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  1. Re:2.4GHz! on Wireless ISP Using 802.11? · · Score: 0

    Yes I realized this. I wonder if 802.11b is simply a protocol or if it is a wavelength specification as well. Anyways, I think it's somehow possible to do packet radio over ham radios, which I believe have adjustable frequencies. If not, then our isp engineer is sol..........

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  2. What country? on Wireless ISP Using 802.11? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a fascinating story. I wonder what country the writer is from.

    Secondly, I have researched this idea at some length for use here with my company. Some pretty decent range can be squeezed out of long range antennas (20 miles, $2000 for the antenna) and there are cheap antennas ($200) that will provide around 10 miles of connection in a spherical shape to other high gain antennas. The catch with all these is that the antenna on the other side has to be high gain as well, so you double your costs, but it will work. 802.11b is the current and cheapest standard, and also quite fast at 11Mbps. 802.11g will replace it with higher speeds (50Mbps, and there's some talk of 2X mode at 100Mbps) but backwards compatability. I am not familiar with any other protocols that have such wide industry acceptance, so 802.11b would be my suggestion.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  3. Re:you know what? on Firewire and Linux? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Clearly you are mentally retarded. I am a Servlet/JSP programmer! If you are doing it right, you can force the browser to keep form data. What the fuck do you know?

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  4. you know what? on Firewire and Linux? · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck slashdot, that's what. I had a thoughtful comment on the subject, and it gave me this lameness filter shit, then i pressed back and it erased my form data! that shouldn't happen, learn to program cowboys! and as for the lameness filter, LOOK AT THE OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS TOPIC. christ, mine would've been the first that had anything constructive to say.

  5. Delightful! on Self-Assembling Nanocomputers · · Score: 1

    Great, negligible resistance means nearly no heat, which means godawful small transistor sizes and separations. Cool! Nanotechnology is showing it's potential.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  6. Fuck me on FCC To Loosen Wireless Ownership Rules · · Score: 0, Troll

    The original comment made no sense.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  7. Ass Penetration. on Pluto-Kuiper Express A Go (Again ... For Now ...) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hasn't this mission been on and off for years? It seems worthwhile, if only to get close-ups of Pluto.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  8. Not Surprised on How Does Win2k's Encrypted File System Really Work? · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Actually I wouldn't be surprised if it was only a flag and they didn't really encrypt the data. First, when my 2000 Pro system crashed last winter, I simply reinstalled 2000 Pro onto the same drive. The new administrator account had access to all the files on the hard drive, whether they were "encrypted" or their permissions were explicitly for another group. It seems that the actual files are simply on the disk, the installed instance of the OS is what performs access control, so there is no real alteration of data with permissions or encryption. However, the compressed files were still compressed when I installed the second time.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  9. Re:Neat. on Parasitic Wasp Reprograms Its Host Spider · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately, it is possible to modify DNA, RNA, and therefore protein construction in a living organism. It just requires lots of the enzyme to do it, but the DNA of a living organism can be spliced and reordered.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  10. Fuck jesus on Pointing the Way for Micro Motion · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why does this work, because the tubules can't go backwords once they've passed the neck of the arrowhead?

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  11. Fool. on Richard Smith Moves From Privacy To Safety · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Those who oppose freedom and civil liberties want exactly this - it is the definition of terrorism and a fundamental rule of war to psychologically terrorise your opponent. By abadoning core values for conveinience and "safety", one hands a victory to their opponent. This perspective is the policy equivalent to runny away from a bully.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  12. Neat. on Parasitic Wasp Reprograms Its Host Spider · · Score: 0

    It would be incredible if the wasp had reordered the spiders DNA or something.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  13. Linux on Businesses Slow to Adopt Linux · · Score: 0

    Linux is hard to change all your systems, such as DBMS's to.

  14. Location!!! on Northern Lights Not So Northern · · Score: 0

    Oh yeah, I'm in Charlottesville, VA, at the University of Virginia, in case anyone was wondering my location.................

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  15. Blue cloud on Northern Lights Not So Northern · · Score: 0

    I saw a blueish perhaps green cloud or haze in the north around 11. It was cool.

    Thanks.

  16. APIs for any device on Nuon Development Kit Released · · Score: 0

    There should be APIs for every piece of hardware. Instead of people making like 900 open source linux calendars, make a fucking API!

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  17. Re:Globalization is next step, not communism on Globalization · · Score: 0

    What are you saying shit face? The wealth was stolen from the natural and laborial resources of the third world by imperialists and turned into currency and capital for use by a select few.

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    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  18. Globalization is next step, not communism on Globalization · · Score: 1

    I would say that instead of communism coming after industrialization, we havee globalization, or the concentration of capital from everywhere in the hands of a few wealthy countries that make up a small percent of the world's population. This concentration of authority makes a proletarian revolution next to impossible because the bourgeoisie who "owns" the global capital is far away and impossible to destroy. Except through terrorim. Hundreds of years of imperialism, which is now refered to by "globalization", has shifted most wealth back to the few in the west and japan, and caused much of the world to live in poverty. Remember the "chaosland" in 1984, that wasn't part of the three superstates? This is our third world, and they are pissed. They have decided to either kill each other or kill us. Look at how many wars are going on today, none of them are between developed states. They are all out in the heart of darkness between confused, poor, economically depressed areas of the world. The current state of affairs is western cultures fault, we kept persuing imperialism and it does bother the people we take money from.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  19. Help for chronic disease. on Nanotech Living-Cell Treatment Medicine Tested In Rats · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Excellent.

  20. God is dead on Upgrading the Motherboards of Linux Boxen? · · Score: -1, Troll

    And no one cares, if there is a hell, I'll see you there.

  21. Energy conversion on New Shock Absorption Method For Buildings · · Score: 0

    I looked over the basic idea, and it seems resonable to divide the impulse into many small elements, whose energy can be applied to various mechanisms to produce useable energy (electricity). I am at loss to see where there is an application of gathering energy from nature os this sort that doesn't already have a solution.

    Also, I think this may be somehow useful in car bumpers, perhaps to convert the kinetic energy of the impulse to heat.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  22. Please, destroy intellectual property on WipOut Contest · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    well its fucking gayass useless.

  23. Mobile Rack for my backups on Hard Drives as Backup Media? · · Score: 0

    I have a modbile rack in my computer and use it to back up/store everything that doesn't belong on my permanent drives. I buy 75 gig hard drives and use them as the "media". They are fast, reliable, and have the cheapest storage to cost ratio. Hard drives are excellent for these kind of applications.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  24. Problems with lawmaking on RIAA Abandons Hacking Amendment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is one of the problems with lawmaking, that the legislature can throw whatever they want into a bill. Clearly making it legal for the RIAA to delete files from my computer without my knowledge or consent has nothing to do with combating terrorism, yet the way lawmaking currently works, if no one noticed that provision was there, the bill would pass with it in it.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com

  25. Star Trek! on Messing Around With The Prime Directive · · Score: -1

    Grain alcohol hurts.

    Thanks,

    Travis
    forkspoon@hotmail.com