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  1. Re:Spinal cord stimulator on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    You were "told?"? You just say "I want to opt out."

    They may ask why. Just tell them. They can't refuse because they don't think it's a good reason.

  2. Re:forensic analysis on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 2

    If it was a millimeter scanner, most likely there was resonance with circuit trace(s). A resonance in the right spot (input to an opamp for example) and you could say further operation is undefined.

  3. Re:avoid them thar rays! on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Electrical devices like that are full of amplifiers and things like field-effect transistors - things that take small changes in, and output much (relatively) larger ones.

    It doesn't take much interference at all to cause problems, and this is made even worse that circuit traces etc can be resonant (where you most certainly will not) with the incoming interference, making things worse.

  4. Re:forced? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Aah, I see.

    In my case I always do opt out. I've been asked why a few times - and in every case I've said (and this is partial truth) "I work around radio a lot, so I try to keep any of my exposures to a minimum". The "lie" is that I operate occasionally.

    Every single time I've said this, it's been accepted with no fuss.

  5. forced? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wait a minute... I think the larger issue here is that they forced her through the scanner.

    Maybe I'm wrong, but is that not improper? I thought they had to allow manual inspection at your request.

  6. Re:Or... on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 0

    Sorry, my funny bone doesn't spontaneously activate. The material has to actually be funny.

  7. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 0

    Yep. Because you are omnipotent and know what I do for a living, and know that it is nonproductive. I'm sure that's how it works.

    Hint: you are not imnipotent, you do NOT know what I do for a living, and it IS productive.

    Some of us care about things even if we don't work with them as part of our jobs.

  8. Re:satellite broadband will suck for some thing li on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    Encapsulate HTTP requests into something like PACTOR III to a terrestrial station serving as a gateway. Not a difficult idea.

  9. Re:As its international waters on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    It would be amusing to see Somali pirates trying to pass the Panama Canal or the Horn of Africa in their little boats :)

  10. Re:A tsunami in deep water is a non-event. on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    ... and also have the ship driving into the expected wave direction most of the time. It's when these huge waves hit the side or rear of a ship that problems occur, isn't it? I admit I have a very large lack of experience here.

  11. Re:Forget insurance ... what about health care? on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    Does it have a helipad? Any reason it can't have a SeaKing or such on station to get medical emergencies on their way quickly?

  12. Re:I fail to see the point on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck are you people so against learning from history?

    Because they are Better and won't make any mistakes.

    (that was sarcasm, by the way)

  13. Re:I predict another Sealand on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    Of course, true pirates could also come back to the high seas.

    Somalia would like to remind you that they never left.

  14. Re:Or... on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 0

    You (incorrectly) assume that the only adults who play games are dysfunctional.

  15. Re:What's with the canadian flag? on Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered · · Score: 1

    I wish Texas would just go secede already, and that the federal government would just let them. Nothing of value would be lost, and most of those silly patent trolls would go with them.

  16. Re:Give this guy a Nobel on Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered · · Score: 1

    They do? I thought, in Spanish, that you speak that "M" with your lips (as in English) and the "C" with your tongue (like a shortened S). Totally different sound structure.

    Not that I speak Spanish, so please correct me :)

  17. Re:What percentage of cancers leverage that? on Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered · · Score: 1

    Way to care about something that matters.

  18. Re:filter based on user? on Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered · · Score: 1

    Never.

    Never.

    Because of these posts.

    Nope.

    I don't think so.

  19. Re:Or... on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're stuck playing with teeny boppers, you're playing the wrong game.

  20. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 0

    I'm pretty sure we should all just foe Lunix Nutcase (the name should be a clue) and make sure our "Viewing" settings are set to show Foes with a -6 modifier.

  21. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 2

    I'd bet Tim and a few of the other early visionaries might disagree with you.

  22. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 0

    ... and just so you know, since I just know you are going to say it: you're now on my foe list so slashdot shows you as -1 for me, and I don't have to read your shit ever again. Nothing personal, and it's not meant to be trite.

  23. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 0

    Does it have to be? IT'S A FUCKING OPINION.

    We are all allowed to have them and they do not have to jive. STOP FUCKING ATTACKING PEOPLE'S OPINIONS. State your case and move on. If you have to go "nyu ah you're wrong so there" then you're doing it wrong.

  24. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 0

    orthognal standards.

    That's not a thing. But I know what you are saying.

    I respectfully disagree. Would you argue that the 802.3 has nothing to do with the internet? You'll notice that wireless and traditional ethernet are all underneath 802, which includes such gems as the standards that govern cable modems? It's all one family, and arguably this family forms the backbone of the internet (in a figurative sense, not the literal). They should all be open. This is an opinion. You are allowed to disagree. You are not likely to convince me otherwise.

  25. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a standard for wireless local area networks. What do you think the internet is? Lets break the word down for you:

    Inter: a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “between,” “among,” ...
    Net: short for "network"

    I hope you can figure it out from there.