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  1. Re:Man, if only... on FCC Approving Pay-As-You-Go Internet Plans · · Score: 1

    It's also about paying a premium to not have to think "how much is this going to cost" every time you use the service.

  2. Re:The old days... on FCC Approving Pay-As-You-Go Internet Plans · · Score: 1

    Exactly,the consumers want pay as you go internet.

    Only problem (right now) is that if we start to pay as we go, we'll need better ways of knowing how much we're going. If I end up with pay as you go, I want to know how much my online activities are going to cost before I do them. E.g. If it costs me $0.10 every time I visit my credit card website, I might pay the premium for paper statements.

  3. This is just a proof of concept. The real goal... on George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars? · · Score: 1

    ...is to buy rights to living actors so you can have their looks and voice without their attitude or schedule. They'll come cheaper per-film since they can "act" in many films at once.

  4. Harry Harlow Lives on A Robot In Every Korean Kindergarten By 2013? · · Score: 1

    Supposedly Harry Harlow died in 1881, but substitute rhesus monkeys for the Korean kindergartners and this could be one of his experiments.

  5. Re:these students need support! on School Children Are Now Too Fat to Fit In Class Chairs · · Score: 1

    "We have a number of initiatives to support school communities"

    We have started by contacting the local chapter of the Structural Engineers Association.

  6. Re:Info Graphic? on Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant · · Score: 1

    Better than Googling it, Try TinEyeing it.

  7. Re:Dead? on Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I knew he was still alive because of this TED talk

    .

  8. No blood for Yttrium on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Now I get why we're in Afghanistan.

  9. Re:Rare earth is not rare... on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 1

    You just can't compete with places where they put environment and worker protection at such low places in their priorities.

    Maybe Chile has some rare earths to sell. They're definitely working recently to demonstrate their respect for the lives of their mine workers. I'm not sure about their environmental record. They definitely have metals mining infrastructure— 40% of their GDP is in mining. They're probably more expensive than China, but maybe cheaper than other capable places.

  10. Re:have we see the death of RPN? on Casio Unveils New Color Screen Graphing Calculator · · Score: 1
    I use an HP 33s, which does RPN, and switches to "Algebraic" a.k.a. infix for when someone borrows it. (I still have to explain that Enter is the "=" button.) There's an elegance to RPN syntax I just prefer.

    LISP (and its descendants) may be less popular than other programming languages, but will LISP die because it has prefix notation instead of infix?

  11. Book recommendation on New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch · · Score: 1
  12. Why not... on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    If the ISP can detect the bot activity, then they can stop forwarding it. In the meantime they redirect the user's web traffic to a download page for the bot removal tool. If the user doesn't act within a reasonable timeframe, then they suspend the account. The only downside is that eventually all retail ISP customers will be forced to install security software from whichever vendor offers their ISP the greatest kickback.

  13. Re:I guess they'll die on Govt To Bomb Guam With Frozen Mice To Kill Snakes · · Score: 3, Funny

    They dropped the gorillas

    I guess winter isn't cold enough in Guam, otherwise the Gorillas would simply freeze to death.

  14. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Well, sure, but AOL's addresses would be a gauze pad and the DOD's would be a tourniquet.

  15. Re:Ford on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Maybe having a class A address block is what allowed Ford to fare better than the other two of the big three in recent years.

  16. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should reclaim some of AOL's massive block of addresses.

    How about instead we reclaim some of the (many more) addresses assigned to the US Department of Defense?

  17. Another name suggestion on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1
    TOPSOKAOO.o - The Office Productivity Suite Once Known as Open Office.org

    or just OOPS - Open Office Productivity Suite

    Seriously, though it just needs a short catchy name. We can backronnym it later.

  18. Re:Horrible name on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Nothing is going to slow down adoption in the US than an unpronounceable Frenchy name.

    Funny, I studied French for 6 years and only speak enough Spanish to order lunch, but I immediately parsed "Libre" as (the easier to pronounce) Spanish. They both mean "free", so I guess it doesn't really matter.

  19. Re:35 bullion? on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    4 Brazilian technicians.

    who will pilfer the gold and leave it to their Brazilian heirs.

  20. Re:35 bullion? on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    spelt billion.

    Don't you mean "spelt bouillon"?

  21. Re:This is progress on Panasonic's 16-Finger, Hair-Washing Robot · · Score: 1

    To many lonely elderly, things like these are their primary human contact.

    Even if it's not the primary contact, it's value still lies in its humanity. I have a great aunt who just turned 100 last month. She still gets her hair done regularly at the retirement home where she lives, but somehow I don't think she would be so interested in it if a machine performed the service. This tells me that once the robot gets to the US, it wiIl save money two ways: By elminating a worker, and by decreasing demand for the service while still keeping up the appearance of care. I do understand Japan's cultural reasons for this kind of invention.

  22. Re:Not the same on Panasonic's 16-Finger, Hair-Washing Robot · · Score: 1

    (assuming 18yr old at start & retires at 55)

    How does someone making $3.00/hr retire at 55?

  23. All the ISPs should band together and collectively disconnect, claiming the burden of 'infringer' user data requests has put them out of business.

  24. Re:Fair Use on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Another important class of fair uses is parody, and there's no way the photos of Jake Brownstein in the video were not intended as parody.

  25. They didn't describe the powerline! on Turning Your Home Wiring Into a Giant Antenna · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the UW paper, there was no detailed description of the powerline inside the test home. What was the wiring? I'm guessing it was NM cable (a.k.a. "Romex"), or wire in nonmetallic conduit. If a home is wired with wire in metal conduit or armored cable (f.k.a."BX"), the grounded metal enclosure probably has an adverse effect on performance of the SNUPI system.