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  1. Re:Kill Switch on DARPA Aims for Synthetic Life With a Kill Switch · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, there are safe guards in there to stop them from rewriting it. That is until someone makes them do their job and opens a hole for them to rewrite their base code.

  2. Re:Most books cost less, dead trees cost more on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    there are plenty of ~$70 Tech books (CCNA each book is that)

  3. Re:Another reason not to fly via Heathrow on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 4, Funny

    no, killing Agrajag.

  4. Re:Because on Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone? · · Score: 1

    Because phones are for TALKING. :P

    Sorry, what?

    phone (n.) - Any small electronic device which you can carry with you. Older, obsolete models allowed vocal communication with other parties, though this was generally regarded as an optional feature.

    (From Oxford English Dictionary, 2045 edition)

    phone (n. ) - Voice communication.

    cellular phone (n.) - A small electronic device which you can carry with you that preforms voice communication and other forms of communication. Older, obsolete models only allowed vocal communication.

    cellular device (n.) - A small electronic device which you can carry with you that communicates via radio frequency or subspace to a cellular network.

    (From Oxford English Dictionary, 2245 edition)

  5. Re:Channel 14 on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    FCC Part 95 applies (NO encryption, but you can broadcast at 1500w PEP with a technician or above license)

  6. Re:Channel 14 on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming it's doable on a Linux desktop :D

    But a desktop should have a CAT5E (or CAT6) cable run to it.

  7. Re:Channel 14 on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    What card model? I wonder if it could connect to my 1000w 2.395Ghz AP.

  8. Re:Anyone remember 802.11a? on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Turned out that congestion was never a major issue in my situation, and my current laptop doesn't support 802.11a anyway. When was the last time you heard of 802.11a anyway?

    I have one for my laptop (a Inspiron 1501 with a Apple A/B/G/N Atheros card) that I put in ~6 months ago to be able to support the PPS of bittorrent and still function.

    But I'd still buy 802.11n equipment with 5GHz usage in mind, so long as the cost difference wasn't prohibitive. (One interesting question; can 802.11n devices support 802.11a in the same way that the 2.4GHz 802.11g devices supported 802.11b?)

    Yes, 802.11n radios that support 2.4Ghz and 5.8Ghz usually support 802.11a/b/g

  9. Re:Why can't we push all this short range... on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    Here's the problem though: My router is draft-N and it does both, but the default setting is 2.4GHz "for maximum compatibility". It has to be manually set to 5Mhz, and of course that setting is buried in the router config pages. Being a good geek I went through all the settings and made this change right away (since it doubles the maximum speed) ...

    5Mhz would fourth the maximum speed, and 5Ghz would not change the maximum speed.
    40Mhz would be double the maximum speed of a 20Mhz AP

  10. Re:The right way to rehash on New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops 10 Million Sales · · Score: 1

    Just NOT a side-scroller like The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

  11. Re:Desirable? on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    13.0.0.0/8 exists, it is just on a parallel plane a constant 2 seconds in the future

  12. Re:Clever way to circumvent first sale. on Artwork Re-Sells Itself Weekly On eBay · · Score: 1

    I would think about purchasing it if it was filled with epoxy.

  13. Re:Hubble? I don't think so on Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers · · Score: 3, Informative

    They may resemble some of the aesthetics of Hubble, but not the resolution. Thus, the comparison is potentially misleading.

    I know. They look decent, but a ~200KB image does not compare to a ~200MB (~204800KB) Hubble photo.

  14. Re:This DOES NOT COMPUTE on Astrium Hopes To Test Grabbing Solar Energy From Orbit · · Score: 1

    Besides, have you ever seen a rocket? Not exactly green power!

    Maury

    Maybe if it is a solid state rocket, but aren't most rockets liquid fuel now a days and isn't the liquid hydrogen and oxygen?

  15. Re:Isn't this loading more heat onto Earth? on Astrium Hopes To Test Grabbing Solar Energy From Orbit · · Score: 1

    And since you're wondering, the amount of extra energy being grabbed pales in comparison to the amount of energy already hitting the earth. These panels aren't going to be even a tiny fraction of the size of the earth.

    Why not have two panels, one at ~.5AU and one near one of the poles of earth, both orbiting the sun. Panel one sends a large amount of energy to panel two which then transmits it to a station in a relatively unpopulated location.

  16. Re:A Question on Code Used To Attack Google Now Public · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's more like the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. No matter how much you try to isolate some network it's still going to accessible to the internet... somehow.

    unless there is no cable connection them to any device that has access to the outside world, USB ports and CD/DVD drives are disabled, you use security on the cables, and you do not run Windows.
    If you connect ANYTHING that is not approved then you can be fired and then sued if anything happened because of it.

  17. Re:Is President Obama secretly a Republican? on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    Or we can bring the Pirate Party to power. (Gasp!!)

  18. Re:I don't see what the big deal is on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    or like [attempted] suicide on stickam.

  19. Re:30 seconds on full power on Is RCA's Airnergy Snake Oil? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Cellphones do not use 2.4Ghz, so the frequencies would not be jammed. The problem is that the people using them would be cooked or at least feel a slight pain.

  20. Re:humane testing on The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals · · Score: 1

    I think he means do a vivisection on a human, that or he meant test, wait for death, then dissect.

  21. Re:humane testing on The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between splashing some shampoo in an animals eye and dropping it in and not letting the animal in any way wash, clean or blink its eye for an extended period. Of course the smart alek response is going to be 'haw haw but what if a child gets shampoo in their eyes and are restrained and have their eyes forced open for an extended period, wouldn't you want to know what happens?' which is just as stupid a comment as it looks.

    Well I actually want to know how good of a torture method that is (just replace child with "subject")

  22. Re:Unfortunately... on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    at least it was only a "soft" reboot (some data stayed in storage), and not a reboot where the CPU was fried (Mercury) or a HDD crash (Mars)

  23. Re:Don't say "NAT" on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I were ARIN, I would start making v4 addresses and v6 addresses cheap.

    To an ISP it is actually FREE to get IPv6 Addresses initially, ant then there is a wavier until 2012.

    Fee Schedule

    IPv6 Initial Allocation and IPv6 Assignment
    ARIN charges a fee for the initial IPv6 allocation from ARIN to an ISP. This fee is currently waived for IPv4 subscribers. For organizations that aren't IPv4 subscribers, the fee is lowered by current fee waivers.

    ARIN charges a fee for an IPv6 assignment (whether initial or additional) to an end-user. There are currently no fee waivers for IPv6 assignments.

  24. Re:Irony on GSM Decryption Published · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If he can do it, so can the bad guys.

    And the bad guys aren't going to publish the how-to at a conference.

    No, they are just going to go to Defcon and give everybody the exact hardware and software to do it

  25. Re:This makes perfect sense on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    both