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  1. Re:Convergence Device on First 3G BlackBerry Announced · · Score: 1

    Actually, that would be the PPC-6700. Even though it is a Mobile Windows phone, it is great. EDGE is crap anyway compared to EV-DO.

  2. I hate to quote Heinlein but... on Making Ice Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or free ice.

  3. Re:most cantennas well within limits on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 1

    A cantenna is not a part 15 device.

  4. Isn't the title to this story misleading? on U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The U.S. won't "let them go"? Are the servers trying to escape?

  5. Re:The problem on RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans · · Score: 1

    Its not a question of them publishing it, it is more of a question of what you intended. You would have to argue successfully that you went to Kazzaa to download RIAA content from their authorized representitive Overpeer not download Fifty's new track from kazaa_lite_user_4928. If you didn't they could still get you.

  6. Re:Interesting... on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I meant to say 500,000 rounds per hour for approximately a day.

  7. Re:Interesting... on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 1

    North Korea does not need to launch a nuclear or unconventional strike on south korea. It has 1,500 artillery pieces with Seoul constantly bracketed. The north koreans are capable of sustaining 500,000 rounds of fire on Seoul for aproximately a day. There would be nothing left of that city.

  8. Re:also on Camera that Sees through Smoke and Fog Underway · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if it would let you see through the particles that many dresses consist of.

    I'd buy one.

  9. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    I'm going to assume you're talking about Iraq and not in general. But I'll answer both. I don't know that anyone who knows anything actually describes real geurilla tactics as underhanded. But that is not the same as the `tactics' being employed by insurgents in Iraq right now.
    Because their 'guerilla' tactics all boil down to using civilians as human shields.

    The minutemen in the american revolutionary war used real guerilla tactics, the mujahideen in the afghani-soviet war used geurilla tactics.

    It boils down to this: The tactics of the insurgents in Iraq are not designed to give any military victories, only propaganda ones.

  10. Re:Goodbye textbooks... on Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll decrypt your ???'s.

    1. Search
    2. Copy
    3. Paste
    4. Cite
    5. A+

  11. Re:Yes! on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    We just got Goth Served!

  12. has been done before on iPod Mini Custom Installation In A Ford Explorer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just saw this on TLC last night.

    Apparantly 310 customs/west side customs (or whatever) basically did something almost exactly like this (but for a regular iPod) on a H2 (hummer) brought in by some NBA star. Slide the iPod into the dock and it played on the stereo. Needless to say thats not all they did to the H2 but I thought I should mention that.

    One thing is it probably cost a LOT more than he spent on his Ford Explorer doing it himself :)

  13. Re:Linux is GREAT for games on THG Linux Migration, Part Two · · Score: 1

    Almost all of those work under WineX.

    Its almost worth giving those bastards $30 for a 6 month subscription.

  14. Bets on... on Interview With Trolltech's CEO and CTO Eirik Eng · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On how fast YAFSFD (yet another FSF drone) whines about the QPL.

    I say within 2 minutes.

  15. Re:Never happen... on U.S. Prepares to Get Nuked · · Score: 1

    What other option is there? Shall we say... "We will be disappointed" or "We will complain to the UN" if we are attacked by a nuclear weapon?

    Are you saying your country does not have similar nuclear retaliation policies? Because you'd be lying. Or is it that its just fashionable to complain about Americans while plainly ignoring your own hypocrisy.

    Stupid peanut gallery.

  16. Re:Give me a break!! on SCO - EV1, Licensees, Groklaw, Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    While the M16A2 has a heavier barrel than the M16A1 neither weapons were designed to sustain full automatic fire. Even when the M16 did have full-automatic fire capability it wasn't really designed to fire more than a short burst.
    The reason the selector switch on the modern M16s is single shot and 3 round burst is a combination of that reason and the fact that studies found that in Vietnam soldiers would just spray and pray and we'd like our soldiers to atleast aim at an enemy, hopefully.

