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  1. Come to Asia and taste it, buddy ! on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 5, Informative



    You sez:

    "culturally Asians seem to be a lot less
    promiscuous, which would imply that this
    disaster doesn't seem so imminent"

    This is so only to show others.

    Asian culture is at its best in the sex scene.

    On one hand, they will pretend that they are not sexually promiscuous, and on the other hand, the vast majority of Child Prostitution in the world happen throughout Asian countries. You can find child prostitutes in Indonesia, China, India, Kampuchia (formerly known as Cambodia), Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Malaysia and so on.

    If you are willing to pay, you can even participate in the "deflowering" act, where you'd get a virgin child - male or female - for his / her first night.

    What you do to them, as long as you don't kill them, is entirely up to you.

  2. Tell me it ain't so ! on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 3, Funny

    You sez:

    "... it is linked directly to the ugly gene."

    Say it ain't so, buddy.

    If the human civilization succumbs to the AIDS epidemic, the NEW human civilization will have those two women as their MOTHERS.

  3. Names of Spyware by FBI / CIA / NSA ? on Spyware Fines OKed By House · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I want to know the names of the spyware produced by FBI, CIA, or NSA.

    Any help would be much appreciated !!

  4. SSE3 is NOT implemented yet ! on AMD 90nm Evaluated · · Score: 1

    Before all of you jumped up and down on the new 90nm version of Athlon / Opteron 64, please be reminded that the new SSE3 support isn't yet implemented.

    Perhaps on a later batch, circa 2005, will we see SSE3 and other goodies inside.

    So, if you can wait just a little while, you may get something extra, without paying extra.

  5. What if WalMart is in charged of the IT industry on Inside Wal-Mart IT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone want to play the "What If ..." scenario game?

    What if WalMart is in charged of the IT industry ..

    What if MicroSoft runs by the WalMart people ?

    What if Intel is owned by Walmart ?

    Will Linux exist get its chance ?

    What will InterNet looks like ?

    The Virus, Spams, etc. that are plaguing
    everyone using computer today, if WalMart is
    in charged, will they ever happen ?

    Thx.

  6. How to treat good people on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 1

    You sez:

    "Recommend the good guys for jobs where
    you work and you will slowly squeeze out
    the back stabbers"

    The one thing I've learnt all these years in office politics is this :

    For good guys, find good jobs for them inside
    or outside of the company.

    Jobs that can tap into and treasure their
    talents.

    For back-stabbers, get them very high-paying
    job, outside of the company.

    Jobs that pay high, but you know they
    won't last.

  7. Oh man, Sun fsck up !! on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Jurors ruled that Sun's Java web software
    infringes the patents, which were acquired
    by Eastman Kodak Co. in 1997"

    "Three patents once registered to Lowell
    minicomputer-maker Wang Laboratories"

    There are two things I can say about the above:

    1. Sun should've bought Wang Lab, but didn't.

    2. Kodak's luck isn't that bad, after all.

    One question:

    Anyone know how much Kodak paid for the
    acquisition of Wang Lab, back in 1997 ?

    Thanks !

  8. What ? No FTP Search ?! on New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google · · Score: 1

    Where's that FTP-Search thing ?

  9. Windows itself _IS_ Spyware ! on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    To many countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Germany, and Russia, MicroSoft Windows itself _IS_ spyware.

    It is a well known fact that all versions of MS-Windows have backdoors built in, allowing US spy agencies to heck into, do something funny, and/or sabortage the "enemy system".

    In light of this, who can trust MicroSoft to churn out something that can be classified as "anti-spyware" ?

  10. Houston calling the ISS .... on US Military Plans Space Combat · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are preparing to shoot you down.

    We have nothing against you, it's just that our AirForce has determined that any spacecraft with Russians in it must be a threat.

  11. On the contrary on Keeping Microsoft Happy · · Score: 1

    You sez:

    Lets hope that they take the money and
    use it to make Windows better instead of
    using it to fund SCO.

    I hope MS will use the money to make SCO even more crazier, and make Windows as clueless as SCO.

  12. Re:All I know is... on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 1

    You sez:

    You make a reasonable argument however you
    must take into consideration the audience
    you are addressing. Approximately one third
    of the population in the United States is
    economic dead weight. The individuals who
    decry free markets and long for state
    intervention generally come from that segment
    of the population.

    I thank you for your reply. It is very informative and awakening.

    The reason I post that message, however, wasn't to address the deadweights, but, as you also know, one-third of our own people are not-yet deadweights, and some of them may _still_ be able to reason to, and because my love of my own country, I simply can NOT sit there and say nothing and let the people being brainwashed by the mass media into brainless zombies.

    My fear is that U. S. of A. will turn into another Nazi like empire, where the "leaders" can do whatever they can and the people never offer any resistance. As a card carrying member to both the NRA and ACLU, I love my country too much to do nothing.

    That's all, and thanks again !

  13. The flow of Dollars on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I see that you have bought into the idea that the media have been trying to plant into our collective consciousness - that the "Dollars going out is unattainable" crap.

