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  1. Knowledge on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    The scientists involved in development and testing of nuclear weapons in the 1940 - 1958 time period did not know about the long range effects of different types of radiation, they learned as they went. It really was an entirely new field.

    One result of the Nevada tests that gets little publicity: A lot of westerns were filmed in that area in the 50's and 90% of the actors have had or died of, various cancers. I can only name one for sure but he's the biggest of them all: John Wayne.

  2. Re:The great scientific irony.. on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    It was not the loss of carriers at Midway but the loss of trained, veteran pilots that the Japanese never replaced. After Midway and Guadalcanal we started sending those pilots home to train the new ones with what they learned, producing better pilots.

    The truth about the war in the Pacific is that our submarines succeeded doing what the Germans failed to do in the Atlantic.

  3. Re:Compatibility? on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1

    When you trash the formatting you lose readability. The time wasted having to refortat documents should be billed to M$.

  4. Re:hacking != cracking on Microsoft Employee Allegedly Hacked AltaVista · · Score: 1

    The American school system at work. I aint an English major, fuck off and die.

  5. Tested this on Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible Difference? · · Score: 1

    In the late 70's the Navy used 500 watt tube McIntosh amps to power the noise generator on submarines during excercises. We played tapes of russian boats for war games. One time we got the key to the enclosure and borrowed it. Took it to a guys home and hooked his stereo to it, and pumped it through some Bose 901's. You have never heard any sound that clear. The res of his system was high end Harmon Kardon, Sansuei, and nakamichi.

  6. Another reason on Spammers Start Abusing Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I'll never have one of those annoying little noise machines (cell phone).

    15 years ago if someone had a cell phone, you thought they were important. Today you know there on a leash to a higher power, like a wife.

  7. Compatibility? on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    '[Open source] doesn’t guarantee upward compatibility.

    If the last 7 versions of Word are 100% compatible, I'll kiss Gates ass on the Capitol steps during the Inauguration on Jan. 20, 2005.

    Lets revise .doc with every upgrade so the old versions can't red new files. Then everyone has to upgrade.

  8. What was it? on Green Energy From Manhattan's East River · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've seen a lot of green stuff in that river, but I didn't think it was energy.

  9. Re:hacking != cracking on Microsoft Employee Allegedly Hacked AltaVista · · Score: 1

    The lazy fools in the media are the reason the public is miss-informed. If those talking heads ever actually did anything like reasearching their own articles, wait, that would make them journalists. Never mind. Mindless prima-donnas decide word usage.

  10. Re:hacking != cracking on Microsoft Employee Allegedly Hacked AltaVista · · Score: 0

    You are correct. As usual the moronic media missuses terms and makes one sound correct even when the meanings are wrong. Mass media has been corrupting language for 40 years and will never learn.

  11. Re:Uses of cruise missiles? on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance · · Score: 1

    I think you hit the point. Only Govts. have a use for cruise missles. A well run intelligence organization, like OBL, could make the guy think he was working for anyone else. This is really dangerous.

  12. Re:Ask those poor guys getting shot at... on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the people causing most of the problems in Iraq today are "foriegn terrorists". They are killing more of Iraq's citizens than the US did a year ago in the war. Osama, Zarqawi, and the other outside interests are the problem. The new goverment is doing a good job of getting their act together.

  13. Re:Right, but you are wrong... on Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism · · Score: 2, Informative

    .NET is the problem. This is M$ next attempt to control everything on the web. They couldn't get everyone to fall for the IE specific crap (tho lord knows enough did), this is next step. Everytime someone refuses to write to the .NET standard M$ loses a bit more control.

  14. Re:Ask those poor guys getting shot at... on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    Thats who flew the planes on 911? Glad you clarified that, dumbass.

  15. Re:The Republicans Did This on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    But how many Democrats voted for the Patriot Act in the first place? Quite a few. There is too much blame to put on one group.

    Kind of like Edwards now being against invading Iraq without the UN, versus his comments in televised interviews supporting that action in Jan. 2003.

    Waffles anyone?

  16. Re:Don't answer the phone on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    I could deal with that. But I will never pay for a cell phone. My time is my time, unless you can write a big enough check.

  17. Re:Don't answer the phone on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    I have never had a cell phone because I don't want to be bothered by anyone when I'm:
    A. not home
    B. not at work

    If acompany paid for it as a requirement for work, I'd take it. If they quit paying, I'd turn it in. If they try to use that against me, the state labor board will win.

  18. Re:Those deserve their own slashdot discussion on TiVo vs. Windows Media Center Edition · · Score: 1

    When this crap (DRM and INDUCE) is implimented, it might take a month for the hacks to get out. So why get excited? Don't sweat M$ changing your computer, just set security to high so update won't work, download updates manually to a separate file and only install what you want.

    I know that would be illegle, but then I know someone who uses the binary of DECSS as wallpaper, and so do you.

    When I heard of the Induce act I thought it was supposed to induce vomiting at the mention of Hatch's name.

  19. Do what you can on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1

    Write your Senators and Representatives and remind them that any bill concerning copyright in troduced by Hatch was written by the industry involved. Mention that it's common knowledge that Hatch is bought and paid for by: MPAA/RIAA and M$. If they don't want to get tarred with the same brush in this election year, they need to vote against it. Then vote accordingly. The same letter sent to local newspapers will have some effect also.

  20. Re:Does Hatch have a doctor? on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1

    Like most members of Congress he is treated at Either Bethesda Naval Hospital or Walter Reed Army Hospital. Just like the President or members od the Military.

  21. Re:50% on NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide · · Score: 1

    There are lies, damn lies, and then statistics.

  22. Re:Twice on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    Reverse that, Circuit City is five miles closer than BB. Thats through very heavy traffic. It takes ten minutes to get to CC and 40 to get to BB. The time alone makes them equal. Gas makes CC's prices lower.

  23. Re:Twice on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    BB is five miles closer to home than CC, so the prices are equal when time and gas are figured.

  24. Twice on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thats the number of times I've been in a Best Buy. I've never made a purchase there. The sales people don't know their products. They will annoy you until you leave. The prices are within $5 of Circuit City.
    Guess where I buy TV's and stereo equipment?

  25. Re:The customer isn't always right on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    Sales people and customers are no different than the rest of the world, 10% are at best assholes and normally worse. Deal with it.