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  1. Re:FCC and cell phone companies will kill it on New Technology Could Kill WiMax? · · Score: 1

    There is a simple fix for that: use the phone's built-in GPS receiver.

    I'm not sure if you have ever owned a GPS reciever, but GPS signals are very bad at going through solid objects. Getting a lock inside is quite difficult and when one is achieved it will not be very accurate (some inital testing on my GPS reciever inside my home reveals that the horizontal positioning error is on the magnitude of several hundred feet, not close enough to figure out where you are). That is why most cell phones use triangulation off of the cell phone towers to figure out where you are. It can be (and has to, legally) quite accurate, on my CDMA phone this is called gpsONE (despite not actually being GPS). I have made some test calls with it and the coordinates it gives me are dead on.

  2. Re:IPV6 is plainly stupid and adds nothing to this on New Technology Could Kill WiMax? · · Score: 1

    IPV6 is absurd. Look at it closely, and justify the fact that it has more addresses than the amount of molecules in your body.

    Why are you SO concerned that there are more IP addresses in IPv6* than we would ever use? This is the POINT, to not run out. To make all of the IPv4** addresses usable would take a lot of work and it would also take a lot of work to implement IPv6. So why not just fix the problem with IPv6 which is superior.

    There are 281,474,976,710,656 (2^48) possible MAC addresses, why don't you complain about that as well?

    * IPv6 has 3.4 × 10^38 addresses.
    ** IPv4 has 4,294,000,000 possible addresses, not even enough for one per person.

    Wikipedia: Mac address
    Wikipedia: IPv6

  3. You forgot! on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In communist russia email flames you.

  4. Re:Cookie & Cream for kids? on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    If you were to throw an xbox controller it would break when it hit the floor because it ways so much. And they are expensive too!

  5. Re:How much energy in a shuttle full of uranium? on Saturn Moon Continues to Delight and Baffle · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that the mass of the uranium times the speed of light squared would give you the total energy that the uranium is capible of producing. I remember reading that somewhere...

  6. Re:Uh oh! on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 1

    Not sure, never found a reliable guide to how this slahdot thing is supposed to work.

  7. Re:Uh oh! on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 1

    The mods need some help from time to time. Just pointing out a good post. You know, the stuff that makes slashdot what it is today.

  8. Re:Uh oh! on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Mod parent +5 Redundant!

  9. Re:50 degrees? on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    Notice: Fahrenheit and Celsius are not units. Stop using them that way. A degree is a unit. Kelvin is a is unit. So 50C, 50F, or 50K are the three options.

  10. Re:Sentence? Just Hit Delete! on Spammer Scott Levine Convicted · · Score: 1

    This might just fall into the category of cruel and unusual punishment...

  11. Re:Good deal on 7800 gt on First Reviews: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT GPU · · Score: 1

    Live about 10 minutes from downtown chattanooga, tn. A city of ~155,554 people and a 476,531 people in the metropolitan area according to the wiki.
    Double checked my prices, more like $150k-$200k for a nice two story house w/ propery.

  12. Re:Good deal on 7800 gt on First Reviews: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT GPU · · Score: 1

    A million for a house? Where do you live, San Francisco? I can find a good house where I live for about $150,000 with property.

  13. Re:Challenge on Phishers Using Keystroke Loggers · · Score: 1

    Suntrust, a local bank here in the U.S., also doesn't allow for any special characters. It also requires a minimum of 6 characters, which is a good thing, but it also limits you to a max of 8 characters! This interferred with my usual password generation scheme and forced me to pick a more insecure password. Online banking security is pathetic.

  14. Re:security? on P2P Through Firewalls · · Score: 1

    It doesn't reconfigure your firewall. It simply deals with NAT.

  15. Who cares? on Intel Puts WiFi Back Into Next Gen Chipsets · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Their firmware isn't even free enough to be redistributed in binary form making it unsuitable for use any any o/s but Windows.

  16. Re:And why are you people voting for Bush? on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 1

    I don't see any such powers in the constitution, maybe he had the help of congress? Remember one man doesn't make every decision we have in this country. Checks and balances should be able to control tyranical presidents. He can't just do whatever he wants he needs support from congress. Don't make it sound so simple.

  17. Mod Article Down on The State of the Demon Address · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where is my option to mod this article down? It's full of misinformation and slander. How do things like this get posted? Do any fact checking in the OpenBSD section alone and you will see several glaring false statements, as well as hateful remarks towards its lead developer.

  18. Re:/bin/sh on Metaprogramming GPUs with Sh · · Score: 1

    I was not aware of this. Thanks

  19. Re:/bin/sh on Metaprogramming GPUs with Sh · · Score: 1

    Linux developers get off on that. Sh isn't bash! Fix your broken systems. Sh and bash behave differently. Linking sh to bash creates portability issues for shell scripts.

  20. Re:Free porn? on A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning Man Desert · · Score: 1

    Explain how i have had a credit card since the age of 15 then?

  21. Re:Time to cut your virus count on McAfee lists Adware in Top 10 Viruses · · Score: 1

    The fridge is actually the worst place to keep your coffee. Normally the best strategy is buy about a weeks worth of freshly roasted (or at least whole bean) and grind as you need to keeping your unground bean in a air tight container. If you need to store whole beans for a LONG time then the freezer is a little better than just an air tight container. The fridge has too much moisture...

  22. Re:Huh? on QuakeCon id Software Keynote Coverage · · Score: 0

    His wife Adrian did a good bit of the artwork in Doom 3. I remember seeing a picture of her modeling a Cyberdemon I do believe.

  23. Re:In other news on Analysis of Spyware · · Score: 1

    Yea and I keep getting a bunch of emails from these martianbuddy guys.

  24. I'd Like to Solve the Puzzle on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1

    get out more.

  25. The Scary Thing is... on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know more than a few people who would absolutely go nuts if they got this email. Oh and obligatory joke...
    1) Send Death Threat Emails
    2) Watch Money Roll In
    3) Profit!

    You dont even need the question marks.