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  1. Re:Sounds great! But does it run on Linux? on The Notable Improvements of GNOME 2.22 · · Score: 1

    No, it runs on X11 the X Windows environment.

  2. Re:Not wishy-washy on Mitt Romney Answers Tech Questions · · Score: 1

    Actually it completely makes sense that you can't afford a house. Population is increasing and the amount of land available is not. Either your standards for a house are too high or your location you wish to live in is not realistic.

    I know people with average income hourly wages of $13ish an hour that own houses and are not getting foreclosed on. Either you haven't tried or you are looking for a house outside of your income bracket.

  3. Re:Privacy on MySpace Private Pictures Leak · · Score: 1

    Then why call it "MySpace" shouldn't it be called "OurSpace" if it isn't meant for me to store my stuff?

  4. Re:You are correct! on Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome · · Score: 1

    And we still haven't been able to reproduce artificial gravity. Unless you consider acceleration effects such as when driving a car to be a form of artificial gravity.

  5. Re:I used to be a paranoid... on Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome · · Score: 1

    And sharing is equalizing. Knowledge is only power if you are the only keeper of that knowledge. Power only corrupts if you are the only one with the power.

  6. Re:Definition of cult on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    "The definition of a cult is quite simple. A cult poorly hides it's core beliefs from it's members a religion does not."

    sorry, fixed that typo for you.

  7. Re:Nothing to see here on SpaceShipTwo Design and Pics Released · · Score: 1

    Can't we do both?

  8. Re:Ummm.... on The Tree of Life Consolidates · · Score: 1

    ...Ohh, and The Artistic Tree Drawers Union.

  9. Re:Ummm.... on The Tree of Life Consolidates · · Score: 1

    The Tree of Life must be re-drawn, textbooks need to be changed, and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of medicines.

    This message brought to you by Learning Resources Publications(r) and the United Drug Association(tm).

  10. Re:Useless - not at focal point. on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1

    This isn't of a HUD, the led's will be replaced with lasers and we can shoot laser beams from our eyes!!!

    I don't look forward to the amount of burned and scared cleavage this new technology will bring.

  11. well.... on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new bionic rabbit overlords.

    Don't rabbits have good eyes anyway? They seem to be eating carrots all the time.

  12. Re:Best Team I Ever Worked On Telecommuted on Telecommuting Can Be Bad For Those Who Don't · · Score: 1

    Why's that? I've used ssh-pppd VPNs and then telneted over that vpn before.

  13. Re:Top Three Things on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1
    I was good until the line item veto thing. This can't be in place as it shifts too much power to the president when this can be fixed by pushing the responsibility to the congressman by making a line item vote. Hey look just an anagram!! Anyway, if all congressman had to vote on each line with either Required, Accepted or Rejected. Each having the meaning

    1. Required - this stays in or all my votes change to Rejected.
    2. Accepted - This can stay or can be removed from final bill.
    3. Rejected - This item is unacceptable and must be modified or removed.


    This way we know exactly what senators are voting for and can hold their feet to the fire come election time.
  14. Re:Top Three Things on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    700B is going to make for some really crappy healthcare.

    Good healthcare right now is on average about $300 a month x 12 months that $3600 a year x 300M people thats just over $1T. Your going to want to double that for government inefficiency so your going to need to come up with $2,000,000,000,000.

    Where else are you going to cut?

  15. Re:Number One Thing on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    Because that's not how the Federal Interstate program works.

    At least that'd be my guess.

  16. Re:Number One Thing on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    Lowering taxes can raise revenue although it may not always. a 100% tax rate would cause almost nobody to conduct taxable transactions which would mean revenue goes down. Lowering taxes to 0% would mean that you get no revenue on any transactions but people would conduct them much more freely. Finding the ideal balance is the important part. Dems usually think it is higher than what ever is current due to it sounds so simple. Raise taxes brings in more money. Dems being simple minded usually like it to sound or feel good. Repubs think it should be lower than whatever current tax rate is because it worked for Ronny. Lets lower taxes and then start a war, doesn't that sound like a great idea?

    It's still rather nice how great the US is, almost seemingly in spite of the politicians.

  17. Re:Resign on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    goes something like "Those who seek power are least likely to be suitable for the position." or something similar.

  18. Re:If you give it away on Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Copying music online isn't stealing because it's copyright violation.
    Obtaining and using a persons identity isn't theft because it's impersonation fraud.

    Please let's use the correct terms.

  19. Re:If you give it away on Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's because the term is a bit of a misnomer. There is no such thing as "Identity theft." You're identity is the only thing that can never be stolen from you. (Similar in concept to calling copyright violations, theft.) Obtaining personal information and utilizing it for gain is considered "Impersonation fraud."

  20. Re:Thats why I said real AND proven. on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1

    The more likely scenario is that they both rigged the election, just one rigged it better. To out the other side would bring attention to your own rigging and both go to jail. So everyone stays quite and the corruption continues to grow.

  21. Log term effects? on Alzheimer's Treatment Mooted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do we really want to put people on new drugs like this? What if in 40 years all these people come down with some kind of cancer?

  22. Re:GM assumes liability for driverless car acciden on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    I can see:

    GM touts driverless car with collision avoidance software
    drunk person slams into car.
    GM gets sued for not avoid the drunk.

  23. Re:Right... on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    They make plenty of cars that get better than 20. By saying fleet wide this just means that the consumers have decided that low fuel usage isn't as important as other qualities in vehicles.

  24. Re:2 vs 3 on Torvalds Puts Support Behind GPL2 Linux · · Score: 1

    exactly, the GPL has never been about protecting the Developer or the Developer's freedoms, but protecting the User and insuring the code is always available.

  25. Re:Winner is the Consumer on Paramount to Drop HD DVD? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1997
    The huge size of a an audio song encoded in either raw au or mp3 format (about 5 MB!) will make it too daunting for people to download full CD tracks

    2005
    The huge size of a two hour movie encoded in either mpeg or other format (about 1 GB!) will make it too daunting for people to download full Movies

    2008
    The huge size of a two hour movie encoded in either VC-1 or AVC format (about 30 GB!) will make it too daunting for people to download full HD

    2015
    The huge size of the internet encoded in either xhtml or other format (about 30,000 PB!) will make it too daunting for people to download the entire sum knowledge of human kind