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  1. Re:I'd like to see this. Seriously. on To the Moon, Alice · · Score: 1

    >Incidentall, did Nasa have to file flight plans during the shuttle launches? They'd be interesting to see.

    Probably...but it'd be a simple one: powered acceleration curve to insert into orbit, until such time as they go over the FAA's head.

  2. Re:Monsanto is a threat to humanity on Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir? · · Score: 1

    Why, from Monsanto's gene archive, of course!

    (of course, there will be a small fee for going back to an older geneware product...and it may cause incompatabilities with the new HumanDNA2000(c))

  3. Re:Patented seeds??? on Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir? · · Score: 1

    Yes, they have a gene that they can insert into the seeds to make them not make more seeds. They called it the terminator gene. The idea was to force farmers to buy their seeds every year instead of planting part of last years crop like they've been doing since before recorded history.

    They bowed to the general public screaming bloody murder, and are probably waiting for things to blow over so they can put the gene back in.

    Like most frankenfoods, they neither have to be seriously tested nor labled...Remember the old saying: You are what you eat.

  4. Re:Explain slowly... on Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling · · Score: 1

    To quote the founder of the cult^H^H^H^Hchurch of scientology... If you want to make a million dollars, start a religion. -- Ron L. Hubbard

  5. Re:Vertical sync & resolution on Coming to a Desktop near you: Tempest Capabilities · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that the data could be manipulated while still in the computer to reduce it's framerate, and you could just pan around the image on the other monitor.

  6. Re:Spy equipment should be illegal. on Coming to a Desktop near you: Tempest Capabilities · · Score: 1

    All that'll do is put the tools exclusivly in the hands of criminals. It COULD be legislated that all new computer equipment coming into the country was tempest grade, but then we would be resistant to unreasonable search & seizure...can't have that now, can we?

  7. Re:Um... on Microsoft Launches Passport · · Score: 1

    >>My current credit card company has very good anti-fraud policies. What's the point of adding a second layer of cost and complexity?

    We ARE talking about M$....

  8. Re:Hmmm on Japan Suffers its Worst Nuke Plant Accident Ever · · Score: 1

    The plant where they process the fuel for a nuculear ractor has little to do with the debate over nuculear power? Just how many twists of logic did you have to apply to arrive at that conclusion? It might not be a nuculear power plant, but they're still dealing with high concentrations of unstable atoms. And when they overdumped into the tank, they likely STARTED a nuculear reaction in the tank. A slow one, but relitivly uncontained.

  9. Re:Is this a school? on I Am Not a Student, I Am a Number · · Score: 2

    This does sound like school. It's a system designed to make sheep. An educated population of free & independent thinkers is extremly dificult to controll...they have this annoying tendancy to ask questions.

    If you wish to change a system, you start with the young. The technology exists to make a world Orwell couldn't have dreamed of..not in his worst nightmares, and there is effort being made to take us in that direction..all for profit, of course. Whats a few human lives compared to the holy bottom line?

  10. Re:Windows2000Test (Toasted? Trashed?) Site on CrackThisBox Updates · · Score: 1

    I'd say that both the M$ and the linuxPPC systems are being slashdotted....and the PPC system doesn't seem to mind too much...

  11. Re:D'oh! shes down hard now on Microsoft /asks/ "Crack this machine" · · Score: 1

    They could make it almost completely unhackable by turning it off....

  12. Re:Great idea! on US Congress Debates National ID Card · · Score: 1

    Ummm..every american president IS decended from an illegal alien...ask any native american. They really needed better immigration policies back then...

  13. Re:Drivers Licences on US Congress Debates National ID Card · · Score: 1

    While that may have been it's orrigional intention, it has expanded to more than that. I don't have a drivers licence, and I had to go get an ID card to use in the place of a drivers licence. It's an ID card, pure and simple...the only official ID's here in BC are a drivers licence, BCID (B.C. Identification), and a passport. When I have to have a chip implanted, I'm going to retire from society, thank you.

    Speak softly, and carry a magnet.

