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  1. Re:Oh great, more orbital shooting gallery! on India Developing Vehicle To Knock Enemy Satellites · · Score: 1

    The thing is, 23mm is overkill. a simple 9mm round would work. Honestly make a microsat that can maneuver to the target and simply fire a 12 gauge )) buckshot shell from a short barrel single fire when it is in a high speed approach and it will shred the hell out of it's target. You could make them the size of a small garbage can and have your launch vehicle carry 20 of them into orbit.

  2. Re:Pulling the trigger on What To Expect From Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 1

    Just wait, they will screw it up.

    XP SP0 is at LEAST 40% faster than XP fully patched.
    Problem is it get's infected in 6 seconds on a non firewalled network.

  3. Re:Avoid Corn? Bahahahahahaha good luck on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes you can, you actually have to put forth effort.

    Dont buy products with it in it. My lettuce and fresh veggies dont have it, my meat does not have it, The flour I bake with does not have it.

    It means switching from Insta-fake-food they sell in a box to actually getting off your butt and cooking.

    Your general health will increase nearly 3 fold if you do.

  4. Re:Why wasn't Monsanto required to reveal this inf on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    Problem is that it needs to be done further. Was the roundup ready corn grown in a controlled lab and the rats only ate that? Or is the study based on rats captured from fields planted with Roundup ready?

    The difference is that the rats ate corn or corn+chemicals.

    It needs to be researched fully so any real findings are solid and cant be refuted.

  5. Re:I've gone back to XBMC. on Boxee Opens Beta To All · · Score: 1

    I use that model, and it's quite fast and plays 1080p beautifully. Unless you are playing UT3 or running heavy math on it (like encoding) it's more than fast enough as a playback device. I have yet to find a file that will not play back perfectly. yes even all the hard test files all playback beautifully on that underpowered box under XBMC

  6. Re:Retard. on Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The electrical field under high voltage lines is enough to light an 8 foot flouresent bulb in many places. it's off the scale on most EMI meters. http://www.impactlab.com/2009/04/10/field-of-flourescent-bulbs-powered-by-ambient-electricity/

    an 802.11abg access point on the other hand emits so little power there is no way outside of sticking the antenna into your ear and to keep pushing until it embeds the tip in your brain that anyone can be affected by it.

  7. Re:I've gone back to XBMC. on Boxee Opens Beta To All · · Score: 1

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103228&Tpk=acer%20aspire%20revo

    plus a MCE remote kit and XBMC live CD.

    you have a XBMC standalone box that will play 1080p HD AND HDMI out.

    Same pricepoint (well close, $30.00 over when you buy the MCE remote and receiver.

  8. Re:What exactly is boxee good for??? on Boxee Opens Beta To All · · Score: 2, Informative

    XBMC gives you a 10 foot interface as well. Boxee on the other hand frustrated my wife something fierce, so I stopped using it. the latest XBMC release absolutely clobbers boxee though if you dont care about any of the social crap or trying to watch youtube and other low grade online media. There is a podcast catcher you can install that grabs the high def podcasts automatically though. She likes that.

  9. Re:Space 1999 on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    Actually that would be cool. A cross of Space1999 and City of Ember. they have been making the old tech work for 100 years and it's all failing....

  10. Re:Mileage? on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    That's the dirty little secret. Just like how the Prius get's crappy gas mileage is you still drive it like a race track maniac. I drove a friends Prius for 1 week, he freaked that I was able to get better than 45mpg out of it. He could not understand that dragracing from light to light and constantly mashing the pedal was idiot driving that negated his hybrid mileage.

  11. Re:The shopping use case. on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 0

    news flash, more people live in urban areas than suburbia.

    2 hours on a open highway is 140 miles. 2 hours in downtown chicago is 14 miles.

  12. Re:Qualitative journalism on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    Car and Driver ceased to be relevant in the auto world years ago. They turned into a useless magazine back when all the great Computer magazines decided that catering to the idiot was more profitable than the people that had any knowledge. Just look at the magazine piles at better garages, you wont find Car and Driver there anymore. HotRod, and others that actually have real tech and real info are the choice now.

  13. Re:Duh on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    Horsepower is nothing. Horsepower to WEIGHT is everything.

    I can make you a 3000hp car that is slower than a Geo Metro.

  14. Re:Oh great, another subdized vehicle... on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 3, Informative

    The top 1% pays less than 42% of the taxes. They can afford to pay for tax experst to find tax havens and find ways to get through the loopholes that save them from paying some of the taxes.

    It's why any talk of a flat tax is violently fought against. it would require the rich to actually pay their taxes, and that just wont do.

