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  1. Re:So we don't anticipate any blackouts, ever? on FCC Preparing Transition To VoIP Telephone Network · · Score: 1

    a VOIP installation needs power there at the home

    Not that it would be done like this, but maybe you should look at PoE

  2. Re:Come on Google, Give us wi-fi Now! on FCC Preparing Transition To VoIP Telephone Network · · Score: 1

    MetroNet basically do this in the UK now. You buy Broadband from them, and they basically decide if your roof is suitable to stick a proper mast on. Now have a nice little network accross NW England.

  3. Re:Politically correct? on Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    Or my favourite, the long and boring description of precession, that makes all of the signs at least one out from their original descriptions...

  4. Re:Lizards? on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, as far as I will go for slashdot. That is too far. :)

  5. Re:Lizards? on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    Wheelchair basketball you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:Not again on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 5, Insightful

    BTW, my physics is really rusty, doesn't one of Einstein's equations devolve into a newtonian equation at slow speed?

    Wouldn't be correct if it didn't. Newton wasn't *wrong*, he just didn't specify the parts he couldn't see. Same with Einstein, same with this.

  7. Re:Bill Itself: 220-215 on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    That is the point of democracy though. Majority rules. If that majority decides it's right to fund a national health service for all, then the minority must pay up. Ideally while they campaign their view and get it accepted by the majority.

    If the majority have to use force to ensure the minority don't shirk there obligations, then so be it.

  8. Re:Bill Itself: 220-215 on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    That's wonderful. People like you are a great benefit to society. The problem happens when people like you see someone who does mind paying and says, "You are wrong. Whatever reason you may have for your decision is moot. You WILL PAY for that other person over there or else we will put you in jail and take your money anyway."

    Then I point them at a)-d), and specifically the one that says, "I want to make sure people with infections that could harm me, don't have an excuse to not get treated." But at root you are right. I think everyone has the right to free healthcare, and by extension, that everyone has the responsibility to pay for that. You disagree, and that is you prerogative.

  9. Re:Bill Itself: 220-215 on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 2

    e) I'm not a complete arse, I don't mind paying a little for that person over there to *not die*.

  10. Re:Not just the terrorists on Terrorists Ban Musical Ringtones · · Score: 1

    Whooosh!

  11. Re:i'm confused on Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm guessing that the error bounds on the readings were great enough that 0.9 seconds over 7.3billion years, was within them....

  12. Re:Transistors Per IC and Planck Time on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    ...an android in every home.

    Don't worry, Google are working on it.

  13. Re:Cars??? on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    You mean like when people go to hospital for an MRI scan (Magnetic resonance imaging) instead of an NMR (Nuclear magnetic resonance) imaging scan?

  14. Paizo on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    A subscription to Planet Stories

  15. Re:awesome: on "Overwhelming" Evidence For Magnetic Monopoles · · Score: 1

    i don't fucking get it: a magnetic field starts and begins with the same point in space.

    Actually, in a conventional dipole, it starts at one side of the dipole, and ends at the other side. as you can see in the magnet and iron filings experiments you do in school...

    it does not start at a point and not end: that's not a magnetic field. such a field could exert no force, as its not grounded in anything

    Gravity is such a field, as someone above pointed out. Gravitational field lines radiate out from the earch, and in a univers with only one mass, would not end anywhere..

    The electric field of a point charge is the same, i.e. an electron.

    Does that help?

    Mathematically, well, others have put the equations and how it breaks down already, far better than I could.

    To quote others, there is nothing impossible about the magnetic monople (and a lot of evidence that at least one *must* exist, we just haven't seen one.

    Weather this is or is not a "true" MM is a different matter.

  16. Re:Dear Ms Morissette on McAfee Leaks Conference Attendees' Personal Info · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find the song in question paradoxical. It's ironic that a song called ironic, contains so little irony. But perhaps that is why the song is named as it is, and the irony is intentional, but then it wouldn't be ironic as it was designed that way, bringing us back to the beginning.

    <~head explodes~>

  17. Re:World improves on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hate to break it to you, but for the last 3 or so months that you were in the womb, you were floating in your own excrement. What the GP was getting at is that food isn't "made" in manure (which is rotted down excrement anyway, so it's got a different chemical make up than excrement...) but that it's "grown" in it, that it breaks it down, taking only what it needs and leaving the rest. It's an awfully complex process that when combined with crop rotation, technology isn't a patch on as far as sustainability goes. As for the study, I think what a lot of people miss is that organic foods still are sold as being healthier, if that isn't true, it should be stopped, and studies like this are the start of that. Organic food is a good idea, but there are a lot of unscrupulous companies making a huge profit from people who don't really understand this fad.

  18. Re:Set fail... on New HDMI 1.4 Spec Set To Confuse · · Score: 1

    Now need to run an audio out cable from your TV to your receiver. Just one easy cable between every system and all the features should work.

    Only if your receiver splits off the audio and uses it, rather than just passing the whole HDMI signal to the TV and ignoring it, as most low-0range systems do....

  19. Re:The future? on "Good Enough" Computers Are the Future · · Score: 1

    Do carpenters build "bloated" homes because they use general-purpose fasteners to bind pieces of standardized wood together, or are you willing to tolerate a little deviation from the ideal because you don't want to wait while they grow a tree in the exact shape of your blueprints?

    Really bad analogy. Carpenters tend to start with big cuboid pieces of seasoned wood, and then cut out the new shape each time, even when the shape is the same...

  20. Re:"get old"? on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    If the connection is bad, you can try replacing the cable and see if that works.

    Easy with a patch cable, not so easy with a ~100m cables, going up a level or two, and through a couple of ceiling/floor spaces, and into a huge bundle of cables and into a patch panel.... OP is asking about infrastructure cables, not necessarily patch cables...

  21. Re:Works on other platforms too on Battle For Wesnoth Version 1.6 Released · · Score: 0

    You know this started out as a clone of Warcraft 2, don't you?

  22. Re:The proof is in the...? on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    As an agnostic I beg to differ. Being agnostic means not having firm belief in any particular religion. It doesn't mean disbelieving in any, or all of them. Agnostics accept that what others believe may be true, and tend to fight for their right to believe it. Atheists can be just as rabid as any other religious fundamentalist.

  23. Re:Three options on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    Do not try to own a cat

    Owning a cat is impossible. The cat owns you, you are it's slave, no matter what it lets you think. Always remember this.

  24. Re:How can they tell? on US Has More IPv6 Eyeballs Than Asia, Because of Apple · · Score: 1

    1) You still need to use IPv4 if sites you need to use still don't support IPv6 or are unreachable from your network. For example - say you have a machine without an IPv4 address at all. How would you access the following sites: mail.google.com www.windowsupdate.com security.ubuntu.com mail.yahoo.com I can list more.

    1) Have one of your machines be a 6to4 gateway...It has a single IPv4 address, and no NAT. 2) use someone elses 6to4 gateway...

  25. Re:How about "Phoning Home" and DRM? on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    Seatbelt laws indeed --- my life, my decision.
    Happy living with yourself when you break someones neck on impact after making that decision. Oh, you only ever drive? Dang it.