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  1. That's awesome on Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair · · Score: 1

    I can finally watch a distorted version on my favorite show! Woohooo!

  2. How many times.. on Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition · · Score: 1

    ... have you mis-understood spoken words? I have, many times. Speech recognition is directly related with the quality of microphones used to process the speech as well as the quality and articulation of the person speaking.

  3. I wonder ... on New Europe-Wide Radio Telescope To Look For ET · · Score: 2

    ... if ET is currently in recession and needs bailout money....

  4. I think ... on Study Shows People In Power Make Better Liars · · Score: 1

    ... the researchers and article have it backwards, it's liars who make it to positions of power.

  5. Wind anyone? on MIT's Flyfire To Paint Images In the Sky Using Micro-Helicopters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder how long before a gust of wind will disrupt the image...

  6. Re:Duh! on Mock Cyber Attack Shows US Unpreparedness · · Score: 1

    "by making information accessible to someone, you make it potentially available to anyone" Anyone who has the equipment to access that information that is. The Internet was invented by DARPA and eventually given to mass population. The government needs to have their own private secure network that is only accessible with proprietary equipment and software.

  7. Why. on Mock Cyber Attack Shows US Unpreparedness · · Score: 1

    .. would the U.S. Government release results of an attack simulation is beyond me....

  8. Not enough info on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    4" telescope isn't enough information. What you need is also a good eyepiece, which is just as important. With a good 4" telescope (TeleVue, Takahashi or many others that cost anywhere between $900 and $4000), you can see plenty, with a mediocre one ($90 at Sears for example), you can see the moon, that's about it. Anything else will look washed out... A 4", will let you see Jupiter on a dark calm night. Saturn and its rings on almost any night, and check out M13...

  9. Re:It seems logical on A Hybrid Approach For SSD Speed From Your 2TB HDD · · Score: 1

    "Why don't HDs load the OS in their cache during POST ? It must be quite simple to memorize which sectors get read first after power-up ?" Well that's because POST needs to perform certain critical functions and recognize hardware (such as drives) in order to boot up the computer.

  10. Re:My battery died on Microsoft Looking Into Windows 7 Battery Failures · · Score: 1

    Li-ion batteries since 1996? Hmmm...

  11. Re:Central point of failure.. on BlackBerry Outages Across North America · · Score: 1

    Can Droid sync with an Exchange server? Just curious...

  12. Re:Central point of failure.. on BlackBerry Outages Across North America · · Score: 1

    Well for one, proxy servers are what they are, proxies. Meaning if BB were to change their server IPs or network architecture, you shouldn't be affected. Proxies are also used to 'hide' real equipment behind them, for security reasons mainly. Proxies can also do content filtering as well as man other tasks that application specific servers wouldn't be able to, either for resource saving or platform restrictions.

  13. Re:No Viop for you on Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space · · Score: 1

    You're talking about latency as if communication was to take place between Earth and the satellite. My guess is that this router will be used between satellites.

  14. This .. on Skype For Linux To Be Open-Sourced "In the Nearest Future" · · Score: 1

    .. is not open source. There is no such thing as partial-open source software, if that were the case, I could write software code in Perl that shows an interface, that calls DLL functions and call it open source. Sorry, no reason to celebrate here... Move along..

  15. Re:Oh, puhlease on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    Repeated contact for over an hour? And they only flew 150 miles off course? That plane would have been flying at 150 miles per hour, a bit slow isn't it?

  16. I am baffled ... on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    .. that we are in 2009 and airplane software cannot tell that the plane is off course and alert pilot.

  17. Playing games .. on Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .. on the Internet IS commerce. Those telecommuting could very well be employee of game companies. Games is a multi-billion dollar industry that is moving more and more toward the Internet infra-structure.

  18. And so.. on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 1

    ... if the surface is made of manure, it evaporates, condenses and comes down as...?

  19. Another reason... on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... why emails originating from ISPs, should be audited first then approved / denied.

  20. Re:Who is to blame? on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 2, Insightful

    or an overworked employee, who decided to take a nap, at their desk.

  21. Re:75% of apps? Shaa, right! on COBOL Celebrates 50 Years · · Score: 1

    "Big heavy-duty transaction-processing apps run overwhelmingly on mainframes, because they just work." Also because it would cost a shit load of money to re-write them.

  22. So when is.. on COBOL Celebrates 50 Years · · Score: 1

    COBOL 50 coming out?

  23. Re:We never needed them before on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 1

    Trust? You mustn't only trust your children, you must trust their environment. I personally don't. Children are easily influenced, regardless of parenting. It's the environment they live in that greatly determines their future. This is why, people move to 'better' neighborhoods.

  24. Warning on watch on Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid · · Score: 1

    "Remove while spanking the monkey, your parents WILL find out"

  25. Re:is it constitunitional? on New "JUSTICE" Act Could Roll Back Telecom Immunity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "but aren't retroactive laws mostly unconstitutional?" So are unconstitutional laws to begin with.