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  1. Sssh. don't tell them about cell phones or tablets on Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they don't know those have microphones and cameras, they won't realize security is a waste of time.

    or that you can hear everything just by the vibrations off of the windows.

    be vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm hunting trilobytes.

  2. Re:As a Canadian vet living in the US on Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site · · Score: 2

    A condition of using Canadian airwaves or publishing music in Canada has always been strict regulation by the Federal government, requiring Canadian Content and exempting the CBC from certain restrictions.

    Don't like it, then publish music in some other country.

    Of course, since Canada is a net exporter of music worldwide, it's not like you have a Bieber of a chance of doing that.

  3. As a Canadian vet living in the US on Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site · · Score: 1

    I say, let the music flow!

    The music must flow!

    (yes, it's a Dune reference, deal with it)

  4. Drones can do this, with mods on Why Drones Could Be the Future of Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    The most vulnerable portions of a missile launch ground to ground are at the launch site, where a passive drone could wait in hiding on top of a building and be activated when the site became active, and up in space.

    During the initial boost launch, the missile moves upwards fairly slowly, and a kamikaze drone could easily impact it enough to damage the flight path, either by targeting the warhead or the fuel tanks, since it could dive downwards.

    However, this requires you to violate the enemy airspace, as we did with the super drone that Iran downed.

    As to the apogee space attack, we already have that covered, but you're not supposed to know about that.

  5. Re:Your mileage is not my mileage on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    The medical section of a world class major research university. ... You were saying?

  6. Re:Your mileage is not my mileage on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 0

    Have you ever been to Delhi (As in the Capital of India, and not the new, cow free half of the city)? Right. Go there. The think long and hard about whether or not you can have cows in central park, or times square for all it matters.

    Actually, there are sheep there (Central Park).

    But cows? Those are called Beef On The Hoof.

    BBQ time!

  7. Re:Your mileage is not my mileage on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 0

    Rural america will do what we tell it to do. You survive on subsidies provided by urban america. If you don't like it we'll give your farm to someone else who will play ball. Now get back to making my food.

    Exactly.

    If Urban America ever stopped providing tax money to Rural America, the rioters in the farmlands would run out of gas money in minutes.

  8. Re:Your mileage is not my mileage on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Riiiight. Urban America, or as many of us call it "Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games". Did you ever stop to think that in most of America the cities are divided into the insanely rich gated communities and the places where you need to strap BPVs to your car like in Predator II? That kind of attitude might work in Asia but in the USA you are either rich enough to live in a gated community or you can go to bed to the sound of gunfire.

    This isn't the south.

    Stop watching the news media reporting on crime 3 states away and realize that urban violence and murder rates are at historic lows in the cities of America.

  9. Re:Your mileage is not my mileage on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    I have to ask at 1000 Gbps are your hard drives even able to write that fast ? That's 125 Gigabytes per second, 500 MB/s is pretty good for an SSD. Also, what are you doing that requires that kind of speed?

    We have 8 blade servers with SSDs, each blade keeps most data in DDR3.

    What are we doing? Medical and statistical research. You should see some of the protein folding units.

  10. Re:I remember 440 baud on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    Did you run a 128k RAM disk and load your programs into RAM from the floppies too? I found that got me about 1000 times the speed on execution on my Apple II.

  11. Re:Your mileage is not my mileage on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 0

    Good. Then you can eat all the Internet you want. We'll keep the food.

    Yours Truly,

    Rural America

    (I'd expand this comment but it takes a long time to get stuff uploaded on our 300 baud lines.)

    We have rooftop gardens too. Urban farming is enjoying a renaissance.

  12. Re:How things change, how they stay the same on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 2

    I remember 110 baud. And soldering your own circuit boards for S-100 computers and tuning your drives with an oscilliscope.

    Not to mention slide rules. Not the plastic kind - a fine grained wood one.

  13. Your mileage is not my mileage on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As we in the military, research university, and government spheres move to IPv6 and Internet So Fast It Makes Your Ears Bleed (tm), have you ever considered that perhaps it might be slow for you but not for us?

