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  1. Re:I was duped by bad broadband maps on Microsoft Says the FCC 'Overstates' Broadband Availability In the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You where lucky! Comcast(X-zero) has a line at the end of my drive way. But my house is 800feet (250m) away from that line. No way in hell they said they would run a line to me. Seems the cable is over extended on a dead end road with about 20 homes here. Well ok one day they said I could pay $7,000.USD for them to put a pop sight in my yard, but took that off the table the next day. So I have a Verizon DSL that gives me a whopping 0.8 Meg Bits per sec for $60.00 USD per month. WOW! In my opinion need some enforcement on there Monopoly status of carriers arouns here. Is there Data in the US for other then the rich or the over populated. Got to move to a Google City. or get packed like a sardine.

  2. People will pay you to take away Thorium. on New Material Can Soak Up Uranium From Seawater (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Is there all of a sudden a safe way to use Uranium? Do We want more meltdowns? Solid reaction rods are not safe and only about 12 percent of the Uranium is used. So We want To store danger Uranium underground forever? We need time to make total reusable resources work. The Thorium reaction cycle is the gateway to save the earth until we know how to make Solar, Wind and the required power storage cost effective and cheep.

  3. Re:Wrong title. Renewable energy will not dominate on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thumbs up! The Old solid high-pressure water-cooled Nuclear Reactors are simply unsafe. They must be replaced with fail-safe low-pressure Thorium reactors. The liquid state of the reactants means the Thorium reactors can use chemistry to allows burning all of the reaction products and separate out the out put products that have a short half life and are completely safe in a yer or two. So there is nothing that needs to be stored forever in the ground.

  4. Re:It is time to by pass the ISP's on FCC Struggles To Convince Judge That Broadband Isn't 'Telecommunications' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    That depends on where the satellites are. You are thinking of Geostationary satellites that are seconds away from earth. As apposed to satellites in near earth orbit.

    That and not every one is playing online games like you and me. Or what ever low latency protocols you are using... If the ISP's are disrupting Internet games then you are SOL.

  5. It is time to by pass the ISP's on FCC Struggles To Convince Judge That Broadband Isn't 'Telecommunications' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is time for a hero like Elon Musk to use 1000's of Satellites to give free WiFi to the world.

  6. Windows 7 was better...
    Better yet Run Linux
    I need to stop buying laptops with hardware w/out drivers

  7. Try Mindcraft on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 1

    Mindcraft has the old time Lego feel with a new toys and you never run out of blocks! Fir more info take a look at this Wiki

    Pssst don't tell any one we do not want to lose the privilege, but down load the game, and when it asks for a login, unplug your rj45 and It will let you try the game. If you like it PLEASE pay the one time fee for unlimited play. Since unplugging the net ( wait I am being shot at, a sec... ) everytime you want to play is a bother.

  8. Crapware I like that name1 on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 1

    Lets define it as anything without source code. Since without source how can you call it software.

  9. Yes, But perhaps a new OS. on Will the Desktop PC Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    I am no Apple fan, but there UNIX core OS make that a much more stable base for games. I would hope a free or at least open OS would be the future.

    It still amazes me the group think that gave us the MS-PC for business. Why do people use a gaming platform for work. Any group with an IT staff, shame on them from using such a OS. I understand smaller groups have to wait for more access to support.

    Many smart corporations have left the PC all ready. the two examples I know off the top of my head are Google and the German Government.

  10. No Match: ultrabook linux preinstalled on Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets · · Score: 1

    Subject: Your search - ultrabook Linux preinstalled - did not match any shopping results. ( on Google shopping )

    No Wounder the things do not sell, people want an Operating System that works. "Silly Rabbit" Windows if for Gamers not real people.

    ps. Google even suggested the search string.

  11. More frequent but smaller IS better! ... FTFY on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    I am Computer Scientist not a Seismologist. But as I understand it getting the input data that described the pressures on the faults for modelling Is not a simple task. In general releasing pressure on a fault line in a controlled manner is a good thing. On the other hand the Goal of fracking is not to reduce earth quakes, its to get natural gas from the ground. Government over sight becomes a political issue and we know where government officials get there money. So we are going to have to hope for the best.

