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  1. the big red dot !?!? on Saving Digital History · · Score: 2, Interesting



    This may sound like a joke but I really hope they save the big red dot. I dont know if the website is still in existence but a while back there was a website that had a big red button. When you clicked it, it said you have clicked the big red dot. The counter had some ridiculous number. This was back when it was envogue to show off your hit count.

  2. Re:Moral obligation? on Symantec Claims They Knew About Slammer In Advance · · Score: 1



    If Ford new about a bump in the road, that could cause thousands of dollars of damage and didn't tell anyone it would be reasonable that the be held liable.

  3. Dont click the link on Dragon's Lair 3D Not Worth The Effort · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    whatever you do don't click the liiiiink ....

    slowly dies of disgust /action

  4. not asmiable in court. on House and Senate Reject E-mail Surveillance · · Score: 1



    We all know the US monitors its citizens like it or not. the problem comes when this information has to be used in court. It is not admisable as evidence if the information was gathered unlawfully. This is the reason they are trying to get it passed as a bill.

  5. gone are the days of headers on My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer · · Score: 1



    I remember a while back, if you didn't like someone you would change your reply to address to their e-mail address then subscribe to every form of e-mail news letter there was. This soon stopped since most subsciption services now require approval from that address. This seems to just be another version of the same thing. Think how easy it could be to get someone fired. By the time you tracked down who did it the damage was done. The feature needs to be removed I think from e-mail clients. Or better yet pop servers need to add some kind of manditory header.

  6. Re:Huh? on More Ways to Blow Things Up · · Score: 1



    well clorine gas is very poisonous, hydrogen is explosive, and a useful raw material. now a days a child who makes a bomb is automaitically assumed to have intentions of blowing up his school. trust me if the feds were to find traces of clorine and hydrogen gas in your house, they would arrest now and ask questions later.

  7. gone are the days of mr wizard on More Ways to Blow Things Up · · Score: 4, Insightful



    I grew up with the Mr Wizard generation. Making bombs from flour, hot air baloons and electricuting weiners. Which looking back could have killed me. In highschool we discovered the proportions to gun powder and made a beaker full .... then lit it. We also did electrolisis of salt water H + OH + Na + CL -> NaOH + CL2 + H2 at the time it was looked on as being smart. Now there are flashback of colmbine. I think twice about showing this stuff to my children because it's looked upon as so anarchist

  8. in my defence on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: 1



    I'm a poster child of IRC and hooked on phonics. I actually have a degree and concider myself a professional. however typing while pissed doesnt' work for me :)

  9. jimmy hauffa is dead this is important on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: 1



    I think the days of unions are dead. People just have to learn how to work smarter and cheaper in other words adapt. Just like what happened to teh auto industry with teh infusion of japanese cards american mfgs had to clean up there act and become competitive. Have you seen GM, and crystler lately. The problem is nationalism is no longer contries span the globe and just because their address is in pasadena doesn't mean they are allied to the US. America needs to invest in its infrastructure, it's children make then smarter, allow the right environment for big companies. Then we will always be competitive. It's simple if east asian engineers are better then the jobs will move to them. especially if its cheaper. I remember going to school 80% of engineering dept was from either asia inda or teh middle east.

  10. america needs to earn these jobs. on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: 1



    On average children/adults overseas are more competitivly schoold and challenged. I'm tired of talking to europeans, third world countries, who's peopel on average speak multiple languages. when american kids all seem to talk about is making it on american idol. AMERICA NEEDS TO INVEST IN IT'S HUMAN CAPITOL YOU HEAR THAT BUSH. AMERICA'S HUMAN CAPITOL IS BETTER SERVED IN OTHER PLACES THAN WAR. I keep hearing stories fo school and community services being cut, while military services get more money and cooprate companies control the governemt. WE NEED TO INVEST IN OUR POSTERITY !!!!!!

  11. another linux distro ? on IBM Calls Linux "Logical Successor" To AIX · · Score: 1



    great, another distro. I think IBM just has to continue making ..... and supporting hardware for linux, and continuing to impart useful tools, and code in the linux kernel tree. which as far as hardware is important. After that you can go stamp whaterver you want on it Borne Bash, KDE, GNOME. L

  12. Potable and Non Poteble. on Don't Eat The White Snow Either · · Score: 1



    What your talking about is filtering waste line water and redistributing it for irrigation. Using it for toilet water isn't so common. But as you know in southern cali all that greenry is do to irrigation which uses this water. Typically in a purple pvc line. So dont drink the water from the purple pvc pipe.

