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  1. Um...NSF? on Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not one mention of the National Science Foundation which pumps billions of dollars into basic science research per year......

  2. Stone Tablets on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, microetched stone tablets are being researched as the most effective long term storage medium, of course it might be a bit difficult to read...

  3. Re:Well... on Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits · · Score: 1

    If PI is in-fact infinite then eventually any set of numbers that might construe intelligence could be found eventually.

  4. Re:DHT Hash sites on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 1

    who said anything about linking. What If I just put a hash by a movie. (A hash that could be used to make a URI)

  5. DHT Hash sites on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know what is going to happen? We are going to get sites that do nothing but list DHT hash URI's (or maybe just the hashes) instead of torrent files. I wonder how the powers that be will take that?

  6. To everybody that says NO! to this on How To Build a 100,000-Port Ethernet Switch · · Score: 1

    The past does not equal the future. Hardware improves, software improves.

    Just because you were taught from birth that you should have thirty-five 100 port switches in your building and that is what you have always done does not mean you should continue to do it. Network engineers seem to LOVE buying lots of hardware (when given the money). Maybe it's just the cool factor, maybe they want job security? It WOULD be far easier to manage a single switched fabric flat network if you have the hardware and the failover to handle it.

  7. Yes...I'm an idiot on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 1

    Ok. I was wrong. I honestly did not understand that there is a GPS chip of somsort in my iphone.

  8. !GPS on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: -1

    Why do people keep calling these things "Sat Nav" or GPS? It most CERTAINLY does not use space based satellites for navigation but uses cell tower and/or motion detectors to find out where you are. I was laughing when they guy said in the video "I don't have GPS indoors" and then proceeded to say that once it was outdoors it would be able to pick up the satellite.

  9. Washington D.C, NewYork, San Diego, Baltimore on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 1

    Washington D.C. = Smithsonian Institution - Natural History Museum

    NewYork = Can't remember, but good museums

    San Diego = Balboa Park

    Baltimore = Baltimore Aquarium

  10. Space Taxi - C64 on NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis · · Score: 1
  11. is it me? Or is it Memorex? on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    Since my neurons are constantly changing any imprint would be a different person than the person being copied.

    That being said...if it sounds, acts, and responds the way I would, does it matter? (assuming I'm dead)

  12. Tethering price on Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I think the terminal moment will come when we see the price for tethering.

    If it's 60 bucks AT&T can kiss my ass.

    For 60 bucks you get tethering but you STILL can't use a bunch of apps that are wifi enabled only.

    For 60 bucks a month + the money for the mifi I can have verizon coverage, and use stuff like the slingbox player. Granted wifi tends to run the battery down over 3g, but I'd still consider the mifi a better deal.

  13. Tethering and now this on Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I for one will NOT be upgrading to the 3.1 firmware, thank goodness I've already installed GV.

    if this keeps up I'll seriously think about jailbreaking my phone.

  14. Truth or Dare with degauser on English DJ Claims Wi-Fi Allergy · · Score: 1

    I could easily deride this guy for his beliefs and what he feels when he comes by a wifi hotspot, but then I'd be a hypocrite since a friend of mine dared me to take a hand wall powered electric degauser, (which we had for erasing round reel tapes while I worked in a data center) and press it up against my temple and push the button on the device. Despite everything I knew about science I just plain...could not do it.

    So much for logic

  15. Re:Because I want to... on 6 Reasons To License Software Under the (A/L)GPL · · Score: 1

    Oh? What's untrue about it?

  16. Re:Pictures versus digital photos... on New Developments In NPG/Wikipedia Lawsuit Threat · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...are those the only photographs available? (the ones made by the museum?) Can somebody walk in and take photographs? (or is that prohibited?).

    Surely somebody or some institution OTHER than them have taken photos of these paintings? If the U.S. Gov has (Smithsonian?) then the wikimedia could use those right?

  17. Re:Because I want to... on 6 Reasons To License Software Under the (A/L)GPL · · Score: 1

    exactly.

    What irks many BSD people is that you can take BSD code and add/re-license it under the GPL and new contriubtions to the GPL forked version can't come back to the BSD code base (if I understand it correctly).

    Well...too bad. The BSD license allows this. When your license says "Do what you want with this software so long as this copyright license with no requirements other than this text remains in the code)" what have you to complain about? It may be BAD FORM and morally Evil from your standpoint for somebody to take your code and add licensing restrictions but then again did you understand the consequences of choosing the BSD license?

  18. Cobol on....Solaris? on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    Was Cobol left over from a Mainframe that was migrated over to Sun Boxes? Generally speaking Solaris is not a platform that one chooses for Cobol.

  19. securing ftp on R.I.P. FTP · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There are many ways of securing plain ftp

    1. FTPS

    2. OpenVPN

    3. IPSEC (I use transport mode)

    4. GSSAPI authentication

    Those are just a few.

    SFTP is nice but does not have as many features as fanilla FTP

  20. illegal? on DOJ Report On NSA Wiretaps Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Not backing up the NSA in any way but WAS it in fact judged illegal by a court? I thought the matter was still to be decided by the judicial system?

  21. Vint Cerf Talk at RIT on Vint Cerf Imagines the Net's Future At NASA · · Score: 1

    Here is a recent talk by Vint Cerf about the early days of the Internet and it's future.

    http://www.wuala.com/Danathar/Videos+Music/Cerf.mp4

  22. Keyboard on Atari 1200XL Stacked Up Against a Dell Inspiron · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Atari Keyboard looks cooler. That's enough for me!

  23. Re:Oh sure... on Sunspots Return · · Score: 1

    And Not defending FOX but just about everything from every other news agency is complete bullshit as well

  24. Ask a family member on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 1

    Are you married? If so ask your wife.

  25. Re:Rolling the dice on 10 Business Lessons I Learned From Playing D&D · · Score: 1

    My gripe is with the idea that a statistical random number generator (thats not really random since people have learned how to throw dice) is somehow a valid arbitrator/simulator.

    It's not.

    It's an illusion.