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Submission + - Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Seth Ladd has an excellent write-up of Dart "When Dart was originally launched, many developers mistook it for some sort of Java clone. In truth, Dart is inspired by a range of languages such as Smalltalk, Strongtalk, Erlang, C#, and JavaScript. Get past the semicolons and curly braces, and you’ll see a terse language without ceremony. "

Submission + - Transporting a 15-m, 600-ton Magnet Cross Country

Submitted by necro81
necro81 writes: Although its Tevatron particle accelerator has gone dark, Fermi Laboratory outside Chicago is still doing physics. A new experiment, called muon g-2 will investigate quantum mechanical behavior of the electron's heavier sibling: the muon. Fermi needs a large ring chamber to store the muons it produces and investigates, and it just so happens that Brookhaven National Laboratory outside NYC has one to spare. But how do you transport a delicate, 15-m diameter, 600-ton superconducting magnet halfway across the country? Very carefully.

Submission + - Obama's EPA Makes A Rad Decision (forbes.com) 1

Submitted by QuantumPion
QuantumPion writes: The Environmental Protection Agency released draft guidelines last month that could significantly relax radiation hazard standards in the case of a radiological event in the United States by using risk-based decisions.

“Think of it this way. The situations covered by these new guidelines are similar to someone dying of thirst who has the chance to drink fresh water having 2,000 pCi per gallon of radium in it. While the safe drinking water levels are 20 pCi/gal for Ra, 2,000 pCi/gal is of no threat, especially if you’re going to die from imminent dehydration. Of course, a bag of potato chips has 3,500 picocuries, so go figure.”

Comment And in other news (Score 2, Funny) 376

after six months of Hadopi law every know French IP address has dropped off the Internet. Official are confused and worried some speculating that the entire country of France may have been stolen by aliens. Others argue that they all just found something better to do, a little wine, some bread, a pretty girl...

Comment If the teachers and Unions want hire pay (Score 1) 629

by JohnnyGTO (#33324112) Attached to: Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure
They need to agree to eliminating tenure and quit fighting the firing of incompetent teachers (LAUSD officials spent $3.5 million in the last 10 years "trying to fire just seven of the district's 33,000 teachers for poor classroom performance). I spent 4 years in a California high school and other then the best math and science teacher ever the entire experience was a waste of time. We had a drunk, a women who chewed, a commie who promoted drug use, a wannabe jock coach who could not teach his way out of a paper bag, an English teacher who was extra friendly to the jocks (ya I was jealous), a spanish teach with no classroom skills at all and on and on. They struck twice while I was attending and we really didn't notice the difference between them and the subs!

We home school and yes I'm posting Anonymously, I've been told by several "teachers" that home schooling should be a criminal act!!

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