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  1. Re:so let me get this straight on Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two things immediately come to mind. Was this consensual? And were you wearing a Condom?

    "I Love All the World's People" - John Lennon

  2. Re:Damnit! on Truck-Mounted Laser Guns · · Score: 1

    What a light show it would make; Deadly as anything, but what a light show. Maybe Google maps could show it in real time?

  3. Linux's Problem is Learning Curve on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    A Desktop manager is nothing more than a GUI interface to the operating system command line prompt.

    There is a whole population out there that have key company knowledge, and only use computers to get the job done. If the Desktop Creaters want to really go get more users, then make their Desktop configurable to look, and feel just like Windows 95/98/2000/2003/XP/Vista. If in doubt, make the look and feel a user option; That way, you always win the argument.

    Once the User can configure the Desktop to behave like their favorite Desk Top, make all menu items Wizards that will figuratively take the user by the hand and guide them to their completed destination. And have the Wizard have an Audio of the instructions; Because there are 3 types of Learners out in the Wild.

    I just wish I had the time to make this Desktop Manager.

  4. Re:For those too lazy to read: on RIAA Adds 23 Colleges to Hit List, Avoids Harvard · · Score: 1

    I personally would be amused if the RIAA visited Yale. Because it is only a matter of time before class action status can be applied to those of the RIAA, AND their faceless masters.

  5. The market has shifted, why not follow it? on Blogs Are Eating Tech Media Alive · · Score: 1

    If one asks the question, "Where are these talented mines coming from?" It is only a matter of time before Sales people in the publishing business start looking at those countries to generate money. I think the advertising dollars spent in magazines published in India, Russia, Pakistan, and the Philippines would make interesting analysis. It is common business knowledge that to follow the money, one can make money more easily.

  6. Re:Format on Microsoft Pledges Conditional Support for ODF · · Score: 1

    It would be very nice if Microsoft handled the Canvas Tag, but there is a Javascript work around for that. Maybe in IE8?

  7. Re:First Skynet! on First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cool, these birds are fast and strong. But I was looking beyond Iraq. I am seeing an event, like a Hurricane? Could these same aircraft be used to assess initial damage to a community? Could these same aircraft fly in relief, and supplies to help those in a time of need? But the one thing that I wanted to see happen is if a 7/24 aerial reconnaissance of Black's Beach California posted on the Internet, Live; Now that! Would be a fine use of the president's, "Going It, Alone."

  8. Re:Bullshit on Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista? · · Score: 1

    Well, this issue got my attention. I immediately updated my downloaded free copy of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, with all the Microsoft updates that applied. I then brought up the Synaptic Manager. I installed a CD Rip/Tear/Burn program. I then uninstalled it. Just want to say, "Thanks". My Ubuntu is now updated with the latest Microsoft updates.

  9. i had a similar requirement on Matrox's Extio Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A while back, I had a requirement were having 3 to 5 monitors up showing data, analysis, and results all LIVE would speed up results. Matrox looked like the product that would do the job. I looked at the Matrox solution, and found my bank account wanting. So I looked at what Debian/Knoppix/Ubuntu offered. The result is a multi-monitor graphics machine for the price of a single Matrox card; Good product, I just can not afford it.

  10. Re:Wow! on NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet · · Score: 1

    Just a thought; But after you "restrain, and bar" yourself, does it talk dirty to you?

    "Honey, bring the camera, this is record breaker!" -- Larry the Cable Guy

  11. Re:I call BS on MS Moves R&D To Canada Due To Immigration Problem · · Score: 1

    After watching the movie, "Sicko", from a humane perspective; It kind of makes sense. But why move across the border, when India is just a phone call away?

  12. Re:Not really perpetual motion, though. on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 1

    I can not help but think that if anyone could harness the earth's magnetic field in a simple form, then maybe the device, what ever it is named, could be of some use. Has anyone put this on YouTube yet?

  13. Visual Studio verses Notepad on Windows Loses Ground With Developers · · Score: 1

    Visual Studio fills a lot of gaps, for the day to day needs. My problem has been that sometimes the Sales staff have gotten a contract in which .NET does not like; For example XML preprocessing statements in a XML output from a .NET Web Service. Web 2.0 applications security could be increased greatly if this were allowed. But it was solved by using Notepad, that I was able to side step this issue. That is when software engineering begins. I am glad I know both.

  14. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    I pleasantly choose to do the former.

    What is the reason for the pardon? An employee of the president is told to publicly expose a CIA agent, whose husband is a career diplomat, and said husband does not agree with the president, about the war in Iraq. For now, I will ignore what the other CIA staff members are thinking about what happened to one of their own. The employee, after being found guilty, and sentenced accordingly; Then is told he can go free by the president. Right about now, I think that if I saw the husband take a poke at the president, the president would get what he so desperately needs. And if I were the president, I would not flinch. Sometimes, when your ego gets to obese, a diet of Crow seems to help. Now, compare this to the hummer that President Clinton got, and at no time did Miss Lewinsky have the presidents ear.

