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  1. Re:So that's like... on NASA Universe-Watching Satellite Losing Its Cool · · Score: 1

    If Britain is on the metric system, why does Top Gear always talk about MPH?

  2. my verizon router on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    You log into it by going to 192.168.1.1 when you are obviously on the local network. To do any administration on the router you enter your primary e-mail address/password. You may be able to change this, I'm not sure[you can obviously change it I mean change it to something distinct]. I think it might be used to authenticate the router to the network so it might have to be your e-mail password. Then there is the wireless password which is just 10 random hex digits. Buried in the menus there is something called 'Remote administration' which when you bring it up mine says disabled with a blank password. If the default had been something other than blank I never would have noticed, because when I administer the router that isn't the password that I'll be asked for.

    The router in question might be completely different, but I think some of the posters are being overly harsh to the OP.

  3. Re:If you've nothing to hide... on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    Consider this scenario. A motorist called 911 to report a red motorcycle doing wheelies at 130MPH. Dispatcher issues an APB for said red motorcycle. Undercover cop witnesses a red motorcycle matching the description doing 80 and pulls him over. Since the stop is due to an APB and said cop doesn't normally do traffic stops he exercises a greater degree of caution[if he needs his gun he doesn't want to waste time later pulling it]. Motorist vindictively exposes the identity of said undercover officer. Police get pissed and look for something to charge him under and end up using an inappropriate law.

    Not guaranteeing this is what happened, but it is certainly plausible.

  4. Re:Plus they could be set to charge at night on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    Come on. The Nissan Leaf has a 100 mile range. Lets call that about standard[indeed if the range were lower it would be instant fail], and likely to improve in the coming years. I would be surprised if most people drove more than 100 miles in a day. Certainly a 5 mile roundtrip errand/lunch wouldn't necessitate a recharge. Most people wouldn't even need to charge at work to get home in the evening. Indeed I would expect the facilities to facilitate this to be rare.

  5. Re:Goodbye Hulu on Subscription-Based 'Hulu Plus' Is Now Official · · Score: 1

    If one of the big pluses is the back catalog, I must say it certainly seems like they are taking content away from regular Hulu. Angel, Buffy, The Pretender, Quantum Leap, Roswell had either their entire run or at least substainially more episodes available on regular Hulu. The content started to disappear before the announcement and some classic shows still have their entire runs available on Hulu so you might say that the rights holders were behind this. But you have to wonder if rights holders motivation were the negotiations for Hulu Plus.

  6. Re:Good. on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    Look at Super Freakonomics. There is a chapter on that.

  7. Re:Hey everyone, this is Microsoft! on IE9 Throws Down the Hardware Acceleration Gauntlet · · Score: 1

    I suspect in reality it is using 100% of 1 core of a dual-core processor...

  8. Re:Papers Please! on US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card · · Score: 1

    They've never checked ID when I've voted...

  9. Re:It depends on the video on How To Play HD Video On a Netbook · · Score: 1

    lol, I wish I had your eyes. I can hardly notice anything wrong with the picture at 800kbps, nearly 1/5th what you seem to think is a minimum threshhold. And I am wearing contacts so my vision should be reasonably close to 20/20... Though I also can't tell the difference between hdtv and regular on a television. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if 30% of people with hdtvs can't tell the difference in a double blind test.

  10. freshman year in lieu of senior year on New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Not sure why people think this is so novel. Even 15-20 years ago it was well known that you could go to college after 11th grade and would recieve your high school diploma upon completing Freshman year of college. And this was Pennsylvania. I mean what's the state going to do if a college accepts you? Say your parents can home school you, but you can't go to college? Yeh, that makes sense. For a number of states compulsory schooling stops at age 16 or 17, ie roughly after 10th or 11th. Pennsylvania is 17.

    And yet most people don't take advantage of this for a number of reasons.

  11. Re:Yuh Huh on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    Well, this is Southwest. There is no assigned seating. Since standbys would presumably board last, all that would likely be left would be middle seats which for obvious reasons are not next to each other unless they can get people to move. Usually you see people bribing people with liquor to get seats next to each other when they board late. As a corollary to this, boarding early isn't that much of an advantage as you'd have less control over who sits next to you unless you are travelling in a big enough group.

