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  1. Re:Can someone explain this guy's logic to me on Electric Company Wants Monthly Fee For Solar Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In essence the solar users give power to the grid during the day and then take different power back at night for a net usage of zero or minus. If the grid didn't exist they wouldn't have power at night since they aren't designed to store significant amounts of power. If a transformer blows the power company still has to fix it even though there isn't really a 'paying' customer. Of course night time power is cheaper than day time power but the solar user probably isn't being fully compensated so even without the fee the electric company is still coming out ahead, but are just being greedy.

  2. Coleman v Franken on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1

    The Minnesota Supreme Court shouldn't be doing anything else but finishing their ruling on Coleman v Franken. It's been three weeks since they've heard oral arguments and over 8 months since the election took place.

  3. what I don't understand on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1

    If your cell phone doesn't work because you were behind on your bills, why would you bother to carry it around and/or have it on and charged.

  4. Re:To those wondering why they mention Debian on Flaw Made Public In OpenSSH Encryption · · Score: 3, Interesting
    All current versions of Debian have 5.1p1-5 as the version of openssh[testing/unstable differences are just dependency rebuilds].

    The changelog for this version includes:

    * Backport from upstream CVS (Markus Friedl):

    - packet_disconnect() on padding error, too. Should reduce the success probability for the CPNI-957037 Plaintext Recovery Attack to 2^-18.

    This implies that older versions are more vulnerable. Not sure if this is what people are referring to as 5.2's countermeasures.

  5. Re:6.7 Billion is a lot of labor hours on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 1

    Your error is in assuming that the border patrol is evenly distributed. I'd think places like Tijuana/San Diego could have 50-100 officers a mile, and need them. The actual road crossings tend to have significant delays getting through.

  6. page 6 on Canadian Pirates Sell Spurious Songs — In 1897 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Neighboring stories on page 6: right below it is a bird eating a snake, to the left is construction workers find papers shedding light on 40 year old missing person case, to the right are ads. Apparently this wasn't a very important story back then.

  7. If a bridge would be widely used... on Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub · · Score: 1

    If they claim that a bridge in the middle of their campus would be half-used by non-employees, why wouldn't a pub on campus attract significant non-employee patronage?

  8. Re:Very selfless of Iowa. on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    Those are interesting example states you pull out of the air considering Montana was the third or fourth closest state in the country and was very much considered up for grabs. The dakotas were also at one point considered up for grabs though that belief waned closer to election time; they were still closer than many 'swing' states. I wouldn't be surprised, if he does a good job the next 4 years, for Obama to carry Montana in 2012.

  9. autoplaying video on ESPN's Play To Make ISPs Pay · · Score: 1

    I have stopped visiting espn.com as much recently because for whatever reason if I accidentally leave it open in a tab it will randomly start playing a video five hours later when I am doing something else.

  10. same thing here on Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? · · Score: 1

    My box crashed also. I've never had a kernel crash before. I asked at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg00006.html . One other person reported a similar problem. Someone mentioned it is a known problem with pre 2.6.21.6 kernels though I was running a more recent version.

  11. Re:can someone please tell me which #s aren't incl on Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, 25 choose 2 is 300 so presumably 180 numbers must be missing.

  12. Re:Umm...er... on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    Also, if students make... oh say... 150 points on a test are they allowed to skip a later test or get A++++++ because they obviously have earned it? Or are they gated as well... what happens to THEIR self-esteem when this occurs?

    When I was in high school, if you got straight As in a subject[such that even failing the final would leave you with an A] you were excused from the final and didn't have to show up. I don't have a problem with this. If you don't understand the material you are never going to do well enough to pull up a 50 or a 0, and if you do understand it why shouldn't you pass?

  13. Re:It's a clean remake on Nielsen Sends Wikipedia DMCA Takedown For Station Descriptions · · Score: 1

    If you follow the links, the Google cache of wikipedia states Toledo is DMA#73 and links to a document that states Toledo is DMA #72. I wonder if Nielson didn't get upset mainly at the fact that the information attributed to them was inaccurate.

