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  1. Ear marks? on Network Neutrality Back In Congress For 3rd Time · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. Re:It's about time on Thinktank Aims To Crowdsource Government Earmark Analysis · · Score: 1

    so only $7 million to the reps grandson?

  3. Re:as much as it sounds interesting... on Thinktank Aims To Crowdsource Government Earmark Analysis · · Score: 1

    At least the "canvas" was $3 billion with a little 'b'

  4. Re:Efficiency on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    Until you are backing out of the garage and into the other one.

    Happen to my Dad on his b-day once. What a crappy b-day for him.

  5. Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    39 years old and you're still working on your first tank of gas? I guess you don't drive as much as some other people. Sitting on the side of the road with a gas vehicle is much more difficult than with an electric. Once I hit 1/4 tank I can pull into a station and be full again in 7 minutes. With an electric i have to hope that I can make it home or I can pirate a plug for an hour or so to make sure I have enough.

  6. Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    If it's not good for somebody then its not good for anybody. That's a known fact around here.

  7. Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    In Soviet America, horse shit produces electric cars.

  8. Re:Opening for more Giger? on Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this sounds great. Maybe make it something like the Star Wars Christmas special except replace the Wookies with Aliens.

  9. Re:Who's emergency? on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    And the problem being that the old-fashioned "...track down the person..." mechanism, as inefficient as it was, due to being obsolete is now near impossible. The assumptions of the past have changed and are no longer compatible with the assumptions of the present.

  10. Re:Arizona is worse than California on Arizona Considers Selling Capitol Buildings · · Score: 1

    I'm not a fan of term limits but I would be for an incumbent sandbagging for votes to help insure it isn't just voting for the devil we know that is keeping these people in.

  11. Re:I half agree with him on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    And I typically agree with them as well. Unfortunately many do not.

  12. Re:Obligatory on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    And what car can you drive forever? I'd say 300k miles is close enough and many American cars have that many. Hell I had a GMC pickup that I beat the crap out of on back trails and dirt roads that had 200k miles on it. While my co-works Acura blew an engine at 60k with no explanation from the mechanic or manufacturer.

  13. Re:Obligatory on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    As long as Government Motors provides me with this car as a public option, I'm fine with it.

  14. Re:I half agree with him on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    I like how you put it, but don't see it as an easy sell. Convincing others that their idea belongs to the public and that they are granted a temporary copyright to it in order to give incentive for coming up with the idea is too far from the ingrained norm of the idea is mine but I must give it to the public at a later date.

  15. Re:Dear Mr. Metalitz on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly, I went to the concert and heard the music so I should have full rights to download it for free now. I did pay for it in the concert tickets.

  16. Re:It can never be human like... on Games That Design Themselves · · Score: 1

    but calculating all possible moves x# in the future is not AI. Weighting each piece and giving certain situations as being better than others, then giving the ai the option of adjusting those weights and finding new situations and weighing them would be AI.

    The AI should be able to record, "A pawn is worth less than a rook by X" Then it plays a game, sacrifices a pawn to a rook, sees the outcome (win/lose) and adjusts the worth accordingly. Of course this adjustment would have to go over all moves during the game, and adjustments would have to be done across hundreds of games. With more games giving better weights.

    Otherwise you are just looking up possibilities from a table. Even if the possibilities are generated on the fly.

  17. Re:Russian computers on US Supercomputer Lead Sparks Russian Govt's Competitive Drive · · Score: 1

    Dmitry Medvedev: "In Soviet Russia you make Beowulf Cluster."

  18. Russian computers on US Supercomputer Lead Sparks Russian Govt's Competitive Drive · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beawulf cluster of these?

  19. Re:Economy is a Subset of Ecology on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    Lean a little about supply and demand. At $20 you sell $X, at $25 you send $X-$Y, at $30 you make $X-$Z where $Z>$Y. The higher the price the less you sell. Finding the market clearing price is the important part. If it costs $15 to fish and you only sell 3 fish at $30 you're only making $45. If it costs you $15 to fish and you sell 100 at $20 or 1000 at $16 you make more profit. Of course if you fish that much it's going to get harder to catch and cost you more to fill the same orders.

  20. Re:Landlord is a moron on Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts · · Score: 0, Troll

    There was mention of Mold in her twat and that sleeping around is how she got it. Not sure how this has anything to do with Horizon though?

    What is the past tense of a tweet anyway?

  21. Re:Judges over-ruling law... on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Yes, In fact I'd be more supportive of charging manslaughter to the person that didn't yell fire and snuck out while everyone else burned.

  22. distibution on Are RAID Controllers the Next Data Center Bottleneck? · · Score: 1

    with things like Haadop and cloudstore, pNFS, Lustre, and others storage will be distributed. There will no longer be the huge EMC, Netapp, Hitachi etc central storage devices. There's no reason to pay big bucks for a giant single point of failure when you can use the Linus method of upload to the internet and let it get mirrored around the world. (In a much more localized manor.)

  23. Re:How? on Microsoft Exec Says, "You'll Miss Vista" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, sounds like you missed it to me.

  24. Re:That's nothing on Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases · · Score: 1

    Hmm, very interesting. I may have to apply for another grant to look into this further.

  25. Re:Economy is a Subset of Ecology on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    Heh, really? Perhaps I missed your sarcasm tag, but I'd wager sometime around the begging of life. As food supply went up demand would soon follow. As food supply goes down, demand eventually goes down (starvation in the extreme or just reduction in predators over time.)