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  1. Re:illegal file-sharing? on EU Rejects Law To Cut Pirates Off From Their ISP · · Score: 1

    You are arguing EU law vs. US which there may be a chance in the EU that it's not criminal. He cited the USC. Look it up. (USC 17506(a)(1)(C). Now this probably doesn't apply in the EU but in the US it seems to.

    Didn't they give those guys from Sweden a jail sentence? Are they not in the EU? So there as long as it can be called commercial copyright infringement, you are got there too.

  2. Re:illegal file-sharing? on EU Rejects Law To Cut Pirates Off From Their ISP · · Score: 1

    --I think this alienation of the people that actually fund these companies is only going to lead to more people going out of their way to ensure not a cent ever makes it back to the media companies in retaliation for the lies and broken homes caused by this futile war on progress.--

    They will just tax you and get their money anyhow (CDR's, cassette tapes, other blank media). It's about controlling the distribution. In a few short years laws will be passed and enforced such as has been going on since the late 90's.

    They don't like the freedom of the internet and are gonna put the genie back in the bottle if they can and right now there doesn't seem to be a single thing to stop them. The people don't care now but they will when their rights are finally abused personally. It will be too late then.

  3. Re:the sad thing is on News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites · · Score: 1

    --I'm not sure what premium content Mr. Murdoch thinks he can offer for a fee, but as posted earlier, people will simply choose the source that doesn't charge.--

    Maybe porn. That might have a chance.

  4. Philosophic thought? on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    If you could go that fast you would be like a fish breaking out of your fish bowl to get to the other side of it.

    Now the real question is: What happens to the water? If it doesn't stay in the bowl then the fish dies.

    So therefore it can't be done.

    However a dog can be trained to fetch. I don't have any idea what his has to do with anything and it don't make sense.

    Neither does warp drive.

  5. 3 Letters on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    LHC

  6. How about on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    Duke Nukem - never say never

    That's what is being worked on now in the 21st century.

  7. Re:If past performance is a current indicator... on Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    --I suggest you read more about his latter life. He was a loon. Actually I know a lot about his projects. My favorite is the Telsla turbine. It is a terrible turbine for air. It makes a great pump for solid-fluid mixtures but as a turbine it is no where near what more traditional turbines can do.--

    True but that turbine does indeed have some special uses and is being made better now that we have better process to make it.

    --His power transmission also just doesn't work. His work on AC power transmission and his AC electric motor. Brilliant.--

    You posted without AC power? It's everywhere and has been proven to work.

    --It is a shame that so many of his fans do him a disservice by pushing his fantasy achievements.--

    Your guessing again. Build the device with modern materials and see if it works. The turbine actually did?

    --They are as loonie as was in his later life. His decline into mental illness should be forgotten and his real achivments should be remembered.--

    Perhaps, but even so, sometimes old ideas are still valid but at the time they were tried there was not a way to manufacture a certain part that it needed to make it work that we might now have. All possibilities should be examined.

  8. Re:If past performance is a current indicator... on Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    I think you just have to have the frequency right at about 420khz or mhz or something like that.

    He was talking about long range transmission by bouncing it off the ionosphere. That might create some ozone or destroy. Who knows. You wont know until you build it full size and test it.

  9. Re:What about the standard way ? on Let Big Brother Hawk Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really, McAfee AntiVirus Enterprise Edition with all the goodies (anti-spyware) will get some honest files while missing most spyware. For instance it doesn't seem to like port scanners which is good for clients I guess? Maybe?

    That sounds like something else the government already has to spy on you. Windows. The automatic delete feature will be added for *.mp3's and things like that with a government endorsed or enforced antivirus choice.

  10. The real problem is this: on Virginia Health Database Held For Ransom · · Score: 1

    Each state has it's own database farmed out to a 3rd party without oversight. The lowest bidder no doubt with Virginia.

    BTW Virginia is also a commonwealth state. The UK is a commonwealth nation. Coincidence, No I don't think so. So that means you guys in the UK are responsible.

  11. Re:I can think of a few on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    I don't think demand will increase. Decrease is what we are seeing. Only stuff that breaks at this point will be replaced.

    There ain't no magic. We just have a wireless access point that could probably take 5 users at 50 meg per second or even 20 at 10 meg per second would be OK in this case AND we have it. The microwave can zap it though but that is about it. We are isolated.

    It works and is sunk cost. It's not being used. The wire is currently being used. I'm talking about buying a laptop the next time the a computer breaks. Then they can use either wired or wireless. It's handy to have a computer where the customer is going to be for sales purposes.

    That's about all I can say. Just saying wired vs. wireless vote: depends.

  12. Re:Wired all the way! on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    We'll you probably need more power than them. Just a couple of billing and accounting applications is all where you probably have some type of fancy video on demand box down in your basement.

