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  1. Data protection... on Death On Demand Drive Tech · · Score: 1

    Really, doesn't anyone backup their drive anymore?
    And what about these backups?

    Or is that what teh annual fee is for... providing online backup service....?

    Ok so someone steals your drive and gives it to those you do not want to have it.... that is solved here by what..... you giving your data to those you don't want to have it?

  2. The earth is flat and the center of the universe.. on Low-Hanging Moon Explained · · Score: 1

    .... the moon comes out of the ocean all swollen and waterlogged and as it rises it drys out and shrinks.

    And that is a better explaination than any so called reason that has been given to null and void, little by little, the constitution of the United States.

    For what is worse than believing the earth is flat and the center of the universe is that some man is the center of the universe.

    May the moon fall on them.

    The curvature of the earths atmosphere along with the force of gravity beyond this to cause an ever so slight deflection of passing light, results in the magnifying of light effect.

    from a pov seeing the moon or sun on the horizon the angle of the atmosphere.... And big objects like dinosuars got burnt up from it when teh atmosphere cleared enough...

    M O O N that spells butt..

  3. Now why Did I think.... on Slashback: Summer, Sail, Sex Offenders · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Solar Sail was lost due to no wind in space?

  4. My private busines is getting as much as I can... on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1

    for the home I own.

    Political and givernment Private business (an oyymoron to begin with) now has the right to disrespect my private business?

    Seems to me not only does fair market value and moving costs and such should be paid, but also some percentage of the return of the business taking property from me. And paid on a continual basis for a number of years to compensate me for deny my private business of equity value.

  5. The remaing percentage of music downloaders... on Legal Music Downloads At 35%, Soon To Pass Piracy · · Score: 1

    are those who download into their ears or recording device from radiob for free.... legally.

  6. new market? like ..... on Linus On The Future Of Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    a market based upon supporting "Abstraction Physics" and "automated - code generation to execution".

    Steps in this direction can be seen with MS's "Software Factories ideology" though its of course biased to feed MS more than being genuine about Abstraction Physics. And there is Apples "Automator" and plenty of other "code generation" and "automation" efforts all leading to the same "different then now" market.

    This is relative to the "Software Patents battle ground"

  7. oh geez, I thought pr0n was. on Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses? · · Score: 1

    or at least that is more consistant with the claims of not getting dates.

  8. Now all we need is a cool body suspension .... on Google Maps Now Cover Whole World · · Score: 3, Funny

    interface and we can feel like superman or neo flying around the world...

  9. Why do they call it a cookie? on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign · · Score: 1

    What would be more descriptive of its actual use?

  10. Is alzhimers an indication of... on Bigger Brains Make Smarter People Study Says · · Score: 1

    a shrinking brain?

    Seems recently I started to read something about disease being related to higher intelligence...

    this must mean disease makes your brain larger...

    isn't alzhimers a disease?

    I need more coffee.... gulp gulp...

    Ah now I understand....

    its a trial and error process to figuire out what makes people intelligent and this is their latest "educated guess"..

    maybe they just need more coffee so to wake up the other 90% of their brain...

  11. Original US copyright term length on EU Record Companies Push to Extend Copyright · · Score: 3, Informative

    14 years with one renewal for another 14 year = 28 years..

    1790: Copyright Act of 1790

    The First Congress implemented the copyright provision of the U.S. Constitution in 1790. The Copyright Act of 1790, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of Such Copies, was modeled on the Statute of Anne (1710). It granted American authors the right to print, re-print, or publish their work for a period of fourteen years and to renew for another fourteen. The law was meant to provide an incentive to authors, artists, and scientists to create original works by providing creators with a monopoly. At the same time, the monopoly was limited in order to stimulate creativity and the advancement of "science and the useful arts" through wide public access to works in the "public domain." Major revisions to the act were implemented in 1831, 1870, 1909, and 1976.

    from A History of Copyright in the United States

  12. Re:when a species becomes advanced enough... on The Science of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    "But it isn't very likely that we'll get visitors any time soon either."

    see how good they are at stealthing..

  13. when a species becomes advanced enough... on The Science of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    ... they get past the faulty idea of conflict, just as we today know that if the president of the or leader of any other country was taken out it wouldn't make much difference to the gears and bearing organization really running the show.

    We know today there are things we did hundreds and even thousands of years ago that we have found better deceptive ways of dealing with instead of in brute force conflict. like duping teh Aerican public about WMD in iraq...

    Anyways we are still babies in comparison to any civilization advanced enough to travel here and probably not skilled at all in comparison to techniques in deception and leaving no proof of visitation.

    war does not contribute to the survival of conscious being needed to continue expanding what all exist in existance..

  14. wipo site hacked... on WIPO Wants Your Feedback · · Score: 1

    seems someone really likes wipo... that they wanted to post their picture over the text at one of the article links,,,

    oh well.... I'm sure WIPO knows there are those who do not like them, without this sort of hacking...

  15. Re:now all we need is automated.... on Linux Kernel Gets Fully Automated Test · · Score: 1

    I think the kick in teh butt humor found in this is that of the computer auto generating the code, auto compiling it and auto testing it and regenerating code for improvement based on test results, ... loop it Johnny Mnemonic... uhhh ertrrr Neo..

