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  1. my virgin mobile phone has a v6 address on US IPv6 Usage Grows To 3 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Virgin mobile is sprint. if phones are getting them then 3M would seem very low.

  2. Re:We should test all drivers inside simulator als on Inside Virttex, Ford's Driver Distraction Simulator · · Score: 1

    The explanation of why speed is an accident cause is childish as if speed alone is the culprit. The cause isn't speed, it's drivers exceeding their skill envelope. If you put multiple people of various driving skill levels into the same potentially dangerous situation you will get different outcomes base upon their experience, reaction times, distractions and situational awareness.

  3. Re:Carriers? on Cisco Pushing 'Cloud Connect' Router Firmware, Allows Web History Tracking · · Score: 1

    Verizon uses the crappy Westell which has the cable connection and has to be on the front of your network. They too restrict what you can do in it.

  4. Re:Dreaming on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Profit comes in many guises

  5. Re:Oh really? on Verizon Wireless Goes Ahead With 'Bucket' Data Plans · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just got the HTC EVO V on Virgin Mobile
    $45/month with 1200 minutes and unlimited data.
    4G, Android 4.0 and it's a hotspot.

  6. Re:Government actually working for the people on A Digital Citizen's Bill of Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't corporate greed that is bankrupting California, it is Union greed. Corporations and unions are no different in their self-interest at the expense of everyone else.

  7. Re:Same problem here in the US on Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland · · Score: 1

    Please cite data to support these statements.

  8. Re:vote GOP and you will not even get to see doc w on Will IBM's Watson Kill Your Career? · · Score: 1

    If the profits went to the physician the government would just implement some kind of medical excise tax on the greedy doctors.

  9. Re:It's all about the money on The Art of Elections Forecasting · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Re:Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords on MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe · · Score: 2

    Storing is meaningless if companies ** cough ** virgin-mobile ** cough** send you your passwords or PINs in an email every time you change it. And they include your phone number and name in the same email. And when asked to stop it they claim to adhere to industry standard security standards.

  11. I'm sure SpaceX would be happy to launch them on NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy · · Score: 2

    The CEO did a good interview on 60 minutes last night.

  12. Because Cs137 is showing up in Vermont milk? on Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity · · Score: 0

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/09/radiation-detected-in-drinking-water-in-13-more-us-cities-cesium-137-in-vermont-milk/

    4/11 - Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency

  13. Re:meg whitman, not a job creator on HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Trimming a bloated state government would have been a disaster. I'm sure the state's pension problems will just magically disappear. Jerry brown is probably trying to figure out how to stop residents and businesses from leaving the state if it is to dodge their high taxes.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315404575250822189252384.html

  14. v8 chkdsk on windows 7? on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 3, Interesting

    chkdsk is a standalone app. Can I use v8 on my v7 OS?

  15. Re:Makes no sense on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    Having a republican governor(or president) is not the same as 'run by'. The legislature has the first and last say on all laws. When did the GOP control that?

  16. Re:Obama knows how to play politics if anything. on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 2

    Nancy Pelosi: January 2007 - January 2011
    Harry Reid: January 2007 - present

    Both are Democrats

  17. Re:This is why they passed the law on Philips Releases 100W-Equivalent LED Bulb, Runs On Just 23 Watts · · Score: 2

    Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the power of the federal government to regulate economic activity.

    A farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for on-farm consumption. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to drive up wheat prices during the Great Depression, and Filburn was growing more than the limits permitted. Filburn was ordered to destroy his crops and pay a fine, even though he was producing the excess wheat for his own use and had no intention of selling it.

    The Supreme Court interpreted the United States Constitution's Commerce Clause under Article 1 Section 8, which permits the United States Congress "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes". The Court decided that Filburn's wheat growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for chicken feed on the open market, and because wheat was traded nationally, Filburn's production of more wheat than he was allotted was affecting interstate commerce. Thus, Filburn's production could be regulated by the federal government.

    As the Court explained in Gonzales v. Raich (2005):

            "Wickard thus establishes that Congress can regulate purely intrastate activity that is not itself 'commercial', in that it is not produced for sale, if it concludes that failure to regulate that class of activity would undercut the regulation of the interstate market in that commodity."

  18. Re:Can someone explain to me on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Why the NFL? It's not like these players took their first hit when they suited up as pros. They had been playing for 10 years prior.

    If the ambulance chasers are unable to establish a specific injury to a date then any lawsuits should thrown out.

  19. Unbelievable Gravity on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 5, Informative

    In this article the scale of the gravity comes into focus:
    http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/05/giant-black-hole-shreds-and-swal.html?ref=hp

    "Before its fiery demise, when the star was about as far from its nemesis as Pluto is from the sun, the black hole stripped off its hydrogen envelope."

    At 3.5 billion miles the black hole is able to out-gravity a star of its own hydrogen atmosphere. Am I reading that right?

  20. Re:So? on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 4, Informative

    President Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on the first anniversary of the the killing of Osama bin Laden and signed a security agreement that pledges U.S. support through 2024

  21. Re:California deserves all that money on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 2

    Just imagine if California didn't have all of these mandates. Dow 28,000,000: The Unbelievable Expectations of California's Pension System "

  22. Re:Why does Apple hate America? on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 1

    And because they are not paying more than they have to they must be evil.

  23. Superhydrophobic? on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    How is this different than hydrophobic? Does water cross the street when it see this glass? Does the water bounce off the glass with a higher velocity than when it landed?

  24. Constitution applies to government, not telcos on Telcos Oppose Bill To Respect 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    The Constitution is there to limit the government.

    This bill has 2 chief components, a warrant requirement which is aimed at California governments and a transparency requirement related to the 1st component. It''s a shame that it requires a law to get the telcos to do the right thing.

    "Hey businesses, want to know why people despise you? This is why?"

  25. Re:loopholes on TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication · · Score: 2

    This was not a loophole. This was shear laziness or stupidity.

    Ensuring that each piece of baggage matched a passenger was a requirement after the Lockerbie bombing. And it's just now that the TSA figures out it's a good idea to match boarding passes to passengers IDs?