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  1. Re:LifeSize Express on Persistent Home Videoconferencing Solution? · · Score: 1
  2. The answer is Lifesize on Persistent Home Videoconferencing Solution? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This solution is not cheap but it will give you the best quality for the price and the hardware is really nice. Feature-rich, Full HD Video is Here Full High Definition video communications - Now more accessible than ever Extending the capabilities of the award-winning LifeSize® Express system, LifeSize® Express 220 is an enhanced Full HD video communications system that is both affordable and scalable. Ideal for small working groups, teams or individual knowledge workers who want to take communication over distance to the next level, LifeSize Express 220 has it all. With LifeSize Express 220, you not only get Full HD video quality - 1080p30/720p60 – for natural, realistic interactions at the lowest possible bandwidth, but also crisp, crystal clear data-sharing and an all new digital I/O with Full HD support. Support for dual high definition displays, Full HD camera, and phone or microphone options, LifeSize Express 220 offers the ultimate flexibility. Express 220 brings people together by allowing them to interact successfully across distances. Seeing facial expressions, body language and gestures makes you feel truly connected and understood. http://www.lifesize.com/Products/Video/LifeSize_Express_Series/Express_220.aspx

  3. What it is to be an "Organic" farmer. on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 1

    While it is nice to see everyone getting focused on the health benefits of organic produce, lets remember that when it comes to fruit and veg, these things are just a byproduct of Superior soil engineering (organic farming). From my view as a worm farmer, organic farming is really putting nature back into the system where it belongs. Eating veg that has been sipping on chemical cocktails is equiv to taking home a alcoholic crackhead from the bar. She/he is alive and breathing but only just. Take away the chem and the body dies. Plants, soil and the web of life that supports it are all needed to sustain the cycle of life properly. When you remove the web and replace it with half measures and only the basic chemicals and microbes, you get what you put in. Half baked frankencrop. The current popular methods of farming with chemical magic is old. I think it was about 200 years ago when a fellow figured out that adding N P K to farm land that had been leeched of it's nutrients due to over farming would replenish the soil. It has taken all this time to really understand how devastating this type of farming is to the soil. I talked to a farmer yesterday that recently changed to an organic farming method. He told me that the result of paying attention to the soil first and treating the crop as a byproduct of proper soil managment has resulted in 50% less irrigation, ZERO need for pest control, reduced soil tillage due to an explosion of worms in his soil doing it for him and the best part of all, crops that sell at market with an increased margin of 20%. So in the end, regardless of what the FSA has to say about organically produced crops, there is no better way to farm a plot of land than to do it in a way that is in tune with the entire web of life under and above the soil. To the guy that is going to say that you can't feed billions and do it organic. Bullshit. Prove it.

  4. Old news. I have a better link about Phantom Limbs on Researchers Identify Phantom Limb Brain Activity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Watch this guy explain it and be amazed. The phantom Limb part comes in at around half way if I remember correctly. This was filmed in 2007 so ya old news. Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/184

  5. I smell fail all over this. on Hearst To Launch E-Reader For Newspapers · · Score: 1

    Your device will fail unless you give up on what Hearst wants and figure out what the people want. That is all.

  6. This has FAIL written all over it. on An Early Look at the NASA MMO · · Score: 1

    That is all.

  7. Re:And so it begins on Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you wanna count this as the first chink in the army but the fact is no-one is flawless. Obama is being surrounded by the same assholes that have been driving this country into the ground for decades. No matter how good his intentions may be, he'll believe his trusted advisers and they will believe the lobbyists, cause they just don't know any better.

    Why are you so convinced his intentions are good? He hasn't even started the engine yet.

  8. Here is what you are not considering on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 1

    A new book, Processus contra Templarios, was published by the Vatican's Secret Archive on Oct 25 (07), and promises to restore the reputation of the Templars, whose leaders were burned as heretics when the order was dissolved in 1314. The book ... http://www.scrinium.org/scrinium/Opere.php?idProgetto=3&idOpera=20&idLingua=2 I am not saying that they are gunna get paid nor do I think that they are looking to get paid "We are not trying to cause the economic collapse of the Roman Catholic Church, but to illustrate to the court the magnitude of the plot against our Order." I find the whole thing very interesting. I am a big fan of real history being brought to the forfront in our apathetic, distracted TV culture.

