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  1. Re:US Constitution Art 1 Section 6 - Compensation on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    But that's the beauty of it: he was never under arrest! He was prevented from entering the secure area by which he might continue on his travels, but he certainly was never under arrest.

  2. Re:Absolutely flawless on Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos · · Score: 1

    A decent photographer would know to drag the shutter so you get a good blend of ambient light with enough fill flash to freeze the action and properly expose the subject.

  3. Re:Winnings taxable? on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    If your business model is to purchase lottery tickets, then I'd think the lottery tickets would be a deductible cost of business leaving only the 80k to be taxed.

  4. This is gonna be tough on Judge Issues Gag Order For Twitter · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell, most Twitter users are brain-damaged. The writing alone will identify them immediately!

  5. Re:Remaining inventory on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 1

    You can stillmdevelop it, it'll just be black and white.

  6. Gee Wally... on Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes · · Score: 1

    If only there had been some sort of procedure by which the off-shore drilling could have been suspended, like, say, a moratorium....

  7. Re: honesty a 2 way street on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: 1

    To stab him in the back and steal his customers after you were fired is wrong, even if you didn't deserve to be fired.

    That's not wrong, that's capitalism, baby.

  8. One can only hope... on "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that they put some away in a 529 plan to pay for his future education!

  9. Re:first post? on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    I was told there would be no math! :(

  10. Re:Insanity on Court Says Parents Can Block PA "Sexting" Prosecutions · · Score: 1

    Oh, you can have the sex, but only after it's been sanctioned by the church and blessed by the Lord Almighty via marriage. Anything else makes the Sweet Baby Jesus cry...

  11. Damnit! on Western Digital Launches First SSD · · Score: 2, Funny

    You fool! Don't give them any ideas!

  12. Re:Since when? on An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" · · Score: 1

    Insurance comapnies had seen this before with Hurricane Betsy in New Orleans and Hurricane Camille in South Mississippi. They knew that huge-ass storms could come through and level the places and they knew the value of all the property. They relied on the out that Federal Flood insuance gives them on their policies. Except that when Katrina came through, it brought more water than Camille or Betsy ever did, so people got flooded who were living higher than the 500-year floodplain.

    It was just a giant mess, but it wasn't helped that everyone involved made bad choices. I say this as a native of Biloxi, MS.

  13. Re:XKCD Bait on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 2, Insightful
  14. Re:Similar project for me on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    I removed the possibility of crosstalk with my cable modem by separating the coax running to my office from the rest of the coax in the house. This way, the MI424WR's sit on a single piece of coax and only talk to themselves. I have purchased 3 MI424WR's total as one of the original two I purchas3ed for this use died mysteriously after 6 months. It could have been more an environmental failure (office, small space, pet fur) than hardware, but I'm reconfiguring my desktop layout to account for this.

    That said, I enjoy having the hardwire connection when my 30-foot, through-three-walls, oft-dropped WiFi connection annoyed me to hell and back.

  15. Re:Nice list... but Anonymous also donated a lot on Google Donates $2 Million To the Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 1

    Only if WikiMedia's got small tits.

  16. Similar project for me on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I researched this and found that the Actiontec MI424WR router that Verizon provides for their FiOS service makes a nice, high-speed coax-ethernet bridge. You can purchase them used from BCD Electro. I bought a pair to utilize the coax under my house that ran from the main cable splitter to my office. I re-routed the cable under the house to the location of my wireless router and hooked everything up so that my desktop internet connection went this way: desktop <-ethernet-> MI424WR <-coax-> MI424WR <-ethernet-> WRT54GL. There are guides on how to set them up to act as bridges and it's pretty simple. For the cost of a decent USB WiFi adapter, I have hardwired connectivity that provides me with 2x the throughput as my now-dead USB WiFi that it replaced.

  17. Re:Yeah but which year? on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    Duh, it was 1981. Learn your history.

  18. Actiontec Mi424WR on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    http://www.actiontec.com/products/product.php?pid=189

    This may be what you're looking for. Offers 10/100 WAN ethernet interface, NAT, the whole she-bang.

    You can find them used on eBay for under $40 shipped. I personally used a pair to utilize a coax line in my office for hard-wiring my desktop as my wireless was being spotty. Through put is better than 802.11g and ping times are in the 3ms range.

  19. Re:Where's the... on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 2, Funny

    We can measure the speed or location of a murder but not both at the same time?

  20. Re:So, it took 1.9 years? on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 2, Insightful

    His Perl script pulled almost 20 million PAGES. It doesn't say exactly how many RECORDS were pulled. I'm assuming most records are multiple pages. Basic math says the script rain for 18 days, so (18*24*60*60)/3 = 518400 possible records to be pulled in that time at an average of 39 pages per record to reach the 20 million pages.

  21. Damn you, Orson Scott Card! on Creating a Quantum Superposition of Living Things · · Score: 1

    It's all fun and games until you create the descolada! We'll all be Pequeninos or sentient philotic trees before this is done!

  22. Re:USM is linux friendly. on Does Your College Or University Support Linux? · · Score: 1

    Last time I wandered the campus (2003 alum here, Southern Miss to the top!) the library PC's were Windows w/ Deep Freeze for lockdown/control. The big computer lab at the front of the library was a 90/10 mix of Dell/Apple.

    The Fine Arts lab in Mannoni PAC was 100% Apple. The CS Lab on the 2nd floor of the Chain Technology Building (TEC) was dualboot Win/Linux. The Engineering lab on 2nd floor TEC was Windows and so was the SET lab on the 3rd floor.

    The Psych building lab was also Windows.

    When I started as a freshman, you could still dial into ocean to get a shell for e-mail or negotiate PPP @ 14.4kbit. It was a sad day when they removed everyone's shell access, but at least they left scp access with an scp client.

    I do still have my orca account though!

  23. Re:Robocopy? on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Robocopy is an excellent tool for moving files over a dodgy network from one Windows box to another. Default retry count of 1 million, restartable mode, set the wait between retries, subdirectories.... it's pretty much xcopy/xcopy32 on steroids.

  24. Re:innocent until proven? on Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is a civil proceeding, not a criminal one. "Innocent until proven guilty" only applies to criminal cases.

  25. Re:It was 80% on Why Isn't the US Government Funding Research? · · Score: 1

    The furthest back I could find complete tax brackets for is 1950 here.

    Crudely adjusting for inflation, my current 2009 salary is approximately $5100 in 1950 dollars. Given the tax rates listed for 1950, I'd pay $916 out of that $5100 for an over-all tax rate of approximately 18%. Tax rates higher than the current high of 35% don't apply until you're making $24000 USD in 1950, which is equivalent to $210k USD today. So they're pretty much on par with current taxes except they tax the ever living hell out of anything over $210k, which is generally extra money that you don't need for basic subsistence.

    I wish I could find the tax brackets for 1930 to show you that you probably had to make $300k USD in 1930 to get taxed 80%.