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  1. Re:US School System compared to Europes School Sys on A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education · · Score: 1

    My large school got rid of all the courses based upon skill level shortly after I left because helicopter parents were too stressed out and causing too many administrative and political problems for the school when their children didn't qualify for the high skill level class. That has happened across a large number of schools in the US.

    Also, the US tracking starts actually tracking kids in like 10th and 11th grade. Great, they're tracked and get the benefits for two years...yippee!

  2. Re:GPS will be just fine on Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns · · Score: 1

    They'll probably just adjust some software filters, or modulation settings to move the interference out a little bit. It sounds like a big issue, but will probably just required some firmware changes to alter the power spectral density at some points. The L5 is 3dB more powerful for right now, so they could also just decrease the power a bit to possibly counter-act the interference. There are all types of reasons that I can think of as to why the two may be interfering some other than just a basic, un-fixable design problem. Give the engineers 3-4 months and if its still not fixed, then there's a problem that will be fixed in future satellites.

  3. Re:So.... on Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    who says that abusing the legal system isn't a viable business model? Lots do it.

  4. Re:isn't it time for on SATA 3.0 Release Paves the Way To 6Gb/sec Devices · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realize that at either end of a Parallel link you'd have to re-serialize right? That's what PATA does. So you still need the high clock rate regardless of how much you parallelize it on the wires. That's extra hardware, and another piece the needs to be be really fast. Then you also have issues with maintaining clocking integrity over parallel lines, which gets tricky at high data rates.

    Right now, our technology is better in going pure serial. In the past, it was parallel. It might swing back and forth a couple of times between the two in the future. But make no mistake: right now, on commodity hardware for drives connected via cables, serial is pulling ahead in the speed war.

  5. PEBCAK on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 2, Informative

    Problem Exists Between Keyboard And.... Your neighbor must have some weird setting, or you just weren't typing it in properly (with the http and all).

    I've done tons on intranet and modem/router troubleshooting with firefox, and I never, ever had it take a properly valid address and shove it into google search. Sometimes if I mis-type, it will try to append a .com, but never google search it....

  6. Re:How ridiculous. on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Right...But right now you're seeing how well the Republicans ride herd. Everyone who broke herd on the stimulus is now going to be campaigned against by Republican institutions. They are going to make an example of them. The party is very, very good at maintaining party discipline and getting their members to vote the way that the party wants.

    You just don't see that with the Democratic party. They're more....well, democratic.

    Not that one way or the other is better, but to claim that Republicans don't feel more pressure to toe the party line is patently absurd.

  7. Re:Well, infrastructure does screw some people. on 2/3 of Americans Without Broadband Don't Want It · · Score: 1

    Uh, this isn't just government.

    Pretty much anything that anyone does has some negative impact to someone else. That's just life.

    Now you obviously have to do cost-benefit analysis, etc. But really, to put this on the government is silly. I make tons of decisions everyday in my personal life that would negatively affect, and anger some people just by virtue of where I shop, my opinions that I make known, etc. An owner a little Italian restaurant hates me to this day because I stopped going there because I moved.

    Now government policies also have this problem, as does everyone else, and it's worth-while to debate them. But really, to say that "There is always someone screwed when the government builds something, and that's why some people hate the government." Is about the least profound statement that I've heard this year.

  8. Re:Posted under IT, huh? on Thieves Take the Cake · · Score: 1

    Yea, this is seriously pretty sad...

  9. Re:Terrible Idea on Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary · · Score: 1

    No, not if you work well enough with your current customers and provide them enough of a service, that they also grow....

    Customers aren't static unchanging entities. I've ridden many a wave to the top by keeping just current customers and doing a good enough job that they keep growing, and hence my company keeps growing.

    New customers are excellent, but you should only need them if your current customers aren't solid customers to begin with.

  10. Re:Hitting the Nail Headwise on FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering · · Score: 1

    You just scared the shit out of me.....

  11. Re:Cash and Carry .gov on Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You do know that exposure therapy is the most effective (and sadly, just about the only) treatment for PTSD? It really is amazingly effective, and has been backed up by a large number of peer-reviewed studies as being an excellent tool.

