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  1. I'd believe the FCC can't ditacte device design. on Broadcast Flag in Trouble · · Score: 1

    but don't they already dictate FUNCTION?
    two items
    V-Chip
    Closed Captioning.

    FCC REQUIRES them of TV Manufacturers.
    How is the Broadcast flag mandate any different?

    can anyone split this hair for me?

  2. Re:except that on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1

    ?but they can say?
    all screens over 13" must include the V-chip
    all tv's must have the ability to decode closed captioning.

    How is that different again?

  3. Re:except that on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1

    who mandates closed captioning in all tv's over 13" screensize and the lovely v-chip?

  4. Re:Actually, 200% more power on Li-Ion With 300% More Power, Minutes to Recharge · · Score: 1

    0% empty to 300% of what?
    300 times zero is zero

  5. except that on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 2, Insightful
    what about all those rules re; radio interferance and cell phone & wifi antenna/design registrations.

    is that not
    dictate how electronic devices must be made
    I don't want the broadcast flag either.. but I want the judges to make accurate statements as well...

  6. Re:don't have TiVo... Yet on Can TiVo be Saved? · · Score: 1

    3 day/72hr really limit on the guide with basic.
    no "record by name of show/actor/actress/type"

    you can set recurring shows (based on day of channel, day of week, or m-f, or seven days a week)

    you don't get folders for shows

    it still downloads a full boat of guide details, I've had my tivo disconnected for long term, and it took about a month for guide data to be incomplete, at which point I plugged in, and hit "connect now" and 15 mins or so later had the next month.

  7. Got kids? on Can TiVo be Saved? · · Score: 1

    Pause live TV is more important to 'new' parents than you can imagine.

  8. Sterile? on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 0

    yea, maybe after I see YOU drink it...

  9. Re:this is nothing new on Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide · · Score: 1

    Mostly I think you are correct.

    I would ask about the 3% and the 30%
    what's the "revenue" on medicare and medicade?

    what's the revenue on a small/medium insurer?
    with BILLIONS AND (?trillions) in assets, it's much easier to control expenses- esp since capital equiptment is mostly 30 year old workstations and such, than for a corporation with Millions and Millions and the need to provide more advanced services...

  10. Re:Similar question... on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 4, Informative

    yes, a card bought that IGNORES the flag, will continue to do so.

    Hope it never shorts out, and they never update the driver or software.... and you don't need your todays AGP card to work in tommorows PCI-E mobo.....

    p.s. buy two

  11. I think you are incorrect on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the OP is trying to stay within the law.
    Your assesment is kinda wrong.

    You've never experienced things like a state tax filing amnesty? librariers that have fine amnesty?

    never heard of realtors trying to close deals before laws change so they can be grandfathered in and legal?

    the Question is,
    "HOW BEST CAN I PREPARE MYSELF FOR SOMETHING THAT IS LEGAL"

    not, how can I circumvent the law.

    the advice being sought is in fact, ON THE SIDE OF LAW and wholly valid, I'm glad to see the topic, I was thinking about snapping up some hardware myself.

    As I understand it- and I'd LOVE to be courteously corrected, the law only applies to products moved across state lines (or into the country) so a product manufactured, marketed and sold in the same US state, is actually still a possibility.

    (fabrication facilitys then needing to be built in each state of course)

  12. Concurment on Can TiVo be Saved? · · Score: 1

    I have a Tivo by Toshiba, (with dvd player) I'm still on basic service (never paid the 300 or the 13$ a month) and I've disconnected it from the network- for more than months at a time..

    After the initial setup of the box, a persistent connection to the net/phone is not necassary

  13. it's got errors, on Top 100 Gadgets of All Time · · Score: 1

    I know of two, the model 100 used 4 aa batteries
    and victironix makes some MIGHTY multi tool knives.

    http://www.victorinox.ch/newsite/en/produkte/neu/i nhalt2.cfm?pid=1.6795.XXLT

  14. So not new tech on NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology · · Score: 4, Insightful
  15. Re:Loss of functionality huh? on Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    it's limited to 64bit cpu's apparently.

  16. Re:Linksys knows on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 1

    in XP I can install any 'non compatible' driver I want on any piece of hardware.. I just untick the little "show compatible hardware" box, and choose the drivers I want...

    (yes I was talking about spoofing)

  17. Linksys knows on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Linksys does "mac address cloning" for ISP's that don't allow routers.

    Can anyone make the connection?

  18. Loss of functionality huh? on Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    Photoshop listing, under the loss of functionality

    "PhotoShop CS 8.0 Adobe
    Program installs, but will not start."

    howabout a third list microsoft
    Loss of functionality to me, means, something, somewhere does not work as it used to

    a third list
    "PROGRAMS THAT SUCK EGGS under xpsp2, and will NOT FUNCTION"

    I realize all function is a 'loss of functionality' but that doesn't really cover 'total loss' in my book.

  19. personally. on Martian Sea Discovered · · Score: -1, Troll

    I tend to masturbate with my hands, not my brain.

  20. innocent until proven guilty? on Smart Holograms Used as Biosensors · · Score: 1

    morphing into an image of a green car if someone subjected to breath analysis is sober and can drive

    Hmm.. if it doesn't work on an one individual-salinity, recent hair removal via electrolysis, scar tissue, whatever makes it work- fails to connect, and the car STAYS 'failed'

    I think it should start out green, and develop to identify 'drunken state' not the other way round..

  21. not over the pond yet on UK Leads in TV Show Downloading · · Score: 1

    Battlestar Galactica was apparently aired on sky (in the uk) as the entire seasons episodes is locatable it (*unusually*) aired over the pond first

  22. Sure, unless you want to take yout SUV outta town. on California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    hmm.. it's easy for me to run outta gas (Never actually done it) but how easy is it for tow-trucks to retrofit to fuel up vehichles on the road-

    Hey! no more sucking on the hose when I siphon gas!

  23. huh-- I speak 8 languages on A Savant Explains His Abilities · · Score: 4, Funny

    and I invented 7 of them!

  24. Re:Break only affects carefully constructed messag on More on Newly Broken SHA-1 · · Score: 0

    so you are saying daryl is prepping his 10-k for transmission now?

  25. what? but! on Blockbuster Sued Over Late Fees Claim · · Score: 1

    I still have a move at home from the first time i saw that commercial....