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  1. Oh yeah, I forgot to say. on Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why "the singularity" ain't going to happen.

  2. They're all crap on School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High · · Score: 1

    Traditional lectures are abysmal teaching methods.

    http://lowery.tamu.edu/Teaming/Morgan1/sld023.htm

  3. They spent it already? on Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah well, better get the printing presses running again.

  4. Routers are not misconfigured in Germany on Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    They come pre-configured for high security.

  5. Re:Teleporter death on Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Right. Another person who doesn't understand the difference between an original and a photocopy.

    Tell you what, you go first.

  6. Y'know what on Take Two Shelves Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately both Sony and Nintendo have declined to licence it, so they can't do that. There's a lesson in that. Ain't there.

  7. Do a Masters on Graduate with Bad Grades or Repeat a Year? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's what they're for.

  8. Infamy is valuable. on Take Two Shelves Manhunt 2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Release it on the PC.

  9. Re:Moot on How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back · · Score: 1

    Is it time for two digit US dollar inflation? Just wait a couple of months...

  10. Moot on How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the dollar continues to fall as it has over the last few years.

  11. Hmmmm.... Thinks.... on Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox · · Score: 1

    Data haven...

  12. Re:How long before someone steals it? on Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox · · Score: 1

    I have a $19.99 jammer.

    HTH.

  13. American politics is one dimensional on Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins · · Score: 1

    There is only left and right, and Americans seem to think along these one dimensional lines.

    Oh and the American definition of liberal is fucked up beyond all recognition. Which normally wouldn't bother me but the more retarded among my countrymen are starting to redefine the meaning of liberal in the UK as well.

  14. Re:It's been known for years on Firstborn Get the Brains · · Score: 1

    By that logic, single children should be far more intelligent than others, right? Eh, no. That would only be the case if parental attention adds IQ points rather than the lack of it removing IQ points.

  15. LOL on Court Ruling Limits Copyright Claims · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...in the coffin for the argument that these laws and regulations protect creators and innovators. Any laws. All laws are there for the benefit of the people who buy them.

  16. How do you trust your computers? on France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's really only one way.

    Build it yourself. Hardware and software. It kind of explains Bull.

  17. Can? on France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying · · Score: 1

    You mean that our governments aren't already assuming that they do snoop?

    Yeah, but what am I thinking? We're talking about politicians and bureaucrats here.

  18. Re:FFS. Privatize it already on Subcommittee Stops Human Mars Mission Spending · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that the activity wouldn't cause a space based economy to develop. Things like space based factories, asteroid mining, space tourism. etc etc.

  19. It's been known for years on Firstborn Get the Brains · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That kids at different points in the family structure get different amounts of parental attention. And that's just to start with. The firstborn gets usually, years of exclusive attention which the younger kids by definition can never have.

  20. If I was designing a P2P network today on P2P Remains Dominant Protocol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It'd be http based. Not for efficiency or any technical reason, but because it's the best camouflage.

  21. Eh, no. it's more a case of on Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline · · Score: 1

    "I have people to do that for me".

  22. Greater throughput allows more clients on College to Deploy First 802.11n Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To function effectively. Depending on how many you can get on an access point it can work out cheaper. And compare with the cost of rolling out cat5 or fiber everywhere. Then there's the stuff you just can't do any other way. The big benefit of ubiquitous high bandwidth wifi though is that you can start to use it for all sorts of clever stuff.

    e.g. Imagine taking one of those electronic paper book things out to the football field and showing the players a video of a play, with animated diagrams.

    Then the engineers can take advantage of it too. Want a robogardener? Make the engineering departments big project to build a wireless PC into a powered lawn mower and the football field gets mowed twice a week.

  23. Exactly on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    It's invention which changes the world, not innovation. Broadband is a world changing technology, the computer is a world changing technology.

    In the past, the pneumatic tyre, the internal combustion engine, the gas turbine etc.

    Thing is, invention on it's own isn't enough. There are plenty of inventions languishing on the scrap heap. The key to the world changing part is economics.

  24. Re:FFS. Privatise it already on Subcommittee Stops Human Mars Mission Spending · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I cannot imagine And there's your problem. You seem to be under the impression that nobody else could imagine either.

  25. This is great for the company. on AO Rating Basically Bans Manhunt 2 From Release · · Score: 1

    Assuming they can get it out on the PC sometime soon.