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  1. e pluribus unim on High Cost of Converting UK To High-Speed Broadband · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Ouch. I wonder how britain electrified, did they pass the cost of the few onto the many?
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  2. Sweet! I'll take 5 on India Joins Nuclear Market · · Score: 1

    Really? How much does a nuke cost these days?
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  3. Re:I'll be hard... on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    Don't they have Linux in jail?
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  4. How much free broadband? on FCC Aims To End Debate With Wireless Tests · · Score: 1

    If you win couldn't you just provide a single T-1 line worth of broadband to an entire state and call it "free wireless broadband"
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  5. Re:Nothing is 'safe' on Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review · · Score: 1

    It's not per mission. "We currently assess the per-mission risk as about one in 75 of having a fatal accident." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7590449.stm

    Historically speaking there has been 2 crews lost in 123 launches (121 success) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle Thats about one out of 60.

    So the risk doesn't seem to have changed. If anything they are saying it is less risky.
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  6. Re:Agreed - Most dangerous jobs on Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review · · Score: 1

    It's not per mission. "We currently assess the per-mission risk as about one in 75 of having a fatal accident." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7590449.stm

    Historically speaking there has been 2 crews lost in 123 launches (121 success) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle Thats about one out of 60.

    So the risk doesn't seem to have changed. If anything they are saying it is less risky.

  7. Nothing is 'safe' on Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not that we shouldn't try and make space travel safer, but the idea that loss of life is completely unacceptable I find very strange when we have no problem sending people who may or may not understand the risks into a myriad of dangerous situations where the loss of someones life is all but guaranteed. War, crab fishing, oil drilling, car driving, and on and on.
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  8. Well.. on Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment · · Score: 2, Funny

    As long as it not AOL or Paypal what is there to worry about?
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  9. Re:250 GB on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 1

    Really? Who offers something like that?
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  10. Re:250 GB on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're thinking like what you are - a slashdot reader. Meaning, a single greasy male living in someone's basement.

    Try a household with two parents and four teenage daughters like my sister's. A single HD movie worth of data in a day would mean that at least two people are at sleepovers.

    Have any of these people your referring to ever downloaded a movie?
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  11. Re:FTA on Silk Protein Photonics · · Score: 1

    Well what is it then?
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  12. Re:Um, why not Antarctica on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 1

    America has an implied claim on all reserves!
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  13. Re:Um, why not Antarctica on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 1

    I believe you can make plastics out of oil made from liquefied coal, and by some estimates we have 200+ years worth of coal.
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  14. Re:Ideas are cheap. on How To Sell a Video Game Idea? · · Score: 1

    As someone whos tried to hire website designers (native, and non native english speakers) I can say providing direction is harder than I thought. Or maybe the people I've hired just aren't very good. It makes fulfilling my ideas very difficult.
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  15. Re:Ideas are cheap. on How To Sell a Video Game Idea? · · Score: 1

    I think producing a garage game would cost more than producing a movie on the cheap (eg clerks)
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  16. Re:BWAHAHAHA on MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China · · Score: 1

    This is such a crock.

    China doesn't own the broadcast rights to the Olympics. The Olympic Committee does.

    Maybe they do, who knows what kind of deal they might have made.
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  17. Re:a match made in heaven . . . on MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the Chinese government is aware of MediaSentry's track record â" i.e. all the good things it has accomplished so far for the Big 4 record companies.

    MediaSentry has a good track record?
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