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  1. To Prevent Electrocution on Why Aren't Powergrids Underground? · · Score: 1

    Hi Powerlines are not underground because not only will a breakage be difficult to repair, but also if there is a breakage it could be possible that someone could get zapped. In Copley Square Boston for example, where there are underground cables and
    fancy street lighting that looks like gas lighting from the early 1900's, well anyway a dog went around to do it's business and
    zap! The dog got electrocuted.

  2. Hey McBride.. You got some bad Karma comming on SCO to Unix developers, We want you back · · Score: 1

    Where does mcBride get off? All the innovative programmers will not touch SCO. I'm not a programming whore. SCO's point was made. They lost market share due to an Open Source operating system and decided to sue. Idiots.

    So SCO go ahead, invest in creating your mobile tool whatever, you will just be losing $$$ since no one want's to use it.

  3. Google Map resolution is going up! on 111-Megapixel CCD Chip Ships · · Score: 1

    I bet the CCD sensor is for a satellite.

  4. Good! Another outsource to India bites the dust on Why Apple Backed out from India? · · Score: 1

    Hey I left Welchs (the grape company) when I got wind that they wanted to outsource IT to India. All I have to do is say that don't train the outsourcing personel. Look for a new job and put off the "trainig" and "documentation" as long as you can. If we all stick to this, no matter what country we are from, we will make outsourcing fail. The last I heard from friends that are
    riding it out said that it's taking 5 outsourced employess to do my job, and the turn around is very slow. HA! Good!
    All of us need to stick together on this. Don't stay and hang around for a severance package, post your resume on Monster or
    whatever job search board you like and bail when you find the right job.

    Let's float outsourcing down the ganges (I think that's where the Indians send thier dead.)

  5. I don;'t drive a volvo! I drive a volkwagen! on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    HA! I drive a turbocharged 1.8T Beetle. No Volvo here.

  6. I still program "old school" and it's faster! on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1

    What is this? Now we want to dumb down our future? No matter how fast processors evolve it's always better to porgram them natively! My Dual Core G5 screams, especially when you take advantage of the altivec core.

    I guess some people are worried about what happens when more people can harness the pwer of the microprocessors comming up.
    Jack the ripper screams on my dual core G5. Yes I run Linux on my g5 as well as OS/X. Dsniff works great as well.

    remeber, when it comes to code, GO NATIVE!

  7. gimme iron oxide, aluminum powder and an oxydent. on Home Chemistry An Endangered Hobby in U.S. · · Score: 1

    and I will give you thermite!

  8. Mark of the Beast! on Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants · · Score: 1

    Need I say more? Next you'll hear that it will take the place of our social security numbers and we will have to be implanted before any business transactions are made. Not even a bag og groceries. Time to nip this one in the Bud.

  9. I have to laugh at them, on Windows Servers Beat Linux Servers · · Score: 1

    Just look at my uptime:
      12:49:09 up 174 days, 13:39, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00

    The box was only down when I wanted to reorganize my lab area in the basement. this box functions as my IMAP/WEB/SMTP/BOOTP/NAT
    server and is very dependable. My other Linux box is used for software development, and searching the net for stuff, that box is a desktop (ShuttlePC fully loaded0 so it's down when I am not on it. My New Linux box is, actually I am putting it together now, is
    a Dual Core PowerMac G5 with 2.5GB RAM and 480GB of HD space. The support development with mac on Linux and Linux on Mac has been slacking latley so I'm building up a box to hopefully get mac on Linux working on a G5 dual core with Tiger, and running Tiger on Linux. Also the I can't wait till the G5 port of XEN is complete!

    Don't trust a report like this. They had lame ass reasons. It's FUD.
    The truth is when Vista is all that's comming from Microsoft, then more users will defect to Linux and OS/X.

  10. Wasn't this allready done, the Philadelphia ... on Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled · · Score: 1

    The Philidelphia experiment. They Hetrodyned microwave RF to shift light, the project worked, people died. It spurred a scifi about time travel, but the fact is no one traveled in time, but people died horribly. It didn't travel in time, just cloaked that's all.
    This appears to use the same principle, it takes a lot of energy to bend light. I think the stealth tecchnology is right on, reduce the signature both optical and rf, only problem you can track a stealth jet by the engine emissions. A stealth submarine you can track by looking for a trail of dead plankton.A stealth battle ship, you can't hide from the hydrophone network.
    You can not cloak the exhaust emissions of a vehicle. There's an easy countermeasure for this so called cloaking device.

    Sometimes I think people are so smart that they are foolish.

  11. No way. I'd prefer to use my old fashioned keys. on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1

    All a theif has to do is sever the limb with the rfid tag. I'd prefer to keep things out of my body thank you very much.

  12. Here's the real health problems w/geek lifestyle. on Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    Many of us geeks are known for working late through the night, drinking mountain dew by the 2 litre bottle and iced coffee hopped up on sugar, and pizza... lots of pizza. So what does that get us...
    Type II diabetes. And when you get it you have to keep it under control.

  13. Don't forget, an Xbox2 needs more cpu due to DRM! on Revolution Horsepower Revealed · · Score: 1

    Nintendo Rules. No DRM means that the platform will be plenty fast enough! The xbox2 needs all the cpu it can get
    because of all the DRM crap!

