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  1. Re:For business only? on 29 Universities Seek High-Speed Networks · · Score: 1

    My local ISP, cruzio.com, has a similar deal with UC Santa Cruz. It has worked nicely as our DSL speeds are tripling. Cruzio is also expanding the fiber link around the Monterey Bay.

  2. Re:Idiots. on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 1

    On the bacterial level it happens quite frequently. So yes, it has much basis in science.

  3. Re:What the fsycke happened ? on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 1, Troll

    Seeing as how decisions made in Texas can affect the content of textbooks nationwide, the reaction is entirely in proportion. Already Texas has tried to shift historical education in favor of teabagger fantasy. The line must be drawn immediately lest we corrupt the minds of a generation.

  4. Re:That can't go wrong... on The Code War Arms Race · · Score: 3, Funny

    The attack originated from 127.0.0.1!
    "Have you checked the children?"...

  5. Prostate Cancer on Magnetic Nanoparticles Fry Tumors · · Score: 4, Informative

    My father had a similar procedure to wipe out his prostate cancer. Metal beads injected into tumor, three low-power radio beams focused on the target, beams combine very focally, beads heat, tumor burns away. Macrophages clean up the mess. Dad totally cancer-free for a decade now and has none of the side effects of surgery. thanks University of Virginia!

  6. Re:Answer... on Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    So was I. Unbridled capitalism is ruining US health-care. The only reason for your example being the exception is because it is an elective. For care that is required, prices are high and service is down. I deal with this every day, as I have a life threatening chronic condition.

  7. Re:Against network neutrality? on Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    If Customer A is using X% over the aggregate average of all other users. It's purely numbers based and not a targeted exclusion of Customer A.

  8. Re:Answer... on Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    As another poster noted earlier, you are comparing "want" markets with "need" markets. The dynamics aren't the same and neither is the penalty for failure. People have needs which must be met, and that is the role of government (services directly provided and regulations concerning those which aren't). For the past 30+ years in the USA government has been abdicating its role of servicing people in favor of servicing business. That is wrong and the lesson of that error is in the memories of people still living.

  9. whew on Project Icarus: the Gas Mines of Uranus · · Score: 0

    this research doesn't pass the smell test.

  10. Relevant Discussion on Human Skin Cells Converted Directly To Neurons · · Score: 1

    Discussion of producing neural progenitors from both hESC and hiPSC. Touches on the different types which can be produced, production methods, and issues faced in production.

  11. Re:Whose consent is needed? on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    my first "career" experience was as a legal paraprofessional so the term stuck (and slipped out in this case). However, as I was speaking in very broad and general terms it's applicable.

  12. Re:Whose consent is needed? on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    even when Ma Bell owned the telephones and only leased them to private homes they still needed a warrant to eavesdrop on calls. In the case of corporate resources, those are provided with the expectation that anything done with them is work product (which the company owns).

  13. Re:avoid vendor lock, please on The Future of In-Car Computing · · Score: 1

    Any design feature of a car began on the drawing board minimum 3 years prior to showroom release. Once spec'd it is difficult to inject changes. When these cars were designed the iPod/Phone was the vast market leader. Expect more choice/generic in the near future.

  14. Re:Collision Detection? on The Future of In-Car Computing · · Score: 1

    i suppose you would also enjoy rigging traffic lights, you sociopath.

  15. Re:oh, new habitat you say? on 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year · · Score: 1

    These tires are in a large steel box, thousands of feet deep. No storm surge reaches that deep.

  16. Re:oh, new habitat you say? on 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year · · Score: 1

    The contents of that particular container are tires. I doubt they are going anywhere. (yes, I live in the Monterey Bay area)

  17. Re:Anyone have any idea how it works? on Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps the dispersion of the combustible particles disrupts the fuel/air mixture and halts combustion? It's a stretch but I guess possible. From what I learned in Hazmat class some years ago, you extinguish fire by depriving it of one of the following: Heat, Oxygen, or Fuel. Every extinguishing material does one or more.

  18. Re:78 million on Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    It could be that we are the first to reach the level of spaceflight. It could also be that we are the first to reach any level of civilization.

  19. Re:Not a Jet Fighter on Robot Jet Fighter Takes First Flight · · Score: 2

    The F4 was originally a bomber-intercept aircraft. Dogfighting was thought to be a relic of the past in the new guided missile age.

  20. Re:MWe on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    Since it's underwater, MWe must be "Megawet".

  21. Re:Fraught with peril on Apple Patent Hints at Net-Booting Cloud Strategy · · Score: 1

    Yeah I got that. What I said was doing that anywhere *but* a LAN is insane.

  22. Re:Booting via the internet? I have three words... on Apple Patent Hints at Net-Booting Cloud Strategy · · Score: 2

    -1 Ewww...

  23. Re:Fraught with peril on Apple Patent Hints at Net-Booting Cloud Strategy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No doubt. This technology is only appropriate in tightly controlled environments such as a corporate LAN. The problems with doing it over the public Internet range from noisy/slow/dropped connections to DNS redirection to "h4x0rpr0m.img". Insanity.

  24. Re:Here I thought we'd end through nuclear war... on Apple Support Company Sues Customer For Complaint · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That was poetry, sir. Bravo.

  25. Re:capitalists take note on Chinese Intellectual Property Acquisition Tactics Exposed · · Score: 1

    You sure refudiated his arguments there, you betcha.