I can see why they would do this. When I worked there people used to complain all the time that it is still called Radio Shack even though they really do not carry radios anymore. Back in the day it was a great store for car stereos and ham radio enthusiasts. Now they cater to neither. However, rebranding will likely hurt them more than help. Perhaps instead of rebranding they should once again stock some radios. They still have a ton of people who come in there looking for them.

We only use shielded cable with shielded RJ-45 ends. I have never seen these commercially made and I would guess that they are super expensive. Without grounded and shielded wire we experienced way more outages due to lightning and power surges and our APs would often lose sync due to RF interference bleeding through the wires. So I would absolutely only ever use my own personally made cables. In the past we just used cheap patch cables and they worked alright but we have had way less issues with cables that we have made.

Adderall is just speed. People have been tweeking for years. It is a combination of four amphetamine salts. Straight up legal speed. I have seen the effects of this drug first hand and you may as well be using Meth. Down with Adderall!!!

My first experience with an actual distro was The Auditor Collection...long before Backtrack. Backtrack is amazing though now. So much more developed.

If it is ran outdoors it will need to be replaced as even the UV rated stuff has a rating of about 5-10 years. Indoors the same applies but it will last for much longer because it will be exposed to less UV. Otherwise as long as it isn't being moved around or stepped on or put under strain which could cause it to break it should be fine.

So I take it that they are keeping the '1GB' of RAM requirement that vista claimed? Even though it took over 600MB just to run. Vista ended up practically worthless on all of those notebooks and end-users had to wade through a plethora of online forums just to 'downgrade' to WinXP since the manufacturers all claimed that the laptops did not support that OS. WinXP was an upgrade if you ask me. Lets just hope that we don't get a bunch of 1GB Win7 laptops flooding the market. This three app limitation seems like their (terrible) answer to that issue to me.

I work for a large WISP and it is impossible to offer everyone unlimited bandwidth all the time. The advertised packages are peak that the system can handle and are rarely the continued throughput. We keep a close eye on our bandwidth and upgrade backhauls whenever necessary but throttling is a necessary evil. The way it works here is you can download a certain amount per day and then you are throttled to 2Mb (depending on the plan), download a certain amount more and it goes to 512K, then 256K. Then it resets at midnight. There is also a monthly cap that will throttle you to 256K for the remainder of the month if you hit that amount. We recently did a company wide bandwidth analysis and found that usage has been increasing for every aspect of user over the years so we have raised our limits. Now we figure that 99% of our customers will never experience throttling. That other 1% are usually pirates and torrent hounds and if they want an unlimited pipe then they can go elsewhere and get it because it is not our intent to provide unlimited service to those types. I happen to be one of those types and I can say that the service is not for me. However, it is all that is available in my area so I have to live with it. We have an unlimited 4Mb business plan which runs about $450 a month if people want it but most people would prefer the standard 2Mb or 7Mb packages (for $30 & $35 per month). The terms are clear for anyone who wants to read them and nobody who knows the cost of operating a network like this can realistically expect an unlimited 7Mb connection for $35.00 a month. Before throttling was implemented the 1% of the users who use most of the bandwidth would slow down the network so that the other 99% could almost not use it. VOIP services especially suffered. So really it might suck for that 1% of people who run torrents 24 hours a day but that is not our target demographic.

All I know is that I have reduced my power bill from over $100 mo. to $53.00 mo. It is hard to argue with results. Also, if the utility company really pushes out that much more (28w) then you can bet that Incandescents also use slightly more 'equivalent' power than advertised. Either way we are consuming less power, which helps everyone. Someone at the Incandescent plant has been putting money into this researchers pocket if you ask me.

Holy crap..who knew that it would be used to pass legislation that would stop wasting our tax dollars on non-violent drug offenders?? YAY CONFICKER!!!

ALL HAIL THE ALMIGHTY GOOGLE! But seriously, if you have ever used the Books app it is a revolutionary way of studying, reading, searching an entire books text. I am all for it.

I put a bad ass skin on my laptop that I designed in Photoshop and I got it at skinit.com. I constantly get comments on how sweet it is and I have since added one to my work laptop as well. It protects it from scratches and will also give you that 'manly' look that you so crave! They are like 30 bucks...a steal if you ask me. I used to carry around a scratched up pos.

Ok, I am not on Engadget...I am obviously having a mental impairment today. I meant Slashdot. I am done posting for the day. *wishes there was an edit feature*

For all of the grammar Nazis...I have already caught my misuse of also and too in the same sentence so save your fingers for typing on-topic replies. It was a typo.

So is this site (which links to the list of sites which include child porn) also distributing child porn under that same logic? If we go to Wikileaks are we then also breaking the law? How do we verify the sites on the list are legitimate to be censored without looking at the list? It seems to me that by making the list the government itself is also 'storing' child porn. It is a catch 22. Also, if the German government knew about the list and had seen it or possessed it then aren't they also storing child porn too? I don't see how anyone can get around this obvious contradiction.

During the last election there were numerous researchers who showed 280 different ways that the current machines can be hacked within about 6 minutes. The paper trail does nothing as it can also be fooled into passing the tests and still rigging the election. There are no sanity checks or anything in the FlashROM bootloader and anyone can hack it with a JTAG that can be built for about three bucks at RatShack. The Diebold DRE firmware was even online during the election so one could disassemble it and write all the code at home without even gaining access before the hack. I even found detailed high-res pictures of the JTAG port, motherboard, screw locations, and EVERYTHING online. I also know that in my town the machines are loaded into U-Hauls each night and then moved to an insecure warehouse near where I work. This is incomprehensible.

In Utah, Emery County clerk Bruce Funk had independent tests done which found multiple ways in which these machines could be exploited and Diebold fought to silence him and attempted to charge the state $40,000 to 're-certify' them. Then he was forced to resign for having them tested. It is obvious that Diebold knows about the issues and is acting to suppress the information. Now reports are coming in that choosing 'straight party' for Democrat sometimes gives votes to Republicans or does not count them at all straight from the Diebold factory. I voted straight party during the last election. Do you know how that makes me feel? It seems like some of them may be rigged right from the factory and there are no checks and balances in place to ensure that they aren't.

The argument that a 'hacker' could not have time during voting to modify these is just common sense and just does not stand up. It is not a 'hacker' during voting time that I am worried about. Anyone with ulterior motives and access to these machines for even five minutes can sway the election. This is such a simple process that it sickens me.

It doesn't even need to actually happen, the idea that it IS POSSIBLE is enough to disenfranchise voters. I feel helpless to stop it. It is bad enough that here in Utah my democratic vote is almost good for nothing, and then I have to fight the uphill battle on a easily hackable machine. I have worked with electronics my whole life and these machines are less secure than my Xbox360 and iPhone.

Will you please help fight to ban electronic voting? Write your senators, congressmen, and president. Please, someone has to stand up for the rights of the voters. We cannot depend on companies like Diebold and others to elect our officials. This is not paranoia, we can not trust these machines. Once it becomes possible to 'buy' an election we will never get this country back from those who stole it. I fear it may already be too late.