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  1. Re:Maybe this opens up a market for modular laptop on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually Dell used to sell upgrade GPU's for their D6x0 Latitude line. Was a little harder to replace than RAM or a hard drive but it was possible.

  2. Re:Hearing Aid Batteries on Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Hearing aid batteries last from 3 to 22 days, depending on usage. I'd suspect that for these things you'd get a week at most. You really want to pay $5 a week, or even $5 a month for batteries?

  3. Re: At around the size of a Boeing 737 on Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But then of course African 737's are non-migratory.

  4. Re:Governments Everywhere Salivating on the News on Neuroscientists Have Isolated The Part Of The Brain That Controls Free Will (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the Pax ... G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate

  5. Re:Who gives a shit? on TP-LINK Loses Control of Two Device Configuration Domains (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to go to the web to configure the router. Its a hard coded DNS entry that points to the router address. Netgear does it as well. This could be an issue if you've changed the DNS you are using from the router to something else. But I'd bet if you've done that, you are managing the router through the IP address and not this tplinklogin.net.

  6. Re:Aye, there's the rub. on US Anti-Encryption Law Is So 'Braindead' It Will Outlaw File Compression (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sad part is, neither of the "sponsers" probably had anything to do with writing the bill. I doubt they even read it before they slapped their name on it.

  7. Re:And hacked by the Chinese in 3...2...1... on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They US Navy actually stopped teaching celestial navigation around 1995 and only recently started teaching it again. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

  8. Don't know what happened with the cord in the article. I just received 15 of them. They are the exact same cord that came with the surface, except they now have a strain relief boot at the brick end. Same length, same look just the added boot.

  9. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh they just had a cow since they couldn't come up with one of their own.

  10. Re:How about on GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? You can't be trusted to make that sort of decision. You'll probably chose to sit there under your incandescent light bulb eating transfats and smoking.

  11. Re:Reminds me of another three letter 'S' company on SGI Sues ATI for Patent Infringement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The difference is this.

    Alexander Graham Bell didn't sit there and watch Elisha Gray build a sucessful business selling his 'rogue' telephones. Then wait till he was tired of being a broke inventor then sue him.

  12. Re:Not the first SPARC laptop though on Sun Announces Its First Laptop · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Trust us! on ChoicePoint Identity Theft Fallout Widens · · Score: 1

    The problem is even if you wanted to get it corrected.
    ChoicePoint/Lexis Nexis/AutoTrack/Acurint

    And thats just to name a few services that provide this same sort of information don't generate the data themselves. They don't go interview people to build their databases. They collect the informtion from State DMV, State Courts, Federal Courts, Federal Agencies, State Agencies, etc..

    So even if you corrected it with ChoicePoint, everyone else would have it wrong, and its very likely that it would again be re-scanned by ChoicePoint at a later date and become wrong yet again.

  14. Re:Apple... on Windows Longhorn to make Graphics Cards more Important · · Score: 1

    But the part number they link to specifically says its only for the G5... they should fix that ;)

    Important: Requires Power Mac G5 with DVI port.

  15. Re:Another sticker on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    That would be fine. If the textbook also presented creationism as a theory. Of course it doesn't, but hey what does that matter as long as we tell people creationism isn't the truth either right?

  16. Re:On recovery from theft... on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh you mean like... PC Phone Home? http://www.securitykit.com/pc_phonehome.htm or CompuTrace http://www.absolute.com/public/main/default.asp

  17. Re:How to put this... on If Windows Came to PPC, Would You Switch? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually there were several. Back in the early 90's the company I worked for actually had 3 of them. They were Motorola PPC machines about the size of an IBM PS/2. I think they had 440 PPC processors in them but I can't recall exactly.

    At the time my job was to compile the software we developed for the programers and QA. We compiled the software to run on MIPS, Alpha and the PPC versions of NT 4.0.

    However, I don't think any one bought any of the software to run on anything other than Intel and maybe Alpha.

  18. Re:sequestering carbon in plants on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 1

    Take a look around the typical house nowdays. You have AC->DC converters pluged into everything. And those appliances that don't have them usually have some sort of power supply (read converter) built into them. Most of not all of these are very inefficient and dump alot of energy as heat. Why not provide a 12volt electerical system in the house wiring, either replacing the 110 or next to it. And have a household converter that could be a little more efficient than the little wall thingies. And hey, could be mounted outside or at least dump the heat outside so your AC unit doesn't have to pull it out.

  19. Re:Roll mouse over timeline icons... on Report Claims SCO Intends to Charge IBM with Fraud · · Score: 1

    Its working just fine for me using WinXP and Firefox PR1.

  20. Re:sad... on DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF · · Score: 1

    What I find even more sad are people who knowingly do something illegal then put their feet down and say "prove it". Whatever happened to accepting responsibility for your actions? I'm not saying that there aren't ligitimate uses for card programmers. But honestly, if you don't want to pay DirecTV to watch their signal. Don't pay them. Don't go out and find a way to watch their signal for free.

  21. Re:hilarious on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    To make up for all the dead people voting for Buchannon by mistake.

  22. Re:Hello? Matrox, anyone? on Running Video Cards in Parallel · · Score: 2, Informative

    You've missed the point. Multi head is fine and has been around for ages.. 8 years ago I used to use a EGA monitor attached to a card for debugging. This is using the GPU of multiple cards to crunch the numbers for a single display. Very different.

  23. Re:you know... on India Starts All-Electronic National Elections · · Score: 1

    Since many politicians want to allow non-citizens with green cards to vote they are essentially doing just that.

  24. Re:How's this work? on Australia's Great Linux-Based Satellite Network · · Score: 1

    Don't know about gyroscopic issues.. but laptops have been in space..

    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=213

  25. Re:Sign Me Up! on New Solar Cells 20 Times Cheaper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd love to do this. Unfortunately I live in Florida. Its up to the power company to allow you to put power back onto the grid, which they don't want to allow here. So I either need to store the extra power I don't use, or I have to discharge the excess if there is any.