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  1. Re:Monopoly on Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sure there is. Most of the major ISP's offer DSL in the markets that Verizon does, such as Earthlink. Now with that said, in my experience, all this ends up being is Verizon DSL without dealing with Verizon, which works out well, because the Earthlink is a lot more friendlier

  2. Re:Degradation of rights for nothing on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    This may prove to be a new dawn for thin clients... where laptops are merely the vessels to where the data is really stored. Or perhaps more reason for using NetOS's and webapps.

  3. Re:Govt fault, not the aide on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 1

    I wonder if some of it is designed that way to help in the spread of misinformation...

  4. Re:Nooo! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    Interesting... I got family members on Nantucket, which is 35 miles out to sea off of MA and they can get cable and Fiber for large part of the island, so cable, fiber, and ADSL is very common. Of course there are so many million/billionairs that hold residents there it's no wonder they offer such services. Data is transferred to the mainland via microwave towers and undersea cables.

  5. Re:5000 Java Games Torrent Here! on iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games · · Score: 1

    Didn't Sun release a JVM for the iPhone?

  6. Re:Dr Evil on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hire Dr. Evil to adapt his pet sharks with "Lasers" to be more like fish tank sucker fish that can co-exist in the Lunar habitat and enjoy new extreme environments for them to play, work, and live it, or perhaps have him create some kind of robo-sucker-wiper-kill-bot.

  7. Re:Should have stop at, Aren't FAXes the weirdest on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting... which reminds me, didn't Clinton make digital signatures legal before leaving office, and if so, then wouldn't that then allow printed copies of a digitally signed document count as being legally binding?

  8. Re:Why not fluorescents? on DoE Announces 'L Prize' For Solid-State Lighting · · Score: 1

    My guess would be because fluorescents flicker at high speeds and causes eye strain and headaches.

  9. Re:Duct Tape on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1

    UPS views anything taped up with duck-tape as broken, because it will likely get caught in there automated belt systems.

  10. Re:Scary on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    Would you mind sharing the script?

  11. Re:I am not trying to obnoxious. on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    I run WinXP Pro with Virtualbox and one thing that I noticed is that it is XP is far more responsive and less resource hungry when run as a VM on top of Linux. I have yet to run any tests to prove it.

  12. Re:personally ... on Cisco, Troll Tracker Blogger Sued For Defamation · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the problems of this is that legally companies are considered a person. Go watch the free documentary The Corporation, then perhaps you can start to plan ways around this distorting the governments view between a person and a "person."

  13. Re:Allegory of the cave, anyone? on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 1

    All part of the 3 step plan!!!!

  14. Allegory of the cave, anyone? on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 1

    Hrm... ok, how about this: make a model of your living room or some room with models of all the people and place it in such a way so that the camera believes the models as the real thing. Move some light to cast different shadows and so further... perhaps even better, have the model people move in some way when the channel changes.

  15. Re:Ah well ... on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 1

    Mine too, but I merely refused their set-top box. I figure, either MythTV or direct connection with no ComCrap box and extra fees.

  16. Re:Like we were expecting something else on NVIDIA Doubts Ray Tracing Is the Future of Games · · Score: 1

    No I don't think they will, but they might say, "We see this becoming the next trend, which we are committed to supporting."

  17. Re:I don't have a cellar on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 1

    That's a good point. Often, wood houses are cheaper to build.

  18. Re:Without outrage... on FBI Admits More Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Patrick Henry, once said, "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"

  19. Re:I don't have a cellar on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 1

    In many cases I would agree, but in regions that have high levels of damaging storms (hurricanes, twisters, etc), then maybe people should build their homes, mostly, if not completely underground, then one would save on insurance, heating/cooling, etc. As for missing windows... one could use webcams pointed at sights outside and have framed monitors act like windows and have parascope like skylights.

  20. Re:No carry ons... on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    It's about to get worse, now that United Airlines plans to start charging a fee for people whom have more than 1 checked bag.

  21. Re:Still hard to install? on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    Yes, or at least close to it PC-BSD.

  22. Re:Translation on Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, correct me if I am wrong, but there is already a 2nd Internet and it's more secure...

  23. Re:Wow on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 1

    It might also be better for people whom will only run Window server stuff within a hypervisor controlled by a FOSS stack.

  24. Re:Brute force and ignorance on Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo · · Score: 1

    I bet they will 1st try and shift their freeBSD servers to run inside a VM Server, then slowly shift code to run directly on a windows server.

  25. Re:it's called No Script on Growth of the Underground Cybercrime Economy · · Score: 1

    Very true... but I often feel the safest while using Lynx or W3m