With so many capable robots around, I'm sure there will be plenty of unemployed humans willing to do just about any job. Come to think of it, we've already got plenty of unemployed humans.

I'd be okay with robot politicians, but only if we go back to paper ballots.

Uh... should this statistic be shocking? At any given point in time, if you isolate out the top 3% of users, how much of the bandwidth SHOULD they be using? Should it be closer to 3%? That would mean everybody is using the exact same amount of data. All this statistic says is that data usage is not evenly distributed, but we're talking about a packet switched network. At no point in time does a packet switched network EXPECT equal usage of bandwidth. If they expected bandwidth to be used evenly across all users at all times, they would have built a circuit switched network. At any given point in time, most connections are just idling. Why don't they just release a statistic that reads "99% of network bandwidth is consumed by active connections." How about a billing plan where you pay for unlimited data, but if you don't use it, they'll refund your money?

I am so tired of ISP's blaming their customers for the shortcomings of their network. The problem is with the way AT&T designed their network, not with the way customers are using it. Their network was not designed to handle TCP. They break TCP congestion control by not allowing packet loss. As soon a high traffic condition is reached, every affect TCP connection retransmits even more, and the situation quickly spirals out of control to where nobody can get a packet through.

Verizon has the same kinds of customers as AT&T and they manage to handle high traffic conditions without grinding to a halt. I can't wait for my AT&T contract to expire. The breaking point for me was at a football game when my phone failed to complete a call or send a text message for hours. The guy standing next to me had Verizon and it worked fine. He let me use his phone to call a friend. I got that friend's voice mail because he is also on AT&T.

From TFA...

Gia Dvali, a quantum gravity expert at CERN, remains cautious. A few years ago he tried a similar trick, breaking apart space and time in an attempt to explain dark energy. But he abandoned his model because it allowed information to be communicated faster than the speed of light.

I choose to believe that this new model will be the basis of the Subspace Communicator from Star Trek. Such is my approach to science. Don't judge me.

Was the Emergency Broadcast System even used on 9/11? It seems like if there was ever a time to trigger that system, it would have been on that day. All I've ever seen it used for was interrupting my Saturday morning cartoons repeatedly through my whole childhood. And we put up with it because we think one day it could do some good. The whole system is BS. In a real emergency, we all just turn on the news so that we can get the latest update on what they don't know about the situation.

Mod parent up. TFA is obviously a stoner rant with no real proposal.

Or they just don't know of my proxy.

My office uses Websense. All you have to do to get around it is to set a proxy in your web browser. In this case, the proxy just needs to be outside of Yemen. Problem solved.

"DARPA said it as embarked on an ambitious mission to create a new generation of computing systems - cognitive computers - to dramatically reduce military manpower and extend the capabilities of military personnel. DARPA's cognitive computing research is developing technologies that will enable computer systems to learn, reason and apply knowledge gained through experience, and respond intelligently to new and unforeseen events." ...These people do watch movies, right?

Austria cited CERN's recent decision to go off the pill as its primary reason for pulling out, but says they are still not willing to go back to using condoms.

Don't get ready to move across the country for this service just yet. This is just the beginning. DOCSIS 3.0 is the new standard that supports bonding together traditional cable modem channels to support these kinds of speeds, and the equipment that supports it is currently in late development stages and is being tested by all of the major cable operators. You are going to see a lot more announcements like this one over the next few years, possibly in your area.