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  1. Mod parent up on What Are Your Top Five 'Comfort' Games? · · Score: 2

    Best. Game. Ever.

  2. Windows For Workgroups 3.11 on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 1

    Wordperfect 5.1 meets all my needs and KDE is too slow on my 25 Mhz 486-SX.

  3. Re:Go Cannon on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 1

    When the i850 came out, it destroyed every thing out there in both cost and photo printing quality. But its job was to print photos. And it does it well. I have an i850 for photos and a Samsung ML-1750 laser for everything else. It sounds like you want 4 devices in one. I don't think Canon is in that business. But Konika has some nice options.

  4. Jeremiah on Straczynski Offers To Re-Boot Star Trek [updated] · · Score: 1

    Best. Show. Ever.

  5. Re:Can anyone explain this? on Vonage Says VoIP Traffic Blocked By Providers · · Score: 1

    teleco: "I understand, Mr. Congressman. Perhaps the solution lies within this envelope marked with a '$$$'
    congresscritter: "As I was saying, nothing to see, move along."

  6. Re:Yeah but in India... on IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005 · · Score: 1

    There was already an article on this. It's almost impossible to get a work Visa in India. They're rightfully protective of their labor.

  7. Re:Yeah but in India... on IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Actually, it would only fit with capitalist nature if everyone in the US could get a work visa in India and other countries. Free trade should work both ways. Since it doesn't, H-1B ammounts to a labor subsidy. TIn case you know who Milton Freedman is, I'm almost quoting his views on H-1B. This isn't about free trade, it's about subsidized corporate labor and destroying the middle class.

  8. H.R. 5413 on IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) introduced a bill to reform the H-1B visa program titled the "Defend the American Dream Act of 2004". His strong letter to the editor of the New Jersey Herald indicates that the bill will be re-introduced in the 2005 Congress. I can't recall the last time I have read a written statement from a public official that was so highly critical of H-1B.

    To review the American Dream Act follow these instructions:

    1) go to http://thomas.loc.gov
    2) enter H.R. 5413 into the search engine

    Pascrell's website is at:
    http://www.pascrell.house.gov/

    Click "Contact Bill" to give them feedback.

  9. Re:Obvious reason on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed it does run DOS. I recently hacked mine to play Ultima VII: The Black Gate.

  10. This is really boring on An Interview With Mark Gorham Of OpenVMS · · Score: 0, Troll

    -1 Sleep.

  11. Women are smarter on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1

    I believe that there was a study done at some point that showed women chose careers based on more practical reasons. Math and science are comparitively difficult and offer less pay and satisfaction than say, accounting or nursing. H-1B and oustsourcing have only made things worse. Women are smarter than that. The last 2 times a coworker became pregant, she was fired soon after. Working 20+ hour in unpaid overtime every week doesn't make it easy to raise a family. It's terrible how abusive companies have become.

  12. Re:so, how is creationism taught anyways? on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Fortunatly, the big bang explains the what. The why is left up to religion. The big bang states:

    It looks like all the starts are moving away from one another because everything just exploded outward for some unknown reason. We don't really know what caused it, though.

    The big bible states:

    Question not thy god and creator who doth makes big bangs. Or something.

  13. Re:theory... on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. This reminds me of when I asked by high school physics teacher "what is gravity?" Little did I know that years later I'd be reading Einstein because Newton teaches the what, but not the how or the why.

  14. Re:ID is not a theory on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    String theory is a philosophy. It is a mathematical model of what someone thinks the universe is made of. It may be right, but can never be proven. Once someone claims to have found the absolute smallest unit making up the universe, there's no way to measure it. The atom was the smallest unit until someone smashed it. Once you find the smallest unit, it can't be smashed and it can't be measured.

  15. Pay them money on Physicists Work on Physics' Uncool Image · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In America money is always cool. If we needed more physicists, they would commend high salaries and everyone would want to be a physicist. It's the American way.

