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  1. Re:well I don't get off on Chinese porn so please, on New IM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 1

    And due to the thundering herd of DUMBASS that use that "service", this one will spread fast and by annoying for weeks.

  2. Re:I'd Prefer Stoning on Massachusetts Atty. General Forces Spammer to Pay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Naahhh, he should just be tied to a tree, upside down and fed ex-lax for a week. Then he would be covered in what he sends out.

  3. Re:so the real question is... on Storm Brewing over Microsoft on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    M$ is just living proof that everyone is for sale, if you have enough money to buy them. Seriously, M$ bought the DOJ the last time!

    M$ = success through bribes.

  4. Yes on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1

    I have not used an Apple product since the Apple II because there has never been one available to me. I have heard and read many good things about them, but never wanted to pay the heigher price. I would try it out of curiosity, just like when I got a copy of RH 6.2 in 2000. Using Linux ever since.

  5. All the **AA's on MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on Human Error · · Score: 1

    Are a human error.

  6. Re:Spy Agencies on Spyware Fines OKed By House · · Score: 1

    What they gather monitering is useless in court. They might use it to establish probable cause and get a court ordered tap but that is all. Anything before the order is not admissable in court.

  7. Re:Nice on Spyware Fines OKed By House · · Score: 1

    If you look at the way a program makes windows do things strangely, modifies settings, and changes behavior, AOL has to be a virus.

    Think of the one I cleaned today (I work in a white box shop): 7 toolbars running at once, Mysearch, huntbar, Lycos sidefinder.... IE wouldn't even load, and caused one blue screen. Totals for Ad-Aware and Spybot: 1279 items removed. We did have one over 1700 a couple months ago.

    To truly clean one out, run AA and SB in safe mode on each account, otherwise, even those two wonderful programs will miss some.

  8. Re:Spy Agencies on Spyware Fines OKed By House · · Score: 1

    Who can only do it with a court order, just like a phone tap.

    Your paranoia is kind of funny though.

  9. Re:Is he the first...? on Astronaut Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, 1927-2004 · · Score: 1

    Not even close, Slayton, Shepard, and Conrad are gone and I think there are others.

  10. Re:Conrad was Cool, but not a Seven. on Astronaut Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, 1927-2004 · · Score: 1

    You are correct. Maybe my age is showing, memory wise. Carpenter, Schirra, and Glenn are left. I do remember Schirra as a bit of a cut up along with Shepard, Grissom, and Cooper. I do remember Carpenter's flight because of the worry until they found him. Many thought we'd lost an astronaut. The interest and excitement of the early days was unmatched, Mercury, Gemini, and the early Apollo flights. Shepards golf shot on the moon has to rate as the best stunt or gag of them all.

  11. Re:Sadly ironic on Astronaut Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, 1927-2004 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Consider that he outlived more than 50% of his military peers. Being an Astronaut proved to be much safer than being a test pilot. Even though none of us that remember all the Mercury flights thought so at the time. Most of the test flights had blown up. I always thought that those guys had a large pair hanging inline for speed.

    Gordo is now meeting with Shepard, Slayton, Grissom and Conrad. That should be a party. It's hard to believe that Glenn and Schirra are the only ones left.

    Godspeed Gordo, we will miss you.

  12. Re:Bush 04 on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    The NYT is as objective in it's front page articles as Michael Moore. If the article mentions Bush it will be a bash. Shouldn't they have to register as a part of the Kerry campaign?

  13. Re:WTF? slashdot or a campaign wagon? on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    It's easy to tell when michael has the duty: crap like this on the main page.

  14. Re:one of my friends works there on Inside Wal-Mart IT · · Score: 1

    For any hourly new hire, Wal-Mart pays $.30 above min wage, or $.25 above the industry avg for that location. I spent 4 years with them in the late 80's, the last 14 months as an Assistant Mgr. I saw the switch from an IBM server and NCR system to complete IBM and Satcom with Bentonville. They take their tech seriously because of long term cost. The satcom system was initially expensive in 1987, but think of the long distance phone bills they haven't paid since. All store sales and payroll information goes to Bentonville every night by satcom, not by modem. All phone calls to the home office bosses, buyers, HR, or any other office are by satcom.

