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  1. Why shouldn't cable raise rates when oil doubles? on Bandwidth Caps May Be Critical Error For Broadband Companies · · Score: 1

    Comca$t disappointed the analysts, but cable is still bulletproof, and with the cost of everything else doubling every year, why shouldn't they raise rates?

  2. Outsourcing killed the telecommuters on Is Tech Bringing Us Closer Together Instead of Allowing Us to Sprawl? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the sense that almost every job which can be done remotely is done from India, there is great interest in jobs that involve face time. If those were most of the remaining jobs in recession 1.0, they'll be the only jobs left in recession 2.0.

  3. Retribution is on the way on FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fortunately Iran stole nuclear secrets from US in time to fix the problems with US stealing nuclear secrets.

  4. it happened weeks ago on Messenger Probe Sends Back Mercury Photos · · Score: 1

    They looked so much like low res versions of moon pictures taken by Japan, can see why they're still trying to drum up hits weeks after the flyby.

  5. Whatever on Design of Next-Gen NASA Rocket Showing Flaws · · Score: 1

    Solid rockets have been used for over 50 years. Not one of them has ever shaken apart its payload. If Keith wants NASA to abandon the Ares 1 because of basic science cuts, he should just say so.

  6. 700 layoffs at LLNL, 1000 layoffs at Applied Mater on State of US Science Report Shows Disturbing Trends · · Score: 1

    Tower Semi: 100
    Marvell Semi: 400
    Bristol Myers: 4300
    Abbott: 1200
    Dow Chemical: 1000

    Why would anyone want to go into science & engineering?

  7. Metal + eyes don't mix on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1

    Tiny pieces of metal near eyeballs don't mix. What happened to the conductive plastic breakthrough from 2 years ago?

  8. Personally use a computer for everything on Why Americans Don't Buy DVD Recorders · · Score: 1

    The one computer does the job of a dedicated TV, DVR, DVD player, cable box, web browser, mp3 player, picture frame, and video editor for a lot less money.

  9. Corporate buyouts R back on Oracle Buys BEA · · Score: 1

    Looks like the interest rate slashing and high inflation is starting to pay off.

  10. Does anyone still take this seriously? on NASA Wants Fast Moonbuggies and Solid Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Haven't seen any support for this latest moon program in the media. None of the candidates ever brought it up except for maybe Hillary. Obama definitely wants to kill it. There have been moon programs for at least 20 years.

  11. No diversity = higher risk on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without diversity, entire food supplies can be wiped out by single diseases.

  12. SCO, ford edition on Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures · · Score: 1

    Now that Ford is about to go out of business and trying anything it can to make money, it's time for them to move to Santa Cruz & start suing everyone. They'll have to pay their factory workers $500,000 to afford apartments in Santa Cruz & they'll have to delist their stock, of course.

  13. Space exploration, computer marriage on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    Invest in expanding the human population off of its overcrowded, resource depleated Earth. Create a new tax filing status for marriage to computers. Get rid of illegal immigrants.

  14. Global warming on Mercury on Messenger Flies by Mercury · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a planet with a serious global warming problem.

  15. Our telecommuters work from Bangalore on Telecommuting Can Be Bad For Those Who Don't · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Bangalore workers get 30% raises & own houses. The Silicon Valley workers struggle to keep up with rent inflation & don't get raises. So there probably is some dissatisfaction.

  16. What happened in 2001 on Is Open Source Recession Proof? · · Score: 1

    Well, in 2001 things got ugly. A lot of users who would have supported free software in 2000 were suddenly laid off and protesting anything that could put them out of work. The other problem was everyone was doing it, so it wasn't noble to volunteer your time anymore. You had to start offering real value for the time users would spend downloading it or take it down.

  17. It really is the CEO on Origin of the iPhone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The article makes it sound like it really is the CEO who drives everything and everything else is automatic. It's pretty accurate to how Silicon Valley works. The CEO drives it and everything else is mostly automatic.

    Consider that Jobless made a few hundred million dollars and adoration from legions of fans while the engineers probably got a few tens of thous in bonuses and increased rent on their dumpy Sunnyvale apartments.

  18. U will be assimilated on Sun Plans to Have No In-House Data Centers by 2015 · · Score: 1

    U will be assimilated into the one true, gigagargantagoogle corporate data empire.

  19. Universal asynchronous parallel port on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    With the return of more data lines and asynchronous receive trasmit, it should be called universal asynchronous parallel port UASPRT. Guess they got tired of timeouts.

  20. Everyone loves cable on Comcast Promising Ultra-Fast Internet · · Score: 1

    Cable TV standards R definitely the star of the show, along with the coverage of BOCA/True2way, this show is definitely a vindication of cable standards.

  21. Clues from the photos on Alienware's Curved Monitor · · Score: 1

    The photos don't show much detail, but apparently it's 4 standard monitors rotated sideways & stacked.

  22. Long live BOCA on Cable Industry to Standardize Under Tru2Way · · Score: 1

    BOCA sounded catchier, but it not catchy enough. Too bad they couldn't have made up a Web 2.0 name like oo2gle or ooway.

  23. CES is the new LinuxWorld on There's No Such Thing as 'Wireless HDMI' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Amazing how big CES has gotten in the last 7 years. Now it's the center of the universe. Don't forget to mention DVR for OCAP.

  24. Commercial software on Linux on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Hard to believe we once expected the same commercial software on Windows to one day run natively on Linux. Nowadays it isn't even a thought except for the flash player and the web browser.

  25. Less new stuff. on Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year' · · Score: 1

    2007 definitely had the least new stuff of any previous year. The trend is more copies of less new stuff, more copies the less new information. And the next technology boom after Web 1.0 was .... another dot com boom. The next great language was ... Java again. The next big business was .... routers, networking, & databases again.