Fingo11 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. (Score 1) 981

by Fingo11 on Friday March 26, 2010 @11:02PM (#31636144) Attached to: Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong?

Its sad. The state of things has progressed to the point where idiotic questions are asked because we are afraid to make a single decision that might in some way offend someone's sensibilities. I would be willing to bet that there is now someone out there that is formulating a request for grant money to study the possibility of alienating a cross-section of the public by making their eyesight fully color spectrum aware. My God, I live in a society full of pussies.

Home Router For High-Speed Connection? 376

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 27, 2009 @04:46PM from the beyond-consumer-grade dept.

soulprivate writes "My cable company has recently begun to offer Internet access plans with speeds over 30 Mbps (60, 80 and 100 Mbps). However my D-link router is unable to go beyond 30 Mbps if I use NAT; it reaches 60-70 Mbps only if NAT is disabled. Is there any recommendation for a brand/model of residential router that is able to get more than 70 Mbps with NAT enabled? I have been looking for benchmarks or comparisons, to no avail. Does anyone know one? What are your experiences at home?"

Comment Re:utopian socialism (Score 1) 809

by Fingo11 on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @06:10PM (#29738143) Attached to: Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek

OK, let's look at the effect of technology on a society.

The star trek universe has:

1) Replicators capable of creating any material object except gold pressed latinum.

2) Holodecks (presumably a replicated product) that can create any imaginable experience.

3) A seemingly unlimited number of colony worlds where any group can migrate via the magic of ships with warp drive (created via the replicator)

4) Unlimited energy using matter-antimatter.

OK, so in that environment, a capitalistic society is nearly impossible. There's nothing to buy or sell. As replicators themselves are replicated, anything of "value" can be had for virtually nothing. Acquisition, per se, now means nothing. Experiences themselves are similarly cheap, or free. If your neighbors complain, you leave and join the anarcho-syndicalist collective colony on Kaka 4. Where does capitalism fit in with this technology?

There's booze. What about cheap drinkable booze? All those replicators did was make some swill that didn't have any debilitating effects. I'd be willing to bet that a society that can instantaneously replicate stuff can't replicate a half-way decent single malt scotch. Actually I think this was a side topic in one of those episodes somewhere...

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