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  1. Re:Iridium? on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 2, Informative

    iridium is like $12/megabyte. Way too much.

  2. sprint mifi! on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    I have a Sprint MiFi and like it but you should know Sprint and Verizon do not have data everywhere they have voice. AT&T does but I dont think they have a MiFi right now. The mifi is from novatel and gives you a wireless hotspot that provides data for up to 5 devices. Way cool and no software to install. I just love mine.

  3. fly on the lens? on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    shame hubble doesnt have windshield wipers

  4. post nuke blueprints too while youre at it on Artist/Astronomer Exhibits Photos Of Spy Satellites · · Score: 1, Troll

    this guy is an idiot. The chinese have the means to shoot down satellites and this frigard wants the government to advertise their location.

  5. hard diskus throw on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 5, Funny

    spin around in a circle and see who can throw them the greatest distance

  6. Not So Fast... on Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead · · Score: 1

    Yahoo has a problem with Carl Icahn trying to take the company over that it has to deal with first.

    If they don't do something to appease angry shareholders like do a stock buyback, they might wind up as Microhoo anyway.

  7. views and stored procedures on Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? · · Score: 1

    have them execute a stored procedure on a view that contains information pertaining to their userid only. stored procedures are like batch files. views can have certain parts of tables but not others (like a virtual table)

  8. haha on Carl Icahn Takes on Yahoo's Board · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Microsoft does to yahoo what it did to hotmail and other companies, google's number 1 competitor is history.

    I can only imagine what would happen by taking yahoo's infrastructure off free bsd and putting it on windows.

    Google might just be loving this.

  9. child abuse on Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family · · Score: 2, Funny

    Convincing your kids to go into IT is kind of telling them to run out in front of a bus. Except the pain from the bus will not last as long.

  10. Re:64 bit is no panacea on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you have more than 4gb, you can use it with photoshop by using a ram disk application to turn the ram into a drive letter (if you have a LOT of ram) When I was working in the printing business in the early 90's the mac supported ram disks in the operating system. I would make a ram disk and either put the image in the ram disk or set the ram disk as the photoshop primary swap space.

  11. bovine excrement on Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP · · Score: 1

    34% of the world's computers have limewire? I think they have inflated this quite a bit. 1 or 2 percent maybe.

  12. Age of Empires III Asian Dynasties on What Is Your Game of the Year? · · Score: 1

    My favorite game is AOE III. I play that and Flight Sim X but AOE III Dynasties is the best thing to come out this year as far as I'm concerned. I built a new core 2 duo system with an ATI XTX 1950 card and run it it full 1920x1200 mode with all the bells and whistles turned on and the graphics are awesome. It will use a havoc physics engine if you have one. Playing that game in 4x4 mode stresses the computer but its quite an experience and a big step forward in realtime rendering, especially since it will use the GPU on the card.

  13. good pr on Sun Offers Reward Program to Boost Open Source Effort · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this is a good idea. Google has done well in becoming a favorite with web developers because it helped them make money off their websites. IBM increased revenues by supporting open source because they can sell their stuff as being oss friendly. People are going to be more likely to make their software sun/solaris/java friendly.

    This is a sharp turnaround from when all unix variants competed with each other.

  14. aliens amoung us on Are Aliens Living Among Us? · · Score: -1
  15. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Electronic device and silly putty at an airport? They should have opened up on her and asked questions later. She's an idiot.

  16. serious html error on Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense" · · Score: -1, Redundant
  17. got to change with the times... on SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is as stupid as horse drawn buggy makers blaming automobile makers for going out of business. SGI didnt adjust. They went poof. IBM adjusted well to linux and is reaping benefits are oracle and other companies. SCO could have done well with linux by shifting an existing customer base and applications over a long time ago.

  18. Re:You Think That's Bad? on Big Box Store Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs · · Score: 1

    You have rent, insurance, advertising, utilities, etc, labor, etc. if you dont mark stuff up like that, you go broke from overhead. lying is not excusable but charging $30 to install a piece of memory is more than reasonable.

  19. not too suprised on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: 1

    I used to work for a very large travel agency and have seen queues of travel resevations get pretty backed up and cause problems before although on a smaller scale.

    Most reservations are checked for problems automatically but pushed through by a person and moved from one queue to another. If the program that checks them crashes, it can back things up.

    I remember a program crashing and a queue getting 2000+ reservations in it before someone figured out what was going on and it had things screwed up for about 2 days while a replacement computer gradually cleared the queue out.

  20. Re:monolithic. on Woz Details His Plans for Energy-Efficient House · · Score: 1

    Not this one. You coat it with waterproof coating and it has a sealant over the concrete anyway.

  21. Re:monolithic. on Woz Details His Plans for Energy-Efficient House · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, they dont leak. It is made out of concrete and polyurathane foam. I live near their plant in Italy, Texas and have talked to the inventor, David South. They inflate a large rubber mold of the house and spray 'shotcrete' in it and there is _no_ space for either air or water to come through. If it wasnt for the front door and a few windows, it would be airtight. the monolithic dome is the most energy efficient thing out there due to the fact that the temperature wont change more than 1 or 2 degrees a day. it is a thermal mass that takes hours to heat up or cool down so it builds up heat in the concrete in the day and releases it at night when it is cool. Build one into the side of a hill or underground and you're done

  22. microsoft trial balloon on Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think this whole thing was

    A) Pump and Dump SCO stock
    B) A Microsoft Trial Balloon


    The pump and dump worked pretty well. A bunch of SCO execs sold stock and made money at the expense of the future of the company Microsoft funded part of this lawsuit to harass linux users and see what would happen if they started suing linux users and distros as well.

    You'll notice they won't even tell you which patents of theirs linux infringes now. SCO got bad PR instead of them and IBM got good PR for defending linux.

  23. Re:Three PCI Express 16X Slots? on Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 - A Mother Of A Motherboard · · Score: 1

    two video cards for either crossfire or sli plus a physics accelerator. two ati or nvidia cards would let you drive four large monitors and then certain games will use a physics accelerator to offload some processing. I play flight simulator x in maximum resolution on multiple monitors and it is _very_ handy.

  24. don't get too excited on FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no chance of anyone getting more than a slap on the wrist over this. The government hasnt let the law gets in its way yet.

  25. Re:Learn CSS from a book? on The Art and Science of CSS · · Score: 2, Informative

    A lot of the examples on the web are garbage. Try finding really good resources on liquid css tableless designs with code for cross browser support. It's a pain to find exactly what you want in many cases.