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  1. Re:Best Game for Bored Workers on Satellite Easter Eggs · · Score: 1

    please note the universal UFO landing area in the lower left. 3 wheels, box and home shape :P

  2. Re:What is the answer? on Ask 'Hitchhiker's Guide' Exec. Producer Robbie Stamp · · Score: 1

    here I am all serious, making if I am working and I read "43, with a margin of error of +-1."

    You have to warn people, this could be as dangerous as the WW2 joke from montey python

  3. Re:Why? on Ask 'Hitchhiker's Guide' Exec. Producer Robbie Stamp · · Score: 1

    here it is as it was done in 1973

    "I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
    "That's the Display Department."
    "With a torch."
    "The lights had probably gone."
    "So had the stairs."
    "But you found the plans, didn't you?"
    "Oh yes, they were 'on display' in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the leopard.'"

  4. Re:Erm on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    that would be the birds flyover. the image is correct, but the angle of viewing would place the bird northward of NYC, not directly over it.

  5. Re:So does this mean .. on New York Court Says Telecommuters Must Pay NY Tax · · Score: 1

    Funny, if this guy was working in NYC ( New York City ) then he would be paying city tax and maybe even NY state tax.

    cross border taxation as a telecomuter is basically a branch office in the location of the company but sitting physically some where else. Taxed at the office and at your residence.

    if he wanted to avoid the tax, ask to be placed as a consultant, then he could bill work out and pay taxes on that. ( but then he might loose all benifits ). better yet, set up an offshore company, have it bill the firm, and he could telecommute to the firm but only pay taxes on his declaired income, the company would not have to send the entire check over and he could avoid some taxes ( take a vacation and then access that account to pay for lodgings and other things local to that area or outside the scope of the USA )

  6. Re:To save bandwidth, how about being pro-active? on IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While the idea of pinging to death sounds great, it's also a DOS, Which, I think might be agaist some law here in the USA. Returning the mail to the sender seems to be legit.

    onepoint

  7. Re:fair market value on Patents and Eminent Domain · · Score: 1

    Whom are you to judge what is fair market value, if you want it, you buy it, otherwise move along and buy someone elses products. Death make a compelling reason to buy at fair market value.

    If I own the market I will enjoy every drop of profit that it can generate.

    If another firm tries to take my patent and untilize it, I will take them to court and own them also.

    If another country tries to take me legally granted patent in thier nation and makes it public domain, I will take them to court and pay every lobbiest to place a trade ban against that nation untill they give up something of equal value back to me. Using section 301 of the 1974 trade act. Not that it works but it's effective at getting concessions on other things ( swap my bad luck for your good luck and give me a check with it ).

    if the USA ask me for it I will make them prove US code title 35 chapter 17 link enclosed http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode35/us c_sup_01_35_10_II_20_17.html

    nice read this for a quick general ideas http://www.parliament.uk/post/pn160.pdf

  8. Re:hmm not scalable.. on Solar Power Put to Good Use · · Score: 1

    25000 acres = 39.0625 miles sq. ~ 10117 Hectares = 101.17 square kilometers.

  9. Re:Yes on Solar Power Put to Good Use · · Score: 1

    energy harnessing, that's going to be done, the idea is solid. It just makes sense.

    in reference to the volume of air heated is different depending on the location of where it is heated ( don't forget, 2 simular locations, one in shade and the other in sunlight will have different temps even when they are just a few inches apart).

    But what I'm wondering is if there will be a change in the local micro climate. ( Palm Springs CA. is an example of local climate change due to the increase of green areas and historically speaking they are currently averaging 3C degrees less than normal over the past 10-20 years.

    My point is from personal observation of cloud creation and from getting air into mine shafts.

    A trick that is used to get fresh air into a deep mine shaft is to bore a tunnel from the deepest part straight up, then you light a fire, the heat pulls in fresh air to feed the fire and the hot air goes up the airshaft tunnel.

    now if the area is highly humid and you are moving a great amount of air, the air is cool and concentrated ( due to shade under those mirrors ), there is going to be one heck of a high volume venting to the sky, and it might be humid.

    it might just condense into clouds if there is alot of volume. It would be funny if there was a lake nearby and this tower wicked the water away

  10. Re:Yes on Solar Power Put to Good Use · · Score: 1

    But here is a real problem ( lightning can be grounded and become a non issue ).

    if the location of this project is near a humid location, the ammount of hot air moving upwards might also create clouds and then rain.

