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  1. Re:Already happening on American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes · · Score: 1

    Gogo is just the brand name Aircell uses for the service they provide. It's an AT&T-based MPLS nationwide network that uses equipment at celltowers provided by AT&T.

  2. Re:Implications on American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes · · Score: 1

    Can't block VoIP if you tunnel it over IPsec VPN (or any VPN for that matter) although Aircell (the backhaul plane->ground provider could incorporate enough jitter to make VoIP useless.

  3. Re:Fuel burn on American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes · · Score: 1

    Probably not, as they're much smaller and don't have to track anything, being 35K up. Although as a GA pilot, I know that any disruption across the airfoil will generate drag (it just depends on how much drag is generated).

  4. Re:Torrent on American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes · · Score: 1

    Not sure on this, but when I was 18-19 and went cruising with my family, I bought as much booze as I could carry on with me in the Puerto Rico airport (drinking age = 18) and brought it back to Chicago without a problem.

  5. Re:Still Important on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 · · Score: 1

    Why can't these expensive apps be provided to students with RDP and a licensing agreement? Last time I checked, there is an RDP client for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

  6. Re:Still Important on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 · · Score: 1

    Remote access is remote access. For some work, I have to RDP to a virtual machine running on a Linux host.

  7. Re:Printing on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 · · Score: 1

    Then don't print it out. The professor can review the submission in a web app, and grade it directly there.

  8. Re:As I've often said before... on Circuit Board Design For a Small Startup? · · Score: 1

    Thank you and GP for the info. I do EE work for small projects of mine, and these links will be invaluable.

  9. Re:Advice From a 35 yo graduate.. on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone doesn't have an understanding wife ;)

  10. Re:Whatever your age is ... on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? · · Score: 1
    My god man. Drop this line of thought right now, or else you'll go through life on completely the wrong axis.

    I have 10 years of IT experience. I now own a hosting/technology consulting firm. It's very likely I'll be able to work for myself and with my small group of employees for the rest of my career if I choose. Money is not an issue. Yet, I went back to school to become a master welder. I'm currently taking classes through EAA on composite airframes. Next semester, I'll be working towards my A&P certification (airframes and propulsion). Why? Because it interests me. The classes are expensive, and I'll never get a return on the different areas of study I've been learning. School is not always an investment. Sometimes acquiring knowledge/experience is itself the goal.

  11. Re:Cool - now how much ... on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 1

    You laugh, but witness the new car/plane combo some company is pioneering on the east coast (the wings fold up when not in flight). And with how sturdy composites are (Boeing 777 Dreamliner) you could have the cabin engineered to seperate from everything else via explosive bolts (similar to how the shuttle is bolted to the launch pad, and the explosive bolts aren't released until thrust from both the solid rockets and the liquid hydrogen engines are verified).

  12. Re:Cool - now how much ... on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 1

    So I can purchase the ability to survive my flight? Sounds like something RyanAir would pioneer.

  13. Re:To fill in the missing info for the confused .. on Skype Courts Businesses With "Skype for SIP" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Voicepulse just discontinued their support of the IAX protocol because supposedly it didn't handle redundancy properly. Too bad they couldn't have just done a bit of work on the protocol.

  14. Re:Camera card reader -- please on iPhone 3.0 Software Announced · · Score: 1

    If you can use bluetooth, you could connect to a bluetooth-enabled storage device.

  15. Re:why couldn't the instructions come from whiteha on Conficker Worm Asks For Instructions, Gets Update · · Score: 1

    THIS! If you read the academic analysis of the trojan/worm it will refuse to update itself unless the new payload is signed using the original 4096-bit encryption key.

  16. Re:Dumbasses on Conficker Worm Asks For Instructions, Gets Update · · Score: 1

    Make suggestions to Ubuntu. Those of us who volunteer will try to push the changes through.

  17. Re:Easier vs. Harder on Higgs Territory Continues To Shrink · · Score: 1

    "we at the Tevatron"

    You work at Fermi? I just took an offer there, and start in 2 weeks. Hope I get to run into you =)

  18. Re:This could be big on Appeals Court Stays RIAA Subpoena · · Score: 1

    Between you and Richard, we owe you many a beers for your fine work. Thank you!

  19. Re:Ka-ching. on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Really? What kind of mower did you get? My buddy got a black and decker electric mower, and he says it's fucking rockstar.

  20. Re:Heh on iTunes Gift Card Key System Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    Or they'll simply ask their users to verify their address with a credit card. How many of the Chinese users are going to do that? Zero.

  21. Re:Boxee is not like RSS in a browser on Hulu Again Removed From Boxee and Again Added Back · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that. As long as Boxee can masquerade as a regular IE/Firefox browser, Hulu is fucked.

  22. Re:Boxee is not like RSS in a browser on Hulu Again Removed From Boxee and Again Added Back · · Score: 1

    Same thing that happened to me. Take my ability to watch Hulu on a big TV away and you know what happens? I go elsewhere to fetch the content and put it up on the TV.

  23. Re:Note the spin... on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 1

    It's all about high speed, realtime replication. Whack a mole if you will (sorry, too early for a car analogy)

  24. Re:Prostitutes? on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    Depends on the strip club. In some places, there *is* sex in the champagne room. You just need to cough up the coin.

  25. Re:Twitter has economic value? on Facebook Nearly Added Twitter To Friends List · · Score: 1

    But there is no barrier to entry. I could drop cash on developers or develop an app myself that could do the same thing as twitter, and deploy it to Amazon's EC2 just like they did, without apps. As long as someone else can replace them that easily, they're not going to be able to generate revenue their userbase that well.