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  1. 3rd Party Clearing Houses on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not necessary that encrypted traffic be "pierceable". It's that the Govt will mandate that all traffic go through 3rd party (man in the middle) clearing houses. These companies will store the data encrypted and only decrypt it when issued a court order. So any point to point encrypted traffic will likely be illegal; and if possible blocked from occurring. Yuk..

  2. I just read a quote someplece on Harrison Ford's Plane Crashes On Golf Course · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently he was flying solo...

  3. Good solution! on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    We walk to our box and sometimes pick up the mail when we are on the way home from other errands. We've have a cluster box for over 20 years. I see no reason to have people manually deliver the arbitrary bills and junk mail to my door. It seems like a waste of time.

  4. Star Wars + Star Trek = Star Wrek on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Enough said...

  5. 6 seconds of porn? on Twitter's Vine App Ready To Bomb Internet With GIF-Like Videos · · Score: 1

    The subject says it all...

  6. 25 Ly away on Mysterious Planet May Be Cruising For a Bruising · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the observable time of 2032, this means it already happened.

  7. TLD's make no sense unless your a mega-corp.. on Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's just another way to further entrench branding to the point that the Internet will be "owned" (in a marketing way) by 4 or 5 companies.

  8. In Business we call this "Single View of Customer" on The Data Crunchers Who Helped Win The Election · · Score: 1

    It's nothing new and has been around for 20+ years. Anytime data is siloed in separate systems, you need to consider this technique.

  9. Re:Theif soultions on New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    The Skin Effect at 50 or 60 cycles is negligable. http://daycounter.com/Calculators/SkinEffect/Skin-Effect-Calculator.phtml

  10. Re:theater on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I think that the consensus is that a conversation with a passenger is different from that with some one on the phone - as the passenger is aware of the same environment and you both automatically adjust the tone/pace of the conversation depending on the current conditions. I.E. the passenger will generally keep quiet when you are performing a complex maneuver. That is not to say that passengers can not be a distraction, just that in general a phone conversation is a worse distraction that most passengers.

    I would agree with you about the passengers being aware and automatically adjusting the conversation if they are adults who drive as well. But try getting your kids to stop chattering at you is quite another thing.

  11. I'll miss the shuttle flights on Discovery's Final Launch Successful · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if it's money well spent, I know logically it's time to let them go. But I'll still miss them.

  12. 1..2..3... Profit on Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray · · Score: 1

    Ah.. I have an idea a simple 7 step plan for profit:
    1. Build crazy concave building with highly reflective glass
    2. Insure building has an acute focal point for sunlight in the afternoon
    3. Build pool deck at focal point to insure maximum people density
    4. Sell bathers and “sun worshipers” some “protective” solar cells
    5. Wire ‘em up to the utility grid
    6. Sell the electricity
    7. Profit. $$$

  13. Any other alternative to the high speed chase? on Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would think that is is preferable to track a suspects car (at a distance) using one of these devices than to persue them at close range causing a "high speed chase". A number of innicent persons have been hurt as a result of police persuits. Not every police department can have a helicopter ready for these due to cost constraints.

  14. Pretty easy to get list data out of sharepoint on Cracking Open the SharePoint Fortress · · Score: 1

    I used the technique below to get all my list data out. It's pretty easy to extend that to pull out the document blobs from SQL as well:
    http://solitarysoftwareguy.blogspot.com/

  15. It must be said.. on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our cloned bovine overlords...

  16. Jackets and Socks on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who read the title as ... "Jackets and Socks"?

  17. At least a little oversight on hunting on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 1

    From TFA: Whaling has always been a prominent source of food for Alaskans, and is monitored by the International Whaling Commission. A hunting quota for the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission was recently renewed, allowing 255 whales to be harvested by 10 Alaskan villages over five years. I find some hope that there is at least a little oversight in these hunts.

  18. Calculator - missing?? on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that these should be on the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator/

  19. Knoppix on What Live CDs Do You Carry Around? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For me my number 1 disc is Knoppix or Wikipedia Article

    After that's its a disc with common hardware drivers, Java 1.5, Eclipse, Apache, MySql and PHP

  20. Backup and preservation of investment? on RIAA: Ripping CDs to iPod not 'Fair Use' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I was a kid my, my friend's dad has an audiophile turntable, cassette deck and reel-to-reel setup. When I would purchase and album, I would take it over to his house and copy it to cassette and sometimes reel-to-reel. I would never play the album again unless I lost or damaged the cassette. What options would I have today if the RIAA has their way?

  21. The more things change the more they stay the same on Song Sites Face Legal Crackdown · · Score: 1

    For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall,
    Concert hall
    And echoes with the sounds of salesmen.

    Neil Peart, Rush Permanent Waves 1979

  22. Linksys NSLU2 on Poor Man's Whole House Audio? · · Score: 1

    There are some people having success with using the Linksys NSLU2 and Unslung as an audio player.
    http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/SlugAsAudioP layer/
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001FSCZO/

  23. It's what you make of it.. on Why Students Are Leaving Engineering · · Score: 1

    A very large percentage of what you get out of college (or insert your favorite educational institution here) depends on what effort you put into it. In all schools there are boring teachers, dry subjects and near worthless textbooks. It's been that way for years.
    Yes, it's time for a change! But we are the first ones capable of making a difference in our own lives, and in addition to the lives of others.

  24. How about using a Stirling Engine on Making Ice Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    Stirling engines work in reverse as well.
    1. Create a temperature differential and get motion.
    2. Create motion and get a temperature differential.
    It seems that a requirement of the Vortex tube is compressed air - that's got to come from somewhere.

  25. Reminds me of the old hotdog cooker on 19 million Amps · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of when I was a child, my grandmother has this "appliance" that would pass electrical current through hotdogs to cook them.
    http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/electric/hotd oggfi/hotdogcooker.html