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  1. Re:I don't get it on Low-Cost Board Runs Linux, Google Apps · · Score: 2

    Or you could just go buy the bloody computer at Wal-Mart. It's the same board as the one they're selling at Wal-Mart for $198.

  2. Re:Net Neutrality from an operator's POV on New Network Neutrality Squad — Users Protecting the Net · · Score: 1

    No offense intended at all, just a friendly reminder. Add
    (remove the spaces) at the end of all your paragraphs. It makes your comment easier to read. :)

  3. Re:crime? what about birth? on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    By reason of its complications, would not pregnancy be grounds for removal from duty aboard the ISS? This would neatly eliminate the need for adjudicating citizenship. As for the USA modules, such could be considered an 'insular territory'. These are places where the Constitution does not always follow the Flag.

    More likely than not, there are some lawyers (with too much time on their hands) who are attempting to find the best jus soli/jus sanguinis citizenship mix for the present configuration of the ISS. The results may appear as a humor piece in a yet to be published law journal.
    You're right, it probably would be grounds for removal. But then some scientist would get a wild hair up his arse and decide to determine the effect of weightlessness on the birth of a human being.
  4. Of course they did... on National Security Letter Plaintiff Speaks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone appealing anything is hardly newsworthy. We knew it was going to happen. Just like whats-her-name eventually going to appeal the judgment of $222,000 against her for "making available 24 songs". Not meant as trolling; just a simple observation.

  5. Yes, but... on Linux-Powered Lego-Like Devices Target Developers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, wait. It DOES run Linux!

  6. Re:A few possibilities.... on Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years · · Score: 1

    Do you work for this company? I thought _I_ was sadistic!

  7. Re:The Future Is Already Here on DARPA Looks To Adaptive Battlefield Wireless Nets · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention that we're already using repeaters, it's just that sometimes our HTs can't hit it because they're low power compared to our mobiles. My HT puts out ~5w, where the mobile in our light rescue is a dual head ~110w transceiver.

  8. Re:The Future Is Already Here on DARPA Looks To Adaptive Battlefield Wireless Nets · · Score: 1

    Cool. Never heard of Project 25 until today. I'll see that our communications geeks get a look at this. We're still on the 154mHz band right now.

  9. Re:not here yet on DARPA Looks To Adaptive Battlefield Wireless Nets · · Score: 1

    I was talking about fire departments rather than physicians. Believe it or not, in San Bernardino County, CA., it's an accepted "radio" protocol to contact a physician via cell phone or sat phone. Unfortunately, my old department can barely afford a cell for the chief, let alone a sat phone.

  10. Re:not here yet on DARPA Looks To Adaptive Battlefield Wireless Nets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And public safety. It'll make communications a lot easier if we can use our handhelds, and have it eventually retransmitted to our dispatch center rather than having to run back to the truck to ask for an air ambulance or whatever. There are times that you just can't leave a patient.

  11. Re:Please on Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying · · Score: 1

    Be glad you don't use a Mac.

  12. Re:Delaying, not blocking my check? on Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Sure. Post-date it to the year 10,000.

  13. It's Craptastic! on Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic · · Score: 1
    I never experienced it often enough when I was a Comcast customer, but it seems like my current RoadRunner connection works much better for BT downloads. Could just be me though.

    Ok, I'm sufficiently braced for the "You're a bloody pirate!" comments.

  14. Maybe this stems from... on Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Excel bug.

  15. Re:Can't even claim a loss on Jammie Appeals, Citing "Excessive" Damages · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Yeah, okay. on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    I wasn't being serious. Lighten up. I know how stupid it sounded to say that. Didn't you read the rest of my comment?

  17. Re:4 Terabytes? on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    I haven't gotten into the whole HD movie thing yet. Just doesn't appeal to me, but I see your point. I have a 320 GB drive in my system, and between my Linux ISOs, Alcohol ripped game discs, installed games, and other miscellaneous software I've purchased/downloaded (OSS, dammit! lol), I'm using, according to Windows XP, 161 GB. Of course, 10GB are taken by the bloody restore partition.

  18. Re:4 Terabytes? on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    LMAO. I wasn't thinking about business users; I fully expected that. It was more rhetorical than anything, but you're right. I doubt there are many original artists who would need that much to seed their own creations, but you never know, right?

  19. 4 Terabytes? on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 0
    Who the hell is going to use all that space? Honestly, it seems incomprehensible right now. I know, I know, we all said the same thing when the 8.4 GB drive was introduced, and the same thing when the 100GB barrier was broken. I know I said it when I saw a 1TB drive on the market.

    At any rate, wouldn't the data be more susceptible to corruption being that densely packed on the platters? I'm not a hardware engineer by any means. I really want to know.

  20. ok, but will it run... on Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows AfterVista®?

  21. Re:Parts? on Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting · · Score: 1

    Maybe Apple will take the old touch screens?

  22. Re:Vista issues? HA! on Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims · · Score: 1

    Pfft. Really? When did you get your copy of Vista?

  23. Vista issues? HA! on Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I applaud their efforts to get M$ to let the consumer trade in Vista for XP, especially after my experience with my wife's computer. We bought her a Compaq SR2010, which came with a "free upgrade" (LOL!) to Vista Home somethingoranother. Anyway, when we got it, I went ahead and installed it, because she wanted to try it. She'd already experienced it on my new computer. The damn thing even had the little "Vista Capable" sticker on the front. Cool, it's worth a shot.

    I installed Vista, used the HP Driver Disc that came with Vista to upgrade all my drivers, and waited. After everything was done, I checked the system, and two or three devices weren't working. I went to HP's website, and there were no new drivers for them. To make a long story short, we reformatted her computer, and I wiped the drive on mine and we both went back to XP.

  24. Re:"Free" as in "Sony" on Universal and Sony Plan "Free" Music Service · · Score: 1
    You forgot
    • ...Sony (And watch the battery explode in your player)
  25. Censorship and the US... on Chinese Internet Censorship Operation Revealed · · Score: 1

    This website wouldn't exist if we had that kind of censorship here. Yes, we all know that the Chinese gov't censors internet access, but do any of us know the true extent of the censorship? This article was pretty enlightening.