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  1. Re:how many strands on Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan · · Score: 1

    Because it costs a lot more to lay cable than what the actual cable itself costs, and no one knows what the next "killer app" will be, and how bandwidth intensive it is.

  2. Re:2031 is meaningless on First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not about to do the math but I'm pretty sure the year 2031 was picked is because that will be the next time Mars and Earth will be in the right positions to do a Hohmann Transfer orbit there, give the astronauts a decent amount of time on the surface, and then come home with another transfer orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit

  3. Re:New embryonic lines on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    Existing lines have numerous flaws that make them unattractive research targets.

  4. Re:Another problem... on Krugman On the Connectivity Power Shift · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Manhattan has 1.5 million people living in 20 square miles. There are over 25 million people living in the extended metro area of NYC. The bay area has another huge concentration of people. Why does service in these regions suck just as much?

  5. Re:Finally.. on A New Global Memory Card Standard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well the obvious advantage here is USB support.

  6. Re:So what is the problem? on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Part of the problem is that just because you have a particular gene that can lead to an increase risk of a certain disease doesn't mean that you will eventually fall victim to that disease.

  7. Re:What? on Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? · · Score: 1

    If you actually experience those speeds then I would say that's very cheap compared to the NYC area.

  8. Re:drilling further on Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    However using your GMail account while registering domain names for corporate campaigns isn't the most professional way of doing things...

  9. Re:Is this a hoax? on Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well the copyright date is from 2006 and look at this Whois result.

    http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=http%3A%2F%2F www.linuxpersonas.com&tld=com

  10. Re:Genetics and Eugenics on Life with a Lethal Gene · · Score: 1

    Oh, I misinterpreted what you were saying. I don't really see any technological obstacles left today for anyone wealthy enough with the right knowledge to do what you describe.

  11. Re:graphing calculators on More Videogames, Fewer Books at Some Schools? · · Score: 1

    There are defiantly educational uses for a graphing calculator but I agree with you that requiring them on the Middle School level is rather absurd. However, once you reach High School and more advanced topics they can be useful. One of my favorite teachers used to have us type in programs in BASIC sometimes so he could try to demonstrate some concept to us. And it worked well.

  12. Re:Genetics and Eugenics on Life with a Lethal Gene · · Score: 1

    I don't think it will be possible within the next 50 years to replace most cases of "unwanted" genes in adults. Just think of what would be required. It's very simple to switch a single copy of a gene in one cell using restriction enzymes. However, to switch an unwanted gene in an adult would involve somehow changing billions of copies of it. Although it would be trivial to do so when any organism only has one cell.

  13. Re:From what I understand on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Right, but if a ISP is capable of rolling out higher speed internet on all of France then certainly one could roll one out on the much more dense NYC area?

  14. Re:From what I understand on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 1

    The US isn't one entity. There are plenty of very dense population areas where there is plenty of demand for highspeed internet access. Are you telling me that areas like NYC and it's metropolitan area are less dense than France?

  15. Re:price on Google Apps to Become Paid Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is only going to become a paid service for those who want to host it themselves. If you are going to continue to use Google's server's then the price remains free.

  16. Re:How can anybody be banned from internet? on MySpace Worm Creator Sentenced · · Score: 1

    What they will probably do is make sure that he isn't paying any ISP's for internet access. Of course this doesn't stop him from just using his neighbor's unsecured wireless network....

  17. Re:Sick Software "Patents" on Microsoft Copies Idea, Admits It, Then Patents It · · Score: 1

    I believe the UK version of English refers to companies in the plural while US English refers to corporations in the singular.

  18. Re:He didn't crack Blu Ray or HD DVD on Blu-ray Protection Bypassed · · Score: 1

    The thing is any software player is going to need to put the keys in RAM, at least for an instance. Of course the next versions out will obfuscate the keys as much as possible, but now that we have discs that we know correspond to certain keys we can just pop those discs and look for the the key in memory. Now we will know where to look if we put in a disc with an unkown key.

  19. Re:It's an information leak on GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Heres the code that the original site used. http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~achille/contacts- source.txt

  20. Re:Makes me glad I switched back to IE7 on GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The article mentions that this affects IE and Opera as well as Firefox....

  21. Re:Make bacteria dependent i.e lac operon, etc on Bacteria As Fuel Cells? · · Score: 0

    In your example what would happen if the promoters for the gene we want, the one producing electrons, got mutated. The operon would still remain intact, the essential protein would still be produced. However the gene we want would no longer be expressed.

  22. Re:Cheap fun on Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning · · Score: 0

    But the companies wouldn't consider hiring a spammer after the response rate dropped to .00000000000000000000001%.

  23. Re:Nope, wrong, invalid.. nothing to see here. on The End of Encryption? · · Score: 0

    With Quantum encryption you have the ability to tell whether the data you have sent was read before it reached the final destination. So you can send the one time pad and tell whether it was read. If it was read you either find where it was read or simply resend another one time pad until your message is not read. If you sent the plain text you would know it was read, but that wouldn't help you much if it was important data.

  24. Re:An American invention? on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 0

    American's were the first to mass market a car. Not the first to invent a car. That honor lies with the British.

  25. Re:Toxic waste, but not much of it on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 0

    Nuclear fusion doesn't produce toxic wastes. Its waste product is helium.