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  1. Re:This is not for students on Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls · · Score: 1

    only 100mbps.... I only have like 10 o.o

  2. Re:Degrees on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    Would such a University give out degrees? I'm not sure such a thing would hold much clout. I would have to stoop to actually getting to know a potential hire from this university rather than stare at their GPA and 'work' experience!

    IDK If someone has 120 hours of course work in a field do they really need a piece of paper that says that? or is just saying you have 120 hours good enough?

  3. Re:iPhone 4 on 4G vs. 3G vs. WiFi Throughput For Samsung's Epic 4G · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That the Samsung Epic is the fastest phone that they tested.

    In other news my i7 Laptop scores better on benchmarks then my compaq 386...
    Could they really not find a G2 to test?

    Something I recently learned about android is how important the kernel is to download speeds, I went from 1mbps with stock android to 2-3mpbs with biffmod, with stock cm6 I only got. 300kbps.

    On one test I got 3.2Mbps.... Which is higher then what they're getting here... and this is on my G1.

  4. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well Duh, If you kill all your enemies you can't justify continuing the eternal war

  5. Re:1gb/month on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's an IPAD?

    It's a device that digitally lets you know when to plan the guys night out.

  6. Re:I'd rather make peanuts telecommuting on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    You don't need filtration on a clean well, assuming you're accustomed to the microorganisms in the area.

    Yeah it just tastes like ass

  7. Re:On my way to graduation on IT Security Salaries Expected To Rise In 2011 · · Score: -1, Troll

    You went to school to do IT? You must be stupid, If you were going for a CISSP for instance you need 5 years experience, with a 4 year degree they shave off a year. So in total you get your 5 years experience in only 8 short years.

    Seriously most crap in IT is so based on whether you can read a book and pass a test.

  8. Re:First move on Computer Defeats Human At Japanese Chess · · Score: 1

    Chess has a natural limit since the number of pieces monotonically decreases during the game. Shogi lets you drop (add) pieces that you capture, so a game can go on for a long time.

    Um no.... The thing that makes computers so good at chess is that it's a game of perfect information. Shogi the same it just has more permutations, specifically because of the drop rule. But there are still only a finite number of plays, Therefore using a lookup table is possible and I would argue even practical.

    http://www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/game_theory

  9. Re:As the economy improves??? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1
  10. Re:As the economy improves??? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't have a problem with Roads, power lines, dams, or other items that provide for the general long term benefit of society. But what passes for stimulus these days is stuff like cash for clunkers. Building a bridge puts somebody to work today. Whereas buying a car requires you already have a job.

  11. Re:Hasn't it already? on Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? · · Score: 1

    You have the X-307 model toaster too? With bluetooth capability so you can connect it to your headset and it can soothingly whisper to you when your toast is done, and is always connected to the main toast making database so that it always knows just how long to perfectly cook toast, bagels, english muffins, waffles, etc. and has a tri scanning array so it knows exactly what you put in it every time and can auto toast so you don't even have to push down on the button to start toasting, and then when its all done it gently rises the finished product up instead of shooting it up.

    Yah know, I could see a market for this.

  12. Re:Suddenly, it doesn't feel like '1984' anymore! on GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required · · Score: 1

    Ah the ever quotable Ben Franklin, While I agree with your sentiment other people have other views:

    "The constitution is not a suicide pact"
    Robert H. Jackson
    -Supreme court justice

  13. Really? on GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required · · Score: 0, Troll

    You want me to trust a corporation like google? If I wanted to search truly Anonymously I'd use Tor First

  14. Re:Near one of those simulated stars . . . on US Lab Models Galaxy Cluster Merger · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . does it have a planet with living beings running astronomical computer simulations?

    not anymore

  15. Re:Foo on Minnesota Moving To Microsoft's Cloud · · Score: 1

    I think you have it backwards, You need a patch to open docx in 2003, But I have a DVD of 2007 that with a fresh install can open .doc files from 2003...

    So... [citation needed]

    Also word had the ability to save as the old format, So maybe you just some ID10T users? Granted the Compatibility Pack really did make life easy.

  16. Re:Foo on Minnesota Moving To Microsoft's Cloud · · Score: 1

    Remember when 2007 couldn't open 2003, until all the backlash, then they finally decided to introduce translation.

    um... This wasn't such a bad thing. Granted I don't know what they changed in the docx format, But for excel 2007 the change was needed. The whole 65000 row limit was a real killer. How did you expect to open the new larger files in 2003?

  17. Re:0G beer on Researchers Test Space Beer · · Score: 4, Informative

    What do the bubbles do in zero-g?

    You've seen this right? the part your asking starts about a min in

  18. Re:Forgot one on Study Finds the Perfect Ratio of Attractiveness · · Score: 1

    >>>with huge... tracts of land.

    Believe it or not, some of us prefer small... um, tracts of land. We'd actually prefer small natural... tracts of land, rather than silicone enhanced... uh, tracts of land. If you catch my meaning. .

    >>>young, tall and long armed

    i.e. Thin.

    There's a tendency in this society (well US society anyway) to hate-on people with vicious comments like "too thin" or "skeletal" or "see-through" when in reality they have a perfectly healthy BMI index. (Between 18.5 and 23)

    Funny It used to be wide hipped lady's that used to consider attractive, Due to how many kids they could pop out.

  19. Re:Let me be the first to say... on 100/1 Odds On 'First Contact' Within a Year · · Score: 1

    Because if they're not smart enough to develop interstellar travel (which we still haven't), then we'll never see them because they can't come to Earth anyway...

    No matter what, they'll be technologically superior, simply because they'd have to be capable of traveling here in the first place.

    Of course, I still agree with the first post. I call bullshit.

    While I don't disagree with the First Post... I do disagree with your supposition that they will significantly superior technologically.

    you probably haven't read Turtledove's Worldwar series?

  20. Re:The only real question is... on Sony Lawsuits Target PS3 Jailbreak Authors · · Score: 1

    just print it in a book, ala pgp

  21. Re:js1337 on 1K JavaScript Madness · · Score: 1

    >I'm wondering what they can do if given some extra bytes.

    In a few weeks you'll find out at js1337.com ;0)

    This sounds epic

  22. Re:Legislation on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    Except my State(TX) Doesn't really allow a voter initiative, Changes pretty much have to start at the legislature.

  23. Re:Why not boycott PS3s on PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why you folks keep buying such consoles and other locked down devices.

    So I take it you never played BF 1943?

  24. Good! on PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sony deserves this for breaking my ps3predator, What are they gunna do now disable the controller that came with my console?

  25. Who is Nokia again? on Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs · · Score: 1

    Symbian? Did we time travel to 2004 again?