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  1. Re:Innovative on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    In thinking about it further, root-hertz noise and other conditions would have to be optimal. Phase distortions, whether slew-induced/reflective or simple TD would probably be corrected like any other HDX transmission. And ultimately, it really opens up a lot of freq bands.

  2. Re:Innovative on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    And therein is something perplexing, as multipathing ought to make this especially weird. Receiver discrimination would have to be unusually high; first it has to null out its own transmission (hoping that it doesn't null out it's own reception) and S/N has to be really high. Add in a bounce from something moving, or use any kind of slow slewing factor and this boat doesn't float.

  3. Re:Actually, the New Yorker article was quite tame on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    And what makes you so sure of that? Do you believe that the CIA does no wrong, doesn't try to find ways to trump up charges against people, and wouldn't do it if they had the chance to get their hands on Assange?

    The CIA is going to do everything in its power, including abating charges against former colleagues in the hope that they'll sour the media and world. Look at what the BofA and others are doing to try to prevent Wikileaks from coughing the names of their ostensibly money-laundering clientele?

    Correlation != Causation. Assange's allegedly evil behavior with two Swedish women doesn't mitigate the incredible power that the revealed truths of Wikileaks has. Maybe he's guilty. Doesn't mitigate the power of exposing the documents that they've posted. More power to Wikileaks. Truth wins out.

  4. Re:Bad things COULD happen. on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    There's little preventing pre-fertilized eggs, handily frozen, from being toted on a 'mission'. You might imagine that sending along other people's DNA would also help keep DNA diversity very wide, considering the small number of sex partners. In vitro fertilization has become trivial. Storing a wide variety of eggs with a known genome and characteristics is also becoming trivial.

    Once you get the after glow, just pop one in the cervix and have a nice 9months and decades of fun!

    Of course, when we go into some other planet's atmosphere, and become the invaders that we all fear in the movies, maybe other stuff happens, too.

  5. Re:[citation needed] on Tech-Unfriendly Cafes Say No Kindles Allowed · · Score: 1

    The next problem to think about: who's using their phones to read a book. Or, how long is that dude going to be on the notebook on Facebook.

    The model where you get a portion of buyers hanging around (each with a mix of buys and margins), and some of them grabbing some joe and leaving (hopefully with a sack full of expensive scones) based on a small square footage/high traffic flow lease, is one of those great strange gambles.

    Part of the problem, however, really is caffeine. These guys are around it so much, that they're buzzing and humming under their pointy heads. The machine is going at full-tilt, noodling: how can I make more revenue? Look at that idiot over there, he's been there for two hours while those three Indian chicks were looking for a fucking table! Ohmygawd! Ohmygawd! Ohmygawd!

  6. Re:[citation needed] on Tech-Unfriendly Cafes Say No Kindles Allowed · · Score: 1

    They also tend to go out of business in droves, then blame it on the corporate shops and their homogenous atmosphere(s).

    Quirky? How cute.... and essentially droll. I understand the need for turning tables, yet the thought of some over-caffienated jerk hovering over me as I try to finish a chapter is just a little too much. You remember Seinfeld's Soup Nazi? Welcome to NYC. Have a nice fucking day, and take your little Kindle with you.

  7. Re:Texas Budget Deficit on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    What happens in reality, is that the wine vintners have double distribution, and find ways to try to skirt state excise taxes. They've done this for quite some time now. I won't name names-- but they're a lot like Amazon but with a bigger problem: making UPS or even a mail carrier into an ID checker for compliance with under-age drinking laws. It's a mess, overall.

  8. Re:Is anybody really surprised? on Science Programs Hit Hard By Proposed Budget · · Score: 2

    Guess we followed those crazy ole founding fathers through the Revolutionary war, 1812, various collisions with Spain and Mexico, those cute little European in 1917 and 1941, Korea, VietNam, Iraq a couple of times, Afghanistan, and so on.

    Does the phrase 'common defense' mean anything to you? Here, let me shine it in your face:

    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  9. Re:Texas Budget Deficit on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Sounds nice on paper.

    However, my state prohibits-- or tries to-- mailorder booze, especially wine. In theory, wine exported to another area from the state it was manufactured in, is tax-exempt of state taxes (not federal, of course). So, at the destination, no taxes are charged (often).

    The wine maker probably has a distributor of some kind in the state, and perhaps nexus as a result, but often pays no excise tax in the state targeted.

    Therein lays the similarity. I understand and agree with your interpretation of the 21st. Yet only federal excise is collected in this way. Now if a wine maker has a nexus in that state by a distribution site, it's probably not exempt... unless the wine is shipped in from a different state. Perhaps you can understand my logic by reading between the lines.

  10. Re:Texas Budget Deficit on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Then you get into the squishy issues of interstate beer, wine, and liquor sales-- also a muddy topic. Is the UPS driver going to card you? Collect sales tax for your state, or the state where the liquor was made?

    The nexus has usually revolved around having a physical presence. Texas argues that having a warehouse is presence. All of the items in that warehouse might have been shipped to NM, LA, OK, or other surrounding states, although I doubt that's the case. Amazon's argument that it was a subsidiary only damns the subsidiary.

    Gosh, and Texas was a model for fiscal responsibility just a year or two ago-- what happened? Bills come due?