  14. Lasers... Eyyeball.... No, you go first. on Coming Soon, Super Vision · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My first job out of college was at M.I.T. Lincoln Lab.
    I was there in 1986, guess what I worked with? LASERS!
    You kno wwhat happens if you shine a LASER in your eye?
    retina damage.

    I'll pass.

  15. Re:Car tired on An Energy Drinks Roundup? · · Score: 1

    You might be getting sleepy due to the air quality in your car. crack a window open. Turn the stereo up.

  16. Start with Monster! on How Do You Job-Hunt If You Work Overtime? · · Score: 1

    Setup a monster account. Get an amail account that supports SSL, or setup your own email server and ssh into your own
    email server and check for mail. Try to get your propective employers to do a pre-interview over the phone during lunch or whatever break you have, This way you won't waste your time going on an interview for another dead end job. If you are, and they are interested in taking it further, schedule
    an interview and call in sick.

  17. I living pet is better, and I build robots. on Robot Pets Almost as Good as Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    A living pet is better. When I pick a puppy, I look for a feisty dog. My dog Molly was a boxer/pointer mix. Have you ever seen that movie Air Bud? She came pretty close to that.
    She could play frisbee, she could catch tennis balls. My kids would hit tennis balls to her and she would catch them and bring them back to the kids to hit the ball out again.
    Also, I taught how to be a soccer goalie by first securing here to the center of the goal and teaching her to block the ball. Eventuall she played with being tied to the goal.
    She could easily manuver a soccer ball, molly was a 60lb dog, all muscle. Anypay Molly livedd to 7 1/2 years old,
    Boxers are prone to several heart conditions. Molly was nver sick, her last day she just followed my oldest boy into his room at the end of the day, she went into her kennel, laid down and passed.

    Four months passed and my wife and I got a new dog. Once again we were looking for a feisty dog, not a particular breed, just attitude. We ended findin a LasaPoo. At 13 weeks old she is playing getch. I'll be getting a small frisbee soon to teach her how to catch a freisbee. I've got a large ball and I'm going to teach her how to jump on a ball and roll it. She's pretty smart, I don't need to give her a treat to teach her a trick, all she wants is to hear "good girl" and a scratch on the belly.

    I do write programs for my firefighting robot. But to replace a living , breathing, companion with a robot... no
    I don't think so.

  18. Quack, Quack, It's an electrochemical reaction... on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 1

    First...

        This should not be patentable, please tell me there are
    staff there that do undestand the principles of at least
    simple electrochemistry. First... you take copper (+), you
    drive that into moist soil, then take aluminum (-)or zinc (-), drive that into the ground, take your voltmeter and measure the potential.

    This is all he did. No patent should be granted here.

    I think this guy should of paid attention in High School.

  19. This is nothing, not real AI.. this is simple on Robot Demonstrates Self-awareness · · Score: 0

    Come on, what are tehy doing in japan, putting too much wasabee on thier sushi? This is nothing. If I configure
    an array of colored LEDS, and write software that would recognize the mirror image as itself, that's too easy
    to implement. Do something more difficult please.

  20. Maybe they thought you were disgruntled. on Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally? · · Score: 1

    I have given my resignation before. I'm a Unix/Network systems engineer/admin.. etc. I left Northrup Grummen. They honored my resignation and I worked up until my last day. I got a my last check including a check for my vacation and floating holiday balance.

    Somebody didn't trust you.

  21. What is this guy smoking? Crack? Linux Rules! on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1

    I Care about any desktop theme. Get over it. I use my
    box for software development (I can't wait for my Nokia 770 to show up, I've got the development kit loaded and I wrote
    an app to test). I also use my box for creating family videos. Kino is great and my Cannon Elura 70 works great
    with it. Blender... heck what an excellent 3D Animation tool. And network hacking on a Linux box is a piece of cake.
    Nessus, nmap, kismet.

    The guy who put up the post regarding this must have had his windoqze box gpf one too many times.

  22. Somewhere, a villiage is missing an idiot. on A Continued Look at Linux vs Windows · · Score: 1

    I use the distribulator to handle patches on an enterprise level. I run one patch on my test box, and then push it my
    database servers, application servers, cm servers, or global.
    And yeah.. this is LINUX! I am the Unix systems adminstrator
    at Welchs and handle over 50 servers (10 are virtualized in
    VMWARE) Oracle RAC, Oracle 11.5.10, CVS, SFTP, My own custom
    Linux VM that is mirrored and monitors my QA, PROD, and DEV
    landscapes.

  23. Re:Brown: not just for rinsing out your GPA anymor on First Silicon Laser · · Score: 1

    We all know, if you don't have the grades to make it into Harverd, well, there is always Brown! hah!

  24. Did you read the article? This isn't praticle. on First Silicon Laser · · Score: 1

    I guess the Brown research team just wnated to see if they can emit laser light through silica. but man... it's not
    practicle, and it's very ineffecient. Why not focus research on creating something that's extremely effecient?

  25. I hope Stallman Sues the RIAA on President of RIAA Says Sony-BMG Did Nothing Wrong · · Score: -1

    Hey,

        Sony has deep pockets. Let's sue Sony and the RIAA