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  1. Re:Widespread opposition to a vacuous plan on State of Alabama Fighting NASA's New Plan · · Score: 1

    I'm all pro NASA. As an Alabama resident I love what it does for Huntsville.

    The real blame here should go to Parker Griffith. You don't leave the majority party, this is what happens when you do. If he hadn't become a turncoat there would be no way the administration would have cut funding to his district.

    But he made the decision easy for them... good luck Parker getting re-elected with the right and the left wanting to taste your blood.

  2. Re:No one is safe from the "oops" bug on Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros · · Score: 0

    AppleTV can't brick. It has a partition with a restore copy of the original software on it. Disconnect the thing and start it again a couple of times, it will panic and send you to the restore partition and then you only do the 'factory reset' on there and boom you are done.

  3. Re:Real summary. on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    I actually think he is repeating a theory by Paul Johnson from the London School of Economics. He argues that the New Deal prolonged the depression in his book 'Modern Times'. It's actually a pretty good read, a history of the 20th century from an economics perspective

  4. Re:Haven't we seen this before? on Site Claims to Reveal 'Tattle-tales' · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Richard Armitage, who's stance against the Iraq war is well known.
    Richard Armitage, who has consistably undermined the efforts of the Adminstration.
    Richard Armitage, who, ignored an express Presidential Directive in the Plame investigation when he failed to notify the White House that he was the source of the leak.
    Richard Armitage, who left the Administration to twist in the wind.


    Far be it for me to question your facts... but well I'm questioning your facts... could you please source any of your claims?

  5. Re:What goes around ... on Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies · · Score: 1

    ahh the WSJ Editorial Page, that bastion of unbiased truth.
    I'm pretty sure editorials aren't what one would use to make an argument supposedly based on fact

  6. There are scripts on opensuse.org for that on SUSE 10.0 OSS Released · · Score: 1

    Some members of the opensuse community have written instructions and tools on how to turn the 5 cd isos into 1 dvd iso. They are really straight forward and take a minimum amount of work.

  7. Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Both of them built their version of the first gasoline powered automobile at the same time less than a 100miles apart and finished roughly at the same time. Which is why both of them usually share the credit. They later merged into one company named Daimler-Benz (now Daimler-Chrysler). And yeah they were German.

  8. The Bridge has a name you insensitive clod on Lockheed Chosen For Electronic Records Archives · · Score: 1

    The Bridges name is the Don Young Bridge, after the Alaska Congressman that had the forsight to find a prime piece of real estate where he can build a Manhattan to the west.

  9. Re:chance a dying is a lot higher than 10% on Cosmic Rays Could Kill Astronauts Visiting Mars · · Score: 1

    I don't think artifical gravity production in a zero-g enviroment has been throughly researched or is anywhere ready to being deployed.

    There is a lot of research being conducted into a medical way to stop boneloss, and a lot of this research has only begun in the last year. I had a chance to speak with one of the researchers recently and from what he said it didn't seem like a solution existed.

  10. Its actually Software- Und System-Entwicklung on Novell To Open Source SUSE · · Score: 1

    SuSE
    Software- und System-Entwicklung
    which translates into Software- and System-Development

  11. chance a dying is a lot higher than 10% on Cosmic Rays Could Kill Astronauts Visiting Mars · · Score: 1

    Once you got to Mars, your body would have lost significant amounts of bone mass. something like 15-20% per year in low gravity enviroments.
    By the time you are on your way back after hanging around Mars for a while, your muuscle would snap your bones.Don't believe me? Check on the russians that spend a year or so on MIR, their bone density is permanently degraded.

    The Mars mission is not feasible until medicine develops a way to stop bone loss in zero g.

  12. Open Exchange has such features on OSS Web-based File Management? · · Score: 1

    While Open Exchange is more of a groupware type client, it has document sharing and knowledge sharing with access control. All in a very very tidy web interface. Just the server install can cause a couple of asprin worth of a headache.

  13. Republican on New NASA Admin Griffin Cleans House · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact one of two mentioned is a Republican.

  14. Kostelnik Biography link on New NASA Admin Griffin Cleans House · · Score: 1

    here is his official military biography

    http://www.af.mil/bios/bio_print.asp?bioID=6097&pa ge=1

    He seems to have a lot of history in research field of the military. Having been a test pilot, commanded the test pilot school and also been the commander of the worlds largest Air Force Base Eglin, which is mostly used test and research new arms.

    Seemed to be more than qualified, considering that he has only been in the job of 1-2 year.

