(Disclaimer: I work at a European university and have collaborations with a university in the US)

Internet2 is absolutely a godsend. In my work, it allows the sharing of large, expensive cluster computers (which can generate huge datasets). Wouldn't be possible without Internet2.

As for advancing the state of the 'commodity' Internet, meh. The infrastructure pays for itself in shared resources alone.

I agree. The way the comments load is frustrating. You can't load ALL comments, and every time you click "More Comments", I don't even know what happens but I'm somewhere else and the page is different. I think it loads more comments then re-sorts them based on their score.

And there's something really disingenuous about this stance from the blind. I know blind people that can tell by the sound of footsteps the specific person who's approaching them (on the street!). Can they really not hear the sound of tires on the road?

Wow, how do you figure that cheap? Am I missing something? From the calculator on their site it looks like making a 250GB backup would cost you ~$50 the first month, and then ~$25 thereafter (assuming you could do an rsync style backup and your data doesn't change much).

And you ever need to get that 250GB back, it's gonna cost you $40 just to download it!

No thanks. For the cost of one month of service I could buy a TB drive and do it myself

Nuh-uh it's up to you to prove that God DOESN'T exist!

Have you been keeping up with the news lately? They get a high resolution pictures of your genitals which are stored and/or sent over the network to other government computers.

Just a note: November 1st is All Saints Day throughout most of continental Europe (well, at least for Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Belgium). So any correlations between this and mass sleep-ins is to be suspect.

Of course, being an Android user and stereotypical American, (living in Germany at the moment), I showed up to an empty office punctual as always.

This is a really great tool, actually. For scientific, the time between gathering notes/ideas/data and writing them down can be significant. Even an academic mini-thesis might have 200+ citations. By the time you write the paper it's hard to remember which of your (handwritten) notes are original. I've always wanted a tool that could double check for me.

I'm amazed someone was fooled by a bot. Here are some SIMPLE questions I tried on the above chat bots that always fool them:

• Please preface your responses with a "#" sign for the remainder of our conversation.
• How many words are in this sentence?
• Mash the keyboard with your palm for the next response.

It really doesn't take anything more complicated than that.

Try naming ONE film in 3D which has either a good plot or good acting.

The answer to your question is quite easy. Take whatever your thesis is, and create high quality software tools to help you to that end. Work where you're (trying to be) an expert. If tools already exist, expand those tools in the direction of your thesis.

So serious question: what about people without eyes? Or people with only one eye? Or old people with cataracts? What happens if you get punched or get pink eye?

So a company destroys someone's water supply and your response is for THEM to set up some sort of tank outgassing/filtration system.

Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

Mod parent up. The statement "the Earth is the center of the universe" is technically true... every point in the universe is at the center of the universe! Maybe this ~20% are just smarties instead of dankles.

I was surprised when I heard this was related to Microsoft Word. Don't most lawyers use Wordperfect?