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  1. The problem isn't /their/ customers on French Telecom Claims To Have Forced Google To Pay For Traffic · · Score: 1

    Generally the problem the ISPs are facing is not data transferred to their customers, but when the only route available to a different Isp's customers route through Orange's network.

    So Google has it's service. Internet ISP A has the only connection that leads to internet provider B. Internet provider B's customers pay only internet provider B. So internet ISP A's service could also be used "freely" so to speak.

    It's still a bit confusing if they have such a deal, as usually ISP's pay other ISP's based on traffic they send over other networks.

  2. Re:Acceptable on BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic · · Score: 1

    If you don't like the video game, don't fucking play it.
    If you don't like the sports, don't fucking watch them.

    I'm tired of special interest groups interfering with the creative process of my games. If they want to do gay, that's their story choice, if not, then that is too.
    If you don't want to be changed, stop trying to change everyone else.

    It's terrible, why aren't you complaining about sports games too? Maybe you should complain the NFL doesn't have enough gay atheletes.

    People have the right to have whatever romantic interests they want in the world, I firmly believe that, if it's not hurting anyone, it's all good, and I hope you have a happy life. I believe you have the right for tolerance and not to be hated for it, or discriminated against in manners that have nothing to do with sex. Like work, or being in public etc.

    This doesn't mean people have to design gay content just for you. This doesn't mean you need hetrosexual people to play with your homosexual character in a video game.

    We're supposed to be tolerant and accepting of people's differences, it doesn't mean everyone must promote it.
    That would be the same as if a religious special group complained there wasn't enough of (insert faith here) into games and they had to be added everywhere.
    Where are the days where video games were dsigned for fun and entertainment, and not play things for special interest platforms?

  3. Maybe a cure for life long viruses. on Researchers Investigating Self-Boosting Vaccines · · Score: 1

    As much as they want to figure out how it works to make their own 'products' they can sell and last forever in your body, maybe this research into making vaccines that last forever will give insight in how to get rid of viruses that last forever. Getting rid of HIV etc? that'd be sweet.

  4. Re:Why still allow top hacking countries? on Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes? · · Score: 1

    Offending people does not entitle you to commit unlawful acts. (Albeit if you want to avoid them perhaps you should avoid offending them)

    That's like saying some guy was being naive and offended me so I have the right to punch their face in.

  5. It's not me it's you! on App Developer: Android Designed For Piracy · · Score: 2

    Yeah, never heard that before. "It's not my fault, OMGTEHQQS clearly, you don't pay for it not because my idea isn't super awesome, and sucks, it's clearly because you're all pirates and steal my software for how awesome it is."

    Right, is that what you're telling your investors?

    Oh, and every fat nerd who doesn't take care of themselves isn't constantly thought of by every hot woman in the world simply because other people have pirated their hotness, or is just too orgasmic to think about.
    It has nothing to do with their lack of ambition to be a good catch.

    Your software does not have the power of Axe.

  6. Re:Tell me slashdot... on UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows · · Score: 1

    No, that chain runs too deep ;)

    But, if using renewable energy such as solar technology to power processes to create solar technology...then?

  7. Re:Tell me slashdot... on UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows · · Score: 1

    There's solar equipment to power houses that will provide a return on the investment on current power prices in 5-10 years, like expensive 10k+ units.
    These are from profit companies, if they were not profitable, they would not be in business.
    Based on economics, this implies that solar cells do actually generate more power than they consume over the lifetime of the cell.

    Not all cells or technologies right now naturally, but your generalization cannot be applied to all forms of solar technology.

  8. Re:Agreed on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Computers are always there for you if you take care of them.
    Can't say the same for humans.

  9. Re:kinetic energy on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    So hovering the train in a vac with magnetic forces 'pushing' in a repulsion field wouldn't constantly accelerate with a constant power level? Would not the train constant exert force against the track with 0 friction pushing it forward continously? Since the train moves forward, it's pushing on the nearest part of the track constantly?

  10. Re:kinetic energy on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    Sorry I wasn't trying to suggest the use of an ion drive as minor friction would quickly negate it. I just ment from a technological stand point based on the physics observed with an ion drive, Meaning that the energy requirements in a frictionless environment I didn't think would be the same to go 3000 -> 3050 as 0->550.
    I realize we have some minor friction magnetically due to the fight with gravitiy, but you get what I mean hopefully.

    If someone could explain that it'd be cool.

  11. Re:kinetic energy on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    You sure about that? I'm not saying you're wrong, but in a frictionless environment similar to space, do we not have ion drives
    that exert the same constant force continously accelerating without increasing energy consumption?

    In an environment like a frictionless vac tube it sounds like any kinetic energy would provide constant accelerating at a constant acceleration if the energy output was the same?

  12. Re:Catch them up on reading then send them in on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Once again. I said "Catch him up on reading then send him to school" That means, reading first, not during or after being sent to school
    Please -read- what I've written.
    Also, maybe consider something other than a US public school if you can.

    Thank you for also assuming that the poster must be in america, because clearly the US education system is the entire world just the like the US.
    What I said applies specifically to canadian schools. Maybe do some research on which school you send your child to in the US and suppliment their
    education instead of being an auto parent where they expect everything to be automatically done for them.

