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  1. Re:This is why we need a manned mission! on ESA to Deploy Mars Express Radar · · Score: 1

    What are your numbers? Have you studied this in any detail? My numbers indicate its very doable, but that's based on declassified data.

  2. Re:Media Blitz Planned on Current State of Haptic Research · · Score: 1

    The first thing that got my attention was the LACK of any market products.

    I can't help but wonder if the investors are of two camps now. One camp thinks, "If we can hold on a little longer, we'll own the market." The other camp is most definitly thinking, "How can I cash out of this dead end."

  3. Re:That's how it works. on DDOS Mafia On The Loose · · Score: 1

    Has it occured to the white hat crew that by putting these bad guys in jail, it just might work?

  4. Re:Page 2 reads... on U.S. Army Guide to Code Breaking · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall a certain DOD type trying to explain to a more clueless PHB about code breaking, "Any code can be broken, one method is a 'Bribe', another method is 'Extortion', and most notable is a 9mm pointed at your forehead while you gaze at your murdered dog." The seekers of decoding solutions use technicals only as a last resort; because of cost, and time.

  5. Tooth Fairy Too? on Microsoft Office Formats Not Really Being Opened · · Score: 1

    This is strickly a commerical question.

  6. Re:[tt]:Encarta on MSN Search Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    What was Charlene Li wearing when she was chanting the dwellers of redmond litteny?

  7. Re:Poor Translations on Fansubbers Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Ya, my daughter watches this stuff with the subtitles turned on. I've listened and wondered why didn't the transaltors just follow the subtitles. The knowledge level of listner for this stuff in the u.s. is a lot more sophisticated then the translation.

    I'm curious, how are the folks from japan losing money? This stuff is on TV, if anything, knowing its on TV makes downloading less of a distribution factor. Or am I missing something here?

  8. Re:Do they - ? on Monkeys Pay for Monkey Porn · · Score: 1

    Sooooo, Joe Sixpack will pay money to see pictures of female monkeys? Is this a GREAT country or WHAT!?

  9. Re:Indeed on Microsoft Claims Linux Security a Myth · · Score: 1

    One very simple way to dissolve the rhetoric of the products forged at redmond is to create a list of all the ways security can be made not to be. Then in column 1 use a check mark for the corresponding act for redmond. In column 2 place a check mark for linux. Count the check marks, that will give you an overall observational understanding of the whole holes. Then count the ones that both operating systems suffer from together, that will describe their common needs. It ain't gonna be pretty for either side, but the results will not be clouded. That's why I think the dwellers of redmond should be concerned.

  10. Re:Because on Why Did The FBI Retire Carnivore? · · Score: 1

    Urban legend uses the following definitions.

    The "Hydrogen Dollar" is where the value of the U.S. Dollar is based losely on the economy of extracting hydrogen for energy purposes. Currently the value of the U.S. Dollar is based losely on the extracting oil for energy purposes.

    Granted there is a finite quanity of oil that OPEC has control over, that quanity to all intents and purposes is 'very huge'. It's a classic case of, "I won't repair the roof because its raining. When it stops raining; why worry, the roof is not leaking."

  11. Re:Grin, borg, grin on Microsoft Posts Record Earnings · · Score: 1, Interesting

    X-Box as a server? Sure, why not. And considering that we are reading results from convicted liers; It's cool. But one has to ask ones self, "Why are the dewellers of Redmond so fearful of Linux?" I truly believe that these people are very intelligent, and do not do things without reason. So I submit the following tensor that reprecents their fears:

    Knoppix > the Redmond Product.

  12. Re:"Suits you well" on The Evolution of Space Suit Design · · Score: 1

    One can only imagine what space exploration will be like if Jerry Ryan models the spray on version of a "second skin" type of space suit. Ooooooooooh-my.

  13. Re:How is this legal? on Human Animal Hybrid Created in Lab · · Score: 1

    Due to this type of basic research, the day is coming when if you need a body part, one can be tailor made for you.

