Comment: Re: I'm In Favor Of This Actually (Score 2) 251
Or quite the troll.
Comment: Great! (Score 1) 127
Now I can blow my monthly bandwidth cap in 30 seconds or less.
Comment: Re:Is Apple being compensated? (Score 1) 237
Although it was misspelled it was quite easy for me to understand the intended words I wonder what your problem was?
Comment: Re:Sounds good. (Score 1) 614
Very well said. I would use mod points here if I had them.
Comment: This is great news (Score 2) 67
If Syria can't make it back to technological civilization can we have their IPV4 address space,then?
Comment: Re:I could be wrong but.... (Score 2) 179
Obama received the Nobel peace price while expanding military operations in Afghanistan and ordering extrajudicial murders of American citizens abroad.
War is peace, right?
Comment: Re:Er...what exodus? (Score 1) 628
And I do.
Comment: Re:Too little too late (Score 1) 628
The first Windows opating system was released in 1985:
Comment: Re:Text Message = Instant Snail Mail? (Score 1) 93
You wouldn't normally buy drugs from a cop, though.
Comment: Re:social perception of "tech workers" (Score 1) 103
The whole problem with saying this is that everyone's full of shit. So full of shit in fact that there is nothing you will personally make more of in your live than feces.
Imagine if all the feces you personally excreted from the day you soiled your first diaper until the day you soil your last were collected and measured. The amount of shit you as an individual will have shot out into our world would exceed that of anything else you've ever produced. And that's true of every single one of us.
So I'm not sure finger pointing is very useful within this most shittiest of aspects of our existence. And I personally love finger-pointing so that's saying something.
Comment: Re:Lame. (Score 1) 144
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scarboni888
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Attached to: MIT To End Open-Network Policy In Response To Recent Attacks
What demands? I never heard what the 9/11 terrorists demands actually were and I just got nothing with a "what were the 9/11 hijackers demands?" google search...
Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope 115
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samzenpus
from the coming-together dept.
from the coming-together dept.
First time accepted submitter szotz writes "The National Ignition Facility has one foot in national defense and another in the future of commercial energy generation. That makes understanding the basic justification for the facility, which boasts the world's most powerful laser system, more than a little tricky. This article in IEEE Spectrum looks at NIF's recent missed deadline, what scientists think it will take for the facility to live up to its middle name, and all of the controversy and uncertainty that comes from a project that aspires to jumpstart commercial fusion energy but that also does a lot of classified work. NIF's national defense work is often glossed over in the press. This article pulls in some more detail and, in some cases, some very serious criticism. Physicist Richard Garwin, one of the designers of the hydrogen bomb, doesn't mince words. When it comes to nuclear weapons, he says in the article, '[NIF] has no relevance at all to primaries. It doesn't do a good job of mimicking secondaries...it validates the codes in regions that are not relevant to nuclear weapons.'"
Comment: Re:chicken or egg? (Score 2) 269
You make it sound so easy.
Comment: chicken or egg? (Score 1) 269
You need to compile this compiler with a compiler which begs the question....
How was the first compiler compiled?
Comment: Oh... and also (Score 1) 190
I work in an office full of successful women. So if any person (man or woman) can't get the respect they think they deserve they need to do something to get it instead of using their victim roles as an excuse to (passive aggresive, anyone?) spread the poison to others.