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  1. who is robert park?? Re:Brilliant minds on House Asks NASA to Postpone Space Plane · · Score: 1

    he is the head of the American Physics Society in Washington, author of weekly reviews of vodoo science and why the laughable and non-repetitive subjects discussed cannot work, a physics department chairman and researcher for decades before that.

    or, for you, just another egghead from the tower who can't see a need being met here.

  2. byte me -Re:Shocking disrepect for consumer choice on Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious? · · Score: 1

    bullshit, it's MY machine.

  3. but not loudly enough ;) on Verisign Gets Out of the Registrar Biz, Keeps .com Registry · · Score: 1

    it's a start. The Community needs the registry to be reassigned as well.

  4. Great name NOT! on Is Bluetooth Dead? · · Score: 1

    bluetooth, do I hear the masses groaning? v 2.0 would be "root canal." here's an excellent example of marketing on loan from crackheads.

  5. "innovation" is a code word on McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation' · · Score: 1

    meaning "get your rules away from my pocketbook." didn't used to be that way, but it's the new definition.

    be very afraid when the "I" word comes up.

  6. no, you're fscking through, period Re:No More Crap on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 1

    VeriSign already screwed up under the contracts. ICANN should jerk their ticket. can 'em. shut the sumbucks down. remove the addressing of those top level domain servers in the other domain servers of da ISH and zero out VeriSign. sue 'em. drop 'em from the mailing list. gutshoot their dog. follow their kids to school in a dark-windowed van.

    get the picture?

  7. ex-fucking-actly!! on FCC To Enforce Do Not Call List, Not FTC · · Score: 1

    their right to wave their fists around ends where my nose begins, AKA my rights to free association are at least equal to theirs to free speech. what part of NO can they not understand? the right to free speech does not mean we are forced to listen to their nonsense.

    and if they don't want the government enforcing the no-call list, we'll just have to see if Osama-Yo-Momma's free for the job.....

  8. call anyway, goldangit on Slashback: Card, Fortran, Legibility · · Score: 1

    pinhead judges need educating. my right to freedom of association is equal to theirs of free speech... and frankly, their right to swing their fists ends just short of my nose. either the judges take our first amendment rights back for us, or we'll just have to take them back ourselves.

    this is getting increasingly bizarre. where do they get these pinheads, and can any of them read and write?

  9. notice how many congresscritters jumped up on U.S. Court Blocks Anti-Telemarketing List · · Score: 2, Interesting

    asking, "so what part of NO don't you understand, so we can get a new bill in tomorrow?" FTC will appeal, hopefully a court with a clue will tell the good ol' boy just how the cows eat the cabbage in a few days.

    meanwhile, Dave Barry should get his second Pulitzer Prize for his column (syndicated through Knight-Ridder from the Miami Herald) printing the 800 number of the American Telemarketers Association... and forcing them to stop answering the phone. just who makes those nominations, anyway? just asking, because 50 million Americans want to know.....

    oh, the link.... it's

    http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/colu mn ists/dave_barry/6649728.htm

  10. Re:text version (aka karma whoring) on US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline · · Score: 1

    sure looks like a lot of power companies didn't pay their own bills and got turned off, doesn't it.

    beware the little guy in the old truck with a key to the switches' padlocks

  11. Re:sosumi on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 2, Informative

    it didn't make any sense in the 1980s, and it doesn't make any sense now. Apple Computer is not originating any music in direct competition with the beatles. it's a shakedown, always has been.

  12. Re:Bathroom Reading on Barnes and Noble Drops Ebooks · · Score: 1

    I will bravely resist the temptation to suggest that the palm is not being used to read those books in the bathroom ;) and I certainly wouldn't want to open a discussion about the palm on the subway.

    and I defninitely won't discuss the similarities thereto with "buying ebooks", generally locked to a specific type of reader device, when dead tree editions can last centuries and have no DMCA or obsolence implications for anybody.

  13. "cold fusion" was inept bullshit, period on 14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and to top it off, the "excess heat gains" that got everybody's attention, the 2500 percent stuff, were hypotheticals on the order of "if we didn't have to charge the cell to make the effect happen, we'd get this much power."

    that's like saying if I didn't have to spend a trillion dollars to fly to the moon, I'd do it monthly. if M$ didn't have bugs and undocumented exploits, they'd be putting out stable software. if I don't care about rules and science, I can convince myself that anything is possible, like making Buicks from shaving cream and squirrel hair.

    it's a collection of failed experiments poorly calculated with no controls, and a few Jack Daniels insights.

    read "Bad Science" by Gary Taubes, ISBN 0-394-58456-2, or "Voodoo Science" by Robert Park, ISBN 0-19-513515-6.

    there is no wiggle room, Pons and Fleischman have been caught like shined deer in a scam. the "experiment" never was, the results never happened, and being non-reproduceable is the correct result.

