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  1. Re:I have a PROBLEM. on OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD? · · Score: 1

    Sure, you can. First, could you get me some coffee? Double cream and sugar. You fly, you buy? Oh, and pick up my dry cleaning.

  2. Re:Sushi suppliers - Moonies on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    Find the suppliers, then see if they are linked to the Unification Church. They're the ones supplying the bad fish to the restaurants. The staff may not know the difference between one slab of flesh from another.

  3. Sushi suppliers - Moonies on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    I do believe that the Moonies control much of the sushi and seafood market. I stopped eating sushi when I found out it was making Rev Moon even richer.

  4. Michael Dell? Yeah right on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    Remember when he told Apple that they should shut down and return investor's money? Yep, I'd venture to guess he is talking out the same orifice when he praises Windows7. I'd put Apple's Market Cap up side Dell's any day.

  5. Re:They are trying too hard. on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    If they don't back up the hype, I see more degradation to their brand name. I love that WaPo suggested using a Linux live CD or OSX for online banking.

  6. They are trying too hard. on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The more they promote W7, the more wary I become. Maybe MS thinks the problems with its products are not bugs, and shoddy design, but customer perception. Maybe they are trying to build a Steve Jobs reality distortion field sans Steve Jobs. Two problems: Balmer is not Steve Jobs, and Apple, in many cases, lives up to the hype.

  7. grow up Rupert on Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content · · Score: 1

    Stealing from Rupert's papers is like stealing poison Ivy. We reference his work to laugh at it, point out errors, or to show an example of yellow journalism.

  8. Re:Adobe did test ACS3 on Snow Leopard on Replacements For Adobe Creative Suite 3 Apps? · · Score: 1

    I just cruised the Mac centric sites and there it was.

  9. Adobe did test ACS3 on Snow Leopard on Replacements For Adobe Creative Suite 3 Apps? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's the link: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/26/photoshop-project-manager-clarifies-position-on-creative-suite-3-compatibility-with-snow-leopard/ Earlier today, we reported on comments from Adobe Principal Product Manager for Photoshop John Nack pointing to a new FAQ document noting that only Creative Suite 4 will be officially supported on Apple's forthcoming Snow Leopard operating system, with Creative Suite 3 and earlier versions reportedly not having been tested on Snow Leopard. Nack has now posted an update after investigating the CS3 situation in which he reveals that Adobe and Apple actually did do extensive testing of at least Photoshop CS3 on Snow Leopard and found that it is in fact compatible with the new operating system. It turns out that the Photoshop team has tested Photoshop CS3 on Snow Leopard, and to the best of our knowledge, PS CS3 works fine on Snow Leopard. Now I will crawl back into my hole

  10. Here's the original Segway on A Hypothesis On Segway Hate · · Score: 1

    http://sirrealcomix.mrainey.com/page/o/cvr_OatWillie01-1.htm

  11. Re:Wireless? You've already ruled me out on Best Mouse For Programming? · · Score: 1

    I love my Kensington Expert Mouse Pro. It has a nice big trackball, six programmable buttons across the top, clickable scroll wheel, four buttons around the trackball.

  12. Re:I'd go for it, if... on Apple Tablet Rumors Again (Still?) · · Score: 1

    Offer a deal with newspapers so they can put content on the tablet in trade for a two year subscription. You know, similar to the iPhone/AT&T deal.

  13. Re:Please stop these non-news rumours on Apple Tablet Rumors Again (Still?) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One reason to post a story is to generate conversation. It doesn't have to be some mind twisting geeks only story, it can be fluff, it can be rumor or humor.

    From what I heard, Sir Isaac Newton liked a good fart joke every now and then.

  14. Two words for Mr L. on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 1

    Fuck you.

  15. Re:Simpler Suggestion on Apple Racks Up the Gaming Patents · · Score: 1

    There's also rumors about a Kindle style device. Think of a full color Kindle with the features of the iPhone.

  16. The Solution on Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I drink Rye or a good Kentucky Bourbon.

    Jim Beam Rye is good and Cheap. Old Overholt and Wild Turkey Rye are good too.

    Eagle Rare, or Knob Creek as as good as it gets.

  17. Re:Election Fraud on Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" · · Score: 1

    The people who owned and programmed these machines have a political and religious agenda. Google "Urosevich brothers. " Whether they did something wrong or not, their close ties to radical religious groups and GWB raised some red flags. Their unwillingness to allow any oversight, and questionable tactics made matters worse. Diebold boss, Wally O'Dell's unfortunate 2004 comments about delivering the electoral votes to Bush in Ohio, raised even more suspicion.

