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  1. Consider the possibilities on Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Dead · · Score: 1

    maybe Martians do exist and they want their privacy and switched off the Phoenix probe so we can't spy on them.

    Either that or John Byrne is taking over the Phoenix series and had Mastermind brainwash her for the Hellfire Club and she will rise as "Dark Phoenix".

    Maybe there will be a Battle of the Planets and five orphan kids will join to combine their ships with the Phoenix probe into the Firery Phoenix? Ask Seven Zark Seven for more details.

  2. Attention Yankee Dogs! on China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites · · Score: 1, Funny

    All your Bittorrent Base are belong to us!

    You are on your way to Communism, take your time.

    You have no choice, but to join us, hahahahahaahah!

    We own your national debt, USA, 100 Trillion Dollars, now pay up or we won't give you back your BT sites. Your search engines Google and Yahoo and then megacorprations like Microsoft and IBM are next, muahahahaahahh!

    Your Karate is no match for our Kung-Fu!

  3. Bah! Orion Blastar begs to differ. on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 2

    In consumer electronic stores there are $350 Laptops (after rebate) with Intel Graphic chips and 2G of RAM a 120G HD. that run Vista and cost less than a Netbook.

    The $350 Laptop can easily be reformatted to run XP, Linux, AROS, or whatever.

    If it is an open box special you can get one for as low as $300.

  4. Retrocomputing on Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now my 25 year old C64 BASIC programs can run under Linux, OSX, or Windows.

    If only my 1541 floppies didn't suffer from bit rot and I loaned most of my collection to friends who didn't return them and somehow lost it after they moved.

  5. Re:What MTV uses censorships? on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    But the MAAFIA pay politicians via campaign contributions like Al Gore, Tipper Gore, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton to pass the DMCA and Tipper Gore put warning labels on certain music CDs and video games.

  6. Re:Not all Liberals are Liberal Fascists on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    because the book is called Liberal Fascism, not Conservative Fascism which has hundreds of books written on that subject.

    All Goldberg wanted to point out was that Liberals also use Fascism it is not just the Conservatives that use it.

    Check and mate!

  7. Re:Apple and Microsoft are like peas in a pod on Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in · · Score: 1

    Amiga is still around and doesn't seem to be bothered with legacy issues like Apple and Microsoft are.

    Also there are still Amiga users that are happy with their choice.

    In case you missed it Slashdot has been reporting on it for a while now. Plus The Amiga is still going on with PowerPC SAM440 and ACube units and still being sold.

  8. Bah! Why commit to a mobile broadband contract? on Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    $100 Linux based MIPS laptops are much better but don't have the CPU power of the others. That is the $100 laptop I might buy.

  9. Re:Time to make The Internet 2.0 on The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' · · Score: 1

    But I like Slashdot, just not the Anonymous Cowards that make feeble and pathetic threats against me.

    You have to go try out responsibility now? You mean you never tried it? Apparently neither have the Anonymous Cowards making threats on me either tried responsibility.

    That is the problem with most US Citizens, they never even bothered to try to be responsible. From the minimum wage earners up to George W. Bush and Bill Gates himself, no responsibility at all. That is why our economy is in a big mess.

    All I was asking was for people to be responsible for their behaviors and actions, which is why I wrote this guide so that even Dummies like you can understand it.

  10. Not all Liberals are Liberal Fascists on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    But Liberal Fascists do really exist. Not that all Liberals are Liberal Fascists, some are Classic Liberals and not Neo-Liberals or Fake Liberals who are really Communists or Anarchists pretending to be real Liberals.

  11. Re:What MTV uses censorships? on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    Sorry that should have been Moveon.org and not Moveone.org, Moveon.org is the Ultra-Left-Wing Liberal propaganda hate and fear machine.

  12. Liberal Fascism exists on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    Here is proof of Liberal Fascism Fascism need not be right-wing it can be left-wing as Communism is the left-wing version of Fascism and Communism existed first as Left Wing Dictatorships and Benito Mussolini created Fascism as the Right-Wing version of Communism to combat it.

    Adolph Hitler was a National Socialist and did a Beer Putch to win the votes of the Working Class by bribing their votes with beer, The Jewish People were the Right-Wing Rich Class that Hitler spoke out against and claimed he was for the working class to redistribute the wealth from the Rich Jewish People to the poor German Aryan people, that by definition is Ultra-Left Wing Socialism combined with Nationalism, and isn't that much different from EU Socialism and American Liberalism today.

    Moveon.org is the head of the Ultra-Left-Wing Liberal movement in the USA and keeps saying hateful propaganda in blogs they hire shills to write and in Newspapers and TV shows as well.

    Barrack Obama, good thing he is more towards the center, he is still a Liberal but a Classic Liberal and not an Ultra-Left-Wing Liberal. I like that Obama does not play dirty politics as Moveon.org, Liberal blogs, Liberal Newspapers, and Liberal TV and Cable News channels do.

