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Comment Answer (Score 1) 349

So many wise-crack replies to the OP.

What about actually answering the question and THEN giving your two cents guys?

Okay, I'll go first then:
STRONGVPN.com
SWISSVPN.com
are my two options.

Then you could have a look at this recent review of VPN providers for further elaboration on this:
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

Here is another review site: http://www.vpnhero.com/vpn-reviews/
Good luck on the assignment, and happy surfing!

Comment How about openness? (Score 3, Insightful) 134

What happened to sharing?
I thought the most important part about the 3D printer revolution was that users were in fact able to get designs through a communal repository of designs, FOR FREE.

What I see here is a bunch of super-fancy iPhone covers that sell at USD30.
That is not going to help fuel the revolution that the other 3D printers started. The implications for the world are enormous when everyone can replicate items in their house for free. It is not impressive when you get an iPrinter- that increases the cost of using it significantly.

Screw simplicity. I want to be free.

Comment Economic profits are not the pending disaster (Score 1) 224

Although I agree that in a business sense, the unfavourable economic terms these producers are facing, with extremely tight supply chain coordination on the part of large brands is a challenge. As an effect of this, they might face considerable difficulties in the not so distant future. The consumers might see prices rise considerably in the future. But that is not the pending disaster we're facing: The real disaster here is this: Have you considered what we are doing to this earth? How much energy does it take to forge all that aluminum, steel, lead, silicon. How much energy does it take to power those factories? Did you think about how much resources we are spending producing these items, many of which become obsolete, broken and unwanted after a short time! Exacerbating this, what will happen when the BRIC's and the NEXT-25 wants the same level of affluence as us? Recycling is not a suitable solution. We still produced it, we still took the materials out of the ground, and spent the energy forging it. The solution is ending this insane level of over consumption the entire world (the part that can afford it) is doing. / Development economist

Comment Re:Interesting timing... (Score 1) 81

That comment seems more like an Ad Hominem attack, because I think differently than you. Any success in the extreme hypercompetition which is computer processors, chips, chipsets and bleeding edge hardware is good for any company. So although that is a bleep on their radar, it is the CFO's radar. Remember the spillover effects throughout the organization. The learning that has taken place, the strain on the organization and the subsequent major success Tegra will be. So next time, please consider the bigger picture, take the holistic approach.

Comment Re:Next Gen Q (Score 1) 634

Seriously??? (I am watching through Voyager now and it is just as good as any of the other treks, different, but really good) The only problem now is that I don't know who I want to impregnate more, T'Pol of Enterprise or Seven of One in Voyager. Both are stunning. T'Pol would probably kick Seven's ass, but then again Seven is badder. Decisions decisions.

Comment Re:Interesting timing... (Score 5, Insightful) 81

Clearly Linux is feeding NVIDIA with a _platform_. Tegra is an architechture which will sell hundreds of thousands of units, benefiting NVIDIA immensely. It is a classic case of the tragedy of the commons, when a major player like Nvidia uses Linux as an engine of growth and gives little back. Yes, I know, they are providing the Tegra code upstream, so I guess it is kind if inacurate to use it as an example. In any case, any company with such a great success based around another entity's platform should provide some care and love back to that community. The one thing Linux/s needs is source code, and it is all in the interest of performance, usability, stability, interoptability; it's not asking for anything more. Yet, I do understand NVIDIA's conundrum. The driver has almost become an OS in itself because of the complexity of GPUs nowadays. I don't want to get too technical, because it is besides the point of this little post.

Comment This is fantastic (Score 1) 339

This is fantastic I participated in the AI Class and I learnt so much. The class was so engaging, and it had me finely combing the textbook. I still remember the topics we went over, up until the point where I realised my math skills were insufficient and I would have to study 8-10 hour days to complete the rest of the course. But the experience was great! Now I know what actuators mean, the travelling salesman problem is and so on. Thrun, this work could really change the world, what a good set of news to wake up to.
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Submission + - Is Twitter making money?

Cuban Devil writes: After all the hype Facebook's IPO did not deliver what was expected. It made me think about a Twitter IPO, what would be the results? Better question: what really is Twitter's business model? How do they make money with pure and short text messages?

Comment Oh by the way! (Score 3, Informative) 216

Release notes: Boot hangs on systems with b43 wireless cards WHAT??? This is a very common set of cheap broadcom wireless chips used in tens-if-not-hundreds of 2-5 year laptop models. What a particularly strange thing NOT to fix before you ship a release to the public. Of every laptop I "refurbish" and install Linux Mint on, 1 out of 3 has the B43 chipset. I can't believe it. I have to see this with my own eyes. ... Ship a release that doesn't support the ess1869 of wireless chipsets

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