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  1. scared of invisible bits on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can we stop being scared of fission please. Yes it will kill people so will coal solar wind hydro etc. Please can we live in the real world where people die. Once we do that we can figure out that fission is the next to least bad option next to hydro. Since nearly all the potential hydro is tapped out already it's the only currently viable option.

  2. Re:Happens every time on Student Suspended For Posting On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Child molester is a rather particular corner case. Administrative leave with pay is common until guilt is established, often the judges punishment will include restrictions as to being around children and or applicable laws.

    A bank is a private institution and is free to do what it wants.

    Oddly they might be in jail awaiting trial, assuming they are freed pretrial getting a judge to restrict them from going to the same school would be trivial. The point is the public school should not be doing it directly but rather go to the courts.

  3. Re:Happens every time on Student Suspended For Posting On YouTube · · Score: 1

    If convicted of a crime? No there should be no other state punishments for a crime besides what the courts impose.

  4. Re:Another $1B wasted on Large Scale 24/7 Solar Power Plant To Be Built in Nevada · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a loan guarantee, meaning we cosigned with the bank for them. The taxpayers are only out if this thing can not pay back it's loan.

  5. Re:Reality Check on Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    Get used to prod test and dev(s) being separate. Forget about the cloud it's not a magical anything nor will it fix anything. Scaling infrastructure is a game of tradeoffs. Some simple ones will be local and regional load balancing to more robust you application is to shifting users from one server to another or to another data center the better it's going to scale. This affect front end and back end bits a lot. MSSQL might not be a good match any SQL might not be. Also look at what your road map looks like you trying for VC funding well just get something that works asap. If your looking to grow it without selling a huge share out think to scale from day one, this might mean learning new tool sets and technologies.

  6. Re:Nuclear power arguments on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Yea and I want a pink unicorn as well wanting does not make it viable. It's sometime power vs base load.

  7. Re:Do this in Nevada! on Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 2

    Split the difference and have it take the tunnel to NJ and park at one of the strip malls.

  8. Re:So I read the Article... on GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police · · Score: 1

    But but that does not make them money. Highways were designed for a BIG vehicle to do 75 on rather bad tires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards Issues of following to close etc are not fixed by changing the speed limit. I would think if we get rid of low hanging fruit of speeding they might actually enforce people driving in a safe manner.

  9. Re:Game changers: BTDT on US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    You mean look at things besides counter tops and other such bright shinny bits when buying a house? You mean keeping a house for more than a handful of years? These are easy requirements order fanny and freddy to no longer subsidize mortgage's unless they meet x y and z specs about local code and require that they keep the house for n years or move into a home that's at least as old to avoid penalties.

  10. Re:Glad someone is challenging this on Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos · · Score: 1

    You might want to talk to a different lawyer, I get a speeding ticket every few years and pay a lawyer to fight each and every one. It's normally the same to less expensive than the face value of the ticket and does not count against my insurance premiums. It seems the lawyers call the afternoon before tell the state that they actually have a lawyer and they dismiss the case.

  11. Re:Tax money well spent on Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" · · Score: 1

    Sure I'm all for it can I get a few hundred new fission power plants? Can I also buy legislation to require reprocessing?

    Oh you probably meant those useless solar/wind things. We need more baseline power not some peeking things, and we need things that pay for themselves.

  12. Re:If it works, great on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    Actually it just might. If the boots on the ground know where the sniper fire is coming from they can call in direct air support or similar with accuracy. The better information they have the less accidents happen. Sure a sniper might intentionally fire from the top of a orphanage in attempts entice destructive action it's sad and deplorable on there part.

    War boils down to some simple things attack us and you and everything around you becomes dead. Moral of the story stop anybody near you from committing violent actions or get away from them before they can.

  13. Re:Still no justice for... on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    They already have, private companies are now building new prisons and soliciting states to send there prisoners to them. They are also taking over existing facilities.

  14. Re:Antenna Animosity on Clearwire Sued Over WiMAX Throttling · · Score: 1

    Of course that was the ONLY way to get the job done. I'll give you a hint they try and do things the cheapest way first and work up from there. Often they end up siting in imperfect places and ignore those affected by that imperfection.

  15. Re:Cheating on Police Raid PS3 Hacker's House, Hacker Releases PS3 'Hypervisor Bible' · · Score: 1

    Car != IP Copyright is to insure creative arts would be able to profit from there works to entice them to produce those works. If you have a technical means to protect those works you no longer need copyright to do the same it's a pick one. As to the bad car analogy patents protect plenty of that work and are at least somewhat sensible, though they are moving to copyright and DRM to kill off OEM parts.

