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  1. Re:edu-babble on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    Why do get the impression that he approves of it?

  2. Re:Attention whoring? on Giant Survival Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year On an Iceberg · · Score: 1

    It has also been done before and for much longer.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

  3. Re:What about distance? on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 1

    The are lots of ways to measure the distance to stars. But you are correct that certain methods are better for certain distance ranges
    http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wri...

  4. Re:Government != Internet engineers on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Thankfully I am not in the US so it does not affect me. And I do not subscribe to netflix

    Netflix did pay for their bandwidth. Comcasts customers also payed. Somewhere in the middle there was an argument.

  5. Re:Government != Internet engineers on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Comcasts customers are already paying to access Netflix. They are paying netflix and paying comcast. How comcast can not cope I do not know. As someone earlier pointed out End points will never provide symmetrical data transfers. It is always downloads. But then they are not stupid so they know that. I know they have a big network but how did they not give netfix a chance. Almost like they deliberately chose to mess around.

  6. Re:Government != Internet engineers on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    where did this go wrong? People pay for access. Not as much as they should but how can you deny them the access Paying for

  7. Re:Government != Internet engineers on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    And you are claiming that this is not comcasts problem? How?

  8. Re:Quick, remove everything on World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered In Kenya · · Score: 1

    I do not understand why they are doing that. It makes me cringe.

  9. Re:Landed OK but tipped over on SpaceX Dragon Launches Successfully, But No Rocket Recovery · · Score: 2

    Station keeping is slightly different.
    The wind and waves may shift the ship but the currents in the water are fairly consistent. The bulk of the ship is in the water and predominately affected by the currents. It takes a while for wind to affect it. and there is little to be done about waves apart from ride over them if small or correct for position afterwards if they are large enough to move the vessel.

  10. Re:Government != Internet engineers on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Netflix do not peer with comcast. Netflix demonstrably has enough bandwidth available to get the data out there (onto the pipes so to speak). Comcast refused to provide the bandwidth from the transit providers to their own network. You know the one that their customers pay for.

    I'm not saying that all their customers should always get all the bandwidth they have purchased. Overselling keeps prices down. But if you oversell you should not be surprised if you eventually have to make good on the claims you made. And in this case it did not even involve a massive infrastructure upgrade.

  11. Re:Landed OK but tipped over on SpaceX Dragon Launches Successfully, But No Rocket Recovery · · Score: 2

    Have you ever tried to move a barge or for that matter any boat rapidly enough to compensate for something the rocket could not? If it is a slight know drift then maybe. Last min rapid changes. Not a chance.

  12. Re:Mass Murder on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 1

    In Germany they do not deny their past or try to hide it. They do have some weird rules as they just do not want it to happen again.

  13. Re:Government != Internet engineers on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    And comcast should be able to satisfy the upstream demand generated by the plans they sell.

  14. Re:Gardening not Showering on California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water · · Score: 1

    California's urban water usage is 10% of the total water usage. Of that 10% half is used for landscaping.
    http://www.ppic.org/main/publi...

  15. Re:Ironic headline on EU Commission Divided Over Nation-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it also means the combination of the whole of the distinct sets. Combine them all. You expect no internal disagreements? There were internal disagreements before the Union. It would be worrying for everyone around the world if the EU turned into a single borg mind.

  16. Re:Ironic headline on EU Commission Divided Over Nation-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 1

    Sort of like the United in the states of America then?

    At last union means the intersect of bits that correspond. United is "all for one and one for all"?

  17. Re:No real mystery here on X-37B To Fly Again · · Score: 1

    It was originally designed to be launched from within the space shuttles payload bay. Optical spy sats were at an optical limit a long time ago. You can't make a bigger mirror that works and can be launched. You can use Interferometry to get a better image with a wide dispersal of elements but at optical wavelengths that is very difficult and if you want to do it you do not need a reusable craft. It can maneuver but then most satellites used for earth gazing can as well (and they do not have to have the extra mass needed to come down to earth again)

    Unless the cost of the equipment or data on it is more than the cost of launching it by a large margin. So bringing it back is worth while.

  18. Re:Read the Damn Articles on Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology · · Score: 1

    Yep there are interesting things and Israel do manage to do them. Germany, UK and America also seem to do this.

  19. Re:Prototype on Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology · · Score: 1

    Explosives are fun. Reactive Armour can disrupt a shaped charge. Even simple grid armour can provide the separation needed to reduce the effect of a shaped charge. there are reasons why vehicles look like a chicken cadge. I works and is light and cheap.

  20. Re:To paraphrase Mark Twain on Doomsday Vault: First Tree Samples Arrive At Underground Seed Store · · Score: 1

    Us humans are really good at killing things. If it is profitable we can use and abuse it until it is totally gone. Hurm why do I fear that some things do not change.

  21. Re:Great for Cuba on Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US · · Score: 1

    There used to be this concept of a contract. You agree to train them (plus uni) and they agree to work with you for 2/3/4 years in compensation. I believe the military still use this (at least in most of Europe they do. Business less so now)

    It is silly to spend $100,000 a year . But you do not have to. That is silly money. Colleges in the US are wow..silly. Many of the jobs in It or recruitment or sales or whatever the fuck you wish are hard to be good at but there are lots of people who can do it and excel (degree or not)

    Sort of put your money where your mouth is and sponsor those you need.

  22. Re:By facts, not links? on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    An encyclopedia is never authoritative. It is an overview. It provides references for you to follow. It is an entry point to the subject you looked up. It is never the be all and end all. There is a reason why Wikipedia has a no original research clause.

  23. Re:common man on The Imitation Game Fails Test of Inspiring the Next Turings · · Score: 1

    They can all be smart. The one who figures it out is remembered.

  24. Re:common man on The Imitation Game Fails Test of Inspiring the Next Turings · · Score: 1

    Built by smart people and less smart people and those who work in factories. Who is to say how smart any of those people are?

    It is known that those who designed it were smart. Those who built it may or may not be smart.A thousand people brute forcing it are unlikey to break a code. A couple of people who know can use a thousand people to build a machine that can.

  25. The GP is correct. To display most things you do not need javascript.

    For most things there is little reason to use javascript. High bandwidth then reloading the page is not slow. If you have low bandwidth then initially loading the few hundred k of random javascript is slow and it tends to behave badly. (let alone the random adds that you will force on people (guessing your type))