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  1. Re:Laptops and phones on planes on U.S. Airlines to Offer In-Air Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Yes, a couple of months ago I think. Several airlines were offering cheap/free usage between the announcement late last year and the actual switch off.

  2. Re:online is online on U.S. Airlines to Offer In-Air Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with using cellular in planes is that it confuses the cell towers, because you have line of sight to too many of them at once.

  3. Re:What about 64 and 128 bit? on WEP Broken Even Worse · · Score: 1

    I don't know the full details of why, but not all those bits actually get used. I have seen them referred to as "64 bit (40 bit effective)" and "128 bit (104 bit effective) encryption". The hex keys contain 64/128 bits, but the encryption algorithm uses a 40/104 bit key derived from that.

  4. Re:Who even still users WEP? on WEP Broken Even Worse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All my pieces of wifi equipment but one support WPA-PSK, but it only takes one piece of equipment to tie me to WEP.

  5. Re:Uh oh... on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    When Koreans ask, I reply that my blood type is OB. Sometimes they even get the joke.

  6. Re:XSS on Web 2.0 Under Siege · · Score: 1

    Not really 'man in the middle', since site B (the exploiter) is at the end of the chain. The vulnerable AJAX application is in the middle here, giving site B privileged access to site A, so more a privilege elevation attack.

  7. Re:History Channel on Architect Claims to Solve Pyramid Secret · · Score: 1

    They certainly could have done that, but it would have left visible traces which would have been found long before now.

  8. Re:Perl versus Python on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    What's an engineer working for a bearing manufacturer doing using a dressmaker's units of measurement? Real engineers measure items of that magnitude in mm.

  9. Re:Perl versus Python on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    As a programmer, I'm always surprised that the compiler can't cast 4.0 to 4.0f by itself, yet it has no problem casting 4 to either of the above.

  10. Re:Good example on Death of the Button? Analog vs. Digital · · Score: 1

    "monkey mode". Okay, I made that last one up.

    Sorry to burst your bubble as a budding young inventor, but my wife's new camera has prior art on that one.

  11. Re:That's a manufacturing "problem". on Death of the Button? Analog vs. Digital · · Score: 1

    No, you're not alone. The first time my ipod froze on me, with no reset button and no removable battery, my only option was to let the battery run completely flat. The second time, I was only half an hour away from internet access, so I was able to look up the secret hold switch/button chord sequence for performing a reset, and now have that ingrained in muscle memory. I also found it incredibly unintuitive that pressing up and down doesn't go up and down through the list of songs, instead you have to use this hypersensitive circular touchpad which overshoots 9 times out of 10.

  12. Re:Yes, it's strange on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, Which? does its testing in its own lab according to a well defined test plan which they detail in their articles. They don't accept advertising or test products, just like Consumer Reports. Of the brands you list, only Hoover is widely available in the UK, and like the US, some models do well in their tests, others not so well. Typically Miele and Bosch consistently do well, along with Dyson in every category except reliability. Electrolux, Hoover and some other brands have some models at the top and some lower down. The bottom is mostly populated with the cheap brands like Morphy Richards as you'd expect.

  13. Re:Yes, it's strange on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 1

    In "Which?", the UK equivalent of Consumer Reports, Dyson cleaners usually come at the top of the table for everything except reliability. Because of their poor reliability they were never included as a "Best Buy" until Dyson extended the manufacturer warranty to 5 years to counter Which?'s assertion that Dyson vacuum cleaners were the only product where an extended warranty was worth the money.

  14. Re:Prosecuting children on RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    As others pointed out, there is no one single "human rights convention". The original poster was clearly refering to this convention, as this is the one that covers children specifically, and it is also one that the US has infamously not ratified (there may be others).

  15. Re:Not time yet on How Small a PC Is Too Small? · · Score: 1

    A 10-12 point font is 10-12 points, no matter what size your screen is. Perhaps you meant pixels?

  16. Re:Great ! on Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails · · Score: 1

    Well, that's probably 77 douchemarks (sp?), not dollars. After all the article talks about Doucheland (sp?).

    That's Deutschland, you Douchebag! And it would be 77 Euros, but almost half of that was for MS Works.

  17. Re:yes, no, maybe ... on Paint Provides Network Protection · · Score: 1

    Rather than take the view that doctors should not be allowed to have a social life, perhaps it would be better if the electromagnetically shielded cinemas and restaurants (I'm not sure why restaurants BTW, most people do not want to eat in silence) had picocells that only relayed SMS messages, not voice calls.

  18. Re:Not far enough on Lawsuit Against Google Dismissed · · Score: 1

    I think its fairly obvious that IANAL, since I am making suggestions that might take work away from them.

  19. Re:Prosecuting children on RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Convention on the Rights of the Child may be a positive tool for promoting child welfare for those countries that have adopted it. But we believe the text goes too far when it asserts entitlements based on economic, social and cultural rights.

    The exact quote is available from several sources online.

  20. Re:Not far enough on Lawsuit Against Google Dismissed · · Score: 1

    That is a suit that only needs to be defended once. Once Google is judged to be objective, they can use that as a precedent to have other cases dismissed quickly without going to trial.

  21. Re:Prosecuting children on RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The president has to put the treaty before the senate before they can ratify it. Bush has publically expressed his disagreement with this treaty, specifically he does not consider children born into poverty to have a right to state supported education, health services etc.

  22. Re:Prosecuting children on RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course USA is the only western country that hasn't signed the human rights convention.

    The way you put that makes it sound like the US keeps good company with non-Western nations. Even that is not true. The only other country that hasn't ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is Somalia (the US did sign under Clinton, but Bush has failed to ratify almost every international treaty that Clinton signed up to). In Somalia's case, they don't have a government to sign it.

  23. Re:Not far enough on Lawsuit Against Google Dismissed · · Score: 1

    I mean, so what if Google skews their search results? They aren't under any obligation to link to the whole web or to do so in an objective manner.

    I think it would be good if there was an explicit exemption in copyright law for a site that did link to the whole web in an objective manner. It would put an end to the other type of suit that Google continually faces.

  24. Re:What do you do when it crashes? on Java-Based x86 Emulator · · Score: 1

    It seems they forgot to emulate the bluescreen.

  25. Re:Too big: on Flying the Airbus A380 · · Score: 1

    Heathrow have already modified gates for the plane, as have most other major airports where it will be flying into.