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  1. Carrot or Big Hairy Stick on WSJ's Mossberg Calls For a Tougher Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Perhaps our government could reward cable carriers for providing cheap high speed broadband services and apply a nasty punishment for failing to deliver the quality product in areas in which they are permitted to do business. Perhaps Comcast would not enjoy an insertion by that big hairy stick

  2. Homeland Security on Cool, Science-y Masters Programs For Software Devs? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could get involved in the covert side of programming. Finding intruders or helping to find ways to secure communications may be a real up and coming field.

  3. Gulf Potatoes on First Halophile Potatoes Harvested · · Score: 1

    If we choose to raise potatoes in salt marshes along the Gulf of Mexico the can arrive carrying their own oil for frying thanks to BP.

  4. Re:The tubers are almost certainly not salty. on First Halophile Potatoes Harvested · · Score: 1

    Depending upon how this product tastes it might be used as animal feed or even fish food it made into pellets. After all a good catfish farm still needs top feed those catfish.
                          And I eagerly await a process for farming blue crabs in indoor ponds. I know that one of th great costs in salt water systems involves the power bill for running high quality filtration systems. It would seem to me that since mussels, oysters and clams are filter feeders salt water farms need to also raise these filter feeders in order to recycle their salt water and save money on power bills usually spent on filtration.
                          We have such huge areas of waste lands that could be used for the production of very high quality foods if we would simply get on with it. And if we can create barns in which to house these controlled aquatic environments we could also have population located near these farms with solar and wind energy mills on the same properties as these highly designed fish farms.

  5. Duh? on The Gulf's Great Turtle Relocation Project · · Score: 3, Informative

    The same species that nest in the Gulf also nest on the East Coast of Florida which is oil free. The real issue is whether the built in homing instinct for nesting will be to the original nest or to the transplant nest from which they emerge. I have no knowledge of whether the issue has ever been studied. Either way it is still a big problem as the East Coast breeding grounds may not support additional nests as over population and erosion take their toll on natural conditions.

  6. Self Winding Humans on DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries · · Score: 1

    We used to have self winding watches now they want self winding soldiers. Next they will want land mines that gather solar energy and store it in such a way that a powerful explosion takes place over and over again.

  7. Not Practical on The REX Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    I saw news film of this device. First it is very, very slow moving. It is so slow that using it would be a torture. Secondly the price is too high. And I suspect that maintenance will also be an issue.
                        It is a start however. It is good that work is being done and product created. Improving this device and getting the price down to make is purchasable by all that need the device will certainly follow. I wish there was a way to speed up progress for all people who are suffering.

  8. Valuable Waste on Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island? · · Score: 1

    There has to be a cash value for waste plastic. It is hard to understand why this plastic can not be scooped up and either turned into new plastic items or turned into fuel.
                    I do notice that recycled plastic lumber is too expensive for most people yet railroad ties are now being made of recycled plastic so it must be possible to deliver plastic boards into the hands of home owners at a reasonable price. That plastic lumbar looks great and handles easily and will last far longer than wood ever would.

  9. Our Friend on Deported Russian (Spy?) Worked At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    A Russian spy getting access to Microsoft's secrets might be a real boon to America. Perhaps we will learn what goes on there as well as if our government plays games with the OSs offered for sale. What better tool to spy upon people than their own operating system?

  10. Really Bad Law on Italian Draft Wiretapping Law Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Many states in the US disallow the use of tape recorders. Frankly it is as if the law favors crime. Hidden recorders can catch criminals easily and the public should be encouraged to use them. It is not only the creep threatening to cut his wifes head off and play with her brains but also people in public office or holding public jobs that are involved in serious criminal activity. As it stands now a person can end up in prison for using a tape recorder. This needs to stop. And even more offensive is a certain inequality in which law enforcement turns a blind eye to department stores using voice recorders while arresting individuals for the same activity.

  11. Catch Them! on Spammers Moving To Disposable Domains · · Score: 1

    Since the usual idea of spam is to get people to send money somewhere why not send a cop to that point and grab the account holders. Fines plus prison time should discourage them.

  12. Harmful? on Massachusetts Bids To Restrict Internet Indecency · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Although it is the social custom in the US to keep kids in the dark over sexual content or cursing has anyone, anywhere, actually offered real proof that such things directly harm children? I suspect that kids walking by dear old dad watching hard core porn in the living room are probably not much interested and rarely suffer any harm from such things. If anyone is harmed by cursing and porn it is more probably adults who can't handle it.

  13. Scholars on Do Home Computers Help Or Hinder Education? · · Score: 1

    Really, most kids are not scholars. And scholars are the real reason for building schools. For more usual kids the schools serve as baby sitters and hopefully give them enough education to not be on welfare all their lives or give them enough education not to light a smoke while down in a coal mine laboring.
                      But for the scholars that we do have a computer is fabulous. Normally a scholar can not be stopped from learning. They tend to find ways to learn. But making it easier allows them to advance further. Getting a computer into the hands of that one in one hundred students is a must. Finding something to do with the other 99% is another problem.

