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This is also being done. Micro-reactors are generally sub-20MWe and are intended to be portable. The biggest name is micro-reactors is probably Project PELE[1]. PELE is a DoD proje…

Having served on a public body "governed" by Robert's Rules, there's one very important aspect of Robert's Rules that the author seems to be overlooking. While the default case cer…

Some rando law? Public performance isn't really some random law pulled out of the aether. It's one of the basic tenets of copyright and serves as the basis for the majority of copy…

Public performance of a copyrighted work. Unless the officer has a license to play the music for public consumption, it is illegal for him/her to do so.

TIF is a property tax financing scheme. Abuse or not, its use has very little impact on sales tax.

It seems, perhaps, Resolver One's time has finally come. Alas, Resolver One (and Resolver Systems) died a slow death and ceased to be in 2012. Perhaps this will fare better. I alwa…

> doing this stunt in what looks like a suburban park strikes me as shockingly irresponsible. It look like an R/C air park, actually. I live near the headquarters for two large hob…

The same over here. I stayed at a DoubleTree (also a Hilton hotel) in Monrovia CA a few weeks ago. They also had a bottle of water on the desk with a $5 USD price tag. Ironically, …

> but he was the founder in every respect that matters. Except actually being a founder. He provided money to an existing company, resulting in a controlling stake in that company.…

No it isn't. Musk isn't a co-founder either. He came in on Tesla's A round.

It's funny you should mention graph theory and network security. I'm involved in cyber security research, though more on the operations side of security than networks. However, our…

Hardware (sometimes free) http://www.sparc.org/

> We can either cry about it, and whine about how the industry should be more caring and catering to people with thick accents, or they can learn to speak English! Or, we can work …

From Wikipedia: "The nautical mile is a unit of length that is approximately one minute of arc measured along any meridian."

You have a right to speech. You DO NOT have a right to be heard.

We did (see above). Both of my children (13 and 18) also have a solid grasp on reality and firm bullshit detectors. I suspect belief in Santa, as a child, has little to do with it.…

This is also what we did with our kids. In fact, while they no longer believe (they are 13 and 18), we actually still do it. I've never thought about why we continue to do it, but …

This is likely a sun thing. Halt on (SPARC) Solaris does not shutdown the OS. It issues a reset command to the firmware. The halt command on Solaris is roughly equivalent to pressi…