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  1. Re:Yeah, but $54 for a USB Wifi? on FSF Certifies Atheros-Based ThinkPenguin 802.11 N USB Adapter · · Score: 1

    I am curious, does this mean better Kismet support? Can we now do wardriving without $300 adapters or do spectrum analyzing to pick the best frequency to run our wireless on to not interfere with the neighbors?

    http://www.kismetwireless.net/

  2. Re:Yeah, but $54 for a USB Wifi? on FSF Certifies Atheros-Based ThinkPenguin 802.11 N USB Adapter · · Score: 2

    Having supported Apple in the enterprise, I will respectfully disagree. When a Dell has an issue, you call Dell. They send out a part, and offer a technician to replace it. When an Apple has an issue, you drive a half hour to the mall, wait 2 hours in line to talk to the technician, only to have them take the computer into the back room and have you return in a few days. Which is the good tech support?

  3. Re:ah the anti-NSF crowd again on SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants · · Score: 1

    Damn, I guess we should outlaw bows, and hunting, and eating meat...

  4. Re:Fork!!! on Java 8 Delayed To Fix Security · · Score: 1

    Microsoft tried and was sued by Sun for it.

  5. Re:Veto ??? on CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto · · Score: 1

    Voting against the other party's stuff is what both parties do, what is different?

  6. Re: corporate bubble on Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet" · · Score: 1

    http://mikerogers.house.gov/

    Are you sure?

    First Link:

    WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said Tuesday that most opponents to his controversial cybersecurity bill are teenagers in their basements as the Obama administration threatened to veto the measure for its potential to violate civil liberties.

  7. Re:Microsoft has accounts? on Microsoft Hops On Two-Factor Authentication Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Why not? How is the Wii-mote any different than a mouse? And the keys on the Wii-mote are pretty much like a keyboard. The newer editions of Metroid have you aiming by pointing the Wii-mote, this is not much different than any other FPS on the computer. It would be much easier to use a keyboard/mouse than the Wii controllers.

  8. Re:Differences in the U.S? on ACLU Asks FTC To Force Carriers To 'Patch Or Replace' Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Please stop rubbing it in...we know everything is better outside the US, but we can't do anything to correct it....we just cheer on the ACLU fighting to correct the craptastic situation. Yes, in the US, you have different carriers that use different technologies to access their networks. Therefore, besides AT&T and T-Mobile, you -HAVE to buy the handset from the carrier. With AT&T and T-Mobile, it kind of boils down to them being pretty crappy with not as good of coverage (T-Mobile) or abysmal customer service/actively fighting their customers (All of them...)

  9. Re:sounds like the market has spoken on ACLU Asks FTC To Force Carriers To 'Patch Or Replace' Android Devices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From TFS:

    'A significant number of consumers are using smartphones running a version of the Android operating system with known, exploitable security vulnerabilities for which fixes have been published by Google

    They did release patches, the carriers are blocking them, therefore, ACLU is suing to get the carriers to stop being jerks.

  10. Re:Fool on EPIC Files Motion About Ignored Body Scanner Ruling · · Score: 1

    It would help if people wouldn't confuse the two, as TSA is the devil, and DHS is an organization that allows the collection of intelligence sources to be combined under a single umbrella to allow the sharing of intelligence between agencies.

  11. Re:Apple good at making stuff easy to open? on Apple Gets the Importance of Packaging; Why Doesn't Google? · · Score: 1

    The newer mac mini makes adding memory pretty easy, but that is the only thing that is easy...

  12. Re:Huh? on Apple Gets the Importance of Packaging; Why Doesn't Google? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I hate it when I have to reboot people's Macs for them, it is just sad that Apple can't fix those issues. Oh wait, everyone has those issues.

  13. Re:Oy on AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Not to go to the usual car analogy, but several automakers have eliminated the mid-sized pickup trucks.

    Huh? What? Who?

    Just bought a full sized truck, so I was looking at the different manufacturers, I don't recall anyone not having a mid sized anymore.

  14. Re:Well they are both rectangular on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 1

    I've had people ask me if my Tundra was a f150...it isn't beyond the possible.

  15. Re:dust on Sandia's Floating, Dust-Free, Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Knifork is for sale, unless this isn't what you are talking about...
    http://www.kellamknives.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=418

  16. Re:dust on Sandia's Floating, Dust-Free, Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Is your house fan an impeller? As this is a fine tuned impeller that removes the problems on normal fans caused by a layer of still air, I am guessing they work on slightly different principles.

  17. Re:Thousandth of an inch on Sandia's Floating, Dust-Free, Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it yelp like when you kick a dog?

  18. Re:Seriously ?!?!?!?! on US Consumer Bureau Opens Online Credit Card Complaint DB · · Score: 1

    Republicans, the party of big oil, the NRA, and other big industry
    Democrats, the party of big media, and other big industries

    They both suck, just in different ways. The democrats try all the time to take away your right to bear arms (wouldn't that be cool...having bear arms). The republicans try to take away social services they think are only supporting the lazy.

    Vote third party, the only place your vote really counts.

  19. Re:Yeah, so what? on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    Personally, I will disagree with DHS being a bad thing. Some of how it was done may be, but the intention was to increase intel sharing between the intel agencies. The reasoning behind this is that there was intel showing that 9/11 was going to happen before it did, but because the different TLAs didn't routinely share intel, the pieces were not put together in time to prevent the attack.

  20. Re:Yeah, so what? on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    This particular person we are discussing was repeatedly summoned to court, he made it clear that he did not want to come in to be tried.

    How is this any different than "Wanted dead or alive" from the wild west?

  21. Re:What an incredibly stupid argument on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    He is probably referring to the deaths per GW numbers that have been floating around, I can't find the right one, but here is another one showing the numbers:

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/

    The other charts I have seen in the past include the death tolls of the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan even, and still make nuclear look very good.

  22. Re:Yep... on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 2

    Show me a single citation that says no one can live within 20km of any Japanese power plant. The main concern is crops, not houses.

  23. Re:One thing.... on Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie · · Score: 2

    The name is meant to be a pun, you missed that?

  24. Re:Tagline: on Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie · · Score: 1

    There was something about their boat banging up against another boat after he fired. It had recoil, just not enough.

  25. Re:No thanks on MIT Creates Glucose Fuel Cell To Power Implanted Brain-Computer Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Read the whole thread, what he typed didn't disagree with you.