Mr. Quinn has been brainwashed -- he needed to be "re-tasked" to perform his chores skillfully and unquestioningly by his former employer. Cisco was kind enough to higher a disabled veteran. I have no qualms with Mr. Quinn or his distorted version of the PTSD that hobbles so many soldiers who served their nation. I have a big problem with the senior leadership at Cisco who know not how to support nor to control their managers.

And Cisco does not "put food" on anyone's tables -- the employees earn every penny they get.

...and what Pollyannas come up with these names?

They're just begging for "Generation Crap" to become their de facto handle.

Polydimethylrazzmatazz

Silicone membrane, despite the caption in the source material.

Paris? You need ask?

What's the speed of light again, boys?

Can you say "multipath" from those modulated photons bouncing around the room? Gigahertz? I think not -- do the maths. Line of sight (such as inside a fiber waveguide) is super, but the splatter from your modulated desk lamp won't get you much bandwidth.

If old snakes squeak...

...apply old snake oil!

With due deference to Stan Ovshinsky, who has been tilling this field before these young pups were born, can someone reveal the mechanical analogue of the memristor? Resistor, inductor, capacitor can be simulated with drag, mass, spring and the memristor is...what? This puffery reminds me of the ancient claims of a new mechanism: the Rolamite!

If anyone deserves credit in this field it would be Stan and Iris.

(BTW, I am a cranky old coot, and have always been one. When one accepts Thévenin's theorem one must wonder who this Norton guy was, and why he gained any street cred for stating the clearly obvious under the concept of duality. )

So, Nigel Kneal was right...

About the grasshoppers living underground and using tube stations. Must have felt quite homey to them.

(Mine's the one with the optic-encephalograph in the pocket.)

Not the best blurb Reg, not the best

C'mon you can do much better and usually do. Reprinting talking points from political hacks and grifters is not informative, only regurgitive.

Thinking is hard

People don't vacation by going to a museum where they have to use their brain. They go to Disneyworld where stuff is poured into the skull by smiling workers. Fox News predigests all you need to know. Faith is so much easier than logic.

The slippery slope was traversed long ago: The Advertorial blurred the ethical lines and Infotainment erased it.

The Dark Ages have returned and it is blindingly bright.

Is someone proffering some investor bait here?

"on another note, the greentards throw all the guilt on nuclear power, while they actually should on their own governments for not promoting more safety and better waste management *almost all the radioactive waste could be rendered non-radioactive with a bit of research."

No wonder the USA abandoned the Yucca Mountain waste repository! All we need it just a bit more research....

Heard in the (American) deep south:

"Scalene, you tramp, I'se heerd you been foolin' 'round with my cousin Buford!"

Carly's dumbth seems to have rubbed off.

Let me grab my HP-01 from my pocket -- At least it showed some class.

Still with the Supply-Side voodoo?

What, Neutron Jack, Jr. can't depress salaries quickly enough?

And when we Yanks say "education" we mean "training." Not well-rounded, well-read with in-depth knowledge, but well trained in using the latest tools. Classical language, literature -- you know, the stuff you folks on the other side of the pond think (thought?) important -- not so important here.

Sorry, but the education system over here is rotting because teachers can't live on the salaries. Industry is collapsing because the most-recent-quarterly-profit hucksters have gutted the production infrastructure. And young people see how the industry values its workers.

Are these generalizations? Yes. Not every business whores itself to Wall Street, but the lion's share is going to the pigs. And these leaders are correct: it is not sustainable. They should know as they are the ones pushing it into the sea.

Now we know the real STUXNET targets.

But was it from our boys, the robot manufacturer... or a third team from the Postal service tired of "active" packages?

I hope I left my mains lockouts / chain armor in my coat.

I knew a NASA engineer...

...who had a mild case -- but just the facial tics and the occasional upper body twitch. The only profanity he uttered was the day he was reading a newspaper, tic'd and tore it in half, clean down the middle. And who amongst us wouldn't have! It's a tough condition to have even with a great sense of self...and humor.

Mr. Bear himself does not step on '730

"...6,335,730's essentially identical description of less-important objects being shrunken and more-important objects being emphasized ...."

Mr. Bear and his "contributions" have been emphasized far more than his allotted 15-minutes of fame as a non-contributer to advancing the state-of-the-art. His patents teach nothing unique nor reveal any bleedin' non-obvious ideas... and should tossed. Mr. Bear himself may follow.

(the bullhorn for the flea/drawbridge joke allusion)

I must be old...really old:

No one here has mentioned The Carterphone Decision yet.

Mine's the one with my old Western Electric 1001A DAA in the pocket

What? No environmentalist jokes...

...about carbon sequestration? Feh!

(Mine's the one with the pocket full of sooty bits.)

Even on the west side of the pond...

...at the place where I work when we need assistance moving a heavy payload most of us ask, "Are you free?" with the proper intonation.

Mine's the one with the coat because I it purchased it in Mens Wear

Dual-use technology...

...now includes chasing the undocumented workers out of the orchards.

Mines the one with the exploding microwave popcorn in the pocket. (No! No, it's just melted butter!)

SKYNET and Robots

Yeah, that'll fix everything. Warm up the economy and infrastructure in a flash.

Mine is the one looking for spare change in Sarah Connor's overcoat.

'spensive 'leccy?

Saving 44 Watts yields a three years savings of $2,220? Who is paying Two bucks a kilowatt-hour? (Me looking through my coat for a missing multiplier.)