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  1. Re:not so fast on Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP · · Score: 1

    TCP? are you insane? you will bloat the DNS system tremendously and it will then become susceptible to the sockstress attack performed on TCP stacks which exploits the way TCP is suppose to work.

  2. Re:The balance may remain.. on Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1

    you just described the water cycle.

    We pull it from somewhere. might as well be the air.

  3. Re:Something wrong with the movie on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 1

    apparently you didn't notice that he was 7 and driving an old muscle car over a cliff. Hello... you have to have pretty spectacular qualities and daring to be the youngest star ship captain in history... riding a motorcycle at age 12 does not seem to be too out there.

  4. Re:Tools for gov. on How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? · · Score: 1

    Which is why Change.gov is not a live feed of Obama's daily life, it is video and audio and documents and messages meant to communicate policy and make a much more transparent government.

  5. Re:Price drop on 3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine · · Score: 2, Informative

    Artificially high == "colluding on prices to avoid market forces due to competition."

  6. Re:HELL yes. on Wayland, a New X Server For Linux · · Score: 1

    almost 5... almost 7... who's counting? :-)

  7. Re:HELL yes. on Wayland, a New X Server For Linux · · Score: 1

    XF86 has not been the standard X server in almost 7 years.

  8. Re:No Silverlight here. on Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware · · Score: 2, Informative

    and Silverlight is different from Flash how? Actionscript is just as close to your computer as the CLR in silverlight is... the difference is that I can write apps in a nice language (c#) in silverlight.

  9. Re:Can There Be a Knot that Cannot Be Tied or Unti on Major Advances In Knot Theory · · Score: 1

    uhhh....

    the definition of a Knot is something that cannot be tied or untied.

    only a tangle can be ties and untied.

  10. Re:Things like this... on Major Advances In Knot Theory · · Score: 1

    then you are an idiot.

    programming solutions often can use mathematics theorems to produce very efficient algorithms.

  11. Re:Makes it sound bad? on Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA · · Score: 1

    Try that as "We Democrats" and Republicans Rammed.." and you have it right.

  12. Re:Vote Skew on Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents · · Score: 1

    but that case only occures when the margin in teh populat vote is less than 1% and has only occured 3 times in US history. It seems Canada's problems are far more problamatic.

  13. Re:Vote Skew on Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other words, you end up with something that looks like the US senate.

  14. Re:Vote Skew on Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents · · Score: 1

    WTF....

    that is one screwed up parliamentary system.
    It makes the US system look fair by comparison

  15. Re:Costly Waste of Time on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    ohh... so you mean, create a public infrastructure to allow better competition and thus better pricing to the users of the services...kind of like the interstate system.

  16. Read the transcript on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    The Ultra Hal transcript seems to be a prototype one, because there is no way that will fool anyone.

    beyond that, perhaps a good exercise would be to see if you can trick someone into thinking you are talking to a person who was English as a Second language. that seems to be an easier burden and would provide the insites needed to move farther.

  17. Re:Some things conveniently left out on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SATA drives are designed to spin up and down.

    Server and NAS drives are not designed to spin up and down, but then, those are redundant srive systems so a drive failure there is not catastrophic.

  18. Re:Not only that. on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    get computers that suspend to flash. Then you can turn it on and it instantly is working with a nice little unlock screen.

  19. Re:For mere mortals there is speed on 10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    lots of companies have lazy desktop admins who write one giant script to run that checks every resource available in the system for every user even though most of those users will not use most of the resources it is checking for. Smart companies have created multiple scripts and figured out smart ways to quickly identify what scripts the logging in user needs to run, thus reducing boot up significantly.

  20. OMG!!! Seriously!!! on Birth of a New African Ocean · · Score: -1, Troll

    geee.... really? How is this news at all? I knew this in 3rd grade when our teacher talked about the Great Rift Vally.

  21. Re:banking on Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    You are aware that the UK system is not the direction that the American plans are looking to go right?

    All American plans for healthcare start with the idea that providers of services will be privat entities. The part where healthcare is provided is by paying for the care like a giant insurence pool for a certain level of care, usualy wellness care and very expensivecare like organ transplants, cronic illness, etc. For the rest, you can get Gap insurence which is a lot cheaper than comprehensive insurence.

    You maintain teh point of service efficency while not causing people to go bankrupt and covering everyone for the most important care.

    The AMA has a very good plan on its site as well.

  22. Re:banking on Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    We could try having a 2 year moratorium on forclosures and during that time, the loan terms are renegotiated so that there is equity being built and the payments can be made. THEN new securities are issued to the stake holders and losses taken on them can be written off double on their taxes.

  23. Re:banking on Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    If tehy don't, the money you have will be worthless.

  24. Re:Hmmmm, help me out here. on Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics · · Score: 1

    a system in thermodynamic equilibrium can still have lots of energy. We use energy transfer as our means of capturing energy, Brownian ratchets could sit in a system that has thermal equilibrium and capture the energy found there by transferring the energy from particles that hit it.

  25. Re:jQuery vs. JavaScript "classes" on Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework · · Score: 1

    It abstracts the more complex client-server interactions and lets you use a pre-built tool for such interactions rather than creating one yourself.