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  1. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    when I checked router.vortechhosting.com is dead as a door nail but Vortech "can you ping me now" seems to be alive and doing fine. I would be amazed if CENTCOM and SOCOM didn't have plenty of backup resources between them, purchasing commercial bandwidth is likely a luxury rather than a necessity anyways.

  2. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    To be honest my first tinfoil hat hunch was that the Iranians or Al Qaeda cut the cable not the USG. Probably not a mainstream extremist element but one of the extremist-extremist factions, every group has a few loose cannons and the ones in Al Qaeda or Iran have to be way out there.

  3. Re:WHat? are you serious? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to hurt Iran by using the internet, I'd be dropping satellite dishes not cutting cables. I figure that if Iran and Cuba was supposed to be a butch of cockroaches, why not turn on the lights and watch them scury!

  4. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    I don't know seems like bullshit to me, in my field we judge color to the point where seeing minute color difference in two pieces is very precise. I often compare color under three and four different light sources to get the best compromise possible and my industry is moving to digital analysis. Your average Joe isn't going to see the difference in a red colored Mc Donalds chair under florescent lights, the same chair under diffused northern light and direct sunlight.

  5. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    My chemistry instructor was colorblind and a military pilot, he claimed he had a copy of the colorblind test stolen and memorized the numbers on the bottom of each plate.

  6. Re:Good luck with that, NFL on Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen · · Score: 1

    off topic sheesh, we're talking about sports and religion here, politics and weather are just a logical progression!

  7. Re:Good luck with that, NFL on Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen · · Score: 1

    I don't know if they are correct or not, but they will argue that putting the images and sound on the screen is making a copy, so by not excepting the implied license you are infringing and by excepting the implied license with the restrictions and ignoring the restrictions your still infringing. After your lawyer has proven you to be correctand you've paid him as much as humanly possible, maybe he'll help you by doing your bankruptcy at a discount.

  8. Re:Good luck with that, NFL on Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The telecast is licensed for "private home viewing" that means no public display, no church, no sports bars no Dr. offices waiting room np public display. Hell playing the radio in a Dr's office is technically infringing! I know you can get commercial licenses and I supposed that big places like Hooter's actually has one, but you'd think that they would kind of just ignore houses of worship having a superbowl party.

  9. Re:A bit biased? A bit of non sense is more like i on Linux Has Better Windows Compatibility Than Vista · · Score: 1

    If it has to run as admin then it does not fit my definition of windows compatible; it's only windows runnable and to me that's almost the same class as wine runnable where wine would be the more secure.

  10. Re:hardly a good test on Linux Has Better Windows Compatibility Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I would extend the "bad reputation" statement by adding that the installation of Vista is better left to OEM's that can arm-twist vender's into delivering stable device drivers rather than user in the field.

  11. Re:hardly a good test on Linux Has Better Windows Compatibility Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I think one of the problems is that developers assume that user's are running with Admin privileges and that causes problems, when user's are responsible and are running in a limited privileges mode. I got a ass-kicken HP computer for Christmas and it had Vista installed but the default set up was for admin privileged users. I changed that to limited privileges and installed linux partition for good measure. Now not everything works, but overall vista software is more likely to run in Vista in a limited privileges mode than XP software is to run in the limited mode on XP. Maybe if software was written that runs in a LUA and complained if run in admin privilges, we wouldn't have our internet clogged with Trojans spewing spam.

  12. Re:WoW on Linux on Linux Has Better Windows Compatibility Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Skype seems to work for me OK, at least in echo test I'm using KDE on Arch linux basicly all I did was
    install per Skype's instructions,
    install one missing library,
    make an echo call - didn't work
    adjust mic levels in kmixer - didn't work
    adjust input levels in kmixers - didn't work
    un-mute microphone and input lines- woooohh that worked;
    muted un-necessary mics and line and adjusted to sane levels.

  13. Re:Stupid? on How To Lose $7.2B With Just a Few Basic Skills · · Score: 1

    He was supposed to be buying stocks in companies who's market value of the outstanding shares were far lower that the value of their assets less liabilities, or were selling on one exchange for less than they were on an other exchange; in short we was supposed to be looking for and trading sure-things or close to it.

  14. Re:Phrases on How Pervasive is ISP Outbound Email Filtering? · · Score: 1

    OHHhh A Priapism curse,turns you into a scare-crow with a boner that wouldn't stop!

  15. Re:Here we come Verizon on P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments · · Score: 1

    That means we are all screwed, there been a lot of conflicting laws lately and there is no rhyme or reason as to which are enforced and which are not.

  16. Re:On the topic of "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" on Artificial Bases Added to DNA · · Score: 1

    If you have mod points and post something that get modded +4 or +5 you almost can't get out of having mod points every week for a year!

  17. Re:Or you could just search for on Artificial Bases Added to DNA · · Score: 1

    if an asteroid hit the Earth a lot of things wouldn't show up in search, "whatcouldpossiblygowrong", more like "wouldanythingelsegoingwrongbenoticed?"

  18. Re:uh, wrong. please check your math. on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 1

    so if a guided tank round is pulling 6K G's the my guestimate was probably very low, the guided round might do mach 2 or a quarter of what the rail gun does.

  19. Re:Failure of the natural monopoly on P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments · · Score: 1

    Try another port, if 8080 is blocked then just pick one, just send the full URL to your friends and family so their browser doesn't assume port 80.

  20. Re:Trading one monopoly for another? on P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments · · Score: 1

    POTS is self powered and the telcos are very serious about keeping the power up no matter what happens to the electric grid, when the NE grid went down for three days, my POTS phone kept working, VOIP normally comes with an 8 hr back-up then your SOL if you need police or fire.

  21. Re:Here we come Verizon on P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments · · Score: 1

    do they get extra points for doing time in the federal slam?

  22. Re:warning labels on New 4100 Lumen Flashlight Can Set Things On Fire · · Score: 1

    The some military equipment and avionics run on 400Hz Ac power, and we normally unspooled the power cables and figure-eighted the excess, which supposedly causes the inductances to cancel out.

  23. Re:warning labels on New 4100 Lumen Flashlight Can Set Things On Fire · · Score: 1

    I lost the safety cover on mine, now there is a little puff of smoke when a moth get attracted to the pretty light.

  24. Re:warning labels on New 4100 Lumen Flashlight Can Set Things On Fire · · Score: 1

    Duh, you were in a 8 foot pit, if you used a gasoline powered chainsaw you'd have gotten carbon monoxide and might have passed out and got chewed up by the saw!

  25. Re:RTFA on NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    Expect to hear about an article saying that during a mapping of radiological levels in NYC, officials found unusually high levels of radiation at

      some unanticipated places which have indicated areas requiring radiological decontamination that previously were unknown. That's happened with the usual aerial surveys, imagine what they might find with more sensitive ground based surveys.