What's a land line?

THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!

...100% of your Facebook apps! Nothing to worry about here, folks.

I name mine after elements on the periodic table. Makes for cool names and provides a numbering scheme.

...There predecessors are in their 80s and 90s now or dead. If a 70 year old isn't smarter than a dead person, then I don't understand science!

The smartest person I know works with me at an IT company. She's the only female tech... in town. She's also a student at the University of British Columbia taking science. She's going to make a lot more money than a typical IT person and only intends to have IT as a fall back career. Definitely smarter than the average man.

That's about the mass of yo momma!!

I had an obligation to this comment - sorry. :(

They're preparing them for a technological future with MACS!!

Sorry - this was obligatory. :(

A computer engineer I worked with was going through the border and was apparently not allowed to have burned CDs of software on him. He just so happened to have a very stable version of XP he didn't want to get rid of. Solution: Stick it in the CD drive, put the battery somewhere and they won't take the time to check the drive.

And I will still lack the rhythm to play this awesomeness.

Because of 'dem terrorizers!

It is similar to quantum computing. Quantum computing can be insanely fast, but it is often makes inaccurate calculations.

It's mainly about quantity, not quality. A possibly use for it is computation knowledge engines, like WolframAlpha. It would be inexpensive for computation servers, but only really useful if it was at least 98% accurate.

Similar sort of thing here in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. I sit on the board that run the Smart Communities Society which administers a fiber network called NTNet. We're going to be increasing our fibre network as soon as a bridge is built across a river to connect fiber from the south.

It is really only effective for businesses who resell our network. Cable users gain infrastructure, I guess because our internet service provider makes money off what they (over)charge for bandwidth.

Makes sense because many scientists are from foreign countries were religion is perhaps more sacred, like India, for example.

Although an atheist I appreciate some religion. Science can learn from it. I went to a CBC Massey lecture and listened to a great anthropologist, Wade Davis speak, and this was very well explained. If anyone else is interested in science, language, religion, anthropology and how they all come together they should read "The Wayfinders" by Wade Davis.