Comment Re:It's the risk you take (Score 1) 179
someone is taking you for a ride with those cabinets, I can get you nice cabinets, installed for that price...
Comment cache anyone? (Score 1) 284
Comment Bracing for costs? this is an improvement... (Score 2) 212
At least I don't have to prove I _need_ high speed SATA performance to get a replacement... clearly SATA is more important than _DIVISION_...
Comment Re:not fair (Score 1) 717
Chevy 8 Lug axles and 37" Military tires; Will mount and mate with any vehicular with less than three axles!
Comment App store VS repository (Score 0) 429
Wow, it just occurred to me that after this, as far as a user is concerned the app store might as well be a software repository...
If anything apple will allow to be tinkered with is available, and installs with a click or two...
I'm not sure if i think this is good or bad.
1) Apple controls what gets in the repository
2) Macs ship setup to get software from it... ...
4) Profit!
Comment Re:... but now you've got a COYOTE problem (Score 1) 222
Roadrunner will have more success now that his target is wearing a government-issued GPS tracking collar. Those ACME homing missiles will be much more effective.
<coyote removes collar, attaches it to nearby car>
<Road Runner donnes cheap suit, and sells car to coyote...>
Comment Re:Umm... (Score 1) 362
and if you couple this attack with the slightly older "make the address bar show a slightly wrong thing" attack...
you know, the PayPal.com vs PayPaI.com (one's an L one's an I, can you tell with the default font?)...adjusted for font collisions, or making use of the way a browser falls back on installed fonts when you try and show a different script style...
This could be very bad...
Comment Worcester Area Exam on Thursday (Score 1) 368
Anyone in the Worcester area who wants to get licensed can come by WPI's Slasibury Hall, Room 407, 1800 hours, Thursday, April 8th, for our next exam!
The fee is only $15, bring two forms of ID
73
KC2VCB
Comment Re:Dumb Government Abuse of Power (Score 1) 819
They are all spur routes off of I-95, there are more than 9 of them, so the numbers get reused...
I grew up a few miles from 459 in NY, and go to school up in MA now, it still throws me off when i have to momentarily consider the difference between the two roads.
Comment Re:is he right? (Score 1) 409
1%er is a reference to criminally bikers, from an AMA (American Motorcycle Association) publication ('91 I think) claiming that 99% of bikers are law abiding citizens. The suggestion of 15%er is that in AU there are many more criminal bikers than in the US, so many that it might be an acceptable form of shenanigans, like soccer hooligans in GB.
Submission + - Sony Ericsson Developes Motion Headphones (pcworld.com)
TechnologyResource writes: "Sony Ericsson has just introduced the MH907 headphones. The headphones will pause or play your music based on contact; eliminating the use of a pause or stop button. Removing one ear bud will pause the music. Removing both ear buds will stop the music. Both ear buds have to be in your ear to play the music. According to Sony Ericsson, this will allow you to "play your music and answer phone calls just by inserting the buds into your ear or taking them out." Oh, by the way, make sure you have your phone on vibrate since you won't hear it ring."
Submission + - FCC Proposes Net Neutrality For Cell Phones (pcworld.com)
rhathar writes: "FCC chairman Julius Genachowski delivered Monday on President Obama's promise to back "net neutrality". But he went much further than merely seeking to expand rules that prohibit ISPs from filtering or blocking net traffic — he proposed that they cover all broadband connections, including data connections for smartphones.
"The Internet's creators didn't want the network architecture — or any single entity — to pick winners and losers," Genachowski said, embracing what is known as the end-to-end principle. "The principles that will protect the open Internet are an essential step to maximize investment and innovation in the network and on the edge of it — by establishing rules of the road that incentivize competition, empower entrepreneurs, and grow the economic pie to the benefit of all."
Genachowski has proposed two rules: Broadband providers cannot discriminate against services or applications by slowing them down and broadband providers must tell customers how its engineers manage the network when it gets congested"
"The Internet's creators didn't want the network architecture — or any single entity — to pick winners and losers," Genachowski said, embracing what is known as the end-to-end principle. "The principles that will protect the open Internet are an essential step to maximize investment and innovation in the network and on the edge of it — by establishing rules of the road that incentivize competition, empower entrepreneurs, and grow the economic pie to the benefit of all."
Genachowski has proposed two rules: Broadband providers cannot discriminate against services or applications by slowing them down and broadband providers must tell customers how its engineers manage the network when it gets congested"
Submission + - Blame the Cat for your p0rn (foxnews.com)
charleste writes: "FoxNews is reporting a man in Stuart, Florida claims his cat jumped on the keyboard to download p0rn while he was downloading music. I bet they go after him for DRM violations too."
Submission + - IT Departments Preparing for Pandemic 2
greenmars writes: "I've been asked to attend a meeting this afternoon with HR and Facilities to talk about what we're doing to prepare for the H1N1 pandemic. Other than making sure that the VPN works and people can work remotely, what else are IT departments doing to prepare?"
Submission + - Seagate Ships 2TB 6Gb SATA Barracuda XT
MojoKid writes: "Seagate today announced that they're now shipping their
Barracuda XT 7200 RPM
SATA 6Gb drive. The new 'Cuda is a four-platter drive featuring an areal
density of 368 Gigabits per square inch that also delivers burst speeds of up to
6 Gigabits per second over the
new 6Gb SATA interface. It also maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration and upward migration. The drive has a 64MB on board cache and is set to retail at $299 for
the 2TB model."
Barracuda XT 7200 RPM
SATA 6Gb drive. The new 'Cuda is a four-platter drive featuring an areal
density of 368 Gigabits per square inch that also delivers burst speeds of up to
6 Gigabits per second over the
new 6Gb SATA interface. It also maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration and upward migration. The drive has a 64MB on board cache and is set to retail at $299 for
the 2TB model."
