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  1. Re:Lovely Omission on Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act · · Score: 1

    And this got modded up how?

    Good call, let us compare conservative billionaires to a man who killed millions of people for no reason other than their relgious backgroud, color of their skin, or personal beliefs.

    It is time people stepped back and quit comparing people to Hitler. It only goes to bolster his image amongst the fruitcakes.

    I don't agree with the GP about billionaires only being liberal. But lets use some common sense here.

  2. Re:Different Take on Moving from a Permanent Position to Contract Work? · · Score: 1

    Not to worry, I they let you go you due to outsourcing, go and apply for the contract. Who better to fill the outsourcing contract. You have exerience as a contractor and you know the postion. Who better to fill it.

    That's it, your hired!

  3. Re:Wisconsin Does Have The Best Stuff! on Wisconsin Corpse Plant To Bloom Again · · Score: 1

    That depends on how you define a lake.

    Minnesota DNR defines a lake as being larger than 10 acres. Of which there are 11,842. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/faq/mnfacts/water.html

    From Wisconsin's own DNR:
    "Of the 15,081 documented lakes in Wisconsin, only about 40 percent have actually been named. The majority of the unnamed lakes are very small, less than 10acres." 60% of 15.081 is 9048. A majoriy of 9k would be about 6k-7k. Therefore about 9000 lake is accurate. http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/lakes/Lak es1a.pdf

    If Minnesota counted all body of water less than 10 acres, there would be well more than 15k.

  4. Re:when asked for comment on ESPN And Electronic Arts Sign 15-Year Deal · · Score: 1

    I'm from Minnesota, I hoped the Vikings would win, but wasn't dumb enough to bet they would.

    They had to beat the Packers the week before, or the fans in MN would have thrown them out of the state.

    I guess it's true, a fool and his money are soon parted.

  5. Re:How very timely... on NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open · · Score: 1

    So what. They waited until after the information was disclosed. How can you trust that they didn't put some other, more obscure backdoor in?

    I wouldn't trust them any more.

  6. Finally on Gentoo/PPC64 Beta Live CDs Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    I finally have something other than AIX to run on the 8 H80s I have sitting in the closet!!!

  7. Re:I got one of the "free" phones... on AT&T Wireless Phone "Upgrades" Aren't · · Score: 1

    Class action law suit? Why?

    You want to give the lawyers more money so you can get your $5 coupon in the mail in three years?

  8. Re:Check the fine print - What fine print? on How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    When I got my DSL I did not even sign a contract. I called my local phone company/ISP and told them I wanted DSL.

    Then I asked if I could run my own servers. They said as long I was not reselling the serverice, that they did not care.

    Also, I do not use that much bandwidth. I have never used and P2P apps and such.

  9. Re:Not a registered organ donor? Then no transplan on Ending Organ Donor Shortages? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have donated an organ already, because of that, I get preference over someone who has not.

    There are a variety of different factors that go into determining who is eligible to receive an organ. Some are, but not limited to, location, blood type, general health, how quickly can you be ready to recieve the organ when it is availble, etc.

    My aunt got lucky one 4th of July several years ago. Some had dies in car accident, me he rest in peace, and was a perfect match for my aunt. My mom was signed up as her back-up contact. Well, the hospital called my home and I happened to anwer. My aunt had an hour to call the hospital and verify that she would be able to make it there within four hours. Let me tell you, we were calling everybody we could think to call. Finally someone thought to call as many radio stations that we could get a hold of in the area. We had to call my aunt's nurse back and the nurse had to call the radio stations. My aunt called the hospital with less than 15 minutes before the organ went to some else.

    And as several people have already pointed out,
    if you need an organ, there would be no way you could ever donate because of all the anti-rejection drugs you have to take.

  10. Re:It's expensive being policeman to the world on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    what he did in private was none of your business.

    What do you mean in private? He was in the Oval Office, the office of the President of the United States of America. He could have at least taken her to his bedroom in the White House.

    Also, I don't agree with reasons GW gave for going into Iraq, but I do feel it was the right thing to do. The Iraqi people were being tortured, murdered, raped, etc. and the world watched. Everybody knew it was happening and nobody did anything about it. It was about time we did.

    Now is were the true test starts for the war in Iraq. How quickly can we get a freely elected government installed and get the hell out.

    And yes, there are other contries that need the same thing done to them. None that I can think of off the top of my head right now, I am too tired to think now.

  11. Re:Worlds first 64bit desktop ? on New G5 Power Macs "Fastest Desktop In The World" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When's the last time you ran down to Wal-Mart and purchased a Mac? It's been a while hasn't it?

  12. Re:Don't buy an Apple on Apple Uses DMCA to Halt DVD burning · · Score: 0

    Yes, I have.

  13. Re:Don't buy an Apple on Apple Uses DMCA to Halt DVD burning · · Score: 1

    And I agree that they should profit for the code that they wrote. They should sell iDVD for external dirves and go after the people that pirate the version they made.

    Invoking the DMCA to stop poeple from using iDVD on external drives is like Apple saying, "If you buy my hardware you are not a pirate, but if you buy someone else's DVD burner you must be a pirate"

    iDVD can be used for the same purpose on either an internal drive or an external drive. Maybe the solution would be for Apple to trash iDVD across the board.

    The only reason that Apple is enforcing the DMCA is to increase hardware sale. It is that simple.

  14. Don't buy an Apple on Apple Uses DMCA to Halt DVD burning · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just wrote Apple informing them that I would no longer purchase one of there new iMacs. It a nice little machine but if this is the way they want to play, then they will not get my money.

