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  1. Re:Squeal like a pig on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    Everyone does it, you included - it's called civilization.

  2. Re:they don't want real broadband... on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    Somebody failed at reading the classics, then.

  3. Re:Nice on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    Completely off-topic, but hmmm, yummy coop internet (damn, right now I'm stuck with Bell.ca and would so go back :p )

  4. Re:Playing with words on Dell Says High Linux Netbook Returns a "Non-Issue" · · Score: 1

    IIRC, older versions of "inspironbuntu" added insult to injury by leaving out a few device drivers (webcam was the most common problem) but still bundling gigs of crap.

  5. Re:Not Surprised.. on Dell Says High Linux Netbook Returns a "Non-Issue" · · Score: 1

    Nothing can be worse than what MSI did - they installed OpenSUSE. That's it, a default install with a bunch of non-standard hardware that required some driver tweaks when the Wind was initially released.

  6. Re:Playing with words on Dell Says High Linux Netbook Returns a "Non-Issue" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, the initial high rates data came from MSI - they slapped a default install of OpenSUSE on it, didn't bother to make sure the drivers worked, and sold that.

  7. Re:This is good news on Prehistoric Gene Reawakened To Battle HIV · · Score: 1

    Physical Anthropology deals with mostly primatology/paleoanthropology/human and primate genetics.

  8. Re:36.8 petaflops on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    Almost nothing

  9. Re:Computers are already smarter... on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    This itself was a new view of the mid to late 19th century, just saying.

  10. Re:Sure we can... on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    A lot of the great apes are climbers, the genus homo is about the only one that's walkers. We also happen to have a lot of stamina at this. It's energy efficient, it's just not fast.

  11. Re:Undue Credit to Kurzweil (PS) on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    That's a weakness of the whole thing, "futurologists" just seem to think you'll get it when you throw enough teraflops at the problem, but to a large extent, that's a lot like, say, Julien de la Mettrie in the Machine Man using clockwork as a way of saying "some day clockwork automatons will be like humans" - ORLY - at some point we may well hit the limitations of the tech, need to find something else (although the Machine Man makes for a nice inspiration for an 18th century steampunk campaign, it doesn't help for much more :p ), and raw processing power will get us nowhere without understanding wtf to do with it, and if it even works that way (it might not even).

  12. Re:Undue Credit to Kurzweil on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    This is history of sciences, any scientist with a bit of historical formation has criticized Kurzweil, and the biology (as well as his interpolation that some part of the brain we know almost nothing about are "roughly equivalent to some ram" when they don't work like ram and are likely nothing close to it) in his writing is always woeful.

  13. Re:How is this even a fucking question? on FCC Probing Apple, AT&T Rejection of Google Voice · · Score: 1

    They can't run it until the network changes to gsm, genius

  14. Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    Ability to protect is an individualist trait which doesn't fit in most of human history (there's always community), as for men, most women I know date men who they find good looking, or have something personality wise that catches them, not Ogh the caveman.
    Also, you're the one making a claim which is easily refuted (survival value of women being low is utter bullshit for most of the existence of homo sapiens as a) gathering provides most of the nutrition and b) subsistance activities aren't as segregated as people once thought, which considering these are week and month long parties over huge areas is not that surprising (again, paleolithic).
    As for sources, I'm on vacation, in a road trip, my access to university proxies is down and I have no clue what password I used at the last school mandated change. But I doubt you'll have anything that's not pop science, so it's not like breaking a sweat is worth it anyway.

  15. Re:Bullshit on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    The SI unit is the Helen, a millihelen is the amount of beauty that would launch a single ship to sea ;)

    (I swear to burn a Pinker book the day this actually becomes a reality :p )

  16. Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    I need a good laugh every once in a while. But you have it wrong through and through, thanks for playing.

  17. Re:Doctor's sloppy handwriting kills 7000 annually on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    My anecdote says hi to yours - every doctor I've seen in the last few years filled their own prescriptions, by hand (and I've seen 3 different ones regularly, and about a dozen once or twice).

  18. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We'll start seeing epigraphy as a worthwile career choice, woot!

  19. Re:Assembler on The Best First Language For a Young Programmer · · Score: 1

    I hate to do a me too, but damn, yes, I managed to learn other languages tolerably enough (disclaimer: I'm a student), but I still do BASIC inspired mistakes. Nowadays, it's a shit language, and there's very good reasons the few people around me I know who bother with VB overcharge for VB jobs.

  20. Re:Maybe it's a message from up above on New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp · · Score: 1

    To be fair, even if the parent put it in a silly way, there's a lot of adaptation that's cultural, like clothing foor example.

  21. Re:Evolution is great. (mostly) on New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp · · Score: 1

    Well, success by proxy, since the most likely cause of death would be homo sapiens...

  22. Re:Strongly worded letter? on Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies · · Score: 1

    Amusingly, same in french, except if you happen to have a quebecois cousin on the side, they seem to have loads of invisible Ses tacked on :p

  23. Re:Strongly worded letter? on Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies · · Score: 1

    You know, diplomacy is all about giving people the impression that you're kissing their ass while they realize that you're really telling them to eat shit.

  24. Re:unlike other companies? on Microsoft's Code Contribution Due To GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    Odd, I recall much complaints about the first three (Asus was slapped on the hand, then released the source, although with a single enormous zip archive on a slow server :p - Tivo, I'm not sure, and Cisco was served by the FSF, all of which made /. news iirc)

  25. I see, good thing I'm not atheist on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    However, the atheist simply points out that what you're eating is not, in fact, meat. And then bites. And let's face it, choosing to disbelieve all but one divinity is not the same thing as choosing meats for dinner, if your ethics have so little importance to you, I suggest you revise them.