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  1. Re:AT&T & CDMA? on FCC Approves AT&T's $1.9 Billion Qualcomm Spectrum Purchase · · Score: 2

    The spectrum can be used for any allocated protocal. Cdma, lte, gsm.. ect. The object is to use the most effective and accepted method.

  2. I smell a class action suit on EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So not only are you possibly able to invade my privacy, but you're also charging me for the bandwidth to do it? I'm sure the TOS doesn't cover you for the later.

  3. Re:What's the best low bandwidth way to send a msg on Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores · · Score: 2

    We used to use usenet. Simple and effective. RIP

  4. Re:Do you even bother to edit submissions anymore? on Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling · · Score: 1

    There are more non-native speakers of English in this world then there are native speakers. Probably a reason it conveys information better, if not the only one.

  5. Re:Working on it on Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet For Running a Real GNU/Linux Distribution? · · Score: 1

    slightly ot

    The Gpad ga10 allwinner a10 can be found for $135 and can be flashed right up to ICS.

  6. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 0

    The US used them to save thousands of lives (of an original euro problem). Had not the US used them, surely the Germans would have.

  7. Re:Make broadband a tariffed, regulated utility on Rural Broadband to Replace POTS As Beneficiary of US Gov't Subsidies · · Score: 2

    Build or buy a yagi and point it at one of the cell towers you have mapped. You should easily be able find signal in a valley with a 35db gain antenna. It might not be the most pretty solution, but it shouldn 't be too costly either. Kinda down and dirty, have by torrow solution.

  8. Forced use of + on Google Reader's Social Features Merging With Google+ · · Score: 1

    Reader isn't the only app now forcing G+. I use Latitude to track my travel time and time spent at job sites. In order to save a new location, I am now being forced to use G+. I don't do social net sites, no face, no space. What's up Google? What happened to do no evil? Facebook have too much market cap?

  9. Re:The 18-year-old Rubyist isn't a good programmer on Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age · · Score: 1

    Yea, but it's the only one I always disable or delete.

  10. Same pipe? on Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet · · Score: 1

    It just seems to me if you're going to talk tcp/ip, use the same pipe, adhear to current rfc's, your network will be no more secure then it is today. The wheel already works (securely if you want), its the hamsters powering it that are broken.
      That said, if you need to secure a private network use a private pipe. Secure the "human" access via physical protection, and train your hamsters.

  11. Re:I'll tell you why on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Outstanding comment! Eloquent and right on point. Thanks!

  12. Re:Best explanation: SN 287 on Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner · · Score: 2

    Steve Gibson (famouse for that the "Shields Up!" web page)

    Um.. Steve is famous for Spinrite, that saved many many RLL drives. Spinrite does an non-intrusive, non-destructive low-level format, saved my ass many a time.
      But thanks for the post great info!

  13. Re:from Amateur Radio Operators? on Powerline Networks Interfere With Spooks? · · Score: 1

    Spurious emissions,
      And yes.. they still have allocation of precious spectrum, probably worth millions available to anyone who is licensed. Still a pretty worthy cause... if ask me..

    sk

  14. Can anyone claim more? Two words... on 10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Coward

  15. Re:Seriously? on Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems · · Score: 2

    ``I'd short my stocks in everything Internet-based right now``

    (OT) But first you have to sell your current stock, canÂt be short on something you posses. Then a tax issue....ect..

  16. Re:Highlights of the day for me on Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    ``Just never been marketed heavily before that I remember.``

    Funny.. I remember receiving an rs232 transmitter and (I believe) a 110 plug adapter that was a switch, including dimmer control, mailed to me for free. I think I ordered a couple for friends also. Anyone remember that?

  17. All your oil slicks on An Autonomous Sailing Robot To Clean Up Oil Spills · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. are belong to us

  18. Re:Obama acomplishments on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We spend 100 million a week in Libya without any debate except to cut more social services and prohibit collective bargaining.

  19. Action Figures??? on Facebook Kills Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure · · Score: 1

    Possibly Batman and Spiderman, but how much action is involved sitting behind a keyboard??

  20. Re:Good Fix... on New "Circuit Breaker" Imposed To Stop Market Crash · · Score: 1

    "It's pure gambling, milking the real investors of cents on every dollar, putting it into the pockets of traders that provide zero value to society. They produce nothing except market crashes."

    They produce/provide liquidity. How can one have open market with limitations of how many or how much one can buy or sell? I could possibly understand limitation of programed or non-human initiated trades, other then that seems to me you no longer have an open market with said limitations.

    Here's something I don't understand don't all listed securities cross a specialists desk? Isn't it the responsibility of the specialist to maintain an orderly market?

    Haven't traded since NAS 5000 popped, and I know there's been a lot of changes... such as selling short on a downtick...ect

  21. Re:The carriers have won. on Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone · · Score: 1

    guns/butter

    ah.. cars are NOT investments. Investments don't loose 30%-50% when you drive them new off the lot. A lease payment is
    based on the amount of estimated depreciation over the term of the lease (and the estimation is amazingly accurate) and the
    cost to use the said money, over the term, plus use tax. The cost to use the money is calculated on the depreciation AND the
    amount of the cap cost (kinda a double dip). Unless the manufacture is subventing the estimated value at the end of the term,
    you're generally fucked. You don't win, trust me.

    You're always better off buying butter with cash.

  22. Re:GEO /= GPS!!!! on Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, WAAS is a ground signal with a transmitter in the VA area, used to get a more accurate time signal. If I remember correctly the closer you get to the equator, the less accurate the time corrections are.

    but i didn't google it:-)

  23. sounds on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    To be as real as quoting extrapolated mega pixels to sell digital cameras.

  24. Re:Jusy like supply and demand on House Calls For Hearing On Stock Market "Glitch" · · Score: 1

    I dont understand either. Listed securities have 1 specialist making market. When there's a trade imbalance it's the specialists job to close the market and match buyers and sellers, or buy from his own account.

      So this order hits the desk and he doesn't stop trading??

  25. wow on In Brazil, Google Fined For Content of Anonymous Posting · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    where they gunna get so much cash at one time.....

          move on