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  1. Re:Brakes. Not breaks. on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 1

    Legality of passing on the right is situation dependent, as noted by your own link:

    http://www.nysdmv.com/dmanual/chapter06-manual.htm

    "Before you pass on the right on multilane roads such as expressways, make sure you check your mirrors, use the proper signals for lane change, and look over your right shoulder for other vehicles. After passing, be sure to check over your left shoulder, and to signal, before returning to the left lane."

  2. Re:Where to start. on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    The machine has 1Gb RAM. My laptop has a quarter of that and seems to browse the web and run Office perfectly well.
    But are you running Vista? ;-)
  3. Re:YMCA on Boeing's New 787 Wings — Amazingly Flexible · · Score: 1

    I want to see the 787 do the Y-M-C-A :)
    Better have those seatbelts fastened and tray tables put away when the plane does the C.
  4. Re:Mod parent down: Bullshit. on 'Over 30' Section For Games Stores? · · Score: 1
    Originally, when the law limiting the consumption of alcoholic beverages to people 21 or older was enacted, the voting age was also 21.
    So...you should legally be allowed to be drunk when you vote?
    That could explain some things...
  5. Re:This sounds familiar... on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quick, someone port the Aero GUI.

    I'm filing a class action on behalf of all who were eating or drinking when reading your post.

  6. Re:From the FL dept of revenue on Taxing Virtual Gaming Assets · · Score: 2, Informative

    BTW, the FL intangible personal property tax was repealed this year, to take effect in 2007. http://www.hodgsonruss.com/article_892.html

  7. Re:Just getting STARTED, my friend! on Should Online Stores Be Subject To ADA? · · Score: 1
    Also, if that person weighs 500 or so pounds, the required electric wheelchairs (which should be able to auto-navigate the store in case you're blind, and read out to you in brail, what's on the shelves as you go by) should be able to handle at least half a ton skinniness-challenged shopper.
    500 pounds is a quarter ton.
  8. Re:It's not the security I'm worried about.... on Web Surfing in Public Places Is A Way to Court Trouble · · Score: 1
    http://www.itsatechworld.com/2006/01/29/how-to-con figure-openvpn/

    Aside from making sure your router has the proper port forwarded and that it has the proper routing, make sure your server.ovpn file has the line:
    push "redirect-gateway def1"
    in order to force all your internet traffic to go through your VPN. This was needed on an XP server. Other OS might not require the def1 bit.

  9. Re:It's not the security I'm worried about.... on Web Surfing in Public Places Is A Way to Court Trouble · · Score: 1
    Could you pass on the URL so we can all take a look?

    Sure thing. The URL is bookmarked at home, so stay tuned for an update tonight. I struggled for a while trying to get the correct config settings to do this. An alternative I was using called iPiG (http://www.iopus.com/ipig/) - iOpus Private Internet Gateway - was useful for just redirecting traffic to a secured network, but it's not open source, so OpenVPN gets a few extra points for being that. I also used their free server software so I wouldn't be relying on a third-party connection point. The big extra of using OpenVPN aside from being open source is being able to connect to any of my home network shares.

    FYI, my OpenVPN setup is on an XP pro box sitting behind a WRT54G router running dd-wrt (although all you really need is correct port forwarding for your VPN port of choice).

  10. Re:It's not the security I'm worried about.... on Web Surfing in Public Places Is A Way to Court Trouble · · Score: 2, Informative

    I installed OpenVPN on my home desktop machine, and whenever I am on the road I connect my laptop to whatever available internet connection and VPN back to my home network. Configuration is set so ALL of my traffic is automatically routed through the home network then back onto the internet. No proxy changes needed as the OpenVPN config can be set to make your computer use the VPN as the default gateway. If you want to try something like this, send me a note and I'll dig up the URL that was the most useful when I was setting this up.

  11. Difference procedure? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was hoping the Navy was using sharks with lasers...

  12. Re:Free Lunch on Telecommute Tax Relief Gathers Steam · · Score: 2, Informative
    Here's an interesting tidbit about New Jersey and New York income taxes. Last year, my fiance worked in New Jersey for 2 months, January and February. She then moved to Albany where she worked the remainder of the year for a different employer. She cut all ties to New Jersey once she moved, so none of her work was done there. Last month when she filed her income taxes, lo and behold New Jersey taxes people for their entire annual income, regardless of whether you earned it all in New Jersey or not. She basically had to pay income tax twice. New York, on the other hand, only taxed her for her New York income. Personally, I think that the New Jersey tax is worse than the New York telecommuter since she didn't feasibly benefit New Jersey's economy in any way after she moved. You could possibly make an argument that a telecommuter to a New York location does effect the economy there because you're conducting business there.

    Are you sure about that? I have helped a coworker who moved to/from NJ/NYC a couple years and had to deal with part-year resident forms on both sides. If you make 20K while living in NJ and 40K after moving to NY (and from a NY source), only 20K is taxable in NJ. Part-year resident tax forms for NJ are much less tedious than NYS/NYC PY resident tax forms (where you have to do a column for what's on your fed forms, another for what portion was NY state, etc).

