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  1. Re:Hah, you wish on Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server · · Score: 1

    I don't know and I haven't bothered to investigate it, I do know however that my HTC touch pro on sprint warned me when setting up wi-fi that data rates still apply.

  2. Re:Patent!!??!! on How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages · · Score: 1

    If you are thinking of 2d data matrices, many people use this technology. Linky.

  3. Re:Hah, you wish on Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server · · Score: 0

    Many providers charge for data over wi-fi just like it is over 3g.

  4. Re:So... on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 1

    Ok

  5. Re:Router level solution on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If only it were as simple as "Host X sends spam -> block Host X." The problem is n clients of host X are zombies sending spam while the other y clients are legitimate users. So, sure, you can block my ISP because of the clients that are sending you spam, but then I couldn't send you an E-Mail either, and I actually DO know the secret to penis enlargement.

  6. Re:Google vs. Twitter...Once in an e-lifetime. on Confirmed Gmail / Google App Outage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using a Pentium I see.

  7. Re:First post flag! on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 1

    Just have them turn on the "EnableBraille" flag.

  8. Re:overpaid? on Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time · · Score: 1

    Womens suffrage.

  9. Re:I want IPv6 support, but ... on ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4 · · Score: 1

    And VPN and IPv4/IPv6 dualstack and a bunch of other features for $100. Great router for the home.

  10. Re:screenshots? on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Duh. It is September the Fourth, Nineteen Twenty Four

  11. Re:Standard values not applicable here. on Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    So, if you could buy a comparable electric car for less than a gasoline car because you will be buying electricity from the manufacturer (for less than you would pay for gas) you wouldn't because someone else without a silly stereo system would be able to drive more miles than you? All minutes aren't the same on a cellphone plan either, if I call my house phone from my cell phone and leave it connected while I go to work should I pay less because i didn't talk that much? Paying for the energy used makes sense, you get the car cheaper, you don't pay for batteries that wear out, and you get electricity at a good price. There is a reason most people don't buy a phone outright, it's because subsidies on products tied to a service works as a business model. Read up on Better Place's plan, it's not perfect (nothing is) but I don't see a better way to get electric cars into the mainstream.

  12. Re:Brings me back on The History of Microsoft's Anti-Competitive Behavior · · Score: 1

    Explain how Microsoft has ANYTHING to do with Brazilians pirating communications satellites (which are only simple repeaters) that were launched in the 70's.

  13. Re:Standard values not applicable here. on Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars · · Score: 3, Informative

    With the Better Place system, you pay for the miles you drive, not the battery. Batteries are all owned by Better Place and the car tracks how many miles you drive on their battery. This way the capacity of the battery doesn't matter because you only pay for the amount of capacity that you use. It is the cell phone business model, give away the phone(car/battery) and charge for the minutes(miles).

    Better Place Business Model

  14. Re:American cars.... on Tesla Releases First Official Photos of Model S Sedan · · Score: 1

    Do you actually believe that the Tesla has a single lead-acid battery sitting under the hood?

  15. Re:American cars.... on Tesla Releases First Official Photos of Model S Sedan · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that would suck if you left your keys by the car and the battery was dead in the morning because the ELECTRIC MOTOR was idling all night.

    Hint: There is a clue as to why "start up" is just a metaphor in the sentence above.

  16. Re:Gateway/Routers? on Google Engineers Say IPv6 Is Easy, Not Expensive · · Score: 1

    I have this router, it does ipv4 and ipv6 dual-stack and the built in VPN features are great.

  17. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it suggests that getting angry at the guy who spends 30 seconds with your daughter and NOT getting angry with the guy who spends a whole night is backwards. There's plenty of outrage over the $165million, not so much over the $700,000million.

  19. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 5, Insightful
  20. Re:Add-ins on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    Foxmarks supports IE. Also, the Windows live toolbar does the same thing.

  21. Re:Next time I'm on an airplane on DIY Space Photography · · Score: 1

    I don't know if those satellites were in LEO or Geo-sync orbits but at least I do know that is not the same thing as outer space. Regardless, the orbits these satellites were in account for a very tiny portion of "space." Many, many more 1500 gram objects pass through these orbits in the form of meteors. How often do they strike?

  22. Re:Next time I'm on an airplane on DIY Space Photography · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the air traffic lanes and similar cruising altitudes decrease your "big" approximation a bit. Question, how long was the balloon between 25,000 and 30,000 feet.

  23. Re:Next time I'm on an airplane on DIY Space Photography · · Score: 1

    If it even is possible for a 1500 gram balloon to do any serious damage to a airplane, what do you think the odds are of the two intersecting in that big piece of 3D space we call the sky. Do you play the lottery, serious question.

  24. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, read the bible and get your facts straight.

  25. Re:My God! Since when does Cut-n-paste merit bulle on iPhone 3.0 Software Announced · · Score: 2, Informative

    So, what you mean is, you've never owned a smartphone. My corded landline doesn't have cut and paste either, but every smartphone I've had has had cut and paste.