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  1. Re:Are They Really That Stupid on UK Police To Get Facebook Lessons · · Score: 4, Informative

    covering such things as
    1 beginning a chain of evidence (and keeping it intact)
    2 creating a useable record of the page(s)
    3 how to get the info you need without blowing your cover or tripping the entrapment trap
    4 properly citing the pages in reports

    ect

  2. Re:An insult of a fine on Verizon To Pay $25M For Years of 'Mystery Fees' · · Score: 1

    oh and another thing any of the board members should have a federal maximum wage of say $80.00 an hour (no salaried jobs) for the entire term of the CEOs jail term.

  3. Re:Bitter scents from the natural environemnt on You Have Taste Receptors In Your Lungs · · Score: 1

    I would bet that things are wired like a very tight wheatstone bridge in the lung receptors so that smaller swings will result in larger results.

    The amount you can smell/ notice is most likely orders of magnitude larger than what would be tripped by the lung receptors.

  4. Re:and who is going to get pinned at fault? on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    or you do it link the cisco "valet" routers do
    the box with the router has a flashkey in it with a setup wizard when you setup your router it dumps the settings to a file and then you can take that key and rerun the wizard (this time taking the LEFT turn at albekery ) and setup the client. Of course you then need to guard that flashkey sinc eit does have your network setting but...

  5. Re:Not new on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 1

    actually the JDAM is not the problem its the HE round that the JDAM is attached to (or the Fuel Air round)

    quoth the Wiki
    "The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs" into all-weather "smart" munitions."

  6. Re:Summary says it all on Of 1.2 Billion Twitter Posts, 71% Are Ignored · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and how many times does the response go off channel??

    ie farm1785: SVR Gandalf ON FIRE
          farm1785: HLN ACTIVE PWR Discon rack 45
          [45 tweets from service monitors]
    none of these would be responded to by Twitter

  7. Re:And technology? on What Tech Should Be In a Fifth-Grade Classroom? · · Score: 1

    "And don't even think about asking the carpenter building your fence a question like "if I want the fence posts to be 5' apart, how many will I need for my 40' long yard"? (FYI, the answer is 9, and if all you do is enter 40 / 5 into a calculator to you will get the wrong answer)."

    thats where you go looking for JEDI corrections (since the calc answer would be OBI ONE due to needing a post at both ends) and actually the answer is NEEDED DATA NOT GIVEN since you did not state how wide your yard is or specify you are only looking for just one side so given that a reasonable width would be say 10' then you would need ((40/5+1)*2)+ ((10/5-1)*2)=20 posts for a complete fence

  8. Re:back in the day... on Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water · · Score: 1

    because given that water is FRACKING HEAVY they don't have enough wiggle room to bottle the water and keep the ship slimy side DOWN.

  9. Re:There is Nothing More Useless on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    Hows about a mind that's completely closed??

  10. Re:Nothing? on Verizon, 4G and iPhones · · Score: 1

    its a bit complicated but
    Cingular bought att wireless then since the DeathStar was in the process of rebuilding THE PARENT COMPANY bought Cingular so you are correct but missing the details as to which ATT was bought/ did the buying.

  11. Re:Applets? on Building the Realtime User Experience · · Score: 1

    actually depending on the type of screw and material being used the first step is to put down the hammer and pick up a DRILL (creating a pilot hole).

  12. Re:NOOOOOOO on Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? · · Score: 4, Informative

    err windows xp does have ipv6 support but its not installed by default (in fact has had it since XP sp2)
    now it may not have all the bells and whistles of say Vistas support (if anything can be supported by Vista) but you should at least be able to get an IP and get online.

  13. Re:right to not incriminate yourself? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    so then you would BRING the fifth not plead the fifth

  14. well if they are not stupid on Privacy Option Proposed To Control Behavioral Ads · · Score: 2, Informative

    47CFR64.1200 (thats the Code of Federal Regulations Volumne 47 section 64 subsection 1200)
    or as it is formally known
    TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

                    CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

    PART 64_MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO COMMON CARRIERS--
    Table of Contents

        Subpart L_Restrictions on Telemarketing, Telephone Solicitation, and
                                                        Facsimile Advertising

    of course you will have a somewhat different actual law but...
    if they think you live this far south then you
    1 ask for their name
    2 ask for the "company they are calling on behalf of"
    3 ask them for a call back number (must be a non toll number)
    4 bonus points if you are on the CA DNC list

    of course 99.999% of the time they will drop the call once you inform them that you are invoking 47CFR64.1200
    (of course if you can invoke the CA version thats even better)

  15. Re:Robotic pencil sharpener, robotic can opener, e on 15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart · · Score: 1

    and the record for the most detailed (and correct) report of how a lightbulb works is???