  16. Re:Cheating on Police Raid PS3 Hacker's House, Hacker Releases PS3 'Hypervisor Bible' · · Score: 1

    Oh no he told other people how to modify things they own. This could allow them to bypass DRM. The idiocy was making laws to protect DRM in my opinion if a copy right holder employs DRM they should loose all copyright protections since they are employing technical means they no longer need those copyright protections. Were effectively allowing corps to make nearly everybody with a brain a criminal. Personally I have a modded wii but own all the games I play, backup disks are a godsend for parents, same goes for all the DVD's ripped and programs recorded and commercial stripped. These are the same idiots that think it is illegal for a DVD player to skip the required 15 minutes of Disney commercials or anything with a cable card to not tune to there emergency alerts. The media cartels and politicians want to be able to force things down our throats since they each have an agenda they want to push and are willing to makes laws to further those goals.

  17. Re:Open Tivo Alternative on TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1 · · Score: 1

    Because the FCC rolled over on firewire. A simple requirement that fire wire output for all channels / formats contracted for in an open format and we would have a sane way to connect all of our media components. They rolled over on it and made it useless so now we have HDMI HDCP etc mess. I got TIVO 12 + years ago because it was the only loss less (direct tivo) DVR. Digital cable has matured (and chose quantity over quality), DVB never went anywhere in the states, the sat providers are proprietary and the cable cards are a lock in nightmare. Content providers like locked down sell it to you over and over again systems, only legal requirements will change that.

  18. Re:IPv6 Inertia on Comcast Activates IPv6 Trial Users · · Score: 1

    Because comcast will peer with you via BGP? That 2.5k for a ASN might be an issue. Also your /64 is not necessarily static it probably will not change but it does not have to stay the same.

  19. Re:These numbers are averages, so they're bullshit on Netflix Compares ISP Streaming Performance · · Score: 1

    Your point is? Larger ISPs should not be penalized because they screw over there rural subscribers? If the DS3 is the choke point put something bigger in. US ISP's are claiming all sorts of things to avoid upgrading there networks and often being shortsighted when doing those upgrades by putting the cheapest thing in right now but not the cheapest in the long run. In your own example there is no reason to have a DS3 in a ISP network, a single pair of dark fiber can get you what you need today and with one time costs get you to 1.6tbit/s (160 10ge links) today. Telco's are free to put in all the fiber they care to and cable companies can often do the same. The drive to keep this quarters profits high leads to bad decision making.

  20. Re:Different Services need to be split on Netflix Compares ISP Streaming Performance · · Score: 2

    This is the collected stats from the real world. Picking out what tier of connection they have would be nearly impossible unless it's encoded in the reverse DNS. Associating an IP address with a particular carrier is easy anything past that is near impossible to determine.

  21. Re:"up to" means "at least"? on Senators Bash ISP and Push Extensive Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    But those bits don't cost anything near that. I regularly buy transit at 1-2 bucks a mbs for transit and I'm only in the middle of the market go bigger and get even better prices. So my 60 a month 15 mbs comcast connection is 30 ish for the bandwidth if I peeked it out at peek usage. Yes they have to back haul it support me (that's a joke) etc. But the root assertion that it's expensive to provide bandwidth is false, transit prices have fallen to 1% of what they were ten years ago but the broadband prices have not changed.

  22. Re:The good old "child porn" excuse on DOJ Seeks Mandatory Data Retention For ISPs · · Score: 2

    I work in the hosting business and can tell you flat out they only care about the low hanging fruit. If they were commercial and took CC payments in any way they were all over it as it was straight forward we hand them the evidence from the site (site contents logs etc) they got the info on everybody that paid them and arrested them all. I do not think they ever got the site owners they generally came in from countries (or were proxied in) that were not to friendly to the US. Ok fine and dandy they got the idiots paying for child porn (make you want to puke not she might be 17) but hand them people uploading pictures etc and they do not care.

  23. Re:Pixelated Nudity on Playmate Photo From Apollo 12 Up For Auction · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hardcore? It's a topless pic.

  24. Audit on Disempowering the Singular Sysadmin? · · Score: 1

    Really though if they have physical access to something they can do whatever they like. Auditing and logs can go pretty far but at some point you have to trust the people that run things.

  25. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    Now if they would just let them mount a Phalanx CIWS or similar 4 of them should cover all approaches and are automated :)