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  1. Re:Fracking Halleluja on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 1

    That depends upon your point of view. For traditional Christians Jesus Christ is your one and only hope.
                      If you get a King James Bible and really spend some time with it you might find it almost terrifying in its deep intelligence. I m not suggesting that every word is dead accurate from the modern point of view. But do not be deceived. For example look at the beginning. "In the beginning was the Word". All of a sudden it might strike you that the Bible is a communications manual. There is more to this than a few days study will tell you.

  2. Re:So... on National Censorship Plan Offensive, Says Aussie Shadow Minister · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Censorship is always offensive. It starts with one person or one group declaring that they hold the superior view and way of life. They do not.

  3. Re:What Idiots on Fraudsters Abusing Canada's Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    They will make a ton of sales. Back in 1985 we had a local outfit with a scam pitch that went along these lines: They had a sucker list from affiliated sellers of people who had been ripped off for big sums or repeatedly. The pitch went that the sales person was a retired FBI agent who was working to catch, collect and turn over criminal salesmen. He asked $500. as an up front fee. A nice long month would follow before the mark got a second call indicating that they had the offending salesman and his company in close sight and only needed another, larger sum to complete the investigation in such a way as it would be bundled up and handed to the cops in such a way that prosecution was assured and that pay back would be part of sentencing. As usual many people fell for the pitch.

  4. Re:Congestion? on Comcast's Congestion Catch-22 · · Score: 1

    Comcast is having big issues in my area. The initial time to hook up to my ISP every day is between three and five minutes. That is lousy service.
              Now that they are providing phone service on the same cable lines if they cause a death due to net congestion or not being able to hook up to their service then huge damages as well as punitive damages should apply.
              I don't give a hoot if they have to run two cables into every home this nonsense needs to be stopped dead in its tracks. We need a class action suit against Comcast right now.

  5. Re:Easy solutions on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    So who is the dean going to side with? What a court might rule may mean little to you if you are tossed out of school.
                  My opinion is that your notes are your own. However there are a lot of laws that allow schools quite a bit of power in matters such as these. So how expensive a war do you want to fight?

  6. Re:Don't want to pay on 2/3 of Americans Without Broadband Don't Want It · · Score: 1

    It is a loaded issue. For example the reasons that people may not seem to want broadband may include past experience with lousy service or the high cost of services.
              If we had a choice between a dozen or so different, really high speed services, then perhaps with better service and much lower prices a greater percentage of people would want broadband.

  7. Re:Sold on Most Hackable Coupon-Eligible DTV Converter? · · Score: 1

    Isn't it essential to feed various receiving devices data that they are capable of using? A low powered, low resolution device might not function at all if it were supplied with extreme HD signals.

  8. A Slow Win PC on How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? · · Score: 1

    Back in the days when I was a sinner running Windows I would see slowness and crashing when I had installed too many programs on a PC.
              If one suffers from a diseased mind and simply can't resist Windows then the secret seems to be to simply limit the install to a small handful of programs that you use every day. But even so I suspect that you still will need a fresh install every year or so.

  9. Re:Calm water on Boat Moves Without an Engine Or Sails · · Score: 2, Informative

    There already exists a simple device that can power boats if there is wave action. In essence a pendulum is hooked to something that reminds one of a large swim fin. The swinging of the pendulum, due to wave action, move a mechanical ankle which holds the fin. It works well but it is obvious that this is for slow speeds only.

  10. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sending some plutonium to Iran is something that numerous loyal Americans could live with. They want nuclear energy. We can give it to them.

  11. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Could it be that this stands as proof that humanity is not competent enough to handle nuclear materials? Is there any reason to really believe that we are better at taking long term precautions today?

  12. Give tThose Girls an Award and Send Them To Me on 6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves · · Score: 1

    Those young girls are nothing but sexually healthy. They should be proud and rewarded rather than punished!

  13. Re:Apples on A Waste Gasification Plant In a Truck · · Score: 1

    How about getting a bunch of these things and backing them up to the local landfill? We have large ones scheduled to go on line at our local landfills but it might be a lot faster to simply get a bunch of small ones. Supposedly our entire garbage mountain can be used to make electricity.