  11. Re:Great for middle-class employed people. on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 2

    This isn't at all about landlines: it's a deal to save Clearwire's butt and make a Sprint-Clearwire deal impossible for T-Mobile to pull off. The administration, beyond its lofty goals, is pretty worried about having the Deutsche Bourse merge with the NYSE, then have about half of the mobile infrastructure also owned by EU interests... IMHO

  12. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    Mea culpa. You're right.

    War sucks.

  13. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    And people modded me down when I take the guy to task for mindless ramblings. I don't know if it's a godwin that this dude is looking for, or whether his tinfoil hat needs an anodizing of titanium, but the wild hair I've-got-info-you-don't-got BS just gets old.

    Your point is right. We didn't exterminate people in WW2. Others did. We had a lot of fuckups in WW2, but none of them involved lining people up and machine gunning them, putting them into gas chambers and ovens, and so on. This is just one of his BS citations. Don't feel bad.

  14. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nah, give us the examples. We like listening to your paranoid libertarian-esque prattle. Show us the stuff, man. Go ahead, waste the breath. We want to hear about your extermination camps. Got any more juicy stuff?

  15. Re:I love .freespeech on Can World Governments Veto Your Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    .FreeSpeech and .protest are probably fine. However, .fuckNKoreaanditsdogfacedbitchking

    might cause a bit of controversy. I think that's where the NTIA is coming from. Personally, .fuckfoxnews might be really good. Sub domains could include:

    bircherbeck.fuckfoxnews

    might be a hit.

  16. Re:Thirsty for a motherfuckin' firsty on Fox News Brings Video Game Violence Debate To a New Low · · Score: 5, Informative

    The post also claims Fox is mainstream media. I don't believe that to be true at all. They may have a following, but mostly, they're redneck, science-denyin', anti-queer, don't-tax-me, Nazi-claimin' bags of big wind.

    And now, I'll watch as my /. karma twitches.

  17. Re:Free access for all... on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    Cell towers don't really do data that well, and the backhaul is tough, too.

    Were it feasible, fiber optic to the hut might be a better idea.

    Oh, wait....

  18. Re:Burning food for fuel is bad juju on Spinach Could Be Used For Hydrogen Fuel · · Score: 1

    No one intimates that it will skew food prices. No one's suggesting subsidies. It's research. There is no commodity market for spinach. It doesn't trade on the FOREX, CBoT, etc.

    Instead, there's a protein that might seve as a catalyst. We don't know the efficiency. We don't know the cost cycle. We don't have very good hydrogen-based fuel cells for civilians yet. We don't have any business ecosystems for civilian hydrogen distribution system so far.

    So, if I may ask, how do you make the leap of logic to food prices at this stage?

  19. Re:What?!? on US Seeks Veto Powers Over New TLDs · · Score: 1

    Read your history. It's always been like this, and is unlikely to change unless there's a collective push for it. People like the stupid status quo.

    We control directly who's elected. You have to cut thru the media hype and propaganda, and do real research, and encourage others to do that, too. Human rights were much worse 30yrs ago than they are now. Now, we have a way to get faster and more accurate observations of the violations. We still have to work harder. Much harder.

    So stop living in fear. The reason that the US gets to have sway over TLD naming is that 1) they invented it after lots of financing-- most all of the crux of DARPAnet, which we call the Internet today. 2) the US Gov administrates it, other agreements notwithstanding.

    Is it a power grab? Yeah. Others can rebel. Let's see how far it gets them. I'll get mightily mod'd as flamebait, but all the above are true.

  20. Re:The price of easy and automatic on USB Autorun Attacks Against Linux · · Score: 2

    I hate to throw in a well-used aphorism here, but nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. It's the imflamatory nature of the post that attracts so many hits to this.... it turns out that you can hurt almost anything thru blatant misconfiguration. The scope of the attack is comparatively tiny. And you might get all of an attack plane of a half-million users on a good day, provided they use removable storage, and they'll accept something from unvetted sources.

    Oh, wait....

  21. Re:Jack Weppler on Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oops. I did, too. Poor Jack.

  22. Re:SCO has a software business? on UnXis Group To Acquire SCO · · Score: 2

    No. Not patent trolling. Microsoft has made those claims; SCO asserted it owned the copyrights behind code in Linux, and other insane theories of ownership.

    Ballmer claimed 140+ patents over what the Linux kernel does... along with GNU utilities, the number could be in the thousands-- and in all probability, a math major's way of holding on to his goose that lays the golden eggs called Windows. In this way, Microsoft is patent trolling.... along with buying certain components of Novell's patent intellectual property-- if they get away with it.

    SCO is likely to get slapped down by the court; it's been done before, specifically with this purchaser. Who even knew it was up for auction?

  23. Re:Seriously? on Google's Search Copying Accusation Called 'Silly' · · Score: 1

    IDG makes advertising revenue from a lot of places. But their editorial is largely independent. NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, PCWorld, InfoWorld, all call them as they see them, so far as I can tell.

    Not a shill. Not even close.

  24. Re:Aka: on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 1

    Well, no, not really. You can pay that if you want. Some people root their phones and tether that way. You're did it the 'ethical' way. I'd gladly pay that cost if were offered on my phone.

  25. Re:Aka: on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 2

    Except that very few phones use LTE, and nothing that Apple makes uses it. I'm guessing that they're trying to prevent people using a tether as their broadband replacement from sagging their backhaul.

    And unlimited is a ruse, just like 4G is a ruse, but we knew that. Upthread they threw out 2G as a cap, but no one has any evidence at all for that, and I frequently go over that amount with impunity on their "unlimited" plan. So, be careful of the rumors you listen to.