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  1. Re:Whoever pays is a MORON! on Webvention Demanding $80k For Rollover Images · · Score: 1

    I would pay $20 to implement this EXPIRED patent.

  2. Re:Capitalism on NASA Head Ignores Congress, Eyes Cooperation With China · · Score: 1

    I think the GP means that the USA government screwed over NASA, so NASA is going to the Chinese government.

  3. Re:Beat them to the punch on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    but then even the servers are offline

  4. Re:Beat them to the punch on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    I still would, because there is around a 1 in 2 billion chance it would be me. And if it happend to be me, I can always get internet from my work (WISP).

  5. Re:big freakin cds... on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1

    It was called LaserDisk. Of course they were 11.81 inches (30cm), not 12 inches, but that .19 inches shouldn't matter.

  6. Re:Donald Duck and the Pirate Party on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 1

    That is still only about 170 votes and is a party not an "individual". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck_Party

  7. Donald Duck and the Pirate Party on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 1

    According to the Swedish Election Authority's published hand written votes, Donald Duck got one vote and the Pirate Party got ~500.

  8. Re:How do you get offenders to stop? on Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? · · Score: 1

    Nice. If that got turned into a firefox plugin to realtime decrypt the links...

    There is a greasemonkey script to do just that.

  9. Re:Was just about to buy some bucky balls on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 1

    A few of mine are bearings, they are not even magnetic.

  10. Re:Features on Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8 · · Score: 1

    I love Chrome, and don't miss Firefox at all (and especially don't miss my system being brought to its knees by the constant memory leaks that seemingly can't be fixed)

    On some systems Chrome has a memory overrun problem when you start chrome (it wants to use all the ram and then proceeds to use all of the swap). At least Firefox's memory leak takes hours.

  11. Re:Why prices don't decrease on Why Broadband Prices Haven't Decreased · · Score: 1

    Because companies aren't interested in seeing their profit margins decrease.

    No companies are not interested in seeing their profit margins stay the same.

    Wholesale bandwidth had been steadily dropping. A couple years ago we used to pay $200 per Mbit now we are paying $2 per Mbit. We could get it as low as $1.45, or less, if we bought a Gbit circuit and had IPv6.

  12. Re:Stupid on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, leap seconds suck, but the proposed solution (to let UTC drift farther and farther away from reality) sucks even harder. UTC should just be abolished in favor of UT1. Computer clocks are so crude anyway (mine is off by 3 seconds right now) that the supposed benefits of UTC's constant second are really non-existent, every computer needs to have its time adjusted now and then no matter what.

    And that is what NTP is for. To automatically adjust the computers clock to account for drift.

  13. Re:Is it just me... on Gmail Video Chat Now Available On Linux · · Score: 1

    But the experience with the OS is surprisingly positive. I have a Windows XP partition because I will need to program in .NET soon, but other than that, I don't think I'll use Windows much.

    Try using Mono.

  14. Re:I got a good one too! on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 1

    Took 3 days for the admins to find out the source of the problem and where the router was... abysmal loss of productivity needless to say I gave them a good speech on not routing 192.168 packets on the network and isolating their networks.

    The biggest problem there is that the servers where getting their IP from a DHCP server.

  15. PogoPlug on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    With PogoPlug, you control your file storage. If you buy a Sandisk Freeagent Dockstar then you get a free lifetime subscription.

  16. Re:AWESOME! on Human Tests of Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm To Begin · · Score: 1

    That looks like a Ghost in The Shell based game. Even the personal cloak and the ships are very similar. Of course it would be based years before Ghost in the Shell.

  17. Re:Stop Making It Bigger. Start Making It Faster! on The Limits To Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 0

    That's what the SSD market does.

    No, the SSD market makes it faster to read, slower to write, shorter write life, and ~10 times smaller. What we need is slightly faster read and write, longer life, the same capacity.

  18. Re:I wonder how much of this you can blame on AT&a on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 3, Insightful

    AT&T's commercials assert that it covers 97% of Americans, but if you live in or spend much time in one of the areas (more than 3% of the map) it doesn't cover, the iPhone loses by default even if Apple's marketing is successful.

    97% population does not cover 97% land area, it probably is closer to 60% or less land area.

  19. Re:If this trend continues... on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 1

    But what happens when it exceeds 100%? That's what I want to know.

    It will either destroy the dumb phone market, or it will start eating itself.

  20. Re:Don't plug it to internet on Attacking Game Consoles On Corporate Networks · · Score: 1

    802.11a cannot do 5.5mbps (not one of the allowed speeds), the Wii cannot talk 802.11a, and the Wii can connect at 54mbps to a 802.11g network

  21. Not dead on Alternatives To Paypal's Virtual Credit Card Service? · · Score: 1

    The Paypal virtual credit card service is not dead. I can still create new virtual credit cards and did just yesterday. It may just be limited to specific people or you just need to know where to click.

  22. Re:Amateur satellites on Amateur Radio In the Backcountry? · · Score: 2, Informative

    HamSatDroid (for Android) only needs a internet connection to update the keps (keplerian elements) file and that is not done automatically.

  23. Re:Not that big a deal... on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This vulnerability is only useful if the attacker knows your WPA key.

    This is for WPA2-EAP (may or may not cover WPA2-PSK). So they need a valid username and password, not just a key.

  24. Re:Amateur satellites on Amateur Radio In the Backcountry? · · Score: 1

    The antenna issue can be dealt with but how would he know how to find the satellite out in the backcountry? He'd have to lug a laptop with sat tracking software installed along with him.

    There is sat tracking software for both Android and the iPhone.

  25. Re:Not surprising.... on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 5, Informative

    Android users come from a more diverse population who are probably not loyal to any one thing but want good 'product' in a smart phone but have no tying factor to the platform.

    Let's just say this BS is right. That doesn't change the fac that *80 percent of them* don't believe Android is "a good 'product'". Ignoring how customers feel about competing products, if that isn't an indictment of the Android platform, I don't know what is.

    That is 80% of AT&T Android users. AT&T only sells gimped Android phones.