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  1. Re:Oh get it over with. on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    Put it on the Nasdaq and give us all a bid.

  2. Re:3...2...1.... on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They owned her before she was appointed. It was how she was selected to be appointed. She's not leaving anything. This is a promotion in the same de facto organization.

  3. Re:Non-compete on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    A requirement that meetings between lawmakers and lobbyists be recorded and available under FOIA would make such things moot.

  4. Re:Only for high officials on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, no lobbying the White House, but Congress is fair game.

    Tells you a lot about Congress.

  5. Re:Money buys power -- regulatees capture regulato on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    Horseshit. When states overstep that clause, they get their expectations reset by the other clauses. Too bad for them. Good for the nation.

  6. Re:Take a 3-pronged approach on US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    A repressed society is a polite society. With very kinky sex habits behind closed doors (brits and bondage, japanese and bukkake). I've never seen much of Swiss porn. Can only imagine...

  7. Re:Too complex on US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    So "that has always" when you use it sarcastically means "that has never", and there's no middle between them. Fallacy of false dichotomy/no middle ground.

  8. Re:Take a 3-pronged approach on US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    The quote is a broad hint that people not being polite will be shot. Nothing about political systems at all. Nothing about historical correlations. Just gun-nut claptrap.

  9. Re:For that money you'd think... on Canadian City Unveils $60k Open-Air Urinal · · Score: 1

    wouldn't that be :-)~~~ ?

  10. How are they going to test it? on Sailing the Titan Seas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are they going to build a pool of liquid methane in which to test this?

    I mean, a giant, sealed, cryogenic methane containment tank with N layers of protection so that it doesn't, you know, mix with air and explode?

  11. Re:And for Canada? on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1

    They may go more norther, but they're not hardly northish, of Alaska. And beware of map projections. Globes don't do Canationalists any favors.

  12. Re:OXCOs are cheap and common right now on Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip · · Score: 1

    They're going to need a thermometer that goes to parts per trillion, then, too, because the Earth reacts to the heat of the sun in a way that looks just like low-level geological instability.

    As for time dilation of any kind, there are maybe five people (all of them Doctors of some sort) who care in anything other than a merit-badge sort of way.

  13. Who thinks this is valuable? on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    Does the Electric Company not already have a technology-sharing agreement with the underwear gnomes?

  14. Re:Cheap once mass produced on Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip · · Score: 1

    How long do we have to wait?

    Please express your answer to 15 significant figures.

  15. Re:frequency hopping and better navigation. on Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip · · Score: 1

    At some point "really fast frequency hopping" becomes its own modulation trope. I.e., you aren't using the frequencies you're hopping on as the carrier, you're using the pattern of your hopping. So maybe. And I call dibs on the prior art if frequency-hopping-modulation works. We just can't call it FHM or nobody will get any work done when googling for the literature.

    DGPS takes the slop out of GPSS, and I'm not sure if one of these chips could possibly improve on it, though maybe, by providing a base reference.

    I'm not sure how having a transmitter on a tower is going to help when you can't read a GPS satellite. If you're among buildings, you might as well just use a map.

  16. Re:OXCOs are cheap and common right now on Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip · · Score: 1

    I know lots of people that will be looking to utilize these.

    For what?

    I don't know of much that needs timing precision better than a few ppb. If it does, it probably needs a redesign. Because even with a few ppb, the chances the clock is simply set wrong will be higher than the chance the drift will take it out of the valid range, and being robust enough to handle either case is probably worth the $1500.

  17. Re:Thanks but no thanks! on Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip · · Score: 1

    That just means we can't interrupt it.

    Ever.

  18. Re:Thanks but no thanks! on Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip · · Score: 1

    Your post is emitting more radiation than those chips will.

  19. Re:Privacy on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    I mean DELL KEYBOARDS FUCKING SUCK!

    aldjkfhaldkfhalkdfhakhfalkfhadjfhalkdfhldkfjhalkdhfakldfhalkdjfh akldjfhakldfhaklhfalkjf <-- filter that, /.

  20. Re:And for Canada? on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1

    That would make it one of the few things for which she doesn't have a massive blind spot.

  21. Re:Too complex on US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    Fallacy. The fact that something has failed before doesn't negate its past or future successes.

  22. Re:Take a 3-pronged approach on US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    No one is claiming that an armed anarchy is peaceful.

    Except NRA members. They don't make any distinctions other than guns/no-guns.

    As for Switzerland, their politeness has nothing to do with their government-mandated guns, which are military equipment that they don't carry around all the time. It's illegal for them to break the seal on the government's ammo unless they're ordered to. They have to buy their own for practice or self-defense. Their politeness is because they're stuck-up white folks with a massive conformist streak and severe judgmentalism.

  23. Re:And for Canada? on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1, Informative

    >The second largest nation on earth.

    How much of it habitable? By bikini models?

    >Canada is above the US in every possible way.

    I'll inform Alaska of your Northocentrist worldview.

    >I know you were trying to be funny... Try harder next time.

    If Woody Allen can say he's not an artist, then I'm comfortable saying I'm not a comedian.

  24. Re:Privacy on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    You are paying for the envy of those among your friends who do not have the cool brand of clothes.

    Same deal with "luxury automobiles."

  25. Re:Privacy on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    Could you repeat that?

    signed,

    the NSAA.