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  1. Re:Cool...I guess on 802.11 for Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    You think that's pathetic? I telecommute and
    my daughter is schooled online. When I want
    to tell her something, I use YIM.

  2. spermatagonia on Transgenic Zebrafish Produced Using Cultured Sperm · · Score: 1

    This suggests a great branding strategy
    for khaki pants.

  3. Yes, I do, thank you. on Do You Make $60/hr for Programming? · · Score: 1

    When I'm on contract, I'll take 75-85/hr, but
    for a long-term gig on W-2, I settle for
    45-60. I live in rural Minnesota and I've
    never sat in a cubicle. Cubicles are fatal
    to your AGI.

  4. Re:I didn't hear about mines, I thought it was... on Reduce CO2 With Phytoplankton Seeding · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how leaky the mine is, because CO2 is heavier than air: It just sinks lower into the cracks.

  5. Re:The goods on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea is that a tax cut for the wealthy
    means increased capital investment, which
    results in improved productivity.

    The problem with that theory on this go-round
    is that the attractive investments are in
    China, Thailand, and Malaysia, not in the U.S.,
    so that the funds are flowing to improve
    productivity where that improved productivity
    is likely to maximize its profitable return.
    And it ain't here, bubba.

  6. Create a business. on Crawling for Certificates? · · Score: 1

    If you want it, then others do too.
    Hire someone to write a cross-platform
    utility to scan disks for certs and
    sniff network traffic for certs, and log
    them all to a central service. Put a GUI
    on it. Write documentation. That's worth
    $10K. Now offer it for sale for $5k.
    If it doesn't make money, open-source it.

  7. Freedom of the press on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products · · Score: 1

    Freedom of the press only applies to those who have
    a press. Or rather, those who have an engineering
    team that designs presses and a manufacturing wing
    that produces them at viable economies of scale.

    Everyone else can go fish.

  8. Re:IRC is probably not what you want on Using IRC for Electronic Meetings? · · Score: 1

    With client certificates, nickservs become almost
    redundant.

  9. Re:Kube! on Gamecube Linux Port Announced, In Progress · · Score: 1

    Given that KDE and Gnome play well together, why
    not go for a Gname Kube?

  10. Re:IRC is probably not what you want on Using IRC for Electronic Meetings? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Use IRC over SSL with client certificates.

  11. Re:*sigh* on Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization · · Score: 3, Informative

    You seem not to understand the issue.

    NASA has a broad spectrum of image data from Mars.
    They could use this data to present a picture of
    Mars as it actually appears, or they could use the
    data to present a picture of Mars which does not
    represent the actual appearance. By making the
    latter choice, they misinform the public.

    In this way, they put themselves in the same class
    with persons who offer misinterpretations of image
    data from the moon landings to argue that those
    landings were hoaxed: Both publications serve to
    misinform an already woefully misinformed public.

  12. Re:Conspiracy theorists on Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization · · Score: 0, Troll


    The complaint is that NASA is obviously and
    demonstrably misinforming the public.
    Similarly, sites which advocate a theory that
    the moon landings were a hoax are obviously
    and demonstrably misinforming the public.
    NASA is in the same class, therefore, as the
    people you describe as "conspiracy theorists".

    Of course the use of that term is enough to
    completely destroy credibility, so I'm not
    sure why I bother to point out the gross lapses
    in logic.

  13. Re:An Analysis on Mix Wi-Fi and Portable Digital Audio, Get Aireo · · Score: 1

    > it doesn't play buddies with iTMS

    But it's easy to fix that, thanks to M. Johansen.

  14. Re:Not a new idea, but a good one on The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing · · Score: 1

    When the platform is object-aware, then intercommunication
    between objects can be used to schedule them
    in space/time so that affinity bonds are honored.
    Until the platform does that, it all has to be
    coded into the application. The result is very
    good performance, in the near-term of technique,
    but like the use of HLLs vs. machine-dependent code,
    once such platforms are established in the market,
    they will automate the analysis and design of
    distribution architecture, just as compilers have
    automated the analysis and design of load balance
    over pipeline stages, execution units, and
    access latencies to a higher degree than can be
    reasonbly demanded of even the rare virtuouso
    programmer.

  15. Re:Computers will be everywhere on The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing · · Score: 1

    That's like saying they support bits.
    All of the meaning is in the interpretation of
    those bits.

  16. Re:I'll tell you what's "painful"... on The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing · · Score: 1

    About 3: HP is a lot of very sad companies being
    held afloat on the profits of a printer company.

    Also: Smart people take bets when the mathematical
    expection is favorable. That does not mean that
    they don't lose.

  17. Jabber doesn't just look good, it is good. on Enterprise IM? · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to roll your own Jabber server.
    Just install a well-known and reliable binary
    package from a trustworth distribution such as
    Debian stable or RedHat 9.0.

  18. Re:Bad for IE users on Eolas vs. Microsoft Verdict Stands, Despite ReExam · · Score: 1

    This applies to Java applets as well.

    Question: Can you
    work around it using signed javascript?

  19. Re:on a more serious note... on Eolas vs. Microsoft Verdict Stands, Despite ReExam · · Score: 1

    Judges don't grow in cabbage patches.
    Little lawyers become big judges. By that
    time the hope is that they've been bought
    by so many sides that the net effect is
    zero, but in fact the money is not evenly
    distributed, so that hope is illusory.

  20. Re:No, only 0.9094 TB on A Terabyte In A Cigar Box · · Score: 1

    For us unicodian javaphiles, a byte is 16 bits.

  21. Re:Man... on A Terabyte In A Cigar Box · · Score: 1

    > It's got plenty applications, but not normal user applications.

    It would not take long to fill one of these
    up with movies. Ripping all your DVDs onto
    it is a perfectly normal-user sort of thing
    to do. Attach it to your TiVo.

  22. Re:yep, I got the warranty. on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I think it was for your head, not the lap:
    Insert head, seal tightly around neck.

  23. Re:Everything is made cheap and unrepairable... on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Ciruit City screwed me on a Compaq 1900XL-163,
    which was on extended warranty. Someone should
    file a classaction suit against Compaq for this
    model, which has a defective friction hinge
    design, and against Circuit City for dishonoring
    their extended warranty terms.

    Of course, all the money would go to the lawyer,
    but at least the evil doers would be punished.

  24. Re:Another problem w/ Micropayments on Micropayments Going Mainstream? Not Yet. · · Score: 1

    > Most likely the government really isn't out to get you.

    Since the planet is grossly overpopulated,
    the people with the guns are eventually going
    to figure out that most of the rest of the
    people can be safely eliminated, thus
    providing a home for their own progeny.

    But you really shouldn't tell anybody this,
    as it only decreases the chances of their
    elimination, and this increases the chances
    of your own culling.

  25. Re:Just make sure on Does the Military Dominate CS Research? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he is an advocate of opiates.

    Heroin -- it feels good!