The point at which a signal (voltage, current, etc.) is perceived as valid.
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- Blog posts 2008-08-28
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- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast will implement a 250 GB data monthly cap on customers starting Oct. 1. The move, reported first by DSL Reports, was confirmed by Comcast today Techmeme. On its site, Comcast posted its amended user policy: We've listened to feedback from our customers who asked that...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Flouridation, vaccination, TV, Internet?
- Flouridation, vaccination, TV, Internet?Vaccinationnot everyone needs to be protected. All you need to do is vaccinate a sufficient percentage of the society to reduce the vector below a critical threshold. No one really knows what this value is, but most agree it's between 90 and 95% of the general population.The...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Has Dell lost its mind?
- Has Dell lost its mind?Dell has lost it's wayAnd Michael isn't the guy to bring it back. Making colorful boxes isn't the way either.Your solution is spot on, but it's too simple! They can't see past the BS like "cloud computing". WTF does that mean to someone who is shopping...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Doubletake Customer Profile: Chickasaw Nation
- I recently had the chance to communicate with Rob Jacks, Chief Information Technology Officer for the Commerce Division of the Chickasaw Nation. The Commerce Division uses Double Take's data protection software and was willing to speak about their experiences with the technology. About Commerce Division...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyGoogle earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyAnd the ship starts to sink...I hope no one was expecting them to have a good quarter considering their lack of innovation, discontinuing services, and their prized possession of search...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99
- Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99stop the madness"the learning curve is steeper for those wanting to do more with the any OS"Dre`, once you realize that you are a 'Windows power user' and NOT a computer expert, you would not fail so often.I tend to agreethat 60 days would...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Picturama (sit)
- Picturama is a digital photo software. It is a picture viewer and converter for pictures of many different formats such as Photoshop, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, BMP, and PNG. It is an image editor that can resize, scale, rotate, and flip your graphic files. It can adjust your images with various...
- Software downloads 2008-07-08
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- MailDominion (exe)
- MailDominion uses an intelligent, fast learning, configurable filter to remove unwanted junk mail from your pop3 server. You can change the threshold at which the program decides whether or not the mail is junk. Add words to a white list to ensure the program will not delete any mail containing...
- Software downloads 2008-06-23
- Should we be teaching "productive IM"?
- Should we be teaching "productive IM"?Don't teach it......but certainly don't discourage it. Kids seem to constantly come up with ways to compress the human language. Once you start teaching this they will stop thinking and just do whatever it is you tell them.However some people need to come off their...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Is it really about .Me or Montenegro?
- The land rush for the .Me domain is underway and the usual domain name shenanigans are here--especially with speculation that Apple is hoarding these digital monikers to rebrand its .Mac service. This speculation perked up earlier this month. Jason O'Grady tried to land a few Apple.me-ish domains...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Open source and the hardware roadblock
- Open source and the hardware roadblockI think is the economy of scalesManufacturing hardware can not go below a certain cost.The same design sold with different branding would generate a price war that would erase the profit or lead to proprietary extensions to differentiate the products.Software on the other hand could...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Linksys WRT110 RangePlus Wireless Router
- The Linksys RangePlus Wireless WRT110 is not a Draft N router, but Linksys doesn't call it a Wireless-G router, either. The reason? It works with both specifications. It supports the 802.11g standard, but the company's RangePlus technology takes advantage of the throughput threshold of the draft 802.11n specification and offers...
- Product reviews 2008-05-20
- Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate
- Ideology and self interest won't win health care debateAmazingly enough...ideologically driven it may be, but I think what Armey proposes is essentially correct, though I would combine it with a strong does of patent reform to drive down costs.That said, I think the basic approach to any sort of legislation...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplace
- Europe's first pureplay SaaS hosting venture opened its doors last month with a roster of 50 vendors and integration partners on board and an estimated 1 million end user subscribers. Based in the Netherlands but with a Europe-wide reach, SaaSplaza projects its platform will generate more than €100 million (around...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Apple and AT
- Apple and ATHey, it's no worse than MAC filtering :)Hey, it's no worse than MAC filtering which is universally used at for-fee hotspots :). The right sniffer and the right script can quickly change your MAC address to one that's already logged in. Just find a user on...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
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