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  1. Re:to explain the parent post with quotes : on Study Says Open Source Software a Security Risk · · Score: 1

    O RLY?

    Never is too strong of word methinks.

  2. Re:What you get for 50% on Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? · · Score: 1

    Bush's wealth is based off the money earned by his grandfather while Cheney's wealth was earned by him. It probably accounts for the differences in investment styles.

  3. Re:False matches my ass. on FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if that's true why bother suppressing it and just let the do the comparisons. It'd be easy enough to bury them in regular scientific testing since the database would show that the hypothesis of these researchers is blatantly wrong and the only time being wasted is their time and not the FBI's.

  4. Re:One thing Google could do about incoming spam.. on Spammers Choose GMail · · Score: 1

    Doesn't help me. Most of my gmail spam is in Portuguese which uses the same character set as English. At some point I was hoping they'd cross pollinate translate.google.com with gmail so the spam filters could learn that if the message is in Portuguese to me it's spam.

  5. Re:IBM PC on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 1

    Doesn't apply to software under the current law since you're only sold the license to the software not the actual software. Whether that's right or not is another issue.

  6. Re:How many supercontinents were there? on Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley · · Score: 0

    There's one about every 500 million years. We're due for the next one in about 250 million years from now. Why they keep breaking up and reforming though is anyone's guess.

  7. Re:The way Tata use people on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    This is pretty much all outsourcing/contracting companies, be them Indian, Chinese, or American. It's kind of sad really.

  8. Re:Planning for the future on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    It doesn't provide immunity if the telecoms cannot prove the request came from the government. Well it did come from the government (no one denies that) so it does provide for immunity. It was a "comprimise" to provide cover that the Congress didn't give automatic immunity (by making the courts do something) even though they actually did.

  9. Devil's play things on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Is there some magic incantation I can use to make this section disappear of my front page. I'm really not interested.

  10. Re:Audiophile Hardware on There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute · · Score: 1

    Most 7' firewire cables run $25-$30. It's not just Monster who over charges for those things.

  11. Re:Wrong title! on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    I think they're trying to force the alternate clients off. They don't pay add rates for those clients only the native clients that see the ads they're serving up. They ignore the network effects when someone leaves the network since they're only conserned about ads and add rates, it's almost like they've never heard of Metcalfe's Law before.

  12. Re:Universities~=Corporate america on IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India · · Score: 1

    Preverse incentives with educational funding leads directly to the preverse outcomes you indicate. The only suprising thing is that people are shocked by it.

  13. Re:They don't know the half of it... on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 3, Informative

    So sad, so sad. He means this WOPR. On second thought I feel old.

  14. Re:my $0.02 on How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam? · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. He wasn't posting these to MLS or any of the other myriad of "ultra top secret" ways that realtors use hide information from normal consumers and was only sending out his listings via email. Hopefully you quit since he sounds like a poor realtor.

    And further more who the hell would both opt-out and complain that he/she wasn't receiving email?

  15. Re:EBay is happy! on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's actually true of all products. DVD players we're like $1000 when they first came out now they're like $50.

  16. Re:EBay is happy! on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 4, Informative

    All of the featrure you mentioned will be available in "early July" to the original iPhone users when the 2.0 version of the firmware is released. Only hardware upgrades like GPS and 3G won't be.

  17. Re:Difficult? on Rover Accidentally Uncovers Mars Hydrothermal Vent · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the Martian atmosphere, Hydrogen works better as a lifting gas. It'll give more lift per cubic meter than helium, lighter for launching into space and can compress into smaller canisters for in flight transportation. All this without the corresponding dangers and safety concerns since there is no oxygen in the Martian atmosphere to mix with it and make it explosive.

  18. Re:Stop code 0x0000007E is not a new problem on XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would it be a conspiracy when being lazy explains it so much better.

  19. Looks like Prodigy art on Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looks just like the block art from Prodigy from back in 1990's. All this tech and we're back to the same place as 1995.

  20. Really, $2000? on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If your house isn't worth $2000 then go a head jury rig something (that would probably cause your house to burn down and void your insurance to boot). Else stop screwing around, pay the $2000 and get the parts you need to do this sort of work.

    Electricity is a dangerous thing, jury rigging solutions is not an option when your safety is at risk. The device is $2000 because it must pass safety, UL, and a whole host of standards so it doesn't you know kill you or blow up the local transformer when somthing goes wrong.

  21. Re:No wonder Apple wants to stop Psystar on Psystar Offers $399 "OpenMac" Computer · · Score: 1

    It'd also be their problem when Apple sues them into thr ground for license violations. And probably all their customers as well.

  22. Re:WHY no high speed rail. on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Security will never be as strict on trains as airplanes because if you hijack a train, you cannot really take it anywhere it wasn't already going. You're stuck on the rails. Might be able to derail it or blow it up, but that's about it. Explosions would also be fairly contained to a car or two, and not send everyone crashing to the ground because one or two cars are no longer there. Europe has worse terrorism issues than the US but the security on trains is a lot lighter than by air for these reasons.

  23. Re:Not true at mach numbers approaching one on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    The same is true as a craft approaches the speed of light. Are you suggesting all aircraft be FTL so they'll save fuel once they cross the light speed barrier?

    Yea, what you say is true, but you waste so much money burning fuel to get up to supersonic speed, it's not really economically feasible to do so on transoceanic flights (especially when taking in consideration of the size of planes needed to maximize the use of constrained landing windows at the end airports).

  24. Re:Uh, on Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Most likely that was due to peering agreements at the time. They got paid from their peers on how much they brought in and paid the peers for the opposite.

    In the US, The Baby Bells wrote the rules with the thinking that the since most likely a user with the third party telephone company will make calls to someone on the Bell network than vice versa. It ended once it was realized that the 3rd party telephone operators found customers who never make outbound calls, but receive tons of incoming calls (BBSes and ISPs)

  25. Re:Missing from List on A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hmm... I really like RS-232 and it's distant cousin RS-422. I still buy notebooks with at least one of those ports since the USB/RS-232 converters just don't cut it when your trying to connect to routers, switches, camera controllers, and other random devices which will never have USB ports, but always have a RS-232 port somewhere. Also the complete lack of drivers needed to connect to the devices with RS-232 gives them a big win over any of the silly usb whippersnapper upstarts.