  15. Sen. Wellstone. on Proposed Law To Open Code ... In Cars · · Score: 1

    I am from Minnesota. The only reason Wellstone is proposing this now is because it is an election year. He is trying to show his support for the "little guy". He knows he has a fight on his hands with Coleman. I won't vote for either one because Wellstone is a jack*ss and Coleman was put into place by Bush when Chenney came to town and asked all the other Republicans to step out of the primarys.

    As many peolpe have already pointed out. Car manufactures are starting to go in this direction on thier own. They started with ODB-II and are going even further with ODB-III.

  16. MOD PARENT UP on All MS Settlement Comments Now Online · · Score: 1

    I just began reading the US Senates comments. Appearently they don't think the settlement will do sh*t either. Although I have only read the first 1/4 of it.

  17. Re:Straight from the article: on TiVo, PVRs Not Making A Splash · · Score: 1

    I read the article and don't believe it.

    I bought one of the Dish PVRs last fall. Hooking it up as easy as hooking up a VCR. Unless you want to run the sound through your stero, you can just use the coax output and go right to a TV or VCR.

  18. Re:has the targeted demographic really changed? on Attack of the Clones · · Score: 1

    No it would not. If he wanted to stay true to the Star Wars "heritage" then he would. If he wants to keep making movies, he'll keep doing the way he is now.

    The hardcore Star Wars fans will see the movie no matter what. I probaly will just because it's Star Wars. Then he can capture the other half of the demographics with the boy bands. This way the production corporations will keep buying his movies, cause they know they can make a killing on them.

  19. Re:Once again, the VCR case. on DVD Drives Defeat Cactus Data Shield · · Score: 1

    We, the consumers, should not have to use our fair use policy to be able to listen to the music we have purchased.

    I have purchased the right to listen to that music. I didn't just purchase the physical medium. Now the fact that I purchased the music on a CD or DVD should not make a difference. I didn't purchase it to listen to it on the CD only. I purchased the rights to listen to the music in any format I want. The RIAA should not be able to tell me which format I can listen to.

    Now they, RIAA, can try to put some bogus disclaimer on there CD cases. This 'should' not be held up in court. But we all know who pays who.

  20. Re:Stifling competition on Verizon's Solution to Terrorism: Eliminate Verizon Competitors · · Score: 1

    This is not Sprint trying to screw you. This is the standard business practice.

    I work for a company that provides SAN solutions. We sell equipment that will extend SCSI, FC, etc over almost any type of WAN we can get ou hands on. We are always have "telco", insert large company name here, issues. The responce we always get is the line tests clean on our network, it must be the other guys problem. But before we can even get the other guy on the phone, they "looked" at the circuit again and it mysteriously works.

    I think that is a standard responce that is taught when someone is hired. Never admit it was our problem, just tell them we "looked at it".

    The only nice thing about it is that our regular call customers, the one that change their networks alot, realize that we are not the ones screwing them and will beleive what ever we tell them. It also helkps that we tell them when it is out software or hardware that is the problem.

  21. Re: Read a book, then try again. on Dark Matter Measurements · · Score: 1

    You can have whatever creationist theories you like, but you can't contradict what we *know*.

    I am a creationist but I agree with everything that science has proven. It still hasn't disproven, God.

    One guess out of million is that God slapped his hands together and between the palms of his hands was all the matter of the universe. When he pulled his hands apart he alowed the big bang to happen. And thus our Universe was born.

    With that I can be a creationist and still believe everything that I have learned to be *true*.

    Yes and I also agree with you that not enough humanity is put in their place by the sight of millions of stars.

  22. Re:Dark Matter? on Dark Matter Measurements · · Score: 1

    Since the universe is infinitely old, light from luminous objects in all parts of the universe has been radiating for infinite time.

    The statement was that the Universe is infinitely old. Not the stars in the Universe. The matter that makes up the stars whose light is just reaching us now or may just begin to reach us in a million years could have existed forever but just "recently" foromed to make the star we see today.

  23. Re:What's all the hubub? on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 1

    I caught the end of "Pirates of Silicon Valley", I believe that was the title.

    Any way, as Jobs is giving a speach to the Apple employees and lets them view the "Big Brother" comercial before anyone else gets to see it during the super bowl, Gates and Ballmer are standing in the background. Behind them is an Apple techie mouthing to Jobs that Microsoft is the one that will become "Big Brother" or the ones that Apple needs to worry about.

    If that piece of trivia is true that guy saw the writing on the wall. Or else the jerks, excuse me yanks, who made the movie really wanted to put some foreshadowing in there.

  24. Open Be on Can BeOs Live On As Open Source? · · Score: 1

    If this can make Be live again that would be great.

    If they could keep it living and get a good software base, I think i would have just found a replacement for Windows on my wife's machine, and probally mine.

  25. Re:Too Little, Too Late, Too much Money.. on Groups Push FTC to Act on MS XP, Passport · · Score: 1

    That's good for society as a whole and individual consumers.

    How is the easier disemination of my personal data good for me?

    How can I make a more informed decision to buy something based on the information that I recieve from the company offering the product? They want to sell me something, not tell me about all the good and bad points to said product.

    And like another post has already pointed out. What about the people I have doing business for me? How do i control my personal data that someone else needs to use on my behalf.

    The FTC won't do anything to stop Microsoft. With the new influx of information to sell, Microsoft will be able to afford more "contributions" to various folks that only want to see their wallets getting lined a little thicker.