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Huh, Curiosity uses the same Bill Nye calibration target/sundial as the Spirit/Opportunity rovers. http://www.astrobio.net/interview/625/interview-with-bill-ny... (Hopefully this m…

Next time you submit a link, consider using the .com version, rather than the .se one-- most people have their NoScript/RequestPolicy rulesets set up for generic TLDs, which break …

Blogspam. OP is http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/mark-kitto-youll-...

So maybe you, rich old white man, should avoid contributing irrelevant noise to this discussion? The problem is statistical. There just aren't enough jobs, an irreconcilable jobs g…

Graduated from college in 95... which makes you, at a minimum, 39 years old, right?

You're 32 years late on that idea: http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/

Not 2.4. 24. You're 22 and a half version numbers short. Emacs is more than 30 years old, remember.

Not really within the remit of Dewalt, whose branding is "big manly construction equipment", and this is more of a fine-woodworking/hobbyist product. (The pros will still use their…

Prediction: The router will be cheap, the special plywood with the calibration stickers will be very expensive.

Actually, the MastCams on Curiosity are bayer-pattern color sensors.

It's the one that found water ice on Mars.

Remember, it's got a 14 year lifetime because the half-life of Pu-241 is 14.1 years. At the end of that time, half of its mass will be gone, and it'll be producing half as much hea…

Another response: http://c1qfxugcgy0.tumblr.com/post/28976190142/oops [Wired's rebuttal is] kinda annoying. Ryan Singel, old white guy, repeats Quinn Norton’s gender (female) five …

Right now the most popular archive.org torrent is a collection of My Little Pony porn from /r/clopclop.

It creates liquidity, which makes it easier to buy and sell shares when you want to buy and sell them. Unfortunately, the only time you really want liquidity is during a crisis, wh…

Blogspam. OP is http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-th...

The first meaning: if you’ve conceived something in your mind, decide to do it, and are willing to put in the work – nothing can stop you. Pfft. What if I conceive to build a perpe…

"Humans are the security hole that can never be patched." Social engineering will always work.

Blogspam. OP is http://kyrobeshay.com/post/28647196980/being-social-is-about... Of course, the original post is only one paragraph longer than the boingboing excerpt.

I looked up "data grid": A Data Grid is an architecture or set of services that enable individuals or groups of users the ability to access, modify and transfer extremely large amo…

Bah, Mars. I'd rather live on the Moon. Less gravity, closer to Earth. Both places require pressure suits, but the Moon is a hard vacuum, which means you can do the usual vacuum in…

The section on American internet access is pretty old. (ISDN?)