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I usually share the idea with my wife, my best friends, and former co-workers that are friends. It is better to get feedback early.

But we really need to go one step further and only vote on the issues and then hold candidates accountable for how well they addressed those issues. Otherwise, it remains as a popularity contest for liars.

"why didn't you spend your unemployment working on a project to flesh out your portfolio?"

Could the real answer be that you are just the kind of person who considers spending time on a reverse job application and then advertising it to be time better and more efficiently spent than working on a portfolio? And that is at least one of the reasons that you were probably hired by hopefully one of the better employers that were able to recognize that.

Holy crap. Fix the styling on that page. I can barely read it with the red underline grey text links.

Apu may have specified younger single depressed guys. I couldn't find the video clip anywhere still available to get the actual quote, so I'm going from memory.

Try a screen guard then. Some are sold with the cases in the link I provided. You could even get one to reduce the glare.

Why not make the suit require even more energy to move around rather than just trying to replicate the work required to combat Earth's gravity? That would save them some exercise time.

In one Simpsons episode, Apu tells Marge to avoid the line with the old guy ("Grampa" Abraham Simpson) and that the fastest line is the one of the single guys.

Get a gel case. They are super cheap:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_i_0?rh=k%3Aipad+ge...

Very neat! This would be a lot cooler if it could take a scratchy radio signal with station interference, recognize the frequency (or multiple frequencies if more than one) and isolate them. I've often heard fast morse code signals over radio and wondered what was being sent. If you added a frequency and amplitude scanner, then you could even find all morse code transmissions receivable by the radio and decode them all.

Why not eliminate the possibility of something pretending to be a base station to a number of nodes in the immediate area? With a mesh network, a takeover of an area by a single device may be less likely. Still, there would be a chance of one or more of the nodes causing mischief, and if multiple nodes in an area are compromised that could certainly be an even greater issue. So, direct point-to-point communication is still more preferable.

The problem with these things is the stiff cost by the companies that sell them. No one doubts that they work. However, at this point, cities should be able to by much cheaper alternatives and do it themselves. Even fake cameras work.

Although, I'm quite aware it would cause a lot of accountants and government workers to have to look for new careers, they could solve this problem with the following hammer:

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_main

A peer-to-peer towerless mesh network ( e.g. Terranet http://www.terranet.se/ ) could solve this problem.

This post.

I still can't believe that RedHat/CentOS is used so much in businesses over other distributions. WTH? I've not installed Fedora intentionally in a long time, and would stay the hell away from it if I weren't forced to use it at times. Many of its packages aren't that up-to-date so they contain security issues as a tradeoff for "stability". Is there any chance that others might have recognized this also and Fedora is in a slow decline?

Great post, but a few notes:

- The 5 slides are actually 6 with the blank one included, and like others said, he has a demo and 40 backing slides.

- "I try not to have more than one point or key message per slide." He may have one key implied message like "we are a real established company on the right track with several employees, investors, advisors, etc.", but there are several points/messages being conveyed on each of the slides. That's not a criticism, but I think the quote is inaccurate.

Sorry to hear that. :( Please send our condolences to his surviving family and friends. I think that Billy Joel was right when he said, "Only the good die young."

Some ideas:

- Blog the summaries.

- Write one or more books with all of the information you learn.

- Keep one or more "electronic notebooks" (text files) with your notes, organized by topic. Blogging is better though, if you tag posts, because that way the same notes can be found under more than one topic.

Use LibreOffice ( http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ ) or just use Windows. You could emulate Windows with VirtualBox/VMWare Fusion, but it is slow as hell. You can also get a lower end laptop ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841462 ) that is bigger and more powerful than a netbook for the price of a netbook. I'd only use a netbook if you want something smaller.

A better design would just be a can left on the counter at newsstands where you could drop in a USB drive and maybe pick up someone else's if you were interested.

What do you expect when the subject of the paranormal has for the past few years been in reality shows (Ghost Hunters, etc.) and History Channel documentaries (UFO documentaries with well known hosts, etc.)?

