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  1. Re:I'm sure he's a nice guy, but... on Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's cute that you get angry, but everyone know what it meant because you know what limited meant? metered.
    You have no clue of the context of the time, so stifle your outrage, newb.

  2. Re:This guys ego on Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) · · Score: 1

    "Barry literally wrote the book on tcp/ip"

    Applemen, not Shein. Since the conversation is ABOUT a guy named Barry, you should clarify when talking about a different Barry.

  3. Re:Why isn't on Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) · · Score: 1

    "I'm guessing it's because the BBS operator didn't sell that as a reliable service"
    Actually, he did.

    "If your BBS's sysop had known a teacher or something, gotten a password, and then re-sold that service... TROUBLE."
    Trouble, on the internet? say it ain't so!

    The 90's was about business being able to use the internet more then ir was about the common citizen accessing it.

  4. Re:Why isn't on Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) · · Score: 1

    Had DNS been let out to the wolves, the internet we know now would not exist. It would be a segmented series of corporate owned conflicting networks.

  5. Re:Uh... on Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) · · Score: 1

    That's just your aged bias. It was a ghetto of spam, scan and ads before AOL hooked into the internet.

  6. Re:ROI for drug development on "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola · · Score: 2

    Ebola went from pigs to macaws via an airborn vector.
    There was one for simians as well.

    "Ebola is not deadly, surprise, surprise for semians/apes."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

  7. Re:ROI for drug development on "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola · · Score: 1

    You are correct, I should have specified for humans. In my defense, that was the context.

  8. Re: ROI for drug development on "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That question has been answered many times.
    The middle class fades away, Large projects stop and the society collapse.
    People act like the government just appeared and hasn't been developed over time.

    Also we know that the government is more efficient then the ;private industry most of the time. That's the private sectors little secret.

    You can confirm that be simply looking at the federal project and see how many of them where completed on time and within budget. well of 80.
    The private sector is lucky to get 30% project dun, and less then 20% within budget.

    The Public sector/Private sector 80/20 has been written about many times.

  9. Why isn't on Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) · · Score: 2

    Dialing into a BBS, bouncing into a schools system and then access the net not considered the first dialup isp?
    Something I did in '83.

  10. Re:ROI for drug development on "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola · · Score: 1

    It's all the phat loots Africa has. We all know those doctors are driving around in Ferrari and drinking champagne.

  11. Re:"Secret" on "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the media is trying to create a media storm by making people think there are hidden cures.
    It's really annoying.,

  12. Re:ROI for drug development on "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola · · Score: 1

    Well, it needs to be tested, we don't know how hard it is to make, we don't know if it is successful, but it seems to be, how long can it be stored? IS the rick of outbreak worth the cost of maintaining millions of ready to go treatments?
    Ebola can e contained. If/when it mutates to be airborne that's going to be an issue. Of course, since it hasn't, we don't know if the vaccines would work at all.

  13. Re:ORLY? on Study: Dinosaurs "Shrank" Regularly To Become Birds · · Score: 1

    My parrot has a head that will scream "dinosaur"..

    heh.

  14. Re:Bad phrasing on Study: Dinosaurs "Shrank" Regularly To Become Birds · · Score: 1

    And you know whats really cool? There is now evidence that all dinosaurs may have had at least downy feathers when hatched.

    So, next time you have the opportunity to hold a baby chick. close your eyes, imagine no phones, cars, planes, no humans. Just dinosaurs. The feeling you get when petting that chick is the same thing you would feel holding a dinosaur.

  15. Re:Dinosaurs went obsolete on Study: Dinosaurs "Shrank" Regularly To Become Birds · · Score: 1

    pffft, the UK. What do they know about ships?

    That, lads and lasses, was a joke.

  16. Re: Makes Perfect Sense on Study: Dinosaurs "Shrank" Regularly To Become Birds · · Score: 1

    The Flintones happen in the future.
    http://www.cracked.com/quick-f... ;)

  17. Re:No no no. on Study: Dinosaurs "Shrank" Regularly To Become Birds · · Score: 1

    It's was put there by God to test are faith in Satan. All Hail the lord of Knowledge, Satan.

  18. Re:A page from Henry Ford's book... on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your sig is both historically and factually wrong.

    Frankly, It's so wrong I can just assume the rest of anything you say is also provably wrong and not worth anyone's time to read.

  19. Re:Check out Detroit on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 3, Funny

    " Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and Michigan which have friendly labor laws and cheaper labor pools..."

    You overlook the fact that those places are in Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and Michigan.

  20. Re:Check out Detroit on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 0

    If you can locate anywhere in the country, why the hell would anyone choose detroit?
    The weather is awful, crime is high, 10's of thousands of people have been stripped of their right to representation
    The republicans are doing there best to make OCP proud.

  21. Re:I don't buy it on Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher · · Score: 1

    Yes..and no. IF the communication that goes down is just wi-fi, then its a problem but not a big deal when compared to taking down avionic coms.

  22. Re:No they cant. on Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher · · Score: 1

    About as plausible as any M.Bay film.

  23. Re:So, which is it? on Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, hundreds of people 'deserve' to die. It certainly not the person doing the attacks fault at all.
    Idiot.

  24. Re: Well at least they saved the children! on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    You know, I've never agreed with that. Why wouldn't an inalienable right only be applied to the government?

    "Natural and legal rights are two types of rights. Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system. Natural rights are those not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable (i.e., cannot be sold, transferred, or removed)."

    "This guy is a pervert and an idiot."
    careful, you moved it form pedophilia, to pervert. Do you really want something as nebulous as 'perversion' to be a crime?

  25. Re: Nothing went "wrong" on Why TiVo's Founders Crashed and Burned With Qplay · · Score: 1, Informative

    nothing says disaster like 289 million dollars a year and a constantly trending upward stock price