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The answer is that they're not doing well financially at all. They continue to get infusions of cash from private investors to cover ongoing legal costs: http://www.forbes.com/2005/12/22/jetblue-applied-s ignal-cx_dn_1222eyeonstocks.html

I suspect they can keep it up for another year or so before they start running out of investors to screw.

Jerry
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It has nothing to do with the drivetrain, that's true, but it has everything to do with sapping the inertia from a moving car. I don't but for a second that it "harnesses the vehicle pressing down on the road". The plate is an elevated ramp, which my car pushes down on as it goes over. My car will take more enery to go over a road of those things than a normal, flat road.

And yes, I did RTFA
Jerry
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Takes generating electricity to a new level of inefficiency...

I suppose it might work on a ramp going down, but level or up, and the "free" energy is coming from the gas tanks of the drivers.

Jerry
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It really is amazing that they can spend that kind of money and have nothing to show for it... All the while, they're hunting criminals trying to screw the government - sounds like they should look inside.

Jerry
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What exactly was involved in the QA process for the 360? Were they in a refrigerated room for the tests? Did the not actually test the power supply? Were all of the components suspended from the ceiling?

Jerry
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I guess we've found a purpose for those 8 core CPU's we've been hearing about...

Jerry
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are some volume buttons and a treo style keyboard on the top of the mouse, and we can ditch the traditional keyboard altogether.

Jerry
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Not that it lessens their tresspass, but Sony is apparently pulling the "infected" CDs:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity /2005-11-14-sony-cds_x.htm

Jerry
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...should those using VOIP be exempt from the abuses of governmental powers that the rest of us must endure?

Jerry
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Wasn't there recently a /. article about a court case that ruled that ISP's can't block access to certain sites because they 'compete' with said ISP?

Besides, if you like foxnews, comcast is the most people get is already, albeit over cable tv, not internet.

I really hope we don't see this deterioration of the internet, though.

Jerry
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Having the farmers hiding their birds from the government isn't helping. They're trying to protect their property, but in the end they'll end up causing many more to die.

Also, with migratory ducks and swallows (of the laden variety), we're going to see this all over europe in the coming weeks.

Jerry
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It's got to be more cost effective than placing all of the speed sensors like they've done in Georgia ( available on www.georgia-navigator.com)

Jerry
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Look, if these crazy governments (US included) would stop butting in, the record labels that hold on to their current business models would go out of business, but some other, more creative model would come into being. Hell, one of the big record companies themselves might even be the innovator.

Jerry
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Yes, Russia is having to pay to get him there, but Russia is pretty much treating this multi-national scientific endeavor as a high priced hotel. Why not let Hilton or someone pop for a hotel module and start funding some of the space program, since there doesn't seem to be a shortage of millionaires wanting to go to space. Maybe then we could fix the hubble or some other meaningful science.

Jerry
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I thought MS had a patent on unpatched browser flaws?!?!?

Jerry
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Does this mean that I'll be getting people calling me for my ebay account info on my skype line now?

Jerry
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Between this and their roadmap that almost exclusively involves power consumption improvements, Intel is starting to lose it's edge over AMD.
From talking to Intel folks quite a bit, it seems like there is a lot of blind pride on Intel's part in their product line and vision, and they dismiss most anything that I raise as an issue with their performance vs. AMD, and that's not a good sign to me.
Intel is not dying that's for sure, but they're going to have to make a course correction and not make another decade long mistake like itanium.

Jerry
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Because it's the Internet, there are so many permuations of where the server is, who owns the site, and who made the comment, and where all those people live. Certainly, a company needs to do what it can to defend it's name, but I've got to believe it's going to get a LOT harder to do so.

Jerry
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I'm pretty sure they're talking about finally adding the evil bit to packet headers so firewalls can much more easily ferret out bad traffic.

Jerry
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Quality of life standards are improving, driving up labor rates, and most of the "easy" outsourcing has already been done. Outsourcing larger development projects ends up not saving as much as expected because of the added management layers that are needed here and there to ensure a successful project.

Jerry
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...does google's popularity start to wane? There's a growing sense of frustration with them, and I've found that many other search engines yield better results, so it is a matter of time before internet users at large start using something else?

Granted, I think the reasons that their results are not good is that there are SO many of these black hats trying to pollute their index, so in a sense, they are falling victim to their own success.

Jerry
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I have read this article everywhere I turn, on every news show I've watched today. Most of them are *NOT* portraying the "discovery" in its proper context.

Jerry
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I talk to the big telcos on a regular basis as part of my job and I've been jabbing them for a while about the impending death of their voice business, but their stories have been changing, well not Bell South, but the others are really pushing hard into home and business VOIP, especially ATT.

POTS doesn't need a death watch yet, but it's certainly moving that way.

Jerry
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Sadly, the need for that much capacity is probably driven by spam, which means ISPs are spending a boat load of money to facilitate spam that neither they, nor their customers want, and the ISPs have to turn around and charge higher prices because of it.

Certainly, any ISP worth its salt is going to be filtering spam, but there aren't a lot of anti-spam systems out there that are effective over the long term or aren't annoying as all hell.

Jerry
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Hopefully the hax0rs are not the only ones reading this. There are some valuable lessons for MS and security providers.

Jerry
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What you're describing is socialism. We'll tax radios, cd burners, blank media, memory, hard drives, etc and pay that to the RIAA who distributes it to the record labels, who turns around and gives the artists their meager salary (meager in proportion to the starting amount).

