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  1. Re:You couldn't make this up! on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1

    And CPD is buying it's air time?

    You have a 501(c)3 corporation setup by the Two Major Parties to hold debates between their candits.

    The venue is gifted to the corporation by the Univ (that was built and paid for by public with public money) and the police (paid by public money) to keep poeple away from a private event.

    Oh yeah, the pictures are boardcast over public aways, which are required to carry images becuase of the importance to public good.

    If you want to get your point across better: the CPD should have been a pay-per-view event.

    This whole thing is being paid for out our pockets with outshowing all candits that are enough state ballots to win the election.

    To go far, lets just say another debate setup - well the two major candites can not show up them, because they signed contracts with CPD for excludive debates.

  2. Re:Well, - data lost on Washington State Archives Go Digital · · Score: 1

    I have family in Washington State. Too bad thier information is NOT in the database. They have died, born, and married there and not scrap of data is in this database.

    So it is not all that it is cracked up to be.

  3. Re:Could be better on Groklaw Rants On Software Patents · · Score: 1

    All software is trivial. It is a bunch of moves and adds nothing more.

    But as we build apon prior constructions... macros that do I/O, then sorting, then ISAM, then DB, then RDB, then 4GL... Why is the later more patentable then the move?

    I too have spend many years building what in the end was a non-trival system. One part alone 1/4 million lines of assembler... but in again that was all moves and adds, macros for I/O... And just because the idea overall handled inventory control, why should it be patentable?

    There are many ways to do inventory control, this is just one.

    Again what makes one receipe more patentable than another?

    What you talk about is to me trade secert, just like what I worked on. A receipe is a trade secert not a patent.

  4. Re:Could be better on Groklaw Rants On Software Patents · · Score: 1

    But software is different than a driver train for a car.

    Software is better to be thought of: as order in which to assemble the atoms that make the driver train for a car. Or simpler that steps to bake a cake.

    That *IS* the fundimental difference.

    Is a receipe a patentable?
    Is the receipe for cherry pie patentable?
    Is the receipe for a new drug patentable?

    That is focus. How much complexity / work needs to put into a receipe that makes it cross into a patentable range?

    There is patent out there to today that calculates your credit risk/worthness. Why was that math routine patentable?

  5. Re:Nothing is perfect! on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is NOT a step in protecting anything.

    1) For a child to be protected, they MUST have the fob.

    2) They must use it on presribed machines with the right software.

    3) Some big brother is watching out for them.

    What this really is a step to personally "brand" everyone. Just like RFID in clothes or under the skin or the tatoos of Germany.

    Further you can only be "safe", if you are willing to "pay" for it, including tracking every one of your habits on net.

  6. Optimal team size... on Another Google Recruiting Technique · · Score: 1

    The number of people that fit into one car.

    This way all can travel to lunch together and are able to keep working.

  7. Re:Courage of their Convictions? on Fabian Pascal Reacts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shoot he should understand an alias! What is really an userid in a database, huh? ;-o

    PS: Database Debunk... I do not see debunking, just pushing to buy a book or two.

  8. Re:Too complicated and confusing on Delta Compression for Linux Security Patches? · · Score: 1

    You are extactly right... I did limited delta patching in the 80's and 90's. All of our modules were under 64k so it was finding the set that actually changed and sending it out.

    Why is delta patching is coiming up.. becuase of poor design. Linking unnessary functions into a run time to save some time MAYBE. The only reason for the dalta patching the original person is asking about is because of poor development standards.

    Yes, this leads back to the Monolithic vs Micro Kernals arguements. Each has their advange... Monolithics tend for easier (and to some slopper) design. Micro tend for easier / localized maintanence.

    Delta patching is a wet dream for a fixing the issues in monolithic design and giving you a micro kernal "support".

    Hell if it was not for this sloppyness, MS could not say that: IE was intergrated in Windows and could not be removed because of the intergration.

  9. Re:Still is too vague on Copyright Office Suggests Changes To Induce Act · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lending him the CD - would not be an inducement.

    The reason is you no longer have have the CD, he now has it. So only one copy. Fee for the copy has alredy been paid.

    If you maded a copy for him, or you lent him your to copy to make copy, then you would falling

  10. purple oct? on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a purple dino, red monster, and a BIG red dog. But the cat in the hat is still my favorite.

  11. Re:Should have known on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 1

    Also Chicago

  12. Re:Because on 10Gbit to the Home by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Forgot -

    Some one patent this before they do.

