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  1. Re: Allow Virtual ISPs or Last Mile on Hundreds of Cities Wired With Fiber, But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unusable · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I lived in Indianola Iowa and the city owns the fiber ran next to their totally underground power network. They lease access to Mahaska Communications Group out of Oskaloosa Iowa who then sells Internet access at ridiculously good rates. I paid $50/month for 100/100 with a 10ms ping and NO cap.

  2. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Precisely why I have the connection I have. Local municipal laid fiber when they put their power infrastructure underground and licensed it to another local ISP. They charge $50/month (flat $50, no BS fees or anything) for 100/100. Its not gigabit, but more bandwidth than I've found a use for yet.

  3. Re:SG-1 on Russian Meteor Likely an Apollo Asteroid Chunk · · Score: 1

    No it was the fucking bugs from Klendathu!

  4. Re:Fuck... on Why You'll Pay For Netflix — Even If You Don't Subscribe To Netflix · · Score: 1

    Why so hostile? I had to move and I found an affordable place close enough to where I work that had a municipal fiber network.

  5. small isps? on Why You'll Pay For Netflix — Even If You Don't Subscribe To Netflix · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the likely hood of a smaller regional ISP negotiating a contract with them. I currently get 100/100 FTTH for $50/month from a local provider and would love to get some 1080p netflix.

  6. Re:Tune in a half-hour early... on IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited · · Score: 1

    I think its more like, don't develop a coke habit.

  7. Re:Translation please? on Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps 2550km · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or how many 747's full of DVD's?

  8. Anyone remember . . . on AMD's Dual GPU Monster, The Radeon HD 3870 X2 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Anyone remember the ATI Rage Fury MAXX? I've still got one in use. It was a monster in its day. Dual Rage 128 Pro GPU's and 64MB of RAM. But for some reason the way that they jury rigged them on one board didn't work properly in XP, so it only uses one. Oh well, still s nifty conversation piece.

  9. synthehol on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 0

    Wasn't the real attractiveness of synthehol the fact that you could be drunk as hell and become completely sobre with just a hypospray of sorts? An interesting article here

  10. Re:2 ears, 2 speakers on Why 7.1 Surround Sound is Overkill For Most Homes · · Score: 0

    yea I never really noticed a difference between 5.1 and 6.1 or 7.1 surround

  11. Re:Poor Emos! on Details of the LiveJournal Account Hacks · · Score: 0

    You haven't got a clue how accurate you are with out being funny. I used to date a girl I would not consider a emo chick. Wow, the things she would do for attention.

  12. Bow down on Watching All Six Star Wars Movies Simultaneously · · Score: 1

    I for one bow down to his uber geekness.

  13. Hmm . . . on Neuroscientists At MIT Developing DNI · · Score: 0

    Said it before and i'll say it again, bring on the drunken boxing! Hmm, mabye the complete Kama Sutra. . . But defineatly the drunken boxing.

  14. Re:Too bad about SGI on Silicon Graphics To Be Delisted From NYSE · · Score: 1

    hmm 74 + 74 != 144 72 + 72 = 144 148 is the number your looking for I believe.

  15. I don't understand on Silent 500W Power Supply · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a relatively mild system, still power hungry, but not overly and it runs on a 250 Watt Sparkle PSU. Has been doing so for about 6 months, I though I needed a huge over the top PSU and I bought one, and it proceeded to take out one of my main HDD's, and it wasn't a bargain basement one either. That 250 watt psu runs a Asus A7V400 MB, 2 200gig SATA HDD's, 2 ATA 133 HDD's, DVD-ROM and DVD-RW, AMD XP 2700+ and a GeForce5200 Ultra, never a burp or complaint. I just don't understand why in the world you would need 500 watts of PSU unless you were running some quad CPU monster or something.

  16. Re:find a flaw on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    My apologies, I was either drunk or stoned when I wrote this, and almost completely negated the flush part. Oh well!

  17. Re:It actually does! (and they have the pictures!) on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    1TB of storage = $2500? Where have you been shopping? Here is a 500 gig HITACHI for $341. That brings our price down to: 1TB of storage = $682 your off by about 2 g's buddy.

  18. Re:Red Planet on Prototype Rollable Paper-like Display Ready Early · · Score: 1

    No, now all we need is the cereal box from Minoriy Report. Thats progress.

  19. Re:Ready for primetime? on Prototype Rollable Paper-like Display Ready Early · · Score: 0, Troll

    Philips != Microsoft

  20. Re:Shipping Cartons on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Been there done that

  21. Re:Steal the bandwidth, or steal the work? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    Your point is valid, but he wouldn't have gotten slashdotted for that.

  22. Re:Hotlink THIS on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is kinda funny. I wonder how many blogs or whatever complain about slashdot. I wonder which one has a bigger impact, the traffic from fuddruckers.com or a slashdotting, hmm mabye by the time of the dupe he will have graphs on his blog and be complaining how much slashdot killed his bandwidth?

  23. Re:Is this really a file system? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    You really have too much time on your hands.

  24. Re:find a flaw on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    How not? Four players with Ace, 10 in their pocket, and King, Queen, and Jack on the table, thats four royal flushes with a single deck in Texas Hold'em

  25. Re:Not the Smartest Idea I've heard on Sony May Delay PS3 Until 2007 · · Score: 1

    Naa i'm pretty sure he is talking about the PS2 launch, Sony launched Final Fantasy IX(I believe) the same day as the DC to poke fun at their sales of their new console, kinda sad though, I personally liked the dreamcast and I own one myself and still occasionally play it.