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Comment Re:Anyone else see 60 Minutes tonight? (Score 1) 187

Thought the demonstration of BT was interesting (at ~5:00): "...and you're downloading the movie right now?" "that's right" "the bits moving away...are pieces we have and are sharing with someone else." So CBS was participating in the very activity their program was out to show is illegal...interesting.

Comment Re:Braking (Score 1) 144

Why was this voted down? Do people not ever just coast? What if you're approaching a stop light that's red, for example? If you're not too close to it, it makes sense to let off of the accelerator early in the hopes that it turns green before you have to use the brakes.

Comment Re:OOh (Score 1) 803

Sounds to me like the parent is speaking of multiple partitions on the same disk. While this is theoretically fine, when I'm doing things like upgrading my OS and wiping a partition, having all of my data so close makes me nervous. I have them on separate partitions on separate disks and it makes me feel better.

Comment Re:Skype (Score 1) 198

UDP would actually better here, since UDP packets are send-and-forget, though you're not guaranteed delivery. Over a high-latency network, you don't want to bother re-transmitting anything for voice communications, because like the above poster said you'd have seconds of silence waiting for the retransmissions.

Comment Re:No sense... (Score 1) 541

I don't think having the government run everything would work out so well, but this canard that it's inherently inefficient and private enterprise always does it better has got to be put to bed.

Private business always has an incentive to do things more efficiently! The government has no competition, but the companies compete with each other in order to achieve the highest profits. Whether or not they pass those savings on to the consumer in the form of lower prices is another story...

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