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  1. Broiled tongue in cheek. on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which sci-fi tech do you think needs to get invented over the weekend?

    A Windows release that actually works as advertised.

  2. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Along with the code was the password. I believe the password was 1111, or something similar.

    Yes, the code should be open source.

  3. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Diebold put their voting machine source code online with no protections at all.

  4. Re:Calibrate an R390A on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 1

    05H20 Asmara Eritrea 66 - 69 "Body of Secrets" James Bamford and "I Didn't Do it For You" Michela Wrong (Chapter 10)

    Demand Justice for the USS Liberty sailors.

  5. As an old taxi driver on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 1

    I say it is tailgating that causes people to have to jam on the binders causing those behind to hit theirs.

    Leave a two second gap between you and the car ahead. Look several cars ahead.

    Hang up your fucking cell phone.

  6. Calibrate an R390A on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 1

    churn butter, rebuild a Bendix kickback hub.

  7. It keeps interrupting the other voices in my head. on Hearing Voices? Could Be the Lasers · · Score: 1

    At least it speaks English.

  8. George Burns' loving wife on Name the New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    was named Gracie. Why not?

  9. Either one on Best Presidential Candidate, Democrats · · Score: 1

    Either one would do a great job. Hillary has an encyclopedia like knowledge of the issues. She's a political genius, and could probably be a great, though not very inspiring president. Competence and energy are her strong points. I don't see her screwing things up. Very pragmatic.

    Obama, now he's something else. He is a leader. He can inspire us to live up to expectations, not like bush who expected us to live down to expectations. He has a good heart, he knows how to use the bully pulpit. He has brought into the political arena, the youth. What he may lack in experience, he makes up for with intelligence and heart. I fully support an Obama/Hillary ticket. It can change order to a Hillary/Obama ticket, as long as Obama is the front man on selling ideas.

    Edwards belongs in the cabinet. AG? Health and Human Services? HUD? Labor Department? OSHA? Put him where he can help the most.

  10. The hug on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    I lost all respect for McCain when he surrendered to bush's will. That hug
    McCain huggin bush
      was like a little boy hugging his daddy. It was total surrender to a man who lied to him on the anti torture legislation, the war, the environment, and just about everything in between. He has surrender to a man who wants to destroy all McCain fought for.

    The other candidates? Romney creeps me out big time. I'm not sure America can handle another authoritarian MBA as president. Huckabee wants to change our constitution to reflect his personal beliefs. Ron Paul is proposing changes most America would not accept. He takes them too far out of their comfort zone. His own party would not support his efforts. I do like the enthusiasm he has engendered among his supporters. We need more people involved in our democratic system.

  11. It was the four way Mescaline at on Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe? · · Score: 1

    Goose Lake concert in Jackson Michigan.

    The door to the parallel universe squeaks and is difficult to lock when the humidity is high.

  12. Bush Library on White House Tape Recycling Possibly Erased Emails · · Score: 1

    If they keep "accidentally" losing and erasing eviden---- history, all that will be left for bush's presidential* library will be a once read copy of "My Pet Goat" and a Lee Greenwood CD.

  13. Re:The Issue is How It's Used on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    You can become a non person with the click of a mouse. You won't be able to do shit. I already have friends on no fly lists because of their anti war beliefs. They are Quakers, their religion teaches non violence.

    Anyway, I want to talk about the right to privacy. A Washington Lawyer told me that the whole struggle over Roe V Wade was not over saving the unborn, it is about the right to privacy. He pointed out that none of the supreme court nominees of Reagan, Bush 1, and Bush 2 believed Americans have a right to privacy. It isn't pro life, but the wording of Roe V Wade that they find objectionable. Roe V Wade Cited Griswold V Connecticut. There are parts of our lives that should be off limits to the government.

    One way the corporatist get around this is to privatize big brother. If the data is collected by your HMO, telecom or bank, they see it as fair game. American Corporatism is the rule of corporate interests over the rule of the governed.

  14. Re:"Standard all-in-one desktop computer?" on Is the Dell XPS One Better than the Apple iMac? · · Score: 1

    Apple's market cap is much larger than Dell's and IBM's.

    Anyway, what good is hardware if the software sucks.

  15. Re:Fordware, on Mystery Company Recruiting Talent With a Puzzle · · Score: 1

    It's the last day of MacWorld Expo

  16. Re:Macs are not replacing Windows PCs on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    But for me, OSX has replaced Linux. I used Linux for specific applications. Now that they are ported to OSX, no need for Linux.

  17. Re:Hardly... on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple's market share is over 8% now. Those customers are coming from somewhere.

    With Parallels you can run Linux on the Mac, and if you don't want to do that but still want Nix software, you can do it. I'm using GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, Xephem, and other titles I was used to in the Nix world. I've even ran Gnome on top of OSX.

  18. My fonts on Standard Web Fonts 'Updated' In Vista · · Score: 3, Funny

    I only work with Dingbats

  19. Re:More than a Service Pack(as made famous by Bost on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to try Spaces. I am addicted to virtual desktops. Linux did that to me.

  20. Re:Paying the Apple Tax on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1


    woke up on the wrong side of bed. The bottom.

  21. Re:Paying the Apple Tax on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1

    This is much more than a service pack,

    Leopard

  22. Don't read "Silas Marner" on U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows nobody reads that book of their own free will.

  23. It's not a bug, it's on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" · · Score: 1

    a feature.

    I wonder how long it will be before some basement dweller figures out how to disable computers using this feature.

  24. Re:What does GIMP lack? on How Would You Refocus Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. I will give that a try. Thanks.

  25. Re:Opera on Linux on Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing? · · Score: 1

    Opera on any platform will do the trick with kiosk mode.