  14. Re:All file shareres are leechers on Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [In reply to: "without people buying stuff, it would not get made"] This is the "every pirated copy is a lost sale" theory.
    No, it's not. Ever heard of TV shows getting cancelled because of bad ratings, How does whether I download or watch it on tv effect its ratings? I'm not a neilson family. That is of course the dirty open secret of television ratings.
  15. Re:Getting ripped off and Fixing are two diff. thi on How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions · · Score: 1

    This is the sellers way of saying they don't want to sell it for less. Getting "caught up" in an auction for a common item is just dumb.
    The sellers already have a legitimate way of saying they don't want to sell it for less. It's called the reserve.
  16. A fancy euphemism for a new distro on Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but if you aren't using your distribution's repositories then you aren't using that distribution. If you are getting all your programs from cnr, you are using the 'cnr' distribution. They seem to want to reassure people by letting them think they are using good branded distros instead of the poor brand linspire.

  17. Re:Email Tagging on Seamonkey 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    You can tag e-mails as belonging to one or more user-defined categories by either using the numbers 1-9(0 clears all tags) or using the menu. Each tag has a color associated with it, and the e-mail in your inbox assumes the color of the first tag making it easily identifiable. You can also tag e-mails based on a filter action, and search for tags, etc. Tags are essentially a reimplementation of 'labels' except tags allow more than one per e-mail. In the past I've lost my labels if my .msf got corrupted, but I've yet to have any problems with tags.

  18. Numbering System? on Seamonkey 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Does anyone understand the numbering system? They've been calling the nightlies 1.5a for a while so is this a different branch or did they just decide right before release that jumping to 1.5 would look silly so they jumped back to 1.1?

  19. Mean time to failure on Durabook Laptop Marketing Claims 'Destroyed' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Surely a reasonable person would expect the 26 drop number to be a mean time to failure sort of number. Otherwise you are left to think: "Oh, 26 drops is no problem, but that 27th is the real doosy".

  20. Re:You missed the last part. on America's Worst Christmas Parties · · Score: 1

    I suggest you tell that to your waitress/waiter the next time you go out to eat.

  21. My version of interview on YouTube Removal Highlights Media Self-Censorship · · Score: 1

    I saw this interview, and the segment in question went something like:

    Bill Maher: There are a lot of gay republicans in Washington running things.
    Larry King: Would you give some examples?
    Bill Maher: There are a bunch of them.
    Larry King: Like who?
    Bill Maher: Umm, well everyone knows Ken Mehlman is gay.
    Larry King: I've never heard that.
    Bill Maher: Well we must not talk to the same people.

    And then they drop the subject and move on to different topics. I wouldn't even be surprised if Bill Maher himself asked them to cut it cause it made him look stupid and he knew he was talking out of his ass because he was being pressured to come up with a name and he didn't really have one.

  22. Re:Gee.. what a shock. on MPAA Gives Film About Ratings an NC-17 Rating · · Score: 1
    The filmmakers made a mistake of having such content in, forcing the MPAA to give such a rating. If they had limited such content, and the MPAA still gave such a rating, then there would be a stronger case for calling it a conspiracy.
    How do you show what content makes a movie NC-17 in the eyes of the rating board without making your movie NC-17? If you don't show clips than the audience can't make an informed decision on whether the ratings board is right, and if you do then your movie will also inevitably be NC-17.
  23. Re:Don't get it on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    HBO has extensive offerings in On Demand. So if you got HBO now and have On Demand, you wouldn't have to start 'mid-season'. They even have commentaries for each Rome episode[except the pilot] available.

    I pay for HBO, but due to On Demand crapping out on me at precisely the wrong time[I tend to wait til the season is almost over/over and watch the whole season at once, but it does cycle out of On Demand after a while]. I have been forced to download some HBO shows. I feel completely justified and see this as mere format shifting since I have already paid HBO way too much money for their programming.

  24. Re:Great timing. on NASA Prepares for Space Rescues · · Score: 1

    There is a rescue plan for the space station, they bail out in the Soyeuz.

  25. Re:The More Appropriate Question... on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    Didn't some cars have a plain keyless switch on the dash you can use with the actual key still in your pocket? I think this might be the reason for the RF. I can confirm that at least Priuses work like this, but I have a hard time believing that the Priuses et al make up 150 million cars.