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  1. Re:When Americans No Longer Own America on President Defends Global Outsourcing · · Score: 1
    Because our so-called "free trade" policies have left us with an over $700 billion annual trade deficit, other countries are sitting on huge piles of the dollars we gave them to buy their stuff (via Wal-Mart and other "low cost" retailers). But we no longer manufacture anything they want to buy with those dollars.


    Nothing we manufacture,true, but as long as oil is bought/sold primarily in $, US $'s will continue to be in demand. Lookout when that's not the case (Iran's oil bourse anyone) but I'm sure we'll do 'everything we can' to prevent a switch away from the oil-backed $.

  2. Priceless on Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation · · Score: 1


    Oh, so you want it to work! Well... (whips out openoffice) Tada! --microsofty

  3. Easy to confuse on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    I guess communism versus a community is easy for him to confuse.

  4. Re:Anti-spam zealotry is a good thing on AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Well I have roadrunner at home (cable modem) and I can't send e-mail to AOL users due to the parent topic.

    Gotta love how I can't send e-mail from one Time-Warner company to another....
    I guess an example of the left hand breaking a few fingers on the right.

  5. Draw a line with a clue on Open Source Enables Terrorist States · · Score: 1
    Where is the line drawn?


    Open source software to me is a manifestation of a free exchange of ideas... ideas so valued that they can be (and are) "exchanged" for money as well.


    Should University educations become limited in their scope unless students pass security clearances?


    The thing that "gets me" about the current "war on terrorism" is how much damage has been done in the wake of Sept. 11 to the ideas supposedly in conflict with said terrorists. This will be their legacy and ours to bear.

  6. Re:WRONG on SQL Server Developers Face Huge Royalties · · Score: 1
    s/hear/here/

    (sound of coffee going down)

  7. Re:WRONG on SQL Server Developers Face Huge Royalties · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hence "extreme programming, v2"...


    "Wait guys, the lawyer's not hear yet"

  8. Add it to the list... on Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections · · Score: 2

    e(x) population growth. How long can it continue?

  9. Re:all sorts of theories on More Evidence of Increase in Profound Autism · · Score: 2
    Vaccines and man-made chemicals in general, proliferate in higher amounts than ever in human history. PBS-Frontline did an interesting report some time back about this.. describing the vast quantity of artificial chemicals that have been in widespread use since the 1950's, with little study on the longterm impact on people. They also did a good job describing the part the political lobbying process played in bypassing extensive testing by the CMA and other chemical manufacturing lobby groups.

    The best I can come up with is a link to the frontline 'fooling with nature' site.

    Go into any factory, and read a few MSDS sheets. Then see what products are being made that use these chemicals. Then try to find supporting product safety studies that have any real meat to them. It's kind of scary.

  10. Re:KDE not first! on RandR Support on XFree86 4.3 · · Score: 2
    This is true. It's been around for prolly a year on the iPAQ. Works nicely on jornada 720 too. Truly is a nice extension. And the matchbox wm supports it very well.

  11. MAC filter always worked for me on Wireless Camouflage? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I have a 3com Airconnect AP (one of the earliest AP's available). It has MAC filtering for nics. For the odd time I have a new nic I want to use, I need to add the MAC addr to it to even get a signal.


    It seems to work very well and would foil would-be wardrivers.

  12. iPaq, not ipod ;) on Portable MP3 Player w/ Unix Support? · · Score: 2

    Running familiar-gpe + 1gb udrive for tunes.
    Using my developing version of scream (c-lang version). supports streaming and soon, ogg for the Fraunhofer(sp?) freaks. No, it doesn't cram 20gb into it but you can get a 5gb card at a decent price (rumors of 1gb pcmcia hd's this xmas abound.. based on ipod's use of them). But can you scp your tunes into a ipod/rio/etc. or listen to Radio Paradise :-)

  13. Re:Things to consider... on Portable MP3 Player w/ Unix Support? · · Score: 2
    While we're tangenting.. does anyone know what happened to the 2GB udrive? It was advertized about a year ago and now I can find mention of it.

  14. Re:Interesting but silly on Cassette-Shell Sized MP3 Player/Recorder · · Score: 2
    That's what clamps and duct-tape are for!


    Seriously, yes it can slide depending on your vehicle's interior. Fortunately in my beastie, I have a nice little recessed area where it can safely 'slosh' to a minimum.

  15. Interesting but silly on Cassette-Shell Sized MP3 Player/Recorder · · Score: 2
    Just use your favorite mp3 player (ipod, i2go, ipaq w/scream ;) and add a cassette adapter. Got me to the smokies and back very easily with microdrive/hd capacities and no kludgy U/I.

  16. It's 12:31 pm... on Ask Moshe Bar about [your choice here] · · Score: 2
    Please restate your assumptions ;)

  17. When will it stop? on Under Attack by PanIP's Patent Lawyers? · · Score: 1
    Frivolous lawsuits like this will stop when frivolous patents are not issued.

  18. Re:Ah, bullshit. on David Packard Writes HP Epitaph · · Score: 2
    Wish I could mod this up further. This is spot on.


    When will people realize the old economy and the new economy is still simply: the economy. Just because it's their time on this planet, "highfliers" don't have to crap all over what works well, in an honorable way to make their mark...cheap shots abound(sigh)

  19. Re:Linux - (slightly OT) on HP/COMPAQ Publishes OS/product Roadmap · · Score: 2
    Familiar is what I use on my j720.

    Some tweaks necessary but not hard to grasp.


    I swapped out roms but others are having moderate success booting linux all in ram. Search here for details.

  20. Re:Jornada 720 HPC on HP/COMPAQ Publishes OS/product Roadmap · · Score: 3, Informative
    Especially with linux installed. I now have a mobile linux workstation with my 720. It simply rocks.

    Hacking cf-II into cf slot, I have a full gnu-gcc toolchain on udrive so can even piddle with kernel development for the jornada, on the jornada :-)

    As far as what will happen with the joranda hpc's, I'm trying to find out... but everything done so far is directed toward the $ so I'm not hopeful.

  21. Re:Good news about the iPAQ line: on HP/COMPAQ Publishes OS/product Roadmap · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try this and get some real use out of it.

  22. So if I on Turner CEO: "PVR Users Are Thieves" · · Score: 2
    turn off the TV for 30-second intervals, I'm a thief?

  23. Re:Yes while we have good intentions on Nanotechnology, US Government, and Secrecy · · Score: 2
    Nano Technology is good, I support it, i think we should be spending hundreds of billions on nano technology and things like it.


    Nanotech is like all tech, merely acting as an extension of ourselves. Obviously the power this could impart could be tremendous... but as for good/evil, look at the people involved in its use.

  24. Re:Nanotech != Good. on Nanotechnology, US Government, and Secrecy · · Score: 2

    Yes, these nanobot-platelets could be hackable!!

  25. OMG... on Patent Granted on Sideways Swinging · · Score: 2
    They even cite "underdoggies"!


    Young children often need help to climb onto a swing, and may need a push (sometimes even an "underdog" push) to begin swinging


    Nice to know the USPTO will still permit the unlicensed use of underdoggies for my 2-year-old!