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  1. Re:Sleep/Wake Doesn't mean "Off" on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with hospital equipment is that the sensors often use very low voltages and act like antennas. Cell phones put out almost a watt of power. Just 1,000,000/th of that can overwhelm a machine that's supposed to be reading your heart.

    How many people has the iPhone killed when it was supposed to be off?

  2. Re:I don't care about HD Video... on HD VMD Shows Up Late For the Format War · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just wanted the cheap burning laser, but $150 is a bit much for 250mW.

  3. Re:Two Words: Helium Balloons... on Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have mailed them to Nigeria or someplace where the roaming charges are quite high.

  4. Re:It's just capitalism at work. on New Legislation Proposed For Nuclear Safety · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Capitalism is great, but if there's no review or auditing, they are going to give nuclear a very bad long term image. I'd rather live next to a nuke plant than a coal plant. They need to respect energy sources more than the almighty buck if nuclear is going to have a future.

    Meltdowns are expensive and its likely our tax paid EPA Superfund will pick it up rather than their insurance. The greed needs to stop and they will run a clean shop.

  5. Just in tie for 911 on Financial Services Firms Simulate Flu Pandemic · · Score: 1

    "The U.S. Government is co-sponsoring a three-week exercise that will simulate..."

    I really don't trust our government doing simulations anymore.

  6. Re:Customers? on Acer to Acquire Gateway for $710 million · · Score: 1

    Behold, the Gateway Anykey Keyboard:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anykey

  7. Re:Customers? on Acer to Acquire Gateway for $710 million · · Score: 1

    Back then Gateways were the highest benchmarking computers and were well engineered. Their hardware, such as their keyboards were unique and had features that make them still valuable. They seem to have been buried under all the same commodity hardware badged under various brand names that's been flooding our market.

  8. Re:Great on FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Considering the head of the FCC is a former AT&T lobbying professional, AT&T wrote it for them at no charge!

  9. Re:I don't mind flashing ads on a web page... on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    After all, the publishers probably want some revenue for their work. What I do mind are websites that stop loading when there's a problem retrieving ads.

    I remember an internet before AOL and things were community driven. People published for the common good and there was no shortage of information. After AOL opened the floodgates of its business model, it took a crock of a Lawyer (C&S) to teach us what spam was about. If forced advertisements weren't enough, we now have lawmakers trying to apply their business models to what should be a simple network. What have we really gained?

  10. Re:surely we can do better for a rebrand on Diebold Rebrands What No One Wants · · Score: 1

    I fixed it for you:

    Premiere Election Solutions Technology, PEST.

  11. Re:Won't help on Watermarking to Replace DRM? · · Score: 1

    It will be difficult to remove watermarks without destroying the original content.. watermarks are very advanced these days...

    Its VERY easy to remove watermarks, no matter how sophisticated. Don't believe me? Take two or more originals, uncompress the format, compare the difference, null the offending part, and re-encode.

    This cat-mouse game will continue until the end of time.

  12. Re:In Other Words on Foster Demands RIAA Post $210K Security For Fees · · Score: 2

    In other words, RIAA has declared that it has no intention whatsoever of paying the money. Instead, they intend to continue a farsical court battle with no prospects of winning, no end in sight... merely for the publicity of being seen as being above the law.

    Its called the SCO offense. Litigate until the other side gives up and signs something.

  13. Re:Gentoo also recently disclosed security breach on Ubuntu Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    And instead of shooting the messenger and arresting him on terrorism charges, action was taken and he was given many words of thanks for helping to identify the problem.

  14. Re:It's Probably Just on Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you do realize that the largest sporting committee in the world choses Windows over Linux.

    The Olympics is all about product placement and sponsorship. It is a place where the elite can toot their money horn of supremacy.

    Linux will NEVER be in the Olympics, unless it can pass the physical and drug tests. Even then, I'm sure the sponsors will find a way to disqualify it. Nothing personal, just business.

  15. 322 on 3 Ton Meteorite Stolen · · Score: 0

    Its now in a secret room in the Skull and Bones temple.

