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  1. SimBrain on Traffic Jams In Your Brain · · Score: 1

    I would like to have a neural network map in a Sim "game" that displays on my laptop. When the brain jams occur I can then build highways and bypasses for the more important traffic. Either that, or a firmware upgrade. Oh wait, the firmware is down in a sub neural net!

  2. Viral? on The Future of Android — Does It Belong To Bing and Baidu? · · Score: 1

    I kind of see Droid as a viral takedown of Microsoft and Apple. Sure, Google loses on the front end of it, but then they have a shot on the backside, after the disease becomes mainstream (as it has virtually become). A few years back, the rave was this new Blackberry! It let you get *e-mail* from work on your cell phone...ooh. Now if you want a phone that does not have work email following you to the toilet in your own house you have to pay extra to remove the feature!

  3. Re:Demographics on Facebook Messaging Blocks Links · · Score: 1

    Who *didn't* get that from the start? Oh, that's right, you didn't. Sorry. Yeah, remember BBSs? How about CompuServe, Prodigy, Geocites, MySpace, Facebook, and the next social experience (probably when 3DTV merges with online multiversing games or something along that line, so you can actually appear different, and as they want you to, to each individual "friend"). Yeah, AOL is evil, just like everyone else who allows you to communicate with your buddies.

  4. It's about ***** time! on FCC To Allow Texting To 911 · · Score: 1

    I had to call 911 *this morning* and could not get through. My kid was choking on vomit (sorry for the graphical detail there). I had just told a caller that I was not able to stay on the phone because my son was sick and I wanted to be more attentive (before he was choking, btw). I was behind the wheel on a Bluetooth headset, so really I was just politely trying to get off the phone so I could drive him to the doctor. Then he started choking. I hit 911 while running to his side (had to get out of car and run around it due to large bench seat in way). I HAD NO SERVICE! The call didn't go through. I was trying to tend to my son, but I couldn't get him to breathe. He would stop choking briefly and as soon as I got in the car's driver seat and took off it would happen again. THANK GOODNESS we were close (right next to) to a country shop and the hours in the day were right that they were JUST OPENING. I asked them to call and we got him to the hospital, but out in this part of the country that could have been his life had things been just five minutes prior. When we were in the ambulance (before it moved) I looked at my phone to try and call the wife. I had no call bars, but full SMS, email, web browsing, etc! All that communication and none where I needed it. I ended up getting right through via text...and then she freaked because I didn't answer the return phone call, go figure.

  5. Re:Awesome on Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA · · Score: 1

    Just like the Windows phone I used to read your comment was made by Microsoft, even though HTC Snap is written on it. Motorola made most of Apple's chips. Just cause they "improved" it by putting a little multicolored apple with a chunk taken out of it over the label doesn't mean they created it. Apple is just a better integrated version of what everyone else is doing, and therefore it's quite often priced higher. Same thing as cars. Better integrated = higher value. The "prototypes" usually end up with more bugs and worth less down the road.

  6. Re:Microsoft being cagey on Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix · · Score: 1

    They could have done this by simply putting a Microsoft server at the heart of a major city's traffic signalling network. Oh, wait, they did. Several wtop news stories have shown that DC's traffic lights run on NT. Maybe that is rush hour is so bad. Sorry, no time to cite...and since this isn't a graded paper I don't care...if you do then you go find the proof/disproof.

  7. Re:Awesome on Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA · · Score: 1

    Throwing a bunch of hardware together and putting a software layer that seamlessly integrates them (to the user) may be a great marketing strategy, but that doesn't mean they created the stuff.

  8. Too new on 2010 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    Ok, this stuff is all new(er) than what I would put on a computer geek test. How about some pre-MS-DOS stuff (Linux is *NOT* pre MS-DOS!).

  9. Maybe overkill, but on Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers · · Score: 1

    dealing with Verizon has never been pretty. You pretty much have to threaten the worst to get even one ear to listen.

  10. Geocities on Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Geocities, banner ads and popups. Nothing to see here folks. Want some real content? Look at the old BBS network! ASCII graphics at 300bps R KEWL!

