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  1. i don't care... on Motorola's XOOM Tablet To Cost $799; Wi-Fi Requires 3G Activation? · · Score: 1

    what it costs... i won't buy one until it runs GNU/Linux...

    i'm sticking w/my N800 for now (on its second, easily replaced, inexpensive battery)

  2. and who was a chairman of NASDAQ? on Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computer Networks · · Score: 1

    hmm... is there computer access in the prison library?

  3. Re:Liability Follows Control on Pirated App Sold On Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    unless your 'consignment' store is a pawn shop in Florida... if your house is broken into and you subsequently find your items in a pawn shop you must buy them from the pawn shop if you want them back - and the pawn shop is not liable

  4. interesting that... on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    we can see much smaller than farther? i would have thought both were infinite?

  5. Re:who still uses telnet? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    but hey, it's fun to watch on a honeypot under emulation! :-)

  6. Re:Fox News rebroadcast on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 0

    it all about fare and load-balancing

  7. Re:V6 explained by the guy overseeing it on Last Days For Central IPv4 Address Pool · · Score: 1

    tks! that answered my question i ask in the next post
    (maybe next time i'll wait and peruse links)

  8. IPv4 exhaustion? on Last Days For Central IPv4 Address Pool · · Score: 1

    can i get disability for this condition? :-)

    seriously though: a number of years ago Vint Cerf gave a presentation to our LUG on IP addressing and inter-planetary networking... would IPv6 be able to accommodate those needs 100 or more years from now? (i had some notes from the presentation and Q&A but lost them, and the memory fades...)

  9. not happening under OS X? on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    have not seen this problem w/ff and skype under os x?

  10. Re:Ham operators are VERY important on NASA Seeks Ham Operators' Help To Test NanoSail-D · · Score: 1

    PSK31 FTW!

  11. Re:yes, my 1990 Acorn A3000... on Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT · · Score: 1

    best reply i've read all day - tks for the chuckle!

  12. Re:The "If current trends continue" problem on Has the Industrialized World Reached Peak Travel? · · Score: 2

    telecommuting?

    i love that i have telecommuted since 1997 by using the 'net; after retiring in 2005, the wife now telecommutes daily - walks to the home office in flip-flops, flips open the laptop, and goes to work in DC next to Union Station near Capitol Hill...

    life is good! and for my marketing, i take my Specialized Rockhopper and messenger bag to the local farmer's market...

    (and zillow has our casa as walk 'unfriendly'! ROFLMAO!)

  13. but will the device... on Elliptic Labs To Bring Touchless Gestures To iPad · · Score: 1

    know the difference between my gesture and my cat's insane interest in all things digital? i have to put him on the floor dozens of times already while working on a non-gesture desktop or notebook

  14. Re:wtf on Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning? · · Score: 1

    thanks for pointing this out... i suspect not too many /. readers understand military service, the UCMJ, and enlistment oaths...

    if Manning is guilty, he is in deep doo-doo and is looking at a long stretch in Leavenworth (i doubt he'll would get the death penalty)...

  15. Re:More Details here... on Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane · · Score: 1

    no real technical details on freqs used for servos, but if 6 meters (50MHz) band was used, there should have been more than enough wattage to overcome interference - especially using line-of-sight

  16. Re:how long will *that* hobby last? on Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane · · Score: 1

    Japanese balloon bombs were toys too! deadly toys nonetheless - thankfully, IIRC, only one person was injured in the northwest during WWII

  17. still waiting to use... on Solar Dynamo Still Anemic, Magnetism and UV Lax · · Score: 1

    a brand new-in-the-box 10-meter HF/FM transceiver purchased after Cycle 23...

    25 watts and work the world!

  18. gee.. on Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it took long enough for this storage to hit /.

    was there and editorial outage?

  19. and we should also... on Recording the Police · · Score: 1

    record store clerks, the checkout counter at the grocery, fast food transactions, buying lottery tickets, paying tax bills, trying on clothes in the store changing room...

    oh wait....

  20. in reality... on Facebook's Zuckerberg To Give Away Half His Cash · · Score: 1

    Gates and Buffett, like so many of the Industrialists before them, appear to subscribe to the Gospel of Wealth...

    what seems to be forgotten in the ensuing adulation is how these folks acquired their wealth... we know about Gates,
    but Buffett is no kindly grandfather type... the Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group has reaped BILLIONS in just
    the last several years via policies that ensured insane increases in homeowner insurance policy...

  21. Re:Please Give Wikileaks story A Rest on WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets · · Score: 1

    thank you

  22. WTF? on USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s · · Score: 1

    i cannot believe that IBM or other U.S. vendors instead of Sony would not have been capable of crafting such a system... quite telling, IMO

  23. Re:Wow, spam worse than murder! on A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man · · Score: 1

    ROFLMAO!

    tks, it made my day!

  24. Re:This is only temporary on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 1

    you cannot say that we tax payers will ultimately pay very little for saving GM unless you are also saying that you can predict the stock market price of GM shares...

    pre-bailout GM bond holders will NEVER get their money back, including many GM retirees - and they are tax payers as well

  25. is that you, Al? on One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars · · Score: 1

    i don't doubt there's some pollution, but seriously, this is really too much...