  12. Re:The problem in Britain is the last mile on Is Google Planning To Fibre Britain? · · Score: 1

    It was my impression that (Great) Britain referred to the island of England/Wales/Scotland while the UK also includes Northern Ireland among other places. If not what is the island itself called?

  13. Re:Rebooting is a Good Thing... on A "Never Reboot" Service For Linux · · Score: 1

    I was going to post something similar from a less serious angle. I never reboot because I'm never sure the computer will reboot correctly and I'd rather not have to spend half an hour dealing with the problem. I upgrade things like grub and sysvinit more often than I reboot and until I personally test it there is no guarantee that it will work.

  14. has the blocking stopped on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    Has the blocking stopped? Because I can't confirm this on Verizon DSL.

  15. Re:Why? on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 1

    I've never actually seen one, but I've always assumed its for starting it from your house and letting it warm up in the winter.

  16. Re:Phone cost on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 2, Informative

    T-mobile's minimum is $40 a year[$10 every 90 days], or $100 for the first year and then $10 for subsequent years.

  17. Eureka on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    The bigger news is that the town of Eureka is real. I always thought it was fictional.

  18. Re:where does the 2023 date come from? on Sherlock Holmes and the Copyright Tangle · · Score: 4, Informative

    The last sherlock holmes story was published in 1927 which would theoretically last under copyright until 2023. But the majority of the stories are pre-1920 and presumably public domain. The post-1923 are also considered the worst according to wikipedia. But mostly in the bookstore you see a large compilation of Sherlock Holmes with every story. To publish every story you'd need to pay a royalty for the 5% still under copyright. The estate charges an inflated amount for this 5% and the publisher pays it since he is spreading the cost over the stories that he doesn't have to strictly pay for.

  19. Re:What about Alaska? on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    I suspect the US has no problem handing over the information to the Canadians for similar flights.

  20. Re:Another step backwards on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Well, except in theaters, and near funerals, and at political rallies (unless you're in a "free speech zone" some distance away)...

    Everyone has a right to free speech. What protests at events are really trying to do is disrupt the organizers' free speech . Otherwise they could stage their counter-rally anywhere, anytime. You may say that the counter group doesn't normally have ready access to the people at the first group's event. Well, tough shit. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you are entitled to an audience.

    Obviously it is a fine line, but to suggest that there should be nothing wrong with shouting over the designated speaker at an event because the shouter has free speech just doesn't hold water.

  21. Re:Fixed in spamassassin 3.2.5-7 in Debian/Unstabl on SpamAssassin 2010 Bug · · Score: 1

    spamassassin:
        Installed: 3.2.5-6
        Candidate: 3.2.5-6
        Version table:
      *** 3.2.5-6 0
                    701 http://ftp.us.debian.org/ testing/main Packages
                      70 http://ftp.us.debian.org/ unstable/main Packages
                    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

    apt-get updated 30 seconds ago.

  22. Re:Now let the Endless French Surrender jokes begi on French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3 · · Score: 1

    Funny you bring up Vietnam, a French colonial war where the US got involved to try to stop the spread of communism and help our allies only to have France take the first opportunity to turn tail and run with their heads between their legs. You may say with how it turned out that they were smart to get out when they did, but the fact remains that it only reinforced the France surrenders easily theme which never would have gained traction if it was just WWII.

  23. this has been known for years on Mozilla Firefox Not In Violation of US Export Rules · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is why the non-US archive for Debian went away.

    Prior to the release of Debian 3.1, United States laws placed restrictions on the export of certain defense articles, which, unfortunately, included some types of cryptographic software. PGP and SSH, among others, fell into this category. It was legal however, to import such software into the US.

    To prevent anyone from taking unnecessary legal risks, some Debian packages were only available from a site in Leiden, The Netherlands, until the release of Debian 3.1, which incorporates this software thanks to changes in United States law.

    You should not need the non-US archive unless you are using a version of Debian from before Debian 3.1.

    Debian 3.1 corresponds to 2005. I'm amazed that Mozilla was unaware of this and needed to ask someone.

  24. Re:Where are they going to store it all? on SKA Telescope To Provide a Billion PCs Worth of Processing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they could construct a really fast computer to process the data in real time so they wouldn't have to store it all. They might even release a press release about it.

  25. Re:Can you spell Face Plant? on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    Foldable bikes have been around for a while...