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  1. Re:It makes sense in this case. on Open WAP = Probable Cause? · · Score: 1

    Not really.

    Infact, there was evidence that a crime occured somewhere in the general vicinity of his house. It could have occured at least 2 doors down in any direction.


    That is correct, however you have provided no reason to toss out the evidence that was found.

  2. It makes sense in this case. on Open WAP = Probable Cause? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There was cause to search his house because a crime appeared to have occurred there. When the house was searched, more evidence in support of establishing that a crime occurred there was found. I don't see how the second set of evidence could be thrown out, if all procedures were properly followed in establishing the cause to search his house. I don't see that it matters he had an Open WAP.

    If they searched his house and found no evidence supporting the initial reported crime, I believe he could use the Open WAP as defense.

  3. Re:Nice on Brain Tumor Vaccine Shows Promising Results · · Score: 1

    My father died last year from non-small cell lung cancer. He had brain metastasis in his language center and thalamus. He had aphasia that was cured after radiation and a contentious use of large amounts of Dexadron. It was a very short five months, and I am glad he had some relief from the months-long headache he endured before treatment.

    My mother-in-law was diagnosed with a rare type of glioma a month ago. My wife and I were expecting it to be a benign tumor. We were devastated by the diagnosis.

    Any new cancer treatments or research are good, IMHO.

  4. Re:Scary? on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, for a couple of reasons. GPS operates in the GHz region. When you hear of "radio blackouts" due to solar activity, it is reference to HF radio in the less than 30MHz region that uses skywave propagation. Currently we are at solar minimum and it is very unlikely we would have a solar event that would cause radio interference in the GHz region. The satellites may be affected by such an event, but I suspect the military has hardened them in such a way to be immune.

  5. Re:yawn on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 1

    Unlike BOSE, Dyson's suck really good.

    Everyone has heard "If it has no highs and it has no lows, it must be BOSE." My personal observation of BOSE products is that they have engineered their speakers to sounds mediocre no matter where you are standing in the room.

  6. Don't you mean.... on Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner · · Score: 1

    Here's further justification for the growing concern of the increasing amounts of space garbage orbiting our planet.

    Don't you mean space garbage that is de-orbiting our planet? :)

  7. Re:The ISPs should lose their 'common carrier' sta on Yes Virginia, ISPs Have Silently Blocked Web Sites · · Score: 1

    ISPs are not and never have been "common carriers". Common carriers may be ISPs, but not always.

  8. Re:Shuttle Joy-Rider on US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS · · Score: 1

    Are you Chris Burke of Burke and Burke? If so, glad to see some of the old CoCo guys still around. :)

  9. How would I deal with a global bandwidth shortage? on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 1

    How would you deal with a global bandwidth shortage?

    Allow the market to set the price of bandwidth. Duh!

  10. Re:Why shouldn't they ? on Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux? · · Score: 1

    Why not enable Appletalk on the file servers and use whatever is the Mac's equivalent of "Network Neighborhood".

  11. Re:Why shouldn't they ? on Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Enable WINS on one of your DNS boxen and point your client machine to it. (My best off the cuff guess)

  12. Re:The problem with high clock is not just heat .. on Pentium 4 631 Overclocked to 8 GHz · · Score: 2, Informative

    How fast electrical signals travel through the wires is depending on the material the wires are made of.

    Actually, the velocity of propagation equals the reciprocal of the square root of the dielectric constant of the material through which that signal passes.

  13. Re:Protection on XM+MP3 Going to Trial · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the case of radio broadcasting, the radio station did not give you the technology to make the recording. They just made the broadcast.

    How about GE? They own NBC and make VCRs.

    Same thing, right?

  14. Re:"Liberal media" on The Return of the Fairness Doctrine? · · Score: 1

    You'd think with their constant complaints about the liberal media, Republicans would be all in favor of a law requiring CNN et all to present their side fairly.

    Well, this is an attempt to regulate the "conservative media", talk radio.

  15. Re:OH NOES!!! on Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They see humans as greedy, immoral, sinful creatures only capable of civilization and cooperation so long as someone with a big stick is watching over them.

    That's what I have always though about liberals. *OH WAIT!* Doh!

  16. Re:Proof? on New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes · · Score: 1

    Well, I had trouble purchasing a song 2 days ago. From what I could gather, the servers used during the checkout of my purchase were responding with an error "503 Service Unavailable". IIRC, the dialog box had "Retry" and "Cancel" buttons. I had to click retry a few times, but I was able to get my copy of "We are the ones" by Zombie Girl. :P

  17. CNN confirms it! on New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes · · Score: 2, Funny

    CNN confirms it! iTunes is dieing!

  18. Re:Exactly on Linus Puts Kibosh On Banning Binary Kernel Modules · · Score: 1

    ./configure && make && make install is just too damned hard for some people. Those people use windows.

  19. Social Justice? on Moglen on Social Justice and OSS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have issues with the concept of "Social Justice" (in this country, the USA). I can understand helping people in poverty. Having the government give them the training and tools to get out of poverty is something anyone can understand.

    That is not what I see when people speak of "Social Justice". I see them attempting to have an even distribution of wealth, by using the government as the enforcer of what is socially just.

    It does not seem fair. Those who sacrifice, save and work hard should be rewarded. Those who do not, should not.

    On a global scale, often, when I see the struggling indigenous people of wherever, they have placed restraints on their economy or their economy is a structured (ie planned) economy that has inefficiencies in it. These types of economies look like the economies proposed by those seeking "Social Justice".

    This is just a Sunday morning rant. As always, I could be wrong :)

  20. Re:US DOJ says on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    by that I assume you mean us? (UK) or the ability to stop a government of your own that went bad.

    To stop our own government. Radical idea, huh?

  21. Re:US DOJ says on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    No, it was about the ability to violently overthrow a tyrannical government.

  22. Re:WE INVITE YOU TO COME SEE THE 2020 on Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself · · Score: 1
    I have found that my Bayes are detecting image spam all on its own. I am not sure if an OCR plugin would be worth the overhead, yet.

    Content analysis details: (8.1 points, 3.5 required)
     
      pts rule name description
     
      1.1 EXTRA_MPART_TYPE Header has extraneous Content-type:...type= entry
      0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
      3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
                                [score: 1.0000]
      0.8 SARE_GIF_ATTACH FULL: Email has a inline gif
      2.0 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address
                                [201.229.174.131 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net]
      0.7 MY_CID_AND_STYLE SARE cid and style
  23. Re:Not just true for humans on Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth · · Score: 1, Funny

    WooHoo! I'm in the top 0.85%! Bite me you poor, filthy bastards!

  24. .....are in his vocabulary on "Sysadmin of the Year" Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    The word "no" and phrase "I can't" are not in his vocabulary.

    But the word "no" and phrase "I won't" are in his vocabulary. :)

  25. Re:WhoTF? on UK Copyright Extension Not Happening · · Score: 1

    I think you and I are the only people who get the joke. Oh well. I have been moderated -1 troll before and I will be again. Maybe I should have attributed the quote so the clueless would "get it".