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  1. Re:Censorship???!!?? on Harry Potter in German, not Czech · · Score: 1

    No you wouldn't own any part of the comic strip.

    with the author's blessing
    but you would not have broken any copyright laws because you have specifically asked for permission to translate the authors work.

  2. Re:I'm impressed on New Tidal-Energy Testbed Launched In Devon · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

    I think that the energy companies of the US should be the ones leading the charge into cleaner methods of power generation. Its very much the same in the automobile industry, one of the only reasons that we don't have alternative fuels in the mainstream is because the car companies scratching the backs of the oil companies who cozy up with the government in all those fuel taxes.

    I think its starting to move in the right direction, with companies such as Ford and GM seriously investigating and developing alternative fuels.

    The power side has not seen much development though, and I for one, hope that these methods begin to be impemented.

  3. Other Applications on Hydrodemolition Robot Crushes With Water · · Score: 1

    I wonder if technology like this as any other applications?

    Could these be used for all drilling projects? Imagine that, a water well, being drilled with water.

    This is definitely a step towards a more ecofriendly drilling method.

  4. Re:Will it deter conspiracy "theorists" ? on Roswell Declassified · · Score: 1

    Conspiracy theory is a belief system, and as such is highly resistant to facts.

    IMO, being conspiracy theory is identital to being stubborn. Conspiracy Theorists do not accept proven truths that disprove a belief they have. Instead the waltz around the truth while making up new radical conspiracy theories to rebut proof.

    Of course its highly resistant to facts, the conspiracist just doesn't accept them.

  5. Re:Not a good way to meet chicks.. on Starting an After-School Computer Club? · · Score: 1

    The field is already male dominated, the advertising campaign is simply helping to balance it out.

  6. Re:wow on Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about this, but I'll through the idea out there.

    Since the case started in 1996, at which time duties were applicable, Toy Biz has been paying them. Now, because of the ruling, they may be owed money from US Customs.

  7. What about "Calibration" from other sounds? on Unintended Aural Consequences of MP3 Compression · · Score: 1

    This guys thesis is good, no doubt about that. But there is one point I feel he missed.

    He says that our brains use the undistinguishable sounds to calibrate our hearing and that these frequencies are lost in Mp3 or Ogg enocoding.
    Is there not sounds from anything else besidees TV, radio and computers. Could our brains not calibrate our hearing from the sound of our car starting... or the wind blowing... or the sound of a Canada Goose?

    What happened to our hearing when we didn't have technology? It was fine then.
    It would have been nice to see this slight point accounted for before the writer made the "jump" from Mp3 = Hearing Loss.

  8. Listen to the far reaches of space! on Meet The Leonids · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can also hear the meteors as they whiz past Earth.

    They disrupt radio frequencies and cause them to rebound back into Earth's atomosphere.

    This experiment back in 1999 did just that. I realize this is dated but you can listen to them youself.

    ...use your FM receiver with an external aerial. Try to find a station a long way away (that's the difficult bit, as usually a nearby station gets in the way). Under normal circumstances the transmission should be difficult or impossible to detect, but when a meteor intervenes the signal jumps over the horizon and a brief fragment of the transmission can be heard. Depending on the type of transmission, it might sound like a tone, a fragment of music or voice, or simply noise. Contact lasts for as long as the meteor train persists, usually from 100 milliseconds to a few seconds.

  9. Re:whos bitch are you? on Helping Your Ex-Employer? · · Score: 1

    IMO the court should back him up.

    the same thing as your friend next door asking if you could take a look at what is wrong with his Windows 95 box. No.. No It's not.
    An ex-employer is not the same thing as your next-door neighbor. Also in your "scenario" the friend was not asking for you to fix his PC at the office but his home PC. Neither parties are expecting payment to occur.

    When your ex-employer calls you to do work that benifits their business and makes them money (not to mention saves their asses) then you should expect something in return.

    I say, bill em'

  10. Re:Dry Ice on Fun with Fog Generators · · Score: 0

    How is this a flamebait?

  11. Re:Well on US .gov WHOIS Info Restricted Over Attacker Fears · · Score: 0

    Canada's International Code is also a 1.

    Check your facts, Alexander Graham Bell immigrated with his parents to Canada in 1870. He began the process of inventing it HERE! It wasnt until later that he went to the University of Boston. He was a Canadian citizen and did not gain US citizenship until 1882.

    And in my opinion... the TLD for the US gov should be us.gov what makes them think they own the .gov TLD.

  12. