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  1. Re:sata (the channel) is NOT the issue on OCZ IBIS Introduces High Speed Data Link SSDs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a whole cluster of consumer drives today pushing ~275MB/s out of sata 3gb's 300MB/s limit. That's safely within the range of 'sata limited' allowing for a very small amount of controller overhead.

  2. Re:Rome didn't fall in a day! on Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue · · Score: 1

    Who wants to return to the previous decade, that decade sucked. Give me the one two back instead, please.

  3. Re:Deadline on Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suspect the point was that Obama won't be death for America, just like all the other presidents who have made mistakes did not result in the death of America.

  4. Re:Alright! on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    You're suggesting they should pay for things themselves? That's not the American way, buddy, go back to China.

  5. Re:Alright! on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but in practice that power is infinite ... there's not a single state that turns down that money in exchange for freedom from those restrictions.

  6. Re:Technically, yes, except .... on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    Those things are hard to prove. Radar guns are cheap.

  7. Re:Alright! on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But since that limit was set by the feds, what can your town do?

  8. Re:Alright! on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's hard to pass a levy on people who don't live in your town.
    Unless you issue speeding tickets to all passing through.
    Otherwise, if you just charge a fee for driving through, you'll just divert traffic to nearby routes, if you even have the legal authority to charge such a fee.

  9. Re:I wish... on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    Right, the system works. For the big guys.

  10. Re:I wish... on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1
  11. Re:This Is a Comment Expressing New Found Skeptici on This Is a News Website Article About a Scientific Paper · · Score: 1

    I jump to the conclusion that based on your revealed party affiliation you must love nazis, leaving open to the child poster to invoke Godwin Moore's Law.

  12. Re:An amendment would fix this on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    Ideally what you could and should do to deter such behavior is to hold everyone involved in the decision accountable. In the Ford case it might be the death penalty for 100 or 1000 people.

  13. Re:An amendment would fix this on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    They do have those rights (in the US):

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation

    I would agree with the parent that the corporation itself should not, but the constituent members should.

  14. Re:I wish... on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    Yes, every single one of those books could be busted for infringing, if the cartel guarding the gates wanted to do so. But of course they don't, they only use their evil powers against those outside the cartel.

  15. Re:Photocopying machines on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    Who would fund the creation of new recipes if everyone shared them freely?

    Top Chef?

  16. Re:Photocopying machines on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    Their thinking was that the secretaries would be swapping recipes via photocopies and not buying cookbooks as a Good Citizen should.

    Who would fund the creation of new recipes if everyone shared them freely? Without copyright protection, we'd all be eating gray sludge fortified with nutrients.

    You mean high fructose corn syrup? It's more of a yellow sludge.

  17. Re:Photocopying machines on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    Not sure how it would work but I hear they're thinking about putting floatation devices on Segways now.

    Fixed!

    Fixed!

  18. Re:Language Barrier on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    We should indeed put forward an English speaking delegate, since the largest part of the translation material we've been beaming at them for decades has been in English. There is no human language they are more likely to know.

  19. Re:I'm not sure we get to decide on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Right, the way we can't tell who the taliban leadership is as we do intelligence gathering, or which bee/ant is the queen, or which lion is dominant in the pride. These things are impossible to identify by study.

  20. Re:Someone with experience instead? on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    That just means the aliens won't have built up any resistance to the power of T&A due to lack of prior exposure.

  21. Re:No he won't on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    They should appointed someone with some multi-language skills. What language we should assume the aliens will speak?

    English, obviously. Just like in the movies. Aliens watch movies too I'd assume.

    And if they watch enough movies, odds are they will arrive speaking English.

  22. Re:Do they know on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 2, Funny

    Time is going to be on our side regardless and we will likely have months or even years to appoint such a representative if an ambassador of this nature is ever encountered.

    Well, the clock started ticking when the scout crashed in roswell, and now the mothership is arriving, so really this is a case of the UN being slow on the uptake as usual.

  23. Re:The wrong man on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's a U distribution with pretty sharp peaks. Are there hypermales or hyperfemales beyond the U-points, or do all the other genders all fall in the trough?

  24. Re:Ideals and reality on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    They are exploiting me if they take advantage of economic or social inequities to pay me less than a fair wage, and then pocket the difference for themselves.

  25. Re:Common sense on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    That was partly why I clarified that 9 was a minimum. 15 is probably a lot more realistic after you factor in investment growth.

    Still, it's CLEARLY a good deal if you don't want to do anything fun like vacation in Fiji while you're young, or you get a lot of fun out of the college experience, etc. The longer your time horizon on that investment, the better, obviously.