    "believers" need medical help and tutoring in 3rd grade science.

  14. Re:Stock up on booze and smokes on Power Grid Insecurities Examined · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, that's always been booze and guns and ammo. the survivalists always tuck away hooch and hoglegs... whiskey for trading, bangsticks for defense... with their six-month dry food kits.

    now, now many valved gel-cell batteries should you stash to keep the MP3 server running when society collapses?

  15. kewl, let them tax 50% on Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs · · Score: 1

    I'll gladly send all my spam and virii/worms to florida to pay the tax.

    it's obvious they are trying to take the title of "America's Nuttiest State" back from California. they may win.

  16. exactly on How Would You Design the Voting Technology? · · Score: 1

    connect the arrow halves with your special marker, feed it into the scanner, it's done. that's 1990 technology, and it works. scantron "dot race" forms would not be real elder-friendly. but it's similar technology.

    of course, for the fiendish torture that is the california recall and revote, the ballot, as many cartoons have depicted, is the size and weight of the LA telephone book. but that's OK. idiot elections deserve idiot ballots, as well as idiot candidates.

  17. yep, absolutely on Vonage Fights Minnesota's Attempts To Regulate VoIP · · Score: 1

    same thing for telephone service over cable. if it's an equivalent service, a fair market requires either all be deregulated, or all be regulated. otherwise, somebody is getting a subsidy. in the landline business, to subsidize one service off another is a federal crime. the only difference here is the choice of transport of the signal.

  18. nonsense on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    it's bad drugs. FDA needs to safeguard manufacture of whatever SCO and its lawyers are on. fsck 'em.

  19. file scanning, was RE:Trustworthy computing... on Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus · · Score: 1

    a perfect complimentary product, adding RAV to MS Windows. a virus signature checker vs. a known hardware virus. Microsoft has automated the last major manual feature, the mandatory reboot ;)

  20. apple is hiring philippe kahn on Apple To Make "Music To Your Ears" Announcement · · Score: 1

    and they're gonna jam through the announcement so nobody hears what's said behind the podium.

    that's my fantasy, your turn...

  21. bloody proprietary nonsense coming, look out on The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch · · Score: 1

    smells and sounds like the first shot to have One Corporation To Bind Them take over the damn net, too.

    nonsense, good thing I'm getting back into ham radio.

    The Internet belongs to the users. Always has, damn well better always will, or we'll take it back ;)

    how about you just add a header field, and users can decide whether they check it or not. and follow that up with dedicated bits for spam, porn, response to yours, etc. that are outside the security field. violators of the spam and porn bits get to wire Turkish prisons for 35 years ;)

    and if we don't care about OCTBT and their steekin' rules, we just ignore the field. if that clots somebody's snot, well, their BGP listing might be redirected, as it deserves to be.

    that is how the Internet is supposed to work. you don't like it, build your own.

  22. time for a regieme change HERE on Former DoubleClick Exec Named Privacy Czar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    these bonehead self-serving anti-humanist moves will never stop unless we get rid of the pinheads that come up with these crook-in-charge plans.

    this is surely better grounds for impeachment than a little blue dress....

  23. we're at the high-water point on Tech Jobs Projected to Double by 2010 · · Score: 1

    check out this WSJ article courtesy the star-tribune

    http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3820380.h tm l

    Larry Ellison, dedicated salt-water competitive sailor and sometime CEO of Oracle, says we're at the high-water point for software jobs right now, with the future being support of a decreasing number of commercial apps.

    everybody party, tech rules....

  24. Re:When you vote.... on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: 1

    well, no, he cast a vote. that doesn't mean it was counted. it's like the old Daley days in Chicago, downstate waited all night to see how many votes they had to come up with to overcome the steal in Chicago.

    except all there is in Florida voting is the steal, isn't there?

    where's the band name in this?

  25. maybe we will learn how to live without them on Hollywood Says No to Filtering DVD Player · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and maybe we will be real happy without those usage nazis.

    the first amendment enshrines the freedoms of speech and association. it does not force us to listen to any drooling lunatic on a soap box. and it does not force us to pay money to a bunch of humiliators who want us to squat and say thank you when they dump on us.

    you don't suppose there might be market backlash underway already, people not paying full price for limited access to bad content? hollywood can just go down to the DIVX corner of Circuit City and see how their plans work.

    if there is a floor worker at CC that still remembers DIVX.