  14. Re:Stupid Ben Franklin quote on US Congress Debates National ID Card · · Score: 1

    >Sorry you couldn't extrapolate all of this on your own from Franklin's quote. Maybe a sprinkling of liberal arts in your education would have helped.

    He didn't dare, as it would perminantly cross-reference his ID with the background information, possibly causing problems with his next employer.

  15. Re:Magpulse... on Super Shielded PC Cases · · Score: 1

    Not likely...the case might be able to ground out the blast, but you'll get a spike from every wire attached to the beast....everything from the power cable to the keyboard...

  16. Re:HELLO!?!?! on Typing Recharges Laptops? · · Score: 1

    yes, but is the energy gain worth the additional weight and cost on the laptop? you could have it pick up an induction charge from the 60 Hz hum of the power grid.

    Side note: the energy expended by the laptop when you strike a key is not zero, there is a state change as well as the energy required to process the keystroke.

  17. Re:Reflections on trusting trust on We Lost the Privacy War · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as 100% security. You can get the code for the compiler, compile a copy, and compare to the orrigional. A self-replicating back door in the system would eventually be noticed by someone.

    Also, since there is such a diversity of systems, any back-door virus would have to adapt to each and every new situation. Change a few lines of code and the virus will break the application. The virus would have to have access to a database of applications, with instructions on how to subvert each one.

    On a related note: Back Orifice 2000 has been released, and is NT compatable.

  18. Re:Freon? on More Cooling/Overclocking Fun · · Score: 1

    As far as I heard, it was....it's now second to narcotics on the list of what is smuggled across the borders....

    You can use butane or amonia instead....but it's illeagal to use them in Canada & the US....the ammounts needed were hazzardous 40 years ago...refrigeration technology has improved, but the laws haven't caught up yet.....
    (where have I heard THAT before....)

  19. Re:I don't think so on Suppression of cold fusion research? · · Score: 1

    the fundemental difference between a nuculear reactor and a nuculear bomb is the speed of the reaction.

  20. Re:Wow... That's one for the conspiracy theorists. on Suppression of cold fusion research? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Takomak reactor here in Canada was nearing the break-even point. The scientests & engeneers involved had, and still have, world recognitian in the field. Our "honorable" elected officials have canceled the project.

  21. Re:definition of a republic on Congress concerned about Echelon · · Score: 1

    The US is a republic in name and design, but not in practice.

  22. Re:How long until internet connections are require on Software Licenses Get Worse · · Score: 1

    Office 2000, AFAIK, requires an internet registration within the first 50 times you run the program.

    If you re-install, and have a PIII, it'll be identified as a re-install...now what happens if you just upgrade the CPU?

    A simple solution would be to embed the serials into the cdrom...A unique serial number on each cdrom.

    10 years in the future....

    Please place your eye to the retena scanner for product branding......Serial number already in use...you have been found guilty of software fraud, Etching advertising slogans onto retena....completed.....have a nice day

  23. Re:knew it... on Cloned sheep shows signs of premature aging · · Score: 1

    Well, we know how to do system-wide gene modification, right? Theoretically, you should be able to add more headers to the DNA strands....

    Remember though, that cloning doesn't copy memories...so unless you have a CNS transplant, you'll just have a younger identical twin...

    That is, of course, assuming that life is "simply" a chemical function...

  24. Re:Not really surprising on Cloned sheep shows signs of premature aging · · Score: 1

    I've seen some plants that have been cloned & recloned too often.....you can tell just by looking at them that something isn't quite right...there's errors in it's branching pattern, missing leaves, the works....

    Damn dyslexic RNA.....

  25. Re:Not surprising, albeit unexpected on Cloned sheep shows signs of premature aging · · Score: 1

    Given current rates, we'll level off at about 12 billion around 2050....Gene therapy to counter aging won't have much of an impact, as it'll probably be expensive & difficult....it'll be just the elete of our society that will have this treatment....

    (and since growth is always exponential, mars, if compeletely terraformed, would only hold us over for a decade or 2)