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  1. Re:Interesting! on American Airlines Expands Streaming In-Flight Movies · · Score: 1

    Always been able to do that, the problem is unless you are next to the aircraft's antenna, you'd need big enough batteries to generate a big enough power source.

  2. Re:Interesting! on American Airlines Expands Streaming In-Flight Movies · · Score: 2

    Your neurons technically emit an EM signal, so I guess we should turn our brains off too.

    It's like using a mobile phone in the petrol/gas station, there is just as much energy most of the time in the friction of the fuel moving down the pipes, that the EM from phone. And sparks off the battery, well, unless you are disassembling your phone at the petrol station with it turned on. Hospitals are validly different, they have rooms with extremely EM sensitive equipment, like nmr/MRI scanners.

    No, it's all because they don't want to test every possible device to add them to the insurance.

  3. Too many problems. on EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately here in the UK, the law is a might fuzzier on that one. But even so, there are other issues on open wifi, like the easy of arp spoofing, or rogue access points. Not to mention, what happens if I want to open a sensitive service on my own internal networkfor some reason.

  4. Re:Issue really. on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Most routers on custom firmware can do this. It's just stock firmware doesn't often give access to the needed variables.

  5. Re:Issue really. on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Nah, I would say BT have that honour.

  6. Re:Non-issue really on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Ah, that one has a few containment issues, but without that containment issues plants wouldn't grow. And solar flares wouldn't cause pretty auroras. Not to mention the earth has it's own shielding, if we didn't keep trying to destroy the natural shielding would help ;).

  7. Re:Non-issue really on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Fusion wouldn't be bathing anyone in radiation, as to do it one needs to use very powerful magnetic confinement to initiate the process. The problem with fusion has been making that confinement use less power than the power generated.

  8. Re:Non-issue really on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately ethernet over powerlines has a direct antenna out of your house, into the substation and back out to every other house on the substation.

  9. Re:Farscape on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Try Pay Me, Bug. Novel released online in weekly chapters in both audio and text form.

  10. Re:Get a tunnel. on Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated · · Score: 1

    so you recieved multicast broadcast TV at ISP level through all three NAT's now? Cause I can't get it to work through one level of NAT here.

  11. Re:The geek returns to Never-Never Land. on Italian Consumer Watchdog Sues Microsoft Over 'Windows Tax' · · Score: 1

    Android does not use GNU Coreutils or glibc, so isn't GNU/Linux, technically. It's still Linux though.

  12. Re:Well... on Threat of Cyberwar Is Over-Hyped · · Score: 1

    Just because a country doesn't mount a defense doesn't mean it's not an act of war to march troops into that country without an alliance treaty.

  13. Re:double standard on Man Arrested For Exploiting Error In Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    no, but it is a breach of contract in most cases as the EULA is technically a contractural obligation. Actual enforcability of such contracts and certain terms in them however is currently a minefield.

  14. Re:double standard on Man Arrested For Exploiting Error In Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    Correction, the local government is paid by the casinos.

  15. Re:Starcraft 1 had a similar setup on Zynga and Blizzard Sued Over Game Patent · · Score: 1

    That seems to be what the patent trolls think too. in other words, how far back do you want to go with regards to prior art, pretty much every flash game on newsgrounds..., how about a shared flat file database of nethack scores on an nfs mount?

  16. Re:Performance on Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    I think red-hat earns a little more than $zero :P, most (all?) of their developers just need linux machines.

  17. Re:Rife with QRM, HAMs will NOT be happy! on Using LED Ceiling Lights For Digital Communication · · Score: 1

    The reason shortwave as you call it is useful in emergencies is because ham operators can just cobble radio transmitters and receivers together out of parts lying around. They need is to form a tuned circuit and then start keying out morse and a crystal radio receiver to receive it. They understand about propagation and interference and just why human to human morse solves such problems in a worse case scenario. And it won't take too long for a ham operator to build an AM or even an SSB transceiver.

  18. Re:Wrong way to conduct the survey. on IBM Projects Holographic Phones, Air-Driven Batteries · · Score: 1

    well there are plenty of air particles there to bounce them off of. Not sure how to actually manage it myself but well...

  19. Re:More important: Knowing the English keyboard on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I happen to have worked with a german who actually hated having the German layout on his laptop when writing code, I would point out that most programming languages use ascii character set and no more not even most lating characters, so why would you want them when coding?

  20. Re:Don't measure WPM on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    So ineffecient creating and discarding that many string builder objects, just create one,append it all together then convert to string and discard at the end.

    import java.lang.StringBuilder;
    ...
    StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
    output.append("We");
    output.append(" should");
    output.append(" really");
    output.append(" be");
    output.append(" counting");
    output.append(" lines");
    output.append(" per");
    output.append(" minute.");
    System.out.println(output.toSting());
    ...

  21. stop shooting please on US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier · · Score: 1

    "Oi, , can you just stop shooting for a bit while I change the battery and reboot my phone?"

  22. Re:Good on Microsoft Is Releasing an H.264 Plugin For Firefox · · Score: 1

    So the same NPAPI flash and quicktime plugins don't work in both chrome and firefox, I'm pretty sure they did the last I checked? Extensions no, but NPRuntime NPAPI plugins, yes.

  23. Re:mm on Oracle To Monetize Java VM · · Score: 1

    class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
    }

    I count a 5 line hello world that he is suggesting replacing. Striping out extrenuous whitespace characters gives 65 characters for google go and 85 for the equivilent hello world in java. Now I'm not suggested google go is better or worse than java, in fact this is the fist I've looked at this particular language. Just that first argument is useless in context.

  24. Re:cyber - nonsense on Europe Simulates Total Cyber War · · Score: 1

    yeah, but unless we come up with something better.

  25. Re:help? on Europe Simulates Total Cyber War · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the American's aren't in any better shape at the moment.