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  1. Re:Miss on Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016? · · Score: 1

    So does any other current power generation method for various reasons.

  2. Re:Prediction on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, i accidentally thought you were a Republican bitching about Libertarians for a moment.

  3. Re:Games on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    "For instance the command shell of Windows is totally useless"

    Give the Devil his due, Powershell is lightyears ahead of the classic DOS/Windows command shell. I think because MS got really sick of hearing this :-)

  4. Honey??? on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 1

    Where is my super-chute?

  5. Re:WINDOWS ONLY. on Faux-CNN Spam Blitz Delivers Malicious Flash · · Score: 1

    More 'Windows users spreading in the wild' than 'Linux users spreading in the wild' ...well yeah that's common knowledge!

  6. Re:Is this going to be vapor ware? on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Vaporware? I would have gone with "smoke and mirrors."

    (Since I know I have to explain - it uses a multiple mirror setup and operates at up around 120v...)

  7. and route around it." on Bloggers Versus Billionaire · · Score: 1

    Route around [the bastards]

    One little phrase and all of a sudden I'm struck by a wave of nostalgia for Fidonet :-P

  8. Re:Perfect... on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1
    Never the less, I agree that RIAA tactics are grey at best and border on extortion. This isn't so much a case of "eeeeevil plaintiff" as "flawed legal system".


    The two are not mutually exclusive.
  9. Re:Clear on Would John Kerry Defang the DMCA? · · Score: 1
    Wish Nader was taken more seriously.....


    The second he is, the Democrats will typically coopt whatever issue he gains traction on.

    Similarly for Socialist, Communist, Libertarian, Reform, or any other third party. As soon as any of them gains significant mindshare, whatever gives them appeal is integrated into one of the two mainstream parties, effectively quickly relegating them back to niche status.

    That isn't to say they aren't worthwhile, just that their contribution is in stealing elections so that the affected party takes to heart their ideas so that it doesn't happen again :-)
  10. Re:No differnces? on Would John Kerry Defang the DMCA? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Unfortunatly I'm convinced the Republic can't survive a Kerry win

    Don't be silly, Kerry may not like Texas, but it should be able to survive even if he wins.
  11. Flying out...who? on Player Disquiet Leads To EverQuest Expansion Delay · · Score: 1
    Also announced is a plan to fly some of the more vocal website people to SOE headquarters, to try to restart enthusiasm


    Ineffective. The people that run websites are are typically high-end raiding players. The majority of the game and gamers will be represented accidentally at best by that crowd.

  12. Re:No kidding... I remember these well. on Discarded AT&T Microwave Bunkers For Sale · · Score: 1

    Things that decay slowly (15.7 million years, GMAFB) aren't the problem, they don't hurt you unless they do so chemically.

    Intermediate halflife products are the dangerous stuff.

  13. Re:That doesn't mean VNC won't run. on Microsoft XP License Prohibits VNC · · Score: 1
    I'm thinking, if microsoft really didn't want VNC to be used, why not do some programming voodoo to make it crash or something?


    Because the people that download and use VNC know enough to download and use an update that doesn't blow up. It is not the Lotus 123 crowd you are talking about here...
  14. Incidental, not causal relationship on Sleep Less, Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Men sleeping eight, nine and 10 hours a night had a 12 percent, 17 percent and 34 percent greater risk of dying within the study period.

    That's an incidental, not causal relationship.

    Guess what, as people get older (and even RETIRE) they sleep longer. Older people die more frequently.

    Nothing to see here, move along.

  15. Re:Only 90 minutes long? on Review: Behind Enemy Lines · · Score: 1
    I still think "The Thin Red Line" is a better film than "Saving Private Ryan" because it wasn't so caught up in trying to be and event.