    This seems to be the next generation of exposure therapy. I say bravo to the VA for pushing lead-edge therapies (that have significant literature backing their efficacy) that may help save a number of our individuals form lifetimes of hurt. One of the tragedies of this war is that many of our promising youth are being lost not only to death, but to serious mental illness. If we can help them overcome their problems, we may not lose the significant talent that many of these young soldiers have.

  12. Re:Might work for some things... on Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point isn't to make you feel better. The point is to be able to address what happened and move on....it's not a huge surprise that talking through in a controlled, supportive environment what happened might help people address the situation and resolve it.

    Of course, if the armchair /. people have other methods that have been empirically backed by a number of excellent studies, I'm sure that these people would be all ears. They're really just doing their best to help, and would love some more.

  13. Re:Worthless ... on McCain Releases Technology Platform · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because he knows so little that he hired Carly Fiorna as one of his chief economic advisers? Does not bode well...

    Doesn't need to be an expert on everything, but it would help if he could actually identify proper experts to hire.

  14. Re:Baby Bells RULE! on Test Selling "Last Mile" Fiber to Homeowners Under Way in Canada · · Score: 1

    bastid. I hate you :)

  15. Re:Amazing! Unprecidented!...I wonder what's on MT on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: 1

    uh, it's not a rover. It doesn't rove.

    it landed there and sits there.

  16. Re:Homeland security? on Collimating Semiconductor Lasers Without Lenses · · Score: 1

    You mean other than "enabling long-range chemical sensing", like inspecting suspicious boats and cargo from aircraft or other boats?

    You have a problem on seeing how that might help secure our ports from chemical attack?

  17. Re:Criticisms on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    The airplane hook business is real. Check out youtube, there are videos of that exact system in use...

  18. Re:Smooth Magnetic Field on Liquid Mirror Telescopes Set For Magnetic Upgrade · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, optical-grade corrections are extremely small. The magnets would be nowhere near to making something look like a polyhedron. Max deflection from these suckers would probably be millimeters if that....

  19. Re:Who knows whether communism would really work? on Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power · · Score: 1

    Uh, I live right next to a couple of coal mines in New Mexico. We've put power plants on top of them, and make a healthy living selling it to California. So good in fact, that we're going to build some more...

  20. Re:Data != Information on Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems · · Score: 1

    Just thought I'd mention that I still think that the court would convict for copyright infringement because it's obvious that there was probably only one key that was widely circulated. Math kung-fu isn't going to get around simple common sense...especially if that exact file is sitting on your computer post-decoding from this filesystem.

  21. Re:Data != Information on Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems · · Score: 1

    Exactly.....but since the key if is effectively a one time pad, then it could decode to anything.

    It would be an interesting court case if that "copyrighted file" also decrypted to a shopping list, a website, and a recording of the defendant dictating something. All it would take would be one time pads that effectively map that exact number of bits to the same number of bits just holding different data.

  22. Re:Understandable response... on Bell, SuperMicro Sued Over GPL · · Score: 1

    No, but it does make it much harder to get the issue through all the filters and up to management to get the issue resolved......

  23. Re:Great... on Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone · · Score: 1

    It's because US carriers decided that they could make more money by crippling phones and then selling the features back.

    Nokia's didn't have cool features, because they weren't allowed by the carriers!

  24. Re:It's not Really... on Researchers Infiltrate and 'Pollute' Storm Botnet · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you RTFA, they are not sending any commands to the end computer. They are just disrupting communications between the nodes.

    Effectively, fracturing the net into multiple pieces; not taking control o the computers and doing something.

    This is not a counter-attack to the infection or anything like that. They're just jamming the comm system that the bots use. They're not actively doing anything to the bot or computer.

  25. Re:GPS bug detector? on GPS Trackers Find Novel Applications · · Score: 1

    There's probably an oscillator in the GPS unit that's going to have some leakage, and that should be standard across nearly all devices. Really narrowband, so easy to detect.