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  1. Re:Dark fiber overcapacity on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    That's not the issue. The issue is the proverbial last mile. The ISP's don't want to upgrade their equipment to handle the new protocols efficently. The reason: a large capital investment with no savings associated with it.

  2. Re:At least one sense will be gratified... on Live Music in Second Life · · Score: 1

    If only VRML caught on.

  3. Re:Buckle Up on Telecoms Facing $50 Billion Lawsuit for Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Kennedy was shown a plan to get some Cuban dissidents to go on a shooting spree in Miami, frame Castro, and go to war. A lot of people don't know that. Regan invented the Welfare Queen out of whole cloth. Nixon created the -gate prefix. America does not have a good history of honest politicians in the modern era.

  4. Re:Why so cheap? on The Economy of Online Crime · · Score: 1

    The people who get these numbers don't want to use them. The ones who use them view getting them as drudge work.

  5. Re:America is still worse, right? on Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media · · Score: 1

    If f'' is positive, but f' is large and negative, f could be nearing a singularity in the complex plane.

  6. Re:IP Theft on Chinese Scientist Admits To Stealing Chip Research · · Score: 1

    This is academic misconduct, not IP violations(IP cannot be stolen, as you cannot deprive someone of it.). The penalty will be permeant bar on publication in any journal, which rules out any sort of scientific career.

  7. Re:Indi games have to compete on a different turf on Indie Game Devs Should Give Up · · Score: 1

    Id software. When they were starting there were big game companies out there. Now they have the best selling games in history. And I (1 guy) am right now making an FPS in my spare time. If it sells one copy after I am done it will have made a profit. Moonlighting as a game designer is very possible.

  8. Re:As a former MSFTie I can tell you why on U.S. Adds Years To Microsoft's 'Probation' · · Score: 1
    And they get Common Criteria for that?! Someone needs to make a better security criterion:
    1. Source Code open for review
    2. Proof of Correctness
    3. All plausible threats evaluated
    4. Visible Disclaimer:This software is secure only if the following problems are hard: @breaking_primitives
  9. Re:Missing the point on Apple Patch Released, But Is It Enough? · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. If I reboot and arbtrary code was running with my account privilages, all applications are still intact. I can use a different user account, copy my files over, delete my account, and remake it, copy the files back.. Yeah its a PITA, but it beats getting PWND.

  10. Re:Well, it's only fair. on U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data · · Score: 1

    And remember Nixon. CONTERPOL. Pentagon Papers. Watergate. Enough said. And Regen: Lies in every speech! And Lyndon Johnson with the drug laws. And Bush senior getting his son out of hot water with the law for drugs, which he signed. And Kennedy: "America is more important then the world, so I will prevent a tiny nation from defending itself, and commit an act of war against a nuclear power, to advance my relection." Ask any history teacher, and they will say I am absolutely correct.

  11. Re:Lawsuits on U.S. Government Intervenes in EFF vs. AT&T · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not a war. War has an end. This is tyranny. Hitler should have burned down more then the Reighstag to make a 1,000-year Riech. Because when life is more important then freedom, social standards trump letting people who love each other get listed as next-of-kin for each other, and having a little chemical fun gets punished more harshly then murder, that's what you have.

  12. Re:Brooks explained it: It's the programmers' faul on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    If you need to do the same thing many times, use a subroutine. That way you only need to write it right once and use it many times.

  13. I am from North Carolina on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clod!

  14. Bush LOST on Critical Security Hole Found in Diebold Machines · · Score: 1

    According to the New York Times. Who do you trust more, the New York Times or Jeb Bush.

  15. Re:100 things you should know about DDT on DDT or Malaria -- Which is Worse? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This site opposes the consensus backed up by evedence that the global mean tempature has been rising due to CO2 concentration rising. I would say that puts their reliability in the toliet. I personaly like to decide things based on facts, but you might not.

  16. Re:I've got something for ya Brother on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but most people work at companies where they don't respect the workers. A union is a way to get that respect. Note that I make the employer *obliged* to fire many problem workers, which is a major problem with productivity. But managers think that firing if a project is in troble is indefensible.

  17. Anglophiles unite on Favorite Film Scientists? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doctor Who all the way. "Reverse the polarity" is one of the iconic phrases of a generation of SF fans.

  18. Re:x86? on Core 2 Extreme 40% faster than Pentium EE 965? · · Score: 1

    SSE/MMX vs. AltiVec. Since the instruction set isn't orthoganal, more conversion instructions are needed then otherwise.

  19. Re:Brave New China? on Self-Censoring 'Chinese Wikipedia' Launched · · Score: 1

    Nearly pure Pb at 220 m/s in the back of the neck, then an hepectectomy, pnumectomy, and transplantable-ectomy. Without anastesia. That's quite a bit of soma.

  20. x86? on Core 2 Extreme 40% faster than Pentium EE 965? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The x86 instruction set is so inefficent compared to RISC processors like the PPC. Are they finally droping it to get preformance? or will they just throw more heat at the problem. That only works in plumbing.

  21. Re:I've got something for ya Brother on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    But you could be the one fired. Rember, a lot of skilled professionals have unions in Europe and they work. Do you want to insure that those who code poorly get fired, no matter how much they seem to do but management never sees you fix? Put that in the contract. Do you want to ensure that algorithms you create are not patented by your company automatically, and that you can still right academic papers? Put that in. Do you want to give Doctors better salaries then Bachlors and Masters? Put that in. A lot of benifits companies would never think of putting in a contract become viable with unions.

  22. Re:About that oil company analogy on Small Cable Groups Seek To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The FCC is going to do that when Hell Freezes Over. They have a majority of morons who belive that large companies make the best use of any resourse, like ham bands. We wouldn't have a lot of technology without hams, but the FCC is considering allowing large companies to emit broadband signals in that frequency range with no recourse avalible for interference. Medical equpment is also suseptible.

  23. Re:Some ideas just won't die on Mapping a Path For the 3D Web · · Score: 1

    Have you read Snow Crash? I think a lot of people would prefer a virtual face-to-face meeting to a text-messaging session or discussion board. Some people preposed a 3d interface to gopherspace a long time ago. It could be a feasible project.

  24. Re:Wave of the future... on Ageia PhysX Tested · · Score: 1

    But physics developers don't take advantage of the many libraries like BLAS avalible to speed up vector computation. Instead the compilier is left to do the dirty work. Radical thought: Let's use code that takes advantage of machine- and processor- specific flags to optimize matrix and vector operations and use that to do matrix and vector stuff. This card isn't open, but I think it would only be an optimized sparse matrix solving chip.

  25. A little story about Vietnam that relates to this on China Employs Campus Internet Overseers · · Score: 1

    In Cambodia Pol Pot took power and ruled for nine years as the Indochina situation got worse. Finally the North Vietnamese did what the Americans refused to do. They marched in, fought a costly war, and put in a democracy. The North Vietnamese could have used the effort, time, and money to rebuilt their own country. Nobody would have blamed them. But they didn't. While America was praising itself as a bastillon of freedom, a country that was considered a pupet of China did the right thing.