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  1. Re:More than the "average" user on ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping · · Score: 1

    No, "more than median" means precisely half. More than average doesn't. You could have only one of 5 million people being more than average if that one person downloaded significantly more than anyone else.

  2. Re:Hit Space Bar on Where is the Any Key? · · Score: 1

    LOL I do it all the time, for effect! Got a problem with that? haha

  3. Re:Video cards... on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    My brain has never stopped working. You said this was for assembly, which I assumed to mean in the factory. Inserting a NIC was the only thing you mentioned, not a graphics card.

  4. Re:Video cards... on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    Since when did a network interface card become a graphics accelerator?

  5. Re:Why not charge? on W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes · · Score: 1

    Wrong word dummy. Shrewd is an adjective, not a verb.

  6. Re:Why not charge? on W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes · · Score: 1

    The spelling is "shrewd". In case you have always wondered...

  7. Re:Overcharging on Noticed Welchie/Nachi in Your Bandwidth Bill, Yet? · · Score: 1

    Sympatico has removed caps on the High Speed and Ultra High Speed services.

  8. Re:Does it come complete with annoying teenager? on Lowrider Game Announced, Gets Official Bounce · · Score: 1

    CAI is an efficieny mod, just like most civic VTEC motors

    people think they are performance mods because it may give you a couple horse at 20 thousand RPM haha

  9. Re:MASS != WEIGHT on How Much Does A Cloud Weigh? · · Score: 1

    BUT Weight is directly proportional to mass.

  10. Re:MSN Messenger... argh. on Universities Taken Offline to Fight Worms, Viruses · · Score: 2, Informative

    Edit C:/WINNT/inf/sysoc.inf in notepad, replace all the
    "HIDE" with nothing but don't remove the ","

    before : msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
    afte r : msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7

    go to "Add/Remove programs" and "Add/remove Windows Components" then uncheck "Windows Messenger"

    if you removed all the "hide"s from the file, you can uninstall many many other unnecessary components as well

  11. Re:Picture someone ... on Amphibious Car Beats Urban Congestion · · Score: 1

    There are no doors.

  12. Re:High Schools... on RIAA Prepares Legal Blitz Against Filesharers · · Score: 1

    universal rule which is often forgotten in the intellectual world: intelligence != wisdom

  13. Re:Segway hacking? on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 1

    The Segway is governed at 12.5 mph. It has the power to go faster. Hence, 12.5 mph uphill too.

  14. Re:Who can make predictions like that? on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 1

    It'll mean that if you understand hardware and become a technician/technologist you will be middle class, if not you will be poor :P

  15. Uhhh Google wins again... on Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint · · Score: 2, Informative

    I clicked on the sample search for "Kazaa Lite" and the second link said "download Kazaa Lite K++" and the third link said "Official Kazaa Lite K++ Website"

    Google: 1-0
    Sharman: 0-1

  16. Re:Agree on Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ViewSonic is a California-based company headed by a Taiwanese native, James Chu. They have only one office in Japan, but two in China and three in Taiwan. Daimler-Chrysler is a European company, which owns Mercedes-Benz and Maybach. It has "strategic partners" [partially owns] Fuso, Mitsubishi, and Hyundai. They build vehicles in 37 coutries, including Mexico, China, India, and Indonesia. Ford owns Mazda, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Aston Martin. They own assembly plants in Thailand, the Phillippines and Malaysia. Many Ford engines are Mazda-built in Japan. GM owns Isuzu, Suzuki, Fuji/Subaru, Fiat, Holden, Saab, Opel, and Vauxhall. I cannot begin to count the number of GM-owned plants in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as South Africa (HUGE human rights problems there). Most "import" vehicles from Honda (Odyssey, Accord, Pilot, Civic), Nissan (Altima, Quest), and Toyota (Echo, Camry) are assembled in Canada and the US anyway. Most current "American cars" are partially manufactured off-continent, as much as the "imports". Although not all of the places I mentioned are places where people "work for 2 cents/day", it clearly shows that anyone who buys an "American car" in order to support American employment is ignorant beyond help. The vast majority of assets and employees of Chrysler, Ford, and GM are offshore. How does reality manage to escape you?

  17. Re:Macs ? on Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    "When you use a very common phrase like "certain types of processing" be prepared to deal with all the semantic baggage it brings along." Wasn't me who said it :P RC5 cracking is non-arguably a "certain type of processing". There is no semantic baggage.

  18. Re:Macs ? on Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    What part of "For certain types of processing" don't you understand? The whole point of the parent post was that certain type. How is a benchmark comparing RC5 crakcing speed a *really* bad benchmark of RC5 cracking speed, or ddn a bad benchmark for ddn performance? You think integer additions is a better benchmark for RC5 cracking speed and ddn performance?

  19. Re:Quicky UPS-sizing guide... on World's Biggest Battery Switched On in Alaska · · Score: 1

    Any way I can measure the current (and hence power) without jamming an ammeter in the socket?

    Yes, some high-end multimeters have a coil that senses current when placed around a wire.

  20. Re:Solution: Segway. on Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park · · Score: 1

    LOL if only it were so easy I can just imagine...the segway/dino accelerating at 2 Gs just to keep it from tipping forward :) I know you realize that the segway relies on a center of gravity that can be made to be close to directly above the footprint. I suppose you could have Lucky do a wheelie...

  21. Re:Why WLAN on Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly · · Score: 1

    Ever consider that every person is different? These things need to be tuned!

  22. Re:That is a very smart man. on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 1

    No, he took an India's job. If it were an American's job, an American would have it. If Americans quit being nationalistic dumbasses and solved the problem by being more adept than foreigners, there might actually be some improvement in employment of American nationals.

  23. Re:can't wait 4 this on OS Fingerprinting in OpenBSD's PF Firewall · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The whole point of this is that it is OS fingerprinting...I'm sure the MacOS network stack is not the same as any MS OS. as a matter of fact I'm fairly sure the OSX network stack is quite identifiable as a non-MS product.

  24. Re:Why WLAN on Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly · · Score: 2, Informative

    Telemetery. Why do people have to make a big deal finding flaws when they just ignore the obvious?

  25. Re:if you can't make it good, make it blue on New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    Blue is the most brutal colour to use in a UI. I dunno how many people have really noticed, but the glow on walls from a TV or monitor is always blue. There is so much blue content that we don't need to fuel the fire. Red is much much easier on the eyes, because it appears brighter at a lower intensity and doesn't hurt our night vision all that much. But the only place you see a red UI is in ships and submarines and stuff at night... I dunno, I agree with you fully anyway.