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  1. Re:iBookshelf would work on Linux At the Point of Sale · · Score: 2, Funny
    Try searching freshmeat before asking questions about software.

    iBookshelf - Default branch
    Added: Sat, Mar 12th 2005 12:39 PDT (2 years, 11 months ago)
    Updated: Fri, Apr 8th 2005 00:58 PDT (2 years, 10 months ago)
    Development Status] 2 - Pre-Alpha

    Doahh!
    Try looking at your own links, beside for a comic shop, the software would have to be a chimera of an investment portfolio program, a POS program and a FDA 501K level inventory program in other words it don;t exists. I've been looking for an FDA 501K level inventory program for quite a while now it needs to keep track of
    ordering, items received by quantity, lot numbers and expiration dates and keeps track of preferred, generic, depreciated and obsolete items and what went into which product and was assembeled by who and when
  2. Re:That's what he wants on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 1

    Insane is a legal term that means basically the inability to understand the difference between right and wrong due to mental illness. Being judged insane means your not responsible for your actions and will not be imprisoned, but you can be hospitalized until you no longer pose a danger to yourself or society which could be indefinitely. Thompson's behaviors are not inconsistent with obsessive-compulsive syndrome, which is very treatable, and normal not considered grounds for insanity unless it is very extreme. If Thompson was diagnoses with Obsessive-Compulsive syndrome, he would know the difference between right and wrtong but likely not to care if it interfered with his compulsions. The ironic part of this is Thompson appears to have the same mental illness that makes violent video-gamer more likely to act out violently in real life.

  3. Re:Next up... on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Full Legal rights come into effect for natural persons which means a person who is born in the US or is naturalized. The unborn have no natural right to ownership.

  4. Re:Next up... on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 1

    We are not rejecting any arguments here, the Court is saying Jack Thompson will not be able to effectively practice law without another attorney signing the filings, we're just rejecting what Jack is arguing, not the argument itself.

  5. Re:Next up... on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 4, Insightful
    IANAL but

    02/19/2008 ORDER-SHOW CAUSE
    TO: JOHN BRUCE THOMPSON

    It appears to the Court that you have abused the legal system by submitting numerous frivolous and inappropriate filings in this Court.


    Therefore, it is ordered that you shall show cause on or before March 5, 2008, why this Court should not find that you have abused the legal system process and impose upon you a sanction for abusing the legal system, including, but not limited to directing the Clerk of this Court to reject for filing any future pleadings, petitions, motions, letters, documents, or other filings submitted to this Court by you unless signed by a member of The Florida Bar other than yourself.


    They are not really saying he did anything, they are just saying that it looks that way, if he has evidence that the court has not seen that would show that they are wrong, he's invited to present it. If there is no evidence then things are the way they look and he's going to have the legal equivalent of needing to hold an adults hand before they let him cross the street! I doubt there is going to be a practicing attorney that will either sign-off on Jack's filings or take his case in Florida; I think a defamation/libel suit is out of the question. I expect if he starts running his mouth about this publicly the next step would be dis-barrment or even contempt of court.
  6. Re:MOD PARENT IGNORANT on CERN Scientists Looking for the Force · · Score: 1

    OMG a linear accelerator, dude that is so off topic in a thread about the Large Hadron Collider!

  7. Re:Obligatory on CERN Scientists Looking for the Force · · Score: 1

    I'm just dyslexic enough that it took me a few months not to read it that way.

  8. Re:Dial up should be discontinued on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    Dial-up is just crazy expensive for an ISP, unless they are huge enough to bully the teleco into giving them a good price. Do the math a T1 line lets 23 lines into the modem pool for dial-up at about $300.00 a month, then they still need to connect to the net! People expect dial-up to go for about $12.00 and no busy signals, and a line is going to set you back $13.00 a month, that doesn't give you much wiggle room.

  9. Re:Opportunity cost on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    Obviously you've never been in an ER in a major US city, when I was in Detroit Receiving's ER, the Law Enforcement and Correction Officer out number the staff and probably equaled the patients.

  10. Re:Could you elaborate? on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    The $200B is a figure that is supposed to represent the value of the tax incentives and legislative and regulatory changes that was supposed to augment broadband deployment. It helped finance, the dot-boom which left the country littered with dark cable, and Ebay stuffed to the gills with used internet equipment; now the problem is in the last mile and artificial shortages on the "backbone". Maybe what we need is an "Unused Tax". If a service provide has a territory and is unable to service customers inside that territory, they would be taxed on the unserviced customers; likewise for unlit fiber. If "lost opportunity" is an expense, then should "avoided expenses" be a profit?

  11. Re:Nice idea, but possibly dubious math on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    I parsed that sentence quite differently and assumed that the 100 hours was for the whole population, not per individual,
      if a person is paying 360.00 per year for DSL and saving $200.00 that pretty good, but if its $600.00 for cable and saving $200.00 not so much,
    finally increasing the deployment rate by 7%, you could gain that much by have good weather for the crews to work in.

  12. Re:Wasn't that the whole point on US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success · · Score: 4, Interesting

    prior to this the maximum ceiling of the missile used was unknown.
    We still don't, we're talking about shooting satellites so ceiling doesn't really apply. It is known that the velocity of the missile will taper off as it gains altitude due to gravity and because it's a kinetic kill vehicle that means it's effectiveness is a function of the closing velocity between the warhead and the target. Each potential target is going to present it's unique set of variables through a blend of engineered friability to break it up into small pieces on re-entry to protect the secrets onboard or the public on the ground and the hardening to make it less vulnerable to the space environment and attack; So each satellite shot is unique.


