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  1. Re:Actually on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    "In America, even the AntiChrist can become president.
    And currently - is."

    But do you suppose that he's smart enough to realise that he is the AC?

  2. Re:Actually on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    "Ring voltage is NOT 90V."

    Well, it can vary somewhat from one phone company to another (I seem to remember reading somewhere years ago that it could be between 70 and 120 V), but since it's an alternating current there are probably at least two times per cycle when it hits 90 V.

  3. Re:Actually on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    "...but when they have idiots like O'Reilly on manipulating the masses..."

    Apparently when he was on the phone he was manipulating something else.

  4. Re:As annoying as on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    "That's what I thought. It goes away if I push on the top of the monitor."

    Sounds like something is loose and vibrating that isn't supposed to. Probably won't get better by itself. As I said, if it's new, i.e., under warranty, invoke the terms of said warranty.

  5. Re:TWC is not a monopoly on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1

    I didn't call them a monopoly, although since we can't get cable service from any other company the word does come to mind. It's more practices such as moving the unscrambled channels up above the limit of older "cable ready" tuners (which only went up to channel 36 or so) to try to force people to rent converter boxes that earned my wrath.

  6. Re:As annoying as on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    "A new monitor from Dell that outputs an ear-bleedingly loud 10khz whine?"

    10kHz? That's way too low for horizontal sweep (even televisions are 15.75kHz) and way, way too high for vertical.

    If it's new, raise hell with Dell.

  7. Re:The relationship of 121.5 Mhz to NTSC video on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're only "modulating" at most a few hundred volts for horizontal sweep. It's probably the 30 or so kV for the CRT that comes from the flyback driven by the sweep B+ that had the harmonic and after a year one of the filtering components went wonky.

  8. Re:Must have been quite powerful on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cable Channel 14 does exist, they just aren't using it. The Minions of Satan, I mean Time-Warner Cable, in my area reshuffled the deck awhile back and quit using it as well. Cable channels 2-6 (low VHF) and 7-13 (high VHF) use the same frequencies as their over the air counterparts, but where over the air 14-83 (UHF) is in one continuous block of frequencies (around 470 to 890 MHz), cable uses frequencies for 14 and up that are used for many things other than television as far as over the air use is concerned.

  9. Re:Actually on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    The Hallmark Channel really went downhill once they stopped showing "Hart to Hart"

    Yeah, I hear what you're saying -- I can still get my Robert Wagner fix whenever I want by popping in an Austin Powers DVD. But what about Stefanie Powers??

    Too bad nobody's re-running Girl from U.N.C.L.E. episodes these days.

  10. Re:Movies while working are newsworthy & produ on A Dual Monitor Experiment · · Score: 1
    "Maybe the guy is schizophrenic! Think about it: two personalities..."

    One reads one screen and the other the other screen.

  11. Re:Movies while working are newsworthy & produ on A Dual Monitor Experiment · · Score: 1
    "Luckily I could go read the article and reply to your post at the same time easily since I have a dual monitor setup!"

    If I had a dual setup would the article be slashdotted on both of them?

  12. Re:50 years? on Transistor Radio Turns 50 · · Score: 1
    "How many people on slashdot have been alive this long?"

    None of us. We're all over on Geezerdot.

  13. Re:How business has changed on Transistor Radio Turns 50 · · Score: 1
    Of course William Shockley later went on to claim that intellectually inferior blacks were producing children faster than mentally superior whites.

    http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel /1 989/1989r.html

    I think he may have been a transistor or two short.

    Whether blacks are mentally inferior to whites is a seperate question from which "race" has (or at that time had) a greater birthrate. Of course being good at electronics doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether or not he was right or wrong about either issue.

  14. Re:Big Brother knows.... Printer/ink; file/1's 0's on New Technique Could Trace Documents By Printer · · Score: 1
    "Actually, there was some controversy because one of the bills displays the Canadian RED ENSIGN..."

    Isn't he the one that's always the first of the away team to get killed?

  15. Re:Please point out... on New Technique Could Trace Documents By Printer · · Score: 1
    "Please point out...where in the Constitution are the geographical descriptions of what constitute "free speech zones" like "law" enforcement uses today."

    As one of the 3rd party candidates said the other day about this subject, "Anywhere I'm standing is a 'free speech zone'." He's one of those silly people who expect The Constitution of the United States to still apply. (and unfortunately for my peace of mind, so am I)

  16. Re:Read the article...kind of scary on Rehabilitating Damaged Laptops · · Score: 1

    If that IIe ever dies how about send me the software. I've got one but nothing to run on it, not even an OS.

  17. Re:Keeping the screw straight on Advice for a Novice Replacing Laptop Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Excellent idea, except secure screws to paper with clear tape, otherwise Mr. Murphy's personal gremlin will be along presently to jostle the paper.

  18. Re:Here's what you can do... on Securing Personal Data in Small Companies? · · Score: 1
    "...like the one from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons of the 1970s."

    The '60s, actually, and possibly even the late '50s. A truly excellent show--delicious cold war era satire disguised as a children's cartoon show.

    And, just to be picky, if you're going to do it in a Boris Badanov voice it should go like this:

    Find hurricane
    Step outside during storm
    Scream like little girl

  19. Re:Risky? on Dell Recalls Millions of AC Adaptors · · Score: 1
    And you think that (mainland) China is such a respecter of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and such that it would never turn out deliberately mis-labled products?

    (If so, suggest you avoid buying a Rolex from that guy on the street)

  20. Re:So what? Just one Republican’s view. on Libertarian Badnarik an Election Spoiler? · · Score: 1

    So if it is the expert opinion of the woman's doctors that carrying the fetus to full term will result in the death of the woman or severe injury to her, does she have any right of self-defense, or do the rights of the fetus extend to the deprivation of her rights?

  21. Re:You couldn't make this up! on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1
    "The Commission on Presidential Debates isn't a governmental entity..."

    Yes, but the State of Arizona is.

    When asked by reporters why the case was filed, AZLP Vice Chair Barry Hess responded, "They have absolutely no right to use our tax dollars for what is effectively a very expensive television commercial for Bush and Kerry. This case is about equal protection of the law and specific violations of the Arizona Constitution."

    The complaint alleges that certain provisions of the Arizona Constitution are being violated as state resources are being used to carry out the debate. The Arizona Constitution prohibits making grants or donations to any individual, association, or corporation.

    Libertarians also claim that by granting special privileges to Bush and Kerry, Arizona Libertarians are being denied their Fourteenth Amendment equal protection guarantee. ASU and the Commission for Presidential Debates were both named as defendants in the case.



  22. Re:Sounds dangerous to me! on Stanford Device Cools Body Inside Out · · Score: 1
    "A wet T-shirt contest will also cool the human body..."

    Well, it'll cool one body, but often have the effect of heating up several others. (At least if you cool the right body)

  23. Re:Hmmm... on The Last Starfighter--The Musical! · · Score: 1
    "I smell a Tony..."

    Tony Soprano, maybe.

  24. Re:is anyone really surprised at this format war? on Current Crop Of HDTV Recorders Compared · · Score: 1
    "It's stored digitally (well so is VHS)..."

    VHS tape is analog.

  25. Re:definitely different then solid state amps on Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic · · Score: 1
    definitely different then solid state amps.


    And in the old analog days, it was "definitely different than solid state amps."

    If you misspell the wrong word does it matter?

    When things differ, they differ from each other, so the correct thing to have originally written was

    "definitely different from solid state amps."
    .

    Than is used when comparing the same quality in different things. For example, a foot is longer than an inch. Both have the quality of length, and the point being made is that the foot has more of it.