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  1. Re:first thought -- gonna need a really long tethe on Weather Balloons To Provide Broadband In Africa · · Score: 1

    Solar cells,two or thee small electric motors and the ballon becomes a blimp. Far easir to track if you can remote pilot it to known locations

  2. Re:Fairness in the EU on Virgin-Universal Deal Offers Unlimited Music, Goes After File Sharers · · Score: 1

    It is but apple has conveniently dropped support for some songs as a version that can't be purchased in the USA, when they were purchased in the USA(I have three friggin songs that are still protected, out of some 1500 songs)

    New songs though are DRM free.

  3. Re:If you know anything about statistics... on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 2, Informative

    CNN repeatably has stated that they are going on second and third hand information. That they are watching German and british news sites for information.

    It is in all their articles.

  4. Re:what is the big deal? on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 2, Informative

    through out history there are groups of people just like that. Nazi's,(insert race) supremeists, etc that try or desire to limit humans to one hair, skin, eye color combos which they view as superior. This is well documented. We need our diversity. It is a major part of us. With out it we are far weaker.

  5. Re:Fairness in the EU on Virgin-Universal Deal Offers Unlimited Music, Goes After File Sharers · · Score: 1

    want to know a secret? sony players only work with sony sonic stage, MSFT players only really worked with MSFT based services.

    That is standard. Apple is no different however, apple players worked like people do. Their software wouldn't randomly crash. The hardware didn't ned a full on power reboot after every other battery charge because of poor memory management. They did one thing and did it well. having 20 functions is useless if you can't use any of them.

    now all that said yes apple horribly locks down their stuff. I only have a couple of apps from the app store on my iphone because most of them aren't worth it. 98% of my music are mp3's, ripped from cd's. I will buy a quality product. As long as the limitations are known and well documented. You won't see me using their word processor though. As all my data stays in open formats whenever possible. It helps with archiving purposes.

  6. Re:Hopefully It'll Just Go Away on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 1

    Do not look at the intentions of a law think only try to realize the truth of how that law will be abused by those who use that law.

    Real ids would have become papers please. Personally it would be wiser to standardize the states information.

  7. Re:Gandhi isn't always right on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    While I agree in concept, there is a fatal flaw in that line of reasoning. Who does siad violence. If it is external you get Iraq,Vietnam,prettymuch every third world country the USA has screwed up over the last fifty years. Now if it is started internally and fought internally. You get the USA,France, etc. The population MUST decide there own fate. 100% on their own. If they don't it won't last.

  8. Re:Any USB 3.0 hardware? on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Devices, I would be more concerned about finding a hardware adaptor to install into your computer first. The devices come after you have something you can plug them into.

  9. Re:Blowback on Wired for War · · Score: 1

    quite a few. However even some of that blowback is bouncing back against said radicals. Pakistan is a good example. People accepted the Taliban when they were peaceful and then the Taliban started killing their brothers and sisters, attacking Mosques, etc. Such attacks were once common in Israel and cheered but when the Taliban used the same tactics against other muslims it became unacceptable.

    Heck Even in Iraq there is a movement to push those with extreme religious agenda's out as they are the ones who are killing. For as bad as some of the US attacks(and reasons were going into Iraq) the attacks the iraqi's started to do to each other the past few years are worse. As long as Obama keeps his pledge to slowly remove US troops the overall population may dislike the USA but find their presence a lot more tolerable than what some of their own leaders want.

    While I hate the fact that Bush and Powell lied to the world about iraq, and the whole notion has been a major mess, we just might get a decent chance at peace out of this mess. The pendulum is always swinging. Sometimes it moves so far one way it has no choice but to go the other.

  10. Re:Not surprised on Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic · · Score: 1

    what defines a normal user? I use 300 mega a month browsing 4 sites(/. , are techinca, etc) on my iPhone during lunch hour.

    ISP are mainly cable companies who have a vested interest in keeping video off the Internet above and beyond the fact they massively oversold their service and are watching it catch up to them.

  11. Re:Parallel programming is dead. No one uses it... on New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming · · Score: 1

    Two points? If that request access both web and a database then yes.

    Second why would you want to CPu's to do one task? Why not have each CPU handle their own request and handle twice as many users.

