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  1. Royalties? on Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets · · Score: 1

    Hey I've got a question for you Comcast
    If people mistype my web address (ww.example.com), and Comcast shows them an ad, Comcast sends me part of the proceeds, right?
    because Comcast is making money off of my brand name...

  2. Re:malware on Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets · · Score: 1

    after self registering once, the same addresses & procedure works for the future

    and don't feel singled out, Comcast's CD also refused to run on Windows XP ;)

  3. Re:parent is lying on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    If it's not the same for you, what was your Global Sources link?

    I don't see global sources in the first page anymore :P

    Bing's results compared to google's side-by-side don't look all that different.
    Even without the spam, the websites are kinda crappy, which is par for the construction industry.

  4. Re:What's new? on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    In Maple, Tools -> Tutors will show you the steps to solving loads of the most common math problems.

  5. Re:The thing ALMOST works on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone at Wolfram reads Slashdot - I'm no longer seeing "car" under direct travel times.
    FWIW, the results are better than Google's.

  6. Re:Stumbling blocks on Best Way To Build A DIY UAV? · · Score: 1

    Anyone know of open-source projects for controlling these things?

    doh

    from earlier post http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Main_Page

  7. Re:Stumbling blocks on Best Way To Build A DIY UAV? · · Score: 1

    And all of those concerns are insignificant when you consider tacking on an AI that can execute maneuvers, handle turbulence, variable winds, bad accelerometer data... generally do the things a UAV needs to do in order to get to and from its coordinates.

    You can fudge things a little here and there with weight & power but get a seg fault in your autopilot and watch your plane crash into a hillside. :)

    Anyone know of open-source projects for controlling these things?

  8. Re:This is a job for... on Timeglider Software Outlines Rosenberg Spy Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.timerime.com/ ...The shame of it all is that Timeglider fails to beat the above three technologies, and NONE of them use Flash.

    eh, then why does that last one say
    "You will need Flash Player 8 (or higher) to view this website."

  9. Re:4th Recall in 5 years on HP Recalls 70,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    They need better r&d and testing.

    See "The R&D issue"

    Hurd, shifting now into a mock dialogue with an HP researcher: "'You know, Bill Hewlett is calling us from the heavens, saying, Spend more on R&D.' And I'm like, 'Guys, I'm glad Bill's calling, but I've got a few questions before we take the call.'"

    This is what happens when you try to engineer something with teams around the world.

    This is what happens when you try to engineer something without engineers.

    I bet dollars to doughnuts that they just design the package and are having problems with the cell manufacturers.

    I bet dollars to doughnuts that when they slap their logo on the battery and sell it as their own, they're liable.

  10. Re:Just letting of some steam: dv6000? WTF? on HP Recalls 70,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    I hear ya... I now have 2 laptops with recalled batteries, a desktop with a bad Nvidia chipset that they waited until was out of warranty to recall, and another desktop that I bought factory "refurbished" that arrived with a broken DVD burner that had pieces audibly loose inside, a shattered SATA power connector hanging off the power supply, and (a year later) developed a problem of spitting out garbled text at POST instead of booting up. At least when I pried open that DVD burner I found a beat up pr0n disc.

    Seriously, how bad does quality control have to be to refurbish a computer but miss two broken parts including a DVD drive that won't even open and close?

    Whatever quality HP used to have is looooong gone.
    They're just another crap commodity PC producer hoping their products will go out of warranty before all the defects manifest.

  11. New Jersey on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    nuff said

  12. Re:ATM Ticket Booth at Amusement Park on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    One group of kids even discovered I was in there and thought it was 'funny' to throw stuff at me.

    It was funny to throw stuff at you :P

  13. Re:Write them to a DVD jukebox on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 1

    Most modern CD/DVD writers implement some form of buffer-underrun protection. Like you note, a custom writer might be needed, but not extremely customized with "custom formatted media."

    Nuclear power plants used to pay in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars for WORM drives with the capacity of a DVD. I'm actually surprised there aren't any OS projects utilizing buffer-underrun protection to turn a DVD?R into a poor man's WORM-like drive.