  16. Re:the NASA presskit is funny on Deep Impact Blasts Off For Comet Tempel 1 · · Score: 1

    It's not about the material it's about the mass and velocity. Getting hit by a 1 lb weight made out of wood hurts just as much as a 1lb weight made out of lead. Maybe NASA doesn't know the difference between english and metric, but they undertand basic physics.

  17. Re:Total Tax comes to on Blue LED Inventor Nakamura Awarded $8.1 Million · · Score: 1

    In the US taxes tend to be regressive (the middle class pays for everyone else). That sounds counter-intuitive until you realize that social security is a 15% tax levied against income below $80k per year (the middle class).

    Forming an S corp, one could pay himself $30k as payroll and the rest as S-corp profits. The profits are only taxed at the income-tax level, meaning that while your middle-class friends are paying into social security, you are paying a much lower tax rate by avoiding payroll taxes, Dick-Chaney style.

    Most people don't even realize that social securiy is no longer deducted from income above $80k/year. Payroll taxes absolutely kill the middle class. Why the American public puts up with this is beyond me. Who gave the rich exemption from taxes?

  18. Re:Stock options? on The Coming Expensing of Employee Stock Options · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind this is the same company that keeps claiming that increases in H-1B is needed because there's an apparent shortage of engineers. Last time the IEEE checked, unemployment in engineering is the highest since the 1970s.

  19. Re:Wikipedia on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think people understand the amount of force unleashed by geological events. The Indonesian tsunami was set off by an earthquake registering a 9 on the Richter scale. That translates to roughly 1,000 Megatons. That would be the equivalent of over 77,000 Hiroshima-style
    bombs exploding at once (http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakes/magnitude.html).

    The largest nuclear device ever detonated was the Tsar bomba. It was "only" 57 megatons (albeit capable of 100, but the Russians couldn't figure out how to run away in time). At any rate, it would still take 10 of those behemoths to generate this sort of destructive force.

    Much like the Yellowstone super-volcano, this is just on of those things we can't do anything about. We're at the mercy of mother earth. As we have always been.

  20. Re:It was illegal on Chief of eBay's Indian Site Arrested, Released · · Score: 1

    You're not helping your case. The age of consent is 16, but any image or video of a person under the age of 18 engaging in sexual activity is considered child pornography. Maybe they will go easy on you for not knowing the difference. Either way, I say come clean as soon as possible.

  21. Re:No they couldn't on Asteroid Flies Under the Radar, Literally · · Score: 2, Informative

    Evacuate them where? The skies would be darkened for years from the debris. Global famine would kill billions. Personally, I'm actually more worried about a supervolcano called "Yellowstone" taking out North America.

  22. Re:It was illegal on Chief of eBay's Indian Site Arrested, Released · · Score: 1

    "Someone(I dont remember who)"

    Uh-oh. Generally speaking ,the cops don't like the old "I don't remember who" routine. If you just turn yourself in, along with all copies of the video in your possession, they might go easy on you.

    With good behavior, you might be looking at less than 2 years + some probation. But remember that each copy of the video they find is an additional count. In this case, I hope you didn't take backups. See if the prosecutor can waive registering you as a sex offender. That would make it tough to find employment.

  23. Re:It was illegal on Chief of eBay's Indian Site Arrested, Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Although in the video the girl is smiling and stuff."

    I think you better get a lawyer...

  24. Re:Err...bollocks on Labels Trying New CD Copy Prevention Systems · · Score: 1

    Ultimately a signal gets sent to a speaker driver. There's no way to prevent copying.

  25. Re:Which means on Green Energy Almost Cost-Competitive with Fossil Fuels · · Score: 1

    If you factor in the cost of having military presence in the middle east, the costs of treating respiratory problems directly related to fossil fuel polution, you quickly realize that the price you pay at the pump is vastly subsidized by the taxpayers. If you price in those subsidies you'll find that renewable energy is much cheaper. It's an accounting problem, actually. If the gasoline tax actually matched what the federal government spends to make sure we have that gasoline, consumers would go somewhere else.