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  1. Re: Good operating systems Dont. on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    Linux and Mac odd don't even care about an extension I'd the file is marked executable.and when Windows use executable code in screen savers it's lost.

    Clearly delineating executable code and data is important, but extensions are not the way

  2. Re:No. on Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? · · Score: 1

    I have 16 channel docsis 3.0 at 300/15 mbps right now in an Austin, TX suburb so I was coming here to say the same thing. I do hope to see FTTH in the near future, but getting rid of transfer caps/allowances is far more important (I can blow through the 500 GB allowance on my service rather quickly)

  3. Re:We're ignoring them... on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    I guarantee half the mothers are planning to disobey the important instructions regarding the O2 masks. I have pointed out the reason to my wife and many strangers when it came up and you could see the look of sudden understanding on their faces.

  4. Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    They never go into that much detail. You have to actually read the safety card to find out how to operate the doors, and even then the drawings aren't that great.

  5. Re:Think of the aliens on Violent Galactic Clash May Solve Cosmic Mystery · · Score: 1

    Probably none, this was ancient history and the universe was too young. This happened 11 billion years ago.

    I really want to figure out how to make an really old news joke out of this.

  6. Re:Go baby monitor, internet enabled on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    I saw a Skype enabled monitor at Target. It was about $200.

  7. Re:Space Race v2.0 on China Plans Space Station By 2020 · · Score: 1

    If handheld GPS costs $100 and in vehicle navigation costs $2500, it is possible. at 6.5% (sales tax on vehicles, goes to the state, not fed) a family of 4 with one of each has paid $156 is sales taxes alone on stuff that wouldn't exist otherwise. That beats the $35 / resident, but barely.

    If you count income taxes on that money it would be over $400, but that money likely would have been spent on something else if the GPS systems weren't there.

  8. Re:File an Anti-Trust Complaint on Mediacom Using DPI To Hijack Searches, 404 Errors · · Score: 2

    Most cable companies are most heavily regulated by local franchise agreements. If I had Mediacom doing this in my area I would probably have to start attending city council meetings to speak against them at every opportunity. I have a terribly despised ISP in my neighborhood, but they have recently upgraded their network and have provided me with great service (I believe they do NXDomain crap, but I use OpenDNS. They do it too but I have at least chosen them).

  9. Re:Unbreakable? on PS3 Hacker Claims He's Jailbroken 3.60 Firmware · · Score: 1

    Sony previously avoided the war entirely. Having Other OS kept a great deal of hackers at bay. The problem was a few too many restrictions and tinkers who wanted more power. They would have left the security intact had the system not been crippled from the OtherOS.

    Sony should have left well enough alone, fixed the hole, allowed access that people were looking for, and retained Other OS. The war would have quickly fizzled.

    As it is now my family gripes every time the thing requires an update to connect and I'm ready to abandon the PS3 completely. I still have a 10GB partition with Linux that I can't use.

  10. I depend on reply all! on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    There is nothing worse than technical discussion being fragmented when people forget to use reply all! If I don't want my recipients to interact with each other, I will use BCC.

  11. Re:Normally on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    None is saying 90% gets passed down. Taxes have been 20% and will probably stay that way. If one person's incremental rate is 90% and another is 5%, the person paying 5% pays more and earns less. The person paying 90% is compensated that much more (and the costs shifted around).

    Certainly this isn't 100%, but that's how it is going to usually work out.

  12. Re:Normally on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    And as a matter of fact Texas doesn't tax 3 of the 4 items on your list.

  13. Re:Enough of this on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Texas has been demanding that Amazon collect taxes for a long time. They willfully disregarded. I bet if they were willing to put future taxes on the table Texas would settle to keep the jobs.

  14. Re:Enough of this on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    I live in Texas, I'll happily pay the sales tax too (as long as it's collected with my purchase).

  15. Re:They still owe texas money. on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Amazon didn't collect but they had a legal obligation to do so. Texas has never bothered to collect the use tax, so no one pays it.

  16. Re:Texas Budget Deficit on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Sales tax in texas starts at 6.5% (State) and is legally capped at 8.25%. Localities, library districts, metro and such can have taxes that add up to more, but there is a priority in who actually collects it (because of the 8.25% cap).

  17. Re:Texas Budget Deficit on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    As far as know every state will credit sales tax paid towards use tax. Texas shouldn't have to build a use tax enforcement system (there isn't one for consumers).

    Amazon should have been collecting these taxes. I usually try not to hold sales tax against the merchant when comparison shopping (although on expensive appliances I have been known to).

  18. Re:Why they "thought they could skirt" on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Dell did this LONG before they had stores. The rules are clear, you ship from within the state, you are considered to have a presence.

  19. Re:Great for middle-class employed people. on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    I have used my iPhone 3GS to tether to my laptop while fixing network problems and had no issues holding a conversation with the person I was helping at the same time. 4G assumption not required. I was at a Marina and an 18 wheeler parked between me and the Marina's WiFi access point.

  20. Re:Great for middle-class employed people. on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    Well, you don't have to have unlimited LD, caller Id, voicemail, etc. Those services are the only way your landline was $60.

    I was able to have a land line (measured, I think 25 calls free a month and $0.02 per local call after that) and Elite DSL for $58/mo. I dropped it and went to cable Internet for $55 so I could get 3-4 times the speed (too far from equipment for Uverse. They have it at the other end of my block).

  21. Re:Just another microcell on Alcatel-Lucent Shrinks Mobile Cell Tower To Small Cube · · Score: 1

    They described a usage difference, but no real difference.

  22. Re:Ummmm ... on Google Releases Software To Iran · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt the restrictions were useful anyways. I am sure they could download the software with foreign proxies, or if that failed (it wouldn't) use an agent in another country to forward the program.

    So I don't care if we poke holes in the restrictions, they are political and nothing else. If we could make them work that would be great, but realism must be recognized.

  23. Re:Does it address what ports are open? on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    I can get AT&T DSL which only has port 25 blocked, 6mbps x 768kbps.... Or I can get cable with a 107x5 mbps (or the 20x2mbps I have purchased). The Cable blocks the following ports, all supposedly because of worms:

    25 TCP SMTP Both* SMTP Relays
    80 TCP HTTP Inbound Web servers, worms
    135 UDP NetBios Both Net Send Spam/Pop-ups, Worms
    136-139UDP,TCP NetBios Both Worms, Network Neighborhood
    445 TCP MS-DS/ NetBios Both Worms, Network Neighhood
    1433 TCP MS-SQL Inbound Worms, Trojans
    1434 UDP MS-SQL Inbound Worms, SQLslammer
    1900 UDP MS-DS/ NetBios Both Worms, Network Neighborhood

    I run a small web server on https and have had no trouble. I run ssh, no problems. If you want the blocks removed they charge for a very expensive business connections.

    I bought hosting and moved my websites to dump AT&T DSL. It was too slow. I am 4400 ft from the switch, so I won't be getting their newer services.

  24. Re:I guess that means on French Government May Subsidize Music Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apparently in order to participate they have to lower prices, but I still think this is a terrible use of public funds.

  25. Re:MacBook Air on When You Really, Really Want to Upgrade a Tiny Notebook · · Score: 1

    You can still have nVidia video, just not motherboard chipsets as I understand it. My recent Core i7-720QM laptop has nVidia graphics.