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  1. Re:Quick Fix on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    There was no delay in adoption.

    Did you even read the article? You know, the one with the adoption rate in the US of less than 1%?

  2. Re:Quick Fix on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    Yes, clearly either would need an upgrade, but IPv6 is a lot more than just an address extension so the work involved is much greater. Was the extra engineering and features worth the extra delay in adoption?

  3. Quick Fix on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    I wonder how a quick fix approach would have been accepted. Something simple like slapping another 32bits on an "extended" IPv4 address and assuming leading zeros on any packet with an old 32 bit address.

  4. Re:Why did he get interrogated in the first place? on CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border · · Score: 1

    Secondary screening is like jury duty. There are "spaces" to fill and periodically you get called. If you fit a particular profile, your chances of getting called increase.

  5. Re:Another CEO that needs to be Guillotined on FBI Used FedEx To Sneak Dotcom's Hard Drives Out of NZ · · Score: 1

    ...corporations don't have human rights and are not a fictional "person"

    I agree, but I like the beheading idea better. You could even do a ventriloquist act with the severed head to please the angry mob: [moving chin up an down] "Hey kids! Copying that file is bad, m'kay?"

  6. Re:And now RIM on Inside the Death of Palm and WebOS · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... except RIM isn't actually making a decent product.

    You miss the point and the similarities: RIM started with a superior product, gained a dominate position, cruised on auto pilot while competitors passed them and finally began a last ditch scramble to return to relevance just as their resources and market share evaporate. Oops, too late.

  7. Re:priacy 2.0 on China Secretly Clones Austrian Village · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't there a lot of stuff in Las Vegas as well?

    If by "stuff" you mean hookers and booze, then officially: no. Because Las Vegas is a family destination.

    (this post is a blatant rip-off of another /. post: standing on the shoulders of midgets)

  8. Re:The whole standardized test industry is the iss on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 4, Informative

    President Clinton's No Child Left Behind...

    From Wikipedia: "The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)[1][2] is a United States Act of Congress that came about as wide public concern about the state of education. First proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office,[3] the bill passed in the U.S. Congress with bipartisan support."

  9. Re:Now watch... on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 2

    Watch how South Korea's morality and productivity go up...

    The BBC had an interesting show: Civilization, is the West History?

    One of the issue they explored was the Protestant work ethic and productivity. They explored the decline of religion in the West and the rise of Christianity in the East and the relative productivity. I know from the Korean neighborhoods in Dallas, they seem to have as many Christian churches (with signs in Hangul) as anyone else. If you've ever seen the endless sea of churches in Dallas, you know that says something.

  10. Re:What about U.S.Citizens on DHS Best-and-Brightest STEM Program Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Not really off topic, because access to university is tied in with the DHS claims that there are shortages of US workers with these skills.

  11. The Horror of Bipartisanship on DHS Best-and-Brightest STEM Program Under Fire · · Score: 3, Informative

    A major expansion of the program occurred in 2008 under Bush and is now expanded again by Obama. Over 400000 OPT Visas from 2006-2010, so this is the same scale at H1B. The DHS press release has the usual, if questionable, justification: this is only for the best of the best of the best and there are no US workers with these skills.

    Lies and quiet scheming have replaced honest discussion with US citizens.

  12. Re:So It's Come To This. on Boeing Hydrogen Powered Drone First Flight · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Kevin Smith is still under 450 lbs, and he's created a few bombs.

  13. Re:An Extra Ten Years Being a Pediatrician? on The Real-Life Doogie Howser · · Score: 1

    ...might not have been the best trade-off.

    Particularly if lady luck gets bitchy and he is run over by some dumb ass texting while driving next week.

  14. Re:2 kW enough? on Another Step Forward In Small Scale Electrical Generators · · Score: 0

    My induction cooktop has a rated load of 11kW!
    Rated loads on some other devices:
    PC power supply: 800W
    Plasma TV: 420W
    Home cinema amp: 870W
    Stereo amp: 800W

    Am I so atypical?

    Honestly, that sounds like a premium setup. Not excessive, but not average. 2kW is just a starting point and will be coupled with efficiencies in consumption and supplemented by the grid for peak consumption. As another poster pointed out, if you have a supply of natural gas then a gas cooker could be part of that solution.

  15. Re:Irony alert! on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use my Apple TV mainly for playing music off my main iTunes library, but I looked at the video and saw $2.99 per episode for TV shows? I have Amazon Prime streaming and see similar stuff: $1.99/episode for a 4 year old How It's Made.

    Everyone is talking about the merits of different technology, but the real road block to adoption seems to be an insanely broken pricing scheme. I saw that Dish pays around 0.25/month per subscriber to Comedy Central. Yet somehow it's reasonable to ask 2 bucks for a single episode of a single show from that channel?

  16. Re:Difference between stated intent and real inten on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    Hugo may think the citizenry is his biggest threat, but it's much more likely he will be snuffed by a power hungry go-getter in his own military who feels insufficiently compensated.

  17. Re:Start fiddling... on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    Time to slap a weiner on the pantheon.

  18. Re:There's some degree of conflict on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    ...for reasons I don't fully understand, CBS polls on the same issue get slightly higher results.

    Matlock, a show popular with the elderly, is on CBS.

  19. Re:Really? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 0

    ...ruining things for the rest of us.

    The good lard Jebus forgives you your trespasses, now hold the snake.

  20. Now that's conservative! on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An actual law to prevent looking forward. For North Carolina Republicans, the entire world is in the rear view mirror.

  21. Re:Freedom on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

  22. Dear God no... on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 1

    hooked on arousal...

    I can stop any time I want.

  23. Re:What's the useful limit? on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    ...there is no such thing as "The Cloud"

    Yahweh Himself was present in the cloud (Ex 19:9; 24:16; 34:5) and His glory filled the places where the cloud was (Ex 16:10; 40:38; Nu 10:34);

    There you have it: The power of the Lord compels you to use Dropbox.

  24. Re:What's wrong with keyboards? on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    Why do we need all these fucking gestures and shit?

    Angus Podgorney prefers the soothing click and clack of his abacus!

  25. Call the interns! on Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak" · · Score: 1

    A crack squad of interns paid to review these things before the automated censor kicks in seems like an easy way to avoid embarrassment. Come on Apple, do a little "job creation" and save face at the same time.