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  1. Re:the information has been PUBLICALLY presented.. on US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism · · Score: 1

    As a PhD, you want to have as many publications as possible. Go figure if your research cannot be published because of this moderation, you'll look for the next conference/journal that could gladly publish your results.

    1. If it doesn't require much to duplicate, even more important to quickly publish it, so more people can tackle the problems around it. Provided that anyone else can come to that same conclusion... remember that "you're not the only one working on that subject"
    2. If the government is so interested, then they should put more money and keep NDAs on their students, and their advisers take notes on how to evaluate their students given they are not going to be publishing many papers.

  2. Re:Anyone who thinks they can predict the future.. on IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years · · Score: 1

    But in the same terms, if in 5 years they can grow a finger on you, replacing both will just require an insurance claim.

    The down side is that your insurance will go to the roof if you place insurance claims for both.

  3. Re:Just because of speed? on Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved · · Score: 1

    You mean you just made the menu permanently available, like the same thing that happens when you hit "Alt"?

    I don't get all the whining about Firefox of some people. As you said, it has to be probably the one of the most (if not THE most) flexible customizable browsers. But people feel threatened because their trying to make it more appealing to the masses.

  4. Re:I Seem To Recall on Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    This is not only corruption this may even be manslaughter.

  5. Re:Stupid headline on Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Isn't this, the same that happens if you lose your wallet? I guess that's part of the reason is called "wallet". It acts like one. The question is if there's enough information available to those just "looking"

  6. Re:Dunning-Kruger effect on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I agree. Unluckily many places don't test the driver except for very basic functions.

    I was amazed that the DMV in Delaware would cancel all their road tests if there was a rain drop on that day. Seriously, a state that can easily get a foot of snow on a regular winter day only tests during sunny dry days? Driving tests should be performed in very harsh conditions to make them worthy. And for what I've noticed in Texas, driver licenses seem to come in cereal boxes.

  7. Re:Hard to believe on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    it's the wording* (sorry should have deeply proof read the post)

  8. Re:Hard to believe on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    See, to me, it's the working. Taking a look at "Mario sells 80 pencils a day from his supply of 1,000 pencils. Which of the following is true?", I see that 2,3 and possibly 4 are true (the last one assumes that nothing happens to at least one of the "devices").

    And to say the least, you don't even know what can happen (like a Thailand flooding) after the 10th day, so I'd say the 2nd should be the most realistic answer, even though it may not match the expectations of the test writers.

  9. Re:My Pet Rock Is Better on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    To add to this, they never found my tooth paste until I put it by itself on the tray. Then they took it away from me. The rest of my flights that I passed it in the carry-on nobody said anything.

  10. Re:Verizon's rationale on Why Android Upgrades Take So Long · · Score: 1

    I know HTC provides that tool as well. Why Samsung doesn't? Or is there one of those websites for samsung as well?

  11. Re:What happened to innocent until proven guilty? on Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain · · Score: 1

    That's not even comparable.

    So the US government can seize your taxi or truck (or any other thing you use to make a living), for a year, just because someone said "the vehicle doesn't seem legal"?

    I mean, if their seize your car, you can probably take the bus to work, if they seize your house, you can probably stay somewhere else. But if they seize the place you get your income from, you seem to be in deeper trouble.

  12. Re:Brilliant Banner on Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing while their domain was seized, the workers/developers had plenty of time to design the banner. Hopefully, they'll see their time paid back.

  13. Re:Municipal broadband is on its way, then on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 1

    I know that in many countries the digital signals are still broadcasted, perhaps you need a new ATSC (or whatever technology your digital broadcasting system in your country is using).

    Problem is what your country is actually using for broadcasting, and if your TV tuner is capable of decoding such signals. If your TV is only capable of decoding the cable digital signals or if your country uses a standard that doesn't match your tv characteristics then I agree. But TV as radio is a public broadcasting system, and thus you should receive your the signal of the public TV channels from your country.

  14. Re:Is this a problem? on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about goodput, but for sure shallow buffers result in better latency.

    ECN helps to increase goodput, and AQM can help to keep high thoughput. The main concern of some (at least my research topic) is how to implement AQM to spread traffic spikes such that the link utilization increases while buffer occupancy reduces.

  15. Re:Cringely again... on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Basic, and worth reading is Raj Jain's 1992 paper.

  16. Re:Cringely again... on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    I'll give you a few more names: Sally Floyd, Van Jacobson, Leonard Kleinrock and, of course, Raj Jain have been writing about this since 1983.

  17. Re:Municipal broadband is on its way, then on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 1

    And to complete your statement, unless you're addicted to any special channel (which I'm not), perhaps the programming of public TV (Fox, ABC, CBS, WB, PBS, etc) is fairly enough (that is, if you're still tied to schedules and don't use Hulu).

  18. Re:Power? on Ice Cream Sandwich Ported To X86 · · Score: 1

    Truth be told I was always amazed that people with a 3GHz dual-core processor just accepted that to get a desktop they should fire it up and go get coffee because they knew it took five minutes

    Do you realize how long it takes for a phone to boot up, right? It takes a long time. The thing is that you never power it off, because it's in a constant low consumption mode, which is similar to some "sleep" modes. If you don't power your system off, but you sleep it, you'll find out those 5 minutes you're talking about are considerably reduced. The problem with desktops to me are the power supplies, that for mobile have been turned into batteries and USB-voltage regulators.

  19. Re:No shit. on Lying Is More Common When We Email · · Score: 1

    Diplomacy is an art and starts in written form.

  20. Re:First self-driving crash - who to blame, or sue on Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius · · Score: 2

    That can interestingly be enforced, by disabling the car if nobody is seating on the driving seat (similarly to what it's done with airbag systems) and making it illegal to tamper the sensors.

    Hopefully, this would also place the liability on the asshat that is driving on the turnpike and decides to switch seats at 65mph.

  21. Re:No, they haven't on Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? · · Score: 1

    No, the whole boom pre-2000 caused programming jobs to have a boost, so many programmers, which end up as software developers get paid well.

    And money is always cool, no matter where it comes from. If you get enough to pay for stuff, including gadgets and a home, then that does it.

  22. Re:technically^H politicaly unfeasable? on Steve Jobs Wanted an iPhone-Only Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    With enough devices on the market, altogether with advances in Ad-hoc networks, this may be possible (I think there are still tweaks to the routing protocols, which I think are pure madness).

    However, I see two main groups against such thing:
    1. The carriers, that may lose a big chunk of customers that don't mind no having complete availability.
    2. But most importantly, the government, which, besides of opposing to this, may also be worried about not being able to track users so easily and tap on conversations, as they do now.

    So more than "technically", I think is politically unfeasible.

  23. Re:Woo hoo! on DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    you are to pay a fine of up to $1million to the website owner in the case you download and/or cache its content without our explicit personal permission.

  24. Re:Not too surprised... on Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband · · Score: 1

    You're very fortunate, last time I asked around Frontier wasn't providing service near Tanasbourne and end up with Comcast! Haven't checked recently.

  25. Re:Not too surprised... on Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband · · Score: 2

    Yes! I can imagine the ad on TV (at least in the US):

    Buy the new super mega fastest internet: 10Gbps! For only $100 a month, you can reach your "unlimited monthly cap" in less than a second!