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  1. Canadian tax of $10.00/mo on Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee · · Score: 1

    We must say no, as there is already a tax on blank cd's and blank DVDs. True enough, the latter medium is being replaced by chargeable downloads, but my answer to those wanting a tax is ..``get a job, and do music as a hobby, as it should be``

  2. BYE BYE GNOME on Canonical To Divert Money From GNOME · · Score: 1

    If you want to provide Upstart or other new GUI, then you must divert money from Gnome.

  3. Incandescent lights ban is BS on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    I have a freezer and an incandescent light will not turn on if it is at zero F. I have the CFL front door lights that will not start in Winter, I might agree to the change if it saves polution, but using CFL gives me no benefit for the following reason In winter, daylight hours are short, and it is very cold. CFLs do not generate heat, to displace baseboard heaters. So, there is no reduction in consumption. In summer, daylight hours are long (sundown at 10pm), so CFL use is about 1 hour per day. Not a true benefit. I would consider if LEDs were introduced that produced light at any temperature found in a home, such as room, or freezer. If it works, then lets swap out the city street lighting.

  4. Re:Real-world applications? on Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    I presume the solution method would allow optimizing the travelling salesman problem, or even in shipments of products from a sales organization to multiple clients in one truckload. Or do I not understand the practical solutions.

  5. SSN digits on Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN · · Score: 2

    If SSN numbers are given out in ascending sequence, not by state lots (each state gets a range of numbers), then having the high-order digits will allow them to determine the year of issue, and the age of the individual. Thats all.

  6. Re:Hey, I've got an idea. on Sonar Keyboard Logs You Out To Protect Your Data · · Score: 1

    Any autolog out system will invite people to make use of it. Therefore, another unauthorized person could jump into the session before the timeout occurs and the rest will be "Unauthorized access".

  7. Re:The profit motive is a great motivator on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1

    When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So, all your solutions imply Linux!! Wow. The government did the study. They got results that are quantified. The Windows 7 environment is a good alternative to Linux. Gnome is not the best ergonomic interface, but it is very usable. I think you must realize that Linux can't win all battles. But it will come in it's time

  8. Re:really intel? on Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android · · Score: 1

    Intel has a vested interest in MeeGo, as it sells netbooks, and atom processors. They accept UBUNTU for the Netbook, but believe in MeeGo to fund some of it's development. (Source, Argentina )

  9. Medical Records on Americans Trust Docs, But Not Computerized Records · · Score: 1

    My doctor does not own a computer. He keeps everything in filefolders. I think that one full room of his office is just filled with filing cabinets containing patient records. He doesn't eveng Google for possible diagnosises

  10. Re:openness on Clinton Calls For "Ground Rules" Protecting Internet · · Score: 1

    What is consenting sex is rape if the male forgot to use a condom. So, the charge is really, failure to use a condom, and that is viewed as Rape. So help me I'll Rape you; So rape me, I'll help you, , or the other way around.

  11. Re:This may be a crazy idea on Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering · · Score: 1

    Are some new form of Torrents going to return. Bandwidth suggests Torrents type of download system

  12. Separate website locations for jews too on Saudi Students In US Seek Segregation By Gender On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Certain jews have "Kosher" computers. These are units that have very restricted access to websites, in fact, only to websites which are controlled by their sect. Mostly, the computers have no internet access, because it is possible the young person could come across a scantilly clad woman. Ditto for their cell phones. So the Saudi's requests are reasonable.

  13. Re:PEBSWAC on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1
    I am not a mechanic, and I have not studied the Toyota gas pedal linkage. But it would seem to me that the pedal would communicate with a shaft position encoder. These encoders are usually designed with some form of graycode to binary convertor. The graycode allows a detection of physical displacement such that between any two positions, the maximum change is a single bit of data.

    This works perfectly for shaft position encoders and similar devices. But suppose one of the digital sensors was flakey, (intermittant). Then it is possible that more than one bit could change, and when the gray code is converted to binary, the change can be very substantial. This would tell the computer to signal a rapid acceleration.

    What I am saying is pure conjecture, but it is plausable.

