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  1. Re:Tried something similar... didn't work well on Homemade VoIP Network Over Wi-Fi Routers · · Score: 1

    babel ( http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/ ) will handle this as required

  2. Re:Other views? on Google Earth 4.3 Offers a Number of New Features · · Score: 1

    except the instant crash on startup, which makes the thing unuseable

    http://groups.google.com/group/earth-linux/topics

  3. Re:This is great news.... on Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features · · Score: 3, Informative

    as long as you use the same versions of postgres (well, really this should read "the versions you use are using the same disk format)) it should be a simple rsyncing the data directory to the laptop.

  4. WOW... on Satellite Abandoned Due To Orbital Patent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this is the biggest WTF ever...

    guess there are *WAYYYY* too many lawyers on earth...

  5. Re:Whoever pays, owns on Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet? · · Score: 1

    BZZT, Wrong...

    The IRS Ain't the Government, they are a service of the Federal Reserve Banks, which are private banking institutions...

  6. Re:Better question on Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Not really. We have time and time again examples of "free market liberalization" that fails. for instance, we here (Grenoble, France) had an example of the water distribution service being contracted by the city to some private venture. at which point, for no reason, water bills started to skyrocket. Some time later, the politician (Alain Carignon) which initiated said contract was found being corrupted by the water distribution company (campaign financing irregularities and the like) and was indicted. The contract with the water company was broken by the court, and a new public institution was formed to take care of the water distribution. Said public institution is to charge the water at cost (including paychecks for the employees and maintenance). Somehow, the waterbills were magically divided by about 7 (yes, seven).

  7. Re:Duh - we all do. on Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet? · · Score: 1

    you mean, the internet should be handled by the govt ?

  8. Re:Nvidia have already open sourced what they can on VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative · · Score: 1

    HDMI is evil for a host of other reasons...

  9. Re:Millions, billions. What is a "crore" on Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee · · Score: 1
  10. Re:SECAM for computers ;) on French Police Ditching Windows for Linux · · Score: 1

    yeah, and we all know NTSC stands for Never The Same Color, as the (crappy ass) technology is known to be prone to color phase encoding variations turning the color signal into shit

  11. Re:Linux does make sense. on French Police Ditching Windows for Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    No the standard weapon for the french military forces is the french built Famas

    see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMAS_(rifle) for more information

    the thing is very reliable and doesn't jam

  12. Re:Better headline on French Police Ditching Windows for Linux · · Score: 1

    To put the record straight, the french specifically told the americans NOT to go to Viet Nam.
    The arrogant americans ignored the advice and went there... The rest is history

  13. Re:We need this type of thing done in the classroo on Hand-Made Vacuum Tubes · · Score: 1

    it may be so at this particular point. however, vacuum tubes are, contrarily to transistors, impervious to the effects of EMP generated by an atomic weapon.

    if some dumbass ever decides to fsck the world up, you can say goodbye to that core 2 duo...

    the vacuum tube radio set will continue to chug along fine however

  14. Re:Not on the Wii. on Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007 · · Score: 3, Informative

    running homebrew in wii mode was demonstrated at the CCC congress. check the video about the xbox360 security breakeage

  15. Re:You are more than welcome to run your own cable on Canadian ISP Co-Op Shows Upside of Line Sharing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    there's no more government run service in France. France Telecom has been a private company for a while now.

    however, the market is heavily regulated to enhance competition, with mandatory local loop unbundling, regulated data backhaul prices for areas not yet unbundled, and regulated prices and availability for CO to CO fiber links for unbundler companies

    all this competition is imposed on France Telecom as they were the incumbent that inherited the entire original PSTN.

    Now that the 3 major ISPs are starting to set up FTTx, they are already regulated for fiber sharing at several locations along the path, notably at the building and Optical CO level

    and we get to pay 30 eur a month for uncapped service, including voip and tv over DSL

  16. Re:How much? on How Much Does a New Internet Cost? · · Score: 1

    The real bullshit here is that even as fiber showed as being the future of telecoms, the telcos continued pulling copper when installing new and re-developed areas, instead of future proofing those.

  17. Re:OK, so I know what you're against ... on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    If I'm an airport screener, can I reasonably be expected to recognize over 100 types of ID (driver's license or alternative ID from 50 states and every US territory/commonwealth) and be able to detect forgeries?

    considering there are 192 member states of the United Nations ( http://www.un.org/members/list.shtml ), you'd have to be proficient in recognizing that many passport types...

  18. Re:Blame the Demicans and Republicrats on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    Al Quaeda ?
    I thought that was the CIA doing all that, in a false flag operation

  19. Re:Not just fiction. on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    considering how the war in irak is going, this last sentence is bound to be false. they appear to be so desperate at finding people to fight that they now accept sending LA gang members and the like

  20. Re:My Vote Didn't Count on Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement · · Score: 1

    nothing is less assured as you guys are voting on those hilariously stupid voting machines

  21. The US' original concepts going down the drain on Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It appears that every day the US are inching slowly but surely towards a police state, all this to help a bunch of mafioso keep a stranglehold on the entertainment market
    This last example of a "Law" appears like the first forays into the world of Minority Report for good. At the same time, it's sort of also going in the direction of Gattaca

    This is far, far away from the concepts of the "Land of the free" heralded by the forefathers...

  22. Re:Consumer this, consumer that on What's the Matter with HDMI? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:DRM it is. on What's the Matter with HDMI? · · Score: 1

    which one did you get, the SD HD-upgradeable, or you went straight to HD ?

    http://grassvalley.com/products_broadcast/switcher s/family_kayak_hd/

  24. Re:Consumer this, consumer that on What's the Matter with HDMI? · · Score: 1

    then consumers need to start buying pro-hardware...
    the demand would make the prices drop like flies :D

  25. Re:Open source! on What's the Matter with HDMI? · · Score: 1

    how about using SMPTE 424M ?