  16. Re:Wow flaimbait summary. on Community vs. Corporate Linux, The Coming Divide · · Score: 1

    For every distribution that Microsoft dominates, two more will pop up. Its the business edition of the game, "Whack a Mole!"

  17. Re:whoa whoa hold on on Net Neutrality Debate Crosses the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    So the ISPs don't like the contract they signed and want to market their bandwidth and change their billing like the cell phone companies? Are we going to end up with 50 page bills like AT&T iphone users?

  18. Whack a mole game on Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community · · Score: 1

    Every distribution they knock down, two more will pop up!

  19. I know what happened on The Fermi Paradox is Back · · Score: 1

    The truth is oil was discovered on the new planets. And they had a different religion. They will find us next.

  20. Re:Bogus question. on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 1

    You most certainly can sell a house that includes certain conditions that are part of the sales contract.

    But what I do with my gamecube in my own privacy will not affect the families next to me. I can remodel my device, paint it pink with yellow polkadots, install a new kitchen sink on the processor, and no one will care! Care factor is ZERO! No one buys a gamecube with a mortgage contract. It doesn't need city inspection for safety, gas, or electrical mains. It doesn't need to be inspected for termites, mold, ... ITS NOT A DAMNED HOUSE!

  21. Re:Bogus question. on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 4, Interesting

    but your Nintendo DOES have copyrighted software on it, even without a disk in the drive.

    No sir! I now have an open source custom bootloader flashed on it. The first instructions the ARM processors run the uploaded program I installed. Lots of good people in the DSLinux community understood the basic hardware and enjoyed making a complete system from scratch. The ARM7 and ARM9 processors are well documented and so is the hardware on the DS. I don't see why it would be a FEDERAL offense for someone to write their own software. Maybe a judge somewhere will listen one day without taking money.

  22. Re:Bogus question. on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 4, Interesting

    no. get some perspective. hammers and screwdrivers do not have an end use licence agreement. yes of course it is up to the seller to determine the terms of the sale. its called a contract.

    Perspective? Why should a blank device with NO COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL have a license agreement? Should a movie projector have one? A pair of glasses? Why should my Nintendo that I want to put MY OWN DAMNED SOFTWARE on it have a license agreement? I don't want it for the games, I want it for the ARM microprocessors and displays, not for the any included software. The first thing I did was wipe off all that crap software off it, because I didn't agree with it. Is that good? Or did the manufacturer squeeze in some FEDERAL LAW that says my door is going to come down one day because I didn't subscribe to their business model?

  23. Re:Bogus question. on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you do not like the terms, don't buy one. Punish restrictive practices through the market, not by breaking the law.

    Say what? Are you saying "It Is A Violation Of Federal Law To Use This Product Inconsistant With Its Labeling?" Is it also against the law to combine vinegar and baking soda in the kitchen? Is it against the law to use a screwdriver as a hammer? This government is really starting to annoy me if its telling me I can only do what was labeled on the original package.

  24. Re:Bogus question. on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a modchip on my Nintendo DS. I don't use it to play games. I have NEVER played a game on it. So why do I have it? So I can run Linux on it. I have no interest playing games, but I do have an interest in a unique hardware device. Should the FBI raid my house?

    If they did raid my and drag me into court, I would ask my legal counsel why small portable computers with good battery life is non-existant, while gaming consoles with much more features are. Something is wrong with the market in my opinion. Should it be illegal for me to have the technical possibility of running a rogue game? Should they give me 20 years in FPMITA Prison for it?

  25. Presidential fund raising and voting machines on Researchers Crack Every Certified CA Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    I was looking at Diebold's present and past leadership, donations, and the paybacks they got. It looks like the Skull and Bones membership roster at Yale where Bush went:

    Louis V. Bockius III, Christopher M. Connor, Richard L. Crandall, Eric C. Evans, Gale S. Fitzgerald, Phillip B. Lassiter, John N. Lauer, William F. Massy, Walden W. O'Dell, Eric J. Roorda, W. R. Timken, Jr. and Henry D. G. Wallace

    Perhaps these voting machines were simply portfolio builders for the wealthy elite.