    Stop thinking of the flow of money in the Zero Sum term. You have to understand, whatever that's flowing out of America is in US dollars, and whatever flowed out of America will flow into some other people's hands, and when they accumulate enough, they will use that money to BUY something !

    After all, what else is money for, right ?

    So, we shouldn't concentrate in how much our money has flowed out, we should instead, think of ways to get those money back - by earning it !

    When those people want to buy something - and they ain't buying toaster oven, for sure - we better be prepared to provide them with whatever they want to buy, and charge accordingly for it.

    The market isn't a static one, it's dynamic. So, don't worry.

  14. Re:All I know is... on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 0

    Dear Wolfkin,

    I will never reply to that guy, man. He, like Kerry and Bush, never want to use his god-given brain to think.

    We are in the world filled with instant access, and when competition is heating up, all over the world, the guy is talking about tariff, trade restriction, and such, as though he is the center of the whole damn world and he can control the world with his petty little tarrif and trade restriction.

    The fact that American corporations are actively cutting cost, - not because they like to, but because they have to, - is to provide themselves a chance to compete against OTHERS in the INTERNATIONAL ARENA, and not only the U. S. of A.

    US can hike the tariff through the roof, doing so not only will harm the US consumers, but also will encourage others to BYPASS the United States in many international trade.

    If Toyota can't sell cars in USA, they won't die. They can ply their trade in Brazil as well as Kenya.

    What most of us, the Americans, don't understand is, sooner or later, we won't be the center of the universe anymore, and when that time come, we will beg others to come to our shore to do business with us.

    Facing with this bleak reality, people like the one your responded to, still calling for setting up trade barrier. Duh !

  15. Kerry is an IDIOT ! on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What Kerry says, essentially, is "I AM GOING TO TAX THE AMERICAN COMPANIES SO THAT THEY CAN'T OPERATE AT A PROFIT ANYMORE, SO THAT THE JAPS WILL WIN THE COMPETITION !"

    Stopping outsourcing just ain't the solution, my dear.

    We need to go back to the ROOT CAUSE of WHY there is a NEED for oursourcing. We can no longer afford the SIMPLE-MINDEDNESS that we are so used to.

    Company outsource not because they like to, but they had to.

    Why ? Because out of the 60,000 biggest companies in the world, our American companies are at a VERy DISTINCT DISADVANTAGE - our cost is SIMPLY TOO HIGH.

    And why is that ?

    Because WE PAY OUR AMERICAN EMPLOYEES TOO MUCH !

    Yes, if we come to the root of it, it is US, the AMERICANS, who are at fault. Not the companies.

    The companies, like other entities, just want to survive. They can't afford to pay UNION WORKERS U$80-200 per hour indefinitely, while they can hire HIGHER SKILL PEOPLE outside of America for one tenth of the cost !

    The market today ain't USA anymore, but THE WORLD. If our American companies have survive, we have to survive not only in America, but also in France, Hongkong, Zimbabwee, and Peru.

    Everywhere you go, you see the Japs and Gooks company EXCEL AT WHAT THEY DO.

    From SHIP CONSTRUCTIONS to ELECTRONICS to TEXTILES, you see them - the Samsung, the Sony, the Hyndai, the Toyota - leading.

    And while we American can compete now, we are losing, and losing fast.

    We are just not fast enough. Outsourcing is just ONE of the way to UNBURDEN part the load the American companies have been carrying all along.

    No, I am not pro-companies. I am just being realistic.

    If we force the American companies to pay through their noses to hire Americans at EXUBERANT COST, one of these days the American companies are going to shut their doors, and when that happen, it will be the Japs and the Gooks who will take over, and when happen, do you think them Japs and Gooks are gonna pay us whatever price we ask ?

    Be realistic, and stop being an idiot.

    Kerry is an idiot, and anyone follows him is an idiot too !

  16. All I know is... on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    before that, your sister, your friend, and his wife were thinking ... hmmm... perhaps we can go to Europe for a nice vacation, and never realize that their own jobs were hanging by a rope.

    Wake up, people.

    Don't blame "bad immigration", or "globalization", blame YOURSELVES for being COMPLACENT !

    This world we live in is increasingly interconnected. Whatever we'd seen playing in the halls of UN 20 or 30 years ago today is playing right at our doorsteps - and that is, we aren't compete against other Americans for our own survival, but against THE WORLD !

    Yes, globalization goes both ways. While the third world countries are whinning about "Developing world conspire to re-colonize us", we, who live in FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES, must realize that while those sons-of-bitches are whinning, their cheaper labor is taking away our jobs.

    Usually, we single-minded Americans will yell and shout and demand our "representatives" to "DO SOMETHING" - which, more than always, mean "closing our borders", "stop outsourcing" etc, which in itself WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE IN THIS WORLD WE ARE LIVING.

    Instead of closing up, we SHOULD be OPENING UP EVEN MORE, and yes, that means, we should roll up our sleeves and COMPETE AGAINST THE CHEAPEST LABOR IN BANGLADESH, by using OUR BRAIN.

