Gruber: I’m not offended by their decision to obtain this unit and publish everything they were able to ascertain regarding it. [...] Seco…