  12. You are correct Sir on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  13. This should be a Duck. on Concept Aquatic Rover May Explore a Lake On Titan · · Score: 1

    A Duck being a craft that goes on land and liquid. Where a body of water may be interesting, One should not pass up the ability to go ashore. If the Atmosphere will support it a balloon hover craft would access both land and ocean.

  14. Re:Future on X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old · · Score: 2

    I wonder when we'll get the first windowing system based entirely on HTML5.

    That would be a web browser. Browsers can run in lots of windows. You can have that already. (right?)

    NextStep tried using postscript to render window content. I never got to use one, ... as I understand the problem was the hardware was under powered. Perhaps an idea before its time.

  15. Get rid of that deep keel on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    A second hull will allow you have a shallow boat and a much nicer ride.

  16. But Nextstep software.... on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    You can see what you are doing on a Pad. and get a full keyboard for typing.

    Took one look at the Next step software and figuratively barfed all over the place. I guess the don't know any better fan boys just don't know any better.

  17. Apples and Oranges on Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? · · Score: 1

    If you want someone that can understand your project, improve it and keep it on track, you want a computer scientist. If you want someone that can whip out code snippets in the out dated technology of the day( ms and apple ) then you want a programer. You might want both.

    Some would say that's an emotional statement. But I say if your not using open source and free software from the get go, as your core, in the long term you are doomed.

  18. Is there profit in it? on Florida Researchers Create Shortest Light Pulse Ever Recorded · · Score: 1

    Oh I mean can you send and receive data? Say over fiber optic at speeds like this? How about data over a lazar to (where?) say mars?

    I have no problems with basic science, Great science Guys. I am just wondering what is next? the Lab (FAST) is the Florida Atto Science & Technology (FAST). So the tech part is next.

  19. Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code! on Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? · · Score: 1

    If you plan to sell an Item with embed software, IMHO, you had best know at least how to read that code. That's not programing, but when there is a depute that you need to get involved in over some code issue You Had better know what is going on.

    I do have mod points, and would have given you an off topic mark, but I do agree that people need logic. And I do agree that Coding is Logical Thinking. You do not need to program in 'C', but it is not a bad place to start. Logo (turtle) might be more fun. My last boss thought a few lines in a spread sheet was his clam to fame in coding. But I say no, he lacked basic logic skills to boot. I got the #*!! out of there, I am retired now.

    Some where in this thread someone asked how much of society needs logic. I would hope all of the voting population has good logic skills. Also voters need a good science background so they can see throw the smoke and mirrors the people that would run a muck just to make a dollar.

  20. 2 problems on Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API · · Score: 1

    If its free is it a product?

    I do not know what growing up has to do with it?

    Google gives away a lot of stuff fro free. ok, so Richard Stall man might not call it free, but we do not pay for lots of Google stuff. But a lot of other corporations are attacking Google so It seems to me to pull back to basics is a reasonable respounce, BTW you can get the weather data from other sources.

  21. Sticks and Stones on Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber · · Score: 1

    From space you do not need a nuclear bomb. A big rock will do more damage.

    ok, sticks not so much...

  22. Thats right on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 1

    When my phone(dsl) pedestal get full of water the Cloud goes out.

  23. No! Creationism != Evolution on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    Creationism is what people that can not understand Science use as a crutch to turn people away from the true study of God. Creationism is like that of a tool of the devil him self.

    Darwin in hid study of God showed us Evolution the work of the true God.

  24. Scientific literacy in the US on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    Yes less then 31% of the people in the US are Scientifically literate. I got this fact from a pod cast on astronomy.fm Not sure who said it.

  25. Teaming trumps the lone wolf on The Programmers Go Coding Two-by-Two — Hurrah? · · Score: 1

    I just left my 30 year tour programing in US Army Labs. What a bunch of power greedy losers.

    Management has to value the cross training that only working in a team can provide. What if your wolf leaves that what do you have nothing. If you had a programing pair, as least the one left behind would know what was going on. If there was no other value, you have to consider having a back up essential. Its like having no back up of your files.