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Not really. I have a close-knit group of friends that I keep up with via email or phone. Same with family. Its somewhat amusing to see all the negative news about social-networks and realize it does not affect me (directly anyways). The big annoyance is when I see sites/services that require a FB/twitter login.

Stopped using facebook (and orkut) back in late 2007/early 2008. Never looked back and am much happier for it. However, I've taken some flak from friends for not being visible.

What/Who are you referring to ?

I'm from South Asia (India) and I can attest that corruption in that part of the world (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri-lanka etc.) is all-pervasive. It affects people from all strata and is pretty much an accepted way of life and is not something that can be solved easily.

Do elaborate.

Thank you for bringing this up. Too many times now have I seen such articles about seemingly brilliant ideas with little or no thought put into the practicality or implementation difficulties. In this particular case I question how efficient or economical it is to use cardboard and how ecologically friendly is it (doesnt seem it is if its using cardboard). Also how "waterproof" it would be after a couple of seasons in the rain and sunny weather ?

It varies by sub-field within CS and depends on the quality of the conferences or journals the papers were published to.

how does it work ?

Doesn't look like it. I checked some other tumbler pages and they're ok. Its only this "theverge" tumblr page.

This is very strange. Why are military "contractors" flying these things ? Should they be trained military personnel piloting the drones ?

I dont like all the new fancy-schmancy stuff. These cities are going to end up looking like any other modern/western city anywhere. No character left. Is anyone looking out for historically significant buildings ?

I think its a reference to Paul's (the apostle) conversion on the road to Damascus. Details on wikipedia.

wow, that was an odd read. I initially thought it was a hoax.

I agree with this and have done it in the past myself. Its a great learning exercise for new languages. The problems are easily defined and its apparent when you've successfully completed. Once you've done with the easier ones try implementing grep and then diff.

The first thing I thought was , this may be a trick question, since there are an infinite number of paths from the center to the surface. I think the problem statement needs a bit more detail.

Amen!to that brother (or sister :)

I'm stunned. I hope other countries are not stupid enough to follow Italy down this ridiculous path. Can the EU intercede and do something here ?

if its for IOS only then I cant access it. Also, I question the "geeks like us" part. Why not just publish it as a downloadable PDF or EPUB or something along those lines ?

We use ActiveMQ at work and are investigating other MQs too. I dont see any info or performance graphs w.r.t message size. That would be a useful addition.

Cool, now i'm a gonna try and reduce the number of components to do the same ...

There is also a downloadable film. Link is on the infographic.

I've been following Slashdot for a long long time now, probably 12 years or more. Was an avid, daily reader. Recently of course its been proggit and HN and newer sites. Nostalgia ! I hope they stay around for a long long time. One complaint is that the rate of new articles/stories is slow when compared to the newer sites.

Link to the startup they founded : http://transatomicpower.com/company.php

Thanks for your detailed response. Yes, it would be good to have a kind of repository where people could submit their ideas or designs in order to prevent future patents. Somewhat like copylefting code.

Yes, that is what i meant.

This is interesting but I'd like to know a few more things :

1) Does submission of prior art guarantee it will be looked at and considered ?

2) Must a prior art submission always be associated with a particular patent or set of patents ?

3) Can one submit prior art for a patent that does not exist yet or is in pending stage.

4) Do things like video clips (say of movies), showing objects or devices that don't exist, count as prior art ?

Nice polite people, food carts, good restaurants, possibly the best coffee in the US, Ocean is 1 hour away, greenery, Mt Hood, the Cascades .... and much, much more.

Could happen in an emergency, and that is the point.

Nice!. This could actually turn out to be useful information ,who knows. I wonder if they did the same for canned food items. Also, what about other type of non-conventional weapons ? would canned goods and packaged beverages be usable after a chemical or biological attack ?

It competes with the Icon A5. Here are some additional links :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Akoya

http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/aircraft/feature-1645924.p...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RqovFiz-Xw