    I salute the Classic Liberals that are not at all like their Ultra-Left-Wing Liberal counterparts.

  13. Re:What MTV uses censorships? on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    Actually it is not Fascist but Communist, Ultra-Left-Wing tactics as outlined here by me and many others to show how Liberals like Neocons can be dictators, just Communists instead of Fascists. Liberal Fascism is the nickname for Communism and Anarchism mixed together. Those people are not even real Liberals but Neo-Liberals. Keynesian economics was loosely based on Marxism, don't you know?

    Right now, Haliburton runs the USA, Dick Cheney's company, George W. Bush is his puppet and does not own Haliburton stock. But since Haliburtion gets all of the rights to Iraq's and Afghanistan's oil, it caused other oil companies to profit as well as the price of oil is rigged by speculators and oil companies and OPEC manipulated by Haliburton.

    Nobody rapes me, if they try they get broken bones and bruises, I am a Space Pirate Ninja and know several forms of martial arts and am a sharpshooter with guns as well.

    I am a Moderate Libertarian like most of the people in the USA, you Liberals and Neocons are in the minority.

  14. Re:What MTV uses censorships? on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    Yeah there are a few decent liberals who aren't like I describe. They are "Classic Liberals" and more to the center than the far left. The Liberals in change of the Democratic Party, Hollywood, RIAA, MPAA, Recording Studios, Newspapers, Blogs (Moveone.org) are Ultra-Left-Wing Liberals that are more like Communists or Anarchists protending to be Liberals or Neo-Liberals.

    I and others wrote about them here, and I apologize to the real Liberals who are not like the fake Liberals.

  15. Re:Vuze? on Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I think of Windows Azure, I tend to think of This Game.

    Bill Gates and Microsoft are part of the New Alliance, and put Azure tattoos on the developers so that they can secretly control them and lock them into working for the New Alliance.

  16. Re:Microsoft on Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in · · Score: 1

    Yeah a true sign of the coming Apocalypse is Microsoft making an open source GPL version of Windows that runs 100% of the legacy code out there and they give it away for free. Then they give VC startup money to small businesses to develop new technology to help them compete with Microsoft instead of buying out small businesses that compete with Microsoft because Microsoft cannot invent the innovative tech small businesses can (Like Hotmail, Yahoo, Google, Giant, etc).

    When Microsoft turns into a GNU Dirty Hippie company, you then know that the Apocalypse will soon start and the four horsemen are on their way. :)

  17. Apple and Microsoft are like peas in a pod on Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What Apple did with OSX, Microsoft did with Vista and Azure. But as I recall OSX Classic mode couldn't run all legacy Mac programs just as Vista's Win32 Legacy mode cannot run all Legacy Windows and DOS programs.

    I recall Mac OSX had the Basilisk 2 emulator to run Classic Mac 68K programs that OSX Classic mode couldn't run.

    Windows Vista uses VMWare or Virtual PC to run XP and under in Vista for Legacy Windows and DOS programs.

    But it is ironic that Amiga, Inc. when it wrote AmigaOS 3.1 found a way to run the old 68K and PowerPC AmigaDOS/Workbench 1.X and 2.X programs under it without too many problems, and even gave legacy rights to a group to create an open source version of AmigaOS 3.1 called AROS Amiga Research OS that can run on i386 and PowerPC systems and have built in emulation for 68K Amiga code based on UAE with their own version of Kickstart in AROS with backwards compatibility.

    Amiga got it right, Microsoft and Apple didn't, for solving Legacy Software problems.

  18. Windows Legacy Programs on Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in · · Score: 1

    The first lockout was when Microsoft abandoned the Visual BASIC 6.0 and under platform (Classic Visual BASIC) in exchange for Visual BASIC.Net 2002 and above. But many developers rebelled and stuck with VB 6.0 (I get many contractors and headhunters asking me to train programmers for VB 6.0 programming on Windows XP and under.)

    Now this new platform will lock out the Visual Studio.Net 200X developers in exchange for the Cloud Framework.

    I told former employers that it is better to just rewrite programs from scratch rather than try to convert code from VB 6.0 to VB.Net, but they didn't believe me. Then after they fired me for being sick on the job they found out I was right as they ran into a lot of issues and bugs with Visual BASIC.Net as I told them on my reports of it.

    Might as well screw Microsoft as Microsoft has screwed developers at least three times now. Then screw Microsoft by adopting Python, Java, Ruby, Perl, Free Pascal, Delphi, or some other competing platform to Visual Studio and Cloud Windows Azure.

    I would really like to see Linux or BSD Unix develop their own cloud computing that runs from the web to counter what Microsoft is doing.

