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  1. Re:Non-Usable on The Modern Ease of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    "rapid" prototyping no. But there are small scale fabrication technologies out there that can. They take a bit longer, and most of them need someone to assemble moving parts, but the technology is progressing. The models of these run in the $100K to $1M mark.

  2. Re:Hmm on Harvesting Energy in the Sky · · Score: 1

    Nope, no need. We are talking jetstream altitutes. Wind is fairly constant up there.

  3. Re:Hooray! on FCC Says No to Mobile Phones on Airplane · · Score: 1

    You don't see many people doing this in the terminal do you? I think in the long run people would develop proper protocol and act appropriately... They just didn't know what that was..

  4. Re:Shouldn't be a lottery. on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 1

    I mean force a higher wage than standard for an industry if you import workers.

    Either way, I don't think food cost would be too as high as you imagine. There are a lot of farms that aren't on the border and don't have a large illegal work force, mostly mechanized, but at least you aren't paying social programs for the machines... :)

    Though from what I've heard food cost in California has stayed relatively low when compared to prices for other things there, so I could imagine removal of such artificial barriers would likely drive food prices sky high, then possibly drive prices down for other things.

  5. Re:Shouldn't be a lottery. on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 1

    Of course, all corporations should be fully prepared to pay local wages for whatever area they are in. Though H1B visa seem to get a lot of people annoyed when its less than 100K people. Not much. Now illegal immigration in the multi millions a year people turn their backs despite obvious harm to the legal manual labors. If there was a need for more manual labors than could be found I'm sure the government would create a program for it. And programs that force a high wage can be good, but there obviously isn't much policing of either issue.

  6. Re: on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    Sorry.. Obviously this isn't "standard" NTP. But from what I understand many domain solutions now how the main server communicate DST change information..

  7. Re:Shouldn't be a lottery. on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 1

    No I was just relaying a story. I worked as a tech there, I didn't have management control. Geez your quick to place blame.

    Either way a human is a human, I don't get the whole us versus them mentality of outsourcing or free trade etc.

  8. Re:Shouldn't be a lottery. on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 1

    I remember when we hired an H1B here at work. Initially the person was working here because we are connected with a University and they were a student. When they graduated and their student visa was expiring we wanted to keep them on so we applied for an H1B. I bet they weren't the "most" qualified, but they already were working the job so it was the most logical.

  9. Re: on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    Yea, I'm pretty sure all the fixes setup a system where DST can be easily set from the NTP connection. So changing DST every year won't be a problem for the devices that are properly programmed (my sanity on the other hand..)

  10. Re:Who cares about energy savings on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    Problem is if you just left it on DST time.... Eventually everybodies schedules would shift from 8-5 to 9-6 or whatever.. You can only trick people for so long.. Sure we should just abolish DST and change work hours to 7-4.. But people don't grasp concepts like that well.

  11. Re:Quit'cher Bitchin' on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Same here, remembered about it on the new DST change. But was confused when it suddenly jumped an hour forward this Sunday. An no way to patch the sucker. Strange thing is its "Automatic Time Setting" seems to be some sorta trick. Pull it from the wall, replug, and it "automatically" sets it to the wrong time..

  12. Re:Good law! on E-Voting Reform Bill Gaining Adherants · · Score: 1

    You can be sure there will be pork added to pay for replacement machines. Possibly even pork added for the existing vendors even to pay for opening their source. Nothing leaves congress without a huge pricetag.

  13. Re:So take your business to Best Buy on Circuit City and the American Dream · · Score: 1

    Generally a high paid sales guy doesn't necesarily know more about the technology. They are just better at selling crap. This is probably a bad move on their part, unless those people generally are bringing in less money than they are worth... Hey. Your a technology company.. Heres a novel idea.. Use technology to track employee cost versus sales and decide who to keep.

  14. Re:So take your business to Best Buy on Circuit City and the American Dream · · Score: 1

    HAAH. Yea sure. Best Buy pays crap. They also buy out companies then pay them crap wages driving people to leave. For example, did you know Geek Squad used to actually employee good techs till best buy bought them out. They dropped the wages and drove out all but the worse employees.

  15. Re:If he's a good politician.. on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 1

    Morality in no terms should be the basis for laws. Laws should exist simply exist where they benefit the stability of society. Besides that its up to people to make their own moral code. //For example I think abortion is horrific, but in no way does it have a negative effect on society as a whole (at-least in the American version, given if we start aborting girls like you sometimes see in China that may). So therefor while I don't "respect" your right to have an abortion, I also don't agree it should in any way be in the law books. Yea.. I am strange..

  16. Re:If he's a good politician.. on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 1

    Why so? Morality is a personal choice. I can think drinking alcohol is immoral and choose not to do it.. Why should I be constrained to your definition of morality? This is all assuming I'm not imposing my morallity on you of course.

  17. Re:If he's a good politician.. on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 1

    Well...you can still be gay even if you're not married..

    Where is the loss of the right to be gay you allude to?


    Some states have passed banned that literally state that no city or county in them can recognize gay marriage for any purpose including health insurance etc. Specifically targetting a group for discrimination especially when its done to please voters is wrong..plain and simple.

  18. Re:If he's a good politician.. on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 1

    Thanks I had no idea.

    As to the other commenter. Even if one believes in States rights how is actively taking away a persons liberties something even the State should do. (Sure if its done I'd prefer it on the state level because someone could move).

  19. Re:If he's a good politician.. on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But he has supported gay rights for a long time. Yes he has stated he thinks its immoral but I think drink is immoral but I don't support taking away your rights to do so. Look at his voting record he has voted against the marriage amendment and other anti gay stuff. Yea sure he isn't out campaigning for them that doesn't mean he hates them either.

  20. Re:hang on - *without* prejudice? on RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yep and this guy can choose to not accept the dropping without prejudice and file a counter-suit. His letter is saying he expects a dropping with prejudice if the RIAA doesn't want to rick a counter-suit. Sounds like they do.. Though most likely the RIAA doesn't know what they have gotten themselves into, and they certainly have never before dropped a claim with prejudice.

  21. Re:Also.. on HP Dishonors Warranty If You Load Linux · · Score: 1

    Did this dealer remove the tires when he brought them in. I'd sue them for faulty repairs if they didn't put them on right and they fell off driving out. That is not a warranty issue whatsoever.

  22. Re:finally, one big enough for regular use on Samsung's 64-GB Solid-State Drive · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but I do believe flash turned off stuck in storage has a fairly limited lifetime, while a harddrive has a very long lifetime. Failures from day to day use, yes Flash wins, mainly because small errors can be corrected with regular use.

  23. Re:Depth perception on Seeing Color in the Night · · Score: 4, Informative

    The real problem is one of magnification. Most night googles provide some amount of magnification (ie zoom) providing depth perception and zoom requires heavy math on the part of the googles to separate the images just the right amount to provide a sense of depth that would be faulty if you simply zoomed. Its possible but computationally heavy.

  24. Re:The Real Question Now on PS3 Folding@Home Begins with Impressive Numbers · · Score: 1

    Same thing with work computers that have WoW installed on them... HAHA We're all screwed! :)

    I do wonder if an actual business would ever do this (assuming its employees were allowed to play games during breaks.. douptful, but funny idea.)

  25. Re:they know.... on Viacom Says "YouTube Depends On Us" · · Score: 1

    Actually youtube doesn't have advertisements on the actual video pages just the rest. This is probably purposeful.