    This bird they used, The RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) seems from the description to be rather modular, I bet they can mix and match rocket motors in the various stages to get the parameters they want without to much difficulty. I'd be surprised if we couldn't reach-out and pick off a geo-sync satellite if we wanted to.

  13. Re:Breathing air and water on New Science Standards Approved in Florida · · Score: 1

    A bigger problem is getting the CO2 out of the blood stream, our lungs are much better at extracting O2 from water than they are at getting the CO2 out into the water; that's why when somebody arrests the Dr. inject Sodium Bicarbonate into the heart to counter act acidosis so the heart muscle can exchange gases when resuscitation begins.

  14. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ on New Science Standards Approved in Florida · · Score: 1

    Do you mean like a Lungfish? Criminey your UID is almost a million, does your mother know where you are? You youngsters today are a are a bunch of ill mannered know-nothing slackers now get the hell off my lawn.

  15. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ on New Science Standards Approved in Florida · · Score: 1

    Gravity is actually the weakest of the forces and the one that is most difficult for scientists to quantify, model or test, even Large Hadron Collider, LHC will not do it. The reason we think we understand gravity is because it is long-range like the electro-magnetic force and theyare easily sensible to us unlike the other two forces, weak and strong nuclear forces which are too short ranged.

  16. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ on New Science Standards Approved in Florida · · Score: 1
    If they're going to teach the theory of evolution, they should they should at least teach that it's more than a theory!

    I always assumed that a theory was as strong as it gets without being religion. Even after a theory has been tested and survived almost every challenge it might be called a law, yet a law can be repealed or amended.

    The panel includes the word "evolution" in state science standards for the first time, but it is relegated to a place among a host of ideas, including Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. By contrast Isaac Newton's law of gravity is taught as undisputed fact.

    I find it interesting that one of the "theories", relativity, pretty much blew one of their "facts" out of the water for all but trivial cases, Newton's law of gravity.

    I think it was Mark Twain that said "When God created morons, he was only practicing for School Boards."
  17. Re:Just like the Scientology documents on Cringely Looks at the WikiLeaks Debacle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The thing is, all of this spies and murder stuff is a bit over the top for the more typical organization. Someone is going to rat on the Mafia? He'll get whacked.
    How about if the "typical organization" is the kind of place that has those Mafiosos as customers; this guy ratted out the Mafia's bank. Seems like they might have a federal judge in their pocket too.

  18. Re:Mod Up Informative. on Cringely Looks at the WikiLeaks Debacle · · Score: 1

    Rich, but not as rich as she was before Grampa got pissed off at her.
    Skinny, but anyone on as much ADAH meds as she takes is skinny and she also is either an airhead or pretending to be which is just as bad.
    Begging, that just being needy and overstimulates our basic predatory impulses, it'll get tiresome real quick.
    A dream come true man, well maybe because you can wake up from a dream and I'd bet Paris is someone that should be taken in small doses not someone you'd really want to make a life-long commitment to.

  19. Re:A good reminder on Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought · · Score: 1

    You're supposed to check your data, check your facts and try to avoid making implicit assumptions.
    That's why I love stupid questions, because the answer to them usually starts out something like "Well everyone knows that..." and sometimes ends with "wow i guess everyone was wrong...".

  20. Re:Wikipedia says 1000 on Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought · · Score: 1

    it's very pedantic to argue about factual errors in an article rapidly changing due to emerging research and uses qualifiers to hard numbers like "is approximately", "is believed to be", "is estimated", and "New discoveries indicate". Now if your not going to play nice with the other kids, we're going to take a way your recess privileges.

  21. Re:private or public science? on Gates Foundation Vs. Openness In Research · · Score: 1

    Everyone is too afraid to publish in case patent trolls sieze their work,
    Shouldn't be at least not in the USA, because we are a first to conceive based patents system unlike EU that are first to File, being publicly published is proof it's your idea and that you had the idea not later than the publication date.

  22. Re:Surprised? on Gates Foundation Vs. Openness In Research · · Score: 1

    I have some friends that are moderately wealthy, they set up a charitable foundation and are funding some charity work in the industry I work in and the feeling I'm getting from what they tell me is more like wolves circling a babe in the woods than everybody getting together and singing Kumbya. How many charities actually spend more than 10 cents on the dollars collected on what it's collected for?

  23. The only way to really know is, on Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing? · · Score: 1

    The only way to really know is, to install a linux box as a gateway between the users and the ISP and do some serious traffic logging and analysis. This way you can build a profile of how the users are Really loading the system and how the responds. Switching a customer from a low duty cycle ISP that provides bursts of 16 Mb/S to a high duty cycle T1 line that provide 1.54 Mb/S, is a serious endeavor especially considering that the cable modem provides 10 times the bandwidth for 1/6th the price, you need all your duck in a row to make a business case for that.

    I'd consider using the Cable for downloads, and bonding a sDSL line or two together for uploads, 1 cable + 2 DSL's is going to run you about $110.00 /mo a T1 is about $300.00 a month.

  24. Re:No Powerboost for Me on Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing? · · Score: 1

    no, I wasn't running any torrents at the time.
    I take that to mean that you turned off the torrents and then tested, which means your connection was probably still in "Punitive Mode"; you need to shut down your cable modem for at least 30 second then reboot it with a fresh configuration, which gets you back into "Normal Mode" and a new IP address that is not viciously throttled by the sandvine policy routers at the head-end.

  25. Re:Volume on Inventor to Launch Pop Bottle Rocket into Space · · Score: 1

    You do realize that to reach orbit you would have to lift all of the massive crap you are using for reaction mass a good distance? In reality there is no way a pressure bottle rocket is going to get up to orbital velocities from this planet period. Even metallic hydrogen wouldn't store enough energy.