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  1. Re:you've got it backwards on Designing a Patent-Incentive Program? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The scary part is they still get issued.

  2. Re:Well.. on Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment · · Score: 1

    Comcast.

  3. Re:You can bet good money... on The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Revealed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Home Depot? The store that sells wood is spying on my Internet access?

  4. Re:Why I wish I knew more science on There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute · · Score: 1

    This is roughly the same as opening the door to your fridge. In the short term, the local temperature goes down. By the time the fridge has again cooled the air inside, it has emitted more than enough heat to cancel out the initial cooling. All this does is separate the heating and cooling. If the fridge is well ventilated, it might actually cool the place down. However, if you turn an inside fan on, all you're doing is heating the place.

    Subject to cooling the same amount of water, the amount of time it takes is irrelevant.

  5. Re:Point of failure on Working With 2 ISPs For Home Networking? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Systems are engineered for typical weather conditions. In California, heavy rain is sufficiently infrequent that utilities that utilities figure it's cheaper to fix lines after a storm. Similarly, new buildings in California almost always leak. If you're hit by earthquakes every month, it makes a lot of sense to invest in stronger infrastructure.

  6. Re:Well played Mr. Gates, well played. on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 1

    My complaint is with the accuracy of timmarhy's comment regarding rising wages and the meaningfulness thereof.

    I am not complaining about the decreasing salary of "computer programmer." Indeed, I support expanding H1-B. This is what I meant by "That said, I agree with the sentiment of your original comment."

  7. Re:When has there ever been an H1-B Visa surplus? on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 1

    Actually, I worked for Infosys in Bangalore for three months as an intern.

    H1-B workers pay the US cost of living, so I guess you are advocating expansion and free movement?

  8. Re:Well played Mr. Gates, well played. on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The link you cite is again bogus as this reflects the cost to employers rather than salary, which is the original poster's issue.

    Mean computer programmer salary:
    $67,400 in May 2005
    $69,500 in May 2006

    This is an annual increase of 3.11%, which is lower than inflation of 3.39% in 2005 and 3.24% in 2006. So in some meaningless sense wages did rise, but in the meaningful sense of buying anything, wages went down.

    You still have not addressed my question regarding the relevance of rising wages to the visa.

    That said, I agree with the sentiment of your original comment.

  9. Re:When has there ever been an H1-B Visa surplus? on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 1

    How did you get citizenship? Did your parents happen to be in the country at the time? What makes you deserve more pay than somebody whose parents were in another country?

    Maybe you should go back to school if you want a pay raise.

  10. Re:Yay, Flamebait! on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 1

    Some Indian software companies actually have long training periods where they teach their new employees Java etc.

    As to unemployed factory workers, we have this thing called school. Unfortunately it costs a lot of money. Perhaps we should fix that first.

  11. Re:Well played Mr. Gates, well played. on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your link is a single snapshot in time which does not say anything to your claim regarding "rising wages." Further, I fail to see how rising wages would imply that H1-B has little effect on wages.

  12. Re:Never fails on Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because controlling the press is the best way to prevent an authoritarian government?

  13. Re:I don't get it... on Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack · · Score: 1

    The no smoking sign is always on. So there's no need to control it. The seatbelt sign on the other hand. . .

  14. Re:Valuable on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    More to the point, the article states that agents did in fact have access to the unencrypted volume at the border. They just waited too long and PGP timed out.

  15. Re:Valuable on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the defendant plans on decrypting the drive again? Or for that matter that the government would ever return the encrypted contents to him?

  16. Re:It's a bargain! on Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan · · Score: 1

    Dell's worldwide market share may be 13% but that alone is more than "a small percentage of customers" who receive malware free of charge with a new PC.

  17. Re:Should be quite easy to do on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 1

    Storage in insulated tanks? Unless there is something actively maintaining temperature, insulation is not going to do anything over extended periods of time.

  18. Re:Don't underestimate Ballmer on MS Moves R&D To Canada Due To Immigration Problem · · Score: 1

    If only Google had offices in Kirkland near Seattle.

  19. Re:After more than 14 years... on FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance · · Score: 1

    If, for whatever bizarre reason, you have a Windows server able to serve quickly, Fastsoft sells a BSD-based proxy product intended to sit between it and the Internet.

  20. Re:hmm on FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance · · Score: 1

    Routers need not be changed to support FastTCP. The IP-level packets are unchanged. It simply a change in congestion control (i.e. rate at which packets are sent) which is done at the sender.

    FTP was mentioned in the article as an example. Any TCP-based protocol can use the box. All the box does is change the congestion control on packets passing through it.

  21. Papers on FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance · · Score: 1

    E-week was never known for its academic rigor. Netlab posts their published papers including FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms, performance in IEEE Transactions on Networking.

  22. Re:impossible to know if real from site on FastTCP Commercialized Into An FTP Appliance · · Score: 1

    FastTCP uses latency-based congestion control. The theory is that by comparing current and minimum round-trip time, one can deduce the router queue sizes and control congestion based solely on round trip time. Since loss is not a signal, FastTCP performs far better than BIC on high-loss networks.

  23. As an economist would say on Senate Discusses Third Pipe Using 700MHz Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Presumably, 22 MHz is more valuable than is 10 MHz. So the price will be higher in auction. Hence it's not a free 12 MHz, so much as an auction for 10 MHz full use and 12 MHz of rare public safety use.

  24. Re:Have they fixed the startup time? on Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that I should make my boot time longer just so the first applet loads faster?

  25. Re:Hmm on How to Keep America Competitive · · Score: 1

    Or pay for my tuition.