    One of Sam's last big moves before he died.

  15. Re:Sounds bad to me. on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 1

    Cynical hell, we need a mod level of "Digustingly Accurate", it would be above insightful.

    If M$ OS wasn't so easy to crack into to add this crap, there would be no spy/ad/malware, and no need of Ad-Aware and Spybot(by the way, everyone needs both, they each miss thing the other gets).

  16. Re:They've toyed with this for years on US Military Plans Space Combat · · Score: 1

    The military has studied contingencies for this kind of situation for years. Doesn't mean they can do it right now, but they are aware of what it might take. They study many possible conflicts all the time. Their job is to be ready for most eventualities, at least in planning. Every other major nation does the same thing.

  17. Scary thought. on Intelligent Transportation Systems · · Score: 1

    Would Microsoft be allowed to program it?

    We are all gonna die!!!!!

  18. Re:There are 2 types of country on 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced · · Score: 1

    The second type ibest shown in the immortal:

    "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw" by Jimmy Buffett.

    Then again in the late 70's through the 80's, that was considered normal behavior. Damn AIDs, I miss those days.

  19. Re:Even with this... on Bush Campaign Offices Burglarized · · Score: 1

    If all the brains in Washington were dynamite, they couldn't generate enough force to blow a nose.

  20. Re:How about some Libertarian opinion? on George Soros Speaks Politics · · Score: 1

    The label of any party doesn't matter. Close to 80% of Americans are moderate, somewhat conservative in some areas and somewhat liberal in others. It just averages out. A phrase from my youth leaps to mind, we are "the silent majority".

    Most people would quit complaining about their taxes if the money was getting spent wisely. Then again if that was ever to happen the clowns in DC could cut our taxes by half or 2/3s.

  21. Re:How about some Libertarian opinion? on George Soros Speaks Politics · · Score: 1

    The root of the problem is the press. The 10% on the far left and the 10% on the far right get all the press, because fools are entertaining. That leaves the 80% that are close to moderate (and really should run things)with no public voice.

    Don't forget my old sig:
    The radical left and the radical right are both, very wrong, and very dangerous!

  22. Re:What a bunch of crap on Carter says Florida Voting Still Not Fair · · Score: 1

    He never made it that far. He was a Nuc qualified Junior Officer, I think an LT or LTjg when his father died and he got an early out to run the peanut farm. He was not designated as qualified for command. The one good thing he did was force Rickover into retirement when his senility was causing more harm than good.

  23. Re:What a bunch of crap on Carter says Florida Voting Still Not Fair · · Score: 1

    The basis for the article come from the president with the highest interest rates in the 20TH Century, and a complete lack of concept of how to handle a hostage situation. I served on a Fast Attack Submarine during Teeth's administration. You can't imagine the constant change of Rules of Engagement, objectives, methods..... From the top down, no one knew what info they wanted, or would approve a realistic method of getting it. A complete lack of leadership. People let him supervise elections?

  24. Re:Yes on After the X Prize · · Score: 1

    Money is still a motivator. Let one of the rovers find diamonds on Mars and see how fast we get there. Of course DeBeers would beat everyone, they will never give up that monopoly.

  25. Re:This won't matter to consumers... yet. on Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard? · · Score: 1

    I think you are missing a common problem. If one person in a group upgrades Word, everyone ends up needing to. Although Word is backward compatable it is rarely forward compatable.
    Example: I write a document and send it to you for review. You edit and send it back from your recently upgraded machine. I can't open it. Since you are the boss (who else demands the latest stuff), everyone has to be able to read your blather and we all get to upgrade, damn the expense. Thats how it really happens, and why we need an open format.