  14. Re:Anyone who is stupid enough to work with the RI on RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians · · Score: 1

    How about we create laws to put people who take advantage of others under the prison! These music middle men should be regulated and closely studied to make certain that their "work" does benefit the content creators.
                              Frankly there may be a day when it is so easy to master and produce a CD that the middle men are thrown in the trash.

  15. Brilliant on UK Designer Grows Clothes From Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Obviously a little dye would make that garment look better. But this is a mind blowing breakthrough in a way. If fabric can be grown it might even be possible to grow cement saturated fabric that could form structures such as homes when soaked with water. Although this work is in its infancy I expect that it will branch out and become an important breakthrough in our society. It is a bit like making the first car. The very first cars were sort of useless but the concept was the beginning of a world wide change in the way people live.

  16. Re:In Soviet Brazil on Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    I can not help but wonder if a work is downloaded legally in Brazil and Americans receive copies from Brazil what effect that has on copyright protections within our borders.

  17. Re:To be fair on FCC Dodges Pointed Questions On US Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Analog TV died off mostly due to Bozo Reagen allowing way too much advertising. Viewing declined and program quality decayed simply because the commercials became overwhelming. Cable became the only way that a person had any hope of seeing a decent show or movie.
                          I have expensive bundled cable TV, cable phone, and cable net services. In the average week the only thing I watch that appears on over the air TV is the ABC evening news. Although the TV is always on in my home it is used exclusively for premium viewing. Also I am between two larger communities and in the past all we could receive was one over the air channel as proximity caused the larger communities to both broadcast in the directions that would not reach us and therefore interfere with each other,

  18. Measure Both Poles on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    And does anyone have proof of any good that piracy has done? Well, perhaps the billions of free programs and tunes acquired by hundreds of millions of people might be demonstrable. And isn't it wonderful that the most pirated material seems to also be the most lucrative for the sellers?

  19. Part Of The Loop on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1

    It is no small surprise that America is hurting. We have suffered from way too much product inflation for way too long. Yet labor has been raped. Unions have been crushed. Companies decided not to share the wealth with employees. The idea that there should be a lock between the highest paid CEO and the lowest paid part time employee was not even considered. I am not saying that all should earn the same sums but the pay should not be so far apart.
                    The consequence is that those that labor can not buy product and that means that the fat cats can not sell product. And if we must do finger pointing it was managements job to design superior products and superior production facilities. That did not happen.
                    We probably will have to endure the nightmare of deflation in order to straighten things out. But even then we will need superior designs and production so that American workers can buy homes and cars while out producing China, Japan, India and others. If we can not produce we will starve.

  20. Law Rests in Brute Force on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Although the Pirate Party may be applying a karate chop type of action in a controversial area it can be pointed out that outfits that want all of this strict copyright type of nonsense rely on the police and their weapons as the ultimate means of enforcement. The political system creates a situation in which the one with the power is just and right. Now the Pirate Party has come up with a clever use of law that trumps the other side completely. Sauce for goose is sauce for gander.

  21. Sad on In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable · · Score: 1

    It is a sad state of affairs for these UK graduates and will have a lousy effect far beyond the UK. Computer science can and is making a huge difference in the way we live, medical care etc.. It is important work and despite the commercial lack of interest society should highly value these graduates and make sure they have an easy path so that they can get on with their life's work.

  22. Communication? on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 1

    The bulk of our citizens do not communicate. They eat and breed. Communication involves knowledge, thought and understanding. Americans long ago abandoned those abilities as a rule. There is a reason that television shot for a third grade level audience before free TV collapsed.

  23. May We Assume? on With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair · · Score: 0

    Since Wikileaks got sideways with the US military a few weeks back could it just be that they can not maintain their site right now due to fear?

  24. Astounding Stupidity on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    Our nation is in a fit of ignorance and this type of arrest is a great proof that only college graduates from highly accredited universities should be allowed to serve as police officers.
                        It is simply beyond all sanity that our society should be so squirreled up over explosives. Yes we did have a 9/11. And that has nothing to do with a kid with a firecracker or a plastic bottle filled with dry ice. Nor does it have anything to do with fireworks or a farmer blowing a stump out of his field. These ignorant cops and law makers might as well arrest themselves. After all, a car makes an explosion every time the piston is pushed down the cylinder. And teens and kids setting off explosives was an enjoyable and educational part of American life for centuries.
                      Freedom is taking a break in America. It may not return.

  25. Re:The question is on Regular Domains Have More Malware Than Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    How about surfing from a live CD edition of a Linux distro? Talk about making a PC hard to infect!