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Comment No more lame excuses to the state troopers... (Score 1) 211

[From a courtroom transcript]

Prosecutor: So according to your earlier testimony, the defendents were travelling in the breakdown lane at a high rate of speed. Am I correct?

Trooper: Yes, that's correct.

Prosecutor: So what happened when you pull them over and approached the operator of the vehicle?

Trooper: The male defendent stated that the female defendent was his wife, and that she was going into labor. I offered to help them after I issued their citation, but they refused.

Prosecutor: They refused? How?

Trooper: I read it on Slashdot about a way to rebuild autoparts into a neonatal unit, and since the defendents were driving a 4Runner I thought I could help them out so they wouldn't continue to break the law.

Prosecutor: So what happened then?

Trooper: They thought I was too smart to be a state trooper, so they both burst out laughing and said that I should get a real job. Then they continued down the breakdown lane at a high rate of speed. That's when I called for backup.

Comment Not the real purpose of stretching??? (Score 1) 339

I always thought that other reasons for stretching include getting your heart rate up and getting more oxygenated blood throughout your body (so that, even though you can get more strength by not stretching, your heart isn't burdened unnecessarily). It's not so much for your muscles as it is for other parts of your body needed for the activity.

Wireless Networking

Companies Betting on WiMAX 106

PreacherTom writes "This week, two companies — NextWave and Clearwire — filed to go public and make their fortunes with WiMAX, a wireless broadband technology expected to make serious inroads into the telecom market by offering a high-speed alternative to DSL, Cable, and other current offerings. Market researcher Gartner Dataquest expects the North American WiMAX services market to swell from 30,000 connections in 2006 to 21.2 million by 2011. Could this be the new backbone of the mobile effort?"
Businesses

Submission + - The 33 Most Important Vendors for Midsize Firms

Anonymous writes: 'Tis the season for Top 10 lists and roundups. CIO Insight asked its readers from mid-market companies to rate their vendors (an earlier story rated the top vendors overall). Taking the top seats are Trend Micro (1), CDW (2), Cisco (3), Dell (4) and Red Hat (5). Bringing up the rear are Salesforce.com (29), AT&T (30), Qwest (31), Cingular (32) and Verizon (33).
Networking

Submission + - Cisco IOS Shown The Door; Virtualization Welcomed

ThOr101 writes: "Cisco CEO John Chambers first mentioned a change to Cisco's software model back in June. Now it looks like Cisco is following through with that promise and is setting a 5 year goal to replace IOS. Network World published more details this week about how Cisco is going to be changing its pricing and feature sets. The article mentions that it will be a change to how systems are managed, upgraded, and how features are turned on as well. It will also affect those people already certified on Cisco gear. Cisco is hoping it will encourage users to upgrade to newer equipment. Maybe they can take a lead from Vista and ship all their new gear with IPv6 enabled by default and we'll finally get a universal deployment of IPv6."

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