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I agree with the other commenters about this being incorrect, but there is in hindsight an even bigger deal -- getting to examine the rocket (not fished out of salt water) after th…

Do you worry that there is more or less an arms race with competitors like arvie.com, and the entire industry is basically just adding service fees on top the costs of booking a si…

I have one in my backpack I am parking now.

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Kids these days :-) Check out the add https://habrastorage.org/getpro/habr/post_images/5b6/a0b/e6d... Makes me feel better about the 2 grand I dropped after I graduated from colleg…

It does not look like your target market, but I imagine this would be ideal for pet/valuable tracking. Put it in a collar or bike seat and if your fido goes for a stroll and does n…

It was sold to a (wonderful) museum, The Henry Ford ( http://www.thehenryford.org/ ), which every geek should visit at least once. As an artist walks through an art museum and can …

I live in a Detroit suburb, a large number of the residents here are engineers, many for GM, Ford and Chrysler, but quite a few for Toyota, Hyundai and other foreign suppliers (lik…

Objective qualifications are not the primary filter. The biggest advantages are from a higher level of networking, your fellow students are generally from a higher income bracket, …

http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/facts.html You are far more likely to be infected by malaria than ebola. Ebola is scary and makes for great news that draws lots of attention -- bu…

So you are stating that only the wealthy can morally have children? And this does not make you wonder if the country/economy is no longer moral?

Not commenting directly on your assessment of the state of PoS systems, but how does a software vendor (not OS or sys admin) protect against targeted malware that is able to get ac…

An mechanical engineer, physicist, and computer programmer are in a car driving down a steep mountain when the brakes fail. The careens around bends picking up speed until they fin…

Education outcomes, not debt fueled enrollments: http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/13-facts-h... (in particular check the graducation rates based on income quartile…

Upper education, health care, healthy food? It is easy to ignore if you are not at the bottom, but all of these things are less available to a growing number of people.

I have a real issue with the current NSA practices and with much of the government surveillance attitude, that said this generally sounds like a case of doing it right. I like that…

Trust me photographer's really love their cameras :-)

I have three children and they frequently will ask me question that either I never knew, or have long since forgotten. I take these times to demonstrate another lesson -- how to le…

Really? Maybe I am just old and remember using manual typewriters, line printers, dot matrix. Now when I get amazingly crisp nearly instant typeset output from just about everythin…

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting the movie studios can have a movie that "never recoups their cost" and yet they somehow make money off the enterprise. I am no…

Inquiring minds want to know, I would love to write a true DSLR tethered shooting app for IOS.