  16. Re:What does that mean? on Minnesota Moving To Microsoft's Cloud · · Score: 1, Informative

    okay lets try this
    N copies of OSS software = 0
    Nmillion copies of OSS software = 0
    N Billion copies of OSS software = 0
    Cost for Required conversion to OSS format = 0 (there is no cost unless you really want to)
    training and support for new programs = Unknown since it depends on if you do a FLAG DAY type cutover
    Cost to recover from virus/worm/X-ware related shutdowns = 0 once you have a complete LINUX setup
    hardware cost to update your systems as required = most likely 0 unless you are already due for a refresh cycle

  17. Re:Awesome on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 1

    speaking as a person currently in school on a Pell Grant would you kindly refrain from reproducing??

    1 this is a logical extension to the Public School system
    2 it is hooked into grades since you must A be enrolled in a school B be making "satisfactory academic progress"
    to continue getting your grant

  18. Its a Sick Joke on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From what ive heard on the SecondLife Beta group this is laughable at best

    Why would MicroSoft want to buy a company that
    1 has massive LINUX installs (the SL grid farms)
    2 is running about 3 minutes from being sued into a crater 85% of the time
    3 has nothing that a company like MS needs or wants (the L$Mega types most likely HATE microsoft)

    Now the whole Mesh beta thing is lots more interesting

  19. Re:Yeah, not quite. on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 1

    i would dispute that the tutorial could be considered English and not a semi random group of english words
    could somebody please that has access to the original please do a proper translation??

  20. Re:Talk about censorship on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 1

    well i could see a few things

    1 the publisher is a Patriot and is being paid for the books anyway
    2 The Pentagon most likely has hotline access to the DOJ/DOT (and nobody wants to go through a "in depth audit going as far back as is legally possible")
    3 who wants to bet that the werehouse were the books were stored are within Plausibly Deniable range for a nice "live fire training mission" or maybe the publishers offices are or....
    4 something even more nasty that i have not considered

  21. Re:A classic example of "what the market will bear on Users Say Sprint Epic4G 3G Upload Speeds Limited To 150kbps · · Score: 2, Informative

    the point is if you count the number of companies that have as capital assets real live TOWERS

    ATT owns towers
    Sprint owns towers
    Verizon owns towers
    T-Mobile Owns towers
    everybody else rides on those towers (with of course peering agreements giving you towers owned by say Verizon having a Sprint transponder and an ATT transponder)
    Virgin mobile IN THE US uses sprint towers (and the sprint PRL)
    Nextel is owned by sprint and is i think being phased out (BOOST uses nextel/sprint towers)
    Cingular is ATT
    Cricket leases tower space from whomever

  22. treasury Agents DO NOT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 1

    As the budget for the agency was limited due to us having just finished a war a "sense of humour" was left out of the budget (this being in 1865 just after the "Civil" war). As the scope of the agencies role was expanded it was decided that a "sense of humour" was in fact not needed at all (money and the "protected persons list").
    if this young gentleman said anything that remotely threatened the POTOS then he is lucky he was just barred from US soil and not thrown in jail until he grew up.

    Oh and since they got flipped from Treasury to DHS they really don't have a sense of humour.

  23. Re:Is this really censorship? on Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "the responsibility for paying for all those books rests with the DoD in general. It's actually the honourable thing to do in this case - along with firing whoever signed off on it in the Reserve component."

    and the proper method of said "firing" would be from the main guns of a battleship currently in international waters

  24. Re:How Dare They! on Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data · · Score: 1

    are you talking about the imprinter? (big thing where you lay the card down put a credit slip on top and make it go THUNK to prove you had the actual plate during the transaction) Just about everybody taking credit cards should either have one of those or know one of about a dozen ways to do the same thing.

  25. Re:i hate big brother but... on Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? · · Score: 1

    i could see an easy way to ensure that small kids have a way to remember their pin
    in a similar fashion to Resister color codes have the number printed on the cards in different colors

    can't remember 4785?? maybe your kid could remember Yellow , Violet, Grey, Green