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  1. Re:Slicon Shortage on New Photovoltaics Made with Titanium Foil · · Score: 1

    More toxic than the waste from mining and refining titanium?

  2. Slicon Shortage on New Photovoltaics Made with Titanium Foil · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Like, you think that titanium, and the equipment required to work titanium comes cheap? Cheaper than sand?

  3. Re:Cellular? on Building an Non-Wired Network for Pueblos? · · Score: 1
    1. Ever hear of a cellular modem?
    2. The towers are probably on Pueblo land. Therefore, they are there by permission of the Pueblo. Therefore, there is leverage if they wanted to add antennas for a new network
    3. Read the original comment. I suggested the possibility of using the existing coverage, not adding antennas or other new infrastructure.
  4. Cellular? on Building an Non-Wired Network for Pueblos? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If there is existing cellular coverage in the area, consider using that as an alternative to creating a new infrastructure. It may be possible to exploit the existing network with fewer additions than starting from scratch will require.

  5. Can You Hear Me Now? on Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Phonelabs Dock-n-Talk universal cable mess on Use A Regular Phone For Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1
    The problem with Dock-n-Talk is that it doesn't seem to be a dock. From what I can tell, you must have a matching cable for your phone, which then lays around on the table connected by said cable. Or use Bluetooth, with the security risks, and still have your phone laying around.

    Cellsocket is a dock. The phone plugs in, like a real desk charger. To my mind, a much more elegant solution.

  7. Re:Um, it's Cory Doctorow. Who? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1
    Doctorow is mainly know to BoingBoing readers, which makes his "fame" completely self-referential.

    At least with Slashdot, folks can post comments criticizing or calling the sources into question. The only comments BB posts come from some secret submission mechanism, and only appear if the article author likes them.

  8. What's The Point? on Curious Blend of VPN, PDA and USB Drive · · Score: 1
    What benefit is there in taking over the local PC vs. just borrowing its KB, mouse, NW and screen? What does this added complexity bring to the table?

  9. Reality Check on Stopping Adware and Spyware on Windows w/ Citrix? · · Score: 1

    Deploying Citrix to an organization of the size you imply would be a HUGE expense. Doing so for a single application is absurd. If this charity is as big as you say, let them use their clout to have the IE sites updated.

  10. Plane Quiet, Bah! on How Do You Drown Out the Office Noise? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Your "Plane Quiet" headphones are nothing other than Sony MDR-NC6 models, which can be had for as little as $25 with a little shopping around.

    Lot's of choices with a little looking.

  11. Re:Consumer Reports pays cash on Truth in Advertising? · · Score: 1
    OK, let me point to three specifics I found before I gave up reading CR.
    • Whenever they used to review vehicles, they almost exclusively covered sedans and wagons. They stated a number of times that pickup trucks were only for the crazed environment destroyer. This is a bias that never played well west of the Mississippi
    • The automobile rate of repair figures given are based on the cards returned by readers. Do you think a reader who is happy with his car returns the cards? Or do you think the guy who is thoroughly pissed is more likely to sound off?
    • I was reading their mag one time looking for a new coffee maker. After going through all the subjective taste test results, I suddenly came accross the statement "And out expert therefore concluded..." Who died and made some one guy the arbiter of all coffee makers? I don't care how sensitive his taste buds are. You can't do that kind of report on one opinion
  12. Re:astroturf alert on Truth in Advertising? · · Score: 1

    Not hardly. See what I said about them a while back on my blog.

  13. Re:Consumer Reports pays cash on Truth in Advertising? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    CU may buy their products on the market to avoid tweaking by the manufacturers, but they then apply a set of biases and prejudices that render their test results problematic.

  14. Drill, drill, drill on PC Setup for Small House with Child? · · Score: 1

    The inexpensive answer is to lock whatever PC you buy in a wooden cabinet/desk/drawer/whatever, then using a 2" wood bit drill a hole for a cable passthrough. If you are worried about the rug rat tugging on the cable, secure it on both sides of the hole with standard clamps. Make sure to vent the cabinet too.

  15. Re:Links To NYT on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1

    Bug Me Not is nice, but why encourage traffic to the offending sites at all? There are at least 120 alternatives for this article.

  16. Dead Fish on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1
    OK, I just chose a source at random. Don't get offended. There are 120 others. Take your pick.

    As for registration, can you spell P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L? There are enough other annoyances in life. Why put up with the avoidable ones?

  17. Links To NYT on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why does /. even allow links to sites like the NY Times which require PITA registration? A moments search on Google or Google News almost always turns up unrestricted options. Try the NY Post for this story.

  18. Jerry Was a Man on Hypo-Allergenic Cats Now Available for Pre-Order · · Score: 1
    This calls to mind Heinlein's short story, Jerry Was a Man. Want a pegasus? A miniature elephant? A pet talking chimp? No problem. All it takes is money.

    Oh, and we do genetically designed slaves too.

  19. What Base Are They Counting 30 In? on 30th Anniversary of Pascal · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's 30 years for UCSD Pascal, but the Pascal language itself was developed by Niklaus Wirth in 1970. I make that 34 years. UCSD was far from the first implementation.

  20. Old News on Virtual Tourists in the Swiss Alps · · Score: 1

    This is old news. Its covered here two weeks ago on 9/17.

  21. Re:The size is nice, but on OQO Price And Release Date Set · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this article, an OQO VP says the unit "will run whatever OS would run on a PC, so yeah, Linux should run just fine."

  22. Re:but... on OQO Price And Release Date Set · · Score: 4, Informative

    YES. According to early reports it should be able to run anything that has been ported to a Transmeta processor. Like, oh, Linux.

  23. Re:Ringworld Builders on Ringworld's Children · · Score: 1

    Very nice chain of thought. When I proposed the Tnuctip to Niven as the ring builders, he pointed out that they are carnivores, and not very nice themselves. So raising Pak breeders for food might be reasonable.

  24. Smoke But No Fire on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Unlikely to have been a nuclear blast, since there was no correxponding seismic event reported.

  25. Re:Ringworld Builders on Ringworld's Children · · Score: 1

    Not big enough for a diameter of 200 MILLION miles.