    Being one fully aware of the possiblities of auto coding or using code generators, both of which exist today in one form or another, just not so completely available wide scope on much of any user/consumer platform..

    I was being serious but certainly found the humor others did.

  16. now all we need is automated.... on Linux Kernel Gets Fully Automated Test · · Score: 4, Funny

    code generation...

  17. Which article are you responding to? on Knoppix 3.9 Released · · Score: 1

    reading the responses to my original post, only one seems to be in regards to my post, whereas the other two seem to be a response to some other articles..

    maybe its the ./ effect.

  18. mutation and return of life to earth... on Earth Microbes May Survive On Mars · · Score: 1

    don't we have enough problems with our own viruses mutating, now we gotta send them to another planet where they can mutate so we can pick them up later and bring em back...

    actually I just wondered why nobody on /. has thought of that yet..

  19. live dvd....when do you suppose they will make... on Knoppix 3.9 Released · · Score: 1

    a usb drive to hold that?

    Hmmm, and dual layer ???

    Actually a cd/dvd disk and usb drive is a good combination. The usb drive for your personal stuff,

    Anyone know if the reburn process has been made easier?

    say you want to install something that is not in the disk but then reburn the disk with it, perhaps removing something to make room..

    but has the process been made easy enough for us idiots?

  20. is'nt this article a..... on Morse Coders Beat SMSers · · Score: 1

    "dot dash dot, dot, dot dash dash dot, dot, dot dash, dash" from a month ago?

    slashDOT thinks morse code is ascii art and won't post it, so I had to spell dot and dash out...so on slashDOT morse code is slower...

  21. Many of these computers are still working... on Whose Burden is it to Recycle Computers? · · Score: 1

    ... perhaps, if we can find a low cost method to ship them to countries trying to make a go of advancing into the computer world, like Africa,....

    Or maybe some of the computer manufactures at various stages would be interested in contributing to gathering and shipping...

    Though it might amount to a bit more than $6-$10 per unit... and monitors....a little more...

  22. should it be so hard to believe? on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Before the beginning, there was less than nothing, not even existance existed for there to be anything to exist in. And it was that way for an eternity of eternities of even beyond eternities.

    But then something happened smaller than you can know, even smaller than that.

    The void became aware of itself and at that very same moment, the void split into the potential for all things. Existance and the observation, awareness of the potential. The essence of physics and nature. Existance and what can be done within it, experienced.

    Suddenly existance was, and so was consciousness, the split of less than nothing.

    What to do next? Survive! It's certainly better than less than nothing. It is More!

    That ment expanding, creating stuff in existance.....it started out very very slow, taking almost an eternity to make the first interaction happen, time was a very difficult thing to create, but in time the momentem would built up to increase the creation of what all is existing in existance.

    Of course this too goes on for what seems to be now at least a measureable eternity.

    Eventually, the odds of cycling thru all possibilities on what existed in existance a spark of life would be found, and the awareness became aware of another perspective, one within existance. A very small and limited awareness that was, at that moment, understood to be a way to forever increase the experience ability of what all exist in existance... to forever increase the rate and complexity of creation and experience.

    And forever beyond eternity the expansion happens, and at all moments, the all of existance, what is in it and it's awareness, is fully aware of itself. Realizing there is nothing at all, not even existance, outside of itself. So to survive, to exist, it forever expands and has been doing this for a long long time. etc.....

    But what of us, mankind? What's our part?

    Well besides the obvious being that we are like sensors, cameras, recorders, communication senders, witnesses of the experience of what existance presents us, we are also intended to assist in the expansion of existance and what exist in it.

    A matter of survival, you understand. However, we were not given a full set of the perceptions of all things, for we are within what exist in existance, and therefore inherently limited in our perception. But being given the ability to create, we are given the ability to overcome these limitations. And we are not alone, far from it.

    To follow the rest, requires a break, a look back at our history, mans history, our evolution, our creation, and realize how far we have come, while projecting where we will go in our future based upon the path of our past.

    At some point in the future, maybe not so distant, we will come to understand physics and nature so well that we can travel to the edge of existance or go out into our back yard and cause a big bang to happen out of nothing more than less than nothing. Perhaps take a gravity unit and collaspe it in a non-balanced manner and cause a boom before you know it, causing the all of existance to expand.

    Now lets say we don't do it in our back yard, that we have the knowledge to do it on the borders of existance...boom...we create a new and unique galaxy or galaxies. And we know that it will prove fruitful, that some place in all of it we will be able to help iniate the evolution of life again. And we know that just as our history has shown us, we can help that life become conscious so to also contribute to the expansion of existance and what exist in it.

    When is existance big enough? The answer is not what you might think. For that's not the real question to explain the expanding result. For the answer is, expansion is the indicator of growth, life, assurance of continuation. As soon as expansion stops or reverses, you get the indication of stagnation, enthropy, shrinkage, death. It's not a matter of what is, but a matter of which direction you are going.

    There was a time in mans ev

  23. Does he consider as a minority OS.... on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    ...the official GNU core known as "the HURD"..???

  24. Neo.... on The Diagnostic 'Bugbot' · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... you've been bugbotted...

  25. When you wrongfully do others harm... on Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... you then have reason to be concerned about retailation....

    So the more you know about those you screwed, the safer you feel in control...