    BTW, Diebold and other voting machine companies would not allow any inspection of the software claiming "trade secrets."

    Our elections should have never been privatized.

  18. Re:Works in Safari and OmniWeb on Google's Amazing Browser Experiments · · Score: 1

    You know that OmniWeb is now free. Give it a try.

  19. Re:All this stuff is just made up crap. on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 1

    Their charter forbid domestic spying, and the culture inside was such that nobody would dare target American citizens.

  20. Re:Bamford - USS Liberty on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was not a mistake. Israeli planes were flying over the Liberty for hours before the attack. Our flag and ID were plain to see. Our sailors were cheering and waving to the pilots as they flew over. They knew the ship because it had been sailing those waters for years. The ship was in international waters, cruising slowly clearly marked and not acting in an an aggressive manner.

    I worked morse intercept, and was stationed nearby. Everybody on duty that day knows the truth, we heard it in real time.

    Some quotes, and a link to the profiles of the Liberty and the horse carrier Israel claimed was the ship they though it was.

        "I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. . . . Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous "
                        -- US Secretary of State Dean Rusk

                    "...the board of inquiry (concluded) that the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing in attacking the Liberty."
                        -- CIA Director Richard Helms

      "I can tell you for an absolute certainty (from intercepted communications) that the Israelis knew they were attacking an American ship."
                        -- NSA Deputy Director Oliver Kirby

        "Those sailors who were wounded, who were eyewitnesses, have not been heard from by the American public. . . [Their story] leaves no doubt but what this was a premeditated, carefully reconnoitered attack by Israeli aircraft against our ship."
                        -- US Senator Adlai Stevenson III in interview with Wm. J. Small, UPI, for publication September 28, 1980

    Details of the murders was classified for 30 years. For thirty years all of us that knew the truth were not allowed to say anything about the USS Liberty.

    Pilots are trained to tell the difference between ships, just as they are trained to recognize profiles of planes. They know the profiles well. The Israeli pilots were close enough to see our sailors waving to them.

    Here's the profiles of the two ships.

    http://www.ussliberty.org/g/libertyquseircompared.jpg

    It was premeditated murder.

  21. Re:Bamford - USS Liberty on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 1

    thank you

  22. Re:Bamford - USS Liberty on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 1

    They destroyed the antenna. You always cut communication as soon as possible.

    transmission of info:
    Things sit in the gut and digested before being discharged. You digestive system works all the time but you only crap a couple times a day. Of course things might be different today.

    Paranoia. Remember, they were under attack. They may not have wanted any monitoring by anybody, even allies. That's understandable. I don't know the real reason for the attack, we can only guess. Somebody knows, but as yet I haven't heard any other motive other than preventing the dissemination of sensitive info.

      They said it was Sharon's unit that was executing prisoners. Still there is no confirmation. Someday the truth will come out and I hope it is in my lifetime.

    I was in contact with an officer on the ship that day. He's written extensively on the subject and has testified before congress. He's a good guy and a straight shooter. I have confidence in his honesty. I've lost contact with him and hope he is doing well and has found some peace.

    This is about standing up for my brothers. Our government hasn't.

  23. Re:Bamford - USS Liberty on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 1

    All I am concerned with is justice for the USS Liberty victims.

    The worst thing to ever happen to that region is oil.

  24. Re:All this stuff is just made up crap. on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 1

    For most of their history they were the good guys. J Edgar Hoover misused them, but until bush came to power, they kept their ears pointed away from their fellow Americans. They worked for the American people, not against us.

    It wasn't 9-11 that changed it, plans were in the works early in the bush administration. Let the NSA get back to their core mission: the monitoring of foreign threats. Leave the domestic spying to the FBI.

    The NSA is a bunch of computer nerds. The label spy doesn't fit them. They are for the most part, patriots that love intellectual challenges. I'm pretty sure the majority of them are uncomfortable with the direction taken during bush's year. It adds a lot of noise that makes it more difficult to detect valuable intel.

    It's that old needle in the haystack. What bush did was pile tons of hay on top of the existing haystack.

  25. Re:Bamford - USS Liberty on The Shadow Factory · · Score: 1

    Much of what stays secret is secret because it would embarrass, not endanger. Also: If Israel owned up, they might face expensive law suits by the families of the victims.

    I'm not concerned about the motives. I want justice for the fallen.