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  1. selling vs leasing on US Still Dithering Over Analog-Digital TV Conversion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The government would probably get less revenue, IMO, by trying to lease radio spectrum rights rather than selling them, because companies have to make significant investments to infrastructure in order to use them. Why should a complany spend tens or hundreds of millions on cell tower transceivers when they might become useless 5 years down the road? What would a company say to their customers when their cell phones go dark because the government raised their lease payment too high?

  2. Bring out your browser! on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 3, Funny

    man with cart: Bring out your browser!

    internet explorer: I'm not dead yet!

    opera: Ie Iesu domine! *thwap*

    internet explorer: I'm getting better!

  3. How could he deny them? on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These are purportedly memos between National Guard officials; even assuming they were genuine, Bush would never have gotten a chance to see them and therefore couldn't testify to their authenticity. All he'd be able to say is that he performed his duty and was discharged honorably -- which is what he's been saying all along.

  4. Two possibilities... on Can DVDs Kill DVD Players? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can think of only two possibilities:

    (1) A disk whose decoder disrupted your device's firmware; this may be related to your DVD's region setting, especially if it was set to "zone-free". This may have been deliberate or accidental. Does the player turn on? Do you get the big DVD screen when no disk is inserted? If so, try resetting the DVD's region settings. You may need to access a "hidden" menu; anyone have a source for how to bring up those menus handy?

    (2) Because of the way the MPEG encoding on DVDs works, some encodings may require more CPU usage than others, and on a hardware decoder like in standalone DVD players, this may actually cause the processor to overheat. While letting the unit cool down may solve the problem, too much heat might actually induce a hardware fault.

  5. Re:But... on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1

    I wish people wouldn't cite motion pictures as factual reference sources.

  6. Paging Al Qaida! on How Wireless Meshing Could Save Energy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sounds great. When this is implemented, $25 in electronics will be able to shut down an entire factory. Sorry, but even if the only potential attacker is a l33t pranksta, I'd have to advise NOT using wireless sensors.

    For that matter, I've been wondering when someone would jam EZ-Pass one afternoon and turn Manhattan into solid gridlock.

  7. BitTorrent and validity on Windows XP SP2 In Release · · Score: 3, Insightful

    BitTorrent is designed to transfer data while verifying its validity, but in order for that to work the metafile (.torrent file) must come from a trusted source. In this case, you aren't retrieving the file from microsoft.com, so you'd better have an alternate method of figuring out whether or not it's been tampered with.

  8. Correct me if I'm wrong... on NVIDIA Gives Details On New GeForce 6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...But does this mean you have to load the same texture data into both cards in order to obtain this parallel processing? Isn't that rather inefficient?

  9. Re:multiple antennas on Propagating a Signal Through Old Walls? · · Score: 1

    Remember that each of the antennas will effectively be isolated from the others due to the "shielding" provided by the walls. You're right about the impedance, though; I suppose an amp/impedance converter would be useful.

    Since you seem to know a lot, what about the receive side? What complications are there in typing multiple input antennas together onto the same line?

  10. multiple antennas on Propagating a Signal Through Old Walls? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You might be able to connect multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas to the same access point. I don't know how well it'd work, especially with the receive portion.

  11. Re:LaserDisks are analog video on Extracting Digital Video from LaserDiscs? · · Score: 1

    Some content is still only available on LD.

  12. Re:Serious security risk on P2P Leaks Surprises · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean distraction? That web site sure distracted me...

  13. Re:Probably worth it though.... on Google Sets IPO Pricing · · Score: 1

    Mmm, no, there are several valid reasons why splits tend to raise stock prices. Other posts above detailed some, but one that wasn't noted was lot sizes.

    If you wish to purchase shares in a stock, you typically want to buy shares in multiples of 100. Why? Because most shares are traded in those blocks; anything smaller is considered an odd lot, and the spread widens, which means you lose more whether you're buying or selling. Someone who has $3,500 to invest may not buy a $70 stock because they'd get a lousy price for 50 shares, but if shares were available at $35 they'd get a better deal.

  14. I sense tableware on Is Sveasoft Violating the GPL? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If Sveasoft wishes to restrict access to their software, then it might be a good idea for someone to stick a fork in the project. [registers Sfreeasoft.com]

  15. Re:Not covered on FAA Approves Sport Pilot License · · Score: 1

    No, gyrocopters are covered by the license; they're about as simple to control as fixed-wing planes, though the handling is a bit different.

  16. One word - AUTOGYRO on FAA Approves Sport Pilot License · · Score: 1

    This new license should make autogyros much more popular. I want one!

  17. (waiting impatiently) on What's The Right TV Set For Gaming? · · Score: 1

    I want one of these.

  18. Re:It would be interesting... on BitTorrent Beats Kazaa In Traffic Numbers · · Score: 1

    You take correctly, though that isn't the only thing I've distributed legitimately via BitTorrent.

  19. Re:It would be interesting... on BitTorrent Beats Kazaa In Traffic Numbers · · Score: 1

    I can personally vouch for (and take credit for) a couple hundred gigabytes of legitimate traffic via BitTorrent over the last couple of months.

  20. Re:A bit misleading.... on BitTorrent Beats Kazaa In Traffic Numbers · · Score: 2, Informative

    The quantity of data transferred is roughly the same, though. Perhaps as much as 1% higher due to protocol overhead.

  21. Keep up to date! on Prioritizing Computer Replacements? · · Score: 1

    A new computer every 3 months works for me. ;-)

  22. Re:Fabric protection on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of "The Wiz" back in NY, before it was restructured. Back then the salesmen had lots of play in the prices and you could bargain them down. I'd have fun clipping their commissions, watching them getting rather unhappy, and then say, "okay, throw in the 5 year warranty and we've got a deal." I'd watch them doing a little math in their heads and then perking right up, because although I'd clipped their commission on the item a little further I'd made it up by a factor of ten with the warranty.

  23. I have a better idea... on Use an iPod Mini to Broadcast Pirate Radio · · Score: 1

    Take the iPod and an RF amplifier and plug it into some unsuspecting soul's power jack, in range of another unsuspecting soul's WAN. Send it a music stream via some distant proxy server. Presto, a pirate radio station that'll broadcast for weeks, if not months, before it was discovered, and the FCC would almost certainly never trace it back to you.

  24. Re:Um on IE Download.Ject Exploit Fixed · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can set Automatic Update to ask whether you want the updates installed or not. Right-click My Computer, Properties, Automatic Updates tab, check "Keep my computer up to date", and select "Notify me before downloading any updates". (Note that this is for XP; there's a similar setting for 2K. Not sure about 98/ME.)

  25. a null issue on HTML Frames Considered Harmful · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There really isn't much difference between a transparent frame with a Java app intercepting access to a legitimate web page, and someone's creating a mock-up of the legitimate page; either way, the only real way to tell is the URL displayed in the address bar. Any real solution for one should work for the other.