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  1. It's cheaper in Canada! on Dell Selling 30" Flat Panels · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm really surprised that nobody has noticed this: The Dell Canada site has the sane thing for $1999 Canadian which works out to be about $1700 US!!

    http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/productde tails.aspx/monitor_3007wfp?c=ca&cs=CABSDT1&l=en&s= bsd

  2. Re:There is a alternative.... on Debugging Microsoft.com · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey, Microsoft has to eat their own dogfood if they want to keep some modicum of credibility no matter how bad the food tastes...

  3. Listen to HAARP on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    Rejoice in the sounds of HAARP presented by Art Bell, an avid HAM operator. Pretty weird sounds to be just for jamming signals. I think they're up to no good. 4 BILLION WATTS is a lot of power to be pumping into the ionosphere... http://mfile.akamai.com/5022/rm/artbell.download.a kamai.com/5022/clips/04/09/091904_what_is_haarp.rm

  4. Not a monopoly for once on Microsoft Plans Deliberate Xbox 360 Shortage · · Score: 1

    Here is one place where Microsoft is NOT a monopoly. The award of make a "huge splash the have a shortage" goes to Apple.
    They perfected that business model.

  5. Re:Apple Xserve? on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My first thought as well. However, he is asking for a single volume solution. So XSAN from Apple would have to be implemented. Good thing that it's compatible with ADIC's solution for cross-platform support.
    Probably would be the least expensive option overall and the simplest to implement. Don't take my word for it, go look for yourself.

  6. Waste of time on Allen Telescope Array In Action · · Score: 1

    SETI: "Silly Effort To Investigate" coined by Stan Friedman. Total waste of time to be looking for radio signals from "aliens". Who says they have or will ever use radio signals?? Besides, they're already here, all you have to do is get your head out of your ass and go read some good books on the subject... If you laugh, you're ignorant. SETI indeed...

  7. Re:3. Mac OS X Server on Searching for a Directory Service Solution? · · Score: 1

    Apple's OpenDirectory system is a joy to use and easy to setup. However their lack of a groupware system is truly a shame.

    Having said this, I would have a look at CommuniGate Pro from Stalker.com It integrates with OpenDiretory and you can use Outlook as the client front-end and get pretty close to an Exchange system for less money and the hardware requirements are much less hoary.

  8. Shades of Star Wars all over again on Do We Really Need Space Weapons? · · Score: 1

    During the Reagan years this was known as SDI or Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI, AKA "Star Wars".

    They spent BILLIONS and never deployed anything (that we know of). They got some cool laser technology out of it though.

    Reagan on many occasions in speeches alluded to "outside forces" and perhaps this was something to combat it. Here is an excerpt from a UN speech:

    "I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask: is not an alien force ALREADY among us?"

    Maybe he knew something we don't...

    http://www.presidentialufo.com/reagan_ufo_story.ht m

  9. Beavis & Buthead on Ballmer and McNealy Smiling Together · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, McNealy IS right!

    Ball and Gates do remind me of Beavis and Buthead.

    Ballmer: "Huh, we're like cool or something?"
    Gates: "Yeah, we're cool, heih. Are you threatening me??"

  10. AV software is NOT a privilege. on Microsoft To Offer Virus Defense · · Score: 1

    I'm not a fan of MS products, much less Windows but the fact of the matter is that viruses are a pain in the rear and anti-virus software should be a RIGHT, not a PRIVILEGE. Microsoft, should make it free to everyone but that does not absolve them from fixing the problems with Windows. They need to do both.

  11. Re:Paying again... on Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage · · Score: 1, Funny

    You'll get your wish soon enough. Watch Apple's (and everybody else's site) on friday ;)

  12. Shot down perhaps? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1
    Please will probably not beleive this but there is, another possibility....

    Lt. Robert Jacobs in 1964 describes what happened to him during a similar test @ Vandenberg AFB.

    http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/sdiarchive /vandenberg.ra/

  13. Reinvent the wheel on Professional Photographers Using Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry but reality is that Photoshop is not available on Linux (yet) so trying to use GIMP to do this is not the best route to take. Your best bet is to get a Mac and Photoshop and have most of the benefits of LInux (UNIX underpinnings) and the ability to run popular commercial software. P.S. Some Macs are not that expensive. I downgraded to a 20" iMac G5 from a dual CPU G5 and I don't miss the extra speed, saved a bunch as well.

  14. Khazaaka what?? on ISS Expedition 9 Crew Finally Returns to Earth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think its easier to say Durka-Durkastan... :) (go see Team America to get the joke)

  15. Re:But we HAVE made contact on SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020 · · Score: 1
    I agree with you 100%

    The evidence is overwhelming that we are the subject of a systematic survey and/or genetic tinkering program. If you don't beleive this is the case because witnesses are "unreliable, delusional or crazy" or sightings are "venus, swamp gas, baloons" then ignore that evidence and look strictly at government documents. THAT alone is enough proof that they take the subject seriously albeit secretly in order for the status quo and public awareness to remain as it is.

    As one nuclear physicist calls SETI; "Silly Effort To Investigate". Check out www.coasttocoastam.com for a debate between Dr. Seth Shostak of SETI and Stanton Friendman a couple of days ago. Mr. Shostak does not know jack about the visitation subject yet proclaims "there is no evidence that will convince him".

    Go read Richard Dolan's 500+ page book "UFOs and the National Security State". The BEST book on the subject from a milirary and government encounters perspective. Scary stuff indeed.

