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  1. but if you drop a couple of them... on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    if you can laser-guide one or two follow-on hits into the same hole, I think you got something going. you might not immediately take out the "red team," but consider their reduced effectiveness... ;)

  2. noplace does it say WHERE on Julian Assange To Host Talk Show · · Score: 1

    my guess is that he's on deep cable on Jupiter, top tier plus $20 a month.

  3. you have got to be kidding. on Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband · · Score: 3, Insightful

    a locality has advantages over a corporation in placing broadband. they have no licensing fee or charter to seek. they have existing rights of way. they can line the sewers and pull fiber between the casing and the liner for free. they have bonding cost advantages. they can require franchised power and phone companies to give them free pole space because, well, they're the city. they can slip a little from general fund revenues and call it a public benefit... or create a telecom district like a water or sewer district and basically charge whatever it takes to run the place without hearings or competition.

    a telco that wants to go to Poison Creek has to file for all these things, dance with lawyers all the way through, and is darn sure not going to do it if they can't make a profit over the cost of buildout, at a million to two million a mile.

    this is frankly a "screw you" bill by somebody who's got a feud going with the telcos down there.

  4. because they are FSCKING IDIOTS! on Hackers Manipulated Railway Computers, TSA Memo Says · · Score: 2

    or else the outsourced IT department overseas has senior staff with, ahhh, alternate loyalties... .

  5. so our topic for today is beers, eh. on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 1

    and maybe back bacon, too. or maybe not. hey, this old fart is whining about losing Canadian culture, eh. like, can't he find his toque or something? take OFF, hoser. just make, like, these IS and Ps end every sentence on the net thing with eh, then, eh. so that's our topic for today.

  6. would you like cheese with that whine? on LightSquared Says GPS Tests Were Rigged · · Score: 0

    face it, Lightsquared, you got sold a bill of goods. those frequencies should be a guard band. sue the FCC to get your money back, and use the money to pry some spectrum loose from DoD.

  7. it puts the scare to foreign oil on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    even if there is no other reason to product E85, if it causes pause in oil-rich countries that hate us and our freedoms, but want to gobble down our money while it's still good, hell yes, go E85.

    if the US would build the appropriate pipelines to use the ND/MT/WY oil from the Bakken and other formations, where we have three Saudi Arabias worth of oil availiable for the fracking where there are no earthquake zones, we wouldn't even need to think about E85 or other alternatives to oil for a good hundred years.

    as it is, we need to use everything we have to get away from using... everything we have... and build an alternate energy system in this country.

  8. "uh, I don't have everybody's money. on Oracle v. Google Trial On Indefinite Hold · · Score: 1

    "that's my methodology, judge. got any cash? hand it over. I've got a devil beard and I'm impatient."

    perhaps the judge should declare Java free to all birds, beasts, and men of good character in the realm.

  9. one word: Uzbeks. on Russian Official Implies Foul Play In Mars Probe Failure · · Score: 1

    Uzbeks drank all the battery fluid. (c) SCTV

  10. Guido says ya got a lovely phone here. on LG To Pay Licensing Fees To Microsoft For Using Android · · Score: 1

    Shame if it would burn down. Really. All these apps. Be a real shame. Just sayin'. ya looked at that contract yet?

  11. how many of us one-eyed Jacks are there? on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 1

    3D is just frankly laughable for us all.

    if there was some tangible improvement beyond 3D effects, as high fidelity is a basic improvement over the AA5 radio even if you have one ear and can't hear the stereo, there might be tangential sales to folks like me.

    but there aren't.

    as for the "art" of 3D, let us all remember SCTV's Dr. Tongue's "3D House of Stewardesses" and other mocking comedy. that is the classic 3D "art" model.

  12. only problems are on Researchers Create "Mighty Mouse" With Gene Tweak · · Score: 1

    (1) the mice are only black and white, and (2) they can only move at 24 frames per second.

  13. now, to get that root off the existing phones on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 1

    there are some phones shipped to Verizon that also have cIQ on them. if Verizon is not using it, they should also do an "update" strip of that root.

  14. bugfix: delete CarrierIQ on Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information · · Score: 1

    if the TLAs want data, let them get a search warrant.

  15. ah, t'ell with Nut Korea, then on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    world's worst cranky neighbor. put up two trees with friggin lasers playing Christmas rock, and keep them up all night for days. screw 'em

  16. has ANYbody had a stable LMFB? on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    the history of liquid sodium reactors has been a sad one, look up the Fermi #1 unit in Detroit some time. basically the job of keeping the liquid sodium, which is mightily explosive and gets mightily radioactive as a moderator, inside away from air and water is something that hasn't been solved yet. I would not be stumping the countryside trying to site one.

  17. radio for radio's sake on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    spin the dials, null out QRM if you have a bad case of neighbors with plasma TV using another antenna and a summation box, hear something interesting and just... talk.

  18. Re:Common knowledge on Of Mice and Cancer · · Score: 1

    actually, it has been scientifically proven in millions of studies that white laboratory mice cause cancer.

  19. hello, Prime Minister Nettanyahu? on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 1

    I have the cherry pits you asked for. you can feed them to your animal now.

  20. pinhead unionist. not stealing off trucks. on AFL-CIO and Big Content Advocate For SOPA · · Score: 1

    if media piracy was stealing off trucks at red lights in traffic, the law and cops could stop it. like they could stop the Chinese copy shops if China got on board.

    the issue is the hearts and minds of the public in the face of a continuous history in recorded media of all kinds of the corporations ripping off the artists, and changing up formats all the time to rip off the customers.

    at base is this... a customer can buy a license to use a work for their own purposes... and under fair use provisions of the copyright act, convert that to any other format, as long as they don't sell the copies, and destroy them all if the genuine licensed original is transferred. greedheads want to take that away, and even prevent you from using your licensed copy after X amount of time.

    stop that nonsense, and things might change.

    NostrilDrippus Predicts! (tm) that artists are going to go on the Internet themselves to peddle their works, and the MafIAA is going to wither and die for their sins.

  21. let us not forget Rambus stole it on Rambus Loses $4B Antitrust Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    it has been well-established that Rambus ran off to patent a developing industry standard in RDRAM, stealing what was to be a public standard. they can rot in hell with 640K, they have it coming. got all the morals of Darl McBride and his little troll company.

  22. hey, did they rip me off??? on First Look: Oracle NoSQL Database · · Score: 1

    sounds like they ripped off my "write-only" algorithms from college. no SQL, indeed,.

  23. pit toilets on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 0

    hey, they have 4 billion people. gotta be big.

  24. we have one. on Scott Adams Proposes a Fourth Branch of Government · · Score: 1

    it's called the free press.

  25. to paraphrase an old newspaper photog on NASA Snaps New Photo of Incoming Asteroid · · Score: 1

    whose name sadly I cannot look up at this time...

    I started shooting the tornado with my 600 mm lens, then switched to the 500, then the 300. when I reached for the 24mm, I decided I had better get out of there

    actual story in the NPPA magazine in the late 70s.