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  1. ya, sure, ya betcha, then on Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Virgin has been exposed enough to a different culture, in which our government space agency is known as "nay-say," so they're not ready to absorb the system.

    on the plus side, nasa made it possible, period.

    on the negative side, we're kind of in "Perils of Pauline" mode with the present systems and support... AM news cycle, everything's fine. noon news cycle, "we have a problem." evening news cycle, folks are scurrying around like bugs chasing issues. lather, rinse, repeat throughout the flight of discovery in sts-114.

    the characters who offed the future space vehicle program several years ago should be closely examined as prime examples of what the program should NOT be striving for, IMHO. the present bunch has to clean those water buckets before they can carry water to the project.

    time will tell if they can.....

  2. NASA needs a shake-up on Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety · · Score: 0, Troll

    the suits are defensive and pinheaded there

  3. Re:More info? on DSL-Extender Brings Broadband 20km · · Score: 1

    adtran has a 24-DSL box about the size of a blade... drive with up to 8 T1 lines, fed with power pairs off the span. you rack up 8 CO repeaters, dedicate one binder of copper, and you're there as far as you want to run t1 repeaters. it's in its second year of use with thousands running.. telestra's vendor got it a third smaller by putting a third of the horses under the hood.

  4. fine, screw 'em, I won't buy into it on Blu-Ray to Include New Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    DIVX self-destructing disk guys wanted my money, too, and they didn't get it and blew away, mere dust on the winds.

    my dollar rules! not your anality

  5. not in my house... Re:HDMI Only? on Retailers Press For Unified HD DVD Format · · Score: 1

    guess I can move on, nothing to see there.

  6. why would apple run on dells and white boxes? on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    to quote somebody who once had a one-shot success, "that is the stupidest idea I have ever heard of."

    you think apple wants to enter the creaky world of "mad dog" peripherals and dock sweepings network cards, PCs with pushed speeds, and all sorts of marginal parts from mysterious outfits that come and go in the night? why in hell would anybody wish that support hell on them?

    you control your hardware environment, you control the number of crash-and-burn intersices between hardware misbehaviors.

  7. the union ought to sue these guys on Canadian Telco Admits to Blocking Union's Website · · Score: 1

    weasels.

  8. "Cantenna" is a registered trademark of on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 3, Informative

    the Heath Company, approximately 1961, for its brand of oil-filled dummy loads for amateur radio tuning use. Heath is still around. try calling these the "chiptennas" instead, eh?

  9. is that "Windows VISTA", as in... on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Windows...

    Virus magnet...

    Interferes with your media files...

    Sinister plots against all alternatives...

    Trojans galore from drive-by websites...

    And it's overpriced and undersupported!

    thanks, but no thanks. "Mac. Just. Works."

  10. NO, DNC should be expanded to DNB on Do Not Call List Under Attack · · Score: 1

    as in Do Not Breathe. weasels call we don't want to hear from, a Fed comes out and ties a bag over their head.

    no appeals.

  11. great sentiments Re:Beem him on up... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    may ye be dead and in heaven an hour before the devil knows you're gone.

    but certainly not before your time.

    and keep on enjoying, we're only on a short holiday here.

  12. Re:oh, CRAP, get an EV 30W and do it RIGHT. on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    but if you want respect, you should build it so the cops responding to the neighbors' complaints are shaken off the road when they turn the corner. it should also tower over the folks who faint when the bass line comes in. a 30W in a 6 x 4 x 2 reflex cabinet put in a corner can surely do that on a 10 watt amp. horn-load the cabinet to the wall, and they won't make it off the freeway turn ;) and it would be ssssmmmmmooooooooothhhh down to the 32-foot bass pipes in your organ record.

  13. FOOL! the airhorn faces forward! on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    no more custom auto TV programs for you. enjoy the commute.

  14. nice horn, or were you happy to see me? on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    a nice tuned horn will always deliver more music. you're screwed if you move with this one, though.