  13. Re:Catch them up on reading then send them in on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    No if you bring up him on the basic skills you would be surprised, and just because they're in school it doesn't mean you abandon the child and don't do one on one.
    That's part of the problem, parents consider it bloody daycare and don't help their kids. 'Oh, they go to school, I no longer have to teach them anything'

    I know someone /personally/ that was home schooled until 10, his parents were too 'alternative'. Finally they caved and let him go. He struggled a bit at first
    but with help he caught up now, is about to enter his final year of highschool and is doing exceptionally well. We're talking A's and B's.

    This is also Canada, so you can fail, not like the US. So yes, going to school = good. But you're right, it wont' give him the personal attention, that responsibility still exists.

  14. Catch them up on reading then send them in on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 2

    Unless he has physical developmental issues that affect his mental capabilities, send him to school, get his reading level up.
    I get it, ignorance is bliss and everyone wants to protect their ignorance and shrink their world as small as they need to, so they can make sure they
    stay right.

    He's clearly not getting the education he deserves, is falling behind everyone. Parents need to have major motivation and dedicate a lot of time to compete with a half decent school.

    The fact that you're on slashdot with a statement that he doesn't read as well as other kids his age shows the problem.
    It's great that you're trying to step forward and help, but yeah, send him to school.

  15. Re:If they don't like it on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    Oh you're part of the 'I can't' group eh?

    It's not my fault, I can't, I have no other choices, it's not that simple, it's what I have to do, I have no choice.
    They need to change, I can't. The world needs to cater to me because I have no other options, I can't do anything else.

    Wrong - you don't WANT to do anything else. You just want your piece of cake and to eat it to.
    Changing jobs is an option for everyone, you just might not like the pay of other jobs.
    Boo hoo. I wish my job just paid me tons more too like the harder jobs where I actually work do but it doesn't. Guess I'll just have to like my job or change jobs if I don't want it.

    I should cry because I work 40 hours a week and feel I should work 20 too while I'm at it and still get paid the same.

  16. Re:If they don't like it on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    Agreed

    Seriously - I want to get paid to stand there and look pretty but I don't want people being attracted to me and looking at me or giving me attention because I'm pretty.

    That's like a customer service clerk saying I want a job where I stand around and serve customers but don't want any customers to come in.

    That's dumb.

  17. We know where this goes. on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    Google searchs:
      - How to legally protest X president
      - How to legally protest corporate development
      - permit to protest in x county
    (sometime later)
    "Damn, my chain saw won't start, need to cut that would out back.."

    - How to fix chainsaw that won't start
    (Police)
    OMTFWTFG!!!! Terrorist! Get him!

  18. Re:'NO ONE KNOWS" ???? on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 1

    *Watches the plane threateningly go back up*

    Great, now it's demanding meters. Skynet reads slashdot, douche. Giving it feet were one thing, but giving it meters? That's crazy talk.

  19. Re:Global leader in music sales... on Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales · · Score: 3, Interesting

    RI is like homeless bums. You give them 20$ and they say, 'got any more?' and move on looking for more.

  20. Sit in school for 13 years....zzz on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I love this.

    Sit in school for 13 years, learn lots of stuff so you could potentially do / expand into many jobs out there, use none of it.
    Let people get hands on experience on the stuff they love, so they can expand into. Have your basic academics in school and allow students to
    pick one advanced academic that provides hands on training on the things they love. Be it rockets and physics, or chemistry and so on.

    Plus it could be practical too. Like having students who have been taught how to repair computers be allowed to volunteer for experience with the local school boards or city itself, lessons the need on paid trades, gives students training / hands on experience.

    It would be great for carpenters, metal workers, anyone interested in mechanics, and so on.

    I became a computer tech. I work in IT. I don't care about poetry. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be available and encouraged, but let kids do what they love, they'll learn better.

  21. Re:2012 the year of the Linux desktop on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Really? You don't think Joe computer would use linux because he doesn't like how the other one looks?

    Hello, have you seen mac users?

    Apple made a teal case that was partially see through so it was cool and 'future' so it made people feel self important. Thus the mac user was born.
    Now that I've teased the mac users out there, yes I know there's a lot of things macs are good at and more power to you if they work for you.
    But like religion, keep thy mac to thy self.

    Do not underestimate what trival thing people will switch because of. I work on IT. You know how choked people get if they have to two one extra button
    to do something?

  22. Re:Developers, developers, developers on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Less licensing costs, more freedom of development?
    That's just a guess, I could be wrong / having a linux illusion but I would think they could do more with less cost.

    That's the only thing that holds me back from all linux all the time, is strictly that a lot of my newer games don't run as well. I like my zero lag and that's the only
    reason I use windows. If enough of my games ran on linux, I'd just not buy the game if it was windows only kind of thing.

  23. Orbit - no air - way, way less friction. There's some minor drag probably unless it was a very high orbit. It consumes no fuel except for minor corrections
      as needed.

    Why? Technically it's constantly falling, it's just moving forward to fast and keeps missing the earth. So, yea, does not require
    fuel to maintain speed, only to increase or decrease it.

  24. Re:'NO ONE KNOWS" ???? on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 1

    Skynet was preparing to launch an attack from space. It demanded feet and was holding us secretly in hostage.

    The planes return signals an agreement.

  25. Hulk smash! on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 1

    Clearly, he was sent to the past. Dr. Banner got angry, and started smashing anything with carbon in it. There's your source of gamma radiation.