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  1. Re:I warned them on Google Sued Over Privacy Invasion On Street View · · Score: 1

    I agree. Pics are of the house and pool, damn! Everyone is entitled to privacy. They are entitled to sue, the alternative would be to totaly destroy any webcam they find, or retaliate by waging a tech war on Google. So.. let them have thier day in court.

    In my opinion that are entitled to a lot more than $25k. They can say they have nightmares of voyeurs watching them. I'm a techie, but hell I don't need
    pervs getting off while watching me an the wife having a moment in the backyard.

  2. Re:64 bit is no panacea on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are running 64bit on the wrong OS!
    Linux 64bit apps are very fast and for photo editing I would use the GIMP over Photoshop. there are a lot of plugins for the GIMP too! Also I have a powermac G5 (real mac) running tiger. GIMP is very fast on that too! So I am not missing anything.

  3. Re:Original Paper & Obvious Criticisms on Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software · · Score: 1

    I don't need software for this. I was born with a piece of hardware that is very accurate at detecting cute-hot women!

  4. Re:If you patent something on Sony Blu-ray Under Patent Infringement Probe · · Score: 1

    Hopefully Karma will bite sony in the ASS! I own a Toshiba HD player, I hacked it so I can record my home videos in HD DVD.. problem is that I use standard DL DVD disks so.. it's about 30 minutes each disk.. But is a simple MPEG2 stream! SONY got the industry to blackball blueray.. well sony.. I hope you lose! Who's laughing now? ME.. I AM.

  5. REDFLY won't Fly on Can REDFLY sell in an EeePC market? · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. the Nokia n800 and the EEPC have much more features than the REDFLY.
    Plus they cost less.
    Both the Nokia and the EEPC are great at finding wireless access points and
    cracking them! Gotta love airoscript.

  6. When I was a little kid I built a gravity go cart on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 4, Funny

    I never won a green prize for that.

    I guess I was ahead of my time.

    All I remember was.. the brakes didn't work, and I felt pain for 2 weeks.

  7. Re:I total misread that on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm.. have you ever seen what it looks like when you shake those flashlights? My wife had a good laugh.

  8. I own a pocket gieger counter , made in Russia on NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Russians mass produced personal gieger counters 6 months after the accident in Cherynobyl I bought one.
    It saved my ass in the 90s when I took my Wife and Kids to Ruggle's Mine in Maine! Basically it's a mica mine but when were were hiking I told my kids not to touch the yellow chalk like rocks that some kid was using to write his name on in the caves. i took my gieger counter out and measured 350millirads. I told the kids parents that the rock was radioactive and they should take him to wash his hand and to change his clothes and get him in a tub. I believe the yellow rock was pitchblend.

    heck.. I think a pocket gieger counter would come in handy.. why are they banning them? Is New York City's background radiation level higher than normal?

  9. We shouldn't alter what we don't fully understand on Synthetic DNA About To Yield New Life Forms · · Score: 1

    Hmm is this life imitating art or what? I am all for learning about DNA. There's a lot to learn that could possibly
    help with many cures for genetic diseases along the way. But... to take DNA and sequence it to produce a life form?
    We are going to produce monsters along the way. Who knows.. possibly something harmful. I am sure they would start at sequencing bacteria. And we know where this will lead. Some government agency will fund the research, scientists will take
    the funding and possibly design a super bacteria. Good can come out of the research as well, such as hydrogen producing bacteria..but heck we all know what happens... look at how the atomic bomb was developed.

    Has anyone ever watched the SciFi series Surface???? Ok it's SciFi but the super lizard amphibian creatures were created by
    testing synthetic DNA building blocks.

  10. To end this stupid campaign.. avoid the location! on Beamed Sonic Advertising Is Coming · · Score: 1

    We czn easily put an end to this nonsense. When halosonic addvertising is near a location near you, boycott the location! Avoid it at all costs. The businesses located there would sue whoever is using it for advertising it and eventually it will removed.

  11. This is dissapointing. on IBM & Sun Agreement Puts Pressure on HP · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Sun was a hardware innovator. What happened? I would like to see come back with some new innovative
    hardware. Gee... I learned Unix on a Sparc 2 pizza box. I got to play with Sun E4000 machines,
    and later Sunfire servers. I'd like to see Sun Get back into the game.

  12. we need no stinking mobility fee on Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. car payment + obility fee. I'd rather drive my 26MPG Honda Element. I'm waiting for the 62mpg
    diesel honda accord to come out.

    15g for an electric without battery. Hmm.. maybe without the battery, remove the 62mpg limit.

  13. UhOh.. Bush is gonna close down the site! on True Random Number Generator Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Don't you know random number generators are weapons of mass destruction?

    Hmm... crazy president.

  14. Here's what how my mind understands this.... on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1

    I can understand that a large mass such as earth, can displace time. It's also very easy to grasp that looking at the stars at
    night. or photos from telescopes from hubble we are looking back in time since light travels at a constant speed, sure it can be bent by gravity but for the most part it's pretty damn constant. So... if an object your looking at is 10,000 light years away your are looking 10,000 years back in time. But... my simple mind does not believe that matter can not travel faster than light.
    But... if you can fold space/time then possibly you can shorten the path from point a to point b. But to do that would require
    an enourmous amount of energy and mass. Can I picure it.. sure, do I think it's possible, no. That's the only way I can visulize
    traveling back in time. fold space/time, travel from point a to point b 10,000 light years away, travel back 10,000 years in time. Now... to go home, fold space/time.... go back to point a... travel 10,000 years back to future, but originating time.
    I can not picture traveling to a future time from origination. I can not visualize that at all.

