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  1. Re:Hmm... BUT!!! on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 5, Funny

    Triple Click...
    Quad Click...
    Qunice Click...

    Are still available!!

  2. Re:HTML - YES IT IS A LANGUAGE on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    HTML is programming. It is the coding language to control screen presentation.

    Does it do useful work? Yes
    Is it simple to understand? Yes
    Is it hard to get right? Yes
    Does it control disk I/O? No

    It is this last part makes most think of it *NOT* as a programming language.

    Best part, it is free to use on about every machine.

    Then again most do not understand that printf function in used in C is a language unto itself. It is not an extention of C, it is function that alot use with C.

  3. Re:One part on California Offers Cellular Bill of Rights · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are methods to get this.

    I bought AT$T Wireless in Costco via in store promo. I informed AT$T Wireless sales gal of my exact locations for service need. They produced a service map showing coverage, showing that I was clearly inside (by miles) of the coverage area. I paid for it all at the Costco Cash Register.

    Went home tried it out, did not work, all support on land line, told call back on cell phone, movd 3 ft it worked for 5 minutes then out again, this went on for 25 days. Took at all back to Costco and returned it with-in 30 days return period. Since it was bought thought they cach registers.

    AT$T tried to get me pay for canceling plan, I told them I returned it to Costco for a full, with-in 30 days, refund. They tried another time to collect, I complained to Costco, and the Attn General. That ended it.

  4. Re:Expanded who's who --was Re:A who's who - comme on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 1

    Clark's works start on a good idea - like RAMA... the first half was good, then it was another 10,000 words and I done and can start the next two to cash in.

    I am just wondering how much they paided to use his name. Since he seams to never leave that island in Indain Ocean.

  5. A who's who - comments on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 3, Informative

    Greg Bear
    Forrest J. Ackerman
    Robin Wayne Bailey
    Betty Ballantine
    Astrid Anderson Bear - Daughter of Poul Anderson / Wife of Greg Bear
    Gregory Benford
    Jeff Bezos
    Ray Bradbury - this shows taste
    David Brin
    Charles Brown - A cartoon?
    Octavia Butler - I like her work
    James Cameron - give me a break!!!
    Orson Scott Card - Ender was it
    Arthur C. Clarke - nice ideas but fluffy
    Freeman Dyson - the creater of sphere!
    Harlan Ellison - yes!!
    James Gunn
    Ray Harryhausen
    David Hartwell
    Tim Kirk
    Lawrence Krauss
    George Lucas - twenty years way past his prime
    Syne Mitchell
    Dennis Muren
    Kim Stanley Robinson
    Majel Barrett Roddenberry - I know still running the "Great Bird" business, but have you seen some of the lastest works?
    Stanley Schmidt
    Steven Spielberg - Not SciFi - pretty pictures
    Neal Stephenson
    Gary Stiffelman
    Phil Tippett
    Bjo Trimble
    Michael Whelan
    Jane Yolen

  6. Re:Membership Has Its Benefits: on Sneak Peek of SF Museum · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only lowly label pins?

    Where are the life sized posters of 3 breasted moon-maidens?

  7. Re:Windows on HPC? on In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    So to really built a HPC, you dump the UI. Finally that means Microsoft may make the it system clean, back to the original VMS that WNT was to have been.

    So this is a chance for MS to de-evole WNT.

  8. Where the fashion going? on What To Wear On Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was hoping to see wide lapels, or padded shoulders that look like airplane wings.

    Instead it talks about material make up.

    How is that what to wear?

  9. Re:It would be nice. on NASA - Robotic Repair Of Hubble 'Promising' · · Score: 1

    I think based on:

    1) Passenager miles, NASA is right up there with the Airlines.

    2) Total miles travel, NASA should be even safer.

    3) Number of trips...
    NASA should stick to walking.

  10. Re:Cryptogram: the monthly security weblog on Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting · · Score: 1

    He has lost alot relevancy with backing the TSA Lock.

  11. Re:TSA locks is a problem? on Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    God we got the worst of the security systems in the world. I can check in at Soeul with full baggage check (I mean FULL!) and get to my plane in under 1 hour.

    Coming into the country, they check all bags. If it is locked, it is marked for customs to open.

    All this with the matching passeranger in front of them.

    TSA servers no meaningful need except job creation for the administration.

  12. Re:location on For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, there was SIX boring machines. Two for each of the tunnels that make up the Chunnel. There of the machines are still under ground left in dise bores.

    The part that they are selling is *NOT* a machine. The orignal machine was more like 300 ft long. They are selling the cutting head.

    There was still the jacking sections, the placement of tunnel sections, the spoil removal, and power and guidance sections.

  13. Re:No! on 3D, FPS File Manager · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its been done before .... but as a sys admin tool.

    http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

  14. Re:I just realized,! on Grand Challenge Videos Posted · · Score: 1

    To be clear AZ, HI and most of IN expect for counties near other states large Metro area... Say Chicago.

