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  1. Surely not simpler than phones for kids.. on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This phone, the firefly, has just 5 buttons: call mom, call dad, phonebook, call, hangup.

    http://www.fireflymobile.com/store/firefly/

    -molo

  2. OT: your sig on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I keep seeing your signature and thinking that it is a group of fans of the Honda CB 750 Nighthawk motorcycle. Disappointment soon follows. :(

    -molo

  3. Re:still not a planet per the IAU on Pluto Might Be Bigger Than Eris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please compare the total mass of all Neptune-crossing bodies to those gravitationally bound to Neptune. You will clearly find that Neptune has cleared the neighborhood. Neptune has a planetary discriminant of 2.4 x 10^4. A body with discriminant >= 1 is considered a planet.

    -molo

  4. Re:PolicyNodeImpl.java is from the Android TEST tr on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 1

    No, the code is different. They obviously had different authors implementing the same specification. One author prefers while loops, the other for loops. Variables and members are named differently. See these examples:

    Java:

            private void getPolicyNodes(int depth, Set set) {
                    if (mDepth == depth) {
                            set.add(this);
                    } else {
                            Iterator it = mChildren.iterator();
                            while (it.hasNext()) {
                                    PolicyNodeImpl node = (PolicyNodeImpl) it.next();
                                    node.getPolicyNodes(depth, set);
                            }
                    }
            }

    Android:

            private void getPolicyNodes(int i, Set set) {
                    if(mDepth == i) {
                            set.add(this);
                    } else {
                            PolicyNodeImpl policynodeimpl;
                            for(Iterator iterator = mChildren.iterator(); iterator.hasNext(); policynodeimpl.getPolicyNodes(i, set))
                                    policynodeimpl = (PolicyNodeImpl)iterator.next();
                    }
            }

    -molo

  5. Re:Hmmm .... on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    First off, thank you for your service. A question if you don't mind: Were you aboard the Hartford during the grounding incident in Sardinia? What was that like?

    -molo

  6. Re:Ad Hoc The Planet! on Net Pioneers Say Open Internet Should Be Separate · · Score: 1

    Packet radio in the ham service (FCC Part 97) is not suitable for general internet use. There are prohibitions on encryption and FCC content censorship.

    Using wifi ad-hoc (Part 15) is a different story. There are power limits, but in general this is more suitable because there is no censorship or encryption prohibitions.

    -molo

  7. Re:Internet2 was great for academia.. on Net Pioneers Say Open Internet Should Be Separate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why should video or VoIP be treated differently? How do you differentiate voip UDP from video game UDP? No deep packet inspection, please. Packets are packets and bits are bits. Just deliver them without regard to content. Is that too much to ask?

    -molo

  8. Re:Internet2 was great for academia.. on Net Pioneers Say Open Internet Should Be Separate · · Score: 1

    The only interest ISPs are looking out for is profit of their conglomerates/keiretsu.

    -molo

  9. Internet2 was great for academia.. on Net Pioneers Say Open Internet Should Be Separate · · Score: 1

    Internet2 was great for academia, but it doesn't help me when my ISP choices are monopolistic, greedy and don't have my best interests at heart.

    -molo

  10. Re:Range and attenuation on Gigabit Wireless Will Link Smartphones To TVs · · Score: 1

    You are correct 60GHz seems to be an O2 absorption frequency, see this chart:

    http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/images/mmwavechart.gif

    It looks like 4 dB/km attenuation in the dry and 15 dB/km in the rain.

    -molo

  11. Range and attenuation on Gigabit Wireless Will Link Smartphones To TVs · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe that in this microwave frequency range, the signals will be attenuated by atmosphere, so there will be natural limitations on range, especially at low power.

    In ham radio, there are people doing 47 GHz propagation of morse code (CW) and voice signals via rainscatter. (think of weather radar) The record range is 343km from mountaintop to mountaintop using high-powered directional dishes (W6QI and AD6FP).

    -molo

  12. Re:Body Cavity Search on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the times square bomber's own incompetence stopped that attack. By the time a street vendor noticed a smoking SUV, it would have probably been too late to prevent an explosion if the bomber was at all competent about explosives.

    -molo

  13. Re:Oh god! Not 50 nuclear missiles! on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 2, Informative

    The US nuclear umbrella covers NATO, Japan and Korea. That is a pretty good portion of the free world.

    -molo

  14. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 4, Informative

    A person can be born in the US and raised and educated speaking a non-english language.

    BTW, in some jurisdictions, you can register to vote in local elections just by being a resident. I'm not sure if Nevada has any jurisdictions like that however.

    -molo

  15. No, just no.. on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wikipedia is full of people with agendas, and they have different camps.. inclusionists, deletionists, plus all the real-world politics on top of that.. And there is really not much recourse when admins have taken actions that you disagree with. Procedure is followed haphazardly. Many admins are undisciplined (in several senses of the word). Wikipedia doesn't seem to be self-correcting.

    There are few ways politics self-correct, and very few of them don't involve bloodshed. I don't see how wikipedia is at all relevant to that.

    -molo

  16. Re:Of course on All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England · · Score: 1

    No, it is only flash photography that is forbidden at the chapel.

    -molo

  17. Re:No, it means you don't understand irony. on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    Not that this holds any weight with me personally, but I think you forgot Romans 1:24-28.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

      26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

      28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

    -molo

  18. Re:Can be nice on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    Thanks much for the detailed reply. I'll have to read up on the links you provided as well.

    I used to spend summers up there as a kid, so its been a while. I have also made trips in the off season, so I'm familiar with the climate issues.

    I'm also somewhat familiar with the telecomm and infrastructure issues, the place I used to spend time at was off the electric grid, it would have cost them some ridiculous amount of money to get wired up (~3 mile run). They had paid to have phone service put in though, that was only about a mile run.

    BTW, were no wireless ISPs available in your location? I know there are some up there, I think maybe near Saranac Lake or on Blue Mountain.

    Thanks again.
    -molo

  19. Re:Can be nice on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    I live and work in the city, but I used to spend my summers in the Adirondacks. I'd love to move there full time, but I'm not sure the job projects are within commutable range. Where are the job centers besides Albany?

    -molo

  20. Re:So on UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter · · Score: 1

    They have private police funding in the UK?

    -molo

  21. Re:So on UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter · · Score: 1

    That's what police reports are for.

    -molo

  22. Re:So on UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Why does a police force need a PR department?

    -molo

  23. Re:Not the largest. on At Commonwealth Games, the World's Largest Aerostat · · Score: 1

    Gah, that is supposed to be m^3. Slashdot stripped of the superscript 3 char.

    -molo

  24. Not the largest. on At Commonwealth Games, the World's Largest Aerostat · · Score: 1

    Aerostats include airships. The Hindenberg had a volume of 200,000 m, this thing is small in comparison. Largest in current service, maybe? EGreen has a 16,400 m model.

    -molo

  25. Re:FOR ALL AUTOTOOLS "REPLACEMENTS" on Autotools · · Score: 1

    Cygwin. gcc targeting native APIs.

    -molo