  15. Re:Oh great, another subdized vehicle... on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    Cash for clunkers was an Abortion. Most of the cars turned in should have been given to poor families driving utter crap belching blue smoke. but no, they destroyed perfectly good engines on cars that were in really good shape for the most part. IT was a half-assed attempt by incredibly stupid congressmen to quietly give money to the car companies. It backfired, Toyota came out on top. Most of the money went to foreign car makers.

    Plus may rare cars were destroyed.. the local chevy dealer had a Syclone turned in. the dumb-ass that turned in that truck could have sold it on ebay for $6000.00 in 30 seconds.

  16. Re:Volt also runs on Ethanol on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    Where did you find that? I have been looking for that fact for months now and can not find a reliable source that has that fact. I may need to eat some crow with my green friends if it is in fact true and your source is GM.

  17. Re:On Hybrid Vehicles on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    Here is another thing, I believe the engine will NOT run on e85. I cant find anywhere any info on e85 compatibility of the Volt.other than wild speculation from blogs that dont have any real info.

    I know that e85 is a joke, but I am saving money on it right now as it's cost per mile (to me) is less than gasoline at the moment.

  18. Re:Oh great, another subdized vehicle... on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    You Nailed it hard. 80% of america will NOT be able to afford this car. $40,000.00 is a shitload of money for a car. and this is built like an econo-box inside, Yes I have seen one I got to look inside it for a little bit. These things are seen daily on 696 and 96 in Detroit covered in full body "bras" and black and white sticker checkerboards to hide what they are and what they look like. I caught one when the driver was away from it and peered inside through the window.

    If I'm buying a $40,000 car I better get a fricking BMW interior not a Chevy Aveo interior. They went for light and you can tell, it looks cheap.

    The car wont sell unless they drop the price to $29,995 and that will not happen. They should have tried to adjust the aveo platform to this and tried to sell a sub $20,000 hybrid like this, they would have ruled the market, instead they try and sell you BMW pricing on a ho-hum quality build.

  19. Space 1999 on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    That one had the potential to Rock really hard.

  20. Re:Actually yes -- in some cases on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most lawyers are not only uneducated in technology, but they are also raging cheapskates. They make wheelbarrow loads of cash compared to the typical worker yet they refuse to throw away a $25.00 box of incorrect business cards. Hell one I did work for refused to buy real network gear but complained that his network needed to be reboot regularly because the power in his shitty office was so bad it locked up the network gear. My cheap solution was a $129.00 UPS on the networking gear. He flipped out at how expensive it was. This was in line with every other lawyer I did work for. Some of the scummy ones will try and bully you into doing things for free. I ran a HDMI from his closet to his TV on the wall. Then they guy called back a year later threatening to sue me because he could not get composite video from his 8 year old VCR he brought from home to the TV. I told him he needed equipment to do that, he threatened to sue me because I listened to him when he said," No I only want the cable box on there, do not run any other wires." I reminded him of the documentation I had with his signature, plus emails, and I would gladly welcome his lawsuit.

    I don't do any work for Lawyers anymore. They are some of the most unreasonable people on the planet.

  21. Re:yeah on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Also, do you really want to hire someone that can't figure out email forwarding?

    I have an Old AOL address. It's forwarded to my Gmail. no I don't use that old AOL address, and in fact there are only 4 people that actually send real email to it anymore. I actually have about 10 active email addresses, I check ONLY my Gmail, and email out only my Gmail. because I dont have the time to screw around checking 10 accounts daily. Plus if they email you at BigNutjob@AOL.com and get your response from ImNotNuts@gmail.com they just might update their contact database for your new email address.

  22. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: -1, Troll

    you really know nothing about it do you...

    $10.00 a year for a domain, get email from godaddy for free. Pick 1and1.com if you want cheaper.

    If you cant afford $10.00 a year, then stop buying bigger cardboard boxes to live in. If you dont have the 3 minutes it takes a year to manage it, then you are a worthless at managing your own time.

  23. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Then you are a complete moron for using your spam throwaway email address on your RESUME when you are APPLYING FOR A JOB.

    Applying for a Senior IT position and you have a AOL emaill address? WE not only throw it away, but we actually make fun of you for a while.

    But then this candidate had no experience but had bought himself a lot of certifications. We would have accepted him for toner changer lackey but his school made him think he was worthy of a $80K a year job. Cert mill schools = $24,000 a year job IF YOU ARE LUCKY....

  24. Re:Easy solution. on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you have competent IT centOS is a better choice than redhat.

    Why pay for support you dont use?

  25. Re:I just don't even open the door on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 1

    Premiere is not used by anyone but wannabe's or kids in their basement. It is NOT a professional video editing suite even by the wildest definition. They are a distant 5th in the Video editing world with little guy Canopus firmly eating their lunch.

    Photoshop is their gravy. And the Macromedia purchase is their potatoes now. Adobe would have been dead if they did not buy a company that most of the internet is built with their products.