  13. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    --This explains why the selection effect of immigration law is only really visible in Asians.--

    Really what about Italians, Irish, or Canadians? Didn't think about them did you, all those people crossing the Canadian border?

  14. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    --If you took those well-off Asian-Americans and put them in the same situation as the perpetually poor in the U.S., the majority of them would eventually rise out of that level again.--

    I disagree. Asian's have their gangs and their poor as well.

    As for the blacks, you must have never set foot down south. The rich there like to keep the racist thing going with keeping the poor whites slightly ahead. If their are two gangs fighting each other all the better for the ones in charge.

    Crime is higher in areas with poverty pure and simple. Go live in some places around the US out of your comfort zone. I think you will find some with truly no way out and didn't have a chance from the start.

  15. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    I agree that it is socioeconomic status and race as such, however your socioeconomic status is likely to be lower if you are born black in the US. So I guess that seems to me to mean that race doesn't matter but racism does.

  16. Re:Easy to fire anyone in the USA on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    He may not have had a dishonorable discharge for that but merely a discharge.

    He don't act like he was really there though or has a least embellished the story somewhat. Even so there is no evidence either that he was or was not discharge dishonorably.

  17. Re:I can think of a few more on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    Your right for a cube farm but what about a small business that has 5 or 10 computers? Running wire is a lot harder in most of those places than it is in a cube farm.

    I guess it really does depend upon your situation just like Cisco says.

    And...don't mod me down for saying that because I also think Cisco's stuff is way overpriced marketing mostly and some of it I have to have because, we'll you know no one ever got fired for buying Cisco because everyone else does it.

    That being said I think someone that is going to stay small like a car dealership or you local insurance agent maybe should go with wireless and notebook machines as well. Do you know how much a large desk with enough space for a mid size tower takes up compared to a laptop which already has the wireless built in?

  18. Re:I can think of a few on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    We actually have a weird situation where we have excess wireless capacity, but our wires are filled. Buy extra AP's to address that future need seems cheaper than having cable pulled these days.

  19. Re:WPA2 Enterprise is pretty darn secure. on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    We have a Cisco Cisco Aironet 1130AG IEEE 802.11 A/B/G Access Point.

    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5678/ps6087/product_data_sheet0900aecd801b9058.html

    I think ours is not even being used at this point. I think the only way someone could get into that when setup properly is for them to steal the laptop and drive into range. It's old (I think ours is only (a and g no b) has good range and is fast at at least 50mbs when tested, but damn did it cost a lot more than the consumer stuff.

    I would think wireless would be pretty safe when connecting computers but other stuff like printers and everything having a bluetooth device on it somewhere has me a little worried.

    When we get more money and we have to upgrade, I'm thinking mostly laptops that most of which would stay here. The CAD would still need old fashion boxes though.

  20. Re:So let me get this straight... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    I assume that's what the parent was talking about as I am uninformed about exactly what "cooties" are.

    Since that's probably the kind of hair that you are going to get, I just wondered how they planed on taking the chemicals out of it that humans would build up over a lifetime?

    Besides I think there are already better mediums for growing things like rock wool or better yet nothing at all.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics

  21. Re:Why do they need a data center that large? on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    They need a system that works with imaginary numbers.

  22. Re:How government would do it on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    Politics, politics, politics.

    We'll I would like to start a company that you are trying to find. Six figures seems like a bargain so when do we have a deal?

    Or everyone could have their hands in the till, make money, even if it gets scraped like that Ultimate Warfighter scheme. They couldn't cancel one thing because everything was supposed to be able to work together. Is that what your talking about?

    It really seems like there is a lot of sunk cost without much to show for it, like the F-22. We could make quite a few more of them and I think we should because we have already paid for the development. Now you have the F-35. It's not cheap and it is bigger than a F-105 which was a huge single engine fighter of the Vietnam era.

    This stuff has been common since I can remember. I never could play because I just didn't know whom or how to approach a situation that is legal bribery. But if you want to run a business, you have to know how to grease the wheels. That's where the failure point of most small business really is.

    This data center that the government wants to build is pretty much off the shelf, but you are right they will go for a custom design just exactly like you said from what I have seen.

  23. Re:How about a location first on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    Or an old abandoned salt mine. Perhaps they could do that at Yucca Mountain. There is already sunk cost there.

    We have some brand new abandoned data centers here too.

    I think up the road from DC into WV and not Northern VA would be the way to go. Cheap and located close to the decision makers.

     

  24. Re:Are they absolutely sure? on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 1

    --I vote for Buck Rogers to be remade like BSG, who's with me?--

    Remake it like the good the bad and the ugly.

  25. It's in the pipeline.. on Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Flushed down those tubes.