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  1. Fair Share on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your customers who use google are already paying their fair share. Any bandwidth used by google for it's indexing is purchased from its ISP. The telcos just want to double dip.

  2. No thanks on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest advantage of firefox is the ability to block out javascript via NoScript. Why would I want to give that up?

  3. IDE integration, ant tasks and windows tools on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    Eclipse plugin, ant tasks for builds and TortoiseSVN. Most developers I work with don't use command line svn.

  4. 1984 on Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Brits: 1984 was a novel, not an instruction manual.

  5. Re:Uh Oh. on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    Why do I need to study about Islam? Frankly, I don't care what the koran preaches. I judge islam by the actions of the majority of it's followers.

  6. cyberman on FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cyberman, cyberman
    does whatever a cyber can

  7. This is ridiculous on The Rise of the (Financial) Machines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The guys running the big investment banks and financial institutions believed what they wanted to believe..or believed whatever they had to believe that would give them multi-million $$ bonuses. If the computer models had predicted doom, they would have stopped relying on the models. The models were like magic mirrors that made them seem much bigger than they were.

  8. Re:Why math achievement is stiffled in the U.S. on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1

    6th graders don't like math because they carefully considered their job prospects and didn't like what they saw?

  9. Re:Duh on How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement · · Score: 1
    Countries don't educate children..parents do.

    From TFA

    girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued.

  10. Why rip? on Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US? · · Score: 1

    Why not just take the DVDs with you?

  11. Does this work on congressmen/senators? on Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We need something like this for our congresscritters so we can whisper commands into their ears..you know, like "Don't vote for the bailout".

  12. Re:Free market on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 1
    I haven't heard anyone complaining about wall street greed except for the class-warfare liberals.

    McCain is a "class-warfare liberal"?

  13. Re:Sweet? on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    20,000$. Mail me your bank account information so I can deposit it directly into your account.

  14. Re:Jones Day Is Based In Cleveland on Chicago Law Firm Sues Over Hyperlink To Trademarked Name · · Score: 5, Funny
  15. TFS is wrong on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 0, Redundant

    386 crores is 70.7 million $.

  16. Re:It's all about the data on Data Centers Crucial To Lehman Sale · · Score: 1

    Information like what? credit risk models?

  17. Re:Taikonaut, cosmonaut and astronaut on China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station · · Score: 1

    It was used so you could get easy karma for taikonaut/take out jokes.

  18. Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 1

    Reisinger alleges her First Amendment rights were violated by the city. She seeks $250,000 in compensatory damages, unspecified punitive damages and unspecified declaratory relief.

    The amount she's asking for is excessive but I hope she wins a smaller amount.

  19. Overreaching? on The Google Navy · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thinks google is overreaching? Doing stuff just because they have tons of cash..for now..

  20. Re:Free bonus: spare fingers on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Way to save a buck, Dell!

    The American consumer has no qualms about buying from companies that manufacture overseas as long as they get their electronics cheaper.

  21. Re:Quality control on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 1

    This is inevitable. Americans want juiced up laptops for under 1000$. TANSTAAFL..

  22. Wait...SOUTH ASIA?? on Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the first people in the Americas were south asians i.e. Indians? So should we call them Indians or native americans?

  23. Re:Wait... "troublesome for corporate employees"? on A Device to Grab Data From Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think they're talking about other companies(in the case of corporate cellphones) and unauthorized people(in the case of govt. cell phones) getting access to the data.

  24. Re:What's so bad about teaching science history? on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    I don't think she has "Early humans thought the earth was 6000 years old and boy were they wrong" in mind.

  25. Re:therefore on Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research · · Score: 1

    Oh please..it's highly unlikely that India or China will pass the US. The US is still the magnet for global talent.