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  1. It's gonna be fun watching those on Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Than the Wind · · Score: 1

    watching those who know how simple the principle is and know it *can* work try and convince those who know it *can't* work.

    Dave

  2. Money = power so it will pass on "Canadian DMCA" Rising From the Dead · · Score: 1

    Eventually, it will pass. Best think of how to fight back after it does.

    Dave

  3. Machine trading on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Machine trading should carry the death penalty- because it'll be the death of us.

    dave

  4. Re:This is where the FTC could really step in on Amazon Fights For Privacy of Customer Records · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, good chance for the tea partiers could show us all that they aren't just a bunch of blowhards by fixing their shit locally before trying to fix the country.

    No, I didn't think so either.

    Dave

  5. Re:Somethings come back - always on Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to type 'the Taliban the Soviet Occupation created.'

    There, I corrected it for you.

    You're welcome.

    'the Taliban the Soviet Occupation created and which turned pigshit radical after the US abandoned afghanistan to the warlords after the sovs left.'

    There, completed that for you.

    Dave

  6. Re:Legally owns.... on Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul · · Score: 1

    Idiot.

  7. Re:Legally owns.... on Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about people who actually make shoes, whooooosh.

    Dave

  8. Re:Legally owns.... on Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shoemakers never have good shoes themselves, their best work and materials always goes to others.

    Giving shoes to a shoemaker is a wonderful gift.

    Dave

  9. Re:Capitalism on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Certainly not- not on the mainland, anyway.

    Given china's history since going under MAO, I don't give a flying fuck what they think, though.

    Dave

  10. Re:Capitalism on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Actually, "Chicom" is a very old term that was used to distinguish between the Chinese Communist rebels and the KMT nationalists.

    Now, I find it a convenient way to the mainlanders now that there are 'two chinas'.

    I think even a minimal amount of critical thinking applied to what I said would clearly indicate I'm not a Rusher, nor a Becker, nor a hannity-ite.

    Dave

  11. Re:Wow, that's pretty ignorant on What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Darn good thing they were, too.

    Dave

  12. Re:Capitalism on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1

    No, the way any (The US, the chicoms, the old tsarist russia, communist russia, and the emerging russian thugarchy) state entity handles things when they believe there is no possibility of retribution.

    Dave

  13. This's what the repubs are trying to save us from! on Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested · · Score: 1

    See? See? This is what happens.
    This is what the republicans and tea partiers are trying to save us from.

    (Your sarcasm meter isn't pegged? Fix the damn thing!)

    Dave

  14. I'm with the Dark Wraith on this one on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can't look at Obama as left/right lib/conservative, you have to consider him as authoritarian.

    http://www.dark-wraith.com/

    He had him pegged as this at least a year ago, if you check his archives.

    Dave

  15. Re:Air Traffic Control system- Next Gen- GPS on Attack of the Killer Electrons · · Score: 1

    *Ahem* that should have read ', and then I strangle someone'.

    Dave

  16. Air Traffic Control system- Next Gen- GPS on Attack of the Killer Electrons · · Score: 1

    They will rightly be called killer electrons when the GPS system goes tango-uniform and I can't fly home and strangle somone!

    Dave

  17. Re:Until... on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    I though we all knew at this point there is no such thing as junk DNA- it's all used for something, whether it be patches supplied by bacteria, viruses, or who knows what.

    Dave

  18. That fucker! on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They'll stop looking for a match after they find one- regardless of the fact there will be hundreds to thousands of potential matches.

    Dave

  19. Re:So let me just get this straight on Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward · · Score: 1

    They 'standardised' the following -

    Ethernet (which you still have to set to 1000/Full because Auto-negotiate doesn't work properly)
    Wi-Fi (how many years has it taken for N to become standard? I've been through three pre-N routers....)
    Bluetooth (which is infamous for not working between devices by different manufacturers, to the point that no-one bothers with it. Oh and you get spammed).

    After decades of having to deal with this nonsense, yes - I'd have a few questions for them. Right after setting them on fire.

    Heh, I was in the room at an IEEE 802 meeting when someone actually apologized for having insisted gig-e even have a half-duplex mode.

    Dave

  20. Re:So let me just get this straight on Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward · · Score: 1

    Some, I believe, were made by Asante.

    Dave

  21. Ah, the ol' 802.3 gang... on Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cool. I've worked with Paul Nikolich (when ADC broadband bought bought the CMTS company he was at), and have run into some of this cast of characters during the 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile meetings. Interesting folks.

    I think it was Geoff (I could be wrong, this was a while ago) that said we would not need high-speed uplink from the home because 'there just isn't that much relevant content out there'. That was a pretty good chuckler.

    I'm sure Michael Coden of Codenoll feels snubbed, he always claimed to me he was the co-inventor of ethernet.Never believed him.
    He did pioneer one interesting product- a distributed ethernet switch that would operate over a unidirectional fiber ring- worked pretty well after I fixed the gaping hole in his protocol.

    Dave

  22. Re:Mmmmmmmm on Saturn Moon Could Be Hospitable To Life · · Score: 1

    All this time, my computer has been pronouncing it wrong!

    Dave

  23. Electrodynamic de-orbit tether... on Space Junk Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    Electrodynamic de-orbit tether, dammit.

    Dave

  24. Re:Do keep up, dear boy... on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, crappy name, but interesting material.

    Dave

  25. Re:Do keep up, dear boy... on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps not those specific things, but...

    http://www.technovelgy.com/

    "Explore the inventions and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 1,865 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 2,770 Science Fiction in the News articles. "

    Dave