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  1. Cops & FBI understand radio. on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They may not have "all the rech"
    but they can easily bring along a
    signal strength meter in the appropriate band
    and wander around until they find the source

    Powerline would be the answer.. how do you track that down?
    just to figure out which branch it's on would require
    tripping each circuit breaker one at a time until you know.
    Then you have to rip out all the walls
    bury it in your neighbors yard, tapped into his electricity, and they'll never find it

  2. this is Santa Cruz CA on Librarians Join the Fight Against The Patriot Act · · Score: 1
    the article says in part "Santa Cruz is a community well known for its leftward leanings and progressive politics"

    That doesn't even BEGIN to cover the attitudes in the town.

    I'm willing to bet they are at the forefront of this issue(on the side of individual privacy) for the entire planet.

    What that really would mean then, is that most library systems are far more compliant.

  3. at what point does "intel" become a competitor? on Microsoft Wants to Take on Google · · Score: 1

    Really. Just because it has to do with computers, it's competition? sheesh!

  4. Re:No one size on Flash Memory And Its future · · Score: 1

    I went with a 20Gb Hard Drive mp3 play because all the flash memory ones were to small
    but can you change your hard drive out?

    I went with a sony MD just because I had a lot of minidiscs lying around
    5 hrs per minidisc, and cheap.
    sorry, my point is, you can swap cf's on the street and exceed 20gb

  5. Re:So what's the problem? on Flash Memory And Its future · · Score: 1

    12GB on a single piece of removable media?
    Sure.. any situation where people don't have personal computers, but shared access
    for example, internet cafes..
    you don't need a personal computer, if you can sit at any computer, chip in, and work on your files

  6. Re:other limitations.... on AOL will launch TiVo-like Mystro service · · Score: 1

    Yes, but these are AOL (l)users.
    they will only need to save buffy the vampire slayer once
    and serve it up 10,000 times.

  7. Re:Doh... on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 1

    I just thought of something else..

    There have been cases in the US of people stealing electricity
    from high power transmission lines, by burying a coil of large guage cable underneath them
    as a giant transformer, it takes electricity without contact-
    "from the ether"-- wonder what the take on that would be...

  8. Re:Doh... on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 1

    Ye gods... EMF from the powerlines?? no limits? gov't transmissions as well? you can tap most phonelines without cutting a wire, just proximity is needed..

  9. you can't play games on a camera on Gameboy Advance SP vs Canon Powershot G3 · · Score: 1

    Well, from sprint you can get a cell phone
    and on that cell phone
    you can take pictures, and play games

    so why can't you play games on a camera?

    or, look at some high end clie models
    camera, with flash, and- hey, palm games!

  10. Re:How long will it take for hard drives to catch on 8.6 GB Internet? · · Score: 1

    5 gigs o' ram will do nicely....

  11. STAY AWAY from horses? on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 1

    it would kinda SuCk then, to be
    Centaur Man!tm

    or Superman, in this situation
    http://www.centaursite.com/2050.jpg

  12. Spencer Gifts.. on Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls? · · Score: 1

    Right now sells a three LED ball o'trips for acid/X heads that's almost identicle. A plastic sphere, whith three superbrite leds it just changes colors based on ambient sound.. flowing from red-blue-yellow All you have to do is snip the microphone off, and wire something else in. I'd go look at Spencer's

  13. You really can't imagine it... on Music Companies Bemoan New High-Cap Portables · · Score: 1

    Sony does food
    11 restuaraunts in the Metreon
    http://www.metreon.com/dining/index.html

    and take a look at
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=sony+food

    Sony does textiles
    http://www.hometextilestoday.com/index.asp?layout= story&webzine=htt&publication=htt&articleid=CA2287 51
    Culver City, CA -- Sony Pictures Entertainment property Spider-Man Merchandising L.P. has forged licensing partnerships with four new licensees to help the property expand its stable of home textiles goods.

  14. Re:Hybrids are the way to go ... on GM Pulls Plug on Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Solar panel production is not emission free

  15. Half.com may be your salvation on An IMDb for Books · · Score: 1

    ask how much they want for their database of ISBN-information
    Ebay will shutter Half within a year, and surely the data could be salvaged...
    http://news.com.com/2100-1019-991480.html?tag=fd_t op

    I've always been impressed at how typing in an ISBN produced the book,
    with details, and often a picture of the cover.

  16. I'm thinking.. SO WHAT? on 1.8TB Of Disk Space In A (Semi-)Normal PC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have 340 GB directly.
    I know people with 200 Megabytes

    I have 1700X the capacity of the guy with 200 mb

    1.8 tb, is only about six times what I have,
    1.8tb, is just a little ahead of the pack- that's all

  17. what we really need on Half Mast · · Score: 1

    the creation of a fund designed to get high school misfits laid.

    that'll keep them placated.

  18. Re:Maybe... on Five Years Later, Newton Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    Grafitti was developed by Palm for Newton.
    I thought it was developed by XEROX
    http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47363,00 .html

  19. Re:communication via relay? on NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its simply not possible.
    Historically, the most inspirational statement possible.

  20. The pictograph at the end of the article? on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank god for that,
    I'm a Windows user, and without that little GUI
    I wouldn't have understood the article at all!

  21. "Good Griief?" on Psychologist Consoles Data Loss Victims · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never lost it all.

  22. definition of "internet access" on Using WiFi to Bridge the Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    U.S. Department of Commerce data from 2001
    indicated that 78.9 percent of people in families
    making $75,000 or more had Internet access,
    compared to 25 percent of people from households earning less than $15,000 a year.

    being familiar with DOC and their reports, how much do you want to bet the 'access'
    that the 25% have, is at the local library, 30 minutes a day-when they can get there

  23. Re:Candid Camera on Citibank Tries to Hush ATM Crypto Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Got 5$?
    http://store.2600.com/spring1995.html
    articles include
    Facts On ATM Camera Security
    basically, with a strong enough IR emitter, you can completely obfuscate the camera..

  24. Kevin Mitnick ...working a cash register on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 1
    the fact that he couldn't touch a cash register isn't applicable.
    it was not a facet of his sentence
    it was a condition of his early relase


    he could haven chosen instead, to stay in the slam

  25. penalty should be in relation to the harm caused on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 3, Insightful
    So, if a virus wastes a half million man hours worth of human production,
    figuring for both files lost, cleaning it from systems, and a prorated amount
    for the effort/energy/and money poured into the creation of patches/antivirus software.. can we apply the death penalty to the virus author?

    63 years, times 365 days, times 24 hours, means 551,880 hours