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  1. Re:Doesn't anyone read the article before posting? on 10Gbps Wireless Transfers · · Score: 1

    Don't you read the article?++

    The optical signal is modulated, then transmitted on 150Ghz-band RF signal.

  2. No problem. on USC To Students: No Sharing Files · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Schools provide students' network access as an aid to their education.

    If a student feels he/she must have p2p there are private ISP's out there who are willing to offer their services for a price. Most people in the real world do pay for their internet access.

    There is no reason that a student should expect his/her school to sacrifice bandwidth or risk legal problems to support the student's habit.

  3. Re:Ugh on xtunes Forced to Change Name, Appearance by Apple Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Apple tried this with Microsoft some years ago in the first "look 'n' feel" lawsuit I'd ever heard of. Microsoft had the resources to prevail in that one, but the fur really flew there for a while....I don't remember if MS used the 'prior art' argument since there had been some windowing systems (and mice) around Unix shops for a while before Apple went GUI.

    When did you last see Steve Jobs and Bill Gates sharing a hug?

  4. Um.. on Freeing Hydrogen From Glucose · · Score: 1

    The source for glucose is..?

  5. Fascinating ..(?) on Net Traffic Shocks Mimic Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    Boy, this must have really made those guys leap out of bed in the morning, eager to get to work!

  6. Aunt Ginny? on Should "B" be the Same as "b"? · · Score: 1

    Aunt Ginny, having had a proper education that stressed correct spelling and clear written expression, will probably have much less of a problem with upper/lower case usage than do many American kids who attended public schools that have lowered their standards so anyone can pass, whether or not they have learned anything!

  7. The old standby: on Rube-Goldberg Type Random Number Generators? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Chicken droppings on a grid.

  8. Re:Other uses... on OLEDs May Generate Electricity · · Score: 1

    How about putting it on your sails to help power your GPS receiver?

  9. Re:This happened to me. on PacBell To Be Hit With $27M Fine · · Score: 1

    Clothes piled over the junction are a recipe for fire. The urine smell may have saved your life!

  10. Re:I see one being implemented soon on Google Programming Contest Winner · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that something like the Hon. Mention system for giving higher ranking to pages that contain "all of the keywords" hasn't already been implemented. It seems that Freshmeat already has this feature and it is quite useful.

  11. Re:Google Study in Another Place on Using Google to Calculate Web Decay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank you!

  12. Re:Their new stuff costs nearly as much as 802.11a on 802.11b at 22mbps · · Score: 1

    802.11a is fine if all you want to do is talk to other 802.11a equipment. That leaves you out of the 802.11b loop!

  13. "Ecosystem" as buzzword.. on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    "Ecosystem" is one of the buzzwords used by urban terror groups such as the ones who broke up the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle recently. People who want to rule by force don't seem to worry about nonsequitors.

  14. Um.. Review? on Byte Wars · · Score: 1

    This article is more rant than review. The "reviewer" seems to be more into spin than programming judging by his extensive views regarding Y2K warnings. He has just used this book to express his views on the subject without telling us much about the content of the book.

  15. Content doesn't matter? on The Music Business and the Internet · · Score: 1

    They blame only piracy and economic downturn for slower sales. I guess we're a bunch of robots programmmed to buy or download a certain number of CD's regardless of the style or quality of the music!

  16. Re:Microsoft Windows for Linux on What Should Microsoft's Open Source Strategy Be? · · Score: 1

    They could do pretty well with a Flight Simulator port.

    If they ported Office, my wife would surely buy it as she's deeply into it's use with OLE.

  17. Re:uhhhhhhh on nVidia/AMD Merger Announced · · Score: 1

    I do miss "Almost Live!"!
    I lived in the Seattle area in the '60's for long enough to get the local jokes. After watching AL!, Saturday Night Live was such a drop that I usually didn't bother to watch the latter.

  18. Four magnets? on PC Fan of the Future? · · Score: 1

    How far from your hardrive should you keep it?
    It seems like a nice way to run a fan as long as it's not flippin' bits in the process.

  19. Re:bogus study on Sleep Less, Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you just die sooner if you over-report your sleep-time in the survey.

  20. Re:Load control on Electric Company Using Power Lines for Data · · Score: 1

    This sounds pretty close to what my power company has in the line for my water heater. When our hydro-power source is down and the deisels are supplying the juice at high cost, my water heater only operates during 'off-peak' times which I specified at hook-up time. The signal activating the timer is transmitted through the power line.

  21. Re:how does that work? on Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security · · Score: 1

    Many older mobo's (chipsets?) don't shutdown power on OS shutdown. The AT board on which I'm running a k6-233 requires manual power-off.

  22. Re:Nerd Herding... on What Kind of PHB Do You Want? · · Score: 1

    We used about this same process, somewhat abbreviated, for hiring crewmembers on a boat longline fishing in the Gulf of Alaska and we were by far the best crew I have been a part of in my forty-plus years of fishing. We never had a crewmember who didn't add value to the group and I think the whole was greater than the sum of its parts. Fortunately, when illness combined with family situations required me to stay home for a couple of years I was able to give them sufficient notice to find the right replacement. I sure miss that crew!

  23. Re:ms vs. linux on Belgium: A Computer in Every Home · · Score: 1

    Switching to Linux could save a big chunk on hardware upgrades!

  24. Re:This is just a tiny bit of a continuing saga on Speaking Out Against Australian Internet Censorship · · Score: 0, Troll

    First they got all your firearms. After that they feel free to take away your information. What do you think will be next?

  25. Re:OS BIOS on 64 Mbyte Write once CMOS Chip from Standard Fabs · · Score: 1

    It ought to be able to handle the boot image for Linux, including your scsi driver so at least the portion of the boot sequence which is loaded read-only would be immediate. My first thought on reading the article was that the people over at LinuxBIOS might be perking up their ears, as (in the recent Linux Journal article) it's been said that one of their main problems is fitting the necessary code onto present BIOS chips.