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  1. Re:Welcome to Dilbertville on Say Nothing About the Failing Satellite · · Score: 1

    All of this, considering that this guy is a career NWS official, means that the situation is probably fairly dire. He didn't get to be head of the most prestigious and well-known agency in the NWS (perhaps all of NOAA) by pissing people off.

    This stuff is -really- freakin' important.

  2. Re:Two words: on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    I work with youth. Ritalin is a bad start for the answer. Less then 3% of the "ADD" youth I worked with need Ritalin.

    You're right. Adderall is the preferred drug these days, anyway. ;)

  3. Re:It is based on what you are looking for... on What are the Best Cell Phone Services in the US? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You put LOTS of effort into that, and your information is both timely and accurate.

    However, this article is about third-party cell phone services that you access through your cell phone provider. Sorry there.

  4. Re:US DOJ is the EXECUTIVE, not JUDICIAL, branch on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that not all Americans are willing to trade their liberties away for a little pretended safety.

  5. Re:Good grief... on Illinois Ban On Explicit Video Games Is Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah, well, there's that. Google's a start, though, and limiting your search to sites that end in .edu can filter some of the more worthless dreck (and introduce new, different worthless dreck! :D ) Good luck anyway. :)

  6. Re:Good grief... on Illinois Ban On Explicit Video Games Is Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Actually, the comment was less inane than it initially appears. He has indicated to you that it is both speculation and sociological theory. If you seriously want to do more research on this thought, google 'human sexuality'.

  7. Re:Randomly dump their trash would be stupid on Astronauts Throw Trash Into Space · · Score: 1

    At Eglin Air Force Base, on test range C6, there is a radar that tracks everything it can see in the air, well into space. Everything bigger than a shotgun shell is tagged, registered and tracked.

    There's a few more of these radars throughout the world, but range C6 is the one I know about. :)

  8. Re:Screens slipping out of synch on More Voting Shenanigans in Florida · · Score: 1

    How about taking that idea one further and modeling the voting machines after well tested technology, both for usability and security...ATMs. They have an interface that works, plus most people are already familiar with it. They have a paper trail in addition to digitally stored state (redundancy should be a no-brainer for this machine). Plus they are secured against tampering.

    BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    love and hugs,
    A Former ATM Developer

  9. Re:Like we didnt do this on China - We Don't Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    Dude, nobody is going to revoke your freakin' license. The FCC is too lazy to get off its ass and get people who are blocking military and emergency frequencies with their bullshit without six warrants, fifty little pink slip warnings, and THEN MAYBE they'll get ONE GUY.

    However, I can confirm what you're saying about HF. There's a looot of interesting stuff out there that almost nobody here knows anything about.

    73 de Sean KI4IIB
    ARES EC
    Okaloosa County, FL

  10. Re:Yeah, right. Sure. Uh-huh. What a dolt. on Wi-Fi Fingerprints -- the End of MAC Spoofing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spoken like someone who's never touched a radio outside of the one GM sold him with his car.

    Each radio in existence has a unique signal generated, mostly due to component variation in each production run. Resistors and capacitors in circuits are designed to tolerate a certain amount of variation in resistance, capacitance, etc etc. It's difficult to replicate - and by 'difficult', I mean an electrical engineer with a laboratory full of equipment and a team working for him would find it difficult. A signal generator designed to replicate a specific signal fingerprint would be (a) prohibitively large and (b) prohibitively expensive. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of dollars. NSA stuff.

    This is a good idea, really, but I'm skeptical of the ability to pack that much sensing equipment into a consumer-portable wireless card.

  11. Re:Good communication != Immediate Gratification on When Can I Expect an Email Response? · · Score: 1

    List of persons with autism spectrum disorders
    From AspiesForFreedom

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  12. Re:Close to the last straw on Blogging All the Way to Jail · · Score: 1

    Or, upon review, at least not post about it on slashdot.

  13. Re:Close to the last straw on Blogging All the Way to Jail · · Score: 1

    Moral justification: sometimes the majority is just wrong.

  14. Re:Strange... on Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.' · · Score: 1

    Try again. They're 100% better now. No, really, we're using Dapper Drake (Ubuntu 6.06) in a production environment here at work. LOVE.

  15. Re:not here on Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you telling me that after the Windows 95 + debacle, Windows 98 (and 98SE, or wait, what version is this?) Windows ME, the fun and good times we all had deploying XP SP2 (*strangles self*), that your company has honestly, seriously committed to deploy Vista acros 65,000x3 desktops? No, really, who do you work for, you poor, abused soul?
     
    ...putting it out on a corp volume licence implies they're satisfied it's up to enterprise-level stability.

    No, that means that they think people who are in charge of 195,000 computers will buy it, and the quality will not be sufficiently horrid to drive them all to get rid of their Windows desktops and servers. Because really, how bad would it have to be to make you consider switching to, say, Linux? Pretty damn horrible, yeah?

    So whatever that level is - as long as Windows is above that, they'll sell it to you. Have fun with that.

  16. Re:This quote may be too obscure, but... on Mozilla Partners with Real Networks · · Score: 1

    Not obscure. /non-story

  17. Re:Maybe on Mozilla Partners with Real Networks · · Score: 1

    Real is a virus/spyware.

    Well? I'm waiting!

  18. Re:Starving programmers on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Hooray beer!

    *checks fridge* Damnit. Corona.

  19. Re:Starving programmers on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 2

    Boooooooo.

  20. Re:I am a cop. on Citizen Photographers v. The Police? · · Score: 1

    Hoorah. Proud to have your type on our country's streets. =)

  21. Re:Authority, Responsibility, Powers of Police on Citizen Photographers v. The Police? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Good luck with that.

  22. Re:The way it is on OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down · · Score: 1, Funny

    I couldn't let this thread go more than 3 posts about package management without handwaving and saying, "UBUNTU!!!".

    You may now return to your originally scheduled programming.

  23. Re:Apple Rapidly Losing Its Cool on OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Neerrrrrrrrrrd. ;)

  24. Re:And a very August launch it will be on Shuttle Atlantis Being Readied For August Launch · · Score: 1

    Ba-dmp-crash.

    Try the veal.

  25. Wikipedia says... on Astronomers Awaiting 1a Supernova · · Score: 1

    From TFW:

    It is expected that its mass will continue to increase to beyond this limit; at which point a type Ia supernova will occur and destroy the star system in a spectacular explosion that will be visible from the Earth for several days, even after sunrise. The exact time period of this explosion is not known, but will likely occur within the next 100,000 years.

    Whoa.