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  1. Re:This could be distributed/home grown GSM's brea on In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be clear, in Europe, the 900MHz band is currently used for straight GSM and EDGE. UMTS/WCDMA (GSM 3G) runs on the 1800/2100 MHz band pair. In the USA, the AWS band pair (used by T-Mobile) is a subset of that. It uses the lower half of the 1800MHz for uplink, and the lower half of the 2100MHz band for downlink (which is why it is referred to as the 1700/2100 MHz band pair). T-Mobile uses the 1900MHz band for GSM, but also supports the 850MHz band for roaming, since AT&T uses that band. AT&T's UMTS bands are 850MHz OR 1900MHz. Most areas use the 1900MHz band, but rural areas use 850MHz.

  2. Re:Handbrake on Encoding Video For Mobile Devices? · · Score: 1

    I usually don't use FFmpeg to create MKVs. I usually choose to mux the MKVs myself using mkvmerge. However, I believe Handbrake generates good MKVs as well, though I'm not completely certain on it, since I don't use Handbrake.

  3. Re:Handbrake on Encoding Video For Mobile Devices? · · Score: 0

    Fuck MP4 container. MKV all the way!

    DivX is a bad choice no matter which way you slice it.

  4. Re:Take off and nuke Marshall, TX from orbit ... on Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the court is the only body that is able to determine if a Judge is in "good behavior", which is why they effectively have lifetime guaranteed jobs...

  5. Re:No usb Support on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    They are adding USB support because of iTunes. 'nuff said.

  6. Site down... on Fan-Developed Ultima VI Remake Released · · Score: 1

    Looks like the site is down.... Wanna bet that Electronic Arts shut it down?

  7. Re:Does it have to be coding? on Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? · · Score: 1

    As for our project, Enano CMS, we'd definitely appreciate people willing to write documentation, or even translate the CMS into their own preferred language! Those are actually probably the most important tasks right now.

    Though, if it is coding you're looking for, we do have coding tasks that we'd like to get done. If anyone's interested, all they have to do is hop into our IRC channel on Freenode (#enano).

  8. If ya got it... on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If ya got it... flaunt it!

  9. Wait... They want them to dumb things down... on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would not end well for the scientists.... Their brains would explode from having to dumb everything down for "public consumption."

  10. Re:National Security Act on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 1

    I disagree with having those laws in the USA as well. However, I can understand why they are in place, both in Israel and in the United States.

  11. Re:National Security Act on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, you are right. However, preferential treatment to Jews is still not right.

    The only true theocracies I'm aware of are Iran and the Papal States (Vatican City).

  12. Re:National Security Act on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What about the Arabs that live in the area that Israel was carved out of? And what about what is left of Palestine?

    Making a Jewish state was not a good idea. In general, founding countries using religion always leads to insanity like this...

  13. Re:National Security Act on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The American government could "advise" the Israeli government to do this, yes. The Israeli government has no qualms about doing stuff like that, because as a state in perpetual war with itself, it has certain abilities that its government framework gives them that they wouldn't have if they weren't in a state of war. Which includes seizing property.

  14. Re:Windows NT Microkernel, by David Cutler et al on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1

    Well, one thing... Windows NT's kernel architecture is almost certainly NOT a microkernel. It is a hybrid kernel that is tilted more towards macrokernel than microkernel.

  15. Re:Dark Ages on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you think about it, the Islamic world is entering an era that the Christian European world entered in the 13th century. At that time, the Islamic world was at the forefront of scientific discovery. They collaborated with Indians and created a lot of concepts that we use in modern mathematics, and many interesting inventions came about during that time (Candy anyone?).

    Now the Islamic world is swinging far back and trying very hard to resist social advancement that's been happening in most parts of the world for the better part of the 20th century.

  16. Re:STUPID ACROREAD ICON on Adobe May Change To Monthly Patch Cycle · · Score: 1

    Of course not... They want more visibility, even at the cost of being annoying....

  17. Re:Learning to Solve Problems on Study Shows Standing Up To Bullies Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    The problem is that very few people understand that. Additionally, most bullies already have experience getting off scot-free. As a result, they get very dangerous, very fast.

    My parents told me to keep my head down and don't fight. I got beat up all the time until I transferred out in 8th grade. When I transferred, I decided not to act like that (and not tell my parents about it). First time somebody tried to bully me physically, I kicked them extremely hard and ran. The bully told on me of course, and I DID get in trouble, but at least nobody resorted to physical violence after that.

    Unfortunately, that kid decided to steal my glasses on the last few days of school (I am legally blind), and so, he took them during the bus ride and flung them out the window. That was not fun, being practically blind for nearly a month....

    The moral of the story is, while I may have lost a pair of glasses, I did not lose anything else to bullies. Especially my dignity.

  18. Re:Linux in our labs on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    Most of the CS textbooks I've seen actually show Red Hat Linux 7.x or 8.0 screenshots. That's mainly the reason why Fedora is so prevalent here...

  19. Re:How is a Mac open? on Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call the kernel a "shit part."

  20. Re:Yeah on Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" · · Score: 1

    Or the whole fucking kernel for OSX?

  21. Re:Linux in our labs on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    I'll give you that. But the main reason I shied away from CentOS was the fact the software may be extremely old.

    However, at this time, CentOS 5.5 does really have some decently recent software, so it is a viable option for long term usage.

  22. Linux in our labs on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most of our labs in college use a mix of Fedora and Ubuntu Linux, with some Solaris speckled around.

    I'd probably go for Fedora, since a lot of students will likely be working on some Fedora derivative, and it is easier (in my opinion) than Ubuntu to administer. However, it's really up to you.

    I've also heard that many of the co-op companies our college partners with use some form of Linux. Though, for obvious reasons, a few design oriented companies use Mac OS X, though that may change in the future.

    Windows is a rarity, from what I've seen and heard.

  23. Re:Why is this surprising? on IE Market Share Falls To Historic Low · · Score: 1

    As much as most of us deride the masses, the people that make up those masses are generally not that stupid. Also, with the aging of a generation that has always worked with computers will raise the bar on computer and technology competency (granted, not by too much, but it is still some...)

    Common sense dictates that if you've been burned once, you'll avoid it again later. Human addendum: Tell all your friends about your horrible experience, so they don't repeat it.

    There are complete morons out there too, and that is what commercial tech support is for! And of course the more technically inclined can make money of off these people...

  24. Why is this surprising? on IE Market Share Falls To Historic Low · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most people are not complete morons. If they get burned once with IE, they'll tell their friends to use a different browser. And of course, they themselves will use a different browser. As the number of people recommending alternative browsers increases, more people will switch away from IE voluntarily...

  25. Re:Fantastic! on SEC Proposes Wall Street Transparency Via Python · · Score: 0

    Then there's ENGLISH