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Comment Re:what a great idea! (Score 1) 117

Some people might like to receive the news on pieces of paper at their home for convenience's sake. He could offer a pricing model whereby they commit to a certain number of months- and it could be called a subscription.

He explains in the video that most of his readers couldn't afford that.

Comment Sounds familiar (Score 4, Insightful) 323

Amazon also touts the use of 'alternative misspellings for selected words' as a way to provide 'evidence of copyright infringement in a legal action.'

Sabotaging your product out of fear someone might violate your copyrights. Where have we seen that before?

If it wasn't obvious infringement prior to the changes, what's the big deal?

Comment Re:next up.. (Score 5, Insightful) 75

And are you confident, given the current level of lobbying, that the U.S. government won't pass the "Comprehensive, Affordable, Reliable, Effective Health Act"? I mean who would vote against the C.A.R.E health act that's "designed to lower health premiums for hard working American families"?

You might be surprised how much more power the industry will gain if public options fail.

Comment Re:placebo (Score 4, Funny) 75

How about placebos? I suspect they might work much better on some people than others.

Very true. I have friends that think they're worthless. But I only have to take 4 of them (1 in each corner of the room, at 9:04am, without exhaling) and my OCD stays completely under control. They make a world of difference.

Comment Re:next up.. (Score 2, Interesting) 75

It's not hard to imagine a future in which patients entering an emergency room will have a CD disc with their entire genome tucked in their wallets or on file with a national database. Before any drugs are administered, dosages will be adjusted based on the patient's genomic profile.

And that same genomic profile will determine if they can get coverage in the first place. Think of the cost reductions this new streamlined process will bring!

I mean, we just need this national database to better serve you.

Comment Re:I'm a rocket, man! (Score 1) 260

but I have high hopes that a return to the rocket-centric designs of yesteryear will put us back in the forefront of space exploration.

With the current political climate, I wouldn't count on government to get us there. We've been idling for decades and really do need private sector involvement to start making solid progress again.

Comment Speed vs Capacity (Score 2, Informative) 346

Although flash memories have also become popular - with advantages such as lower power consumption, faster read access time, and better mechanical reliability than HDDs

So HDDs will still be tops in terms of capacity, but SSDs win in everything else. They're getting to the price range now that they're a viable replacement for high-end systems that don't need massive storage. I doubt I'll even have a HDD in the next system I build, SSDs provide enough capacity.

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