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  1. Re:Why did this not effect TiVo. on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    After thinking about it I think the reason is that I don't get NBC digitally. I can't find anywhere that the broadcast flag is transmitted OTA on analog signals.

  2. Why did this not effect TiVo. on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    TiVo supposedly honors the broadcast flag. I wonder why this didn't stop my TiVo from recording Medium?

  3. Re:Well... on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    That is a very deep thought. It's bull shit but it is deep.

  4. Re:6.6m area, eh? on R2D2-Shaped DVD and Videogame Projector · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was an RCA 12" model with a single button remote. This single button pulled back a striker that made a noise that changed the channel. You chose which of the channels was an OFF position.

    The big problem with this design came years later. You see, the TV wasn't real particular which metal clicking sound it took its' orders from and one night when I was sneaking in after curfew I took some change out of my pocket and put it beside the TV.

    I'll bet you can guess what happened next. The TV came on and it was loud enough to wake up everyone in the house.

  5. Re:6.6m area, eh? on R2D2-Shaped DVD and Videogame Projector · · Score: 1

    Diagonal measurement has been used for longer than 30 years for TV measurements. I'm 46 and picked out my on TV at age 8 and they were measured that way then.

  6. Your Tax $ on NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe · · Score: 1

    Leave it to NASA to pay $80Mil for a $4Mil product.

  7. Re:Tame racing driver on Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store · · Score: 1

    BBCAmerica runs it 3 or 4 times a day.

  8. There's another name for this technology. on India Launches 10 Satellites At Once · · Score: 1

    MIRV Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.

    If I were Pakistan I'd be very concerned.

  9. Re:I Wonder on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 1

    The US government and every other government has had the right to check your stuff at the border for, well, ever. What makes a laptop any different.

  10. Re:I still want to know... on F-117A Stealth Fighter Retired · · Score: 1

    Becasue tactical fighters are sexier than bombers and they certainly didn't want to put the A- (Attack) tag on it then they would have had to park with the A-10s.

  11. Re:POS - register on Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data? · · Score: 1

    I had a base simple cash register when I owned a liquor store a few years back. It stored totals and sub totals for about 8 classes of merchandise. The data was there but there was no way to get the data out other than via the tape.

  12. Re:Truth in Naming on US Cyber Command Wants Greater Attack Mentality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cyber Operations Command. COC

  13. Like this is new? on US Military Explored Hiring Bloggers As Propagandists · · Score: 1

    Every military base, and most larger units (and some small ones) have a public affairs officer. The DOD has a huge public information department.

    Why should the DOD or any other organization let someone else frame the entire discussion?

  14. Re:Not without their reasons on iPhone's Development Limitations Could Hurt It In the Long Run · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just as a Data Point. I recently changed the settings on my iPhone from Check mail only on command to check every 15 minutes. I was charging twice a week. Now I charge every other day.

  15. Re:A bit presumptuous, no? on The Coming Digital Presidency · · Score: 1

    While I'm not a huge McCain supporter and I'm certainly not a Clinton supporter I have to say there is a WIDE difference between the generic religious right's statements what ever they might be and the words of a close friend and personal minister.

    If you think otherwise you are just kidding to yourself.

  16. Re:Two simple fixes on Lessig Bets On the Net To Clean Up Government · · Score: 1

    As for your two simple fixes.

    1. All the bills are on the web usually much longer than 5 days before a vote.
    2. While that would probably require a Constitutional Amendment (which pretty much drops the simple out of it) what makes you think lobbyists would have any more trouble swaying votes if the congress critters were in their home districts? Also, it would make legislative oversite of the executive branch a bit more difficult.

  17. Re:Count from Zero on Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic? · · Score: 1

    Data Point: 2008 Arkansas Open Primary.

    At the time of signing in to vote you tell the poll worker which party primary you want to vote in. You can only choose one. The machine had three ballots (Dem, Repub & Green) only the one you picked can be selected.

    Now let's say you picked Dem and the guy setting the switch thought you wanted Repub and you were too stupid to tell the difference and didn't correct them. The counts would be off.

  18. There should be another qualification... on New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced · · Score: 1

    It should be a vehicle that enough people would buy to be practical to build. And 200 miles is NOT enough.

  19. Not Free Speech Issue on GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com · · Score: 1

    Did a federal, state or local government body shut down the site? I didn't think so. The 1st Amendment is not in play here.

  20. Re:Social Security is not welfare on Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying · · Score: 1

    If you read what I wrote you will see that I added the Vet spending to the Defense budget.

    But any program that moves money from one individual to another because the other can't or won't work or can't or won't pay their own bills (medical bills included) does fall into the wider definition of welfare.

    I'm not saying that welfare is good or bad but the government is constitutionally required to defend us not to feed, dress and handle our medical care for us.

    And one other point. Most of unemployment is paid by the states so that number is low.

  21. Re:Speak really slowly for me... on Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are just plane wrong on this. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_budget_2007.svg the Defense makes up 19% of the budget. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment, Welfare, make up 56% of it.

    If you add in some of the 0.9% of agriculture which includes food stamps and Education and training and Community and regional development which has got to have some "welfareish" stuff in there that's another 3.1% and 0.9%.

    To be fair I'll add the 2.5% for Vets to the defense budget though in a lot of cases it could be counted in either block.

  22. Re:Mobil card ms are NUTS... on Ads With Your Name On Them · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is this you?

    Tupshin Harper

    Director of Engineering

    San Francisco Bay Area
    First hit for the first name Tupshin.

  23. Re:Says it'll also have solar power on Wave Powered Boat to Sail From Hawaii to Japan · · Score: 1

    Day 5.... 120 miles further out in the middle of no where.
    Day 6.... 120 miles further out in the middle of no where.
    ...

  24. Re:Sweet! on EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright · · Score: 1

    That would work if the artist produced one copy of the CD and charged X million dollars for it. Then they have earned what they think it is worth and everybody who wants a copy can make one. But who's going to pay that X million? Nobody, that's who.

    So instead they make lots of copies and sell them each for a much lower price.

    This silly economics thing is getting eerily unknown, even on slashdot. I blame open source.

  25. Re:[Citation Needed] --NT on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    Those depths are based on the assumption that the cutter isn't willing to die in the process.