  15. oh, CRAP, get an EV 30W and do it RIGHT. on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    12 inch driver, big whoop. get'cha an EV 30W organ/reinforcement woofer someplace, 30 inch diameter and something like only 25 watts drive power, and build something that will crush that little clock-radio sub on eBay.

    some notes. excellent article in a 1960s popular electronics on building it. you need a reflex or exponential horn cabinet, depending on how many mcf of room you want to rattle. cutoff frequency is 80 HZ, don't drive it any higher. you will need to use at least 1-1/4 plywood with stout internal bracing, screws, and glue to put the cabinet together, and 1-1/2 inch is better. "stout internal bracing" means clear hardwood 2x4 or larger.

    this speaker was also used in the EV Patrician speaker system back in the day, as well as electric organs for churches and halls. they are very easily damaged in transit, and should be shipped in either the factory box or the original cabinet it was found it.

    last ones I saw on eBay were $3500 each. they used to be $125 drivers back in the day. shipping of the speaker alone is over 100 pounds.

    make a tennis-ball woofer with one of THOSE puppies, and write if your confuser survived turning it up. long been a dream of mine to whip one up, but never had the money or room....

  16. guess there's a reason disney toons have gloves ;) on Disney World Collecting Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    and they never wanted animators to leave a print on their cels. hmmmmm, do I smell a plot here?

  17. m$ jools are 0wned on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    by the media companies. hope they bought enough stock to make the failure their own.

  18. Oh, look, it's Clippy on the roller coaster! on Roller Coaster Data Center · · Score: 1

    >> Do you want to run off the rails?

    NO NO NO NO NO NO

    >> Do you want to turn before you run off the rails?

    NO NO NO NO NO

    almost as much fun as Clippy at the nuke plant....

  19. I have Pleistoscene pork in my fridge on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 1

    want some?

  20. yawn, not again ?!? on Shanda Box vs. Microsoft Venus After Six Years? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    rotten resolution, if apple II didn't look good on the old Philco in the living room, why would dark-blue on blue web pages? I don't get this. sounds like somebody wrote down a dream on toilet paper when they got up, and it doesn't translate into reality.

  21. it's time for a summary judgement on SCO Denied Motion To Change IBM Case Again · · Score: 1

    from the bench in this one. no evidence + inability to make the same argument twice + inability to do anything with the discovery evidence from the other party = goons without a case.

    SCO has no assets, no case, no future.

    so, I suppose, some pinhead dude from Wail Streak will start pumping SCO stock hard any day now. that is a sure sign, folks...

  22. BS nonsense Re:All Those War Taxes... on Possible Taxes For Broadband Users · · Score: 1

    we will pay no taxes for the internet. we are paying for our bandwidth. the blind-pig idiots in government can just tax the rich instead of letting them off.

    what we WILL do is hack the tax collector if they try :-D

    watch and learn, grasshopper.....

  23. where the EU screwed up in this on Windows XP N a Bust · · Score: 1

    is allowing MS to make both versions availiable to builders, and letting the market decide.

    what the EU was arguing was that they had the right to require redress of the past sins of m$.

    they didn't do it. to do it, they should have REQUIRED that m$ sell only windows nt n as the OS in the EU, and that media player XXXVII or whatever would be an extra-cost add-on, but not to be priced lower than any of the alternatives.

    in that way, the PC builders could roll on all of the free media readers, and the user could decide on a by-case basis.

    it ain't gonna work the way the EU did it, because they screwed the pooch on this case. like the US did in theirs.

  24. damn straight Re:Ambiguous praise on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 1

    ms is dead wrong, and it will save them major, big money on servers and staff. because this idiocy will make hotmail useless. I strongly encourage all to not fall for raving BS from ms, and this is a most painless way to start.

  25. Re:this is a rugged one.... on Rugged Mini-DV Camcorder for the Road? · · Score: 2, Funny

    you'll also need a recorder to go with that camera. might I suggest the TR-70, which only requires 4 CFM of dry compressed air for the air bearings, and uses both silicon and germanium transistors for finest performance. it's already high band!! you can fit both the TR-70 and the TK-41's control head into an articulated bus, and tow the 15 Kw generator behind.

    http://www.lionlmb.org/quad/tr70b_1.jpg

    or, if you don't bang it around much and keep it clean, try a canon elura series, my -65 has been good so far.