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  1. Re:RTFM on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 1

    My 05 Sonata isn't like that. It has the factory alarm... if you use the fob, you must use the fob to disarm, otherwise you will set it off and it will kill the ignition. You have to let it calm down and then pull a couple of fuses to get it to start.

  2. Re:stupid rule on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 1

    If you can't wait 15 minutes to reach 10k feet, then you have bigger issues. Nobody said you couldn't use your stuff after 10k. So, your argument is invalid.

    Second off, It's not just YOUR device that will bring down the plane. A combination of everyone's devices, of varying quality and quantity, in such a small area, that could cause a problem.

  3. Re:Truly a 1st world problem on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 1

    Want to fund it? Didn't think so? Here's the deal, there are millions of devices in the world, each a little different. While your iPad may be perfectly fine, iPawd the original authentic chinese knockoff might not.... or Rev A of the board is fine, but Rev B puts out massive interference.

    It's simply uneconomical and a huge task to test everything. So, instead, for ten minutes taking off or landing, you can't play angry birds. Perfect solution.

  4. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    that's why when you know what you buy -- I have never seen ground beef just called "Beef". it's called "73/27, 80/20, 90/10" to make sure people know EXACTLY what they are getting. Plus, nobody here is complaining about a 1-2% difference, the OP is talking about a 20-30% difference

  5. chain of employment? on Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where they perchance prior Agents for Geek Squad?

  6. Re:Why block them? on Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US · · Score: 1

    Considering Milwaukee took 45 minutes for a guy walking around an apartment complex shooting off a pistol... I completely understand where you're coming from.

    Brookfield Spa anyone? You should have seen how quickly they had Brown Deer locked down after they found out where the guy was from.

  7. Re:EFF is stretching it on EFF To Ask Judge To Rule That Universal Abused the DMCA · · Score: 1

    The difference here is that Weird Al is selling his satirical works. He profits off of them. If Weird Al decided to remake a song and release it as a freebie... I could *possibly* see him not paying and claiming it as a satirical work. I'm sure he'd just pay it anyway as a courtesy and not have to deal with the courts too when he pisses the wrong person off.

    I doubt that the baby made any money for the family. There lies the major fundamental difference.

  8. Re:buses don't have a 100% live link on Another EUSecWest NFC Trick: Ride the Subway For Free · · Score: 2

    Considering hundreds of thousands of cars make it through an iPASS system in Illinois... the delay wouldn't be so bad.

    Let's put it this way, iPass reads the transponder, checks the balance, and then flashes a light notifying you of the result in less than a second. The speed limit through those lanes are normally 15 mph but can get as high as 35 and they still read perfectly. The open road tolling doesn't notify you via light but there are plenty of stations still out there that have the light.

    The system has to be designed intelligently.... it can be done!

  9. Re:easiest solution on Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    then in that case, we need more details. Where.... What's the population? How big is the department? What is their budget? What are they looking to accomplish?

    Sorry, but the statement of "When it comes up to a hotspot".... reads to me as "Whenever we can find someones unsecured wifi for our taxi or my car" versus actual EM duties.

  10. Re:easiest solution on Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    Well, way back when it was a parameter called ACCLOC, which determined the priority of traffic. Cellular networks has "Wireless Priority" http://wps.ncs.gov/carriers.html to ensure that emergency services rise above the noise.

  11. easiest solution on Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While ambitious, this is the wrong path to go down. Great for hobbyists, but is NOT what emergency services needs. Emergency services needs reliability. If your department can't afford a few mobile broadband units, you should seriously look into throwing a couple more raffles or asking for more money from the city/county/township/state.

  12. Re:WiDOT on Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment · · Score: 2

    They put those gates up because they want to be able to shut the highway down when some FIB decides that 90 was a great speed and rolls his lexus eight times over and causes a semi to jack knife and roll.

    In my neck of the woods, the only thing that's automatic about these gates are the lights. You still have to dispatch an officer to the gate to crank it down. Once its down, the officer can relieve himself to do other tasks if the closure is going to be long-term. The alternative is to keep an expensive officer posted at every on-ramp to prevent people from getting on the highway compounding the issue.

  13. Re:WiDOT on Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment · · Score: 1

    Most overrides I've seen nowadays have a visible feedback showing that it's activated. Additionally, they have been activating to all-directions-all-red so that the emergency vehicles may just go in the opposite lane to get around. So, other than snarling traffic for a bit, nothing major.

  14. WiDOT on Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment · · Score: 2

    Hooray! We're all doomed... DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED.

    Wait, what does the WiDOT have that's SCADA that would end the world? I think the worst that would happen is that the times on the billboards above 41 would be wrong... or warn us of zombies ahead.

  15. Re:Too Dangerous to Society on Did Apple Buy Fingerprint Security Firm For Mobile Wallet? · · Score: 1

    oh, so like the Bank of eBay.... PayPal?

  16. Attention whoring. on John Romero's Doomy View On Android and Ouya · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's great when you've fallen from Grace. What's next? Daikatana for iOS?

  17. wait... what??? on HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    HP still has a R&D division? Has hell frozen over? Is a CEO being intelligent for once??

  18. obvious.... on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    Almighty dollar wins again!

  19. whooo on EFF Wins Protection For Time Zone Database · · Score: 5, Insightful

    patent and copyright trolls gone mad..... seriously... a text file with cities and the time offset?? when will the stupidity end?

  20. disincentive? on An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean incentive? Considering it's another sale...

  21. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Certain industries are heavily regulated. Do you realize that the software you are using has been tested over and over again... any form of major upgrade has to be certified... patches... not so much.

  22. Re:"Propellors"? on Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding · · Score: 1

    The big airlines usually don't run their own small planes. Rather, they use a different banner (United Express, Ted, Delta Connections, etc) for their regional services and usually contract that out to smaller airlines.

    TED was never a small plane airline, it was a "vacation" subsidary of United. It never flew anything smaller than an A320. Now, Anything "Express, Connection" or pretty much most planes from Republic Air Holdings (short of the small fleet of A319s it acquired from Frontier) is RJ.

  23. great..... on Big Buzz For $60,000 Electric Flight Prize · · Score: 1

    Now we'll have more airplanes "landing" on US 41 and other random farm fields during that week.

  24. Re:Not gonna lie on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    and I'd like to see US Cellular get absorbed next.

    Oh, so you'd like to take a great company, with great coverage and customer service and merge it into some huge faceless corporation who doesn't give a crap about their customers. Sure, I know I'm a number in the game of things... but they don't make me feel like a number when I call... and isn't that what good customer service really is about?

    About the only beef I have with USCC right now is the belief project... one-size-does-not-fit-all.

  25. who needs to think? on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Lazyness abounds....