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  1. Re:Poor pilots on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the future, the only crew on an aircraft will be a man and a dog. The man's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to bite the man whenever he tries to touch the controls.

  2. Re:Regarding security badges on Real RFID Hacking Scenarios · · Score: 1

    Except the keypad is digital so the digits don't always show up in the same order. Thus if somebody shoulder surfing sees you input your code and remembers the pattern, he/she still won't know the correct PIN.

  3. Re:Please no! on Microsoft Sides With Nintendo Against Sony · · Score: 0

    "Simple gaming" was not referring to the logical complexity of the games themselves, but rather the level of immersion you get from playing them. It's purely an opinion that you are welcome to share or disagree with.

  4. Re:Please no! on Microsoft Sides With Nintendo Against Sony · · Score: -1, Troll

    Some of us just aren't into "simple" gaming. Don't get me wrong, I can play Tiger Woods with the best of them, but my prefered method of gaming is a complicated Flight Simulator flying with other people on the internet, communicating to them via VoIP. It's a pretty good VR experience.

  5. Re:Where do you GET the Hydrogen? on "H-Prize" Announced · · Score: 1

    This research is not about making cars energy-self-sufficient. It is more about making a better electric car. Once we do that, we can worry about the upstream power generation and having it come from renewable sources (solar, geothermal, tidal, etc). We can use nuclear power generation as a crutch until renewable technologies are available, but our uranium supply is limited just like oil.

  6. Re:Interesting, but not new on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 0

    ...or a bunch of stuff from McFly's garbage can.

  7. Re:In other news.. on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 1

    Which makes it real to all of us.

  8. Re:Perhaps generic questions on Microsoft To Launch 'Question' Site · · Score: 1

    In all fairness, setting up VPN connections with Cisco equipment is not a low-level thing. In fact, I don't think its taught until the professional level certifications. $5.00 for someone to sit down and go through that config, talk to the question asker for more information, test on their home lab (us serious cisco guys have home labs)...all for $5.00.

    For $5.00 I might check cisco.com for a whitepaper on how to do it.

  9. Re:Binary minds want to know. on OpenSPARC and Power.org, Who has it Right? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Generally when you ask for the square root of something, it is implied that you're asking for the positive square root.

  10. Re:not that far off on Cleaner Air Adds To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Electric cars pollute twice as much? Seriously? Do you have a link to back that up? I'm asking because it would be terrific fodder to use against my hybrid driving yuppy friends.

  11. Re:Dupe "Article" on Vonage Puts VoIP 911 Caller on Hold · · Score: 1

    Except taxes & fees can be $15-$20.

  12. Re:Maybe it's just me... on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    I agree. Internet access, while a great educational tool, is still mostly for entertainment. It is not a necessity. Health care on the other hand, is lacking for many people and needs to be addressed on a Federal level.

  13. Re:Runway Lengths on One REALLY Long Runway for Rent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    KSC's runway is 300ft wide. 13R/31L at KJFK is 150ft wide.

  14. Re:Is scanning a network illegal? on Professor 'Packetslinger' Assigns Questionable Task · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think a better analogy would be walking down the street, checking each door along the way. If its lock, you move on. If its unlocked, you open the door but you don't walk in.

    I'm not sure if that would be illegal or not.

  15. Is scanning a network illegal? on Professor 'Packetslinger' Assigns Questionable Task · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought there was a case not too long ago that says a scan is not an intrusion, thus is not illegal.

  16. IBM Blue Gene Project on Japan's New Supercomputing Toy · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Is this really a crime? on Diebold Whistle-Blower Charged With Felony Access · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, this really is a crime. The devil is in the details.

    This guy is an employee of a law firm whose client sent them confidential information. This guy then took it upon himself to violate attorney-client priviledge and turn the documents over to a newspaper.

    IMHO, this is nothing like some poor bugger who informs on his employer for dumping toxic waste.

  18. Re:Why? on Switching a College from Desktops to Laptops? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And then you have the poor buggers who are paying their own way through school, and don't qualify for financial aid because they make "too much". You're getting to where higher education is something only the rich can afford, and only the very poor can get help paying for. $30,000/yr income and I'm supposed to afford putting 1/6 of it towards tuition? Thats half of what I pay for housing...are you kidding me? And now you're going to make me buy a laptop?

  19. Re:Negative mass? on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    Brilliant!

  20. Re:Negative mass? on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    Think about an object with negative mass. You throw it forward, and instead of accelerating in the opposite direction, you accelerate in the same direction. Freaky.

  21. Re:Careful..... on Surveillance Is on the Rise, Straining Carriers · · Score: 1

    was offering a bounty on tapes of Professors expressing left-leaning opinions

    You may want to recheck that. From what I understood, was an alumni group was offering a bounty on tapes of Professors humiliating students that express a right-leaning opinion.

  22. Re:Newsflash! on Blu-ray Discs Won't Be Cheap · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you have never driven a Kia.

  23. Just like earth? on Microlensing Uncovers Earth-Like Planet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cold...inhospitable...sounds like Earth to me.

  24. Commoditizing teachers on Stanford Classes Now Available on iTunes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My experience in college has been that a teacher spends most of his/her time helping a relatively small minority of a class. So it would seem reasonable that the rest of the students could learn as much, or more, in a class using pre-recorded lectures over the internet.

    I would like to see this lead to a fairly nice public education model where online universities that are publicly subsidized allow students to take classes for free, and then the student pays for the teacher's time when he/she needs that extra help.

  25. Re:Gotta love SSH tunneling on SSH Tunnels How-to? · · Score: 1

    I agree that your SSH tunnel is just as encrypted as the VPN that the others use. I also agree that the unsecured PCs that the VPN users access your company's network with pose a greater security risk. But what you are missing is that the measure of a system's security is in how it responds to misuse. Your SSH tunnel is insecure because misuse of that tunnel would not be easily spotted by others.