  15. Long live openmosix , time to fork the code. on openMosix Is Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    There's more going on here I think. Virtual Iron tried to ripp off the technology. I don't know about any of you but when I went to linux expo and saw the virtual iron booth I said.. look, it's open mosix rebranded. I dug further. They do use open mosix.
    and some of thier own stuff. But still they sell it as their own and it's not entirely.

    OpenMosix should be forked over. I'm sure it will evolve into something bigger if others take it over and host it on sourceforge.

    Supercomputing uses a combination of multicore processors, inifiniband, and multiple systems. I don't know why the mosix people bailed. Maybe something new is emerging soon.

  16. I have comcast and I use LINUX. No problems! on Does Comcast Hate Firefox? · · Score: 1

    Listen... I've got comcast. when I got my install 9 years ago I told the installer "I don't do windows".
    He said no problem all I need to do is check the line with my box, we'll call the mac address of your cable modem
    in, and what daemon are you running for dhcp? Well... I connected my cable modem after it was called in, turned it on.
    Booted up the powermac g3 that was to function as firewall/router/email server for the house. And wham my entire house was
    online. No problem. If you get the noneducated desk support people then most of the time you need to go with the flow and
    bullshit. Usually the techs are up on the stuff, unless they are a newbie. well 9 years have passed and I run Linux and OS/X
    for operating systems and they are online on comcast. no problems.

  17. I'll be back on First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed · · Score: 1

    Gotta deactivate Skynet.

  18. the solar panels won't get enough light on Mars Rover Ready for Risky Descent into Crater · · Score: 1

    hmm... my money is on the rover will fail due to not enough solar radiation. The batteries will die.

  19. I think Nina is in Russia with her kids on Hans Reiser Interview from Prison · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmm.. It's pretty suspicious that Han's kids are still in Russia with his former mother-in-law.
    I think she's alive and well in Russia. If she was killed her body or parts of would have turned
    up by now. And if she is alive, maybe this was her parents way of getting her out of the US? She
    was a bright woman who started to take a pretty dark path. You could see all the classic signs here.
    Hans was too rapped up into namesys. He married a hottie wife who noticed that she was getting a lot
    of attention elsewhere. I think once Nina started messing around with other stuff her parents got
    her out of the country. The fact that the passenger seat is missing from the CRX and the fact that car
    had been washed out, casts some doubt on the belief that Hans is innocent here. He needs to come clean
    with information about that.

    I think the defense needs to monitor Nina's Mom and Hans' kids in Russia to see if Nina is there.

  20. Cool. I'm going to compile this on my Efika PPC ! on NASA Frees Their Robotics Software · · Score: 0

    This is cool. I'm going to attempt to get this running on my efika ppc embedded controller. I'm currently working on a usb to i2c
    gateway. My sonar, motor control, vision recognition is all networked with i2c. The most difficult part of the project is highly
    accurate dead recokining. This is really cool. Now I've got to look around for ideas to build a 6 wheel or track driven base.
    quad optical encoders all the way.

  21. Hmm... There are great IDEs for Linux! on Linux Programmer's Toolbox · · Score: 1, Insightful

    XEMACS, EMACS, KDEVELOP, Glade, hmmm... all I got to say is N00B!

  22. You can't use GCC or any open libraries dude! on Closed Source On Linux and BSD? · · Score: 1

    Here's what you need to Buy a commercial compiler or buy a commercial license for GNU C. Write all your own libraries or buy
    commercial llicense for the code you use. Create static binaries. Or take the open source route. Release your source
    and earn money supporting it! Obusifcate the install process so either technical people can install it like me can, and
    business types can't. Release a vm based demo of the application that will sell your app. Trust me, if the application is worth it
    you will get business.

  23. Re:Cool...but we already have prevention methods.. on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 1

    Diabetes is a syndrome. It's not caused by diet in meny people! Type 1 is an auto immune disease where the imuune system kills
    the beta cells in the pancreas! Therefore they don't make insulin! I'm technically a type 1.5 my endocrin system detects lows
    at night and dumps a high amount of glucose reserves in my blood stream. When I wake up my glucose is high. Not caused by diet.
    however.. part of my regiment is a high protien / ultra low carb diet and a hard workout. The idea is to build up a lot of muscle mass, and to try to reduce the reserves in the liver. But the problem is I have a healthy liver, the reserves are just there because
    the glcose builds up due to less getting metabolized to the the resistance. So.. the idea is build up a lot of muscle mass, sure it
    will be insulin resistant but I might have more cells metabolizing the glucose. ... funny.. fruits.. nope I gotta watch what fruits.
    banannas for instance can spike me over 200. milk.. nope.. that can spike me. just a little milk. eggs are good since they are mostly protien. I make a lot of omelets. I'm licky my chloresterol is perfect. Gymn.. hmmm I work out 5 days/week
    Type 1 and arthritis are auto immune diseases. I don't know enough about crohns. I'd much rather deal with this disease than many
    others out there. At least this is manageable.

  24. Re:Hmm.. I need more info. I'm type 2 and not fat. on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 1

    because I know of many couples WHO try to have kids and can't!

    So that's why.

  25. Re:Diseases or flaws? on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 1

    Not flaws actually. It's mutations. I know they say flaws.. but it's a Mutation.

    now they can design treatments based on what the damaged DNA broke, not just by treating the symptom.