  11. Re:Inferior to fiber on Dutch ISP Demos Symmetric 100Mbps DOCSIS3 · · Score: 1

    Inferior? Depends on how you look at it. Ever experienced Verizon customer service? How about Comcast customer service? I've had poor experiences with both. However, I'm losing far less money per month when things go wrong with a less expensive service. Also, my *primary* home line is DSL. I could have cable here, at a full 50Mbps (actual, I've tested it). I don't need it. I stream HD video to a five plus member LAN with little or no delay after a moment of buffering (at 768Kbps) My in laws, OTOH insist they need it for their two email machines. There is more to technology than wires. Customer service and resource management count, too.

  12. Re:Testing Slashdots Methods for Anonymization on NSF Funds Data Anonymization Project · · Score: 2, Funny

    Write the check out to Anonymous Coward, duh! When someone produces the ID of the same name, they can have it. Name changes are cheap, aren't they?

  13. Re:Its rather Ironic on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    I'd kind of rather the trojan be slipped on someone else's phone than on someone else's something else.

  14. Re:This is illegal on UAV Helicopter Flies 12 Hours Charged By Laser · · Score: 1

    The law shouldn't say "don't point lasers at people", it should say "don't hurt people with lasers"

  15. Re:It's an ill wind that blows no good on Why Apple's iPad Has Been Good For Sprint · · Score: 1

    We do it with a sprint phone! The Droid based Samsung moment. We camp, er make that live for a day or two in a RV a lot. Powering on the Overdrive and putting it in a known good reception spot (high on the RV shelves for instance) allows us to use the wireless connection to roam freely and chat, voip, or other internet activity without fear of a constantly in and out connection. Note to RVers, the standard antennae should be down (and off) or your overdrive will hide from 3G signals.

  16. Re:This is illegal on UAV Helicopter Flies 12 Hours Charged By Laser · · Score: 1

    You are using bureaucratic rule to limit the advancement of technology. You must work for the government.

  17. Re:What? on School Children Are Now Too Fat to Fit In Class Chairs · · Score: 1

    If they would stop taking the lowest bidder for everything the desks wouldn't be built to the specs of the lowest average kid, either. A desk "suitable for 3rd graders" is really about the size of the average kindergarten kid. My kid is a beanstalk, but very very tall, and though a beanstalk he has bulging biceps (for a kid). He doesn't fit in a third grade desk.

  18. Re:those who don't remember the past... on Microsoft Is a Dying Consumer Brand · · Score: 1

    Considering my trade (as many other's can attest to around here), it's not just Microsoft that is going by the wayside. Any PC dependent technology is going to go poof. Position yourself accordingly. I know I am!

  19. Wouldn't work... on FBI and NYPD Officers Sent On Museum Field Trip · · Score: 1

    They would probably feel as though the constitution was falsifying a police report.

  20. Re:And yet, I'm stuck on Closing In On 1Gbps Using DSL · · Score: 1

    I don't even use more than 768Kbps @ Home. More is available, but I don't *need* it. I do have resources outside of the home for the rare necessary to have more bandwidth days, but I don't have to spend any money on them :)

  21. Re:Wow on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    "While not bug free..." You realize you are talking about software, right?

  22. It doesn't work. on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 1

    There are hard copies running amuk that laugh at the times when the entire subject Iraq was "Saddam is a dick".

  23. Re:Oh, I dunno on Why Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I've been enrolled in college almost every semester since graduation...for the classes. In the IT field a less than six month old educational class is golden! I am on my way to a specific degree currently, but the classes have individually contributed to my success more than *any* degree could have.

  24. Re:How does this differ between humans and animals on Study Shows Babies Think Friendly Robots Are Sentient · · Score: 1

    Um, that's your lap, not your laptop!

  25. Re:Adults think their pets are human on Study Shows Babies Think Friendly Robots Are Sentient · · Score: 1

    Throughout history and in present day you will find evidence of these things. In fact, it's a violent crime to kill police dogs, but only a crime of passion to kill an ex. Of course, if the ex is a dog, and has ever been in law enforcement you have a dilemma.