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  1. Re:Hewlett-Packard on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    16/8 is HP's. They also have some /16's?

  2. Re:Not a new problem on Radiation Therapy Mistakes Cost Lives · · Score: 1
    This appears in textbooks.

    It also appears in non-fiction books about this type of problem.

  3. Hewlett-Packard on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    Why does Hewlett-Packard have not one but TWO /8 IPv4 address ranges? Ain't they heard of NAT? How many other corporations have legacy /8 addresses and are holding on to them, not because they need them but because their laziness to move towards efficient use of those addresses creates a sense of entitlement to those very addresses.

  4. Yet it is amazing... on FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... that there are those, even a major cable news network, who want to return to the days of the Bush era. What are they fuckin' thinking? Are they even thinking at all?

  5. Re:This makes perfect sense on Google Phone Could Drive Apple Into Allegiance With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Microsoft always pointed to the market share of the Mac OS as proof that Microsoft did not have a desktop OS monopoly.

  6. Re:This makes perfect sense on Google Phone Could Drive Apple Into Allegiance With Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Microsoft essentially saved Apple by loaning it much needed $$$.

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    Like most things Microsoft does, the loan to Apple was specious, at best. Microsoft needed to keep Apple alive to show there was competition in the desktop OS marketspace, in order to try and keep the DoJ at bay.

  7. Allegiance or Alliance on Google Phone Could Drive Apple Into Allegiance With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Allegiance. Alliance. On second thought, maybe allegiance is correct, given Microsoft's past behavior.

  8. Special license on Providing a Closed Source License Upon Request? · · Score: 1
    Give him a choice between a special closed-source license that requires him to pay $1,000,000 to you each year, or the BSD open-source license. I am sure his opinion about "forcing open source licenses" upon the developer will change.

    aside: he is probably reacting [poorly] to the "GPL is a virus" garbage spewed by Microsoft.

  9. Some questions on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    Who has access to search through all the mappings that are created? Why stop at just a single phone number, why not have a single identity number and map everything (phone numbers, bank accounts, paychecks, etc.) to that single number. Who would then even need a name, just write your identity number on a sticky note and put it on your forehead, or embed a RFID chip in you at birth.

  10. Wrong "two sides" on Here We Go Again — Video Standards War 2010 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The two real sides in the battle at those who are in favor of DRM in any shape or form; and those consumers who want to own and control the content they purchase.

    If you RTFA, the two "sides" in that article are really on the same side, that is, the side of removing the consumers' rights for the content the consumers purchase.

  11. Re:You're kidding, right? on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    LOL! There's one in every crowd. Dozens on /.

  12. You're kidding, right? on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Would an AOL e-mail address or another 'toxic' e-mail address influence your decision to hire someone?"

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    If you make hiring decisions based upon unrelated-to-the-job things like email addresses, then you deserve the level of employees that you get. What's next, not hiring someone because the name of the street they live on is dorky?

  13. Growing pains... on Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... of the 1.0 version. So what else is new? Anyone here remember Windows 1.0 (a.k.a Interface Manager) announced at the Plaza Hotel in NYC overlooking Central Park? Well, we're up to Windows 7 and Microsoft is still trying to get it right.

  14. 3D TV won't work until... on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    ... the need for special glasses is dropped. 3D movies have been around for decades, yet the need for special glasses has limited the 3D movies as a niche market (at best).

  15. What is meant by unlocked? on USA Has More Open Wi-Fi Hotspots Than EU · · Score: 1

    Some wireless hotspots do not use a WPA2 (or WEP, or whatever) password, but they do require a password to get past the access point's router and onto the Internet. Does this survey classify those access points as secured or not secured?

  16. Same with audio... on Framerates Matter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyone says a "framerate" (i.e., sample frequency) of 44.1kHz is all that is needed. Yet many people hear better imaging, depth and transparency at higher sample rates.

  17. There's no "myths" here... on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1
    Just someone trying to create a news story.

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    The reality is that there are good comments and there are bad comments. Good comments are helpful, bad comments are not. I forgot to mention that there is a third type of comment, the evil ones. The evil comments are wrong, leading subsequent programmers astray.

  18. Re:Shameful... on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1
    1) when you quote a message of mine, do not bold words that I have not bolded in my message. I have to question why you would want to alter the true intent of what I have posted here.
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    2) I did not say that Verizon was the victim. The customers of Verizon are the victim here.
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    So I'll repeat, when Microsoft says that they offer choice, keep in mind this agreement between Microsoft and Verizon in which users' choice is effectively eliminated. It appears to be typical of Microsoft's business dealings. When Microsoft is incapable of competing, it artificially eliminates its competitors via lawyers.

  19. Shameful... on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From now on, whenever Microsoft talks of providing choice, remember this deal in which Microsoft appears to have removed any choice of search from Verizon's users.

  20. If only... on Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential · · Score: 1

    If only Microsoft spent half as much time on improving Windows as they spend on this "research".

  21. Spam on Virtual Money For Real Lobbying · · Score: 1

    That Get Health Reform Right group is spamming the local TV waves with their commercials, not giving even a slightest hint of their financial backing.

  22. Re:Facebook is not about privacy. on Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface · · Score: 1
    Um, dude, YOU ARE NOT a customer of Facebook.

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    I never said I was a customer of Facebook.

  23. Facebook is not about privacy. on Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface · · Score: 4, Insightful
    They do not "get" it. I am convinced Facebook does not want to preserve the privacy of its users. When I went to Facebook last night, I was presented with a pop up menu to select my new privacy options. All the defaults were set to looser privacy than I had previously set for my account. I had to manually restore the stricter privacy settings.

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    Facebook does not care about the privacy of its users. Get used to it.

  24. Re:Comcast needs to be split up on Comcast to Buy 51% of NBC, GE Goes After 49% · · Score: 1

    The problem is the bundling of the lines, services, and content.

  25. Comcast needs to be split up on Comcast to Buy 51% of NBC, GE Goes After 49% · · Score: 4, Insightful
    into three separate companies:
    1. infrastructure, i.e., the wire and fibre on the poles
    2. ISP and phone services
    3. content provider

    This will allow for competition for those people who are stuck with Comcast being the sole provider.