    I got a theory that using Novell Mono would be a gateway language for Windows developers to switch to, before switching to something else and develop VB.Net code in Mono for Linux, BSD Unix, Solaris, Mac OSX, etc, and leave Microsoft altogether and screw them for screwing developers too many times.

  19. What MTV uses censorships? on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 2, Interesting

    MTV will not bleep out swear words in Gansta Rap videos, but they will bleep out the names of popular file sharing applications?

    Ok now we know that the MAAFIA (RIAA/MPAA) is in bed with MTV and Time/Warner/AOL/Turner House of Pancakes running MTV are looney ultra-left-wing Liberals working for Hollywood and Record Companies who bribe them to play the same 12 videos over and over again each day to promote their sales.

    Kids today are smart, all they need do is use Google with the words "file sharing programs" and they'll get millions of hits and find out not only the names of file sharing programs, but also how to download and install them and even poke a hole in Windows Firewall to get faster downloads.

    "Weird" Al Yankovic was making fun of the MAAFIA in his "Don't Download This Song" video because of their totalitarian tactics of suing everyone that are fans of the music and videos. In fact, "Weird" Al Yankovic got even more popular when pirates downloaded his MP3 files and then went out to buy the "Straight Out Of Lindwood" CD that also doubles on the back as a DVD full of videos because "Weird" Al knows that pirates love to try before they buy, so they don't buy a CD for $35 only to find out when they get home to play it that most of the song suck and they only like 1 or 2 of the songs on the whole CD. That is why, unlike Metalica and Prince, "Wierd" Al doesn't sue his fans for downloading his songs in MP3 format, because he knows most of them will go out and buy his CD because "Weird" Al is too white and nerdy like his fans and is computer savvy enough to know that piracy actually helps him become more popular and sell more CDs, and more concert tickets.

  20. Re:Hey what now? E-President getting advice on The First E-President · · Score: 1

    Sorry they don't qualify.

    Most of them are under 35 years of age, and since they remain anonymous they cannot prove their age or that they were born in the USA. They would have to drop all privacy and go public in order to run for office.

    Nice try though, but even I, Orion Blastar, cannot run for office unless I drop my privacy and give my real name, real age, and birth certificate proving I was born in the USA. I'd rather be Anonymous and give helpful advice to Presidents and Congress than run for office.

  21. Re:Album title: Oval Office Party - Chiefs and Squ on The First E-President · · Score: 1

    Yeah even Nixon's own party wanted to throw him under the bus, after the Deep Throat incident.

  22. Re:Album title: Oval Office Party - Chiefs and Squ on The First E-President · · Score: 1

    Sorry I got appeal confused with Aquitted.

    They voted for acquittal not appeal.

    'The Senate voted on the Articles of Impeachment on February 12, with a two-thirds majority, or 67 Senators, required to convict. On Article I, that charged that the President "...willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury" and made "...corrupt efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the discovery of evidence" in the Paula Jones lawsuit, the President was found not guilty with 45 Senators voting for the President's removal from office and 55 against. Ten Republicans split with their colleagues to vote for acquittal; all 45 Democrats voted to acquit. On Article II, charging that the President "...has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice"..., the vote was 50-50, with all Democrats and five Republicans voting to acquit.'

    The perjury charge was from the Paula Jones case, not the Monica Lewinski case. It was Sexual Harassment not Sexual Relations.

    I am sorry for the confusion, I had a bit of a rough time in the late 1990's as my best friend killed himself and the stresses of my job were getting to me during that period in time.

  23. Re:Since we cannot stop the illegal on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 1

    Er third party lawyer and accountant, sorry I got confused there.

  24. Re:Since we cannot stop the illegal on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 1

    Well a contract is binding and a public company always has to show their books to the public via their web sites.

    Unless they are another Enron and keep more than one set of books.

    But still if a contract is binding, and the company that licensed the tech is cooking books, they have more than just the 10% profits they owe the IP holder, the government will want to investigate them for fraud as well.

    There are formulas you can use to check to see if an accounting book is cooked or not, and how much profits they made via the ROI and other formulas. If they are lying to the IP holder, they are also lying to their shareholders and the government.

    Make the IP license contract state that a third party lawyer and attorney will routinely check their accounting books to see if the fair share is being paid for licensing the technology, ones that are unbiased and have a reputation of being honest.

  25. Most IT departments are 24/7 on When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    so powering down servers might not make sense for every IT department.

    If a company only has operations from 9 to 5, then it would make sense to power down the servers after everyone else has left and the Admin is the last to leave and powers down the server. Then the Admin comes in early or another Admin and powers back on the server before 9am.

    For a 24 hour IT department it makes sense to use low power settings to shut off hardware when not in use and use power saving screen savers, and sacrifice some CPU speed for power saving features to save on electricity.

    Just remember that some companies have help desks that operate 24 hours a day and need server access to resolve issues. Either that or they have three or four shifts for employees to work with and need server access.