Once that happens, we all may as well become musicians because it won't matter one bit how popular or good we are to get paid. Our money is derived from the tax, not from CD sales any more.

Jerry
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Clearly not. I am not one of the people that thinks all intellectual property is bad. But, what I am saying is that the current model has been broken into a million little pieces by the state of technology, and hence will no longer be sufficient to make money and compensate artists and *cough* record labels.

Jerry
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100% of piracy is a result of people/companies releaseing copywrited works.

Whether it's recordable media, p2p, thumb drives, magic crystals, or something else, the cat is out of the bag, and there's no going back. Time after time after time efforts to counter the problem are thwarted very quickly. Honest people are going to be honest, (but with the try before you buy advantage) and bad people are going to be bad.

This reminds me of the story of Sisyphus. It's time to stop pushing the rock up the hill and start looking for new business models!

Jerry
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It means that I'm not looking forward to another worm, but I'm realizing that the circumstances are right for one to happen.

That's what I meant.

Jerry
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To the security departments of companies the elevated levels mean that we have something new to pay attention to that we haven't been looking for before. Certainly being green doesn't mean that we can let our guards down.

Applying these alert levels doesn't make any sense at the individual level, for the exact reason you gave.

Jerry
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But it's been a while since we've had a good/effective worm.

Jerry
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I didn't think they went to Houston, but I was starting to question my sanity. I'm not sure what he was thinking...

Jerry
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This was long after reentry. They outline of the ship was very visible from a ground camera at for what I'm talking about. But, I recall that it was still going >3000mph at about 100,000ft.

Jerry
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I wonder what the cost of landing at Edwards vs. Kennedy is. Now that have to put it on top of a 747 and truck it back to Florida. That can't be cheap, and they're not exactly rolling in dough.

Jerry
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There was definitely a rotating light on the top of the shuttle that was illuminating the vertical stablizer. Otherwise, it may have been hot gas from the friction of the ship moving at a few thousand miles per hour.

Jerry
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It's ironic that 20 billion just happens to be the VERY SAME number of links on www.yahoo.com... hmm, coincidence?

Jerry
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Because if the US decides not to, the rest of the world will surely follow suit.

I share the opinion that they're a bad thing, but I think it's inevitable.

Nuke the moon!

Jerry
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In summary: If Sony was an icecream flavor, they'd be pralines and dick.

That are some harsh words!

Jerry
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Those region codes are SO convenient for consumers. I just LOVE travelling abroad and not being able to watch my dvds. I shouldn't be suprised that SONY would think to do this with UMD too. bah.

Jerry
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I predict that this is the first of many to come. As resolution increases and this technology becomes more mainstream, we're going to see real-time or near real time images and most likely an archive.org style site where you can shift backward in forward in time whilest looking at a site.

Governments are going to just love that...

Jerry
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For MS.

But seriously, this is like tipping over someone in a wheelchair. It's a BETA of WINDOWS. Hopefully MS will learn from this before the release, though. I'm not up for a whole new vector of threats against my windows boxen.

Jerry
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This really sounds like it has a lot of market potential, but the articles really don't have any detail as to what the fees will be or really how it is going to work.

It is encouraging to see some recognition of the "little guys" though.

Jerry
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It looks remarkably like the sharepoint portal page. Guess they have to find SOME use for that technology...

Jerry
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Wonder what he would have to say about the exhaust manifold?

jerry
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I think they've got it all wrong... No one is going to stop and watch an ad whilest someone is shooting at them or chasing them with a chainsaw or something like that...

No, I think the characters need to be dressed in outfits like those worn by nascar drivers, full of ads. You can pick your character as the marlboro man, Mrs. exxon mobile, and the Amazon queen.

Next, to do the movie ads correctly, they need to be displayed on the torso of your opponent, especially if it's a game where you have to work on a big opponent for a while. Then, everyone is stuck watching them.

See, that wasn't hard.

Jerry
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On one hand, this bounty will motivate "hackers" to disclose vuln's to 3com, who then will work with the vendor to fix the problem - and make themselves look good in the process - which means there is a legitimate way for some of these people to make real money off of their discoveries instead of turning them into worms or viruses.
And on the other hand, there is a lot of potential for abuse. We could see vulnerability stuffing in open source to get a kick-back (I know it's hard to believe it could happen, but remember - there is money involved), we could see 3com dissing people on the bounty checks which could motivate the hacker to turn the vuln into a worm more quickly to get back at 3com and then there is just the fundamental philosophy that 3com is rewarding someone for doing something bad.

We're going to have to wait to see how this plays out over time. It doesn't seem like a good idea to me, but then 3com has to be able to compete with the big boys now that they own Tipping Point.

Jerry
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They have long touted HP-UX as their non-stop platform, but this seems to me somewhat as a concession that it, well, sucks and they need something more adoptable by the mainstream.

I really think HP has the some of the best hardware in the market, particularly the superdome and friends, so hopefully this will help them.

Jerry
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The US government is going to make an example out of him, assuming he actually gets convicted.

I have to say, though, that even if the government computers were wide open, finding documents about UFO's seems like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Jerry
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At one point, the IBM/Hitachi ATA drives had command tag queuing that allowed for performance that was more in-line with SCSI. The link is /.ed - does this line of drives bring the command queuing back? I've been looking for some new drives for servers, and these sound mighty nice, even if they are "deathstar's".

Jerry
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That is certainly true, I guess I meant Linux distros like Redhat, Debian, etc.

Jerry
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