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  1. Re:think i can wait... on Hubble Camera Lost "For Good" · · Score: 1

    It's not pining, it's passed on. This camera is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late camera. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you shot it in to space to the orbit, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-camera.

  2. Re:Not anymore. on US Missle Interceptor Tests a Success · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've never been down with the whole "MAD" concept in general.
    I think MAD only works when both sides are somewhat rational and realize how much they stand to lose. It is foreseeable that all your opponents will not be so rations or won't have as much to lose as an entire nation/state. Say what you will about the US vs USSR in the cold war but at least both sides had sence enough to keep it a cold war.

  3. Not the only positive of CSS. on CSS: The Definitive Guide · · Score: 2, Funny

    Every Web developer knows that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) makes it possible to separate the contents of Web pages from the styling of the elements on those pages.
    Or in the case of MySpace, CSS allows a user to make a website with no content look better by overdosing on the style.

  4. Re:It was a nobel ideal. on Google Admits China Censorship Was Damaging · · Score: 1

    Of course I clicked submit in stead of preview.... Sorry.
    Co-founder Larry Page said: "We always consider what to do. But I don't think we as a company should be making decisions based on too much perception."

    I would consider being evil a matter of perception. I'm sure all the money Google has received tells them they aren't being evil though, so I guess thats whose perception they care about.

  5. It was a nobel ideal. on Google Admits China Censorship Was Damaging · · Score: 2, Funny



    I would consider being evil a matter of perception?

  6. Re:Snowball's chance..... on Apple Turning Cell Phone Market Upside Down? · · Score: 1

    I agree that if they can they will, but in this case what are tehy going to do. Wont people ask "Hey whats the deal? The phone sitting here on display next to the iPhone offers 200 dollars off with a new contract. What kind of deal am I getting with this 2 year contract?"

    Of course I wouldn't be suprised if Cingular just said the phone is x dollars more that it real is, then they sell it to you for a x dollar discount.

  7. Re:Tin foil hat... on Are There Images of the Lunar Landers from Orbit? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't it convenient
    Convenient to whom? It's very convenient for the conspiracy theorists as it means they can on thinking that everything is a lie.

  8. Re:Easier Solution on Google Defuses Googlebombs · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use IFL lucky often. If you know enough about what your searching for it works nice. For example do an IFL search for "Astronomy Picture Day" and you'll go right to the Astronomy Picture of The Day website. Good if your on a forign machine and you odn't have your bookmarks.

  9. Re:Talk to the person who offered the package on Dealing w/ Relocation Package Bait and Switch? · · Score: 1

    Leading to the arrest
    Send me a email from jail and I'll have the money waiting for you when you get out, or you can have it in packs of smokes.

  10. Re:Talk to the person who offered the package on Dealing w/ Relocation Package Bait and Switch? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is possible that the recruiter shares some if not all of the blame, maybe he said things that he knew were not true just to get the recruiter bonus or met the recruiting target etc. Some post later on down said to contact the head of HR to see whats going on. It's always a good idea to get all sides of an issue before assigning blame.

  11. Re:New tag on Walking Molecule Now Carries Packages · · Score: 1

    I agree with a lot of what you said. The summaries are great. I hate reading an article summary and the ghoing to teh actual article and teh first paragraph is word for word what I just read. So yeah I do like Roland's submissions on taht point, plus it's not something that you just saw yesterday on CNN.com

  12. Re:New tag on Walking Molecule Now Carries Packages · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually if you would have taken the time to mouseover the link you would have seen that it didn't go to his blog or column, it went to the university's website. Not that I'm a huge Roland fan, but your statement is just flat out wrong.

  13. Re:So uncool on Microsoft Launches Comical Effort to Fight Piracy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a huge percent of the population of the world who simply can NOT pay $200+ for an OS for their personal computers.
    But yet they can pay for the computer?

  14. Re:Well that's shweet and all on NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've never seen a law or tool for law enforcement that hasn't been used for other things than it was intended.
    Shocker that your comment gets modded +5 insightful....

    Isn't it safe to say that pretty much any technology/tool has been (mis)used for other things than it was intended. Don't we on /. say it's not the tool but how it's used? Wasn't that the collective argument used in defense of p2p and bit torrent? The amount of hypocrisy on this site never ceases to amaze me.

  15. Re:Two wrongs don't make a right on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 1

    You are 3 minutes away from being totally unpopular. For what it's worth I agree with you.
    It doesn't matter how popular you make the original artist, if you aren't getting permission from the right people (in this case the RIAA) you have to be prepared to face the consequences.

  16. Re:Most muggable item? on iPhone Roundup · · Score: 1

    what are you left with? An expensive video iPod with "camera and games."

    If you stole it from some one the cost to you is Zero. So you just got an iPod with a camera and games for free.

  17. Re:Forget Replacing Cruise Missiles... on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    Oh and the other thing, as soon as you make them ground based installations they become imobile targets.

  18. Re:Think twice. on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    Okay so your shorline is defended up to 200 nautical miles... Well expcept from boomers that can launch ICBM and cruise missles with out surfacing and the ships parked at 250 nautical miles running a blockade and preventing you rom getting large quantities of suplies.

    I don't think this won't replace the need for a Navy.

  19. Re:Worse than Comcast? Are you kidding? on Verizon Sells Off Rural Lines · · Score: 1

    then you aren't worth two squirts to a major national carrier
    What does Microsoft's Zune have to do with this?

  20. Re:WOW! Could it live up to his hype? on Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Depends on the knife, a robust Swiss Army Knife has a can opener inlcuded.

    Parent has a very funny and insightful post BTW.

  21. Re:Drank more than 8oz on Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition · · Score: 1

    FTA:

    "An Associated Press interview with another contestant, named James Ybarra, claimed that contestants were initially given eight ounce bottles of water to drink every fifteen minutes, with larger bottles being used once contestants began to drop out"

  22. Re:The minute they... on State Trooper Fights For His Source Code · · Score: 1

    I singed the a simular agrement and anything that I write that is inspired by my work is company property (IIRC), but in this case since the developer doesn't work for an IT shop or in an IT field I bet he didn't sign anything like that.

  23. Re:Damon as Kirk? on Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or is the sci-fi icon seem like he's screaming in terror every time it's a story about a new trek or star wars movie?

    see for your self

  24. Re:YACCS -Yet Another Computer Corkup in Space on Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    It's not like the only problems with air and space vehicles have been caused by coding errors, I'm sure engineering has done fairly well for it self too.

  25. easier way... on Detection of Earth-like Civilizations in Space Now Possible · · Score: 1

    All we have to do is just wait for the alien civilization to send their Overlords.