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  1. No I am talking on my radio on DoT Grants $15M To Test Car-To-Car Communication · · Score: 1

    Imagine the trouble this will cause to people's cellphone conversations. When they are yelling on the radio to the driver in front of them while trying to hold a meaningless conversation on their cellphone. Not to mention, this will be just another distraction from eating a bagel while smoking and drinking a coffee.

  2. Other applications on Is RFID Really That Scary? · · Score: 1

    The must be some sort of way to use RFID technology to enhance the pr0ns, in that case it's all good otherwise it's downright evil.

  3. The Sad Reality on FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test · · Score: 1

    In this region Fairpoint is often the only choice for highspeed internet. If there is another option, it's Comcast who was forging rst packets, and blocking connections willy nilly. I was unable to use a VPN to my office, because Comcast deemed it bad traffic. Beyond that, if you try to use your 800 Billion free hours of AOL or other dialup, often times the phone lines are original copper from the early 1900s and won't even support 56k dialup.

  4. Re:Help! on FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test · · Score: 1

    I hate Comcast with a passion and Verizon was horrible. I didn't think there could be anything worse, then Fairpoint came along and showed they were 100% less capable than Comcast or Verizon.

  5. Amazing!!! on FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test · · Score: 1

    This is the first time Fairpoint has shown any competence in anything since they took over!!!!!!

  6. Re:he could have swung it if.... on Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It · · Score: 1

    The kicker is the office probably didn't notice the missing hard drive, he probably told them. He didn't even need to leave a dummy HDD, he just needed to shut up. {of course this is conjecture}

  7. I can hear it now on Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood · · Score: 1

    Damn ... another yeast infection

  8. In Other News on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Slashdot has moved its website to be hosted on a Mac emulating Windows to get that fresh feeling from running on IIS

  9. Wouldn't this make it easier? on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Then couldn't the terrorists save a lot of time and bomb everything that is blurred out? I mean no more wondering which one is the federal building... it'll always be the blurred one. Might even let them know about potential targets they hadn't thought of.

  10. Re:This is a scam on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever research cord blood cells? No, its obvious you have not, your entire statement is one piece of information after another. 1.) No stem cells are not easily obtained from adult blood, they can be harvested from bone marrow. This is not an easy process, and certainly one you would rather do without if you have some sort of major disease where you need stem cells. 2.) Very low chance? Its better than no chance. I don't have the percentages here, but its a higher chance than bone marrow and any other ideas out there. 3.) There is no guarantee, but they are working. There aren't many cases of failure that I have read about in my research 4.) So far, though mainly because it hasn't been tried in humans they have regenerated organs in pigs. 5.) Ummm ok and there could be unicorns walking around soon too. 6.) You call it emotional blackmail, others call it providing a service that they are more than willing to pay for. and as for your its ok if done with tax money statements, that is just stupid. Whos money doesn't change the validity of the science. One last point there are many blood cord banks that will take a cord and store it for free, if you are willing to donate it for public use. No one knows the upper limit of storage because the technique hasn't been around for very long, but there are some indications it could be much longer than 10 years. One peer-reviewed article I read made a claim the cells could still be viable 50 years.

  11. Re:UNTIL white house emails are available. on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    Not to mention when the "staffers" were using the email addresses, they were still public people without jobs. Now, IF they continue to use those email addresses now... then that would be an issue

  12. Re:amazing on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which with 512Mb of ram on XP it would be. I mean this article is interesting and I don't doubt that it's a true speed difference, but this isn't a great way to test it.

  13. Recycle Bin on Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails · · Score: 1

    If its like the rest of his administration, he tried to delete it. Its still in the recycle bin, just undelete it.

  14. Re:Data Mining.... on Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records · · Score: 1

    Come on, most of these people on /. don't even know what a condom is much less actually use one. :-)

  15. Comcast on Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Comcast will just block UDP completely... duh it's not like they care if you can use 'your internets'

  16. Re:It wont even install for me on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    No he meant "Epoch Fail"

  17. Re:Iowa's New Top Crop Is Server Farms on Iowa's New Top Crop Is Server Farms · · Score: 1

    Mac mini's! They grow up to be real computers some day! (ducks the flying objects from the Apple Deciples)

  18. Re:Horizonal Position on GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court · · Score: 1

    I understand physics, I don't need you to explain it. The fact is consumer and cheap GPSs calculate speed on a 2d plane. Although GPS technology and the sats are military in origin, GPS recievers are not. They calculate speed by displacement over time. Your Garmin handheld has less to do with missles than you must think. Car GPS receivers have even less.

  19. Re:Horizonal Position on GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court · · Score: 1

    It calculates your position in 3 dimension, but consumer GPSs do not calculate SPEED in 3D

  20. Horizonal Position on GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court · · Score: 0, Redundant

    While many GPS's can show your vertical position, I don't know of one that calculates speed using vertical position. In other words your speed is calculated assuming you are on a horizontal plane and it calculates your displacement on that plane vs time. Also, these car GPSs aren't accurate, they are to calculate an approx position and speed. Even having a 1M error, that would cause issues with the calculation of speed.

  21. Options on Doctorow Tears Up ISP Contract Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thats nice if there is more than 1 broadband option where you live.

  22. Re:where does the 7 come from? on How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7 · · Score: 1

    thx.

  23. where does the 7 come from? on How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe I missed something but where does 7 come from... I remember Windows 2 Windows 3.x then you have Windows 95 (windows 4) Windows 98 (windows 5) Windows ME (assuming we count it say windows 6) Windows 2000 (we'll say this was the NT line ) Windows XP (windows 6) Windows Vista (Windows 7)... So who doesn't count??? ME?? Vista?

  24. Re:Even worse threats on the horizon... on Boot Sector Viruses & Rootkits Poised For Comeback · · Score: 1

    It's funny a hundred years ago in the mid to late 90s floppy viruses stopped being effective because people stopped exchanging floppies, but at that same time network viruses thrived due to connection to the internet. Now with USB keys so common, a floppy type virus should/could make a good living. No one worries about the potential that someones USB key carries a virus.

  25. Ballmer's first response on Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I going to f---ing kill the 915 chipset!"