kgermino

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by kgermino 16y ago
Your analogy is flawed. There is a limit on how much electricity you can use at once. It's the maximum that the copper to your house can safely carry. The same is true for the internet, the only difference being that the maximum bandwid
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by kgermino 16y ago
(but honestly, to maintain coverage with inflation it was overdue) I have to disagree. Prior to the increase there was $100,000 of coverage. In 1934 when the program was started there was $2,500 of coverage. After adjusting for inflati
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by kgermino 16y ago
I think you're confusing Time Machine (the backup software on OSX) with Time Capsule (Apple's network backup hardware). Not a big deal but in this context it can be confusing. http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
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by kgermino 16y ago
To be fair almost any password is weak if it hasn't been changed in several years.
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by kgermino 16y ago
But is it trivial to jam most ham frequencies across the 3.8 Million Sq. Miles of the U.S.? Or Europe (Same Size)? Or even just Germany (135,000 sq. miles)? Edit: For comparison Egypt is about 387,000 sq miles. I realize that you would not
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by kgermino 16y ago
Doubt it helps but when I grew up sawing the pledge of allegiance every morning I could put my right hand on my heart with-out even thinking about it long before I could remember which was my right and left hands. I remembered by starting
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by kgermino 16y ago
It already feels like it does.
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by kgermino 16y ago
I still think that paying sales tax _only_ in the district where the business is based isn't right either because when a company gets large enough (Think Walmart) that's a ton of money going to one town. However I don't see why you can't t
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by kgermino 16y ago
I agree that businesses should be required to collect some sort of sales tax, although I'm not entirely sure how. It's one thing to say that businesses have to collect sales taxes for the state the product is shipped to but what about loca
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by kgermino 16y ago
But kenjackson is looking at it from Apple's perspective. Sure a number of people may switch to Verizon from at&t but if they already had iPhone's Apple doesn't see any increase.
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by kgermino 16y ago
It needs an option for "Way too much." Unless that's meant to be covered by 10+ times a day. It's time well spent though.
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by kgermino 16y ago
To be fair the California blackouts had as much to do with Enron as with infrastructure problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
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by kgermino 16y ago
Are you sure, It seems like RFID without batteries would run into range problems. I know mine has a battery.
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by kgermino 16y ago
There are some regional carriers but they're not necessarily well known. Not to mention that at&t, among others, have spent crap-loads of money lobbying to make it more difficult for smaller companies to get spectrum.
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by kgermino 16y ago
>ActiveX security plugin Irony at its finest
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by kgermino 16y ago
An older submission with 68 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538 Great article, worth repeating/re-reading every now and again.
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by kgermino 16y ago
I understand that we need to be careful take precautions and all that but come-on we closed down an entire terminal because somebody shipped a computer monitor? If a dog smells explosives, fine, shut down the airport, but just because a mo
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by kgermino 16y ago
The biggest problem with setting a minimum, particularly one that high is that it is extremely difficult to get a lot of karma from comments alone, especially for new users without name recognition.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Based on my morals I stand by the word choice. I agree that not everybody will agree that it is stealing, and it is certainly not against the lost but yes I believe that it is stealing from the company. Here's why, the way I see it when a
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by kgermino 16y ago
>If the brick and mortar store's only value-add is providing the same information I can find online by reading the online-retailers website, then why do they deserve my business? I go into brick and mortar stores to see if they can offe
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by kgermino 16y ago
I would say that it's OK to walk into a store and price compare with other stores, however I personally agree that it's immoral to use the brick and mortar store to discuss the options and decide what you want to buy, then buy it online. So
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by kgermino 16y ago
Unfortunately with modern day unions and minimum wage laws high unemployment doesn't translate into lower wages, at least not for craftsmen.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Any reason you say Catholic specifically? I understand why you would expect eastern religious to experience discrimination, but in my experience Christians as a whole are basically safe and Jews don't really have any problems either. If an
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by kgermino 16y ago
Without knowing the details, is it possible that internet in NYC cost as much as in the 'burbs because the ISP is a regulated utility? Are they allowed to charge different rates within a state?
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by kgermino 16y ago
George W. Bush. I think people starting using W to differentiate him from his father George H. W. Bush.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Your answer makes sense. Regarding [1] I do believe that your right, without air resistance the escape velocity is the same regardless of direction. The reason I chose the speed of ISS is because the escape velocity to enter into orbit it
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by kgermino 16y ago
Well lets see: Assuming: Launch Speed: 17,180 mph (Speed of Space Station) [1] Launch Acceleration: 25g (Based on my understanding of what humans can survive) EDIT [2] Just using that as a rough estimate and Wolfram Alpha we get 242,250 met
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by kgermino 16y ago
Does your comment teach us anything?
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by kgermino 16y ago
ESPN recently started letting you watch a simulcast of their cables channels if you (or say your parents) get ESPN from their Time Warner cable service. I don't know that there is any other providers signed on yet but they seem to be worki
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by kgermino 16y ago
I agree, especially since a commute is a regular trip of a nearly constant length and everyone should know about how long their trip will take without the O&D info. As an added bonus it would also allow me to use it in Chicago/Milwauke

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