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  1. Even more clearly... on Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures · · Score: 1

    It's "Domino's" Pizza and "Domino" Sugar.
    Which only serves to further distinguish them.
    Which is what trademark protection is for.
    Ford need worry less about a picture of their car and more about their car actually operating as a car.

  2. OK so let's extend that... on Why Space Exploration Is Worth the Cost · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many were inspired to want to go to space by watching Barbarella?

    Soooo... let's make Jane Fonda a budget item.

  3. Woo hoo! on First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test · · Score: 1

    Safari displays the reference rendering jes' fine!

    Oh, wait...

  4. Has Mr. Negroponte ever bought a car? on Negroponte vs Intel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cuz I had the same joy there.

  5. You could say the same for... on Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful · · Score: 1

    governments subsidies of anything else, and on a personal level for second computers, second cars, Nikes and game consoles. Science and technology give you otherwise uncharted options. To paraphrase Lewis Black, we can now put a closet full of CDs on an iPod, we should ALSO be able to figure out how to get the sunlight that cooks our rooftops to cook our meals.

  6. You too can look like Geordi... on Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display · · Score: 1

    ...until you start crashing into junk.

  7. I'm goin' Greyhound. on Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    By the way this will likely go through without a hitch.
    If they had proposed testing on a plane-ful of bunnies, it'd be stopped faster than Hitler.

  8. Re:The best tools stay out of the way... on Goodbye Cruel Word · · Score: 1

    Spiffy, maybe. But Pages' UI has a bit of spiffy and what's more, background images in WP look like their originals, not like they were done in watercolor on paper towels.
    Of course it could be that I have not sufficiently explore the 1,700 + commands in Word. In which case, mea culpa.

  9. Apple can and does sell non-DRM at ITMS on Sony BMG Dropping DRM · · Score: 1

    Unless they didn't get the memo, there must be something else at play here, likely just adding channels.

  10. Noooooooooo! on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Surely there's a four-digit-/.'r here somewhere who can enumerate the appropriate laws of the cosmos that will ensure this never happens!
    Save us!

    Ok, just in case not, how much are Minis going for now?

  11. Sounds more like One Newton Per Child on Intel Resigns from One Laptop Per Child Project · · Score: 1

    Boss leaving... components leaving... customers leaving... where have I heard this before?

    The good news is that now that the concept it proven, the second wave will likely be viable.

    Actually many of the people here are among the best. I hope they're their own second wave.

  12. A monopoly is not magically illegal. on Antitrust Suit Filed To Halt Apple 'Music Monopoly' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is illegal is to use that monopoly position to unfairly exclude others from the marketplace.
    iPods have been unable to play WMA since when there was only one iPod. The condition precedes any monopoly.
    Microsoft is in fact in the marketplace and makes a very brown player that plays WMA just fine.
    Stacie is perfectly free to buy one of those.

    Next?

  13. Re:Predicted long ago on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    Try testing the system by generating a strong false positive for them and get back to us on how that worked out for you.
    Make sure you take pictures.

  14. The Blue Screen of... OOOhhh! AHhhhh!! on Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry. Couldn't resist.

  15. a few quick calculations by a govt agency... on Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before · · Score: 1

    ... and... there. We need to put 3 x as much armor on the new rover. Done. Next?

  16. Whorf? on Trekkie Sues Christie's for Fraudulent Props · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's it. Hand over the ears and membership card and go to your room.

  17. Gosh, we'd be happy if... on Connecticut Governor Seeks to Protect Personal Data Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...she'd stop the laptops with state taxpayer financial data from being plucked from employee cars. (They claim they need all the data resident on every laptop whose operator is working on a given datatset.) Here in CT that's the bigger issue for her and the lege, To this more recent one, I can recall people being horrified years ago that we could find their phone listing in whitepages, their address on mapquest and an aerial photo on terraserver. Of course all of this was public information, now it's just easier for the "datarazzi" to get it in bulk. We've been on the DNC list and reg'd with DMA's pref service for years, and they still get thru. National opt-in with some teeth in it would be nice.

  18. Re:Why are frieghters still manned? on Robots To Control Oil Drilling Platforms · · Score: 1

    You might make some headway with an automated trawler, but sorting at the dock would then bring deepwater species into the shore, not a good thing. Fish factory ships could ease that, but good luck automating them and the feeders...

    Crabbers and long line (long=40 mile) fishing would be a whole lot more problematic. Hard to imagine automating that much imprecise work with many judgement calls.

    For contrast - we can pretty reliably dock two spacecraft with human hands standing by, in empty space with no shifting ambient forces on them - much less in 12 ft seas with 30 knot winds.

  19. Re:Why are frieghters still manned? on Robots To Control Oil Drilling Platforms · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Watch a season of Deadliest Catch and get back to us with your revised automation estimate. Granted the ship size is different, but when things go Charlie Foxtrot on the high seas you need not so automatic-able judgement call decisions made - and good luck getting a helo on a pitching and rolling ship.

  20. It was a freaking joke. on Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay · · Score: 1

    Calm down.

  21. Well done. on Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay · · Score: 1

    This may be the most ambitious thing ever done by anyone called "Slacker".

  22. I give it 48 hours before we feel the effects... on Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...which will consist of Rush Limbaugh figuring out a way to pin this on the Clintons, and Dennis Kucinich formulating a plan to deal with it...

  23. My bad. Yikes! Live thru logout + relaunch! on A Little .Mac Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Let's try it with
    History > Clear history
    Apple+Option+E...

  24. There is in fact a logout button. Top right. on A Little .Mac Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Right next to your username.

  25. But wait... on A Little .Mac Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    I though all Macs were used for doing some graphics. How risky can it be?

    (/sarcasm)