    From NJ 051040i.pdf p17

    Filing Requirements. Any person who became a resident of this State or moved out of this State during the year is subject to New Jersey income tax for that portion of the income received while a resident of New Jersey. Part-year residents must file a resident return and prorate all exemptions, deductions, and credits, as well as the pension and other retirement income exclusions, to reflect the period covered by the return. A person who receives income from a New Jersey source while a nonresident must file a New Jersey nonresident return.

  13. Good thing... on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found · · Score: 0

    I didn't open the Lenovo_ban.doc attachment.

  14. Re:They're not helping themselves on Combating Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    And how does one then use a credit card for an over-the-phone transaction?

  15. Re:Rewarding Effort on Google Execs Happy With $1 Salaries · · Score: 1

    Dividend income is taxed at ordinary income rates, unless it meets certain holding period requirements. It's qualified dividends that are taxed at a preferential rate. Capital gains are also taxed differently depending on holding period. Short-term CG is treated the same as ordinary income. Long-term CG get the lower rates. There's no guarantee that holding a stock for at least a year will land you in the money.

  16. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 on How Interesting is Your IP Address? · · Score: 1
    Funny? Yes.

    Intentionally invalid? Perhaps.

    Maybe this is the modern equivalent to the 555-xxxx numbers often spouted by TV shows. You don't want the TV show watchers to be hammering someone's real IP address. Would have been interesting if they used the IP address mapped to whitehouse.gov or something.

    If Chloe connected to Palmer's internal network, a 192.168.x.x reference would have sufficed. I guess the 292.x.x.x address gets around whatever firewall Palmer was behind. :D

  17. Re:How's the laptop market doing? on Intel Loses Market Share to AMD · · Score: 2, Informative
    Centrino is the chipset used in those notebooks.

    Close...

    From Intel:

    The technology represented by the Intel Centrino mobile technology brand combines the Intel® Pentium® M processor, the Intel® 855 Chipset Family and the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection. All components were optimized, validated and tested to work together with mobility in mind.

  18. Re:Huh? on iTunes Credited with Boosting Primetime Ratings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Could be that iTunes viewers usually watch the live show, but use iTunes to get the ones they missed, but torrent viewers always watch the torrents, so they will never contribute to the live viewing share statistic.

  19. Re:A fun little theory on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 1

    Lisa: Area 51!? I found Area 51!
    Guard: No m'am this is Area 51A
    Lisa: Grr....well, um, i'm kind of lost, can you tell me where I am?
    Guard: I'm sorry, the location of this location is classified!

  20. Re:Damned if you do, damned if you don't on Sorting Through the Analog to Digital TV Mess · · Score: 2, Interesting
    If the top people are making 90% of the money, they should pay 90% of the taxes! This isn't happening. Why not? THAT is unfair.

    That math would point to a flat tax rate, vs the progressive rates we have in place. Under the current system, if you are making 90% of all the income in the US, you are paying more than 90% of the total taxes collected.

  21. Re:whooboy. on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 1

    What's the real deal with region locking on drives? My gateway laptop has a DVD drive and I can find a drive properties page that says I can change the region only so many times. Current region 1, region changes remaining 4, never messed with the setting. But I can pop in a Japanese region 2 DVD and play it fine with VLC and not have to mess around with the drive region properties.

  22. Re:It's their own fault on Kazaa Owners Risk Jail · · Score: 2, Funny
    Don't lock them up and make us pay for them. Put their asses to work and make them pay it back.

    Their asses are being put to work in jail. They just don't make any money during that exchange.

  23. Re:Why? on Mozilla Thunderbird Gets Firefox-style Tabs · · Score: 2, Informative
    Even in GMail, with its excellent thread support, I sometimes find I want more than one email easily accessible. Usually, it's when I'm composing a message containing a composite of information from a number of past emails. Happens most when I'm coordinating between different people.

    When you are composing an E-mail/reply, there is an icon on the far right (two overlapping squares, one with an arrow) of the send/save now/discard buttons. Clicking the icon will launch your composition window into a new window, without all the usual browser menus and such, so you can use the original browser window to go back and refer to other E-mails.

  24. Re:1.5 RC3 and Final are the same on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1
    If you already have Firefox 1.5 RC3 installed, don't bother with this. It's the exact same file, the md5 sums are even the same: d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5.exe d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5rc3.exe

    Or have the bug fixes aligned with the planets to cause an MD5 collision? ;^)

  25. Re:What I don't get on Cellphone Songs Overpriced? · · Score: 1
    I put my own midi/mp3 clips on my phone to use as ringtones, but that required a data cable and a program put together by a group of people that wanted to be able to transfer files (pictures/ringtones/etc) to/from their cell/computer. Verizon has locked down a lot of their phones such that the average consumer can only use VZW's Get-It-Now service to download stuff to their phones. There has already been a lawsuit concerning the disabling of various bluetooth functions in VZW's release of MOT's V710.

    I think that most people would like the ability to transfer songs/ringtones/photos to their cell phone, but in some cases the carrier is actively trying to prevent them from doing so (and sometimes offering their own method to do the above, while collecting more revenue).