Yes, because it's bouncing off of particles and such, however they are measuring the speed at which the signal meets the other end in a point-to-point scenario.

Which begs the question, how much faster would fiber optics be without air in the line? I imagine it would be negligible, but it would be nice to know.

Century Schoolbook 12pt font is good enough for The Supreme Court of the United States, it should be good enough for any of them. Lazy attorneys use Times New Roman.

I am not a lawyer, and more importantly I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advise; if you require such advise, contact a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.

The commenter is probably another shill trying to discredit tesla through bad press.

With all of the invasions of privacy by all the console makers, we should neither support or encourage these companies by purchasing these products. Once we have realized that video games are simply a mechanism of the ruling class to track and control the masses, the better we will be.

Imagine an Internet where anything that wasn't unencoded unicode or ascii where only recognizable dictionary words and standard protocols were allowed.

Imagine everybody being restricted to running iDevices where they could not install any unauthorized software on their computers.

Imagine that if it were encrypted, the government always had the private key, and the encryption was only there as a facade. The only public keys you'd have on your machine were the government's decoy keys.

Imagine if all software developers were targeted by the government with surveillance and public scrutiny to ensure that no illegal tools were being built.

It isn't that hard to foresee this future.

Your lawyer? Any real slashdotter would represent himself all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States and change every other precedent set before them.
Just ask one, every true slashdot user knows more about the law than anybody else in the legal community.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, more importantly I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advise and should not be construed as such.

If you can't defend something, you can't own something.

I also think that it's worth noting that there was no barrier that was broken, other than the fact that it was another unit higher in the base 10 system. There is no news here.

Also, why is it special that he rented Amazon's computing time? If he had rented computing time on a University supercomputer, or a cluster owned by another private corporation, would it have made a sensationalist headline? Had a University donated the time to him, would it have been news? This is nothing but astroturfing for Amazon's proprietary service, and has no place here.

I hate how the press sensationalizes the idea of renting out server space and calling it the cloud. Even marketing geared towards IT Professionals does it, and everyone speaks of the idea of having someone host your file and calling it "the cloud" as if just happened a few years ago. It's almost marketed as some mysterious magical force that just puts everything into play. I hate it. Get off my lawn.

I believe he is referring to a unit like this one: http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_21166.jpg

Wheels would be a lot better. Once the rover was made available, our moonwalkers hopped in it and took off exploring. No legs just eliminates the middle man. Before we know it, we'll have software developers fused to our chairs and fed through tubes as to increase efficiency.

More like put wolfram alpha and parts of Wikipedia in a different position. Google would still be the go to for search. I do like the idea of IBM.com or Watson.com boldly becoming a tranquil place to find answers.

Doesn't anyone remember the last time we found plastic on another planet?