    I mean 1000 Gbps is considered normal here, and some of us are running on faster connections, using less energy total to do the same thing.

    We rarely print things anymore, and just because you have slower access to resources, you have to realize it could be because, in the war between Urban America and the rest of the country, Urban America with its more efficient energy usage and lower distances traveled - basically won the war.

  14. I see a lot of strong arm robberies on Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards · · Score: 1

    I foresee a large number of strong arm robberies, where they make money hand over unclenched fist.

    Buddha Palm technique, anyone?

  15. Re:You mean infringers like China? Or IBM? on Heavyweights Clash Over Policing Repeat Copyright Infringers · · Score: 1

    People create things.

    Corporations profit off of it.

    Corporations are not People, only Legal Fictions that predate the Constitution yet are NOT mentioned in it.

  16. Re:You mean infringers like China? Or IBM? on Heavyweights Clash Over Policing Repeat Copyright Infringers · · Score: 1

    The law can be changed.

  17. Re:You mean infringers like China? Or IBM? on Heavyweights Clash Over Policing Repeat Copyright Infringers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, it used to be 13, so 10 years is a good negotiation point.

    Regardless, only a Person who is a Human should be able to hold Copyright.

  18. You mean infringers like China? Or IBM? on Heavyweights Clash Over Policing Repeat Copyright Infringers · · Score: 1

    Right now more than 4/5 of all software in China is copyrighted by someone else that wasn't paid for it.

    Just ask IBM who goes along with this.

    Copyright should only be 17 years, renewable only by the Person (not Corporation) that created it, during their lifetime and in the year of their death by their heirs.

    Period.

    Go back. Go back. Go back to where you once belonged, America.

    P.S.: Business processes aren't copyrightable no matter how much you pretend they are.

  19. I for one welcome our Chinese Overlords on China Admits Anonymous Hacks Occured · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our Chinese Overlords *** SIGNAL LOST ****

    So much for the Great Mudwall of China.

  20. As a longtime EA customer, I hope they ignore them on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    As someone who has bought SimCity, The Sims (about 12 versions), MySims, some EA FIFA games, and just paid for the Katy Perry Showtime add on to The Sims 3, I hope they ignore those letters.

    Think of the failed boycott of Starbucks - ten (10) times as many people bought MORE Starbucks (we in Seattle tend to avoid Starbucks, but we drank it when we heard of the anti-gay boycott) as boycotted it.

    Anti-gay policies don't get you more customers - they get you fewer customers.

  21. Where in the Constitution is the TSA mentioned? on TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found · · Score: 2

    Where in the Constitution is the TSA mentioned?

    Is it in the section labeled "unreasonable search and seizure"?

    Or is it the section about "warrantless searches of citizens"?

    I'm not sure which section it is.

  22. Re:Important work, but clearly being oversold on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1

    I think this does promise to be important work, but it seems unlikely to be that useful in Alzheimers. More promising is the work on resveratrol, for example.

    Reminds me of one clinical test we did on a drug to remove plaque which worked too well - the brain cells ended up leaking for some subjects, because they had giant surface holes in them! Not a big deal for minor plaque impacts, but a big problem for an AD subject with large scale plaque in their brain cells.

  23. Re:Useful? or what about my car keys? on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1

    Well, that's good news, but what I want to know is...can they find my confounded car keys!

    They're in your jacket pocket where you put them while you were carrying that cup.

  24. Re:Pure B.S. on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1

    I can not say it any better than a commenter on the Gizmag article already has, and I quote:

    1. This article says nothing about how CaMKII/tubulin interactions help form memories and the whole Alzheimer’s therapy thing is 99% speculation and total bs.

    I have to agree with this.

    >quote>

    2. If this was big news, it wouldn’t be published in PloS, it would be in a more prestigious journal like nature or something

    I have to disagree with this.

  25. Re:Might not? Try will not on U.S. Missile Defense Against Iran Makes China/Russia Mad, Might Not Even Work · · Score: 1

    defending a fixed point is a lot easier than a broad umbrella interdiction, where interception may result in partial destruction and fallout.

    Hence the whole Shield versus source point defense differential.

    But you know that, don't you?