    Imagine it; Organ disease will be treated on an out-patient basics. Also, due to Cancers need to be a bad guy, a personalized cure that will not affect you in your day to day living. The cure for your cancer is administered with a pill.

    Something else to consider; It is estimated that over 90% of our bodily functions are bacterial based. This fundamental research can only help us tomorrow.

  14. Re:Several HUGE differences on MS To Limit Security Fixes to Legal Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    Looking at the basic issue here, I see one of three things being true.

    1. Big corperation trys not to think of cost on a major recall on a largly defective product.

    2. Big corperation can't fix the problem on a largly defective product.

    3. This one is what I think is more true than false; Big coperation sees product as obsolete because the desktop computer is now a handheld.

  15. Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban. on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 1

    Well, I could think its because of the bad press that EA games got on how they treated their own workers.

    BUT FIFA? There only children! FIFA is MORE THAN LIFE OR DEATH! My god these are only children!

    *pan to chinese children that are now seen confussed as to what to do with a soccer ball on cnn8 news*

  16. Re:Improved interface? on Jef Raskin Gets $2 Million To Develop RCHI · · Score: 1

    Saw the web site, I don't know if I'm ready to drop the shell yet. There's still to much developement that one does that is very procedural, and that shells are the easyest way to quickly get the job done. I guess this is a new type of window manager could be a combination of open office, kde, mozilla, and gnome?

  17. Re:"New stem cell harvesting was outlawed in the U on US Stem Cells Contaminated · · Score: 1

    I go an create a human clone, and its first words are, "Hi Gang". Someone is going to pay.

  18. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Kahle v Ashcroft Appeal Filed · · Score: 1

    I just can't see anyone being commercially wronged, who has passed away.

    I know we are moving into the Diamond Age, its a certainy. But we also have to not ignore that we need to do just more than protect our ideas; We have to still create more ideas. Our current value system is not allowing for this.

    I think I like the idea of the patent system life of a patent being 20 years, and only the holder of the patent can apply for an extension. This could easily be applied to copy rights, trade marks, and trade secrets.

  19. Re:Linux community already donates on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 1

    Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity.

    I'm sadly troubled to think that in order to give $750M to children that I must first become a global class bad guy.

  20. The Nature of a A Good Guy on US ISP Terminates Iranian News Website · · Score: 1

    You know your a Good Guy/Gal when you have a change to be the Bad Guy/Gal, and you weren't.

  21. Re:Nuclear Material? Ummmm, could be Useful. on A Countdown To Global Catastrophe? · · Score: 1

    It is written by the profit, "Dig a well, plant a tree, have a son." I haven't read anywhere in the Qur'an were its says anything about paying attention to trailer-living-white-trash-no-good-for-nothing-bum 's like me.

  22. Re:Re-Entry on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 1

    If I were the head of the 'CNSA' from the land of the Panda Bear, I think I'd be talking to Burt Rutan, not NASA; Lets face it, results count.

    Memo to NASA; Say it aint so.

  23. Re:I'll bet it says... on Decrypting Kryptos · · Score: 1

    "Buy U.S. Savings Bonds, and Save."

  24. Re:Ya know... on NYT On The Internet And Child Molestation · · Score: 1

    During the Medieval period in Europe there was the Guilds.

    In the 1930's a man at age 13 could do a full days work, and get paid a man's wage doing it. This was in factories, and on farms.

    Mother Nature does not care, as long as the species survives. It is western civilization that has championed the cause of 'Accountability'.

    If it turns out that Conan the Barbarian's definition of the meaning of life is correct; I'll never forgive myself.

  25. Re:Must Be True on Does Microsoft Cause Lower Software Prices? · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that with the Mozilla folks completing their calendar, scheduling, and project management projects; that the FUD levels are going to start to raise. The world will be looking at initial costs of $0.00 for data processing software that performs 85% of the work done by computers today; And those same people can still use their Old Machines.