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  1. Re:WANT on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    The specs on that thing are a total joke.
    It might have been interesting 3 years ago.

    I want super phone specs and FOSS drivers. Preferably in the mainline kernel.

  2. Re:Canonical's business model. on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    If they would stop doing dumb shit with their server platform they would already be making money. Of course these days even RHEL wants to have a splashscreen instead of a boot you can watch.

  3. Re:Why? ~nt~ on Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Why would you not have backups?

    Back it up like you would any other device.

  4. Re:Outbreak, not "plague"; dont be sensationalist. on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    If enough people do that, the outcome will be predictable.

  5. People pay for expensive vet care for the same reason they pay for medical care for other family members.

    The better question is why can I euthanize a cat but not myself when the time comes.

  6. Re:never happen in the states on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    So basically the same as any telco.
    They always get sweetheart loans, they get rights of way for free, and generally big tax breaks.

  7. Re:Outbreak, not "plague"; dont be sensationalist. on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, but you know what kills more people? The actual disease!

    The rates of death and disability are so low they are acceptable vs the disease. It is a very simple tradeoff.

  8. Re:That's socialism on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    It ain't homework.

    I know you can get it, in some very limited areas. It simply is not a real option for the vast majority of people, even ones living in very high density locations. Having the government roll it out will for quite some time be the only real option if we cared.

  9. Re:That's socialism on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    You are right I should have figured this would happen on slashdot. I should have set the constraints better.

    Now find one in a major market or available in a not extremely limited area for that kind of money.

  10. Re:Isn't this already done by computers? on Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels · · Score: 1

    I did not mention hashes, you did.
    Not all password systems use them. I know of some really terrible ones that actually just check for a string match against a 256 char string. Not a good way to store them, but it means you have a heck of a lot of possibilities.

  11. Re:Isn't this already done by computers? on Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels · · Score: 1

    We still do not generate them all, just the likely ones.

  12. Re:Graduation rates on San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Elitist to expect people to have basic mathematical skills? Is it elitist when I expect the average adult to be able to read and write? How about speak without drooling on themselves? How low do you want the bar?

  13. Re:Isn't this already done by computers? on Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels · · Score: 1

    Technically passwords are an infinite set, you don't gen them all when you brute force one.

  14. Re:That's socialism on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    Go away troll.

    He found one company doing something outside their normal scope. This is like saying toothpaste is free because the dentist gives you a little bit at each visit.

  15. Re:Is that not a good thing? on San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity · · Score: 2

    You have way too high of expectations of people. I bet less than 30 percent of random Americans would pass such courses.

    If this is news to you, you need to get out more. I am almost certain most people taking such loans cannot calculate compound interest. I bet 50% of adults in this country can't describe it.

    We have folks who think the world is 6000 years old, believe iron age myths over scientific facts and you are surprised they also suck at math?

  16. Re:Isn't this already done by computers? on Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels · · Score: 2

    Obviously you manually provide some limits.
    Humans do not start from nothing each time they calculate these either.

  17. Re:Isn't this already done by computers? on Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels · · Score: 0

    Is it faster than a brute force?

    How fast can they plan a route with their system and for how much money vs just letting a big cluster brute force the best option.

  18. Re:That's socialism on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    So explain that 1Gb connection they can get.
    Not everyone has those same motivations. I work harder at a job that pays less than I could get elsewhere. Here I don't have politics to worry about and can curse like a sailor. I set my own hours and can work from home when I want. I have a lot of freedom in all aspects of my job. To me that is worth a lot more than money.

  19. Re:Graduation rates on San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity · · Score: 2

    Have you been to a university lately? Or talked to the average person. Maybe those folks don't belong there at all.

  20. Re:Why is that rate bad? on San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity · · Score: 1

    Nor should the quality of the class be measured by a pass rate, at least not as a major metric.

    Then the best class would be one that simply passed anyone and everyone.

  21. Re:Graduation rates on San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity · · Score: 2

    Why is that a bad pass rate?

    I took plenty of college classes with such rates, they were designed to filter out people who did not belong there.

  22. Is that not a good thing? on San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity · · Score: 2

    It means the classes were actually properly graded and mean something. If you are passing 80% of folks you are likely teaching no one anything.

  23. Re:News From the Future... on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Public resources should not be filtered. If someone is touching himself in a library arrest him for it.

  24. Re:never happen in the states on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 2

    You could say the same thing about private enterprises. The bigger an organization gets, no matter government or business the less efficient it will tend to be. In my job I do a lot of "integration" with big companies, to facilitate passing data back and forth. Our timelines for these things are hours to days, depending on if they want to use our prepared systems or need more custom work. Their time lines are months to years. We also chronically find they are doing a worse job of security than we are.

  25. Re:That's socialism on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    So 1 company does it in a couple towns, for more than $57 but less than $570 and you think that proves something?