User: blues-l

Works from Canada .....

On: Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America

hmmm I wonder what that means?

Looks fake

On: Epson's 12 Gram Flying Robot

You never actually see it lift off of her hand and when she is "watching" it fly she doesn't really seem to be looking at it. And it is up against a blue screen. Too much the cynic?

Repetitive

On: Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets

Okay it is April Fools but why the same thing three times on the same page?

Public vs Private

On: Public vs. Private Sector?

I have been a public snivel servant since '76 and the answer as to which to chose is "it depends".
It depends on where you work and what the job is and that goes for private as well as public.
I would argue that the monetary rewards are greater in private as opposed to public. On the other hand public gives you more stability.
I get aggravated by the neo-con neo-lib "smaller government" wheez. In a democracy (such as it is) YOU are the government. You don't get your say in a board room and maybe you can't buy a politician but you can at least toss him/her out. And don't give me that crap about responsibility to the shareholders. You don't need things like Worldcom to prove dollarocracy sucks ... oh except for you top 10% people. Everything's cherry there, right?
You want to get government "out of the way"? You are getting democracy (such as it is) "out of the way". rant

Its obvious

On: Science Fiction into Science Fact?

Plan 9

Mir Splashdown

On: Guess When Mir Will Splash

I tried merely posting the following time and got a "lameness filter" syaing I was using too many caps like I was "yelling" So now I have to supply a lot of extra text to make me statistiaclly acceptable :( 2001-03-14 01:30:30

Patent Pending?

On: Hawking On Earth's Lifespan

Oh oh it sez he just finished a book entitled
"The Universe in a Nutshell" does Tim and Co. over
at O'Reilly knowabout this? ;}