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  1. Re:Chrome 10? on Chrome 10 Beta Boosts JavaScript Speed By 64% · · Score: 2

    These are all minor versions. They just omit the 1 dot.

  2. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    If you haven't read the books you are definitely going to be in for quite the shock when Hermione kills Snape under Harry's compulsion. Sorry to ruin it for you.

  3. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    Which game has AI that evolved itself to begin playing a different game?
    That kind of true AI.

  4. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 2

    Every pair of neurons in the brain is not interconnected. At a high end estimate, Each neuron is connected to at most 200K other neurons. This greatly simplifies the problem.

  5. Re:Fight! on Google Announces One Pass Payment System · · Score: 1

    Because paypal has a notoriously bad customer experience if anything ever goes wrong with a purchase.

  6. Re:Uh, what? on Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All · · Score: 1

    A different article talked about peer to peer mesh OTA networking. It would be challenging (but not impossible) for big government to stomp on that. But certainly not as easy as intervening at the ILEC.

  7. Re:He forgot something on Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All · · Score: 1

    There are very few places left in the world that are more than a mile from the next habitable place. Mesh to mesh will let you jump pretty much any national boundary, and you'll get stuck only when you reach the ocean.

  8. Re:"Running a server" in violation of AUP on Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All · · Score: 2

    Tried? It's a business contract, violation means dissolution of the contract, possibly with financial penalties. No trial is going to be involved.

  9. Re:In conclusion on The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes · · Score: 1

    Technically I don't need any storage either. The real question is how many bytes would a bush tribesman want if he could get them.

  10. Re:What exactly counts as "knowledge"? on The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes · · Score: 2

    You're revealing a pretty heavy bias there. I'd guess a geologist would find the dirt photo much more valuable than either the view or the mc^2, and a bored housewife whose life has been closed down to the point where her only social outlet is tv would find the view more valuable than the other two.

  11. Re:"Stored Data" does not equal "Knowledge" on The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes · · Score: 1

    It's all knowledge, and virtually all of it is worthwhile to someone. The subjective value of any piece is just that, subjective. Calling it junk just reveals a bias.

  12. Re:In conclusion on The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    38 Gigabytes per person is enough? I don't think so.

  13. Re:Friends on The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes · · Score: 1

    I think they'll invade earth to enact the end of Single Female Lawyer.

  14. Re:Wish Sun had been bought by Apple on Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing? · · Score: 0

    Apple is not about enterprise.

    That was my point.

    It's about selling expensive trinkets to teenagers, nouveau riche, and "me too"ers.

    That's a pretty stupid comment.

    In what way ... I'd say gp had it right on the nose.

  15. Re:Minecraft on Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps more importantly, java is frequently used in scenarios where developer time is more valuable than user time. Java can often get the job done in half the developer time, at a cost of less performance for the end user. Java has been able to significantly close that end-user performance gap, but it is still there. Still, with the lower development time, that's a big cost saver if the performance remains 'good enough' not to piss off your customer base.

  16. Re:Its not the speed that is the problem. on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    You're sure no pilot is going to cave in when the terrorist holding their family hostage on the ground kills the pilots wife and says the daughter is next?

  17. Re:Should have never been there. on Microsoft Kills AutoRun In Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes, anyone who can't cook hamburger helper has no business eating.

  18. Re:Its not the speed that is the problem. on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about we invest 53 billion working on automated driving. Then I can take my private car AND not have to drive.

  19. Re:Its not the speed that is the problem. on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    The argument for the security checks on the airplane was not how many you could kill on a plane, but how many you could kill with a plane.

  20. Re:wait what? on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    Incompetent drivers choose toyota for their safety record.

  21. Re:Control System Design Flaw, Root locus anyone on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    It's an easy recommendation to make when you're not experiencing a panic inducing uncontrolled and unexpected acceleration.

  22. Re:Practice shifting into neutral and it's all goo on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    I am going to drill myself on that, thanks.
    Remember: shift into neutral.
    Remember: shift into neutral.
    Remember: shift into neutral.

    Remember to shift into neutral when I unexpectedly accelerate over a cliff. Thanks!

  23. Re:Mass hysteria on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't matter, as the cars are different outside the US. Could be a US specific part.

  24. Re:Not buying it.... on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    You're ignoring the possibility that clumsy drivers might prefer to buy Toyota.

  25. correlation != causation on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just because a lot of Toyotas are out of control doesn't mean there's a problem with Toyotas. Clearly, out of control drivers prefer to buy Toyota.