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Comment: Re:Why not massively subsidize the Solar Industry? (Score 1) 684

State and Federal subsidies for "green" energy is already several times this $50B. What more do you think it will take?

Plus there are very few places in the US where solar makes sense. Cloudy, too far north, etc. Doesn't matter how efficient the panels are or whether you subsidize them 100%

Comment: Re:In my experience (Score 1) 383

by tomhath (#46455369) Attached to: Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math

Specially at teaching math.

And further, those who are good at math tend to be especially bad at teaching it to people who don't get it.

In my experience math teachers at the primary levels don't get it, and try to teach math as a rote process (memorize multiplication tables, trig functions, etc). At higher levels (college) you get mostly grad students working on their PhDs who have no teaching experience or training

Comment: CIA computers (Score 4, Informative) 242

by tomhath (#46455225) Attached to: Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers

As I read it, the CIA searched their own computers that were made available to the Senate Committee, looking for documents that were not supposed to be made available or publicly released. For whatever reason (probably a CIA screw-up) someone on the committee found those documents and blabbed about them.

Feinstein's complaint is that the CIA wasn't supposed to monitor what the committee was looking at on those computers. It sounds like she has a reasonable complaint, but given the amount of hysteria around leaks these days it doesn't surprise me that the CIA thought they had a bigger problem than just one of their own inadvertently releasing documents that should not have been.

Comment: Complete load of crap (Score 3, Funny) 273

by tomhath (#46442485) Attached to: Snowden Says No One Listened To 10 Attempts To Raise Concerns At NSA
Basically he says that he told his supervisors that, in his opinion, a spy agency shouldn't be spying. To back up that opinion he states that he doesn't know of any good that has come from the intelligence collection. And now he wonders why people at the spy agency where he worked told him to go back to his desk and do his job.

Comment: Re:I still can't figure out what they did (Score 5, Interesting) 89

It's not the Indian government. The complaint was filed by an organization called CUTS, whose mission is:

Pursuing economic equity and social justice within and across borders by persuading governments and empowering people

In other words, their goal is wealth transfer from rich to poor countries. Whether Google did anything wrong isn't the point; they're trying to use the Indian government to get some of Google's money.

Comment: With oversight like this... (Score 1) 191

by tomhath (#46434907) Attached to: The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing Millions



Yea, that's how a CPA would conduct an audit. No chance of anything sketchy going on with that kind of oversight.

Oh, so there you are!