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  1. Re:Repairs... on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 1

    BMW dealers can't fix their current gas engines, so there would be no change in that department. Ask me how I know...

  2. Re:User fees are the way to go on E-Tracking May Change the Way You Drive · · Score: 1

    At no time, ever, is the location of a commercial aircraft unknown. Sure, private small planes flying VFR no one really cares about. But all commercial planes (the vast majority of all traffic) are being tracked to the meter...

  3. Re:Right Answer, Wrong Reason on FCC Report Supports a la Carte TV Pricing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate it when people say this. Separation of church and state are implied. Once the government starts showing a preference for *any* particular religion, then any other religion, by default, doesn't have the preference. The only way to have religious freedom is by having a government with no preferences, hence, separation of church and state. Your "noapathy" argument sighted above is a giant logical red herring masked in obfuscation to make is seem like it is fact.

  4. Re:Enternet 300? on Three Companies Shut Down For Spyware Bundling · · Score: 1

    MO in Modem stands for Modulate, as in Modulate, Demodulate..which is what is happening when a digital signal is being passed via an analog line. This is *NOT* what is happening with DSL.

  5. Re:Specs? on First modernized GPS satellite Launched · · Score: 1

    I know the new one has Howard Stern...oh wait..

  6. Re:You CAN have IPv4 and IPv6 on the same network. on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    That is flawed logic. I wouldn't want Microsoft to install it by default, as 99.9% of installs won't need it and it will do nothing but consume bandwidth. That would mean I would have to go remove it by default. Has nothing to do with if it is "well supported" or not...

  7. Re:You CAN have IPv4 and IPv6 on the same network. on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    network/properties/install/protocol/Microsoft IP Version 6

  8. Re:You CAN have IPv4 and IPv6 on the same network. on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Ok ok..but I still can't see any payoff. What is the advantage of going to IPV6? Where is the return on investment?

  9. Re:You CAN have IPv4 and IPv6 on the same network. on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    You know you are talking to some young people when Windows is considered a legacy OS. I can see no compelling reason to delegate that the government use IPV6, just seems like more expense, more specalized hardware, more specialized people to implement...and no payoff whatsoever. Who's the brainiac that thought this up?

  10. Re:How often does this happen now? on 3.9 Million Citigroup Customers' Data Lost · · Score: 1

    Yep, I would say a 5 dollar fine for every customer lost should go to the FTC, in addition to paying for all time lost for victims that have to clear their name. Plus, each company would have to be the advocate in clearing the names, not just the notifiers. The fines and the victims would be handled by a third party arbitrator. Sending tapes via UPS...jeeze, why didn't they just throw up a data line? One in a million data lines that they ALREADY have to the credit buroughs. I'm sure this wasn't the only time they had done this...bad processes, bad auditing, bad management, bad everything. Onlinealias CISSP/CISA

  11. Re:*blinks* on 3.9 Million Citigroup Customers' Data Lost · · Score: 1
  12. Re:April Fools? Right? on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    I got it..but I think he/she/it was serious.

  13. Re:Or... on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1

    Well, we *could* all get AS/400's, RS/6000's and System 38's to run x.400 on. We could use PC's to gateway all the mail to the internet. Oh wait, what protocol are we going to use for the internet?

  14. Re:Go ahead, block 25 on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1

    $58 million? To block 25 outbound? How many users do they think are connecting to outside servers for mail? The ones that do use 25 won't need much help to figure out what to do. Puhlease, that is absolute crap. If I needed it inbound I would expect to pay for a fixed IP and such. I need outbound 25 to get to my server and domain, but I would gladly go hit a checkbox on my account to turn it on if it were turned off by defualt. Grandma will never even notice....

  15. Re:Failover on Software Glitches Stall Toyota Prius · · Score: 1

    Interesting choice of cars for this example, as Mercedes Benz used to make their steering wheels huge to combat this exact problem. (More leverage if power steering failed). Only company I know of that did that.

  16. Re:If you're gonna get "nicked" by Cisco... on Cisco Confirms Arrest In Theft Of Its Code · · Score: 1

    A 6500 was a backplane system, and if it had a RSM in it, it could route too. Just depended on how it was configured....

  17. Re:Too bad... on Cisco Confirms Arrest In Theft Of Its Code · · Score: 1

    Oh dood, those were crap. I have 2 7120's that holding up the end of my table right now, $30k worth of routers...even Cisco can't get them to do what a Linksys can do now....

  18. Re:Baby, meet bathwater. on Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Nearly all of the latest WEP cracking utils run on Windows. http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/network/aircrack/#q31

  19. Re:Who does the sky belong to? on DirecTV's 1st MPEG4 Satellite Launch Successful · · Score: 1

    No kidding, 22000 miles from earth makes for a whole lotta room. I'm not going to do the math, but we could go for 1000's of years without worrying about space "litter". Worring about that is just dumb...

  20. Re:Will the life quality be better or worse? on First Successful Cell Transplant Cures Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine, hack wirelessly into someone's pump and kill them. Weird...

  21. Re:Just my $0.02 on Kernel Changes Draw Concern · · Score: 1

    My .02...screw CA. One cannot show "concern" for the direction of FOSS. It goes where it goes, and that is that. They might as well say, "We are concerned that we can't make money on this stuff anymore". Fuq 'em.

  22. Re:I like the color-mixing aspect.. on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Indeed, I believe this is a concern also. Mercedes and BMW have been using "variable" systems lately, where the harder one brakes, the brighter the brake lights. I saw this effect on an SL500 the other day, it was impressive...

  23. Re:I like the color-mixing aspect.. on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Cars have been using them for taillights for some time now..especially luxury cars. The huge advantage is the time that it takes them to light up. For brake lights, instantaneous LED lights are quite the advantage over regular incandescent bulbs, which take a split second to heat and actually make light. LED's also offer a "alert" effect to drivers, because of the very rapid change "brake off" to "brake on".

  24. Re:I think he's right on Linux Can't Kill Windows · · Score: 1

    Win2k+ won't allow an application to overwrite a DLL. It will detect it and restore it. NT3.5x and 4 would, but the OS would usually crash right then and there. The real culprits were the 3.x/95/98 series...those *were* DLL problems waiting to happen. Incidentally, I'm on a Suse 9.2 pro laptop right now and IMHO, it is one of the *best* competitors to Windows I have yet to see out of OSS. Very,very good....

  25. Re:This is a good thing on Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs · · Score: 1

    Off topic:

    Comcast's DNS...oh the humanity. I just use public ones now...