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Comment Re:Pick the one that CREATES energy... (Score 1) 633

by odd42 (#34683354) Attached to: Trek Tech That Most Needs To Be Invented Before I Die:

Pick the one that CREATES energy... not consumes it. The only logical choice is the warp drive.

The first law of course is 'Energy can neither be created nor destroyed: it can only be transformed from one state to another.'
Though your general line of reasoning stands, in solving the energy problem.

Comment Re:What are they going to do? (Score 1) 1217

by odd42 (#32545768) Attached to: MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks
I concur on the hardware and parts access completely, but you have difficulty reimaging?

Really? Because my experience is the exact opposite. Grown up working on Windows and now supporting all OS's, Mac is the easiest to reimage.

NetRestore is stupid-easy & fun; there's ASR multicast (have serious switches and it can be a beauty); and there's even easier Firewire800/400/usb images - what else do you want??
Google

Submission + - Google.cn Still Remains in China (wired.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Google appears to be content to remain in China doing business as usual while it finds a way to work within the system, according to one of the search giant’s founders. This despite a strong statement 30 days ago that it would stop censoring search results in China and possibly pull its business out of that country. And the company is still unwilling to confirm or deny if the alleged attacks were carried out by the Chinese government. "I don't actually think the question of whether [the attacks were performed by] the Chinese government is that important," Brin said. (That's the difference between state-sponsor vs individual hacking. Why is that not important?) At the mean time, shortly after we celebrated google.cn lifted censorship, the exact same censorship has been quietly re-enabled as proved by this Chinese search query on June 4, despite the lack of any concrete actions by the Chinese government who has so far made only useless general and standard statements on the matter.

Comment Re:Google (Score 1) 363

by odd42 (#31088800) Attached to: Google's Experimental Fiber Network
The only-choice-of-provider many of us have, right now, DESERVE to be destroyed by Google with such a plan.

IF Google becomes the only ones on top for a while, how is that worse than the slow one(s) we have on top now?

This is just good news for consumers in threatening to bust the status quo

Submission + - DRM content drives availability on P2P networks (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by jgreco
jgreco writes: The music industry once feared that going DRM-free would drive a massive explosion of copyright-infringing music availability on P2P networks. Now, this study seems to suggest otherwise. The answer is obvious: if you can easily get inexpensive DRM-free content that works on your devices through legitimate channels, most people won't bother with the headache of P2P networks. It appears that users largely turn to P2P to acquire DRM-free versions of content that is distributed with DRM. The MPAA, of course, will not come away from this with the obvious conclusion.

Submission + - California To Protect Apollo 11 Space Junk (latimes.com) 2

Submitted by jcgam69
jcgam69 writes: The surface of the moon may contain Neil Armstrong's famous footstep from his 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, but the site at Tranquility Base also houses more than 5,000 pounds of junk left over from the trip, and California historians now want to stick a flag in that. If all goes well at a meeting in Sacramento today, California could become the first state to register the items at Tranquility Base—which include a U.S. flag, bags of human waste, and the ship's lunar module descent stage—as a State Historical Resource.

Comment Re:Fuck George Bush! (Score 1) 379

by odd42 (#30609322) Attached to: TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive

You seem to think that everybody who would choose not to pay for health insurance would not have the ability to pay for health care. Somebody needs to teach you what the insurance racket actually is. Its legalized gambling, and might soon to be required-be-law gambling. Fuck you are all your asshat liberal friends who want to force me to place wagers.

I'd rather we all have a right to medical treatment,
that doesn't cause bankruptcy to stay alive,
and that doesn't encourage avoiding medical professionals in the short-term at the expense of major intervention in the endgame...

vs.

Compulsory property liability (ie - your hated forced wagers) that's the status quo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance#United_States

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