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  1. Re:Vector Graphics on Seagate Announces 750GB Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    blame it on the desktop renderers. Mozilla's on again/off again relationship with SVG hurt. Adobe's plug in is just slighty better than acrobat about crashing browsers, vrml plugins are crap, I'm reserving judgment on microsofts native product, and Flash sucks.

    I remember the first time I played with SVG in W3C's amaya browser in 2000 thinking that it would be the dominant standard in 2 years (Easy to edit XML, easy to script with any language that has W3C DOM bindings), unfortunately it just has never happened.

  2. Re:What's being ignored here. on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    Frogs and toads have very small optical gaps, mostly the ground directly under their bodies. Considering their prey and predators rarely appear from directly underneath themselves (trapdoor spiders come to mind). Primates have binocular vision for depth perception in the arboreal environments we lived in, just the same as bears, raccoons, and squirrells.

  3. Re:Mega Watts are easy, and misleading. on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    For that matter, rig a C-5 (or An-225 for those of you in Soviet Russia), put a nuke generator inside, we put a reactors on planes back in the 50's for nuclear propulsion tests, surely we've learned how to make them smaller and more efficent today.

  4. Re:Wait, what? on How to Avoid Mobile Phone Interference w/ Speakers · · Score: 1

    Just to confirm, every one of my previous employer's TDMA (800mhz band) phones would cause speaker pops within 3 feet, this ranges from nokia 2250's through 9200's to moto v60t and v120t's, not to mention various audiovox, kyocera, samsung, etc. The CDMA phones seem to be a little better behaved (850 and 1800mhz ), they only had to be within one foot of our bone stock dell speakers.

  5. Re:SQLite on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1

    you imported your homepage from your IE settings.

  6. Re:A Chicken in Every Pot on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    Its called a national retail sales tax, a VAT (ugh, I'm presonally opposed to it, probably because the euro's didn't repeal their income taxes as a condition of accepting the VAT, meaning you get double taxed), or a flat tax. Income taxation isn't the only option.

  7. TDS are good people on OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS · · Score: 4, Informative

    They donated a fast mirror to Sun Freeware, which makes all of us Sun jockey's breathe a little easier.

  8. Horde project on Personal Ticket Tracking System for Admins? · · Score: 1

    If you've got a lamp server, Horde WHUPS may be the way to go.

  9. Re:Ridiculous on Sweden To Be Oil-Free By 2020 · · Score: 1

    And where exactly is this biodiesel and ethanol comming from? Oh yeah, American, former Soviet and Canadian farms using conventional diesel and gas implements to grow corn.

  10. Re:schrodinger's Constitution? on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    Congress could not fund a project if they feel it is unconstitutional and the SC can step forward at any time if it wants to see something solved post-haste.

  11. Re:schrodinger's Constitution? on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    Unless it is specifically defined in the constitution as being so (Treason, Slaveholding, denying women the right to vote, etc) then that is exactly what I am saying. All law can be challanged, but someone with standing must do it.

  12. Re:Well, that's a big shocker. on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not trolling here, but prove it, bring it to a court of law and prove it. Nothing is unconstitutional until the USSC says so or it is specifically defined in the Constitution.

  13. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 1

    Why waste a civil courts time, the buyer violated the purchase agreement by not making the payments, this enforces the lenders rights to the property that is called forfeit as a results of a lien.

  14. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 1

    the only time this box becomes an issue is if you default. Who's on the drugs now. I have never asserted that you don't have ownership rights to the car until it is fully paid off, just that those rights are instantly revokeable now using this box as opposed to a meatspace repo man having to hunt you down while you're still using their car (post default).

  15. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 1

    What right does the person in default have to protect that car from seizure by the owner or his agent (the repo man). This isn't a matter of defending your property, what you describe is armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, or murder, depending on the outcome.

  16. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 1

    no where did I defend the credit/banking industry, but you seem to think they have no rights to recover property that they seize as a result of a default on a contract. If you don't like the contract, don't buy the car. Hitchhike, carpool, bike or bus your ass to work.

  17. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So in your world, what happens when someone defaults on a car loan? In mine, the lender works with the payee, but if they can't/won't make the payments, they seize the car to recover their interest in it, any proceeds beyond that will revert to you, but with most auto contracts, between depreciation and the non-pay penalties means you get zip when the bank settles up your part after the recovery.

    The loan agreement more than likely has a "instant default" clause for tampering. They will still send a real repo man out to get the car

  18. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 4, Informative

    That lien is callable the momment you default on the terms of the contract, its not a matter of them sending a real repo man out then it becomes callable. This device secures their interest in the property, well within their rights.

  19. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 1

    Not familiar with austrialian law, but in the US, the title to a car (or land deeds) has liens against said property listed on the title. Those liens are callable if you default, and since most car/land loans are secured with the property in question, it's the bank/dealer's right to seize their property if you are in default.

  20. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 2, Informative

    But that's what this lot is, lot financed cheap transportation. Even still, if you don't own a car outright, even from a reputable dealer, that title has a lien set against it that is callable if you ever violate your payment contract, even if the loan is with a company not related to the dealer (ie your bank/credit union).

  21. Re:Problem on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 1

    Since when did you have the right to commandeer a car you don't own for your personal transportation? A good samaritan may give you a lift if they so choose, but they don't have to.

  22. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You don't own it, the lot owns it, you're making payments and they are allowing you to drive the car. Once you pay off the loan its yours to do with as you wish, but if you fall behind on the payments, its their right to seize their property.

  23. Re:US Government dependence of foreign corporation on Feds Enter Blackberry Fray · · Score: 1

    British and Northeast textile makers where the plantation's biggest allies pre-civil war, that didn't turn out real well for the southern slaveholders as I recall.

  24. ADJE webmail on 'Protecting' Perl Code? · · Score: 1

    Those dudes had a fairly nasty pack/unpack decryption sequence in their pay webmail system that I never got around to cracking. If those tards figured it out surely someone else can.

    Beyond that, make the perl script on the box be a wraper that lwp's a request to your box and spits out the output as a cgi.

  25. Couldn't believe I made top half on Microsoft Releases Game Advisor For Windows · · Score: 1

    PIII-S 1.4 512MB Ram GF3Ti200