  9. Official reply from Nullriver on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just an official reply from Nullriver.... We're not quite sure why Apple took down the application yet, we've received no communication from Apple thus far. NetShare did not violate any of the Developer or AppStore agreements. We're hoping we'll get some feedback from Apple tomorrow. Sorry to all the folks that couldn't get it in time. We'll do our best to try to get the application back onto the AppStore if at all possible. At the very least, I would hope Apple will allow it in countries where the provider does permit tethering. We'll keep everyone posted. Thanks!

  10. Um You Don't know Jack on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    How do you know this; 1. AT&T had to ban this to protect the network. 2. Presumably, someone at Apple OK'd this software without checking the AT&T T&Cs. 3. AT&T can't decided what is available in the App Store. Enough of your uber speculation. You fail to recognize that the simple fact that it was there means that it will most likely be back. for all you know the dev took it down due to some flaw. The first time it came down was because it just didn't work... Stop with the whole Iphones are lame thing. The Iphone is the by far has best phone interface on the market. You cant argue that. If you have not seen it don't even atempt to. If you have you can't say that Nokia or Motorola or RIM is better. Why? Cuz they all suck. As far as ATT goes with the tethering thing. This app we are talking about is a SOCKS PROXY ATT will never know you are using it for tethering unless they actually start sniffing your packets and doing look ups on destinations. Example... Ah lookie there packets going to wow servers must be tethered... Less whaa whaa more thinking

  11. Sascha Segan Author or the article. on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 1

    You are CLUELESS. Do some real research before you proclaim things "Dead". All the ISP's that have turned off Usenet had the worst nntp servers on the net. Good riddance. R.I.P Sascha Segan: 1980-2008 Oh wait I must be using your awesome ability of claiming things dead when they are still live and healthy. Last thing. just because our idiot lawmakers here in the good ole' USofA think it's a great idea to get the network providers to turn of Usenet (something they have been looking for a good excuse to do FOREVER) only make a small blip on the global Usenet. ITS GLOBAL. IT's the intertubes man get a grip. Ok i'm done...

  12. WTF on Apple After Jobs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Talk to an apple employee about what they think of Steve. Everyone I have ever talked to thinks he is a nut job. Everyone I have talked to is dearly afraid of him. No one wants to be near him for fear of losing their job. I think Apple needs to be rid of him.

  13. Re:What we really need is for iPhone to support UM on iPhone App Enables GSM To WiFi/VoIP Switching · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what the Divitas application does. it's not cheap but it works. Divitas.com DiVitas combines corporate voice and messaging applications for business and places them onto a single mobile smartphone under IT control. As a result, employees are reachable via a single business number â" their deskphone extension â" anywhere, anytime. They also have access to a broad set of business communications features designed to enhance the efficiency of mobile business communications. These capabilities are made available reliably and cost-effectively over both cellular and WiFi networks using Environment Aware Roaming Technology.

  14. Windows Home Server is awsome. Not raid. on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    Call me crazy but I use Windows Home Server and am extremely happy with it. I built my own box with a mobo that has 9 sata connectors for plenty of future upgrade room. I have had zero issues with it for the last 8 months. Flawless perfection. I have had zero issues with the data corruption bug that has people concerned. The box and drives cost me 1k.

  15. Divitas is this x 10000000 on iPhone App Enables GSM To WiFi/VoIP Switching · · Score: 1

    I sell something way cooler from a new company www.divitas.com. Iphone 2.0 app is in the pipe and almost complete. Already works on dual band Nokia and Windows Mobile phones. Divitas is made for the Corporate user comes with its own SIP gateway and all kinds of other goodness.

  16. FYI on Small Cable Groups Seek To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Rocco B Commisso CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director at Mediacom Communications Corporation Cash Compensation (FY December 2004) Salary $800,000 Bonus $400,000 Latest FY other short-term comp. $56,723 Latest FY other long-term comp. n/a Latest FY long-term incentive payout $0 Total $1,256,723 Stock Options (FY December 2004) Number of options Market value exercised n/a n/a unexercised 7,992,710 n/a unexercisable 300,000 n/a Total 8,292,710 n/a