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  1. Re:Legacy be damned. on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Ah, the joy of a really long defrag! And should we use file compression?

  2. These Neo Cons Are Turds in the Punch Bowl on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 0, Troll

    These creeps need to be dragged into the streets whipped into their sense, then educated and sent to work in a coal mine before they corrupt the entire nation with their ignorance and ill formed beliefs. They don't have a clue and Christ would puke on them if they got close to him.
                  And that was as mild as I could get with these freaks invading text books and messing up young kids' minds.

  3. Re:And nothing of value was lost on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    There are two ways to go with this. One is to rename Limewire Glimewire or some other similar name and locate it in a nation that does not honor use laws. The other is to find an individual who is safe from legal actions due to owning nothing etc. and put the entire operation in his name. That will put the existence of the tool in operation beyond any real reach of law.

  4. He Went Too Far on Steve Jobs Says PC Folks' World Is Slipping Away · · Score: 1

    Mr. Jobs may have lost control of his thinking when he assumed that traditional computer users were vanishing. I'll wager that there are more hard core computer freaks in this world than ever before.
                As to whether porn is a bug or a blessing I suspect that Mr. Jobs may have some boredom in his life. Porn can be quite enlightening and liberating.

  5. A Lot Of Reading on Judicial Nominations In the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    So who can take the time to examine the 60,000 pages of materials that a person might have created from the age of 15 onwards?
          Then right after reading each creation one would need to study the context in which it was made.
          Panels will never have enough hours to do even a crude examination of such compilations. Worse yet how could the mind contain such an inquiry and then compare it to others who have applied for the same positions.

  6. It will Be Fast! on AMD's Fusion CPU + GPU Will Ship This Year · · Score: 1

    But will quad core and six core chips also carry a graphics chip? And how long before the two quad core mother boards hit the streets?
                Frankly we are on the edge of a serious improvement in computers.

  7. Re:MORE on Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    The entire patent process needs to be tossed into a volcano. Imagine how products that could save lives or make life better are either not created or are overly expensive because so many tiny items within the product require paying royalties. Need an on switch for a computer? How many patents are involved in a good switch? Before it is over one might be paying hundreds of companies for tiny parts or tiny snips of code.

  8. Re:Could've been the Anarchist's Cookbook.... on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    Anyone playing about with Castor extracts just might have a suicide in mind. It is not something to take lightly. Castor Bean Oil was a favorite two stroke motorcycle oil for racing. It is probably still available. The catch is that even out of doors, using a tiny amount can sort of let you know that it is not something to mess with.
                    As far as that Anarchist's Cookbook goes I had one years ago and frankly anyone with a bit of ability could cause far more havoc than anything in that book suggests.

  9. This will get worse on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 1

    What we are seeing is a long term trend that will continue to worsen. The very goal of technology is to eliminate labor. And that is not just muscle labor it is noodle labor as well. As technology succeeds more and more people will experience less and less real income. Our government will also feel the pinch as they can collect less and less taxes from people making less and less money.
                              There is a very easy solution but the mind set that prevails can't hear it. We need to cut every single person a real pay check that is sufficient to lead a good life. Watch the people shop and spend and cause businesses to prosper.Those that want to work would simply get a lower pay check from the government according to how much they earn from their job. People who want to go to a job will do a better job than those forced to work or go hungry. The reality is that a whip and chains slave and a slave to wages are not very different at all.

  10. The Dumbest Idea on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 1

    This is that same absurd notion that the laws of business must reach out into unrelated issues. America will prosper and survive according to the level of education of our population. New breakthroughs, winning products, science to defend and keep us alive, as well as arts to bind us together and keep us as a coherent culture all depend upon very high levels of education. Not only that, but in the end our economy will also depend upon our people being able to establish better businesses than the rest of the world has.
                        Please keep the right wing loonies who constantly try to eliminate quality education in the sewers where they belong.

  11. Must Be on Jupiter Is Missing a Belt · · Score: 0

    It must be that nasty global warming striking again. Or maybe its oil from the Gulf of Mexico that has reached out of orbit!

  12. Oh Goody Goody on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    I was so looking forward to my shrimp arriving with their own oil for frying but with nukes in play they will be well done upon arrival. And who knows maybe my teeth will glow in the dark after eating seafood loaded with radiation. That will look great when i'm dancing the epileptic boogaloo at the disco caused by brain damage from the contamination.

  13. Re:Research Report URL on Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids · · Score: 1

    So we have found a large, ancient city with a large population. No good cable television in play explains it all. They had nothing to do but reproduce and without good sewer systems living a few steps away from your neighbors keeps the stink down a bit.

  14. Re:What could on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    The only way we have any hope of surviving is to limit reproduction so that the world population shrinks. Short of that we are dead meat. Even if we are able to go on an all hydrogen energy base we will still be generating too much heat as electric motors give off heat. And sprawl and covering the world with roof tops and roads also needs to be reduced. Moderate behavior on these issues is the fast track to doom.

  15. Re:What could on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    I refused to buy a condo on the beach just because of the nightmare of maintenance fees caused by salt air and salt spray. And it is not just the buildings. Cars rot rather nicely when salt keeps getting on them.

