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  1. Re:Is it possible to just leave? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    You can, but then they may very well arrest you for acting suspicious; and they will still hold you for hours of questioning.

  2. Re:Opening new ways to generate a PCB on 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, For Solder-Free Printable Electronics · · Score: 1

    Well I didn't mean wrap wires.

    I mean like 3D print a PCB, install and solder the parts and tracts. Print more of the PCB and install more parts, etc... Till you get to the surface level then install the larger components like normal. So instead of things being spread horizontally, you'll have many of the smaller parts now done vertically.

  3. Re:Opening new ways to generate a PCB on 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, For Solder-Free Printable Electronics · · Score: 1

    Yea, just make a multi-plane board, and have smaller and less heat sensitive components in the middle layers, and the larger and heat sensitive ones on the outer boards.

    You could still use solder, just have the PCB built up around the component and solder; or have it done as a post for the through "hole" and have the surface component solder onto that same post and connect to the resistor underneath.

  4. Re:Opening new ways to generate a PCB on 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, For Solder-Free Printable Electronics · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Could they in effect print or incorporate certain components inside the PCB board?

    SMD resistors are pretty small, and if they were embedded it would free up more surface area for larger components and reduce overall size.

  5. Re:Suddenly, Tor usage spikes on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 2

    Considering the government track record on security, that Opt-In list will probably be leaked in a couple years of going into effect.

  6. Re:Simple economics on British Broadband Needs £1bn More Funding · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point and your argument has nothing to do with my post.

    OP was asserting that nothing is uneconomic if someone want's it really bad. And if it IS uneconomic then it's just that they were pretending to want it.

    I disagree, there are cases where the customer may want it, but cannot afford to pay for the $60,000 to cover the necessary enterprise grade networking equipment.

  7. Re:Simple economics on British Broadband Needs £1bn More Funding · · Score: 1

    Hardly, there are some fixed costs with regards to laying fiber/cable.

    They may have to lay several miles of cable and the HW which would easily costs in the tens of thousands, just to reach a single person.
    That person may genuinely want the service, but it's just not economically viable to run it out there to him and him alone.

  8. Would you rather MS not even have a security team, and ignore issues like this till it started getting widespread attention and calling into question their marketing efforts?

  9. Re:About Time on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 1

    Yea, only downside is who here has not read Ender's Game?

  10. Re:About Time on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 1

    Only one book in the AWARD WINNERS section:
    http://us.macmillan.com/torforge/categories/General/torforge/Awardwinners/all/title

    Plus they seem to be the ones behind those classics of American literature, the Halo series.

  11. Re:They called her an :uncooperative subject" on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting they used the term SUSPECT

    What was she suspect of? Did they honestly have some credible reason so feel she was going to do something malcontempt?
    If the police question me in relation to a crime as a witness I am not a suspect to said crime. I am a suspect if they are questioning me and feel there is a likelihood I did commit said crime.

    If this child is a suspect, what is she suspected of being/doing?

  12. Re:Online banking uses outdated crypto on German Court Rules That Clients Responsible For Phishing Losses · · Score: 1

    Yea, one of my bank sites has a MAX of 6 characters, and no special non-alphanumeric characters.

    I closed my account there.

  13. Re:Online banking uses outdated crypto on German Court Rules That Clients Responsible For Phishing Losses · · Score: 1

    Whats even worse is some banks have such outdated system they limit the security you can have.

    One of my bank sites has a MAX of 6 characters, and no special non-alphanumeric characters.

  14. Re:Problems...? on Pixel Qi Says Next-Gen Displays Meet or Beat iPad 3 Screen Quality · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yea, I hear all this bitching about battery life, but mine lasts for ages; I just have to leave it turned off.

  15. Re:Chrome doesn't offer a choice? News to me on Google Shutting Out Rivals, Claims Russian Search Engine Yandex · · Score: 1

    Yea sounds like recent claims by some other smaller browser makers made against IE.

    MS had to add a selection of browser in their EU release of Windows I think, and they included the bigger named ones; IE, Chrome, FF, Safari, Opera, etc... But then a buncha smaller ones got made because they were also not included.

  16. Re:Here we go on In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated · · Score: 1

    Not that I am doubting you, but can you back this claim up?
    It would seem odd and I assume any journal write up would have en explanation of this as well.

  17. Re:Conversely on CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs · · Score: 1

    Yea, it seems like start up CEO, and the like do pretty well, but then you bring in a stereotypical one and it all crumbles.

  18. Re:Not what you think on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 1

    Yea, these were laptops, it's not a $1700 video card/GPU like in a desktop. Replacing the mobo/logic board/system board is basically swapping out the entire computer.

  19. Re:It just works. on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 1

    I have to agree.

    There are more powerful devices then Apple ones, but how you interact with them also counts for something.

  20. Re:No user interaction on New Targeted Mac OS X Trojan Requires No User Interaction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It Just Gets Infected!

  21. Re:Right Idea, Wrong Argument on Canada Post Files Copyright Lawsuit Over Crowd-sourced Postal Code Database · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yea, didn't the US deal with this years ago with regards to phone numbers?

    The factual aspect of the numbers could not be copyrighted, only the formatting or something like that.

  22. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    Plus vaccines rely heavily on a herd mentality, if only a few people get them, then they won't do much good.
    It's a matter of public safety.

  23. Re:Well, okay... on Expect a Flood of Competitions As US Tries To Spur Public Inventions · · Score: 1

    That's my main concern for something like this too.
    You can't shake a stick out there without stepping on a dozen patents owned by corporations with armies of lawyers.

  24. Re:Sony's war on their customers on Sony Projects Record Losses of $6.4 Billion · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their electronics side is doing quite well, its the other divisions you don't hear about that are really doing badly.
    The Chemical Processing Division is being sold off? and will account for about 3000 of those jobs.

  25. Re:Customer Service on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 0

    While I am not fan of the sales people in such stores, I am not a dick to them.

    It's not their fault, I wont give in, but I wont take out my frustration on them.