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Comment: Re:good. (Score 1) 341

by clm1970 (#43412261) Attached to: Sequester Grounds Blue Angels
However, at least at the airshow near me that was cancelled most proceeds go to local charities and with 50,000+ people attending that's a lot of proceeds Doing the math however it costs $100,000 and many well planned air shows draw more than the 50,000+ people we get at our rural airport. Raise the price of tickets $1 and maybe another revenue stream from somewhere and it can be locally supported. No one seems to want to pay their "fair share" (there's that phrase again) and its not just the uber rich. Those guys put on a kick-ass show and an extra $5-$10 for my family to see it isn't going to kill me. This is not an insurmountable cost with that volume of people. The days of a free ride from the Government are probably (and should be) over.

Comment: Re:Anonymous Coward Says FCC can suck his dick (Score 1) 245

by clm1970 (#42969319) Attached to: Got a Cell Phone Booster? FCC Says You Have To Turn It Off
Correct. At the higher frequencies, these are the band plans where hams can operate. Citation below. All modes and licensees (except Novices) are authorized on the following bands [FCC Rules, Part 97.301(a)]: 2300-2310 MHz 2390-2450 MHz 3300-3500 MHz 5650-5925 MHz 10.0-10.5 GHz 24.0-24.25 GHz 47.0-47.2 GHz 76.0-81.0 GHz* 122.25 -123.00 GHz 134-141 GHz 241-250 GHz All above 300 GHz
Science

+ - Scientists Turn Light Into a Tractor Beam->

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes "From The Skylark of Space to Star Wars, no self-respecting science fiction spaceship would break orbit without a tractor beam on board. We’re still a long way from locking on to errant shuttlecraft, but a team led by Dr. Tomas Cizmar, Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has turned a laser into a tractor beam that works on the microscopic level."
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Programming

+ - What Early Software was Influential? 1

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes "That his 28-year-old whip-smart, well-educated CS grad friend could be unaware of MacWrite and MacPaint took Dave Winer by surprise. 'They don't, for some reason,' notes Winer, 'study these [types of seminal] products in computer science. They fall between the cracks of "serious" study of algorithms and data structures, and user interface and user experience (which still is not much-studied, but at least is starting). This is more the history of software. Much like the history of film, or the history of rock and roll.' So, Dave asks, what early software was influential and worthy of a Software Hall of Fame?"

Comment: Re:Security by stupidity? (Score 5, Insightful) 141

by clm1970 (#42550905) Attached to: Thousands of SCADA Devices Discovered On the Open Internet
Part of the problem is the engineers designing them. They don't understand the sandbox they're playing in. It isn't in their culture and they don't know that they should secure them much less how to. I'm starting to see organizations hire product security engineers now to try and institute this stuff into the products but they seem way behind the curve IMHO.
Security

+ - Mcafee Associates: Massive Cyberattack Planned->

Submitted by clm1970
clm1970 writes "Criminals intent on stealing millions of dollars from consumer bank accounts plan to unleash a massive cyberattack on major U.S. banks, security firm McAfee warns in a new report.

McAfee’s report confirms a warning from RSA, the security division of EMC Corp., which said in October that a criminal ring had created an advanced cyberattack to steal money from bank accounts at major banks, according to CNNMoney.

Read more: McAfee: Massive Cyberattack on US Banks Planned
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Comment: Re:Did we really need a study for this? (Score 1) 271

by clm1970 (#42192903) Attached to: Brain Disease Found In NFL Players

You can't remove the blame entirely from the players, especially the pros. Most of them want to do what they do. They're attracted to the big money, and there's practically no way they'd make that kind of dough in any other endeavor. Plus, there's the machismo factor. Uhh.. not sure wtf a Semitic dude from 2,000 years ago has to do with it though.. churches don't own football and hocky teams, do they? I'm not religious, I just don't see how it's germane to this particular discussion.

THE GODDAMN GERMANS AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!!

Network

+ - UK Scientists Claim To Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic->

Submitted by clm1970
clm1970 writes "A team of scientists working out of Bangor University in Wales has developed a commercially affordable method of using Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) over fibre optic lines, which could deliver broadband ISP speeds that are 2,000 times faster than current services."
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