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  1. Maybe TV will get interesting again.... on Arduino Assisted Mind-Controlled Television · · Score: 1

    ...when you fall asleep with your TV control headset on and have another dream of your high school guidance councilor's disconcerting habit of wearing short dresses and no underwear...

    Although that presumes that everybody had someone like my guidance counselor; if somebody out there dreams of Mr. Garrison, I don't want to know.

  2. Reminds me of when Compaq bought DEC... on "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle · · Score: 1

    ...after about six months, there was no longer any good reason to look to DEC's future anything. Seems the Sun is setting, too...

  3. No enzymes, eh? on Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I'll be; and here I thought my brief illness on an Okinawan beach resulted from my consuming budweiser and salty dogs all night and then passing out on the beach - and failing to wake up when the sun came up.

    It wasn't alcohol, heat stroke, or the incandescent sunburn - it was the seaweed from that piece of sushi I had the day before!

  4. Oh, c'mon, Rupert... on Rupert Murdoch Hates Google, Loves the iPad · · Score: 1

    Thinking Rupert doesn't want his websites indexed and archived 'cuz it makes it too easy for people to prove that a story in a Ruperty rag or on a Ruperty news channel or web site flatly contradicts something asserted or shown by a Ruperty organ in the past. That saying of Sir Walter Scott's?

    Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

    Well, that is a stone cold bitch when it is backed up by exabytes of storage across the internet. Things Murdoch depend upon "truth" being somewhat more...flexible.

    Manipulable, even.

  5. The shuttle is an analogy for web programming... on Astronaut Careers May Stall Without the Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Wherein the end product is constrained by the size and functionality of the delivery system.

    At least with the shuttle, though, there were no legions of mercenaries possessing ownership of each molecule of the air, adding fees for traversing that molecule, snooping to see what the payload is and altering, impeding, or blocking that payload based upon their opinion of that payload...and perhaps even imprisoning - or worse - the creators or receivers of that payload...

  6. If you can forbid linking to your content... on Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    If you can forbid linking to your content, and forbid Google et al from crawling and archiving your content, and you can control what your own site's search engine returns in the way of queries, then you can make content that would be a liability if the public were able to, say, compare what you said then to what you say now...go away.

    I would image that there is at least one media or news corporation that would like to have that ability.

  7. No surprise - Larry Ellison, remember? on Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer · · Score: 1

    In war you don't give away anything. Just most people don't know that Larry Ellison is at war; his weapon, technology; his battleground, the reachable universe; his goal, ruthless conquest and absolute domination.

  8. Guessing this is going to... on Demand For Unmanned Aircraft Outstripping Their Capabilities · · Score: 1

    ...put some serious research yuan/dollars, rupee/dollars, and ruble/dollars behind the search for better jamming equipment.

  9. Re:WTH on EU Demands Canada Gut Its Copyright and Patent Laws · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't ever give in. As a U.S. citizen, I am fully aware of an approaching need for someplace to run - not from socialism, but from corporate fascism.

  10. Re:Sorry kids on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 1

    Once this generation is over, I'm back to PC gaming. Fucking Sony.

    They thought of that. What do you think "cloud computing" is about? Better "service"? Just substitute "lives", "energy charges", "spells", or what have you for the spelling errors in the cartoon - and then go see the dark cloud forming which will eventually absorb all gamers.

    The evolution of technology is changing; whereas it once developed naturally to fill a need and so bettered the lives of humankind, it increasingly is developed solely to separate the prey from their money faster.

  11. Re:Government Project Cost Overruns? on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 1

    The responses to your comment had me shaking with laughter...so many so quick to seize the opportunity to blame government, and unions, and political parties...each overlooking the fact that this project was created and handed to "private enterprise" by Giuliani. And for that, the public is paying the price.

    The bottom line truth is the right does not object to the taxpayers' money being wasted unless they are not getting a cut. The real right is private enterprise; they'll buy whatever variety of politician it takes to give them the ability to create $720 million invoices for time-keeping systems.