  12. Re:Parallel is here to stay but not for every app on New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yea why can't you buy 6 ghz cores ? Is it because unless you super cool them you can't clock them that high?

    3.8 ghz P4 was released in 2005. Instead Intel has focused on power savings, and adding cores while to shrink die sizes.

    Quantum computing is a long ways off, heck they can't even get a good Memresistor yet. The advantage we are having is that Memory speeds are finally catching up to processor speeds. Combine that with a memresistor at that speed and Computing will take a whole new direction for efficiencies and speed. However clock speed isn't gong to significantly increase for a while.

  13. Re:192 lasers? on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    American's are fat and tasty. Why else is computer science in america shrinking In at least one way.

  14. Re:Yeah... on String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't simplify something until you understand it. Once we have a GUT it will probably reduce to PIRcubed of the universe expanding.

  15. Re:EMP Testing on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    Your risk goesup the greater you deviat from normal. Useing your turn signal in Boston is therefore abnormal and increases your risk. Someone else will hit you not knowing what that bliky light is.

    And yes I have driven in Boston. My sister lives there.

  16. Re:Take away the cloud on Google vs. Microsoft On the Desktop · · Score: 3, Informative

    The cloud is the new THIN client. The browser is the new OS for said thin client.

    while different browsers do implement things differently, there is a standards running the whole show and an approval process. previous thin clients were proprietary in one form or another.

  17. Re:Nurse != Secretary on Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Until you find out your medical records are locked in county generals drm formatand in order tottansfer them you have to wait until Tuesday,when they will be printed and sent by secure carrier to siad hosiptal because of hippa.

    Of course thedoctors at theorher end will have to start over anyways however they can't tell you that.

  18. Re:You know... on Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads · · Score: 1

    Syracuse, NY to Boston, MA.

    Plane 1.5 hours
    Car 5 hours
    Train 11.5 hours

    Trains combinethe worst of planes(layovers) with the worst of cars(top speed of 60mph on average)

    I don't know about you but my time is worth more than that. If trains took roughly the same time as a car then yes a train would be better. But you have to play games on a train as they take so long.

  19. Re:Transformers did it first on $10M For Unmanned Aircraft That Can Perch Like a Bird · · Score: 1

    you missed the steam punk transformers series then. congratulations.

  20. Re:you're right and wrong on Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Others Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    If you want a positive spin on outsourcing think of it this way.

    We decided instead of using up our limited resources we would concentrate on using up china's first. Steel,copper,even oil. We are using up the world's resources shipping them here and eventually storing them in easy to access locations(landfills). So whenthe time comes that we need more resources wehave already hogged the important ones, and stored them for future generations.

    So I say buy from china. All your resources belong to us!

  21. Re:easy solution on Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with the other poster.

      tried to diagnose a problem i was having with HP printer driver reinstall(that is another issue, ) in the end I found more useful and bitching about the problem in other blogs and and forums than from HP's website. In one blog I found not quite step by step directions but close enough to fix the problem.

    Hp instructions stated the proper method if their software used installers and uninstaller properly. Since HP software doesn't use uninstaller properly on windows you had to manually uninstall the software which someone in a blog posted after bitching about HP's shitty software.

    Google has it right this time, and it is why MSFT live, er BING search fails. It doesn't rank relativity by usefulness.

  22. Re:Ethernet on New HDMI 1.4 Spec Set To Confuse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    HDMI is also HDCopyProtection encumbered, For HD signals. If you want HD content it has to be HDCP while traveling from source to display. It is why Linux and Apple don't have blue ray players for HD content(legal ones at least)

    As for ethernet other posters have covered that. I am more worried aobut HDMI ethernet also getting forced into so layer of DRM just because it was easier to DRM everything and sort it out later.

  23. Re:HP Printers and Windows are a No Go on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    that is the difference then. as the printer itself only has cat5 running into it.

  24. Re:HP Printers and Windows are a No Go on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    I have the same printer at work. the 5mb file doesn't allow TCP/IP installs and requires it to be plugged into the computer your using.

    In order to install it over the network you need the full driver setup. I could probably have played around with it installing and then trying to reconfigure it later, but I am not supposed to be doing things like that at work. However the IT guy isn't around often enough.

    As for the printer when it is installed it is great.

  25. Re:I always thought the difference on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    Only one liger has produced known viable offspring. So until that one the offspring weren't viable. separating