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  1. Re:unpossible on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    What is more interesting is that Colleges have been and still try to freeze languages. English is an evolving language, most people today could not read what was written a few hundred years back.

    Perhaps the teachers are just jealous they're not hip anymore.

  2. Protectionalism on China Is Winning Global Race To Make Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    I'm not a fan of it in general it causes more problems than it solves (countries get into tit for tat issues). However, we NEED jobs in this country badly, good paying jobs for people being forced out of the auto industry and this is a perfect place to utilize their skills. It is also an insult to every American company that's been developing and building these things stateside. Buy American we develop the technology, buy Chinese and they develop technology.

    Also you're spitting on every soldier who's fought in the Mid East, by buying Chinese wind turbines, solar panels etc. Do not trade one foreign energy dependency for another.

  3. Re:In other words on Boot Camp Finally Supports Windows 7 On Macs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree, however Apple has a long history of breaking compatiblity to force you to upgrade to a new product.

    Aperature 1 owners upon upgrading to 10.6 find they can not load Aperature until they pay to upgrade to version 2. Happened to Me.

    2007 Mac Pro owners find they have to buy a new Mac Pro to get new graphics cards (what's the point of a Mac Pro if you can not upgrade the internals) guess hard drives suffice.

    I'm sure the list is longer than that as well. Also iPod 2g owners will soon probably find themselves forced to upgrade to get new apps when a SDK 5 drops or some similar excuse.

    In 2004 we got ipods, then mac mini,s then I got a Mac Pro in 07, worked for a good bit, then the BS started, and were back to using Windows 7. It's was just a phase I keep telling myself.

  4. Re:Ill bet this will happen on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    No. Hardware has been in place for quite awhile that is capable of using IPv6. Cisco you just have to use an image capable of IPv6 use such as Advanced IP Services or Adv Ent Services..

  5. Re:Hey! on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    We'll as long as these poor saps are sitting at their desks they have plenty of T&A around that's for sure. Might not be what they want, but hey we all make sacrifices now and then!

  6. Re:Anyone else think.. on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    More like he should be wearing a suit that gets more stiff where it tries to vibrate as the wind compresses his skin. If you've seen people in wind tunnels and watch their skin make waves, that needs to be prevented with this guy.

    More likely he's going to rip up some areas of his skin severely and it's entirely possible he'll bleed out before he gets to the surface.

  7. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    They should just put a hard limit in place that applies to everyone. 1000 dollars per individual or group with the group representing any multitude of individuals. Would apply to any business, PAC, Union etc.

    Ban and make it criminal to claim to represent individuals you do not. If you say that you represent the grandmothers of Texas, then it should be a list that can be examined and those on that list asked if they signed up to have the group lobby for them.

    Also we've been suffering from corporatism for quite awhile. Just look at how our laws are shaped, less individual laws and more laws for corporations.

    Now that the republicans can block health care legislation what we'll get is some soup of tax cuts for hospitals, pharm, and doctors who are all going to just put the money into their pockets and ignore prices.

  8. The Reply is worse on Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal? · · Score: 1

    In exchange for not getting sued they're basically being locked down to where they can no longer directly post any "leaked" information on any of their websites, and they're being told they have to notify apple of the source.

  9. Re:Panic Averted - Resume Doing Nothing on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Companies deploying LTE networks are using IPv6 from the start. Any device that uses LTE will use IPv6

  10. Re:IPv4 doesn't die on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are nearly 9 billion people on the planet. The problem of taking a Class A away from a company is that they would have to take years and millions of dollars to redo their address space to what you'll let them keep. We do not have that kind of time, and it's not as easy as you think to do such a thing. Getting a lawyer would be cheaper compared to the costs of changing ip addresses. There are servers out there that have ip's hard coded into them at the costs of tens of thousands of dollars to get it changed.

  11. Re:Pretty simple, really on Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist? · · Score: 1

    It's called a FOA first office application. You do what modeling you can, check what you're changing and Rule #1 is dont fuck with something if you know nothing about it. We do it in the middle of the night and if it screws up things we just restore the changed equipment to the pre change state. Networks are too complex and even the best lab modeling does not catch all situations.

  12. It can co-exist on BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV · · Score: 1

    I have no issue with open source players being given a API that allows them to make use of precompiled bits that allow decryption. Hell even put some sort of identifying information into the recorded bits to keep people honest. Not everything has to be open source. If I pay for a TV broadcast then I expect to be able to play it back on the media player of my choice. However, I will not agree to anyone trying to tell me I can not play it on my blackberry, xbox, iphone, because they've not been paid to allow it.

