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  1. Re:Good God, please stop already! on The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? · · Score: 1

    This: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/29/135221/China-Plans-To-Mine-the-Yellow-Sea-Floor Also, SolarStorm has a point. Much less immediate envornmental hazards/risks when mining asteroids.

  2. Re:mining on The Best Near-Term Future of Space Exploration? · · Score: 1

    Well that's not crazed! Get the timing right and you could be part of the biggest mining conglomerate in the solar system.

  3. Efficient? on Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not sure how they are defining efficient in this experiement. I'd like to see how many clock cycles it took to sort each problem, maybe how much memory the radix sort is using too.

  4. Re:so... on Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. So? This is a nothing issue, parents should never have complained, media should never have published it. I do understand people want to protect their children from sensitive issues, but this real life. Terrorism is real - not learning about the issue will turn impressionable kids into naive adults.

  5. Re:encrytion issues on Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail · · Score: 1

    The government dept I work for now (and previously) don't allow skype.. wonder why. Just because a protocol is secret, doesn't make it secure.