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  1. DUH! on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 1

    now follow the money to the source, and identify those guys.

  2. wherever there is evil, you find the RIAA on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: 1

    the law should SPECIFICALLY exclude deep testing of media streams, just to piss them off and cause them all to die of heart attacks and strokes. because we can't send silver spikes to the heart through our present data packet systems.

  3. thanks for your sacrifice for Open Networks on Net Neutrality — Threat Or Menace? · · Score: 1

    if it's exactly the same service, exactly the same data, but only the transmission media or the name on the door differs, it is obscene to treat Entity A differently than Entity Z. period.

  4. no, we'll just change Eric Schmidt's name on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    and then he can't be evil to us any more, because he won't be able to log in.

  5. as soon as Cray has a smartphone, I'll try it on Supercomputing, There's an App For That · · Score: 1

    oh, wait, it will probably be on (shudder) ATT. all 11,000 pounds of freon-cooled 3-phase phone.

  6. apparently Russia has a drug problem. on Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon · · Score: 1

    we have a "gimme!" issue, not a weapons issue, here.

  7. every so often, you have to turn off the toys. on Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus · · Score: 4, Funny

    perspective is import... OOOHHHH, shiny.

  8. proving most iPhone owners aren't geeks on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    looking at Andriod, however... hmmm.... .

  9. lots of big outfits have equipment in the field on Data Disasters More Likely To Strike In Summer · · Score: 1

    my telco, for one, has hundreds of thousands of pieces of equipment in enclosures in the great outdoors... and that's just the individually addressed stuff.

    whoa, baby, do we replace equipment when the seasons change. much of the territory can swing from 40 below and worse to 160 degrees and worse inside those cabinets. Fahrenheit. the "field ready equipment" is spec'ed to 140 degrees in many cases.

    IMPHO, field ready should mean using mil-grade parts good from -60 to +180. adds 25% to the cost. we'd save it on truck rolls alone in the first year.

  10. if you keep it in your knickers, it won't embarass on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and if the government can't keep its secrets, don't blame the folks who find them on the street. 95% of that stuff has already been in the papers, after all, within a year of its happening. the issue is level-1 security, the folks who have access. in the US, prior cases have established that if the press gets facts, they can print.

  11. write-only memory. prior art exists. on New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off · · Score: 1

    for instance, multiple projects of mine back to the mid-70s had write-only RAM.

  12. Of COURSE they're not pulling this shit -- on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    they got caught at it.

  13. it's called light rail in the US on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    notice the yellow lines along the buried rail under the road surface.

    that ain't gonna work where it rains, then snows, then freezes.

    sure hope they aren't going to electrify the rails, too.

  14. most excellent! on Al Franken's Warning On Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    when unfettered access is outlawed, only outlaws will have unfettered access.

  15. w7zoi.com for backpack radios. on Amateur Radio In the Backcountry? · · Score: 1

    Wes is a boonies hiker on the west coast, and an RF design engineer for the better part of 40 years. and a frequent contributor to QST. check some of his backpack designs out.

  16. vuln fixed. cat-5 cables. on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 0

    nooo problemo.

  17. you don't kill MORE pedestrians. on Utah State Prof Says Hybrids Don't Kill More Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    you kill BETTER pedestrians.

    it's an improvement.

  18. should then, I would defect from Big Turtleneck on Forced iAds Coming To OS X? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ads must NOT interfere with what I am doing, or the source of the ads will disappear in my area.

    period.

  19. ahhh, quit it, you'll make Glenn cry. on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 1

    you're all just too cruel using the truth.

  20. big question: how many layers? on BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos · · Score: 1

    once a 'shop gets past 30 layers, I start thinking they're trying to fool me.

  21. here you go, folks. free code. on Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens US Security · · Score: 1

    if (ugly or terrorist or other_party or undesireable)

    then (set off required little bomb in computer)

    endif

    you're welcome. the definitions table is up to you.

  22. guess it means FBI has enough data now on Blogetery Shutdown Due To al-Qaeda Info · · Score: 3, Interesting

    on those guys. or they wouldn't have made the request, including the little line at the end that basically said, "you have a pistol. you know what to do for esprit de corps. we will be back in 15 minutes."

  23. it's a sinister plot, the free bumper. on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 1

    Original Apple Bumper Polish will sell for $30 an ounce.

  24. for 10+ years, "multiple lambdas" in use on Irish Gov't Invests In Color-Coded Fiber Optics · · Score: 1

    that is to say, slightly different wavelengths of infrared combined on common fiber pairs. lots of outfits are working on additional lambdas (individual OC48s on one laser/color), present major deployments are 16 and 24 lambdas on one fiber around the world.

    the clever thing is that one regenerator repeats them all for another 24+ miles, one color. skinned fibers basically surround one laser for a bunch of turns, and they all get resynched, whatever the color. spooky.

  25. uh, gee, folks, we made a small mistake on Apple To Hold iPhone 4 Press Conference · · Score: 1

    here is a box of fake iPhone 3 covers we had left over from staff testing. feel free to pick one up on your way out the door. or wear gloves. here's a box of old gloves from the Foxconn factory, grab one. be careful, they are coated with beryllium dust. hack gasp, wheeze.

    thump.