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  1. Re:bring back bennett net neutrality secondary on FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics · · Score: 0

    Hi Bennett.

  2. Pbbbt on FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's been a conspiracy since day one, Obama appointed a lobbyist for the industry to the head of the FCC, then after it's a republican controlled congress and he has zero clout he comes out for "Net Neutrality" mean while fascist like Cruz say it will hurt Internet commerce, and that it's extreme.

    This is about buying time to grease the congressional wheels with industry cash and figuring out the best argument against the common carrier.

  3. Huh on Comet Probe Philae To Deploy Drill As Battery Life Wanes · · Score: 0

    It seems to me the design and/or planning of this mission were poorly thought out, it's obvious the comet has a rough surface, they knew there would be shadows.
    Why can't it back off and take another run at it?

    All that distance to be screwed by being askew.

  4. Re:free market on Microsoft Losing the School Markets To iPads and Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    Not only that but when I tried to implement Linux solutions at a local community college I was met with rage from the support sector "I don't want to learn Linux" to where's the support (it was there and it was cheap so no one could grasp it apparently) to "We have to teach the students what they will be using".

    OMG the fucking stupidity of the college system...

    Windows is still around because of their market saturation, Apple is fucking atrocious, Linux has promise but really it's fractionalized.

    For the record, the community college went with a $40,000 dollar Windows program for their video/photo presentations instead of Gallery 2 for free....
    Not one of the "doctorates" on the decision panel could grasp that "free" could be better than $40,000.. and yet it was, Gallery 2 at the time offered far more features and the devs agreed to support it for next to nothing.

    Fucking morons.

  5. Re:Compromise combos don't work on Microsoft Losing the School Markets To iPads and Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    I fell asleep reading this...

  6. Laugh on Microsoft Losing the School Markets To iPads and Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    iPads are a the preferred platform for schools deploying tablets as digital learning devices.

    Having worked in their EDU department there's a reason for this, and it isn't because they are better.

    Oh and for you Apple fanbois... fuck you.

  7. No logiuc to this argument on AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled · · Score: 1

    Unless what he is actually saying is there's a scenario involving the regulations where they would not roll out fiber at all.

    In that case they would fall behind others, in fact I would go one further and say the comment he made is petulant.
    In which case the corporations are getting dangerously comfortable with having their way.

  8. Isn't this illegal? on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    It should be.

  9. Charles Barkely Explains on Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech · · Score: 5, Interesting
  10. Evolution isn't slow on Earth's Oxygen History Could Explain "Darwin's Dilemma" In Evolution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    which may have been five times the evolutionary rate seen today.

    Look up epigenetics, and a few other factors, evolution is not slow.

  11. Re:Great! More hipster hate. on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hipsterism was "uncool" the moment someone gave it a name, that's how these things work.

  12. Sad commentary on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 1

    Why strive to look different? Instead act different.

  13. Lies on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    Obama appointed Wheeler, it's all lies.

    Thomas Edgar Wheeler (born April 5, 1946; Redlands, California)[1][2] is the current Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

    He was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November 2013. Prior to working at the FCC, Wheeler worked as a venture capitalist and lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry, with positions including President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Bull Shite on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    You're fat because you eat more calories than you burn plain and simple.
    Does gut bacteria have an effect? Yes, in fact the digestive tract is referred to as a second brain because bacteria effects mood as well.

    But you aren't going to get away with "I'm fat because of my gut bacteria".

  15. HMMM on There's No Such Thing As a General-Purpose Processor · · Score: 1

    What about the human brain.

  16. Cool on Elon Musk's Next Mission: Internet Satellites · · Score: 1

    Focus on the launch platform, get that cheap and you own the World.

  17. OK on Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans · · Score: 1

    This explains the electrodes on the inside of the ear piece for Google Glass.

  18. Re:Don't we already do that? on Study Shows Direct Brain Interface Between Humans · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think "orgasm"

  19. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    Google NSA ANT

    And remember, most of what Snowden got out has not been released, and there several very good reasons for that.

  20. Re: Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    That isn't what I said.

    In addition, I'm fairly certain they have partnerships with major corps to "introduce" specific "vulnerabilities" into massively popular software.... like iOS and Windows.

    But here.
    http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    But even better, do you have any reason to think this is not going on? In this day and age why would anyone argue against it?
    Also a lot of the stuff Snowden got has not been released, there could very well be proof of this
    You must have some Apple stock or something.

  21. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    Redirecting the conversation? Strawman?

  24. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    Do you have one that shows they don't?

  25. Huh on LHC Data Generation Expected To Scale Up To 400PB a Year · · Score: 1

    That amount of data is something only an AI could get through.