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  1. Re:Unconstitutional on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    This varies from state to state, and at least some states have the option of buying insurance from a state agency (which is usually quite expensive, and reserved for those people that cannot get insurance from anybody else). For example, Wisconsin has not required auto insurance, although that changes next year.

  2. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 1

    I believe IE clones the session as well, so you don't need to reauthenticate to a site. For some sites that are IE only, it's quite useful to have the session cloned. If you want a completely new browser instance, open it up from your shortcut or however you open IE.

  3. Re:How long till.. on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Google's cached version of the page will give you the same result.

  4. Re:How about on Airport Security Prize Announced · · Score: 1

    Somebody once said that every car should have a spike coming out of the steering wheel pointing towards the driver. That should help people to drive carefully.

  5. Re:Look for the "https:" on Drive-By Pharming In the Wild · · Score: 1

    But how many people know what certificate warnings are really for? If somebody doesn't care enough to change the default password on their router, the odds that they care about certificate warnings are pretty low as well.

  6. Re:Definition? on Drive-By Pharming In the Wild · · Score: 1

    The Drive-By part comes from the fact that you can "drive by" a website and be attacked. See the original paper http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/reference/Driveby_Pharming.pdf.

  7. Re:Pricing is the big hurdle on Hands-On With The Kindle · · Score: 1

    Please, let's get textbooks on this. If we can get textbooks at half price on this device, it will pay for itself in one semester. Also, it will save many college students from lugging around 20kgs of textbooks.

    The ability to make notes and erase on this would be wonderful too, but maybe that's asking for too much. : )

  8. Re:Break the key with zombies? on Storm Worm Botnet Partitions May Be Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    Check the article. It's 40BYTE, not 40BIT.

    40bit keys can be cracked in quite a short time by a normal PC using a brute force attack (less than a week). 40 bytes = 320 bits, which is not feasible to crack with modern technology.

  9. Re:Let the Stone Throwing Begin! on Microsoft Working On Health Information 'Vault' System · · Score: 1

    Please, please, please.... let it run Linux!

  10. Re:Any more details? on OOXML Critic Fired From Finnish Standards Board · · Score: 1

    A few clarifications:
    - it was a four month trial period, not four weeks.
    - at the end of the trial period, an employer may let an employee go without giving any reasons.

  11. Re:Familiar symptoms? on Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire" · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure whether it's funny or scary that you are modded insightful.

  12. Re:1 AP per row?! on Boeing Drops Wireless System For 787 · · Score: 1

    The 787 calls for 8-9 seats per row. If you take the worst case scenario of everybody being connected at once in a row, 9 users pretty well maxes out an access point.

    The wired solution makes a lot more sense. Trying to configure a wireless zone in an airplane would be a nightmare. With an access point in every row, even staggering right/left side of the airplane, you will get a lot of interference from other access points as there are only 3 non-overlapping channels (assuming using the 2.4Ghz range). True, you could turn the power way down on them, but you have to be able to reach both sides of the airplane from your AP.

    With 100Mbps ethernet connections at every seat, I wonder if they could sponser some killer LAN parties. Maybe show the current best players on the main screen? : )

  13. as an alternative... on Using Barges to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    As a backup plan, we could take 8,000 jumbo jets and fly between the sun and the earth, thereby casting a shadow. That would promote global cooling as well.

  14. cool, but... on New Battery Technology Powers For 12 Years · · Score: 1

    and, soon, accept a charge from outside the body without the need for surgery

    How do they do that? Do they implant a receptacle for a Nokia charger into your skin?

  15. clarify? on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 1

    does he start the car with remote start, which starts the linux box up, or does he start up the car with the linux box? i'm hoping it's the former, and not the latter. also, how does a system like this handle in temperature extremes such as -20F (-30C) and +100F (+37C)? i know back when i was in school, if i left a calculator in the car overnight in january, it was veeerrryy veerrryy slow until it warmed up. just curious.

  16. it does make sense.... on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 1

    if you don't understand this article at first glance, try these tips:
    -cross your eyes and squint
    -smoke a big doobie beforehand
    -read it with your eyes closed and while looking at something else...

    one of these is bound to help you understand what they are talking about.

  17. i would love to, but.. on Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott · · Score: 1

    I'm a web designer, and i use mostly Firefox (Lynx and Safari at times as well, depending on target audience) while i'm working until it's time to debug, at which time i open up IE. And curse. And sometimes cry.

    But does boycotting mean that i don't make special design changes just to accomodate IE users? Unfortunately, part of my job requires making sure the 90% (or 88%, wherever it is now) of morons out there who use IE on a regular basis can view my sites.

    But for personal use, i never touch IE. I simply can't stand the thought of soiling my personal laptop by opening it up.

  18. Re:Does wifi work underwater? on Homebrew Underwater ROV · · Score: 1

    well, you could receive underwater, but not transmit so easily. using an ELF (extremely low frequency), transmissions can go several hundred feet deep with very low signal loss. you wouldn't be able to transmit from an ROV because the ELF transmitters need to be quite large, making a portable one unfeasible.

    also, ELFs wouldn't provide a very fast connection, as they operate at 300Hz and below. compare this to the 2.4GHz frequency that is commonly used for wireless internet accesss.

    i guess if you didn't need to go so deep, you could increase the frequency, which would help on the bandwidth and size of transmitter issues. for example, in WWII, i believe u-boats were communicated to using the 15-30kHz frequency, and submarines were able to receive at depths of up to 30m. they still weren't able to transmit from underwater on those frequencies though.

    does anybody have a contact in the navy who's not afraid to leak this kind of stuff? i'm kind of curious as to how far this kind of stuff has advanced.