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  1. Future? They've been around for years on Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future · · Score: 1

    Solar powered LED yard lights are very common and beats the heck out of the low voltage ones that keep getting cords cut with the hedge trimmers or going out because of poor cable connections.

  2. A Reason for a Revolution? on Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes · · Score: 1

    When is enough enough? I remember once that this was something soviet union did that we thought was so awful. Now we are becoming just like them. Here in Texas (Plano and Richardson for example) cameras are being installed on traffic lights for automated tickets by mail.

  3. The Bigger Question on Acetylene Based Life on Titan? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is the impact on religion. The 7th day and so forth. Like Copernicus and Gallileo popping the churches/government bubble isn't pleasent and because of the current polical atmosphere, these times are no exception.

    Not anonymous because I am not afraid, though I may regret it in the near term.

  4. You Can Already Do This on FCC May Push Bells to Unbundle DSL · · Score: 1

    It's called a Dry DSL. Available from several providers and does not require phone service. Lighting Bolt Technologies is one such provider, they act as a middleman between SBC, Verizon.... and you. The FCC ruling would cut out the middleman, but not neccessarily lower the cost of it.

  5. Not Just Verizon on Hacking the Motorola v265 · · Score: 1

    Motorola cripples their other phones (like the Razr) for Cingular and others. My 2 year old Siemens S56 can do more that that phone.

  6. VHS remembers where I left on Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    When watching a movie over several days, such as working out and exercizing the tape is better for this type of viewing with a shared resource. Also in the car, with a dvd player in the car, you have to go through the bs of the commericals and finding where you left off.

  7. Re:"Unhackable Code"? on Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code · · Score: 1

    Unhackable from the perspective of light as a particle, but as intercepted as a wave there can be many surfers.

  8. Sure, but M$ missed something on Microsoft Encarta Adopting Wikiesque Process · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I may give them these rights "grant Microsoft permission to use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission."

    But one could still withold the rights for them to "sell" works without permission.

  9. The world according to SCO? on Sun Files For Patent on Software Licensing Method · · Score: 1

    If it was done under a SCO license. The all your patent belong to us (SCO).

  10. Re:The House of Representatives are Hypocrits on Whois Record Falsification Closer To Illegality · · Score: 1

    Since when has anyone babysat on their representative's "voice or hand counted" votes? Show me the trail, electronic or otherwise on who voted which way and I'll conceed. But I and the majority of the public remains sheltered from this information.

  11. Re:Let's see, he is still an idiot on Whois Record Falsification Closer To Illegality · · Score: 1

    Though Bush is an mostly idiot, propagnada and control of the right news casts (fox, drudge, etc) do work in his favor. Something his advisors, and his daddy (ex-CIA) have learned over the years from our enemies and from his fundlementalist background. Peolple are losing rights, and corporate money is buying theselves rights at our expense.

  12. Re:How ridiculous... are anonymous cowards on Whois Record Falsification Closer To Illegality · · Score: 1

    But they the "House of Representatives" are "anonymous cowards" by the way they vote

  13. The House of Representatives are Hypocrits on Whois Record Falsification Closer To Illegality · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As they demostrated by their voice (anonymous) vote. Not wanting to be accountable for thier actions. The "Voice Vote" itself should be outlawed.

  14. Re:Other DVRs work. And dTivo's on VoIP Questioned · · Score: 1

    The reference was probaly refering to Series 1 Stand Alone (SA) Tivo's. The Series 2 Tivo's can get the guide over bradband. My DirecTv Tivo's (both series 1 and 2), like your Dish Net DVR, has never seen a telephone line nor a broadband connection, they get thier data via the satellite.

  15. Re:Personally, I thought differently... on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I might add, I did not see any justisfication for the ratings board to give it an "R", other than to keep people from seeing it. I also find it interesting that here in North Dallas, its distribution was very limitited, but I did manage to see at a at a theatre that was had it on only one of thier 24 screens.

  16. And They've Earned It! (i.e. Cingular has) on Cell Phone Customer Service Ranked Next to Last · · Score: 1

    Cingular likes to double dip, anyone sending you a text message, you will get charged. So anyone or spammer can run up your phone bill. If your on an extened business trip, like I was, they charge $.90 /min roming (after taxes) and if your 1 day late paying the bill, because your out of town (like I was), they'll charge you a re-activation fee for every line you have. My bill last month was over $300 for less than 45 minutes of use. Would they adjust? NO! All they would do is listen and reply, there is nothing they can do, it is my contract.

    I'm for a line item veto rights on contracts such as this. At least mine is up in December. I cannot express verbally what I hope happens to this company.

    Plano, TX

  17. Sounds Good, But.. on VoIP + 802.11 = Bad News For Phone Companies · · Score: 1

    It has been my experience that there are very few working VoIP clients (either SIP or H.323) that are compatible with NAT'd environments. Which is what most 802.11 IP addresses are.

  18. Bogus claim? on Track a Soda Can with GPS? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not only is GPS a passive technology, meaning it is a receiver not a tranmitter that requires an omni directional 1.575ghz antenna, it also does not work indoors. The whole system would also need a battery and additional transmitter to report position information. While it is possible to fit all this within a coke can, there would be little room for soda and it is unlikely that it would function inside an aluminum container.

  19. Bull Shit! on The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    "I want to point out that American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago"

    I don't remember any IT jobs available 30 or 40 years ago for except rocket scientists at NASA.

  20. The reverse is probably ever more prevelent on Gates: Microsoft IP Finds Its Way Into Free Software · · Score: 1

    Since open source is more available than closed source, what is to keep corporations (greed) from using open source as their own and sueing for copyright or patent infridgement in the distant future.

  21. Re:Well of course. This was utter nonsense. on Solar Sail Will Work, says Planetary Society · · Score: 1

    An that is why my radiometer spins instead of not.

  22. Is this normal? on Ikeya-Zhang Now Visible · · Score: 1

    The pics I've seen so far, show this to be a oblong projectile and not your normal everyday round comet.

  23. Re:Change USB ID on Xbox To Use Region-Locked Peripherals · · Score: 1

    Their link is bad. This is the correct one:
    http://www.klsi.com/drivers/device_drivers/q ttools .zip

  24. No need for Superconductors or cables? on Superconducting Cables To Carry Power In Detroit · · Score: 1

    Just do away with the power company altogether. No reliance on the power grid or power lines when you generate your own electricity more efficiently using a fuel cell. See www.plugpower.com