  12. I see; tit for tat... on Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you reserve the right to burden Facebook with the truth about yourself and your most sensitive information, then they reserve the right to relieve themselves of that burden by revealing it to whomever they see fit.

    The e-reward for e-trust.

  13. Re:Doesn't matter on Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste · · Score: 1

    Be easier to build nuclear reactors if the CEOs and the rest of the executive suite as well as major shareholders of corporations that build and operate nuke facilities had a habit of moving themselves and their families immediately downwind of such facilities.

    But for some reason they don't. Would you fly the 787 Dreamliner if no Boeing engineer would step foot on it?

  14. Re:Market Share on Google's New Approach For China Is To Serve From Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    A small minority of people that want to find uncensored material (porn, politics, history, in that order) will use Google

    Think your list of desired "finds" should have included anonymous proxy servers, encryption software, directions on how to beam Wi-Fi...you know, the standard stuff people want when thinking out loud the "wrong" way will get you a straw mat in prison...

    Or shot.

  15. Re:Nobody asked the name of the BBS? on Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System · · Score: 1

    That comment was more to make precisely that point than anything else.

    Besides, I always invented a name. Wouldn't it be funny if my random choice of names turned out to have been your name?

  16. Re:Why would they turn the lights off... on Chinese Researcher Says US Power Grid Is Vulnerable, Strategist Overreacts · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought you guys at Wal*Mart weren't allowed to use the store computers to surf the web?

  17. Why would they turn the lights off... on Chinese Researcher Says US Power Grid Is Vulnerable, Strategist Overreacts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...to property they're going to legitimately own, thanks to the much slicker trick of rigging their currency exchange rate?

  18. Nobody asked the name of the BBS? on Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System · · Score: 1

    Depending on which one it was, some of us may not want our beer-posts out there for the whole world to see....





    (he says nervously)

  19. I must be a bad person... on US Law Firms Targeted By Cyberscams · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The combination of debt collector and lawyer seems to have removed my ability to sympathize.

  20. Re:20 years ago? on Madoff's Programmers Indicted · · Score: 1
    From your link:

    It is alleged that the men had a "crisis of conscience" in 2006, but were persuaded to continue with the fraud after being offered a salary increase of nearly 25% along with one-time bonuses in late 2006 of more than $60,000 each.

    Now you know why I start laughing when I hear people say "Why does Wall Street and the banks keep giving those huge bonuses when they know it just pisses the American people off?"

    'Tis either that, or wonder who will turn state's evidence.

  21. We could reverse it, you know... on High-Tech Research Moving From US To China · · Score: 1

    All we'd have to do is lock the dollar/yuan exchange rate 7:1; that is, the complete reverse of what China has done in order to guarantee their position as low cost manufacturer.

    We won't, though; too many short-sighted (or uncaring?) Americans getting fat exploiting China's exploitation of America.

  22. Fuel from sound? Not to be sexist, but.... on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Women with their "silent-but-deadlies" won't get as good gas mileage as men.

  23. IANAL math on The State of Robotic Surgery · · Score: 2, Insightful

    fewer in-hospital complications
    minus
    worse results for impotence and incontinence
    plus
    210 systems seven years ago to 1,395 today
    equals
    It is a lot harder to sue for impotence and incontinence than it is for in-hospital complications

    Sounds likely, but IANAL.

  24. Study arrived at a poor conclusion... on Study Finds That Video Games Hinder Learning In Young Boys · · Score: 1

    Now if they had said excessive game playing negatively impacted room cleaning and bathing...

  25. A solution, at last. on The Bloodhound Will Stay On the Ground At 1,000 mph · · Score: 1

    Finally - no more of those long, boring police chase videotapes coming out of L.A.

    Just "This is Action 4 News enroute to a reported car chase on the I-TABOOOOOM....what the hell was that?"