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  1. Re:Useless on Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is that if you get near someone elses GPS/transmitter rig that they too carry that it will start sending your RFID tag data to the satellites also...just a guess.

  2. Re:Nice when the victims make it easy to find them on Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought in mexico the police and "the organization" are one and the same.

  3. Da Hah Haaah! on The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real · · Score: 1

    I knew he would be back, oh wait...nevermind.

  4. Re:Just Remember... on Seattle Flushes $5M High-Tech Toilets · · Score: 2, Funny

    What did he just say?

  5. Re:Wait, who had 480i streaming video? on Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good, but the site itself wont serve video to my windows 2000 machine.

  6. I feel for the children on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    There is a cure for this kind of occurrence. Spammers should get the death penalty, Texas style (no long wait, just hang um high). Or they at least need to put the assholes in real federal prison instead of the white collar condo kind.

  7. Wow on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 1

    So we can grab our bathing suits and head for the north poll by next summer?

  8. Re:hey, isn't today Gates' last day at Microsoft? on Will Amazon Get a Visit From the Tax Man? · · Score: 1

    Huh, Ballmer? I don't think monkeyboy has been around that long.

  9. Not surprised. on Only One Quarter of the Planet To Be Online By 2012 · · Score: 1

    When you consider that some people live in huts and hunt their food, food which varies from plants to animals to other people...it really don't seem odd that not everyone is surfing to me. In all seriousness though, very little of the planet can afford such frivolous things like the internet, or even running water for that matter.

  10. Facebook? on How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos · · Score: 1

    Nothing to see here folks, move on.

  11. Re:Never too late on Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bell labs is still kicking under Alcatel-Lucent, so its more like sun just resembles Bell Labs.

  12. Re:A new open file system? on Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who?

  13. well... on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    I certainly hope they win, but this is screwy, can't even get to addons.mozilla.org to get updated addons that work with this new version. Sad really, now I have to downgrade to 2.x.

  14. Re:Well here are a few facts... on Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Outdoors, I find that a small torch is indeed better than a low wattage iron for soldering wiring, especially on a cold winter day. Also those little pencil type butane soldering irons from radio shack (re-badged portasol) work pretty well and tend to cause less collateral damage.

  15. Special Tin? on Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction? · · Score: 1
    Maybe they are using something like this process in the tin they are using now...

    http://www.semiconductor.net/article/CA170390.html

  16. Re:Great, but is it fireproof? on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    This is true, however it takes more chemicals to break down tree fiber in the first place to make new paper...so yes it is using chemicals but much less, and your saving a little forest to boot.

  17. Re:Two type of people on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    My wife had a 2006 Toyota sienna that got 29-30 mpg on trips easy...even when I drive (it was rated at at 26 highway but it never got that low), it had a v6. She just traded it for a Camry and gets 38-39 mpg highway on long trips (its rated 31...inline 4). My Ford F150 truck gets about 15 on a trip (its rated at 17). So those numbers you see are overrated on my truck and underrated on my wifes Toyotas...so thats one thing they need to fix first, the lying on the sticker. I don't mind when they error in your favor, but Ford erred in their favor...not good...especially considering the tougher requirements now for mpg ratings. Luckily I am about 3 miles from work, so I can live with it.

  18. Holodeck? on HoloVizio 3D, Holodeck 1.0 to Some, Makes Its Debut · · Score: 1

    More like holodeck 0.1 alpha, long way to go to become star trek's holodeck

  19. Re:Great, but is it fireproof? on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, its paper, so don't just throw it away, recycle it.

  20. Re:Not all CPUs require heat sinks on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 1

    I replaced my 8088/8086 chips with NEC V20/V30 respectively (which had the 80186 instruction set in them...and as such had some of the important instructions for memory moves and multitasking, this was improved in the 80286), plus you could up your clock speed then and really fly even though it already had about 30% more speed just by swapping the chip. Sometimes though if you clocked the v20 too high, you needed to add a heat sink for stability but never a fan.

  21. Oh please, on Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due · · Score: 1

    they could all run around silent and still the games would sell...most of the time players are talking over headsets to their friends and could give a shit less what the game actor voice says

  22. Hmm on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But Scientology is a cult by the dictionary definition, so why are they suing him? It at least fits 1, 4 and 6 (at least the extreme part) and perhaps others from the dictionary.com definition.

    From Dictionary.com:

    cult

    1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
    2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
    3. the object of such devotion.
    4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
    5. Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
    6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
    7. the members of such a religion or sect.
    8. any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
    -adjective
    9. of or pertaining to a cult.
    10. of, for, or attracting a small group of devotees: a cult movie.

  23. Yep on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do skip the commercials sonny, Methuselah

  24. chi99.htm works better on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 2, Informative

    The html version here chi99.htm works better cause it has the hyperlinks, the pdf has link references to it. http://www.provocation.net/chi/chi99.htm

  25. Re:I hope HP is smarter than GM on HP Seals the Deal, Buys EDS For $14B · · Score: 2, Informative