Alright Apple, how in the hell are you going to get out of this one? You were awarded a trademark for "There's an app for that" ( http://mashable.com/2010/10/11/apple-trademark/ ). But, this is Sesame Street. However, Sesame Street will be selling this episode one day, in which case they will be making money off of a product with your trademark without compensating you. But if you force them to pull this skit, they would have to remove the whole episode (because otherwise it would be too short to show later), unless they replaced it with something or overdubbed with something else, which I'm sure they'd rather not do. But if you touch this at all, the public and media will be all over it. However, if you don't, then any other company can use Sesame Street as an example of fair use, if you claim it to be so, so... I believe that one of your lawyers is now having an aneurysm.

Lesson learned: Trademark your witty memorable lines from marketing material prior to or as soon as possible after release; if you don't, then don't trademark them at all, or you might risk the "Sesame Street Catch-22".

I don't think it is an A/B test. They just want to dominate the web in the short and long term. The majority of their efforts support this hypothesis.

To own the web in the current day and age, they would want to:

- Own the browser (so they started the Chrome project)

- Own the OS (preferably using Chrome, to reduce complexity/overhead/duplication)

- Own the applications/be what people use (Google apps, App Engine, Search, Gmail, ...)

- Own the data (Search, Maps/Street View/Google Earth, Google Base, Google Apps, Google Groups, Gmail, ...)

- Make business dependent on Google (Search, Ads, ...)

To own the web in the future they would want to:

- Embrace web to transition world from client-centric/thick-client to fully browser-based that just happens to run on their browser. (I doubt they will make the browser pluggable, using the excuse that this would be way too complex.) Android does not further this purpose as much as Chrome OS.

Android was originally supposed to be a temporary solution to the mobile OS (like iOS, Windows Mobile, etc.). However, when it took off (exceeding their expectations, I imagine) they had to temporarily deprioritize Chrome OS. But, eventually mobile devices could run Chrome OS, at which point they'd ditch Android.

I think Apple is making a similar play now, heading towards the eventual "merge" of iOS and OS X, using the iOS model of controlling the apps sold via the app store in OS X until mobile devices are powerful enough to run (the future version of) OS X (after it has been redesigned to better support usage on a smaller screen without mouse, etc.). Except that Apple won't (in this century) ditch the significant investment in Cocoa for a browser-based OS.

Well said! I agree with all of it. I'd only add that the U.S. isn't the only country that can innovate, and that innovation needs purpose beyond energy production. I feel that purpose should be:

- Colonizing space.

- Making better use of our land for sustainable agriculture to feed the hungry and the children of our future.

I analyzed your tweets, site, etc. myself, and odds are good that you are a capitalist but would be better off voting for a Democrat. I say this because 1. You are a Hokie, 2. You are schmoozing with big wigs of companies that might end up killing conversations with you if they found out that you weren't a Democrat, and 3. You tweet a significant amount, leading me to believe that communication about what you are doing seems more important to you than the business of what you are doing or thinking of other ideas, and imo this sort of self-absorbed sharing is a tendency of those of the more liberal sort.

But, rrc has a point about voters requiring something to identify them, even if the reason for the license was problematic. The current system allows fraud which could affect close elections. I don't like the idea of a national ID, nor mark on the head or hand, but maybe just a picture of a registered voter and a date of the picture taken.

Sounds like Nevada.

If you are a Libertarian, you should find and write-in your candidates, not stay home. If there is no known candidate, you should write in "Libertarian", if there is a space to do so. And if there is no Libertarian on the ballot, you should learn as much as you can about the candidates and vote for the ones that best match your set of values. Odds are that you lean either more towards the liberal social values side or the conservative fiscal values side, so there may be a Democrat, Independent, or Republican that leans similarly here and there that you could vote for.

I think it is just incompetence. The more you spend time with government, the more you see that, even though we'd imagine they have things under control, they really don't.