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  1. Odd WiMax reference on A Tapeless Digital Camcorder For Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where the original poster lives. In the US, WiMax deployment is very spotty, at best. In fact, almost all point to multipoint broadband deployments are proprietary, non-WiMax solutions.

    The municipality in which I live is about to deploy a proprietary variant of 802.11a for wireless broadband - the key variation of the standard that we'll use/need is mesh capability, required because our heavy tree cover requires enhanced non-line-of-sight capability.

    WiMax has been mostly marketing hype thus far. A camcorder with WiMax would be a very strange product.

  2. Re:THIS IS NOT NEWS on An Analysis of Various Election Methods · · Score: 1

    I completely agree. I've tried to filter Politics from my home page, but it doesn't work. I checked Slashdot's SourceForge project page, and this is a known bug.

    According to Google, there's approx. 31,000,000 places on the web where I can read about Politics. I wish Slashdot wasn't one of them.

  3. Why the Slashdot front page? on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is an article that should have been posted *only* to the newly-created Politics section of Slashdot.

  4. Good on GAO Studies U.S. Government Data Mining · · Score: 1

    I am in favor of all datamining efforts that have an opportunity to inrease the security of the USA.

  5. MIT paper assumption on Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S. · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The MIT student paper claiming CAPPS will reduce security assumes that random security checks will decrease. This is a major assumption, and I personally doubt whether this assumption is valid. Further, I believe that this program is a good idea.