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  1. Look at the corporations on SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy Opposition · · Score: 2

    It's the tech companies that are opposed to this. As I said elsewhere, the tech companies are opposed to this, and the "content" companies support it. It's BSA vs MPAA and RIAA. The people who make software and programming tools could be severely damaged by this bill, the movie/record companies would be helped by it. There's a major battle shaping up here between the two sides. One good thing about the Microsoft antitrust case is that it made the tech industry aware of just how important it was to lobby government.

  2. In other news on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 4, Funny

    You need to use AOL's browser to use AOL!

  3. His point on DIY linux-based MP3 player Appliance · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is that a missing shouldn't happen in a pay site. Especially as frequently as it does here. Admittedly, when I saw it, I had to double-check the author to see that it wasn't Timothy. He's the most common offender there. Taco usually just demonstrates that US public schools can't teach spelling.

  4. Wine Forks on "Lindows" Coming Soon? · · Score: 2

    Are those like dinner, salad, and dessert forks? If you were going to use utensils to drink wine, wouldn't wine spoons work better?

  5. Nerve agent symptoms on The Hypermedia Hazard · · Score: 2

    Most of the nerve agent symptoms will be familiar to anyone who's been tear gassed.

  6. Great support on Do Manufacturers Adequately Support Their Products? · · Score: 2
    From SEW Eurodrive. If you're looking for big servo motors. They're the best in the business, wish PC manufacturers were that good. You pay more for the product to get that type of support, however. We had one of their servo controllers in a facility in Oklahoma go bad and they had a replacement unit on the airplane that day. Not FedEx, they got it into the cargo hold of the first airliner coming our way. It was there that afternoon. When they discovered that the unit had gone bad as the result of a faulty component they replaced every unit from that lot that was in the field, sending their own guy out to do the work.

    Yeah, that must have cost them a bundle, but look at the good PR they get from it.

  7. The distance on NASA's Mars Odyssey Enters Orbit · · Score: 2

    The kh-11 is designed to send real-time imagery from an orbital height of approx 200 miles (it often orbits lower) to TDRS type satellites in synchronous orbits at approx 25.000 miles. Mars is a bit further away than that. Now a landsat 7-band thematic mapping satellite with a stronger transmitter would be useful.

  8. You have a right to refuse searches on Unreasonable Searches When Going to Work? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and they have a right to fire you for doing so. You don't have to work there, so the searches can be considered voluntary, or a condition of employment. You're working for the Federal Government, which is definitely a target for attacks these days.

  9. Shot across the bow on Tech Heavyweights and the SSSCA · · Score: 2
    The tech industry is (finally) taking on the entertainment industry head on, in the halls of Congress. This is just the first shot fired. There will be more. Will Congress decide that tech is more economically important, or entertainment? Who will give the most money? Who employs the most people?

    Interesting to see AOL/TW siding, sort of, with tech. Apparently that's where most of the profits are.

  10. 640 Newtons on Odyssey Arriving at Mars Tonight · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should be enough for anybody

  11. Re:why is it terrorism? on Microsoft Calls Viruses "Industrial Terrorism" · · Score: 2

    If it's just one house, it's burglary. But what if they hit half the houses in town?

  12. nimda et al on Microsoft Calls Viruses "Industrial Terrorism" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I found it interesting that nimda was released a week, almost to the minute, after the WTC attacks. Certainly if I were a cyber terrorist I'd launch something like nimda or code red that gave me a list of compromisable systems. I'm surprised that the people who launched the attacks on CNN didn't get hit with terrorism charges. This'd be a very good time for the skript kiddiez to lay low. How do you tell the difference between and idiot script kiddie and a cyber-terrorist?

  13. Another good link on Qt Released For OS X · · Score: 5, Informative

    To a good article at Kuro5hin.

  14. Ed on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 3, Funny

    is the standard text editor, dagnabit! You kids these days, with your fancy-schmancy buffers and fonts. Why, in my day we had to uphill, both ways, in the snow!

  15. 35mm vs laser on Digital Cameras Go Disposable · · Score: 2

    35 mm slides have much higher resolution, in terms of lines per inch, than any laser printer. Well, some of the >$10,000 lasers might have that level of resolution.

  16. Patents on Digital Cameras Go Disposable · · Score: 2

    Kodachrome used to be patented and had to be developed by Kodak. Might still be that way. I just used Ektachrome. Almost as good, and I could develop it at home.

  17. TiVo works standalone on TiVo Gets In Deeper With Sony · · Score: 3

    It just becomes a fairly standard digital "vcr" if you don't have the service.

  18. Re:distributing power on Space-based Power Generation · · Score: 2
    Canada sells to the northern tier and New England, which are close by, not to, say, Georgia. Yes, Nevada could sell to Texas, which could sell its power to Georgia. But going mostly solar would be difficult as you would then be trying to send voltage from Nevada to Maine.

    Remember, too, that solar is DC, which has trouble going long distances.

  19. Fascism on Gilmore Commission Recommends Secret 'Cyber Court' · · Score: 3, Insightful
    From Merriam-Webster:
    A political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

    That may apply on certain lefty college campuses in the US, but not in the country as a whole.

  20. Stereo Component? on Shuttle's Tiny PC Reviewed · · Score: 2

    S-video has nothing to do with stereo. It's a video connector. Thing might make a nice pvr, if the case was painted. Or hidden in a closet. Ye Gods it's ugly.

  21. If the speakers are aimed at you on Consonants Not Required · · Score: 2
    Then you explode.

    This assumes you are talking about the Muad Dib in the movie, and not the one in the book. All that weirding module stuff isn't in the book. The "weirding way" is basically Super Ninja fighting techniques. Paul was taught by Jessica.

  22. Problems with solar power on Space-based Power Generation · · Score: 5, Informative
    OK, several posters have said "Why not just use solar cells?". Here's why:

    Solar power is not quite ready yet. If you live in an area, such as the desert southwest of the USA, that gets lots of sun, then solar can work. The initial cost is higher than other power sources, but people do it. The maintenance factor is a problem as well, since most solar power systems require batteries for storage. My previous employer looked at solar quite seriously because the line power, in Cedar City Utah, sucked. Brownouts were common. It turned out to be cheaper to replace equipment on a yearly basis than to put solar cells and a battery bank in.

    If you live in an area such as the northwest of the USA then you can forget about solar. There are too many cloudy days.

    Putting a bank of solar cells in the Nevada desert would work for Nevada, but distributing it beyond Nevada would be difficult.

    The cloudy days and the distribution problems apply to SPS as well. The price of solar is going down, and in the desert areas it will probably be a better solution than SPS. In a few years.

  23. TI does that on Building Cheap 100 Inch TVs · · Score: 2

    Something like that, for it's digital movie projectors. Costs an arm and both legs for the projector.

  24. You mean... on Progeny Debian Is No More · · Score: 2

    Catherine of Aragon isn't in Lord of the Rings?

  25. three shrill tones on TeleZapper - A Way to Avoid Telemarketers? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah, that oughta work. Never thought of that, maybe I'll give it a try.