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  1. Re:Heck, a Godzilla attack would be a bigger probl on 26 Nuclear Power Plants In Hurricane Sandy's Path · · Score: 1

    And yet they've killed roughly the same number of people in Japan.

  2. Re:Is the K20 really a GPU? on Titan Supercomputer Debuts for Open Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should consider the origin of the word? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(mathematics)

  3. Re:They told me... on Feds Continue To Consider Linux Users Criminals For Watching DVDs · · Score: 1

    I appreciate that given that I have some friends with those sorts of health problems, but all we have done is juggle around who is paying for healthcare. Nothing has been done to lower the cost of healthcare, so regardless of who pays for it, it's still a huge drain on our economy. Public or Private, we still spend more on healthcare than pretty much any other nation, and we don't get as much benefit. And, we're trying to solve that problem by adding more rules and more bureaucracy.

  4. Re:They told me... on Feds Continue To Consider Linux Users Criminals For Watching DVDs · · Score: 1

    I'm glad we at least got healthcare out of it

    Did we get healthcare out of it? Or is it just going to be illegal not to have health insurance? Rhetorical question, it's the second one.

  5. Re:Legal? on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 1

    IANAL but I believe in the US a contract can't take away your legal rights either. But, anyone can put whatever they want in a contract. It doesn't get tested until it goes to court.

  6. Re:Size of Earth? on New Evidence That the Moon Was Created In a Massive Collision · · Score: 1

    earth + moon + object striking the earth - material ejected at escape velocities from massive explosion

  7. Re:Iran has printing presses on Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe · · Score: 1

    But, they can't build isotope separation centrifuges, they buy those from China.

  8. Re:It's okay on Will EU Regulations Effectively Ban High-End Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    No politician has the tools to get an economy working. The best they can hope for is to not hinder it.

  9. Re:Another Double Standard on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. All religions and most groups of any kind go to great lengths to view themselves as underdogs and as persecuted by the bad guys who are always in a position of strength, somehow. That's what this whole /. discussion is about. The point is that in the USA we let people run their mouth until they start talking about actually hurting people. If we start pandering like the politicians would love to do, then we will end up with laws that mandate 'If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing at all'. That's only enforceable if we've got no privacy or anonymity left, so one more nail in that coffin.

  10. Re:Don't watch it on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 1

    Nobody was whipped into a frenzy, people who expel hot air for a living or a hobby on both sides of the issue had something to talk about for a few weeks (apparently at least one person for a few years) and everyone else gave zero shits.

  11. Re:Don't watch it on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, the offices of CBS were attacked around the world and people died. Same thing.

  12. Re:Still not technically illegal... on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would you feel the same way if the courts applied 'money is speech' to being able to make contributions to the pirate bay or wikileaks?

  13. Re:Another Double Standard on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right, violent jihad, mudslinging politics, same exact thing. Nailed it.

  14. Re:Another Double Standard on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Westboro Baptist Church has been pushing the envelope of how offensive one can possibly be and nothing has happened to them. They are to offending dangerous people what Felix Baumgartner is to skydiving. Maybe you're imagining moral equivalency where none exists in order to make yourself feel superior to those around you?

  15. Re:How dare you! on Following Huawei Report, US Rejects UN Telecom Proposals · · Score: 2

    Don't believe everything you see on TV. If there are secret easy-button crypto-breaking computers out there, why is cryptography illegal for export?

  16. Re:Please cite sources on network technology on T-Mobile Merging With MetroPCS · · Score: 1

    Most telecom equipment, including base stations, is modular.
    I don't have much personal experience with wireless base stations but if it's anything like all the transport equipment and routers/switches between the tower and the Mobile Switching Center, adding different protocols may be as simple as slotting a new card and connecting it to a new antenna.

  17. Re:UTP! on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't Shielded UTP just be STP?

  18. Re:Complies with spirit on iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability · · Score: 1

    The lower limit is 850mAh, most host devices are going to supply much more than that. My Samsung charges in much less than 24 hours, even when charging from my laptop on battery.

  19. Re:No smiles in Ohio on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 2

    Nor Indiana. I wonder if they all use the same software with the same readme?

  20. Re:23-inch Telco Racks on Open Compute Project Publishes Final Open Rack Spec · · Score: 1

    Shelves? Sounds like maybe you've solved a problem with another problem.
    Just buy 19" to 23" mounting ears for your 19" equipment. Cheap, easy, most telco stuff comes with them in the box anyway so they can fit in either 19" or 23".
    Mad respect for the underground laboratory though, I sincerely hope you're working on a doomsday device and not just a billing system or iphone app.

  21. Re:Better for printing weapons? on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    Myth or not, I can't help but think they could probably make a ceramic slide and a thin composite reinforced barrel and cut the steel down drastically if there was a demand. Even the springs could possibly be replaced with some kind of polymer.
    It would be an interesting project, probably a sure way to get on some kind of watch list though.

  22. Re:How about percentage of the LAND AREA? on AT&T Promises To Expand LTE To More US Markets · · Score: 2

    Next time you're driving out there in the middle of nowhere and you feel like you deserve 4G, look right, then look left. Did you see any fiber optic cable on poles? There's your answer. Rural towers are usually sitting on the end of a microwave link back to a 'hub' tower that's T1 or fiber-fed. Those microwave links and T1s aren't going to support LTE service.

  23. Re:Makes sense. on Google Announces Its First Latin-American Data Center · · Score: 1

    So, a true statement?

  24. Cisco does make C-temp NEBS compliant switches, they just charge Cisco prices for it. See the ME-3400.
    For I-temp rated stuff I don't know of any off the top of my head, but only because we generally don't deploy active gear in non-environmental enclosures.

  25. PS, D-Link and Netgear? This isn't 'mom's basement' applications, it's telecom and other utilities.