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  1. Re:Iron Lung? on Device Keeps Lungs Breathing Outside the Body · · Score: 1

    Good news Mr and Mrs Smith! we were able to save your son's lungs. Here's the jar, make sure to keep him plugged in. Sorry we couldn't save anything else.

  2. Re:Getting them over with. on Device Keeps Lungs Breathing Outside the Body · · Score: 1

    It'll be a while before this is viable for general use. I wouldn't hold my.....ahh nevermind.

  3. Re:Germany's cities are much closer together. on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    "States finances road why should they don't finances train ?"

    Same reason they don't finance cars, or at least shouldn't. I'd perhaps be for the state providing rail and private industries providing trains to run on them though.

  4. Re:Germany's cities are much closer together. on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    Ohh great. So my tax dollars are going for a big budget project that a very few percentage of people will ever actually use.

    Wonderful.

  5. Re:Free market will kill it on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Starving it? you have got to be kidding. The government can only do good things at such a blotted over budgeted price that it ceases being a good thing.

    There are some things that the government is the only entity able to do things such as the highway system and certain utilities like power lines and water lines should have government support. I would even be for the government providing rail as a service to companies that would like to provide trains to run on it.

    I am someone who loves the American ideas of freedom and liberty. That includes the freedom to fail. I don't want the federal government to pay for my retirement or health care. I don't want the government to take away my right to choose no health care.

    I am a registered Libertarian, not because I think a 100% Libertarian Utopia is a good thing, but because where we are headed is in the opposite direction and I want to do my part to swing it back towards the center.

  6. Re:Ulduar on World of Warcraft 3.1 Patch Brings Dual-Specs, New Raid · · Score: 1

    Guilds, at least raiding guilds, are not there for you to hang out with friends. A raiding guild is there for only one reason. To insure that the other raid members are not morons. In fact most of the people I like to play casually with and/or call friends are not in my raiding guild.

  7. Re:Ulduar on World of Warcraft 3.1 Patch Brings Dual-Specs, New Raid · · Score: 1

    But wait, now I can farm easy mode until I'm good enough to farm medium mode, until I'm good enough to farm hard mode, until I'm good enough to farm the level 4 hard mode. (It seems that each boss will have up to 4 levels of difficulty depending on what trash you kill before hand.)

    Icecrown Citidale is going to have to promise a hand job with every raid to keep me playing. And I don't mean a self serviced one as it is now.

  8. Re:Sabotage by a unionized employee? on Multiple Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Area · · Score: 1

    I used to work at a really crappy place.

    I went out and found a new job.

    No union needed.

  9. Re:This needs to get press. on EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush · · Score: 1

    All the election of 2004 proved was that John Kerry was the worst possible candidate that could have been run.

    He was the mocking blow to the "Anybody but bush" criers. It turned out that it wasn't quite "Anybody."

  10. Re:An Inconvenient Preemptive Strike on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's called clear-a-sol

  11. Re:Such the wrong approach on Climate Engineering As US Policy? · · Score: 1

    Or a better idea is use the last of the homestead act and go live in the Alaskan tundra. Soon as global warming kicks in it'll be a lush rainforest. Shouldn't Canada be all for global warming? Russia two. There are lots of good things that global warming will do too.

  12. Re:How about a policy: NO PAYWALLS! on MS Researchers Call Moving Server Storage To SSDs a Bad Idea · · Score: 3, Funny

    "It's also tax deductible as a professional subscription."

    Sweet!! you mean I can send MS $200 to avoid having to send $40 to the government?

  13. Re:I hope it's better than Nemesis..... on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 1

    I always figured it was some type of capacitance rating. And why they were able to recharge shields. Large capacitors that were constantly charged from the core, but when taking heavy damage the capacitors may lose some of their power. The shields still protect at 100%, (which is less than 100% protection as they still take some physical damage as well) but once the capacitors hit 0% then the shields are gone.

    guess they could also polarize the haul platting.

  14. Re:Not every tool is right for every application?! on MS Researchers Call Moving Server Storage To SSDs a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=FTM28GL25H&c=pw

    Real price, on the web. ~$27 for 10G

  15. Re:Well done... on "We're Linux" Finalists Announced · · Score: 1

    No joke. When I first asked for a Linux desktop one of the reasons given by the security team was that there were no virus scanners for Linux viruses.

  16. Re:Over 90? on "We're Linux" Finalists Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    He should have said, "We had tens of entries."

  17. Re:Hmmm.... on Conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens Is Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    more like removing a tumor to get rid of the cancer.

  18. Re:Unimplementable on Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C · · Score: 4, Informative


    # cat /etc/cron.daily/auto-update
    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

    completely transparent. No verifications or reboot requests. new version is put in place. I keep working with old version until I'm done and the new version takes over whenever I naturally quit and restart.

  19. Re:You missed the transparent part. on Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C · · Score: 1

    My Debian box's cron job that does "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade" every day has been this way for at least 8 years updates all my running programs transparent to me. I don't even notice they've changed until the next time I restart them.

  20. Re:The Only Change You Can Believe In on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...because Obama is certainly marketed differently from Bush..."

    There fixed that for ya.

  21. Re:Biggest disappointment thusfar on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    you are confusing the far right with, the very liberal religious extremists.

    Right = Conservative = small, less or reduced
    Left = Liberal = large amounts, more, quickly
    Government = release of rights to someone else for a greater good

    Left wing government is releasing large amounts of rights to the government.
    Right wing government is releasing small amounts of rights to the government.

    Liberal religious government is large amounts of government intervention in the name of religion.

  22. Re:Let's see what it looks like on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Great, until the enemy realizes this and is trained and able to look indistinguishable from civilians.

  23. Re:mac != unix on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    except that OSX covers the extremes. It has a kernel for low level engineers and a userspace GUI for flashy, point and drool end users.

    It doesn't have the nice middle ground that Linux has. Linux command line userspace tools and organization is light years ahead of OSX command line, and really any other UNIX as far as that goes.

  24. Re:Longer lifetimes is the answer on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    I am trying to. Squinty eyes and all.

  25. Re:Longer lifetimes is the answer on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 2, Funny

    3 years 205 days is 31,200 hours. so yes the trip will only last for hours, 31k of them.