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Comment Re:Remove the artificial monopoly (Score 1, Flamebait) 299

by scross on Saturday July 24, 2010 @06:13PM (#33016660) Attached to: Adapting the Post Office To the Digital Age

'Flamebait' != 'Disagree'. The parent makes a valid point. There's no reason for people living in towns/cities to subsidise those who choose to live in rural areas, by monopoly, taxes or otherwise. Also, encouraging people to live in larger settlements is both an economically and environmentally sound suggestion.

Comment Re:Why net neutrality is bad... (Score 1) 293

by scross on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @07:21PM (#32894252) Attached to: Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law

I agree with the concept, but how exactly do you compete with another company offering unlimited downloads? Much like web hosting, there's the small print agreement that says you can only download/host a 'reasonable' amount, but most consumers are going to go for the unlimited package.

Comment Time Travel? (Score 4, Interesting) 156

by scross on Saturday March 13, 2010 @09:41AM (#31463530) Attached to: The Dark Side of the Web

The article says it was "Posted on 3 Sep 2010 at 15:47". Unless I've missed something, we're still in March 2010...

Comment Well... (Score 5, Funny) 664

by scross on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @09:23AM (#31425110) Attached to: Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall

I bet there's someone in a lecture reading this right now.

Comment Re:Education works as designed . . . TO FAIL. (Score 1) 446

by scross on Saturday March 06, 2010 @07:35PM (#31384556) Attached to: Improving Education Through Better Teachers

Yes, exactly. Seems like child-driven learning is very effective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOAmTaZ4XI

GPS Receiver Noise Can Be Used To Detect Snow Depth 51

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @02:12PM from the for-the-journal-of-sensors-and-transducers dept.

cremeglace writes "Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found a use for GPS besides finding restaurants or the occasional road-that-doesn't-exist: it can be used to measure snow depth. The new technique, which takes advantage of distortions of the GPS signal after it reflects off the snowpack, may potentially improve weather forecasts by allowing meteorologists to track snowfall patterns. ScienceNOW has the story, which one geophysicist describes as 'a classical case of one person's noise becoming another person's signal.'"

Submission + - Pirate Party being founded in Australia too... (pirateparty.org.au)

Submitted by

johnoes

on Saturday September 26, 2009 @06:38AM

johnoes writes: "Australia says me too, mates. "Founded on the same principles as other International Pirate Parties, it is part of a global movement against increasingly draconian copyright and patent laws, and the erosion of the right to privacy. The basic tenets of this movement are Free Culture, Civil Liberty and Intellectual Rights Reform.""

SOE Also Making a New Star Wars MMOG? 49

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 04, 2009 @10:45PM from the empire-strikes-back dept.

Hand Solo writes 'Ten Ton Hammer has an inside scoop on SOE making a new browser-based MMOG based on Star Wars. Rumor is that it will be run on the Free Realms platform. This is generating a lot of buzz around the net. Quoting: 'Former and current Star Wars Galaxies players can still remember the sting of the 'New Game Experience' that changed the face of that game for everyone. SOE has repeatedly said that they have learned from their mistakes, and plan to not repeat them. If SOE isn't expressly targeting the hardcore segment this time around, they (unlike BioWare) won't have quite the same initial level of expectations to deal with. Don't let us give you the impression that SOE plans to take on BioWare, and their highly anticipated MMOG debut, The Old Republic, particularly given the engine the game is rumored to be based on. More plausible is that it will be based off the Clone Wars CGI animated film, offering a more stylized approach to the universe. "

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