    Our plush lifestyle is at threat. If we don't do something, our high cost of living ain't gonna last. We gotta figure out ways to be BOTH the CHEAPEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO DO SOMETHING, and THE COUNTRY WHERE WE CAN LIVE In WHATEVER LIFESTYLE WE WANT.

    I am saying this base on my experience of a guy who have traveled and worked in all over the world. I am not that type of "Americans" who coccoon himself in the "protection of Uncle Sam". Rather, I go out into the WORLD and see what's going on, and btw, making money at it.

    Yep, there are people in the third world countries who will accuse me of "exploitation", but I don't mind. If they won't let me exploit them, then they won't get jobs. It's that simple.

    And then, there are Americans who accuse me of "exporting jobs to other countries". Again, I don't mind.

    You see, if I can't make a toaster oven in America under U$ 2.25, then I won't make money selling them not only in America, but also all over the world. I gotta find the CHEAPEST PLACE IN THE WORLD to do what I need to do, and if that means doing it OUTSIDE AMERICA, I'll do it in a jiffy.

    In the same token, the money I earned, I sent back to my good ol' U. S. of A. for safekeeping. No matter how I like the world outside America, America is still my country.

    To to those who want to close our borders - please don't buy any clothing, any furniture, any electrical appliances, any thing, in fact, because 90% of them are MADE OUTSIDE America !

    You can close the border to "immigrant, but you can't stop those things from coming in. It's us, the Americans, who demand CHEAP but QUALITY goods, so something gotta give.

    Until the day you realize you can't live the way you did, you wouldn't understand which world we are living in, my friend.

  17. How efficient is the PhotoVoltaic cell ? on Solar Powered Computers Planned for Rural India · · Score: 1

    Solar Power almost always means the use of PhotoVoltaic cells. The one which I used many years ago wasn't efficient at all, and they are bulky as hell.

    How about the one now ?

    What's the highest solar --> electricity conversion rate achieved so far ?

    How high is the percentage ?

    30% ?
    40% ?
    50% ?

    If I remember the fact clearly, plants, on the average, convert only about 2% of the sunlight they receive.

  18. Re:LINUXBIOS.COM on Stallman Pushes For Free BIOS · · Score: 1

    Thanks !! Mia Curpa !!

  19. Another Brick For Bio Weaponary on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 2, Insightful



    As if the world isn't filled with mad people, the "artificial prion", no matter for whatever noble reason it was created, will eventually be used as yet another weapon for Bio Warfare.

    Think of it ... the prion is a PROTEIN, aminoacid, and it is LIFELESS. Not like bacteria, or viruses, which are pseudo lifeforms, PRION is something that YOU CAN NEVER KILL.

    Drop something like this, over a population, wait for 5 - 10 years, and you enemy will be infected, and become "mad".

    And btw, a protein isn't something that's included in any international convention regarding biowarfare agent. It isn't a toxic gas, nor germs/bacteria/viruses. Plus you can always argue that the thing occurs in the nature !

  20. LINUXBIOS.COM on Stallman Pushes For Free BIOS · · Score: 1

    There is a site where open-sourced bios(es) are being developed.

    It's called linuxbios.com

    Thx !

  21. Actually, it ain't a revolution on Voice Over IP Goes Global, The DNS Way · · Score: 1



    Not trying to be picky, but the VOIP thingy, with asterisk, e64.org and all others, are still not qualified to be called a "revolution"

    A revolution means Industry B replaces Industry A, just like the cars replacing the horse-buggies.

    No matter how the VOIP progress, at least in the short term, will NOT replace POTS. This means, two industries will exist side by side, with some bridges in between the two camps.

    This scenario is much like the toothbrush and toothpaste symbiosys - without one, you don't need the other.

    All I can see - and please correct me if I am wrong - is that VOIP will co-exist with POTS for quite some times, until the time where we have embedded communication devices on our shirts, or the back of our hands (much like some of the sci-fi flicks) and at that point, we might don't need both VOIP and POTS.

  22. Websites for sales people on Live Chat Salespeople On Web Sites · · Score: 1



    Is/are there any good website(s) for sales people to trade war stories, techniques, trends, et cetera ?

    Much obliged !

  23. Re:Fun and games with statistics on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 1

    ... hacking Linux actually requires human intervention ...

    But that still doesn't excuse Linux of being vulnerable.

    While I agree with your point (and others) that Linux has probably the main target for human-hackers, we still have many things to do - amongst them is to make Linux AT LEAST as SECURED as the BSDs.

    Just whence can we see that ?

  24. The Piracy Of Porno-Melody ? on Dealing With Copyright Online: Porn v. Music · · Score: 1, Funny



    If the music industry has its way, with the help of the porn industry, we will soon find that royalty-police will go after those who moans and shouts during orgasms.

    Moans like "deeper!" "harder!" "aaaaahhhh!" "Ooooooooh!" and even those slurpy sounds will soon be copyrighted nobody have the right to maon anymore unless you pay RIAA in advance !

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