  13. i'm cracking up over here. on Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? · · Score: 2



    Finally the truth is out. I remember when I left aol this is back like 6 years ago to use earthlink and IRC to chat. I tried and failed horrible to get all my friends from school to log unto IRC with no luck. finally I had to go back to AOL in order to talk to everyone I knew. However with Yahoo,msn,icq messenger the whole chat concept is no longer just aol. I haven't been on AOL since 3.0 killed my computer.

  14. find who purchased it on Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games · · Score: 2



    my suggestion is find who purchased it. These will have teh most value to someone who has a set or best yet all of these cartagies. e-mail the person who wrote the article, and follow the lead to who purchased it. more than likely they have teh same cash to pay for yours. Having two of a set of collector item definately raises the individual value of each.

  15. What technology. on Airships Tested As Two-Way Telecom Beacons · · Score: 2



    It really doesn't sound that profound. It's a repeater with an embeded power supply possible solor attached to a helium weather type balloon. I have been hearing different versions of this story for a while now, High flying planes circling cities, baloons high rise buildings. but I am yet to see a working implimentation. My main concerns are no one address the inherant problems, like weather

  16. launch another spice boy on Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble · · Score: 0, Redundant



    can't they just launch another spice boy I mean nsyncer .... or at least get justn to pay his bills

  17. GOOD !!! on HP Wants Manufacturers To Bear PC Disposal Costs · · Score: 2



    this is an interesting trend which I think I like .... I think. Cigerette companies having to pay for rising health costs (have you priced health insurance lately) PC mfg paying, or being taxed for hardware recycling, and hopefully automobile mfg paying for the affects of smog. Think about it company after company have come and raped natural resources, polluted the environment, and made money from potentially harmful products, and gotten away with it. With tax payers being made to clean this crap up.

  18. good commercial applications. on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 3, Interesting



    refregerators are one thing, but I see this being a good application for roof mounted HVAC equipment. which is noisy anyways and are usually mounted in remote locations. This also applies to most commercial walk freezers/coolers. They all use a remotely mounted condencing (cooling) unit. My biggest questions are 1.) weight 2.) power consumption. I imagine this would remove the need for a compresser and radiator type vents making it lighter.

  19. reminds me of the half a car joke on Real-Time Collaborative Mapmaking · · Score: 5, Funny



    this reminds me of a story of two guys who at intersections would carry the back wheels of the car over wheel sensors. thus the traffic department would have to account for 64.5 cars passing through the intersections.

  20. make sure you sit in the parachute section. on First Emergency Use of Whole-Aircraft Parachute · · Score: 2


    I've always heard stories of airlines breaking up in mid air from over stress. So now people will be rushing for the seats next to the parachute section.

    I'm curious if there will ever be an commercial airline version. I could see an application that has a parachute for sections of the fusalodge(sp). Then in a catastrophic event charges could fire seperating the plain into compartments which could be carried to earth safely. Each section could have air tight emergency doors which seals when the charges fire.

  21. whatever you do .... on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 3, Informative



    Disconnect the wiring on the reset and power switch. My 18 Month old has become a savvy button pusher. His ability to sneak in there and hit that power switch is uncanny. I tried locking my computer in an desk encloser which works, but now He knows how to climb up to my desk using a bar stool type chair and use his toes to hit the buttons. Well as far as useful advice I switched to windows 2000, It allowed me to have much control over who can use what programs it's stable and allows the auditing I desire. In reality linux wasn't practical because many of the games my 11 year old daughter would like to play dont work. If you like me had fantasies of your child loving programing as you did as a geeky kid forget it. They lost interest after the " hello world ... " perl script.

  22. because my family friend would kill me on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2



    If I were to install linux a home after all that is 'my' computer. My gf would flip out even though all she does on the computer is browse the web and use word. My son would freak because all his games would no longer work. not to mention my duaghter who would skin me alive if her barbie thing game didn't work. As for my work environment as soon as AutoCAD is ported over to Linux I will happily port all our stations over. In the mean time only our firewalls and webservers are linux.

  23. In further news on Remote Feed: 72-Mile 802.11b Link · · Score: 5, Funny



    Then the LA afternoon smog rolled in cause 98% packet loss. Reports of low flying sea gulls being singed as they passed through the deadly rays have also been reported.

  24. Cooling Fans = Wind Tunnel on SGI Introduces World's Densest Server · · Score: 5, Funny


    Anyone see the large image of this thing. It has like 10 6" Wide cooling fans. Walking by this thing will be like walking by a turbine jet engine. I cant' wait for the readers digest " Sucked in to the Origin 3000 how I survived"

    http://www.sgi.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi?/newsroo m/ press_releases/2002/november/images/origin3900_1_j pg.zip

  25. too bad the cooling required is as big as a house. on SGI Introduces World's Densest Server · · Score: 1, Redundant


    I would be afraid to see how much heat those things generate.