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  1. Call Apple on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like a hell of a nice screen protector for the nano

  2. That looks like a big nipple on Real Wood iPod · · Score: 1

    Peculiar, the user keeps scrolling through songs as if it were more fun than listening to music...

  3. WEPMYASS on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 0

    It was funnier before Randy Moss changed my perspective about this phrase...

  4. Adware in this text book... on Professor Creates His Own Cisco Manual · · Score: 1

    Isn't it a bit unprofessional to have adware (possibly spyware) with Rogaine advertisements in the top bar of internet explorer while documenting Cisco webpage browsing? Check out the screenshots of the webpages in his Cisco textbook "Learning by doing" and you'll know what I'm talking about...

  5. vs. RFID tags? on Legoland Introduces Wi-Fi Tracking for Kids · · Score: 1

    These products could certainly compete with the RFID tagging industry if cost and size were appropriate for the application. RFID tags have problems with near-field RF effects and antenna polarity. These devices would seem to be more effective since they are communicating over spread spectrum, then IP packets and not directly over narrow band carrier waves

  6. Re:please don't do this. on BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a policy problem rather than an issue American's should be concerned with. Hopefully you can spare some bandwidth to email your ISP and complain.

  7. Daisy Chain!!!! on 802.11 RF Amp · · Score: 1

    What's to prevent a certain (possibly slighlty unethical) person from breaking a few FCC violations & double dipping on a few of these babies....

  8. DVD quality throughput? on DVD Player as 802.11b Peripheral · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From tests I've done in the past with DVD quality streaming, wireless networks such as 802.11b can not support the throughput required. I've had DVD's max out at 13 MB/s. 802.11b can only send 11 Mb/s not including overhead which is greater than 802.3 in the first place...

  9. Re:Exactly WHAT were they using? on Britain's CAA Considers Laptop Ban on Commercial Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I'm sure we all remember the prototype versions of UWB before the FCC ruling... .5 Watts covering 3 GHz of spectrum? Even this small amount of power wiped out a brand new handheld GPS unit in a 100 foot range. I would think that NASA tested this equipment since no new prototypes are even released yet bearing the new frequencies imposed.

    As a result, I agree that there is still a long way to go before an answer is found...

  10. WRONG! on Another Reason to be Annoyed by Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I have significant disbelief in this guy's theory. A signal from a phone radiates at 1/2 a watt less than 3 inches from your head, which is accepted by international telecommunications union (ITU) as an acceptable power level for safe use. At the respective frequencies that cell phones use, the power degrades by 1/2 (or 3dB) every few inches. If EVERYONE in a train car used their phone at the same time and at a precise location that created positive interference to one specific user, all the other users (assuming about 100 passengers) would have to use their phones about 10 feet away (considering multipath too). This guy is full of it or he must feel the need for more attention.

  11. UPS on Dark City, San Francisco? · · Score: 1

    time to invest in the UPS companies - can you imagine the power backup needed?

  12. one word - BetaMax on "D-VHS": Will it replace DVD? · · Score: 1

    ok, maybe that's 2 words

  13. Re:where i live? on Geomagnetic Storm To Begin Tonight · · Score: 1

    Judging by the link (provided in the headlines above) from NOAA, the kP level (6) for Illinois is too low to see the Aurora. You could drive north for about 6 hours and you might get a shot.

  14. Linux baby on New Baby in the Torvalds Home · · Score: 1

    Is her nickname going to be pronounced Celex, Celes, or Celus?