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  1. Re:Take that... on Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    Send a probe and hope that Not Sure figures out how to communicate with it.

  2. Re:Honest question on Book Review: Head First HTML5 Programming · · Score: 1

    I like having books by authors of libraries, languages, and applications that are open source. They are good for reference and at the same time help support projects.

  3. Re:so many more shapes to imitate on How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents · · Score: 1

    LOL a sock puppet phone. Now THAT is an original design!

  4. shocking on How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents · · Score: 1

    I was expecting something like, "It has to be made out of wood and communicate in more's code". I'm impressed they allowed so many alternative possibilities.

  5. Re:Wt on Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? · · Score: 1

    And one can use hiphop to translate some existing web applications to the new framework. Very good post btw.

  6. gavel.avi on New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication · · Score: 1

    Whenever you see "Graph Analysis and Learning" you know they are teaching an AI system to make judgments. This literally is a system designed to decide if a human is a threat. All it needs is the ability to make a sound when it finds someone guilty.

  7. Re:Encrypt on New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication · · Score: 2

    Encryption is standard for XMPP now. Why it isn't for all the other protocols I have no idea. Regardless, unless the encryption keys are self signed the government can get a copy of them anyway. IMHO, your correct about PGP. It should be part of the signing up for an account process. Unfortunately, the most popular email clients don't give PGP any thought.

  8. It all depends the money. on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 1

    It sounds like a great plot. I certainly wouldn't hold on to saying there will be no CGI. Nothing beats CGI for shots of planets from space. CGI can be used to make space scenes look like they belong. Paint on glass requires someone with serious skills to make space scenes look realistic. The more they show what is being explored the better an exploration film is, IMHO. SGU was a good example of not showing space or the ship enough. They had this massive ship. Not only did it have tech exploration waiting to be exposed it had historical exploration that could be explored too. That is two seasons of good stories if you ask me. Instead they focused on trying to duplicate Battle Star Galactica's moody environment and plot. Sci-Fi that introduces new places, people, and things are historically the most successful; Star-Trek, Starwars, Dune, Avatar. I think these guys should take a really good comparison look at the two Dune movies. Anyway. I hope they get some decent cash to make the file and rethink using CGI.

  9. Stupid rocks on What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There should have been a question like "is there an environment that might make it more plausible for Silicon life"? What about planets that are molten or have oceans, lakes, and rivers of acid. Why would an intelligent rock walk around in place where they will become immobile? Sounds like something only dumb rocks would do.

  10. Re:Not the MTA on Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server · · Score: 1

    Oh I see, your saying they connect in addition to the original devices. I didn't know the kids synced their phones at the same time they synced their laptops, and desktops, and iPads. That sure seems to be a lot of devices. I've heard of schools going to a 1 to 1 program but a 3 to 1 program is pretty original.

  11. Re:Not the MTA on Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server · · Score: 1

    3) They are not adding 2000 new accounts, they are adding 2000 new devices to connect to the accounts.

    If the 2000 accounts existed and different devices are now connecting to them then there is something fundamentally wrong with the software.

  12. Not the MTA on Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server · · Score: 0

    First, Exchange is not an email server. It is a groupware server. If they are using it as the MTA then they should be shot on sight. That being said, if one machine can not handle 2000 accounts there is something critically wrong with the software or the choice of hardware running it. If they didn't anticipate adding 2000 accounts to an existing system see: shot on sight.

  13. Re:i love shell on GNOME Shell Extensions Are Live · · Score: 1

    That is good to hear. I'm happy their vision works for some people. I hope you support them in return.

  14. Wrong direction. on GNOME Shell Extensions Are Live · · Score: 1

    It isn't what needs to be added it is what needs to be removed. If I can't remove something from the Window Manager then I will have to remove the Window Manager.

  15. Kind of pointless when you think about it. on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 0

    IMHO. If ISP's would build out their networks instead of relying on buffers there would not be an argument here. My attention would be on fixing dumb wireless devices and drivers that ignore every attempt of making them play nice.

  16. Re:Cringely again... on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    I thought IBM designed SCTP to replace UDP. Regardless, I think your right. Using SCTP would benefit the web.

  17. Re:Is this a problem? on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 2

    Early Congestion notification along with ONLY a minimal amount of client side buffering is really all you need.

    Unfortunately, early notification doesn't work with a ton of wireless devices. Their drivers have minimal abilities to be controlled and they always send data at the speed of their negotiation. .eg if they connect at 11g they always send data at that speed and always send acks with window size adjustments to speed traffic up to that speed until they receive multiple window size adjustments telling them to STFD. Wireless devices are the dumbest things ever to be unleashed on the net and they are multiplying.

  18. Re:Doing it wrong, again on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    big dumb buffer

    Nice. Stupid ToS settings, devices that always send the maximum data until they receive 100 ACK window size adjustments telling it to SLFD, and big dumb buffers. I like it!

  19. Accounts don't lie on Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal · · Score: 1

    but the copyright holders won't suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products.

    The Swiss should know. The MAFIAA keeps their money in their banks to avoid tax collectors.

  20. Re:Municipal broadband is on its way, then on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 1

    You realize they are going to charge you for any high bandwidth usage under the assumption your viewing videos don't you?

  21. Re:Good on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah because no IT workers are tied to the... hold on. I got a call.

  22. Re:IT I$ CHEAP on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    When you have government agencies like GCHQ putting up sites to find people capable of cracking hashes to get a job that pays 25,000 pounds (39,000 U.S.) you have to wonder when the pay scale for IT workers fell through the floor.

  23. Re:Do I get to say... on Fighting Mosquitoes With GM Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    This is why I say modify their DNA so they glow in the dark. That way someone that wants them to live can let them munch away. Those of us that want to eradicate them from the face of the earth can bash them into a bloody mess of goo.

  24. Re:Tech giants want to offshore/inshore all jobs on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    It would be nice. The Internationa Labor Organization is a "specialized agency" of the United Nations but isn't actively fighting, union style, for a standardized minimum wage

  25. Re:Not related to unemployment on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    Could this be rephrased as "productivity per worker is increasing"?

    If 200 workers were doing the job and now only 100 workers are doing the same in the same industry, yes. This isn't the case. These industries are completely different from any other industry. A better example would be email vs post office. Workers are required for postal mail, they are not for email. This is an example of some thing doing the work for some person. The work is still being done. Money is still being exchanged. However, the money is going to fewer people because machines are doing the work. In these industries the work being done was never being done before.

    Unless you are assuming that there is a limited supply of economic activity and if that is done by robots no one will have a job?

    In a word, yes.

    Ecology is completely reliant on resources. Economy is completely reliant on ecology. A global economy is a sphere because the ecology is a globe, earth. Earth has a finite amount of resources. Money is a representation of assets. Economy is a realization of assets from resources for consumption requiring work. New assets are resources that had not been realized because some of the resources had not been discovered to be assets or work had not been discovered allowing the realization of the assets from the resources. ie. Mining skills to realize gold. Agriculture skills to realize crops. In the case of these industries an asset from resources had not been realized until they discovered a method of work. The work is not human work. If the work needed to realize assets from a resource isn't human work then humans do not have a method of work to create assets from those resources.