  14. Re: report available for download on Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects · · Score: 1

    Assign everyone to use Comcast. That way with Comcast's lack of decent service piracy will be reduced by 90%.

  15. Re: report available for download on Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sometimes it is a matter of exactly who either makes or keeps their money. In the case of the Dutch they probably import more software and music than they export. It keeps those nice dutch dollars at home.
              Florida used to be like that. All phone sales were fine with local law enforcement as long as money was being brought into Florida no matter how crooked the sale. The trick was that it was understood that they were never to try their sales pitches on Florida residents. Salesmen rarely really know the entire game plan. The salesmen were simply told that no Florida residents were to be called as then sales taxes would have to be collected. Back in 1980 there were probably at least 60,000 crooked phone sales persons working in the Ft.Lauderdale area alone.

  16. Re:There are many choices on Tech-Related Volunteer Gigs · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you like open air projects of great public benefit have you considered stalking and killing drug dealers? You do the world a favor and you get to rip off their cash as well. Please be certain you aren't bumping off under cover cops by accident.

  17. Re:Small Open Source project on Tech-Related Volunteer Gigs · · Score: 1

    You make a good point. Although people use open source programs and OSs for many different reasons poverty is one reason that some folks use open source materials. Any contributions to open source do somebody good whether it be for economic or other reasons. I am reminded of my neighbor who uses Windows smashing his laptop to small pieces after Windows locked up on him as he was just about done with a complicated schedule that had taken him several hours to build.

  18. Re:resource sucking on Second Prototype of the $200 Open Source Tablet · · Score: 1

    The only important part is that it doesn't generate a phone bill and it downloads porn at lightening fast speeds. All else i trivial.

  19. We Need To Fix Tax Haven on GAO Reports Bailout and Tech Firms Love Tax Havens · · Score: 1

    Any use of tax havens should summon special, punitive taxes and also preclude all sales to government agencies, schools etc..
              In order to protect loyal, American companies we need to really slam those that seek to avoid taxation.

  20. Re:Has there been a backlasth? on Belkin's Amazon Rep Paying For Fake Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a few false negative reviews would sober Belken up.

  21. Re:Oh heck on Belkin's Amazon Rep Paying For Fake Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    This bribery needs to be stopped in its tracks. It can get to the point at which all magazines and on line materials can be worthless as one never knows who gets paid to lie. I would expect that Belken will lose many thousands of sales due to this article. It sure makes me not wanting anything to do with their products.

  22. Re:Inflation... on Report Claims 95% of Music Downloads Are Illegal · · Score: 1

    The trouble is that the music industry should not exist at all. The performing artists and the listener are all that matter and all proceeds should go to the artists directly.
                This entire nonsense of the monkeys in the middle wanting to get paid reminds me of a large flea market where the guy with the guitar gets tips only and is forced to kick back money to the flea market for the privilege of performing. This stuff stinks.

  23. Re:Linux on the desktop on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    The numbers seem funny to me. Line speed is one issue but server speed seems almost always to be the real issue out in the real world. What porn provider pumps out data streams at that speed? I seriously doubt those numbers.

  24. Re:Tag this one obvious. on The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users · · Score: 1

    These days huge hard drives are so dirt cheap that having a program or two that you rarely or never use is hardly a bother. And with EXT4 file systems about to be common in Debian derived distros that space will mean even less. And then there is also the fact that you might remove anything you dislike from a distro. Can you imagine these 1.5 terrabyte drives that are now easily purchased? And then there is still that good old compression program. In the bad old days they debated the number of angels that could dance on the head of a pin. Perhaps today we could debate how many King James Bibles we could compress and store on a 1.5 terrabyte hard drive.

  25. Re:I've been using linux since the mid nineties. on The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, it works! Now just how do we keep the grasping claws of government completely out of Linux? How many controls will be imposed? To what degree will any government tolerate free and open communications between people at home or around the world? Fight for every inch of freedom even when the excuses for censorship seem reasonable.
                    I give the following example: Years ago in chemistry class while working with some sulfer and carbon compounds the teacher gave very clear warnings that if we made certain mistakes we would be creating a bomb and risked serious injuries to ourselves. Today if we gave an on line course we could not issue those warnings as the law would claim that we were giving bomb building instructions and that would put us in prison.