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  1. The way America is run is childish, not the system per se, but the people doing the governing. Also, it should be illegal to mix political points in the same bill, as it is easy to shadow core issues with popular ones for political points.

    For example, over here it is illegal to have sales deals that give you totally unrelated things for free if you buy an item. Examples being, buy a car - get a frozen half pig. If your selling a car you can only offer car related or monetary deals.

  2. Other utilities have com about in the same way. on GOP Congressman Defending Privacy Vote: 'Nobody's Got To Use The Internet' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    All utilities where luxury once. Now they are so pervasive that we can not live normal lives without them. The internet is the same way and should go the same route.

  3. Well written, I have a similar position.

    Would only add that the abuse possibilities for this concept is frightening. There is a reason we do not add things to the TCP/IP basics of the Internet. We actually remove everything we can to keep it from being vulnerable to attacks.

  4. Re:Missing the whole point on Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The short of it is that Internet access is a utility.

    It should be the same for all ISPs except price, speed and support. With a minimum support level, perhaps, mandated by law.

  5. Re:What really guides the Network Cookies? on Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Aaaaaaand you have a support nightmare.

  6. Any implementation of this would require the global consent of the ISP "community", it used to have some "community-ish" behavior but now the bean counters are deep into the routing.

    Not going to happen:
        1. It sound like a major attack vector, to ddos backbones etc. We in the ISP community are real hot about not taking risks with the network.
        2. It sounds like a major demand on how QoS is implemented in and between networks. This is something ISP do not agree on today and do not trust there peers with.
        3. If it requires software updates it will take 1-2 year to be accepted as stable in the "community" and after that it would require 2-5 years to reach maturity with end-to-end functionality.
        4. Settling the discussion. It would take years to discuss what the user would be allowed to do and how that should be handled in different scenarios. And what the ISP must accept, and run as default. Like preference to high income sources.

    All the above will take so long that we will all have Gigabit internet and massive backbones in place before this will allow ISP to run there backbone overloaded with the excuse that customers can choose traffic priorities.

    From what I gleen from the abstract this would also be a massive load on all the transit routers. Far easier to keep doing what we have been doing, just keep upgrading.

  7. Re: Nuclear Testing. on Toxic Air Pollution Particles Found In Human Brains (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole planet is radioactive, the the universe outside is even more so.
    Those tests almost certainly had no lasting effect, the amounts of material was minute. The average life time consumption of bananas will outstrip any effect of any radioactive waste you will encounter in your lifetime. Unless you expose yourself on purpose.

    I am Swedish and I remember when Chernobyl went pop, it was forbidden to sell meat where the winds spread radioactive dust. In the end though, no increase in cancer has been measurable.
    It has also been proven that no radiation is not good for your immune system, it apparently needs the stimulation to function properly.

  8. Re:"Meddling with nature"? Yes, please. on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Caution is off course well advised.

    But our, skilled, meddling with nature is the only reason we know that the planet is in jeopardy.
    We refer to this meddling as science, the rest is mostly industry. But gene editing is science for now.

    Assuming we want to save the planet we may want to eliminate things that are expensive and wasteful, like obvious genetic diseases.
    You can do the nazi approach, but I guess you not that willing to save the planet.

    So what is left is to try and cure as many of these costly (in both money and misery) problems as possible. Or we can just let things be as they aught to be and watch those poor beings suffer with there proper genetic defects.

    Nature does not know best, infact it does not know a thing. It is a phenomenon, a fantastic one yes, for sure. But not an intelligence or a rule set.

  9. Re:Well... on EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    All your 1337 are belong to us!

  10. Wormhole/blackhole - subUniverse/Big Bang on Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes? · · Score: 1

    I think this theory would perhaps meen a new approach to the Big Bang and inflasion dilemas.

    Theory: The big bang was the otherside/inside of a blackhole/wormhole forming in another universe/dimension. Inflation may be casued by diffrent amounts of matter being transfered/caught in the singularity/wormhole.

    Kind of a turtle on a turtle situation.

    So, I dont think a wormhole would transport you to another place in our dimension but to a sub-Universe (subVerse?). As sub atomized minced meat. :P

    My .2 cents

  11. We should be gratfull... on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1

    I think we should be grate full for the curious hackers thats tried security out for free during the history of networking and so on. As they have put light on issues that otherwise would have been ignored and then later used to totaly destroy systems/data when someone with a mission of terrorism tried the same thing.
    Its offcourse annoying but much preferred to actually be all out attacked when ever a flaw is discovered.
    If there had never been any hackers our systems wold be so easy to exploit when one would appear that its mind numbing to think how quickly basicaly every system in the world could be stoped by a single virus. Who cares about servers, think centralized control systems for trafic lights and airports, power systems, etc etc...

    God bless the curious hackers

  12. Get an external antenna on Cutting Through a Wi-Fi Traffic Jam? · · Score: 1

    To get better signal without increasing noise you must apply an external antenna. To separate yourself choose the least used channel 1, 6 or 11 (these do not overlapp) and polarise your antenna (mount it the wrong way, generally horisontaly).
    this will get you 20 dbi of separation from verticaly polarised antennas.
    Cheap antennas have less separation. You need something like 6-9 dbi.
    Now it is better to use the SAME channel as the others with the least traffic as the collision avoidance will work as though in the 802.11b standard. if you have channels next to yours (5 and 6 for example) there signal will register as noise on your net and cause packetloss.
    Also you can enable medium reservation with a low packet size threshold.

    Or go 5.4 as we did (I build broadband networks with PTP radiolinks) and get almost no noice and better speed.

    Good luck!

  13. How to duplicate a NTFS drive... on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 1

    What you really need is a RAID 1 interface. Place the original disk on channel 1 and your blank disk on channel 2. Duplicate disk in the interface BIOS function or in OS as you continue to work.

  14. Media Glyphs Development on Testing Technology on a Veritable Army of Children? · · Score: 1

    This is indeed a chance to develop Media Glyphs. Though handicaped people have used similar systems to communicate with small icons and pointing. So, there is background for this type of thing already.

    I think the world needs a "system" like that. I think it will accelerate learning in many ways. Not just languages.