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  1. Re:This Can't Be Happening!!!!! on Will IBM's Watson Kill Your Career? · · Score: 1

    You didn't watch TNG did you? Eugenics Wars, Sanctuary Districts, WW3

  2. Fiber on Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? · · Score: 2

    Run fiber to each condo. It goes further than ethernet, does not get/cause RF interference, can be upgraded easier, and with the correct equipment can even have the TV on the same fiber.

  3. Re:Suing the FBI? on Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon · · Score: 1

    So it would be like the FBI preventing access to a parking building full of cars. Then allowing the land owners to demolish it, because the management cannot pay the owners. The FBI then arrests anyone entering on trespassing charges, and allows the owners to demolish the building. The rubble including the cars is then re-purposed by the land owners.

  4. Troll Submission? on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now that all the large chain book stores have disappeared from the landscape

    What did Barnes & Noble close?

    If you go to a Tech store that sells books, like MicroCenter, there are plenty of magazines covering a wide variety of subjects. Some of them have disks and others may have downloads.

  5. Re:40,000 over 10 years? on Chance To Snap Up Your Own Observatory · · Score: 1

    Your math is off. it would be £40 a member.

  6. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    from that URL

    Autofocus in a video camera is a passive system that also uses the central portion of the image.

  7. Re:Social Engineering on Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text · · Score: 2

    Last 4 digits and issuer are printed on most receipts. Sometimes even the name and expiration date are printed.

  8. Re:If they weren't hacked... on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    They have a reason. Its not a good one. I'm not aware of any GOOD reason for a 6 day outage.

    The recent outage of Kernel.org had good reason. It was hacked, so they shut it down to re-build the systems.

  9. Re:Really?? on Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? · · Score: 1

    You either rearrange the keys, buy stickers to go on the keys, or find a new keyboard. My Inspiron 1501 I rearranged the keys, but on my EEE I had to get stickers because not all the keys can be rearranged.

  10. Re:Moving and more users? on AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the passengers on a bus or the other people in the car. And putting WiFi on buses would not help, since the bus would still need a way to get internet.

  11. Re:This will render FTTH obsolete. on AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fiber == 1Gbps possible
    Fixed wireless == 1Gbps possible, but very expensive
    Cellular wireless with LTE Advanced == ~100Mbps possible
    Cellular wireless with USA 4G == upto ~50Mbps possible

    So NO, FTTH is not pointless

  12. Moving and more users? on AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared · · Score: 2

    How well does it perform when moving at 30mph and 60mph? So what if it works good an a stationary device on a network with very few users, that does not mean that it will work good with more users or while moving.

  13. Re:Why.... on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    My Inspiron 1501 is still working, of course I have opened it to clean the heat-sink, replaced the HDD, added RAM, and replaced the wireless card.

  14. Re:It's our own damn fault on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 2

    For less than 3% of the current US defense budget, you could FULLY FUND NASA!!

    Why the HELL is NASA always the FIRST thing talked about when cutting, and Defense always the LAST.

    /quote>

    What is even worse is that since 1958-2010 NASA only spent $471.23 billion and the defense budget in 2010 was $685.1 billion.

  15. Mane one larger on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1

    Now someone needs to make one with a volume of 3*3*3 KM

  16. Re:HDD -- SSD on Ubuntu 11.10 Down To 12-Second Boot · · Score: 1

    On a desktop I would get a 8GB to 32GB SSD for the OS/boot partition and a large, 500GB+, HDD for the programs and everything else.
    On a laptop a setup similar to above would be nice, but is not practical on most machines.

  17. Re:Power? on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 1

    Power source
    The Curiosity rover will be powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), as used by the successful Mars landers Viking 1 and Viking 2 in 1976. Radioisotope power systems are generators that produce electricity from the natural decay of plutonium-238, which is a non-fissile isotope of plutonium used in power systems for NASA spacecraft. Heat given off by the natural decay of this isotope is converted into electricity, providing constant power during all seasons and through the day and night, and waste heat can be used via pipes to warm systems, freeing electrical power for the operation of the vehicle and instruments.
    The Curiosity power source will use the latest RTG generation built by Boeing, called the "Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator" or MMRTG. Based on classical RTG technology, it represents a more flexible and compact development step, and is designed to produce 125 watts of electrical power at the start of the mission and 100 watts after its minimum lifetime of 14 years. The MSL will generate 2.5 kilowatt hours per day compared to the Mars Exploration Rovers which can generate about 0.6 kilowatt hours per day.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Power_source

  18. Re:Yawn on Internet-Based Political Party Opens Doors · · Score: 4, Informative

    As the group explains on its Web site, www.americanselect.org: “Americans Elect is the first-ever open nominating process. We’re using the Internet to give every single voter — Democrat, Republican or independent — the power to nominate a presidential ticket in 2012. The people will choose the issues. The people will choose the candidates. And in a secure, online convention next June, the people will make history by putting their choice on the ballot in every state.”

  19. Re:How many of those were buinesses..... on Sydney Has 10,000 Unsecured Wi-Fi Points · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just checked my FON router, and the entire captive portal is via https.

  20. Re:How many of those were buinesses..... on Sydney Has 10,000 Unsecured Wi-Fi Points · · Score: 0

    I tried to connect to one of these.

    1. They wanted 3.00 GBP for 24hrs surfing
    2. They wanted 10.00 GBP for a week.

    3. And this is a big three: They wanted CC information. There was no HTTPS; I knew the router was sat in someone's living room; alarm bells rang loud.

    4. They want you to have a Fon router for free unlimited surfing

  21. Re:WHAT!? on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    I just go to the local hackersace and play with the Apple 2e or AT&T Unix PC (3b1)

  22. Re:If "Nothing is impossible"... on Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible · · Score: 1

    If someone make a self replicating botnet w/o C&C it could be indestructible. Make it look at chat streams from victms for domains to DDoS, then distribute that via a p2p network using port 443 (and 22) and self signed certs. Every node then attacks the most common one in a 2 hour period, and then ignores that domain for up to one month.

  23. Re:Oblig. Question on A Million Node Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Isn't that just a ultracomputer made from supercomputers?

  24. Re:But the Best Buy guy said it does on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 1

    The cable actually worked with a plated connector? wow!

  25. Re:I'm getting so tired on Tennessee Bans Posting 'Offensive' Images Online · · Score: 1

    Think of the zombie children. What would happen if their food left?