  13. Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes because he made up the recession, the job losses, the high health care bill, the war dead and wounded, the ballooning deficit and the general disdain that other countries have for how we were doing business with the rest of the world.

    He won because he was the only politician who was willing to accept the vast MAJORITY of his funding from the American public, say he was going to fix the issues that the MAJORITY of American's cared about. His predecessor was elected twice on the narrowest margins in history and it's arguable that he stole these elections both times.

    Personally I'd rather have a bad president who earned his way into the office, than a morally bankrupt president who cheats his way into the office. Go ahead keep blaming presidents for our problems.

    The problem is, has, and will always be congress and political parties and our campaign finance system. Ban political parties, ban corporate donations to candidates, and make a limit on donations to 1k no matter your income per family. Things would change.

  14. What's wrong with this? on Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have a open source OS with proprietary apps on top than a proprietary OS with free apps on top.

  15. This would be unconstitutional in many countries on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 1

    Any country that guarantees freedom in their constitutions would not be able to enforce this. Any nutjob who wants to could call himself the pope and start his own church.

  16. Re:php is bad for the environment on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 5, Funny

    "even arp drags a server down when you have 20K+ connects"

    Are you perhaps a server admin in my company? I swear this is the best excuse for poor performance I've ever heard.

  17. Illegal? on Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews · · Score: 1

    People are being paid to rate an app with 5 stars but not saying so. That's now illegal.

    It's a stretch, but I would expect that rating an app is equal to blogging supportively about it.

  18. Re:Moore's Law Extended? on Aussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    10GHz cores are not something you want to sit next to without proper shielding it's possible you could be burned. It was a concern back when we were approaching single core 5GHz before the dual core processors came out and everyone was speculating we would be at 10GHz in 3-5 years. That was about 6 years ago I believe.

  19. Re:Use Tax on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    Move to a national VAT and end the problem across the board. Then we can finally fire the IRS, though that might add another 2% to the unemployment #'s.

  20. Best way to start on Reusing Old TiVo Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Figure out if there's a JTAG or serial header you can use on the MB and go from there. It's pretty much the only way you would get anything meaningful done.

    Also, the older Tivo's are probably the only ones that would be useful, since they can record analog sources. The digital ones are laced with DRM hardware that would probably make things hell.

  21. Re:what exactly did they detect? on Antimatter In Lightning · · Score: 1

    No, of all our technology to produce power it still involves boiling water.

    Tapping these nuclear sources directly would be a step forward.

  22. He would of been better off x-examining the witnes on Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? · · Score: 1

    Go to court, plead not guilty, cop shows up states you are, ask to see the witness. Cop says he's the witness, nope he's a 3rd party to the witness. The actual witness is that radar detector he claims he was using. When was it purchased, was it dash mounted, has it ever been dropped if it's hand held, how is it handled (I've seen cops toss them into the passenger seat and fly after speeders), and most importantly. Produce the calibration certification and it's calibration requirements. I'm sure 90% of police districts are too cheap to calibrate these devices on time if at all.

    This shit flys for traffic cameras as well. You're allowed by law to face your accuser, in both cases the cop is not the accuser, it's the devices the use to contend your're speeding.

    Just dont be fighting it if you know you were actually speeding. Also I wonder how much those parents spent to fight this. Surely it was more than 190 dollars.

  23. Re:Umm, what? on AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    It's hard to keep up on the wireless side.

    I have advocated jumping a generation in bandwidth for trunks, but it's been ignored completely.

    There were DS3's when CDPD was the major wireless data plan. Then 3G1x aka 2.5g forced upgrades to OC-3, 3G forced upgrades to OC-12's, and expansion on that end is forcing up to OC-48's. Now they realize that they had to move from central ISP uplinks to ones closer to the cell towers, and LTE will force those links to move even closer possibly to nearby CO locations rather than even the nearest carrier switching locations. With LTE you will see them aggregating gigabit circuits to cell towers and backhauling that to MTSO locations vs regional locations. Either way for any company it's a battle to keep up with explosive demand, and that's just bandwidth. Lets not get into how many ip's we have to pull out of our asses each month to keep up with new ip enabled phones.

  24. Just need 2 metal rods on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I've seen it done to locate metal pipes many times and tried it myself at home. It works. Get two metal rods about 2 feet long, bend the ends to hold in your hand and walk slowly, when over a metal object they ends will come together. Watched a guy locate an entire septic system using this on TV once.

  25. Suggestive Hypnotism on Placebo Effect Caught In the Act In Spinal Nerves · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It just goes to show that people will believe anything, worse their minds make it into reality. *S* No wonder bible thumpers are so nuts. *S*

    Wake me when telling a cancer patient these meds will help and the body suddenly attacks the cancer. Mind over matter.