  15. Re:That is a terrible idea, how about... on CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack · · Score: 1

    I'm not a network admin or anything, but I imagine the real time monitoring on the router for certain known ports would be trivial and redflagging someone that uses their entire upstream bandwidth to hammer one known host shouldn't be too hard either I imagine.

    Having someone spend the man hours on developing the software package would be the biggest issue, but once done the implementation for each ISP wouldn't be much of an issue.
    Think about it as something like the spam assasin package.

    I just really don't like the concept of having to call in and ask for permission from my isp to use software I may need. Especially when that means that I may have to call my isp at 4AM one a 1-800 number that isn't staffed at night. Forget meeting deadlines.

  16. That is a terrible idea, how about... on CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So basically you want me to give my ISP a list of ports I may require so they can white list them for my machine?
    I'm sure my ISP would love it if I would say ask for ports 4662 to 4672 and 6881 to be unlocked.
    I wonder what they'd think I was planning with those...and I'm sure the new knoppix iso would not be their theory.

    Now after having edonkey and bittorent work,
    I'll only need
    5800 for VNC
    21 & 22 anybody?

    How about this idea, everyone has complete access privileges. The isp notices for common characteristics of a bot net and common malware. If such is found on the user the ISPs gateway forces all HTTP connects to a URL that has detailed instructions on how to install spybot seach & destroy, ad aware etc. Kind of like a hotel sends you to a registration page to buy internet access for the day when you connect.

    The last step is for the user to either call or through some other mechanism notify the ISP that his machine is (for now) clean. The ISP removes the user from its black list and not only do we now have a patched windows box, but also one with basic defenses for the future. It be kind of like catching the criminal pc, putting it into jail until the software is installed and then releasing it as a rehabilitated system

  17. Re:50 deceased persons voted in the last election? on Invading Privacy for School Credit · · Score: 2, Funny

    That just means that Democrats on average are much more devoted to their ideals. If Republicans hate freedom so much that a little thing like death can stop them from fulfilling their democratic duty, then they are the only ones to blame.

  18. That we know off on ISS Oxygen Generator Fails for Good · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While I agree with the statement to be the best of my knowledge, I would remind you to be caucious in accepting claims from any Soviet Government Department. I'm sure they would not be very forthcoming if they had lost people in space back then, hell if they overstate production of boots by a factor of 8 then they might lie about something really important too.

  19. Re:American Screenwriter on Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer · · Score: 1

    I think it is safe to say that his screen writing carreer is now over...

    I'm sure Max After Dark will be glad to have him help out with their 'films'

  20. Re:Or you could just read the article on Ciphire, A Transparent, Easy PGP Alternative · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I deserved that I guess...
    still people that comment before reading the article drive me up the wall, karma be damned.

  21. Or you could just read the article on Ciphire, A Transparent, Easy PGP Alternative · · Score: 1

    Is there a moderation flag for "RTFA"?

  22. Niki Lauder said that, and had to appologize on Formula One Racing Just a Matter of Crunching the Numbers · · Score: 1

    Niki Lauder (arguably the greatest F1 driver of all time) after taking over Jaguar a few years ago said that today F1 cars are so easy to drive that a monkey could do it. He went out to show it and promptly spun out 3 seperate times on one lap.

    Also the Trading Paint show on SpeedChannel to my recollection had Montoya quickly grasping the NASCAR (on a road course too) and Gordon didn't do badly, but he also didn't do very well at all being behind everyone's but two drivers (The Minardi's) qualifying times of the season before with one of the best cars in F1.

    I'm sure Gordon is a good driver, but I am also sure that Schumacher in a contest that he cares about (i.e. not the 'race of champions') is pretty much unbeatable. I hope that after he retires from F1, he may swing by the Nextel cup and make some of my fellow Alabamians cry.

  23. The obvious answer is a Xbox on Cheap DivX Solution For Your Entertainment Center · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about doing the entire mythtv thing, mostly so that I can play region 2 DVD's here in the US and play xvid etc on my TV.
    Instead of doing that I just got an Xecuter3 Modchip for my Xbox... soldered the baby in, and installed Xbox Media Center, and well it doesn't just play any DVD I throw its way but also DIVX, XVID etc, best $60 I have spend in a long time...and its kinda neat to FTP into your xbox.

  24. Nevermind on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1

    II was wrong on his educational background, upon reading up on it, its not as poor as it had been made out to me.

    Still going from running for a local elected office and loosing twice to going to running for POTUS?

  25. No, unless its a felony on Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates · · Score: 1

    Yet I think that their party affiliation is effective enough at preventing them from ever being President.

    btw- read up Badnarik's educational background, rather subpar I'd say to be POTUS