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  1. Re:Enough of this on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 2

    Amazon surely claims that the subsidiary doesn't establish nexus for the corporate entity making the sale. Thus, the corporate parent doesn't need to collect in Texas for Texas customers.

  2. Re:Style points on Chinese Hackers Strike Energy Companies · · Score: 1

    I believe "Operation Night Dragon" is the name McAfee assigned, obviously before they figured out that they were daytime attacks.

  3. Re:Why 2 versions of this story? on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    If I understand your question correctly, I think you are seeing the firehose version of the story as well. It was there before the redesign, too.

  4. Re:What's interesting about Android on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call running OS 9 on a four-year-old laptop "abandoned." And I can still run PowerPC-only software on Intel thanks to some widget I downloaded from Apple.

  5. Re:The numbers, like Sales of Windows, don't add u on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    Exactly. When I saw that claim, I wanted to say [citation needed].

  6. Re:Why should we care what Bill Gates says on Auti on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    Why does anyone care about Bill Gates' position on vaccines? Because he and his foundation are trying to help children around the world, partly by using vaccines to eradicate childhood diseases. Your anger is misplaced.

  7. Re:Bandwidth, People on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 1

    The problem is human nature. There will always be a few people who consume much more bandwidth than they realistically need. Think of the guy who has illegally downloaded 2,000 movies although he's watched fewer than 100 of them. These people need to be constrained so that they don't mess up others' lives and this plan seems to be a reasonable way to do it.

  8. Re:Wait a minute... on WikiLeaks Nominated For 2011 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    If this person has the credentials, he violated the rules by making his nomination public. "The statutes of the Nobel Foundation restrict disclosure of information about the nominations, whether publicly or privately, for 50 years." This whole thread is bogus.

  9. Re:Need some time on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    He knew this when he posted. But you can't do it by hand unless you can get the specific dyes required for the process.

  10. Re:Link to article on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I thought that maybe something in the new design wasn't working in my browser.

  11. Re:designer shoes online for less-cheap wholesale on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 0

    Wow, the first spam comment I have ever seen on /. And not one piece is authentic. I especially like how they made the security icons clickable but not the way they should be.

  12. Re:Duh? on Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. I never entered any information not required in the first place. And I set up a separate e-mail address just for Facebook so I could track who was getting it. We Facebook users are not as stupid as we look.

  13. Is this a hoax? on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    This story is from the United Kingdom (THINQ.co.uk). A search on Google News didn't produce any hits except the one article. Find me someone in Florida who's written something about this and I'll write a comment.

  14. Re:It's basically the same as the *nix repositorie on Jimmy Wales Declares App Store Models a Threat · · Score: 1

    Sure you can. You just can't integrate it into Software Update.

  15. Re:Heh on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    They don't grade fathers but, if they did, you would get an A+. Taking the time to do the research completely improved your son's life and yours as well. But watch for the autistic part to show up again, especially if you are on the autistic spectrum yourself (especially if you are high-functioning and don't realize that you are on the spectrum).

  16. Re:Perfect for on Goodbye Bifocals — Electronic Glasses Change Focus · · Score: 1

    You need graduated bifocals, like the earlier poster mentioned.

  17. Snipe hunting still available! on Tevatron To Shut Down At End of 2011 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can still hunt for snipes! I'll bet your search will be just as productive although I doubt you will get governments to throw billions of dollars your way to help with the hunt.

  18. Re:This was encouraged by a Daily Kos Blogger on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    I read your cache and have no idea what you're talking about...

  19. Re:Grow Ops in Marin? on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 2

    You're so right. Half the graduating class of the local high school was looking forward to reading meters for the rest of their lives and now it's going away.

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

    I can be a grammer nazi. You rang? "fee's" should be "fees"; it's a plural, not a possessive. My apologies if it was just a keying error as I do that all the time (my fingers have a mind of their own).

  21. Stop using desperate magazines for sources on Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Magazines are dying. They're desperate. When you see this story in the Wall Street Journal, let me know. When the source is InfoWorld, ComputerWorld and any other World, I'm not going to even bother reading the article.

  22. Re:Electricity usage monitoring on Smart Grid Brings Powerline Broadband Back? · · Score: 1

    I had heard that the BPL project was on hold until the supplier could include sensors on the transformers (e.g. if a transformer failed, the sensor would report that to Duke). The story I saw indicates that the Echelon equipment can use either BPL or a Verizon connection to get the data back to Duke. I'm guessing that they will start with Verizon and then include many meters in the BPL connection. I can confirm that by checking the houses that have BPL and see if they have the same type of box on the power pole that my transformer has or not.

  23. Re:How does the data get around the transformers? on Smart Grid Brings Powerline Broadband Back? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, a capacitor is just too dangerous. If it were to short out, the high voltage (13,000 V) would pass through to the low voltage lines (115 V) which would burn up houses and kill people.

  24. Re:How does the data get around the transformers? on Smart Grid Brings Powerline Broadband Back? · · Score: 1

    They convert the signal to optic and then convert it back to an electric signal on the low side (115/230V) of the transformer. The optic connection is to eliminate any possibility that the high distribution voltage (say, 13,000 V) would bleed over to the low voltage side. We have had it for some time here in Cincinnati.

  25. Re:Electricity usage monitoring on Smart Grid Brings Powerline Broadband Back? · · Score: 1

    This appears to be what Duke is using in Cincinnati. At about the time my smart gas and electric meters were installed, a device went on the power pole with two antennas labeled "gas/electric."