Point is, PAjamian's comment went way over your head. If X=168, there was nothing wrong with the configuration. If you had trouble with it, that might be explained by this sequence of comments.

Prenda believes the California judge does not have the power to compel out-of-state Prenda "employees" to appear. I would bet a dollar that one of the Prenda guilty parties lives either in Illinois, or the 7th Circuit federal jurisdiction. If they don't dismiss cases in jurisdictions where they live, and things unfold as they have in California, they could face arrest.

I've been thinking that I might like to own a retina Macbook. My reasons are: the good screen, the BSD-based OS, a professionally-made desktop environment.

What is this "iOS-ification" of the Mac you write about? Is Apple making changes to close the platform to non-Xcode development?

Tell me more.

I don't make micropayments. I appreciate games which make it clear when a player has purchased an item. "You were killed by custom sniper rifle." I think to myself, they paid 30 cents to be superior.

I do sometimes pay per-month fees, if the game itself is good. I think this is justified for MMO games, due to server and bandwidth requirements.

For games such as the sims, I buy the expansions but would not pay for continuous on-line DRM.

It feels so good to play this way, it makes the pay-to-excel games actually more fun. The challenge becomes to counter-snipe the guy with the 30 cent rifle, unless you get a chance to blow up a 50 cent air ship.

The check-for-life feature is 15-20 years old.

You are absolutely correct. Those who would be forced to relocate rather than resign might have a good case in civil court. I hope they put together a class-action lawsuit immediately.

When a person resigns, they are not eligible for unemployment insurance. What Yahoo is proposing is a restructuring of their work-force, a "lay-off." Unless they are offering a superior severance package, the ethical thing to do is lay these employees off, so they can collect the unemployment insurance they deserve.

None of them are resigning by choice, and if the alternative is that they will be fired for cause, Yahoo should be deeply ashamed of their new CEO.

This is why the only Like buttons I see are hosted on the web site I am viewing:

$ cat /etc/hosts
[...]
127.0.0.30 outbrain.com
127.0.0.30 facebook.com

Here is a product that is used for keeping people away from industrial machines:

http://newtonlabs.com/machviz_quadcam.html

You would think that Microsoft could comprehend that repeating their same monopolistic practices might land them in the same hot water. But I guess not. So can we please get the FTC and the DoJ involved in this matter? In the last two years, Microsoft has stooped to some extreme measures in an effort to surpress Linux. At least this time, we can rest easy knowing that they only have Steve, not Bill, and have been headed toward oblivion for a long time.

By posting to Slashdot, you've guaranteed that either they will put up, or slink away in shame. Well done, really. I'm pleased to see all that shame-on-you-lawyers posts on Slashdot lately.

Thanks for your post! I appreciate the info.

Sorry, this is incorrect, as far as I know. You might be thinking of various "automatic vehicle location systems" (AVLS), or perhaps there is a smartnet feature I'm not aware of. Our local police and fire use a disjoint AVLS solution from the smartnet. The police AVLS is in the clear, but requires pinging the car, causing a chime in the car. The fire AVLS is always transmitting. There is good reason not to encrypt the police AVLS -- it is only queried during emergencies and at those times it is critical that the request get through. The countermeasure for the lack of encryption is the in-car chime.

Savoring the "accuracy" now... Mmmmpf. Somewhat tasteless in that regard.

By "linux support," what I mean is either a working USB driver for it, or a data sheet if there's no USB driver. The bladeRF is open hardware, with even the schematic available and all chips having public data sheets. A device that does not support linux would be a device with no programming information and no driver. I imagine they exist, but maybe I am wrong and there is no such device in the existing market of devices made by hams.

You claimed this device wasn't as good as the devices which already exist. That is why my argument is not a "straw man" but a "prove that." I actually have an application for this device, but you claimed that the device was not as good as others already available but intended for the Ham market. As it turns out, the device is a better deal for my application than anything out there.

The only negativity I've read toward this project has uniformly been from Hams. From that group, there has been a generally dismissive tone of, "sniff, it doesn't go down to kilohertz..." As a group, you seem to be anti-anything that isn't for Ham applications.

The negative comment you posted is your fault. Yes, it was modded up by dummies, but you posted it. Why do people need to see your negative opinion as the first post? That was pretty lame, in my book. You're not just some guy on the Interwebz when you top-post a fund-raising article with a disparaging comment, you're a negative nancy with some say in the outcome.

BTW, of course "tap" for "trap" was a typo, as you can read in my post there are several other occurences of the word "trap" spelled correctly. Your suggestion that I might have been regurgitating your typo, as if I wouldn't know a "tap" from a "trap", is again an occassion where you are tripping over ego.

WUT? Have you considered, oh, I dunno, PCI Express x16? They do make extension cables for that, to get outside the chassis.