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  1. Re:"boundary of accuracy"? on New Atomic Clock Pushes Boundaries of Accuracy · · Score: 1

    But the atomic clock isn't 100% accurate. When the level of accuracy it is at moves closer to 100% the boundary is considered pushed.

  2. Other input on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    the computer will be able to read your gestures in the air and you'll be able to use a gun like interface consistently for games.

  3. Re:at work? on The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders · · Score: 1

    grep world "real job" "real job" not found in world sorry.

  4. Criminals on The Case Against Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you cared what they wanted, they might start to care what you want. Whad do you want anyways?

  5. The other way around on Blackdown Releases a 1.4.1 JDK · · Score: 1

    Microsoft designed its Java implemetation so that some programs designed to run under Microsoft's Java VM will not run under Sun's.

  6. How it gets modded insightful on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 1

    I suspect it has something to do with the Emperor wearing no clothes. That being said, I'm an Imperialist!

  7. Re:I'm confused on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 1

    But there's no justification of why different routing techniques would make it go faster, nor does it say what those different routing techniques would be.

  8. But... on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 1

    It said something about not taking the least congested route, which means taking a route that is already congested. "But if routers choose the route that looks the least congested, they are doing selfish routing." But it seems to me that by not chosing the least congested route, all they are doing is mucking things up for those using the more congested route.

  9. I'm confused on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow the only conclusion I could draw from the article is that using the network slows it down. Right, so could somebody explain what the article is trying to say?

  10. Heritage. on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name · · Score: 2

    This may come to a shock to you, but my heritage has very little to do with my self identity.

  11. Names on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My name is Robert Lee Claypool. I live in Muncie There is another Robert Lee Claypool in Anderson in the next county over.

  12. Rights... on Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have the right to act on radio waves passing through your body as you have jurisdiction over your own body. This page applies here, too.

  13. Let me direct you... on Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA · · Score: 1

    I found this page, which I bookmarked for people like you who just don't get it. If there's still something you need clearing up, post a response to this with your difficulty and I'll see if I can help.

  14. I can hear the designers now... on Solar Panels As Building Clothing · · Score: 2, Troll

    "Oh darling, that bue material is just so to die for"

  15. "what money is worth" on Dragon's Lair 3D Not Worth The Effort · · Score: 1

    I never really understood how that would give someone a sense of what money is worth.

  16. Jefferson's quote on Shortening Copyright After Eldred Loss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Issac McPherson

    jefferson idea candle taper

  17. telco's on Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The article talks about getting telcos permission to connect these networks to them, but once these networks get pervasive enough, they can cover the globe without needing to connect to telcos.

  18. Re:Sooo... on Democracy in the Dark? · · Score: 1

    Without all that nitty-gritty lawyer stuff, a trial would just be a philosophy debate.

    You mean, it isn't now?

  19. Rightful? on NCR Patents the Internet · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a different definition of rightful than most people. At one time, slaves were propery under US law. That didn't make it right to have slaves.

  20. E=MC^2 on First Cosmological Results From MAP · · Score: 1

    Mass is essentially energy. E=MC^2 is just a way of coverting between the units that were decided on to express mass energy, and the units used to express other types of energy.

  21. PPOR? on Going Cyberpunk · · Score: 1

    Great! So when will we finally have PPOR's?

  22. Except for one thing... on First Cosmological Results From MAP · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Matter is Energy.

  23. Sick? We can fix that! on IEEE Wants Congress To Re-Examine DMCA · · Score: 1

    Just get congress to pass a law saying that taking things from you is not stealing, and all of a sudden the "rationalizin for piracy and theft" as you call it will be the least of your problems! Calling the law-making body a device to circumvent laws is like calling a key a device to circumvent locks. It's Congress's JOB to decived whether or not thee provisions of the DMCA is to remain law or not.

  24. Cuisine on Why Alien Species Thrive · · Score: 1

    Any info on why they adapt so well to the new cuisine?

  25. Because... on NASA: Evidence Favors Infinitely Expanding Universe · · Score: 1

    the more time you have to predict something, the more likely it is to become a certainty. I can't predict with too much a degree of certainty that it will rain tomorrow, but I can predict with a much greater degree of certainty that it will rain sometime this year.