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  1. Re:publishing the MD5 in the wall street journal t on How Do I Secure An IP, While Leaving Options Open? · · Score: 1

    I missed an h... should have been
    kinda hard to reverse do from a hash to the file then...

  2. publishing the MD5 in the wall street journal tho- on How Do I Secure An IP, While Leaving Options Open? · · Score: 1

    shows the file existed- with that hash- on that date.....

    kinda hard to reverse do from a has to the file then...

  3. even atheists on Where To Find Opus On Sunday · · Score: 1

    can be convinced of the value of the sacrafice for the greater good-...

    did no atheist EVER throw himself on a hand-grenade?

  4. oh- you meant money?-- wow... on How Much Does a New Internet Cost? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking- social restrictions. Not that I wanna give the larger conglomerates any ideas... but you do realize- replacing the entire internet means- "they" replace the entire internet? and the second time around-- those who were slow to wake to it's functionality, will be right there to help planning it's replacement-- including real ip tracking and locked down communication protocols?

  5. um-- a bit backwords on AT&T Crippling BlackBerry for iPhone? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    people were MORE civilized prior to the advent of the cellphone.

  6. I dunno... on Forbes 400 Targeted by ID Thieves · · Score: 1

    makes him kinda unbuyable...

    I mean-- if the person deciding if Donald Trump gets a loan to buy a casino....
    and donald gives him 500k to see things his way
    and the casino then folds- cause the paper shouldn't have been written... and a lotta people go out of work mid-stream beacuse of it.. I'd rather have someone making the decisions without the ability to have them be influenced by 'outsider' incentives....

  7. exclude 1 in 20??? means an insane decision? on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    so if an OS had a 4.33 percent market share, and someone didn't write software for it?
    that would be insane?

    http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34 491 pay attention

    there are MANY software apps not available for the mac-- and those companies are doing just fine...

  8. Wow! on Bandwidth Crunch Looms for Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    I'm disgusted.

    I always imagined it as something as the opposite of a steam roller.. ala a big fat honking 12 foot pizza cutter blade with a notch in it-- the cable laying in the notch-- the pressure just spreads apart the asphalt and drops in the cable....why does the whole thing have to be trench dug???

  9. oh good, repression.... on 3D Animations In Mid-Air Using Plasma Balls · · Score: 1

    don't be around me when you finally blow!

  10. I don't believe you. on The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    When one part of such an assertion is invalid, I can't believe the rest

    he can travel to any country in the EU without even slowing down as he drives across the border.
      I call bullshit on that. -- any european want to chime in here? from ANY country to any country- so long as it's all EU? I simply find that ubelievable...

    and therefore- the rest of it I find hard to believe...

  11. Copyright is so automatic it ain't funny... on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    you don't have to do jack to preserve copyright, you don't even need a copyright symbol..

    trademarks have to be defended for ever// see red cross vs. johnson & johnson in the news right now...

  12. Well, actually.. on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    the smokers who make it to 100 pay a lot more....

  13. Not my idea-- from a RAH novel on Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home · · Score: 1

    create two legal bodies.. one requires a 2/3rds majority to pass laws.
    the other requires a 1/3rd majority to repeal existing laws

    anything 2/3rds can't get behind- shouldn't be-- and anything that 1/3'rd won't stay behind... no longer will be...

  14. Um.. JFGIT on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1
  15. But ut But!!!-- google said they weren't! on Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    they weren't developing a phone!

  16. Four? why the hell would I want four? on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1

    even if I could find a reason- if I added a fourth monitor I'd crank up the acceleration..
    move the mouse fast and a short distance- and it travels far... move the mouse slowly and you get precision

  17. Casinos in Atlantic City for one.. on Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    $20 and $50 are common..
    there was a story a few years ago of one (the sands?) where the 50s were loaded into the 20's slot...

  18. Ever read a direct deposit signup form? on Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    every one I've seen specifies in the event of an error in your favor, you have pre-approved them to just direct debit your account.. no notice required...

  19. Having done the taxes for many people I work with on British Columbia To Charge Recycling Fee · · Score: 1

    I can tell you, I was SHOCKED TO DEATH the first time I did some with earned income credit.

    Some people genuinely do have negative tax return figures, and when filing, get more than they paid in over the year- a net negative for federal over the year.

  20. pedantic... on Toyota Unveils Plug-in Hybrid Prius · · Score: 1

    right.. battery technology is insufficient to the task.

    Sure, you've refined the statement-- but the fact is- the original had no flaws whatsoever..

    why gosh- I CAN buy a jetpack and fly to the supermarket, but it's very damn expensive....

    so-- jetpack technology, or moellers air car- still aren't "sufficient to the task" and yes- it's almost ALWAYS money....

  21. Consider on Get Ready For the High-tech Beach · · Score: 1

    no one day trips to california beaches... utahians and arizonians would have to spend the night..

    we have millions of people a day trip distance away.. philly is an hour-15 minutes it doesn't make the seashore tourist trap rich, it generates (currently) just under 300k a year- to keep the 8 miles of beaches clean and safe....

    I grew up in Santa Cruz CA-- and NO ONE on the beach got there that morning, that was going home that night, from a state that wasn't california...

  22. they expect on Get Ready For the High-tech Beach · · Score: 1

    all local traffic will stay local.

    the plans include all city workers who travel around town using wifi/ip phones...
    (no cells) and all incity network traffic to stay on this network...

  23. Actually, they intend to blanket the ENTIRE island on Get Ready For the High-tech Beach · · Score: 1

    with wifi.. the RFID tags are a new aspect..

    I've been following this story closely.. and the RFID stuff just came out in the last few days..

    My hotel, stopped plans to expand it's wifi access point to cover the entire building because the city announced blanket coverage over the entire island...

    Now it turns out the city plans to charge a fee of 6-9$ a day, and upto $30something a week..

    (my hotel btw only charges $1.00 a day and $5.00 a week- and that only because it solves more problems than offering it for free--when it was free and didn't work on a customers POS laptop- they would ask for a disocunt... now instead they get their dollar or 5 back no questions asked...)

    so- until the city DOES this, or does it and sucks at it... local expansion plans are frozen....

  24. not all on Get Ready For the High-tech Beach · · Score: 1

    there are many cities up & down the shore without tag fees, and some don't require them on certain days of the week, and some communities honor each other's tags as they are so darn close.....

    Wildwood NJ is free, if you have a half hour to trudge from boardwalk to waters edge each time.....

  25. I actually know more than a fair bit about this... on Get Ready For the High-tech Beach · · Score: 3, Insightful

    20$ is the price for the entire summer
    10$ is the price for a week
    5$ is the price for a day.

    (btw, if you snap them up early, it's 15$% for the season)

    This pays for the
    1- DAILY sweeping of the beach with a big ol' sand rake machine along the heaviest portion of the beach (directly in front of the 20 block boardwalk) which sifts through the sand

    and the intermittent raking of other beaches

    2- the lifeguards

    3- the trash removal off the beach/emptying the trash cans...

    strangely, (and I originally found it shocking too) it works.. much like the toll roads, it's a pay to play system.. the nicer motels in town (see my homepage) include them with your stay.... so do most of the condo rentals.. so for those folks, it's free/subsidised by direct spending at area businesses (in my case, a motel) and day trippers also pay in proportion to the # of dollars they leave in the town (i.e. little) someone enriching my business at a few hundred a night doesn't pay the 'tax' directly, but indirectly... someone who comes into town for 8 hours pays more... beacause their direct benefit to the towns economy is a whole lot less....