  16. Gravity Waves, the answer to everything on BOINC Project to Search for Gravitational Waves · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In a bit of my research into gravity in general, the discovery and eventual understanding of gravity (waves or whatever they are) would me the most momentous discovery of science in the last 500 years. The eventual ability to alter and manipulate this natural force could mean a lot to science and everyday life. Some suggest that gravity, unlike light, is INSTANTANEOUS. Meaning that its effect is not time measurable, its force propagates throughout the universe everywhere instantaneously. Imagine the possibilites for communications, travel etc... is this proved to be true...

  17. Re:OS X? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1

    Marc does a gret job for the Mac community. I'm proficient in UNIX so I'm compiling it as I type on my G5 running Panther. If testing on this system works out for my dev sites than I'll go and try it out on my live Fedora Core 1 server.

  18. Re:Groupware, groupware, groupware! on Mac OS X "Tiger" Server Previewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Use the feedback page @ Apple to tell them. I did, lots of times.

  19. Re:Agreed. on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bob is still around and doing physics privately. He still insists when asked that what we worked was true. Personally I beleive him. When a person comes out and says stuff like he did fully knowing that his life wil be ruined and never asks for a dime then he deverses some kind of respect or admiration?

  20. Never mind Religion on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Convertible to some form of terrestrial religion". Yeah right...

    Forget about religion, how about cultural assimilation?

    Read this exerpt from the Brookings report from 1960 comissioned from NASA about finding extraterrestrial life, it will make you think twice. Perhaps this is why the goverment is hiding the truth that "they" are already here. Oh and don't forget to see that Mexico video, just another iron in the fire so to speak.

    --
    Proposed Studies On The Implications Of
    Peaceful Space Activities For Human Affairs

    By

    Brookings Institution, 1960
    Report To The 87th Congress, Union Calendar 79
    Report Number 242

    For

    National Aeronautics And Space Administration

    The general public

    1.As with other matters not central to day-to-day living, the
    public, considered as a whole, is probably only selectively
    attentive to and knowledgeable about space activities. The
    relationship between the impact of events on indifferent or only
    occasionally interested people and their attitudes and values is
    but partly understood and needs further study.

    2.It has been alleged that the "public" is optimistic about
    space activities. If this is so and if the optimism is
    widespread, the present support it generates for the space
    program may not be lasting if the difficulties inherent in space
    efforts have not been appreciated enough to make the failure of
    specific projects understandable. The resulting disillusionment
    may be a serious factor in reducing public support as space
    efforts become more grandiose, the consequences of payoff more
    exciting, and the losses from failure more dramatic. On the other
    hand, this optimism, if it exists, may produce a state of mind
    tolerant of failures. The factors affecting optimism, realism,
    and tolerance of frustration need more study as an aid in
    preparing for this situation. The roles of the promoter spokesman
    and the mass media in encouraging expectations of great and
    imminent accomplishments are integral to this problem area and
    would benefit from research.

    3.The conviction that space activities will broaden man's
    horizons are presently based on the perspectives and special
    interests of a relatively few people in western societies. The
    claim may be justified, but there is need for research to assist
    understanding of the conditions under which innovations broaden
    or narrow perspectives in various cultures. For example,
    sufficient emphasis on space as the proper expression of man's
    highest aspirations may result in the evolution of a broadly
    based belief that this is so. But whether or not this is likely
    to be the case cannot now be decided in view of our limited
    understanding of how new ideas disseminate through societies. If
    and as horizons were broadened as a result of space activities,
    other aspirations would compete with them for attention and
    resources, and continuous study would be required to evaluate the
    appropriate position of space in this competition.

    4.Though intelligent or semi-intelligent life conceivably
    exists elsewhere in our solar system, if intelligent
    extraterrestrial life is discovered in the next twenty years, it
    will very probably be by radio telescope from other solar
    systems. Evidences of its existence might also be found in
    artifacts left on the moon or other planets. The consequences for
    attitudes and values are unpredictable, but would vary profoundly
    in different cultures and between groups within complex
    societies; a crucial factor would be the nature of the
    communication between us and the other beings. Whether or not
    earth would be inspired to an all-out space effort by such a
    discovery is moot: societies sure of their own place in the
    universe have disintegrated when confronted by a superior
    society, and others have survived even though changed. Clearly,
    the better we can come to understand the factors involved i

  21. Re:Mac OS X Binary BADLY needed on Novell To Release Ximian Connector Under GPL · · Score: 1
    Damn, I posted too soon!!

    I was mistaken about the connector, I though it was a MAPI client... crap, back to the drawing board.

  22. Mac OS X Binary BADLY needed on Novell To Release Ximian Connector Under GPL · · Score: 1
    Us Mac OS X users BADLY need a native binary of Evolution and the connector.

    A lot our clients are saddled with Exchange server 5.5 and 2000 networks with MAPI ONLY. This precludes moving to Entourage since that requires SMTP, IMAP and OWA enabled.

    We need to have a goup of programmers bring this to the Mac toute suite!!!

  23. Re:My small wishlist... on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 1

    PAC for Safari. If you are referring to Proxy configuration files have a look under Proxies in Networking under System Prefs. Scroll down the list of proxy configurations. Tada! PAC file capability is ALREADY there! Scratch that one off your list.

  24. Re:Please tell me they've pamified LoginWindow on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 1

    I agree that they should provide a PAM option for vairous things including the Login window. However Apple has done a magnificent job integrating keberos in both Panther and Panther server. Totally transparent and painless. Nice

  25. Re:What impresses me on Apple Announces New Pro Software · · Score: 1

    I would too if I only had G4's the chose from... That most likely would not be the case if the G5 had been out at the time they needed their machines... Witness Pixar switching to G5's