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  1. Re:I think you missd a word on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    ...even they must have enough knowledge of US politics to realise that aim is entirely unrealistic.

    Of course, but it's great for recruiting.

  2. Re:Suicide? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    But you have to push evenly on the live and neutral pins, otherwise the shutter won't move out of the way. On older sockets you may be able to wiggle something into the earth pin hole to push the shutter back, but that's usually got quite a strong spring.

    Shuttered outlets are a fairly recent feature in the US, and homes built before the requirement was added are not required to be retrofitted.

  3. Re:The Law of Unintended Consequences on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do understand precedents, right? Little to no retribution against signers of this petition does not prove that signers of a future, unrelated, and perhaps well-supported petition have nothing to fear from some entrenched opponents. It's necessary to weigh the benefit of publicizing the list of signers of any petition against the possibility of intimidation toward signers of it or any other petition.

  4. Re:Very worrisome on Intentional GPS Jamming On the Increase · · Score: 1

    WAAS signals are uploaded to the GPS satellites and broadcast as part of the GPS signals. Thus, when GPS is jammed, WAAS is jammed too.

    Not quite... They're broadcast on the same frequencies, but from other, geo-stationary, satellites instead.

  5. Re:Yes, but did she steal songs? on RIAA Drops Tanya Andersen Case · · Score: 2, Interesting

    BTW, if she was innocent, then the RIAA either illegally accessed her computer (she did not have P2P software) or lied to obtain a false settlement. IANAL but wouldn't the latter be considered a crime?

    Arrrr... and this be Oregon, where unauthorized access of computers be aggressively prosecuted, so the former be too.

  6. Re:Another case of academia vs. the real world on Is Daylight Saving Shift Really Worth It? · · Score: 1

    If your wife is worried about 10,000 other people driving into the sun while she drives due East in the evening, maybe you should make sure she's not in the Westbound lane.

    Sorry if I misunderstood the problem.

  7. Re:Already spending money? on Is Daylight Saving Shift Really Worth It? · · Score: 1

    So did 2/3 of mine... specifically, the ones that attempt to receive the time only right around local midnight, most likely before the DST flag in the broadcast is set. The third receives time at midnight, 2 AM, and 4 AM, so it picked up the flag near the time it was set, while the other two didn't pick it up until last night.

  8. ARP on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    Years ago while in college and working with the phone and data networks, one of the PC technicians escorted a terrified sophomore into the PBX room. He explained that he had downloaded a software firewall program (this was in the Win98 days), and it was showing him a bunch of packets that many other computers were sending to his computer, "A-R-P packets". This was on the grossly overloaded 10Base-T hub-based dorm network, and he had worked himself into a tizzy fit about how everybody was trying to attack him. I calmly explained ARP to him, but finally gave up when he kept asking me what he could do to stop it. I know I pondered telling him to unplug the cable.

  9. Re:Quick, Start selling ROT-13 software suites! on White House Demands Encryption for Sensitive Data · · Score: 1

    (shameless plug)
    Try this Perl module. You need double-ROT-128 to secure arbitrary binary data.

  10. Re:Government vs. Private on Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary · · Score: 4, Funny
    How do we know we wouldn't all be flying inexpensive planes rather than cars?
    Because those of us who make passable drivers just might not cut the mustard as pilots. For example, I'm colorblind. Do you really want me trying to pick out a backyard grass runway from 10,000 feet at 175 mph?
  11. Re:Billions? Who's the profiteering scumbag here? on Google Sued for Allegedly Profiting From Child Porn · · Score: 1
    ...and then shot.

    ...in the gut, while on fire, with cinderblocks hanging from clips on their fingernails, all the while being forced to listen to (and watch, since their eyelids will be stapled open) Gilbert Gottfried singing the entire soundtrack from the hit motion picture Aladdin, and all its sequels.

