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Comment Re:Deleted (Score 1) 108

You don't need to host every piece of information on Wikipedia. People are free to put up their own websites to post personal opinions, trivia facts about their favorite tv shows, or new medical curatives they've discovered. Wikipedia just isn't the place for it.

You seem to be arguing for including everything in Wikipedia, and I think most contributors there would disagree and say that it's not the place for everything, and some stuff shouldn't be included.

Comment Router congestion and power consumption (Score 1) 474

Adding more clients will congest the router, and draw more power. Some people (like myself) disable the wifi on the crap routers they receive from their ISPs. Would this override that disable? It also features extra radiation going through your house, and makes it easy for people to find your router which you thought you were hiding by disabling SSID broadcasting.

Comment Re:Fingerprints (Score 1) 143

Do lineups test eyewitnesses with a lineup of no suspects, but all people that look like the suspect? What if none in the lineup are the actual perpetrator (i.e. the police suspect a guy that looked like the perp, but is truly innocent)?

Hopefully there's other evidence, and video surveillance might show clothing the person was wearing which he or she might still own. Worrying about edge cases isn't necessarily arguing against lineups. Just making sure they're as foolproof as possible.

Comment Re:Third-Party Support (Score 1) 329

Not all games support LAN multiplayer, or they support LAN multiplayer for a limited set of features. I assume the likes of Dracula - Undead Awakening for the Wii, Dragon Sakura for Nintendo DS, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers for PlayStation 2, and Need for Speed: Undercover for Nintendo DS will never see online play again.

Comment Re:Here's the Scoop (Score 5, Insightful) 340

The subsidization of niches seems to be failing of late. Rather than serving their niche, low-tier channels want more viewers so they can get a bigger cut of the pie. To do this, they tailor their programs for mass appeal. When once the History channel presented factual information about history, now it airs episodes of Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens. When once TLC actually stood for The Learning Channel, now it airs things I'm embarrassed to know the names of. When once Sci-Fi aired niche science-fiction series, now SyFy is mostly about Ghost Hunting series. Abandoning the niche pulls in more viewers. I'd gladly pay $10+/month for an actual Sci-Fi channel that aired original science fiction series that haven't been retooled for the lowest common denominator of viewer. I think internet series are going to fill the niches going forward, while television seems to be homogenizing.

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