    I don't see a problem with automatic weapons in the hands of civilians in certain situations. In israel for example its not uncommon to go to the local armory and check out an Uzi if you're going to a dangerous area of town.

  17. Re:DHCP? on RIAA Files 532 Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    And I highly doubt by the time the lawsuit gets to the point where the judge issues a court-order will those logs still exist. For large ISPs, or even moderately sized ones logs are rotated out of existance after a couple of months, sometimes sooner.

  18. Re:More accurately... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1

    What you mean to say is: if you move into a upscale, nice neighborhood don't blame a shady telco employee who you'll never know when they prevent any telephone connections going to Pizza Hut because you live next to someone who may or may not be a criminal.

    Every argument for SPEWS is fallacious. very strict anti-spam hosts have been listed on SPEWS because they give (legitimate, non spamming) service to someone SPEWS considers a spammer, even though no spamming occurs through that link. Are ISPs now expected to run every customers name through the NCIC? You certainly can't be arguing that human attention be given to every customer's name for the express purpose of checking for any supposed 'spamming tendencies'. Even with only hundreds of customers that would be unfeasible due to the limited amount of staff which would have an intimate knowledge of the current events in the spam-world and thus be able to spot such people.

    If all this happened though, I found the perfect weapon for revenge. Send spoofed spams to myself from someone I am angry at and then report them to SPEWS.

    SPEWS is pathetic. I'd suggest looking into MAPS or another service thats purpose is practical and not punitive instead.

  19. Re: for SCO on Did SCO Actually Buy What it Thought? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Canopy Group sounds supsciously like Umbrella Corporation.

  20. Re:Outrageous! on China Releases Cyber Dissident · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that when its inconvienant democracy should be disregarded? Libya was nominated by other countries participating in the U.N. Specifically Africa was set to chair the next session of the comission (the chair rotates you see) and the regional african gov'ts nominated Libya to represent them.
    While this certainly causes my eyesbrows to quirk considering Libya does have a long history of "disappearing" people, not to mention torturing and jailing political dissidents.

    That said, its amusing that we in the U.S.A. can trash the democratic process when it suits us and then go around and praise the benefits of democracy in the same breath.

    This is what you get sometimes in democracy's, thats why they are weird and why technicall the USA is not a democracy but a representitive republic. However, whining about how Libya should be removed from the chair of the HR comiss. while at the same time we're condemning all the anti-democratic things Libya and others do, its just amusing to me.

  21. Re:Thats not going to change anything on Planned California Bill Targets Video Game Sales · · Score: 1
    BTW, what game promotes shooting at passing cars (as opposed to passing pedestrians

    That is the best way to get someone to jump out of their car screaming on GTA. Like if you see this phat sportscar driving down the street and you just barely miss jacking it, just pump a round into the back windshield and the occupant will stop, and flee! Tada, free car.

  22. Re:Oh great... on Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    And thats why we love you!

  23. Re:Er, really? on The Matrix: Resolutions · · Score: 1

    If you look in the credits, thats listed. I can't remember who's voice it was but it was listed literally as 'Deus Ex Machina ..... Some Guy'. That got a chuckle out of me, for the sheer audacity of it!

  24. Re:McDonald's on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    *MOO* TOMACCCCOOOOOOO!

  25. Re:Contest strategy on DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too Popular? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its not actually cheaper. You'd have to carpet the area in bombs to ensure the target is destroyed if you're using gravity bombs. I'm pretty sure one converted GPS bomb costs less than 2 dozen+ gravity bombs of the same type.

    This doesn't even go into the fact that an invading force would shoot itself in the foot if it destroyed everything, considering its going to be occupying the land for a while.

    Also doesn't go into the "PR" costs back in America. The bottom line is they're only in the business of "protecting" people (or atleast seeming that way) because if they werent the US public/media would have such a fit that Iran contra would look trivial.

    Trust me when I say it is ALL a numbers game to the Pentagon.