Comment Re:Typing (Score 1) 302
The QWERTY layout has been around for 140 years..
So, not as long as the horse and buggy? And this tells us something about its future?
Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks 221
itwbennett writes: Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Duke University recently looked at the main causes of Internet latency and what it would take to achieve speed-of-light performance. The first part of the paper, titled Towards a Speed of Light Internet, is devoted to finding out where the slowdowns are coming from. They found that the bulk of the delay comes from the latency of the underlying infrastructure, which works in a multiplicative way by affecting each step in the request. The second part of the paper proposes what turns out to be a relatively cheap and potentially doable solution to bring Internet speeds close to the speed of light for the vast majority of us. The authors propose creating a network that would connect major population centers using microwave networks.
Comment Re:Good thing climate change isn't real! (Score 1) 293
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! -Upton Sinclair
There's just too many people making money on fossil fuels.
Comment Re:Lives be damned (Score 4, Informative) 328
Have you priced the safe disposal of hazardous waste recently? Much cheaper to flush it down a fraking well. Free, in fact, thanks to the laws.
Comment Re:Rare arguement for jury nullification (Score 1) 629
Sometimes, the judge denies the right to jury nullification: http://billmoyers.com/segment/...
Comment Re:Evolution (Score 1) 298
At yeast he had a point.
Comment this will get fixed... (Score 4, Insightful) 246
when it affects someone in power.
Comment hidden cam found on post office grounds (Score 1) 114
It disappeared after a news crew did a story on it.
Comment Re:Aren't these already compromised cards? (Score 2) 269
I've seen a 4-figure mail-order fraud fail to work because the crook couldn't give the CCV numbers over the phone.
Comment Enough! (Score 1) 274
That joke has jumped the shark.
Comment Re:"Conservatives" hating neutrality baffles me (Score 0, Troll) 550
The conservative bias is "don't regulate what you don't have to,"
I don't know, they support regulation disenfranchising the poor quite often... adding red tape to voting, or to accessing federal assistance being a couple examples.
Comment Unconscious racism (Score 1) 251
Check out the book "The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives."
You will learn about studies of unconscious racism showing black against black biases, and unconscious racism even from the most left leaning progressives, and a team of psychologists managing racial imagery during a presidential election.
Comment Rural subsidies (Score 1) 631
Nice in theory, but has been used in the past to subsidize the running of cable to the remote mansions of the 1%.
Comment youtube video summary of trans pacific partnership (Score 4, Informative) 154
Comment Re:booby-trapped (Score 2) 71
It's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
