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  1. Re:unauthorized access is unauthorized on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    I may very well be wrong here, but I don't think Verizon will sell a customer their modem. The rent them.

  2. Re:Then change your password on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    OK, not lazy, but certainly technologically naive.

  3. Re:Why bother? on Most Hackable Coupon-Eligible DTV Converter? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wouldn't an earlier generation usually be easier to hack than a newer model?

  4. Re:They can't hold their talk now, can they? on MIT Students' Gag Order Lifted · · Score: 1

    Np, litigation tends to be the FIRST refuge of the incompetent.

  5. Re:Not available outside the US ... on Making Free Phone Calls With Google's GrandCentral · · Score: 2, Informative

    The service is available in every state. However, numbers in every area code and/or state are not available at all times. Your number and your location need not match.

  6. Re:slashdotted on Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops · · Score: 3, Informative
  7. Re:my library experience on Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books · · Score: 1

    Church.

  8. Re:Technical review... on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its a Gibson, not a Fender. Its always gonna be a shorter scale neck, and almost always without vibrato.

  9. From what I understand, on US Gambling Law May Cause Flouting of IP Laws · · Score: 1

    If it takes a trade issue to bring down the anti-gaming laws, so be it. http://www.antiguawto.com/

  10. Re:$13 a month... on Howard Stern Coming To the Net · · Score: 1

    WTF is a "select" talk channel?
    You are misreading "select" in that context. It means a choice few out of a group, as in "not all." On the stream they have now, you won't get channels like Fox News, ESPN Radio, stuff that would also be licensed elsewhere. You get all the Sirius-only stuff, as far as I can tell.
    BTW I still listen to at least part of the Stern show every day. Big fan of Sirius.

  11. Re:They won't get rid of it on U.S. House to Vote on Anti-Online Gambling Act · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Currently, I play at an online casino that uses a Java interface. I put my money into the account using a Visa card based in the West Indies. Winnings are sent by check to my house. This ban won't effect me at all.

  12. Re:Very narrow ruling on Supreme Court to Rule on 'Obvious' Patents · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That is not the case with the Roberts court. The Clarence Hill lethal injection case got a very narrow ruling earlier this month, as was the MGM/Grokster ruling. Narrow court rulings are far from rare, and as the Cheif Justice himself points out, narrow rulings are more likely to be unanimous decisions, or close to it. From a speech this month at Georgetown:

    "If it is not necessary to decide more to a case, then in my view it is necessary not to decide more to a case. Division should not be artificially suppressed, but the rule of law benefits from a broader agreement. The broader the agreement among the justices, the more likely it is a decision on the narrowest possible grounds."

  13. Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. on The 2005 IT Year In Quotes · · Score: 1

    That's not honesty. That's a CEO kissing ass, hoping the board won't fire him. An honest CEO would explain in detail why that division lost so much money, why it was his fault, and how he would rectify the issue.
    Yes, but that woundn't make for a very good quote, would it?

  14. cost on Hubble Sees Stars As They're Born · · Score: 4, Informative

    The talk of abandoning the satellite often is because it is less expensive to send up better, newer satellites than maintain this one.

  15. Re:The opposite... on Programming and Dieting? · · Score: 1

    I think most people in good to athletic shape can tell where their blood sugar is, more or less. These people also tend to stay away from High fructose anything or partially hydrogenatedoils and ingredients. Controlling your weight is much easier when you understand how and why insulin works.

  16. Re:Oldie but goodie... on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    New York State wildlife expert Richard Thomas found that a woodchuck could chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. Thomas reasoned that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck an amount equal to 700 pounds. Such sayeth Cecil. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_083a.html

  17. Re:hmmmm on Dell's Open PC Costs More Than Windows Box · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or, if the logic of Dell is to prevail, you can sell blank versions of the same CDs for a slight premium, like $275.

  18. not so blunt? on NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Asked Tuesday whether the shuttle had been a mistake, Griffin said, "My opinion is that it was. ... It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible." Asked whether the space station had been a mistake, he said, "Had the decision been mine, we would not have built the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in." I disagree with the article's description here. Griffin's being pretty blunt in those answers, esp. for a government employee. Most would never admit to such huge mistakes.

  19. Re:As a Massachusetts Resident on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1
    Yes, but as an addendum, don't forget that deficit spending isn't necessarily covered by the tax payers, but rather by the tax payers' children.
    States like Massachusetts cannot, by their own constitution, run a yearly budget deficit.
  20. Re:This is the next logic step on Tivo Testing Internet Download Service · · Score: 1

    Yes, but this is legal.

  21. Re:Bittorrent sucks on BitTorrent for Content Providers · · Score: 1

    Wow. You're single bad experience has destroyed my image of BitTorrent. It clearly has to be the worst thing ever...

  22. CWS on Spyware Based ID Theft Ring Uncovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is something that has been around for years, no? I haven't run windows in 3 years, but I remember removing CWS many, many times over the years...

  23. Re:Filter the UV rays on Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Both the first paragraph of the article AND the description answer your concerns about harmful rays. Good job paying attention...

  24. Re:Here's a big list of them on Using Wikis to Catch Outdated and Bad Laws? · · Score: 1

    What about when they decide to start enforcing the silly laws? And start arresting Native Americans that enter the city of Boston? This was more about taking laws off the books that have not been enforced for many, many decades, if not centuries.

  25. Re:I keed! I keed! on Google Web Accelerator · · Score: 1

    They were waiting to see if Roland Piquepaille was going to submit this story with a link in his weblog or whatever...