    Thin Red Line was an absolutely terrible flick. Little more than proof that lots of big name actors doesn't make a terrible movie much less terrible. Multiple crappy sub-plots and no main story to speak of. 4 of us went. The two wives left early. A friend and I stuck it out thinking the movie HAD to actually start soon (we thought that up until the end, which just sort of happened...)

    Then there was the I-TOLD-YOU-SO from our wives afterwards. Bah.

    If you like Hollywoods idea of an 'artistic' war movie you might get something out of it. It had that 'I'm meaningful' air to it that disjointed movies get which makes critics like them.
  16. Atlanta Area on Some People @Home, Some Not @Home · · Score: 1
    ATT Broadband went down this morning on multiple customers I know of, including me, sometime after 1:30am when I went to bed last night.
    Statically configured
    Unable to traceroute completely out
    Switching DNS servers ineffective


    Switched to DHCP, received a lease, worked instantly.
    DNS Searchorder added "ga.attbroadband.com"
    IP Address (and gateway) now on a different subnet
    2 different DNS servers received also.



    So if you have a static address, try requesting a DHCP lease. (AT&T hasn't contacted us about this one way or the other yet :-)

    Happy happy. Now we see how long this lasts...

  17. Re:Great, just what we need... another standard... on European Space Agency Developing GPS Rival · · Score: 1
    Not at all. Drop the myriad US "standards" and move to GSM like the rest of the World.


    Buy my new phone and put up the new towers all over the country (or convert without interrupting service) and I'm there. (Oh, and don't charge more when you are done either...)

  18. Bruce Lee has left the building on Return of the Dragon · · Score: 1

    Too bad they didn't have this available for Elvis' last concert :-\

  19. Gartner on Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS For Now · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, guess who won't be invited to TechED NEXT year...

  20. Re:Boycott Adobe Now! on Sklyarov Indicted · · Score: 1
    See, this is why I'm in favour of shooting lawyers.
    Far be it from me to interrupt the great international pasttime of barraster bashing (ianal), but...when you get arrested for a real or imagined violation of a valid or invalid law, you want who to plead for you? (For many people the -only- person that will be on their side in their darkest hour will be a lawyer.)

    While problematic, lawyers aren't the problem Dmitry has. Bad law compounded by clueless enforcement is.

  21. Self Assemblage on Antibiotics and Nanotechnology · · Score: 1

    To prevent indiscriminate targeting of bacterial and human cells, the rings had to be 'tuned' to prefer bugs.

    Bacteria adapt and change based on their environment.

    As long as self-assembling doesn't mean self-replicating, we can hope that nano-tube 'anti-biotics' would not behave similarly when they run out of targets they have an affinity for. Imagine clearing up that sinus infection and having the lil' guys start producing a version that has it in for some random vital organ...

    Damn.. I sound like Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park. Kill me now.

  22. Re:If you want a quiet computer... on Building the Quiet PC · · Score: 1
    Get an iMac. They are very quiet, because they don't have fans. iMacs use convective cooling.


    Machines with fans use convective cooling also, in fact they are more efficient at it since the air flow over the heated surface is faster

    A more accurate statement is that iMacs don't use or need forced air-flow from fans for adequate cooling.
  23. Re:British imperialism on Chinese Linux Developers Allegedly Violating Licenses · · Score: 1
    polled Hong Kong citizens, asking them which they'd prefer. Over 60% said Chinese rule.


    If I lived in Hong Kong, and Nightline stuck a camera in my face and asked me that question you can bet your life I'd answer China also.
  24. I'm doing this study... on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 5
    the most common type of password attack comes in the form of "social engineering"

    *cough*

    Like giving your password to someone doing a study on passwords?

  25. Re:The Aussies.. on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 1
    The primary intention is to preserve the (free) state against foreign threats;

    Partially, but it is an outgrowth of the severe (and, in retrospect well warranted) fear of government and its perpetual drive to infringe on the rights of individuals that was held by the founders.

    Once it is gone, tattoo a number on your forehead because at that point we become just so many STATE ASSETS.