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  1. Re:"Balkanization"? B.S. on FCC Considers Opening Up US Broadband Access · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and when the people and the government work together (yes it can happen) this is what happens

    http://www.itworld.com/business/66863/time-warner-cable-wants-legislation-eliminate-competition

    read it through..

  2. Re:Absolutely on FCC Considers Opening Up US Broadband Access · · Score: 2, Insightful

    humm i live in the city in fact its the states capital - and in fact its one of 3 cities that are known for R&D - and around here for net service for a Synchronous connection - all said and done is ~ 75$ per month per Mbit..

  3. Re:Pretty narrow margin on CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose · · Score: 1

    right but over the general population they still aren't typical.

    Personally, I don't consider X-Rays all that typical either. I think I've had one in the last 20 years...

    Well you must not go to the dentist on a regular basis - every dentist i know does a set of X-Rays each year, normally this is a upper and lower set 1-3 exposures each (# of exposures depends on their equipment and if they are looking for something specific)

  4. Re:Pretty narrow margin on CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose · · Score: 1

    right but over the general population they still aren't typical.

    it's better for your doctor to keep tabs on your dosages for a time frame - than GE to set a number and let you go over and over without taking that into account.

  5. Re:Pretty narrow margin on CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose · · Score: 1

    but CT scan's aren't "typical" - you get xray'ed couple times a year so they are very low poweed, but a CT scan?? i think my last was? i might have had one 25 years ago when they cut my head open, for that they pump up the power to get it right.

  6. Re:Here we go again on IBM Faces DOJ Antitrust Inquiry On Mainframes · · Score: 1

    I think he is refering to the TPM chip - except that while all the apples have them only some of the PC's have them

    they aren't rare or anything - hell this 2 year old laptop has one - although i haven't seen a single thing that uses it.

  7. Re:Seems fair to me. on New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If i write code at work - it belongs to the company i work for - and is up to them what happens with it.

    If i write code at home - it belongs to me - and I decied what happens with it.

    If they want to work for a public school and research and write a book - they can:

    A) write it at the office at the school and let the school decide what to do with it
    B) write it at home not at work and then do what ever they want with it.

    There is ZERO reason why a Prof should have the expectation that they can be Paid to work for a school and on that school's money/time work and produce a book in which the Prof can sell for self gain.

  8. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    he didn't say "defeat" - to defeat you must have a victor.

    he says "assure ... destruction" which means nothing of us. even if the US is wiped off the map so they would be too - there for destruction would be assured.

    we do have enough warheads to carpet bomb them with nukes - while it doesn't seem like a good idea, for either side, it is the game of MAD.. which kept the cold war cold.

  9. Re:Forget the Beets! on Judge Rejects Approval of Engineered Sugar Beets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's pretty unfair to criticize something that started out a safety feature and morphed into something that turned into a way of enforcing a license agreement.

    And then turned into a way of sueing other farmers because their fields where next to someone who had the terminator corn - also causing that person to not have enough for the next year.

  10. Re:simple idea on RAID's Days May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    If the read/write head does contact the surface of the platter, that is called a head crash, and is bad.

    Head To Plater Interface - is a perfect way to lose data - normaly just fucks the head up and the sector it hit.. but i did once have one fail - it put a really nice scrape on the platter and the head and 1/2 the arm exited the drive via the side of the caseing. I'm very glad i was not near it when that happened. Theres a reason we called them IBM DeathStars

  11. Re:Translation on IPv6 Adoption Will Grow With Smart Grid Adoption, Hopes Cisco · · Score: 1

    your talking about Cisco's lovely IOS - routers are cheap and as long as they have the interfaces and backplanes you need will do what you want. (unless you do some ungodly evil filtering/processing of every packet)

    It's the SmartNet and IOS that is the real cost - and no not all of the IOS releases from 5 years and older have ipv6 support

  12. Re:How many slots does the card take up? on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 1

    read - display port - NOT DVI - all SIX on ONE expansion slot

    its in the damn summary - and Qouted in the comment you replied to.

