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  1. Re:Welcome to the cloud! on Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears · · Score: 1

    Okay, so I only know of two that meet that criteria... gotcha.

  2. Re:It's called "Insurance" on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    Logic, first it is flawed, then it is my friend... I can't keep up with it. You see why we have such a strained relationship, no?

  3. Re:Don't think there is a problem on Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink · · Score: 2

    The shielding may be the problem. The reason we turn off electronics is a single engine fighter jet crash caused by a system using the resonant frequency or the casing for the fire detection system in the engine that lead to a crash.

  4. Re:Don't think there is a problem on Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink · · Score: 2, Informative

    Theoretically, they make you put away magazines too, I don't see why the Kindle is any different.

  5. Re:It's called "Insurance" on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    This is the car equivalent of "it's photoshopped, I see it in the pixels." Look at the most stolen car list only two have immobilizers (and I'm guessing those two are flawed). The other eight have been on the list forever. Why aren't newer cars on the list? They are harder to take.

    Why my car (on the list) was stolen the insurance company said, they usually wait 1 month before writing a check, but that in the case of this car its only chopped so they waived this waiting period. So this is not joy riding.

  6. Re:So what? on Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy · · Score: 1

    ... ah but it isn't that hard to identify the vehicle color (and with some brains, make, model, and approximate year). Now you have to find plates that are just so.

    That said, someone drove around with my car, plates still on, for a week before parking it in front of a fire hydrant and getting a tow.

  7. Re:A sad world. on Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy · · Score: 1

    Then i hope you pay with cash, otherwise they just use your CC number as your loyalty number. If that doesn't happen, they could use your license plate.

  8. Re:lojack on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    Might want to checkout the lojack site again and update that price. Min is $700 and looks like $1,000 is not uncommon.

  9. Re:No good for car on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    I got a car back (a car so likely to be stripped that the insurance company waived the usual 1 month waiting period in favor of 1 week) and the worst thing that happened to it (aside from the ignition being removed) is that they got a photo enforcement ticket and had to contest it without guidance on how much evidence I needed. They weren't even going that fast, I think 30 in a 25 or something.

  10. Re:It's called "Insurance" on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    What year is this? most (if not all) of these parts have VINs on them now, plus, who would buy an after market gas tank?

  11. Re:It's called "Insurance" on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    That is because the cars that are not total pieces of shit have immobilizers.

  12. Re:Package managers on 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Yet installing packages (in my brief encounter with ubuntu) required lots of time on the CLI digging out errors from some non-compatable hardware.

  13. Re:Obvious on 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Well, you *can* pay for LAME on the mac...

  14. Re:only 50k for a problem that complex? on $50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever · · Score: 1

    Nope, re-assembeling them AND you refuse to license it is a national security purpose. Otherwise, it's just another expensive thing in the tool kit.

    Many individuals hold patents for nuclear weapons production in the U.S. They collect royalties on those too. The USG honors those patents...

  15. Re:Supernovas on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    Exactly, and they also traveled over a huge distance to Earth--they did both. So they should have traveled FTL for a portion of their trip either way.

  16. Re:Supernovas on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    So which one spent more time traveling in dense media in high gravity?

  17. Re:You are here... on Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services · · Score: 1

    In drug patents you never so a licensee. The system was designed to create an incentive to create--it is the creator who gets to decide how to milk it once they have patents their product.

  18. Re:Farmer subsidies need to STOP on Net Neutrality and Carrier Incentives To Invest · · Score: 2

    The government doesn't pay to not produce any more but does buy land and turn it into prairies or parks. Basically land is so productive now that we don't need it all.

  19. Re:.... and it's not the only leech on Rambus Loses $4B Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    Its a 20% seed increase for 40% more. For almost every AMD on that graph, you can't find a Intel above it for a price even close to it. But... AMD does not have anything at the top. He said $900 and it is more like $300, but big deal.

  20. Re:only 50k for a problem that complex? on $50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever · · Score: 2

    The US Government does not get a free ride when it comes to patents. They may disregard a patent for national security purposes. For example, when the antrhrax attacks were underway the maker of the patented first line drug did not have sufficient quantities of the drug and the USG basically said, "then make them or we will do it for you and not give you a licensing fee." They did not do this, but that is the type of situation where they can override a patent, not like, "hey, nice shiny thing... I'll just take that then."

  21. Re:haha brits are treated like children on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every cab/limo in NYC has a camera in it.

  22. Re:Errata, damn spell check on Kindle Fire Will Be Hotter Than iPad This Holiday · · Score: 1

    I have to admit (As a macbook owner) that is not a half bad computer.

    I would miss the unibody, and backlight keyboard. These are deal breakers for me, but really solid construction could help me get over the unibody. I'd also miss the firewire, thunderbolt, 802.11.a (useful in crowded areas), lower weight and longer battery life (read the reviews, 8 cell is heavier and gets 1 or 2 fewer hours battery life in real life), but it sounds like a real contender.

  23. Re:Apple laughing all the way to the bank... on Kindle Fire Will Be Hotter Than iPad This Holiday · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Put another way, after using it for awhile, I can still sell my Macbook with a core 2 duo, buy your ASUS Sandy Bridge i5, and have change to spare. Macs are that expensive if you resell them a year or two after you buy them.

  24. Re:Price is low because of subsidy, not size. on Kindle Fire Will Be Hotter Than iPad This Holiday · · Score: 1

    They publish their balance sheet. They don't make much money on the stores.

  25. Re:One Time Pads on Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange? · · Score: 1

    By forever he was saying that there is no number of years at which an eavesdropper could decrypt your message (this assumes the randomization was done correctly).