User: cyber_rigger

Sell CDs with tons of MP3s

On: Fallout from the Internet Debacle

I say the recording industry should just go with the flow and sell CDs full of MP3s already pre-ripped. Sell the convenience of not having to do it yourself.

385 bits of computer code

On: MS to Implement Some DoJ Settlement Terms Preemptively

This Reuters Market News article says "Microsoft said it plans to disclose 385 bits of computer code and internal operating rules, previously kept secret, that outside software developers can use to write programs to run on Windows."

I calculate this (385 bits) to be about 48.125 bytes. I'm not impressed. :^)

Re:Global Warming Predictions?...or...

On: Japan Builds World's Fastest Computer

Once they fire this baby up it will CREATE global warming .

Render Movies in Real Time?

On: Japan Builds World's Fastest Computer

So, who's got their calculator handy?

Do something that would be MORE effective

On: Senate Bill Would Make Clandestine Video Taping Illegal

Make unwanted SPAM illegal.

We DON'T have an endless supply of Oxygen

On: NASA Reports Vast Hydrogen Reserves in Earth's Crust

A main problem I see with this is that we could deplete our oxygen supply. Get ready to breath WaterVapor/Nitrogen mix. CO2 can return the O2 via plants. How can the cycle be completed returning O2 from H2O ?

Judge Jackson had the best plan

On: Microsoft Case Enters Crucial Penalty Phase

I hate to see the government get into software design. The spliting of Microsoft into 2 parts (OS and everything else) seemed to be a fairer plan to all and easier to maintain than what we will probably end up with. By the time the government remedies take effect it will be too late to address the original problem anyway. Private lawsuits will have to take up that slack.

Next, Randomly Scanning monitors

On: CRT Eavesdropping: Optical Tempest

I can see it now. Random scan order on your monitor. CRTs will (probably), eventually be a thing of the past and replaced with somthing that doesn't have a scan timing to be deciphered.

Just Don't use Microsoft

On: Every Road a Toll Road

Ooops, sorry wrong road. :^)

That depends on ones defininition of "perfectly"

On: Bob Young says Linux won't rule the desktop

A machine that stops working on its on accord for product registration at each hardware change is not a "perfectly" working machine.

Frogs have known about this for years now.

On: Ice Worms And Frozen Rat Ovaries

http://www.ecotarium.org/wildlife/aotm/archive/199 811Toad/ "Frogs and toads in New England have evolved an amazing mechanism for surviving long cold winters-the ability to hibernate. Both aquatic frogs,like leopard and bullfrogs and terrestrial frogs, like wood frogs and toads,have fascinating strategies to cope with temperatures below freezing."