  15. Re:evil cable companies on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans · · Score: 1

    That is laos how PAX TV got it started.

    This is both the best and worst idea I have heard...

    Best: True Choice. I can get the 4 main channels I realy watch.

    Worst: Only Choice. How to sample the channels I do not watch except when nothing is on.

    Now to fix all that...

    Pay by the minnute you watch, all channels are on all the time, no paying or blocking... But if you sit and watch something, you "Add" that to bill. More you watch the bigger the bill, to cap limits (think like cell phone minutes and/or lost stop in health plan)

    This way you buy a base limit your cost to what you want. You can go on or over, you can buy packages to meet your needs.

    Downside: The cable company will now know exactly what you watch and when... Do you want them to? But then again, they are already reading your emails and watching you surf, right?

    Can't order what you can not spell.. Alum...

  16. Re:question? on IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    SuSE was the frist version that I knew of that ran on *ALL* IBM platforms.

    zSeries (Main Frame)
    pSeries (AIX PPC)
    iSeries (AS/400 PPC)
    xSeries (Intel/AMD and soon PPC)

    IBM also played with TurboLinix.

  17. Privacy and Crap on Searching the 'Deep Web' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Going after the other 90% does not mean that new things will come to top. Oh there maybe a few cool items like "Who realy shot JFK" or launch code for a trident.

    But in reality the other 90% most likely be best left un-found. Who really wants to know that parents were not married as in the manor that they told.

    Just is in archology, you will find a nice vase or two... but the rest is rumble.

    You understand that digging a garage dump is the best place to find things in archology, because people clean their house then too. That is what other 90% is... a dump of information.

  18. Join Mensa on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 0

    I was 25 before starting to understand skills needed in life. Mensa as a great place to learn what all should have learned in Jr High.

    First a group of other gifted people. You can have meaningful conversions about Choas. You can play triva pursuit in a hot tub. Also fun mind changes like solving puzzles... "You leave from Alma Ata to travel though Porgera then on to Kericho, to bring this to front." What do you bring to the front?

    Since females and males are both able to join and about in equal numbers, you can also find some one to talk to.

    I met my wife of 16 years via Mensa. I dropped a speaker on her head while dance with my (then) girl friend. Though, I did come off as more freindly then the guy who's opening line was "I had a CAT scan today, do you want to see?"

    Answer: ALA-RGE-KEY

  19. Re:Why is that obvious? on A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People get a grip... Microsofts customer is *NOT* you and me. It is Dell, Gateway, HP and the like.

    They goal is help their customers sell more product. That means give to their customer's customers pretty bright beads and *CAN NOT* work on existing (well slowly at least). This leads to the people buying BIG compters from MS Customers allowing for MS to sell the product twice!!

    Can you say "More profit!"

  20. Re:Vaporware! on Matchbox Sized Color Projectors? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It can not be Vaporware, when it is about Photon Vacuum.

    Vapor can not exist in Vacuum.

  21. Re:I'm confused... on Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech · · Score: 4, Informative

    But the domian name was *NOT* the company's legal name. It was "www.lucasnursery.com" that you may imply belonged to "Lucas Nursery and Landscaping Inc."

    Since she did not sell or offer to sell the site so cyber-squating was out.

    If PETA did grab McD's first they would still in control, if they did not offer it for sale. That is why Mr Nissan lost use of his site in a fight with Nissan Motor Corp.

    Though my opinion he was business man working under his name as a business name first, so Missan Motors should be paying him.
    http://www.nissan.com

  22. Re:illegal? on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If made of copper. Now its alum with a skin of copper

  23. windows any one? on SCO Licenses Now Available · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It looks like they are trying to get Windows added to the list... POSIX compliance.

    That will sure increase the war chest!

  24. Re:Confusing Information with Statistics on Chicago Police Force Wins CIO Magazine Award · · Score: 1

    Or maybe live in Chicago and find out they have changed when and where they portal.

    This got many on the Chicago City Counsol mad, because it took cops away from their "safe" districts.

  25. Re:Really? on Chicago Police Force Wins CIO Magazine Award · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Boy are you ever wrong.

    I did a study for police force 2 years ago about 80 outside of Chicago. These men and women are smart, they been computerized for years.

    They where looking for next thing...

    Centralizing multiple cities and county into one system for 911, police and fire.

    Use of handhelds with scanners and cameras to handle recording, labeling, and TRACKing of property... They have to keep it on file during the entire time the suspect/case runs... Can you say 50 years for some one in for life?

    They carry at least two computers in even car... one connected to the dash and radio systems. The other a laptop to write-up reports and download when they get back to the office.

    Pictures are great for those that change jobs every 3 weeks... But to become a cop, it takes years of commitement.

    One of the guys I work with now, full time programmer is also a part time police officer. He volunteers his time.