    Shooting is too easy for them.
  12. Re:Apple lost identity after dumping Power on Linux beats Windows to Intel iMac · · Score: 1

    Yes. Contrast "tunnel the native GUI" with "replicate the entire local desktop in a window on a remote machine".

  13. Re:Apple lost identity after dumping Power on Linux beats Windows to Intel iMac · · Score: 2, Insightful
    there is practically nothing you can do in Linux that I can't do in OS X

    ...except tunnel the native GUI via SSH with minimal effort.
  14. Re:No, I've been here since the beginning on Intel Launches Centrino Duo Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Great, you raise my hopes of making a quick buck on eBay, then dash them almost immediately by telling me how absurd the idea is... -- just another old(er)-timer

  15. Re:Fantastic. Now just add GPS info on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1
    What they need to do next is to work with the municipalities* to integrate GPS tracking on all city buses so anyone, anywhere, can get real time info on when the next bus will arrive. No more waiting at the bustop in the rain!

    Actually, Portland's transit system already uses GPS to track each vehicle, keeping buses on schedule, and in the last couple of years has added an arrival time checker to its website and on electronic signs at key transit centers.
  16. Re:Extending HTTP to the point of ridiculousness.. on Ajax Sucks Most of the Time · · Score: 1
    Adding another technology to try to get the web browser to do something even more interactive is, IMHO, a waste of time. FTP and email haven't had the (inappropriate) feature creep that web-based technologies have.

    When's the last time you used FTP? For the most part it's been supplanted by FrontPage Extensions and HTTP PUT for the average user, or scp/rsync for more advanced users. I'd consider using email as a delivery method for eye-candy HTML-formatted messages with images a bit of feature creep.
    We need something new. Something that runs in the browser, securely, that doesn't require a huge installation beyond the browser, that is designed to do what HTTP/HTML was not designed to do, but is doing anyway.

    I must be misunderstanding your point, because that's pretty much what Ajax is...
  17. Re:What about houses? on Data Centers And DC Power · · Score: 1
    * Human safety. AC at the same voltage / current is a lot less dangerous than DC. AC makes your muscles shake but DC makes them tense. If you grab DC you will just hold on tighter the more current you take.

    BZZZZT! Wrong! 60 Hz makes you CLENCH. It's the flux that screws with your muscles. With DC there is no flux after the initial shock from 0 V.
  18. Re:The answer is in the Racks, young Jedi on Data Centers And DC Power · · Score: 1

    Ok. You can pick your switch blades, too.

  19. Re:What about afterwards? on Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling · · Score: 1

    Ever change an exterior light bulb on a car? The connectors are packed with grease to repel corrosive water.

    Telco technicians use grease-filled splices all over the place for the same reason. The grease is displaced just enough by tight contacts.

  20. Re:Uh can I have my analog back please. on DirecTV's 1st MPEG4 Satellite Launch Successful · · Score: 1

    Don't waste any more sleepless nights on this. Let me assure you -- the real motivation always was to get more cell users on a cell. Digital Quality has always been a buzzword.

    That being said, people seem to accept dropped voice packets as an expected issue with digital wireless calls ("hold on, let me move near a window"), whereas static was a major annoyance with analog cellular.

  21. Re:College on Soldering For Non-Solderers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At my alma mater, a soldering workshop was required for all engineering majors, not just us EEs.

  22. Re:el-cheapo-home-atomic-clocks on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    The cheapo stuff usually uses WWVB broadcasts, which includes bits indicating whether Daylight Saving Time is in effect, as well as leap seconds, and leap year, so those devices usually just have a setting for the local time zone and whether to obey the WWVB DST indicator.

  23. Re:Test your connection... on AOL Enters the VoIP market · · Score: 1

    Asterisk. Say it with me. Asterisk.

  24. Re:Overlay? on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    You might appreciate the Portland Metro Area's efforts.

  25. Re:3-7x radiation from the back on Health Consequences of CRT Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Sorry to hear about your cat, but chances are the CRT had little to do with her illness.

    Feline Leukemia is caused by a viral infection.