  13. Re:Merketing trumps reason again... ;) on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 1

    3x2 just makes it a horizontal divider vs. vertical

  14. Re:so who will on British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid · · Score: 1

    But what about all the people who went to jail because they sold 18+ content to a 16 year old with a fake ID?

    who is going to investigate the wrongfully imprisoned?

  15. Re:Future? on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 1

    damnit - should have used preview

    correction on last statement - should be
    (1.20075217*10^-19)%

  16. Re:Future? on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 1

    Your math is waaaaay off - not sure what you did but what your looking for is

    (((Mass of earth in grams)/(1 mole C in grams))*(# atoms in 1 mole)) = # of atoms in earth if eart was all Carbon

    (((5.9742*10^27)/(12))*(6.0221367*(10^23))) = 2.99812076*10^50

    3.6*10^31 atoms is only (1.20075217*10^19)% of earths mass (have no idea where you got 3.6*10^31)

  17. Re:KDE on Nokia Unveils Its First Netbook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    on top of that if you look at the promo video its Windows 7 NOT windows XP like all of the other "net books"

    to me that is a selling point for MS.. it Nokia can put out a net book with all this wonderful connectivity + 12 hours usable run time + having windows 7 vs XP then MS will have a strong selling point (much better IMO than the moheav crap)

    my hopes is that this (because of the HD offering) actualy has it.. that size + a HD+ quality screen (1280x800 would be wonderful for 10in) and the nVidia GPU dual core Atom refrence board we saw a few months ago to power it.

    I like the idea of the netbooks and the Atom. and having HT on the atom is nice.. but dual core Atoms are by far what i would want. but no one releases them saddly.

  18. Re:Who cares on PCI Express 3.0 Delayed Till 2011 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but isnt' that the point of making it a channelized system? where each channel is full duplex? they can jsut add more channels as needed.

    16x - 20x - 24x - 32x

    you can plug a 1x or 4x card in a 16x slot and have it work - hell if you wanted to you could make a 3x card..

    adding more available channels on the slot is much less of a change to it than PICX was to PCI.. and that actualy turned out to work quite well..

    i'm all for increasing the speed of interconnects - but adding more lanes seems to work just as well - jsut costs alittle more in terms of copper..

  19. Re:From the license... on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly · · Score: 1

    why would it not be a commericially viable product?

    also if they just stuck it out there for anyone to fork off and do what they want with it - then they can quickly remove any chance of it being commericially viable.

    It's impressive work - let them share it how they want.

  20. Re:Odd, to say the least. on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 1

    well this was also 10 years ago.. but it did happen..

    glad to know that it isn't that easy

  21. Re:spec? on World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    actualy it's both.. cosmic ray's flipping bits is a concern.. or disrupting clock cycles.. there is a reason they use slower larger circuits in long term space applications..

  22. Re:Odd, to say the least. on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 1

    sadly not the case.. for NC .. instate tuition goes to people whom have lived here (while not in college ) for 6 months in a permanent residence (showing of bills or your legal guardian showing them as proof of residence is enough).

    Basically i know several people from Brazil who came up here for 1-2 years of High school - on the student visa got an apartment - and enrolled in college with instate tuition.

    By now they have gotten green cards - but the didn't have that originally when they where getting instate tuition.

  23. Re:Stupid prices on US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive · · Score: 1

    "(I had AT&T)"

    AT&T uses GSM (same tech used in Europe) they where also the first to use GSM - a tech that came out after CDMA - the US has near full coverage in CDMA - this is what cell providers here went with.

    your spotty AT&T coverage is because they have to redeploy new radio's on towers.. and haven't gotten nearly as far as 15 years of CDMA

  24. Re:Stupid prices on US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive · · Score: 1

    the first sentance states that i would like to see the ACTUAL research on the info i just pulled out of diffrent resources in 2min time..

    and this is /. i ATLEAST stated and debunked the assumptions i made - the most obvious ones anyways..

    so yea...

  25. Re:Stupid prices on US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive · · Score: 1

    Some companies actually still do what you ask - my dad has US cellular - he has free incoming (not sure how much out going ) for 30$ a month.. BUT he is roaming when he is at my house (120 miles) away