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  1. Re:duh indeed. on Paid Online News Venture Fails To Get Subscribers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Free to Air TV is the perfect example of a monopoly business model where there is an artifical constraint (Limited Frequency Allocation) on the number of entrants to the market. Where digital TV, etc has increased the number of players, revenue/earnings has dropped signficantly.

  2. Re:Already there on F-Secure Suggests Ditching Adobe Reader For Free PDF Viewers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, it's so feature compatible with adobe, they've added similar exploits! http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1104

  3. Just remember when you give money to the church... on Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Where it is going.

  4. Re:Funny but true.... on Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you buy a Symnantec product, you need Therapy, not support.

  5. Re:Design hardly matters...? on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look at the table: - Energy Ball v100 (4,304 euro) : 73 kWh per year, corresponding to a continuous output of 8.3 watts - Ampair 600 (8,925 euro) : 245 kWh per year or a continuous output of 28 watts - Turby (21,350 euro) : 247 kWh per year or a continuous output of 28.1 watts - Airdolphin (17,548 euro) : 393 kWh per year or a continuous output of 44.8 watts - WRE 030 (29,512 euro) : 404 kWh per year or a continuous output of 46 watts - WRE 060 (37,187 euro) : 485 kWh per year or a continuous output of 55.4 watts - Passaat (9,239 euro) : 578 kWh per year or a continuous output of 66 watts - Skystream (10,742 euro) : 2,109 kWh per year or a continuous power output of 240.7 watts - Montana (18,508 euro) : 2,691 kWh per year or a continuous power output of 307 watts. Clearly, designs made a huge difference in output. The summary is nonsense.

  6. Actually, it would take 6 windmills on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 4, Informative

    rather than 141, if you used the Montana.

  7. Re:Growing "tomatoes" on MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners · · Score: 1

    What you need is the Switched-on-gardener. No, it's not a joke site. They exist. They have great radio adverts.

  8. Re:They can either do it openly or covertly on Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas · · Score: 1

    Likewise in New Zealand. In fact, my ISP offers totally unmetered downloads between 1am-7am.

  9. One Year? on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    'safe' is a fixed point in time measurement in this context. It's not able to be usefully qualified by any measurement of time, be it a second, minute, hour, day or week. However, A Year is far too over-optimistic.

  10. So it it Debian GNU/Linux/FreeBSD on Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support · · Score: 1

    or Debian GNU/FreeBSD or.....? Enquiring minds must know!

  11. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (s)He could be a logged-in bot, posting as anon?

  12. Re:Just me? on How Google Routes Around Outages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Trying to lower costs of competing. Also, it could be argued that mousse meant that off-line mistakes were not 'punished'.

  13. Re:Just me? on How Google Routes Around Outages · · Score: 3, Informative

    That problem has been solved for sometime, at least in Rallying. http://www.inforally.sibiul.ro/wrc-rally-news-10661-runflat_mousse_tyres_detail.html At least, that was until they banned it.

  14. Re:How we deal with pirated programs? on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1

    Or a sandbox. e.g iesandbox.

  15. Re:Tomato on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 1

    There are of course OpenVPN or other options in some of the *.WRT's as well.

  16. Re:EFS? on Windows Home Directory Encryption? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and do those companies and/or governments choose to implement it?

  17. Re:EFS? on Windows Home Directory Encryption? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Preferably Open Source".

  18. Re:Perspectives on Making Sense of Mismatched Certificates? · · Score: 1

    Likewise. Perspectives is invaluable.

  19. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs · · Score: 1

    only if windows has actually been activated

  20. Re:Maybe there could be gov. regulation of ATM des on Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs · · Score: 1

    I've certainly seen a number of ATM's running Windows 2000 Professional, but windows 98! *shudder*

  21. Re:yeah, but will it be 32bit only? on Cisco Barges Into the Server Market · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cisco are indeed Jerks for not doing this. There is an IPsec client for Windows x64, however. http://www.ncp-e.com/en/solutions/vpn-products/secure-entry-client.html - $200(US) or thereabouts.

  22. Re:What happened: on Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Do you always test in production?

  23. So.... Cancel? on Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Tell them why.

  24. Re:Guess what on Researchers Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air, Wires · · Score: 1

    Any idea how this affects laptops running off battery - i.e not connected to ground.

  25. Re:release date on How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development · · Score: 0, Redundant

    apt-get install virtualbox