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  1. Ban Facebook on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 2

    Block the problem, not the tool.

  2. Re:Just in time! on Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except this periodic table just lists the elements and their positions.

    What is changing is how the weights are displayed.

  3. Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. on Navy Uses Railgun To Launch Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    or the entire plane would, but it would be a small pile of metal, oil, fuel, and human remains.

  4. Re:Preorder now! on Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up · · Score: 1

    If you paid for Alpha you get ALL future updates and expansions. Beta gets all updates until release and bug fixes.

  5. Re:why mastercard? on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except the first amendment only applies to the government. If a company wants to impend your speech they can.

  6. Re:By Accident on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    What about double tapping shift for shift lock? They could implement that.

  7. Re:Soo... on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    All Google services have IPv6 if you use HE's DNS.

  8. Re:And then... on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    Now do both to the mice, then welcome our new super-mice overlords.

  9. Re:Quality, not quantity on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    But we would tera-form Mars, Venus, and the moon, create colonies in space, and send deep space shuttles out to possibly habitable worlds.

  10. Re:Whats going to stop me from disabling it? on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    There is also the option of grounding the transmitter and thus killing most of the signal. Of course it may also kill the transmitter, but who cares?

  11. Re:Dumb on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Because there's never a reason that a passenger would want to take a phone call. Or for a driver to call 911 for any reason...

    Or pedestrians walking down the street close to a running car for that matter.

    Or anyone that lives near a road

  12. Re:19-0? on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds just like China's Great Firewall. So much for freedom...

    Except blocking it on the root DNS would block the site for almost the entire planet.

  13. Re:I suppose the real question here is... on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have, and this would have a hard time fitting in a 1U case. The data cable comes out the top, but many 1U cases have the ram sticks at a 45 degree angle because they would be too tall. It would be OK in a 2U or larger and used as the boot disk.

  14. Re:Hopenchange! on Proposed Final ACTA Text Published · · Score: 1

    If you didn't vote independent (or 3rd party) in 2008, you asked for this.

  15. Re:not fastest on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    And how is the environment of a built-in GPS really significantly different from the ECU? Both are subject to the same dirty power supply, the same environmental extremes, ...

    You are correct up to the environmental conditions. The ECU is in the engine compartment and must withstand operational temperatures during the summer that can reach ~200 F. Your GPS may hit 200, but it will be off.

  16. Re:This is cool, but not revolutionary... on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 3, Informative

    This progression is to be expected. But the thing people should be asking is: does the new Buick ECM have an interface exposed that third parties can build readers for?

    Yes, It is called the OBDII port.

  17. Re:I'm sure that... on FTC Ends Probe of Google StreetView Privacy Breach · · Score: 1

    The router should ship in a mode where the wifi is OFF, and requires you to go into the config to turn it on. If you do not choose encryption it should yell at you, but allow you to have it unencrypted.

  18. Re:I tend to hold on to my tech for years... on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    SSDs currently uses PATA, SATA, Mini PCIe (PATA), or Mini PCIe (SATA)

  19. Re:SSD's die more than HD's on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    Laptops need what I have in a server, stuff needed for boot on a SSD (8GB CF in my case), and EVERYTHINKG else on a HDD. I get BIOS plus ~5 second boot times.

  20. Re:Steve Jobs has clout on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not everyone buys a computer every year. Sales statistics for computers on a yearly basis are useless, you need it on a rolling ~5 year average.

  21. Re:What constitutes invention? on Who Invented the Linux-Based Wireless Router? · · Score: 1

    I have Prior Art for your patent. NASA, Hitler, TV, Radio, HAM, etc...

  22. Re:Fails obviousness flow chart. on Who Invented the Linux-Based Wireless Router? · · Score: 1

    Replace CPU with one bought from Digikey, Mouser, or other large part seller.

  23. Re:From the article . . . on In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A recent study by University of California-Berkeley academics revealed how the density of TV stations in metropolitan areas could reduce the availability of white spaces in such areas.

    That's true. The "whitespace" idea only works in rural regions, not heavily-populated areas like the North, northeast, or mid-atlantic which use every channel from 1-51 (including the FM band).

    There are more than 51 channels, there are 68 (2-69).

  24. Lies, Lies, Lies on In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License · · Score: 2, Informative

    This company lies all the time. The company I work for tested this tech a few years ago in Missouri, but It was a failure. They have been trying to sell their product for the past 6+ years.

  25. Emulate? on Unspoofable Device Identity Using Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    Someone could just create an emulator/interpreter to sit between the chip and the PCB. It reads the input, responds correctly for the emulated chip, and puts it a good or bad space according to what the emulated chip should be.