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  1. Google owes the US something on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 1

    Let's face it, most other countries of the world would probably not have produced a Google. I think it's appropriate for the company to honor the political and social conditions that allowed it to thrive, and I think it's possible to do so in a way that does not offend other nations.

  2. Claims like this should be easy to verify on Irish Company Claims Free Energy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many other charlatans and crackpots have made this claim. I have yet to see anyone publish a coherent layman's description of how to accomplish it.

    I think the best way to disclose such an invention would be to post a web site with a list of parts to buy, where to buy them from, how much they cost, etc., and step-by-step illustrated instructions for putting it together. The end result simply needs to be a box that one could screw a light bulb into and keep the light turned on perpetually without an external power source.

    If somebody did this, he would not even be a need to explain how it functions, because it would be impossible to refute. Scientists would eventually figure out how it worked.

    Unfortunately no claimed free energy source that I know of passes this simple test.

  3. Good to see some people can still say sorry on Wikipedia Hoax Author Confesses · · Score: 1

    This case is a great example for others to follow. A person admits his guilt and takes full responsibility for it and his accuser chooses not to press charges. This is the way conflicts should be resolved. If this happened more often, things would cost a lot less, since goods and services would include less overhead for insurance against litigation.

  4. Re:Founding Fathers thought so. on Are Journalism and Politics Inextricably Joined? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the news outlets that were around during the early days of American independence were far more inflammatory, dishonest and vicious than Fox News or most of the other news outlets that are around today, and they were often very popular. For this very reason John Adams enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were later deemed unconstitutional, and for which he was hounded till his dying day. Be careful not to analyze current events without an adequate knowledge of history.

  5. Re:Audiobook on A Sound of Thunder · · Score: 1

    Can you post the publishing info of that version so that I can try to find it? Thanks

  6. Re:Optical routers already exist on Internet Heading to Light Speed · · Score: 1

    One other detail: these routers are supposed to have a switching capacity of approximately 10 terabits per second, and that was four years ago!

  7. Optical routers already exist on Internet Heading to Light Speed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bell Labs invented them in 1999.

  8. Chamber of Deputies, not House of Representatives on Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software · · Score: 1

    The correct translation of "Camara dos Deputados" is "Chamber of Deputies," not "House of Representatives." All of the stuff listed in the article occurred in the Chamber of Deputies.

  9. Satellite Internet Access on Mobile IT Education? · · Score: 1

    I recommend a satellite Internet provider like Starband or Wild Blue (when it comes out).

  10. Space DOES matter on Ogg Vorbis RC3 Released · · Score: 1

    Space savings are INCREDIBLY important! The issue is not how much space the music takes up on your hard drive, but how fast you can transfer it from one computer to another. Internet bandwidth is still severely limited. Also, portable devices don't have a lot of space and more memory is expensive, so your issue about space being a moot point is false.

  11. No software to take advantage of 10+ Ghz chips?! on 20 Factors That Will Change PCs In 2002 · · Score: 1
    Under the heading "To 10 GHz and beyond: Extreme ultraviolet lithography" the author claims that there is no software that can use such fast processors:

    >What's the catch? Software that's capable
    >of taking advantage of all this
    >processing muscle is nowhere in sight.
    What about real-time raytracing and perfect physics? I don't know a single 3D gamer who wouldn't love to have such power available to him.
  12. Speaking of a well-rounded education... on Is A "Well-Rounded" Education a Good One? · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if those commenting (Cliff) on well-rounded educations at least knew how to spell: "forrest" and "curriculums" (should be "forest" and "curricula"). This is what you get from a generation that learned more from watching movies (like "Forrest" Gump) than from reading books!