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  1. How...? on San Fran Mayor Declares Wireless for All · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this mayor going to pay for this.

  2. Calculating it out on Scientists Define Murphy's Law · · Score: 1

    ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)) (U+C+I)(10-S)/20 Min: (.05) Ave: ~3 Max: (12) (A very hard task at medium skill level warrents a ~6) A = .7 1/(1-sin(F/10)) Min: (1) Ave: ~1.8 Max: 4 (Assuming this formula outputs a percent.) Average percent of something going wrong with the best conditions: .03% Average percent of something going wrong with average conditions: ~3.8% Average percentage of something going wrong with the worst conditions: ~33.6% Basically, when a task is very hard, very complex, and of course very important, YOU are incompetent, and it occurs rapidly, one third of the time, you will screw up. At most important tasks, we'll screw up 3 out of a 100 times. This seems reasonable. We usually don't remember or realized the 97 times we do something right, but the three times that we do lose our Word document, download, or jobs, we definately WILL.

  3. Starcraft... on Gamers Unite for Video Game Olympics · · Score: 1

    ... don't only Koreans play that game? Why is it in the World Cyber Games? :)

  4. Re:repeat after me... on FCC Internet Grant Decision Riles Congress · · Score: 1

    Many of the students who come out of school illiterate did not care for anything else. How about the students who genuinely try hard, for whom a computer and decent internet connection will make all the difference in the world? Our schools are already leaving gifted students behind. A google cache, if the site is down.

  5. Re:Ummm this is a legitimate executive branch powe on FCC Internet Grant Decision Riles Congress · · Score: 1

    "The President needs the power of line-item veto, the Congress needs to have every bill address only one subject with all riders to the contrary..." We'd never get anything accomplished with this sort of system. We need bills to pass with multiple subjects in order to appease people of different parties. Compromise makes the political world go 'round: you approve this, I'll approve that.