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  1. Re:I'm a little surprised by Verizon on Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS · · Score: 1

    Not true. They cut the old line in your termination box for the household POTS, and run a line from the fibre box to the termination box to feed the house voice from fibre. Not exactly a rip out.

  2. Re:SR-71 on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 1

    JP-7 is what the SR-71 drank.

  3. Re:Next, the F-35. Maybe. on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 1

    I'd mod you insightful if I had points. You're spot on.

  4. Re:What keeps US economy running on The Engine of US Jobs · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, yeah... 14 years in the US Army... I've seen an MRE, ingested more than my fair share. You drop a case from 1500 feet AGL over water and there won't be anything left. OTH, you kick a case out from 50-100 feet AGL over land and worst case you have to go pick up the individual MREs. I don't care about the link, in a war zone, they DO shoot at helicopters. New Orleans was NOT a war zone.

  5. Re:What keeps US economy running on The Engine of US Jobs · · Score: 1

    Huh? At 1500 feet, water is as hard as brick. Helicopters don't tend to fly at 1500 feet AGL unless they're getting shot at also.

  6. Re:Not Enough on How Many HDMI Ports Does Your HDTV Have? · · Score: 1

    Newer DVD players will upsample. My Sony one I got when we got the Samsung DLP upsamples (to 720p) and is connected via HDMI. The DVD's look better than they did on the old analog TV (with no upsampling of course).

  7. Re:Priorities on How Many HDMI Ports Does Your HDTV Have? · · Score: 1

    I run 2 HDMI to my HDTV (Samsung 46" DLP) - one from the Verizon HD DVR and one from my DVD player. Audio for both of those boxes is optical to my receiver. So, my sound is taken care of.

  8. Re:I got them last weekend on Original Star Wars on DVD... Sorta · · Score: 1

    I miss the Ewok scene at the end of VI singing "Yub nub..."

    It isn't there on my DVD of VI (I have a boxed set of IV-VI).

  9. Re:Don't worry too much about CoD2 on Intel's Quad Core CPU Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Concur with the latest patch for CoD 2. I run CoD 2 without any issue on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p (which is dual core). I also run Falcon 4.0 Allied Force (latest patch) on this same laptop with no issue.

  10. eSATA ports on Apple Unveils 24" iMac · · Score: 1

    Adding a couple of eSATA ports would be icing on the cake!

  11. Re:TSA = wrongheadedness gone wild on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    Minor nitpick... The Assad you are talking about is dead. His nutjob son now runs the show.

  12. Re:My experience... on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. It's quite logical. You are looking for what's out of place. I wish they had the balls to admit, further, I wish they'd go with behavioral profiling (since you are more likely to trip up those who have figured out your pattern). I profile all the time (been lots of places when I was in the Army), it's how you stay alive.

  13. Re:Possible fix for malord's Comcast problem on How Much Does Your Work Depend on the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I live in North Texas. Comcast recently dumped us off to Time Warner. Since that time the service has really sucked. Multiple disconnects per day (compared to infrequent ones under Comcast). My feeling is once the decision was made to dump us, Comcast didn't do anything to keep their service up reliably and it has only gotten worse.

    There is a silver lining. My FiOS service gets installed on Tuesday (getting TV and 15 Mbps / 2 Mbps Internet plus voice gets moved over to the fibre). I am looking forward to cancelling my Time Warner service next week. Verizon should be able to seriously harm Time Warner in my community. My Internet service price will decrease from the high speed tier price of Time Warner (was Comcast), and my TV price should remain relatively flat (cancelling basic tier cable and DirecTV). My brother just made the switch from Comcast (he had TV and Internet) and is happy.

  14. Re:Backup to DVD? That is SO 2003! on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's all about restoring. There is no point in backing something up if you can't restore it.

  15. Re:A few suggestions... on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    Actually Backup Exec works very well with disk.

  16. Re:As someone who travels to Latin America... on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. But to the non-Believing world, having clear physical, legal title to the land should mean something.

  17. Re:As someone who travels to Latin America... on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm a Believer. Genesis 33:19 is the verse that details the purchase of the land. Beyond that, God gave it to Abraham. As to Israel needing help, yes, as seems so obvious now, Israel is unwilling/incapable of driving interlopers out of their land at this time. The Lord will do it in His time. I find that to be quite interesting given their past military success.

  18. Re:As someone who travels to Latin America... on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Yes, however title to the land has never changed. As to the quote from John 18:36 - that was Jesus speaking. Again, it doesn't change the fact that Israel holds title to the land.

  19. Re:Not worried about damage, but theft... on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Last year I flew to Korea through Narita. I was dead tired and never listened to my iPod (which I left in the seat pocket in front). I realized I forgot my iPod on the plane (from Narita) when I was unpacking at my hotel in Seoul. I called JAL first thing the next morning, and had my iPod delivered that afternoon (and gladly paid the delivery fee). Asia is the only place in the world (IMO) where that was a feasible outcome.

  20. Re:As someone who travels to Latin America... on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Ummm... NO! Title to the land was given to the tribe of Israel by God Himself. Don't believe me? Read Genesis!

  21. Re:shouldn't that be.. on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    What makes you think this isn't the purpose of this? The Soviet Politburo is still in charge, just under a new name.

  22. Re:Tomorrow? I can buy a 1TB disk today! on Terabyte Drive to Debut Later this Year · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I've moved on to eSATA. I've got an Express/54 RAID-1 card from Siig I use to back up my Lenovo (two 500 GB drives in a hot swap enclosure), as well as a Cardbus card to use on my PowerBook to connect to a 500 GB and a 300 GB drive. Beats the heck out of Firewire and USB.

  23. Re:Informative??? FLAMEBAIT!!! on Iran's President Launches Blog · · Score: 1

    Quite simple my friend... God gave the nation of Israel title to the land forever; not the people that would eventually become Muslim, not Christians, not Buddhists... but Jews. You can go ahead and not believe that *fact*, but that will be your problem and anybody else who chooses not to recognize Israel's title to the land it resides on, as well as the Golan, West Bank, and Gaza.

  24. Re:Start a World War? on Iran's President Launches Blog · · Score: 1

    Quite interesting... too bad I don't have mod points.

  25. Re:Let me explain the difference on Iran's President Launches Blog · · Score: 1

    My friend, there are no similarities... and if you think there are, you have been misled by the Muslims.