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  1. Re:Microsoft's relevance... on MS Hypes Win7 Tablets For CES — Again · · Score: 1

    I work with public agencies all the time and other than the largest municipalities, Windows is the name of the game and always will be for the foreseeable future. There will always be relevant business markets for MS/Windows, and that's not counting the need for it for legacy products.

  2. Re:Can't make a call from inside on SatPhones — Why Can't They Make It Work? · · Score: 1

    If you're carrying a satellite phone you're pretty much a boyscout anyways. Carrying extra batteries is part of being prepared, unless it's an Apple satphone, then you can't replace the battery.

  3. Re:Perfect example: on The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I have different classes of passwords for different classes of sites. If my easy Slashdot password is compromised, nothing of value is lost, and no one gets the password to my bank account in the process.

  4. Re:Great Job, Republican Judge on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that large multinationals like ADP have the legal resources available to know when they're being fleeced and the economic resources and pull to shop around for the best deal when selecting health care plans to provide to employees.

  5. Re:Can't make a call from inside on SatPhones — Why Can't They Make It Work? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would be nice to do a hybrid system. Wifi(SIP) calls indoors, Sat outdoors/outside of Wifi coverage

  6. Re:Great Job, Republican Judge on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1, Informative

    If anything we are worse off than before. No more people are covered, some people have less coverage, and for all it is more expensive.

    Which is odd since it was called the Affordable Healthcare Act(according to TFA). My premiums went up big time. My deductible went up big time. My coverage declined moderately. My ability to purchase drugs from a pharmacy was removed(all mail order now). The company sent a letter stating that "due to recent legislation, costs have risen and they're being passed on to you". Definitely the opposite of what the name of the act implies. If this is what reform is I think I'll stick to the Vote No on Everything platform to prevent Congress from doing anymore harm to the US.

  7. Re:horse on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    How many assholes do we have on this ship, anyhow?

  8. Re:horse on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that some of those people were disciplined within the military, though. This kind of negligence doesn't get overlooked by the brass when uncovered, even if they quietly handle it because the military is capable of doing that behind closed doors.

  9. Re:Rouge eh? on Rogue Satellite Shuts Down US Weather Services · · Score: 1

    Rogue follows the basic structure of vowel consonant vowel, which tends to be a long sound for the initial vowel, and -ogu- has no other words that make an "ow" sound, so "rohg" or "roh-gue" are really the only things you should end up with in American English if you just follow the basics you learned in elementary.

  10. Re:Rouge eh? on Rogue Satellite Shuts Down US Weather Services · · Score: 1

    Actually, that would be r-ow-g. ou, as in shout

  11. Re:Credit Card data? on Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data · · Score: 1

    Giftcards and Paypal both allow you to buy things with credit without giving that merchant your CC. Visa also has(had?) an online program for doing that with one time use CCs tied to your account.

  12. Re:This is their third try. on USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s · · Score: 1

    1760 Gibsons

  13. Re:Ask a friend on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    MSE is nice, but I hate the completely random auto-update schedule it has for definitions and the fact that it completely nukes the system when it does do its auto-update

  14. Re:Yea that is interesting... on Microsoft Invests In Open Source Software Company · · Score: 1

    It's a start. PICK OS is currently emulated very successfully, with APIs built in to the emulator for TCP/IP communication(PICK predates TCP/IP), SQL interaction(PICK is a multivalue db with its own query language, not a relational db with a dialect of SQL), etc. You don't buy mainframes to run PICK anymore, you emulate it in *nix or Windows. When the Hercules software matures, the same thing will probably start to happen because of the cost and maintenance.

  15. Re:New Hollywood business model on Torrent Users Fight Back · · Score: 1

    But the Germans weren't, unless you count scat porn.

  16. Re:Authentication on Internet Routing, Looming Disaster? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Overhead. What might take a few milliseconds now takes a few more milliseconds. Not a problem on your little Belkin router, but when you're routing thousands of packets a second, it adds up. You can be sure there are many interests non-technical in nature that would be against raising their latency, even by milliseconds. Particularly, Wall Street.

  17. Re:The most surprising turn of events on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    Gregorian calendar has no year zero. Centuries and millennia end on a zero and start on a 1

  18. Oh, I know on Curious NASA Pre-Announcement · · Score: 3, Funny

    They found Jita, but their probe got ganked trying to dock with the docking station. $300m in PLEX were lost

  19. Re:Unofficial hack in a corporation?! on Windows 7 Phone Gets Jailbreak Tool · · Score: 1

    MS has stated that WM6.5 is being maintained for corporate users. And, honestly, WM6.5 does everything I need in that particular vacuum and supports the mobile .net framework along with multitasking.

  20. Re:No surprises here on Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    Or you can use noscript and enable it on the fly in the browser, which is a lot more efficient than running through a batch file

  21. Re:But that's not important right now. on Actor Leslie Nielsen Dies at 84 · · Score: 1

    Ed O'Neill really is the same way. Very good dramatic actor that found his niche in comedy

  22. Re:What does Wikileaks get from this? on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doubtful with the amount of corruption present in Russia that they wouldn't have dirt on them. I think they're just on a high horse against the US, UK, and other countries because they'll avoid Po-210 poisoning better that way. Doesn't make Assange sound like the white knight he attempts to portray

  23. Re:What does Wikileaks get from this? on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where are the big releases on Russia, Venezuela, and other corrupt governments? Sounds like a wimp to me.

  24. smartpost? on FedEx Misplaces Radioactive Rods · · Score: 1

    Did they sent it Smartpost? That's the best way to lose a package. From Dallas to Chicago to Los Angeles to San Francisco to Ogden to Los Angeles to San Diego to Los Angeles and out for delivery. Maybe.

  25. Re:TSA Security Theater on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 1

    Did the same, but the TSA dude found it and threw it away