  14. Clown Feet on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    Some drivers have size 14 shoes and widths of EEEE. When one's foot hits the brake pedal, the right side of the shoe hits the accelerator. There can be no doubt that large feet are the cause of the misfortunes.

  15. Good job Debian team Gnome problem that persists on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    With Squeeze beta, (now current version) when I review a pdf with document viewer, after viewing a large file (example Postgresql PDF), then with the icons in Gnome, I am unable to logoff or to even poweroff. What I am able to do is switch user, and then bring Debian down. Of course, going to terminal mode and issuing a poweroff also works. But I have not found out why Gnome logoff and poweroff stops working. I will let you know what happens when I do a clean re-installation.

  16. I disagree on Is Setting Up an Offshore IT Help Desk Ethical? · · Score: 1

    Take a situation of a person being in a fishing boat. The company hired him to drill a hole in the hull, because it is lower cost to let it sink than to keep it afloat. The passenger drills the hole and drowns himself. The company makes use of the fishing at the offshore location. Who is ethetical, and who is stupid. Back to this opportunity to do the work to kill the local department, I see it as the company having no loyalty to the country that gives it income, and it is almost immoral to send domestic work offshore. I would not take the job, even though someone else would.

  17. Patent Reform on Senate Panel Backs Patent Overhaul Bill · · Score: 1

    The fact that the Senate is studing reform is a start. Perhaps they will eventually invalidate all software patents, except those for hardware drivers for industrial devices. (Think of centrifuges)

  18. Re:it's a figure of speech on Egypt's Net Ruled By Phone, Not Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Big problem is that there are many avenues open to go around the Kill Switch, such as private network tunneling into Canada and Latin America, where the information just flows. If the non-USA ISPs don't belong to the KILL Switch party, then a kill switch for the USA will result in a global Kill Switch. I suppose it would kill all the dot coms.

  19. Re:The situation is much more complicated than tha on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 1

    Bandwidth caps are great. Unfortunately, greed is even greater then providing reasonable amounts of BW. In Quebec, we have a few major providers, and one of them is just overpriced beyond reason, except that the excessive charges pay for their expansion and into new revenues. If the ISPs could do it, they would start with a zero byte cap, and charge too much for every downloaded or uploaded byte. In North America, public highways are just that, public. There is no cap on the mileage you travel, but there is a cap on the speed. I could see this action with ISPs, where dsl speed should be unlimited to what DSL can deliver, and fibre speed should be at a fixed premium rate.

  20. WHo profits if the attack suceeds on London Stock Exchange Was 'Under Major Cyberattack' During Linux Switch · · Score: 1

    Imagine that in the conversion from MS Windows server to Linux, the attack succeeded on the Linux side. Who would profit from the publicity? Would some company pay to have such attacks take place? Just some far-out thoughts.

  21. Apple's closed shop approach on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    What does the average consumer require? He needs a celphone, an address book, a music player, a notepad, email, sms, and the ability to key in responses or initiate a message. Above that are dodads, (toys that raise the cost of the device from a value of $200 to $800. What do you get for 600 extra dollars? Certainly not the ability to change batteries when the built-in one fades away. The IPOD, and family are an example of American Waste..

  22. Bush Paranoia allowed or encouraged FBI wrongdoing on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 1

    Subject line says it all. Bush wants to live in fear, and show he was protecting Americans. If you want to protect Americans, stop excesses and stop creating oligopolies that send manufacturing and engineering jobs offshore. We need small business and innovation to return, and in so doing, the American oligopolic greed to deal with despots, just to ensure oil deliveries for American lifestyles will diminish and we will be known better as humanitarians, as is the majority of the wonderful population. But the view outside of the USA, sadly, is that the only God that Americans have is the dollar.

  23. 100 times more speed for fibre. on UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband · · Score: 1

    While the speed to the individual subscriber would probably not change, the benefit would be that the effects of contention and on capacity limitations would diminish. Transatlantic cables, in fibre would handle 100x traffic, making for a truly global interconnection.

  24. Libre office suite vs Open Office on LibreOffice 3.3 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Are we coming to friendly comparisons, such as which is better, Debian or Fedora, Ubuntu or Susie, etc. etc.???

  25. Re:Pointlessly small amount of storage. on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    Boom. The pressure limit switch failed.