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  1. Re:what about the dark? on Solar Window Panes · · Score: 1

    Look, J*h*v*h gave us the sun just like any other tool that we can exploit to our own advantage. I intend to make full use of it, when I have the resources to do so.

    -uso.

  2. Re:GOD on Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash · · Score: 1

    Well, then again. Genesis had a better CPU (the 32-bit 68000, running at 8 MHz, compared to a 3.6-MHz or so 16-bit 65816 in the Super NES), but Super NES had far better video and sound hardware. Look at "Samurai Shodown" and "Mortal Kombat II".

    People prefered the SNES for two reasons: this, and they already knew of all the games on the NES.

    Then again most people I knew went and bought one of each. ;) Problem solved!

    -uso.

  3. Meh. on Can Lotus Notes R3 Prior Art Save The Browser? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd take anything that would serve as prior art. Software patents are teh sux and they have to go. FP?

    -uso.

  4. Re:innocuous indeed on Security Versus Science · · Score: 1

    You mean H. sapiens? Certainly they'd love to diddle with that species...

    -uso.

  5. Re:not necessarily blaming the scientists on Security Versus Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, and a highly contagious virus that can go pandemic in hours can't be a weapon of mass destruction? (Think Cholera)

    -uso.

  6. Re:fsck those 4$$|-|013$ on License to Surf, Take Two · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but Thunderbird looks and feels pretty damn similar to the NS3 mailer (and that IMHO is a Good Thing).

    -uso.

  7. Re:Which is it? on Scientists Set New Coldest Temperature Record · · Score: 1

    C=5(F-32)/9
    K=C-273

    -uso.

  8. Re:Mmmmm... Mars on Venusian Climate May Have Been Habitable · · Score: 1

    Snickers kinda-sorta is Mars (well, it's made by Mars)... ;)

    -uso.

  9. And I've been bullied by the cops too on Ruling on GPS Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    Okay, I get to work a few minutes before the place opens (welfare job at the time), I carried a purse at the time (yeah, yeah), well, some cop goes by, sees me standing around, passes once, comes back around and starts to question me.

    Meanwhile my immediate supervisor shows up and sees what's going on and explains things to the cop, and he goes away.

    Meh. There's worse police stories around here. The police force in Niagara Falls, NY is teh fux0r.

    -uso.

  10. Re:Civil liberties? on Ruling on GPS Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    I thought some rent-a-car companies used GPS already. Then, Snopes might have the definitive answer on that. ;)

    -uso.

  11. Re:... And shoot those who leave open relays/proxi on License to Surf, Take Two · · Score: 1

    Like Sailor Moon 184. Something like

    Usagi - "I don't have to worry about a thief breaking into my house when I'm all by myself - we've got nothing to steal."

    Minako - "Don't be so sure about that...you do have your life."

    Similarly, so what if you don't have anything people want on your computer? In fact you do - people can DoS it, or hijack it, or whatever, it's just like a random act of violence.

    -uso.

  12. Re:Blame the victim, eh? on License to Surf, Take Two · · Score: 1

    Red-blooded, honest men cannot control themselves from the intoxicating effects of nearby females, and that's their (i.e., the men) fault. (I say this as an ogler myself)

    -uso.

  13. Re:fsck those 4$$|-|013$ on License to Surf, Take Two · · Score: 1

    Prolly be modded troll, but it's not.

    SefsckinWAT?!!! License to surf? Big Brother? Get prosecuted for saying something They don't want you to say? FEEEEEH! The answer is not restrictions on the users.

    So what is the answer?

    Viruses, worms and trojans are helped along by people exploiting the most common mailer, which is Outlook Express. Why is it the most common mailer? Ask the DoJ sometime, maybe? I think people with IE and OE should be notified that they are using a broken system, and "upgraded" to Firebird and Thunderbird. Firebird has the same basic look and feel as IE, and it's more stable. As for Thunderbird, well, the only POP3 client I ever used consistently was built into Netscape 3, so it was basically the same thing as Thunderbird.

    -uso.

  14. Re:XBox is getting kind of old... on The Hacker Behind "Hacking the Xbox" · · Score: 1

    64MB is enough. It's painful running Linux in 64MB but it's certainly doable. (I only have that much RAM)

    -uso.

  15. Re:It's not the end of the world on US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline · · Score: 1

    Well, hospitals at least will have backup power (generators), if they're reputable, wouldn't they?

    -uso.

  16. Re:Are you down? on US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline · · Score: 1

    Betty Bowers reflects Christianity like Osama bin Laden reflects Islam. Get a life. Read what God really said.

    Now for the topic, this should never have happened... I heard rumors about Win2K systems controlling the failsafes, that got MSBLASTER, anyone can confirm or deny? ;) If so, hey, I'd like to pummel someone in the dust for this...and it hit a little close to home, remember, Niagara Falls is home to the hydroelectric plant run by the New York Power Authority that supplies a lot of juice to NYC. Not surprising that NYC was affected. Thankfully I was only affected for half an hour! Ghad.

    -uso.

  17. Re:Who? on Disney Completes Dali Animation · · Score: 1

    The Sailor Moon episode known in the US as "#6 / Time Bomb" (it's #9 in Japan, can't think of the title right now) and the opening sequence to the second half of the R season (involving time travel) features folded-over clocks in a Dali vein.

    It wouldn't be the first animation I've seen that had the Dali influence, just, if I bother, the first which Dali actually contributed to. ;)

    -uso.

  18. Re:We are american... on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's why Los Angeles is so polluted, you insensitive clod. ;)

    The answer to problems like smog in LA (and also Toronto, ON, Canada) is to move away from gasoline-powered vehicles, but no...

    (1) People will stick to their gas-guzzling SUVs because they think SUVs are 1337.
    (2) The oil companies hate to lose revenue.
    (3) The populace fears change.
    (4) The populace associates alternative-powered vehicles with dinky subcompact cars that can only go 20mph for half an hour before needing a recharge.

    FUD, plain and simple.

    -uso.

  19. Re:Got a volunteer for ya' on H.R. 3057: To the Asteroids, Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    Jean Chretien isn't French, you insensitive clod, he's Canadian! (Quebecois? Not sure...)

    -uso.

  20. Re:or, more likely... on Cringely on Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    NYS driver's licenses don't have SSNs on them. :)

    And thank God they don't! It's one more way to get ripped off if your wallet/purse gets palmed, because you *have* to have it.

    -uso.

  21. Re:s/Mailboxes, Etc./The UPS Store/g on Cringely on Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Meh, I send all my packages by USPS (regular snailmail)... Usually it's just CDs, once it was about 15 videotapes.

    I don't trust UPS, FedEx, AirEx or anyone any more than I can throw them, but the USPS is quite reliable from my experience, and cheap. ;)

    -uso.

  22. Re:Apple Corps on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    You're admitting you like James Taylor enough to know trivia about him?

    I happen to have brushed up on my Beatles trivia, that's why I know... BTW, you should see on "CMT Crossroads" where he does "Wide Open Spaces" with the Dixie Chicks. He does a good job with it. :

    -uso.

  23. Re:You can't cybersquat.... on VeriSign Looks At Earning Money on Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    Someone I knew accidentally typoed "linc.sourgeforge.net" instead of "linc.sourceforge.net" ...OMG, it rivaled Goatse! Please...Let the Net work as it's supposed to... If there is no site, ERROR OUT!

    -uso.

  24. Re:I thought a beatle was a bug ? on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    I believe Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is still alive. Paul McCartney is alive and released his most recent album not a couple years ago.

    -uso.

  25. Re:Apple Corps on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    James Taylor got his start on the Apple label.

    -uso.