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"I was part of the most noble of professions. " Sarcasm is not necessary :-(

ISRO's commercial arm has put 28 satellites in space for foreign countries, including TECAR, a military satellite for Israel. http://www.antrix.gov.in/is_launched.html http://www.a…

I trained at CMC Vellore and was an intern and then a neurosurgical registrar there in 1983 . I was paid 300 rupees ( around 5 dollars at current exchange rates ) a month for worki…

That is why I use Spideroak for remote backup and use Dropbox only for syncing files. Any thing important is also backed locally and at yet another remote site owned by me. I do no…

Mineral oil is a Group 1 carcinogen. Scope for some lucrative class-action litigation 10 years down the line when workers in data centres start developing carcinomas.

I agree completely. Arrogant move by Winterton.

I switched to xmonad when I realised how braindead Gnome had become.

RE: Martin Rees'statement: ¨The stupendous time-spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture and understanding — even though the concept may not yet have percolate…

¨an ego tripping blogger who not only publishes a private conversation but picks a side and joins the fight¨ This describes it perfectly.

¨an ego tripping blogger who not only publishes a private conversation but picks a side and joins the fight¨ This describes it perfectly.

What a drama queen. She would be hell to work with.

You are NOT reading it correctly. The number of legal immigrants in 2010 to the USA was 1,042,625 The 140,000 refers to "worker-based immigration visas" This is a small subset of t…

That is shocking. I am amazed that Yale places so poorly. I know that Harvard, Princeton and Oxford place much better, around the 40% mark.

This article will directly cause many more deaths and psychotic breakdowns. I am ashamed of Forbes for having such a crackpot article on their site. Treat manic depressive psychosi…

Blocking access to Western media is one of many desperate measures that the authorities in Pakistan are implementing. These are last ditch attempts to prevent a rapid slide into Is…

It will be cold day in Sheol before it becomes a problem. Helium liquifies at 4.2 K. (Some people free associate too much and fail to think before posting )

What a rubbish article. Who was the idiot who posted a link to it ?

Mashable seems to be the new content free e-tabloid.

Being biased against "creative ideas" is a good heuristic to avoid many genuinely stupid and dangerous plans from fruit-loops

The electrical potential is due to two effects: 1. the Donnan equilibrium 2. active ionic pumps that maintain differential concentrations of Ca++, K+, Na+, and Cl- across neural me…

+1 Yoon's account is well worth reading. Remember that the VCs (Greylock) were the bigest losers in the whole fiasco. Greylock had put 38 million into Greenspun's company and lost …

Most governments use MITM attacks. That includes the USG.

ve kall it zarkasm.

The only real competitors to Fortran on supercomputers are Chapel http://chapel.cray.com/ and X10 http://x10-lang.org/ ( the proposed language Fortress died an early death). Toy la…