    Also, it might create a new envionment within the local area. Rain at night, clear skys in the morning.

    Michael

  11. Re:I, for one,... on Microbes Alive After Being Frozen for 32,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Well given, Jesus was a real person. That's almost a given: just too much documentation from multiple sources. Unless it was one heck of a media trick of the time.

    as for the rest, who knows, you are most likely right.

  12. Re:grrr on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 1

    what would make this investment worthless is if the major search engines, blacklisted those domains.

    Onepoint

  13. Re:$257,000.00 on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 1

    Something that might be of interest about that site is the ability to develope a very targeted geo based ip list.

    now that's worth a ton of money, Advertisers love knowing that they can focus to a specific area.

    Onepoint

  14. Re:Enlighten me please.. on Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams · · Score: 1

    There is tea from a store in England. the tea's blend number happens to be # 42. this was the tea that man of a times DA would drink.

    so that might be the answer.

    Onepoint

  15. Re:I'm with you here. on Federal Obscenity Rule Nixed In Internet Porn Case · · Score: 3, Informative

    here is a link that talks about the court case ( it starts talking about it in the middle )

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1 56 44-2004Dec21.html

    Onepoint

  16. Re:Correct. A classic monopolist example on Does Microsoft Cause Lower Software Prices? · · Score: 3, Informative

    What you are saying is true, but the overal picture, is the long term growth of the market.

    standard oil is a classic example of reduced volitility of oil prices, standards or production, refinement of product, and quality improvement.

    Now we know what happened to standard oil, Breakup. There is good chance that it will happen again with MS. But like Standard oil, it will take anyware from 15 to 30 years ( history points that the Cry of Monopolist was already shouted to standard oil by 1885 if not prior to that )

    Onepoint

  17. Re:Sunspot on Intelsat Loses Another Satellite · · Score: 1

    Your are not permitted to know that nothing happeded in sector 83x9x12

  18. Re:Weatherbug? on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 1

    Well who would invest in weather bug .... Off the top of my head a vaction travel company that works the area the person is visiting. Maybe a taxicab company whom has a catchy telephone number to brand there number to the public. a hotel. Basically I would think travel firms first, then service companies that might be related to travelers.

    there are more but I'm just drawing a blank right now.

    Onepoint

  19. Re:I bought an iPod on An FM Broadcast Transmitter For Your Home · · Score: 2, Insightful

    /. does not let you do a full reply in
    morse. .- .-- .--

    onepoint

  20. Re:mr katz? on Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open · · Score: 1

    It is a requirement to announce launched, there was a huge issue back in the 90's that almost had the russians firing missles.

    Meteorological rocket launched from Norway on January 25, 1995

    http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2004/sep/tsypkinS ep t04.asp

    onepoint

  21. Re:Because thats what we all want. on Microsoft Launches Blogging Site · · Score: 5, Funny

    A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.

    Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "Where am I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "You are in a Helicopter."

    The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.

    "I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."

    Onepoint

    p.s. Just need to make you all laugh. Have a cup of coffee on me.

  22. Re:I have no fear of spammers on Tech Reporter Pursues Spammer · · Score: 1

    This is why I read slashdot every day. Someone always helps out with some common sense advice that helps the rest of us.

    Onepoint

  23. Re:I'd love a breakdown of legal vs. illegal files on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 2, Funny

    google: torrent anime tentacle penis 8,020

  24. Re:I know this has been talked about before but... on The Hardware Behind Echelon Revealed · · Score: 1

    >> As a non-citizen living legally in the USA I live without the benefit of the "Constitution", and under the daily threat of indefinite detention without recourse.

    That is not 100% correct, you have certain rights, which just by being in the USA ( legal or not ) that are granted to you.

    I don't know about indefinite dentention, but it would seem that it should be illegal in the USA. All the imigrants that I have encountered over the years have never mentioned any sort of dentention that lasted over 1 year or that they did not have family notified within a short while of thier arrival.

    Now if you are a combatant or a merc, the code of military law could apply ( my understanding is that merc's are in the gray area and have zero rights )

    Onepoint

  25. what a rip off on Lexar JumpDrive Password Scheme Cracked · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    send them to hell, sometime we need more people like @stake