  16. Re:What could on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    Hurricanes can do a demo on salty rain. Electrical boxes start to fail after storms come in from the sea. The water dries inside the boxes but the salt stays inside in enough density to wreck the boxes. A box for my eight unit building costs $7500. installed. All three of my buildings required new boxes three months after we had the last of three hurricanes in one year. At 140 mph. water can get into places you would never think that it could.
                      But I do wonder how much salt would loft into such a rain cloud. What I have observed on my own is that when the city used to allow unlimited lawn sprinkling and water was cheaper the evaporation form the sprinklers in my climate absolutely did trigger rain storms. Ft. Lauderdale is a steaming hot climate in summer. I don't know if the lawn sprinkler effect would work in cooler and drier climates. But a man made rain storm causes nature to amplify the situation and we got more rain than we gave through evaporation. Cutting back on sprinkling has hurt our water supply in my opinion. We now must sprinkle in the dark of night and the water simply does not evaporate but sinks down into the soil.

  17. My Own Gravity Wave on Biggest Detector To Look For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Years ago I rented a tiny travel trailer that was quite old. The rent deal was fabulous and the guy that owned the park was a good fellow. At any rate I seem to have created my own gravity wave. I bedded a young woman and in the act of passion all four legs of the bed shot right through the floor. I never missed a stroke.
                      The fellow that owned the park came to make the repair the next day while the girl was still there. After he put in a new floor in the bedroom I entered and he congratulated me for the strength and success of my passions.
                      The moral being that if we musty have gravity waves we should get some good fun out of it!

  18. Re:You're seeing the problem on Methane-Trapping Ice May Have Triggered Gulf Spill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do not get why lowering a containment dome over the leak allowed freezing. I don't know what an oil and water mix can take to freeze solid. If that is the issue why not simply add a heater inside that container?
                        Further why do we not have containers poised above every valve cluster in case of urgent need? Why was this never required? Why were the shut off valves not tested every day or two? And why not simply bolt some lead on that container to increase its weight? I am on the edge of believing that the entire drilling industry is not composed of mental rejects with about the morality of a mass murderer.

  19. Privacy Nuts on Google Defends Privacy Policies · · Score: 1, Troll

    The privacy nuts are rather like the abortion nuts. Although there are many views only one side pushes forward. Just as we never see gangs of protesters marching for abortion but only against abortion we see only the privacy freaks protesting the supposed evils of free information. Some people seem to only feel safe if they are living totally obscured from the view of all others.
                        What they never come close to confronting is the fact that both people and organizations who collect data can not be discovered unless everyone has the right to search everyone else's files. How can you know how much data I have collected about you without being free to examine all the files in my home and offices? In other words you really can not have privacy. It is a logically impossible situation.

  20. Re:Huh? on Arizona Backs Off Its Speed Camera Program · · Score: 1

    There is no doubt that speed kills. Back in the days of the dreaded 55mph limit roads were safer. Anyone who has experienced a high speed bow out can verify the fear and difficulty of controlling a car when that occurs. Although some cars behave better than others with a blown tire some will turn into a nightmare in which the brakes can not be touched and the car must come to a stop on its own. At 80mph the impact of an accident is in a different universe than at slower speeds and driver skills often have no play at all in an accident. We had a fellow flip his pickup and die in the wee hours when an alligator flipped his truck when he struck it at speed. There weren't any amber lights on that gator! It blended right into the road as in the dark it was almost the same color at night.

  21. Backwards on Air Force Treating Wounds With Lasers and Nanotech · · Score: 1

    I'm not a doctor but it seems to me that for many years the idea of slowing healing to prevent scar tissue formation has been in play. Now they want to generate more scar tissue through faster healing.
                        Anyone who has ever been around a patient who is having facial tissue restored knows the odor of the acetic acid that is soaked into the bandages to prevent rapid healing,

  22. Double Duty on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 1

    I use my keys as a potential weapon. Simply get one of those I Love Jesus straps that allows you to hang your keys from your neck. Make certain that you have enough weight in keys or whatever hanging from your key chain. When i walk about I carry the strap in my hand in such a way that I can quickly swing and bash any attacker. If you need more weight hang a small padlock on the keyring.
    Not only will it not rub against you leg while you walk it will also add to your appearance as no keys will bulge in your pocket and hitting an attacker up side the head by swinging that keyring on a strap will put down a strong attacker.

  23. UCk! on CBS and CNN Could Be Making News Together · · Score: -1, Troll

    CBS News has a very conservative slant whereas CNN is more neutral. As far as news content goes there is a real conflict.
                    ABC News also seems to be moving towards the right a bit as well. It's a shame that we have no news service dedicated to deep investigations and aiding the liberal causes. Right now America needs to be digging deep and exposing crooks and crooked companies.

  24. Re:Nasa should reclaim this on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    First a lack of human pilot and crew means this new craft can undertake missions with far less risk to human life. And I would not be at all shocked to find some top secret weapons mounted on such a craft. Perhaps it could even be used as a large Cruise missile carrying a powerful nuclear weapon or something even more destructive.
                  America's enemies need to be really careful. We have had several emergencies at home that are costly and those that wrong us just might get a really severe knock out as a first blow in any conflict.

  25. Maybe Better Than Expected on RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona · · Score: 1

    If a student only is issued one card and another student carries it to class then perhaps the student union,the pool,the library and other likely places could not be entered without that card. Even the dorms might require that card to enter or leave. And if the student comes up with a cloned card then computers could easily catch him as he would appear to be in two places at the same time.
                    It could also get police rolling quickly if a person without a card entered any school buildings. All in all it would greatly aid students to have these cards in use at all levels including staff.