    But the one thing that no one on this parent thread has mentioned is, Why? Look at the public facts. Iran is an emerging nuclear power. Iran will then be able to control the Red Sea, see map. The Red Sea is a major shipping lane for oil tankers sailing up and down the Red Sea; To Iraq. Running a pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean would have three positive things happen. One, cheaper oil from Iraq. Two, no Red Sea issues. Three, Halliburton share price.

    Now, what about the war in Iraq? Let us look at what has happened since the president committed Regicide. Suicide Bombers have all but left Tel Aviv and are now happily wondering around Baghdad. Kurdistan is beginning to take shape; The Turkish government is currently in control of some of that real estate. The Shiites and Sunnis are in an undeclared civil war with each other. Oil is now at $70.00 a barrel, before this president, oil was about $40.00 a barrel; Thanks Mr. President.

    All this stuff is flying around because our president has decided it is a superior decision to spend billions of U.S. Tax Dollars on maintaining the status quo. If the president really wanted to attack the Terrorists, then convert the U.S. from the oil dollar to the solar dollar. OPEC would have the Islamic Terrorist hauled into their respective Mosques, and told to Shut The F--- Up.

  15. Re:Huh? on Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence · · Score: 1

    I do not know if this parent article has anything to do with Linux, Computers, Science, or Technology in general. I just hope that damn oil pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean is worth all this nonsense.

  16. Re:How could a presentation "undermine" security? on Controversial Security Paper Nixed From Black Hat · · Score: 1

    I believe that these people were given an offer, they could not refuse. One has to ask, "Who would benefit by this deafening silence?"

  17. Re:This just in... on University of Washington Will Aid RIAA · · Score: 1

    I respect those who would challenge the Bully's whim, challenges are rift with the Unexpected, and builds the foundation of a strong Character; I guess maybe the UW needs to do what it does. As the father of a student who wishes to be a future Vet, I think maybe I will wait and see what other benefits UW offers its students. As it stands now, I have to shift to a "Neutral" when it comes to the UW educating, by example, its students on Character, and Ethics.

  18. EEO, Where Are You? on How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back · · Score: 1

    It amazes me that we have laws about "Dumping" of Goods into the United States, but the Dumping of "Services" is totally ignored.

    If this is not a blatant application of Discrimination based on who a person is, then I do not what it could be. If ever there was a reason for ACLU to exist, this violation of the law is it.

    But there is going to be a smile if Grim Irony on me if this story is shown on 60 Minutes.

  19. Re:The President says... on Scientists Move Closer to Human Therapeutic Cloning · · Score: -1, Troll

    I do not think so; From all the past actions of the President, and our waaaaay overly informed Vice President; Holyburton seems to have the final say in America's energy usage,(I think that will change soon). As for the Stem Cell thingy; This appears to be the President's own personal, "Wet Dream". I believe that any dying human would willingly accept the benefits of human cloning; Given the alternative. I also believe that Bush 2.0 will be the first in line to accept ANY benefits of human cloning; Should the need arise, given the alternative. Personally, I would love to have a "personal body" in storage, ready to go, should the need arise, given the alternative. Ask anyone who has accidentally lost a limb, or organ, or has a damaged body part, and they would line up for the chance to have it back, in fully operational order. Let us go one step further, just by using Mutagens, to be able to heal the Handicapped, and the Disabled; All on an "Out Patient" basics. This is not playing God, this is healing the sick, and helping the impaired.

    "China, and America, are two countries, separated, by a large body, of water."
      - President Bush Jr. welcoming the Premier of China in 2006

  20. Possible Civilian Uses? on NASA Frees Their Robotics Software · · Score: 1

    I just could not help but think if the Wikipedia folks could now be able to start up a "WikiBot" were Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Embedded/Robotic Engineering could be documented.

  21. Re:Internet restrictions are only a symptom on Users Rage Against China's 'Great Firewall' · · Score: 1

    If I were running China, I would be afraid of these things: Cheap Electricity, Cheap Gas, Cheap Cars, Cheap Cell Phones, and Cheap Levis; All of which are made in China.

  22. Just Out of Curiosity on 800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    Just a thought; But what was the Operating System of Choice for those poor unfortunate Department of Homeland Security Victims?

    "Slowly, one by one, the Penguins steal my sanity" - Unknown

  23. Re:330 miles ? on First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    Possibly by using a can or two of Foster's before measuring.

    Cheers Mate.

  24. Re:No surprise to those watching China on China Taking on U.S. in Cyber Arms Race · · Score: 1

    Would now be a good time to bring up the fact that as more "Americans" are forced to leave their IT jobs, the argument of ignoring the market flooding of other countries IT Services might just cost this country its current existence?

  25. Re:Which generation? on TV's "Mr. Wizard," Don Herbert, Dies At 89 · · Score: 1

    I fondly remember Pat Paulson performing a parody of Mr. Wizard. Don Herbert, and Pat Paulson have entertained me; I am grateful to them both for their work.