    When the office got it first HP Laser Jet 1 printer, we thought about adding a scanner and phone line to it, with a tape recorder for storage encase of printer while a fax came in.

    Boy did we miss the money train!

  13. Because on 10Gbit to the Home by 2010 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    DRM does not work in the current setup.

    With that massive pipe, there is no need for local hard drive or other resource (tape/DVD) to hold information. It can all be on-demand.

    With that setup you only need to see what you want see when you need it. AND PAID for it on per-use bases.

    We are getting to what VNC was originally designed for... Central Processing centers with only remote display devices.

    So nice plasam TV, with a keyboard, camera, mic and speakers (phone & music) attached. Add to it point at (touch) screen design and you have very the all propose enterantment and mind control device, that for $19.95 per month can spy on you.

  14. Re:Note: Here, Single is Better on Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips · · Score: 1

    Did you understand what you read?

    Each core own indenpent L1's so there is common cahce as the original post talked about.

    The L2 - there are 3 "three separate, autonomous cache controllers" again not a common single 1

    The L3 - external controller - there is one of these but there are 2 banks.

    About 8way clusters... The chip is designed for that maximum package. It is also use as single 2way processor on low end machines, 4 way and 8 way. Also there are single core versions the can be clustered into a max of a 16way machine.

  15. Re:Let's analyze this. on Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film · · Score: 1

    Blade Runner was as weak of a movie as Dune was. Missed the whole point of the book. And it can not even stand alone -- you need the book just to try to get what the Dir was doning in the moive.

    Shoot Total Recall was a better moive.

    Now lets see where The Day The Earth Stood Still...

  16. Re:omg on Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film · · Score: 1, Troll

    Any that poll with Blade Runner is in the top show payola was used in the voting.

  17. Re:Note: Here, Single is Better on Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips · · Score: 4, Informative

    The PPC4 does not have single cache...

    There a L1 caches for both cores.

    There are 3 L2 caches hooked to cross bar switch for speed flowing data into and out of the L1

    There is a single L3 controller overseeing 2 L3 external memory banks.

    Then there is two busses to 2 main memory.

    And 3 interconnects to 3 other dual core chips that make a single 8way processor block.

    And 4 busses inter connecting 4 of these 8way to make a 32way machine, with dual IO channels to hardware!

  18. Re:I don't understand the focus on airline securit on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    Airport are insecure, period.

    Look at Chicago or Orlando were the runs "T" with freeways or better hundreds of low buildings.

    Simple low tech things can stop a plane, from a tower or phone pole in the flight path to a car spring cross bow. Let alone a single sucide bomber driving though the fence and under a fuel filled plane. Drive a little faster and under a know fuel loaded plane at a gate (just loaded) and multiplle planes should go because the wings nearly touch.

    Take that same car and drive though those big double doors and down to the gate. Remember no stairs because of the infirm.

    Another is a SWAT truck (Ocean 11) pulls up can 10 armed men run into the building and through security to a gate where a plane fueled and ready to go.

    And we have not started on inside jobs (Read Clancy).

    The best thing to do is:

    1) Consumer strike, no passagers, no airlines or TSA.

    2) Remember it is not safe to cross a street, let alone fly. Ask NASA and they use things that can equal Nuke going off.

  19. why the extra security - Nudes on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    The only safe passenager is a nude passenager.

  20. Re:Idle complaints on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dump it all.

    There is no way to stop a hi-jacking or terrorist attack, period. If some one is bound to be sudical, they have nothing to lose.

    Treat people with respect and you get it back. Treatment as terrorist and 78 old will attack.

  21. Re:Actors on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    Look to Tom Hanks in Phili... They crew straved him to make him look frail.

    But then again with few months even you can learn be old and infirm.

  22. Re:Matematicians vs. Economist on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    Economist can win a NOBEL

    Mathematician ran of with Nobel's Wife.

    PS: Thank Nobel for makeing Nitro safe with Sawdust... better know as TNT.

    If he was live to day, wuold be able to fly?
    What about fireworks guys?

  23. Look to Swiss on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    Where every male is in the service. You have to prove each year your ability to shoot.

    Then again you can also own tank if you want.

    Very peaceful there.

  24. Re:A better solution on Internet-Enabled Thermostat · · Score: 1

    http://www.m5industries.com/html/portfolio/7up.htm

    It needs quarters, but can be used on the beach to make extra money.

  25. Re:hopefulness on Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 1

    I have one of those too, also with Star Wars (before it was called 4) and TRON.