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  1. Re:Good News, Bad News on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you are in Portland, Oregon, you can find many older parts at Free Geek on 10th Ave 2 block south of Hawthorne.

  2. Re:Unencrypted cookie auths on Is Algeria Deleting Facebook Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Is it as slow as asking the concierge in your hotel to go to the local Barns and Noble and get the book for you?

  3. Re:Don't make me laugh! on MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet · · Score: 1

    No, you have it wrong. He will wonder around the neighborhood late at night muttering MPAA MPAA MPAA. He will then wander into your house thinking that it is his. Then he will wander into your bedroom and try to crawl into bed. He sees this pervert in 'his' bedroom and call the police and tell them that that Google (you) are in the MPAA's (his) bed.

  4. Re:You Don't Get to Do Anything Fun Anymore on Sputnik Moment Or No, Science Fairs Are Lagging · · Score: 1

    I ran a full service radio and TV repair shop when I was in the fifth grade in school. In fact I was so successful that the local adult TV repairman threatened to turn me into the state because I had a license. I did some research and told him that he had no case. I did not charge any money but I asked for 'donations'. I ran a very interesting scam. I went to the town dump, got old tv sets, and fixed them. Then I sold them to my fellow students whose parents did not want them to have tv.

  5. Re:"Everybody wins" mentality on Sputnik Moment Or No, Science Fairs Are Lagging · · Score: 1

    Folks: I have one over you on this. . . Once upon a time sometime back in the 1970's, I remember a conversation that I overheard where it was mentioned that a high school student created a science fair project where he carved a human figure out of candle wax and put it into a contraption that he made out of an erector set (which is the metal equivalent of a tinker toy set. The contraption was made to look like an electric chair. It had an electric plug. When you plugged it it, the wax figure fizzled and smoked. I don't know what became of this. Most likely there were no prizes; but I don'k know if any reprecusions happened as well.

  6. Re:"Everybody wins" mentality on Sputnik Moment Or No, Science Fairs Are Lagging · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It can also go the other way. Once upon a time, I made an oscilloscope for my junior high school science fair project. I did not get any prizes. An electronics engineer came to me later and told me privately that my project was so well built that the judges did not believe I was the one who built it. Furthermore, even now, when I wear these in public, some people don't believe me when I tell them that I have made them.

  7. Re:I'm American and I don't care either on Behind-The-Scenes Superbowl Tech · · Score: 1

    Sports to me is riding a bike to work. Watching sports is what I don't do because I am too busy sewing, welding, doing lapidary, glass engraving, and playing with LED's and electricity.

  8. Re:No cheerleaders? on Behind-The-Scenes Superbowl Tech · · Score: 1

    Not all. Some will look for guys with minimal clothes. Or other will look for these clothes

  9. WAH WAH WAH on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1
    WAH WAH WAH!

    If all else fails, get one of these machines and make your own tool and stop crying!

  10. Your link has problems (404 Error) on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    As of about 7:33 PM Pacific time, I am getting a 404 error on your link.

    Please check your links prior to posting!!!

  11. 404 error code on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    I am getting a 404 error code when I tried the link.

    Can people please validate the link before posting?

    Thank you

    Luv

    Mark

  12. Re:Hmmmmm on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. This article is very good.

    It is very good for someone like me who has an insomnia problem. When the fireworks from the big new years even party in downtown Portland woke me up, I read this article and I was once again back to my deep peaceful sleep.

  13. Re:Headline misleading on Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies · · Score: 1

    I think you have it backwards. . . .

    if ((benefit_of_higher_grade - cost_of_honest_work) >
                ((benefit_of_cheating - cost_of_cheating) / (probability_of_getting_caught * cost_of_punishment_if_caught)) then {

                                                      Stay_honest();
                  }

    else

                  {
                                                      Cheat();
                  }

  14. Re:Epic Fail? WTF? on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 1

    What if the number of bits in the key is low enough? If it only a small key, then could it be cracked mathematically in four months?

  15. Free Music on Pay Lars · · Score: 1

    If you want to listen to free music and not have the RIAAMPAAFBICIANSA get mad at you. . . Just sing in the shower!

  16. Re:Oh no... on Pay Lars · · Score: 1

    But this in itself would be entertainment. They can collect revenue from those watching the battle and get rich. Peace

  17. Re:Insured on Boeing/SeaLaunch Loses British Satellite · · Score: 1

    thank you

  18. Re:Insured on Boeing/SeaLaunch Loses British Satellite · · Score: 1

    Can anyone point me to where I can get a basic explanation of spacecraft insurance? Is the whole rocket insured? Will Boeing in fact get all of the costs back without losses? How much do premiums cost? Is this so risky that insurance companies ask for 30 to 50 percent of value? Who accepts this type of risk? With the spate of mishaps lately, I would think that the risk would be high enough to ask for 50 percent and up on premiums. Also, why can't they have some sort of parachute arrangement on the payload itself so that there is at least some chance for recovery? Or do they allready try this and it failed with this explosion? Mark

  19. Re:Pull the Needle from your Arm on Citizen Case, DVD-CCA, Napster, and MP3 · · Score: 2

    I have lived without TV for 22 years. The only time I watch is when I volunteer for the WGBH TV (public TV) auction. Then I am forced to watch it (as I am in the studio). I do not miss it at all. With hobbies in sewing, woodworking, ham-radio, in-line skating, and bicyling; I have enough things to do. I also average only about 10 to 12 movies per year. For entertainment, I read or see live shows such as symphony or the theatre. No car, no TV, no stereo, oh, how un-american.

  20. Microsoft Source given to universities on Microsoft Vows Security Commitment on Win2K · · Score: 1

    In the CNN article, they said that microsoft gave the source code for Win2k to some universities. Does anyone know which universities they gave it to? This would be a total suprise, because giving something to a university is almost like giving it out on the net. All it takes is one student to post it. . . . . Mark

  21. Why not post this to sci.chem? on Self-Destructing DVDs: Son of DIVX · · Score: 1

    They might know something about this type of coating and what can be done to prevent it from degrading. One thing comes to my mind and that is to open the disk in a nitrogen enclosure, then coat it with something that prevents the atsmophire (oxygen or water) from touching it. Mark Allyn

  22. Re:Ad Busters on Live or Memorex? · · Score: 1

    I have not owned a TV for 21 years. I go to the movies about once per month. For entertainment, I do sewing, woodworking, in-line skating, and bicycling. I make all my own clothing and furniture. I don't own a car (for 20 years now). I don't drink or smoke. I don't go to sporting events unless I partake in them (biking in-line skating, etc). If everyone lives like me, perhaps the adds would be greatly reduced.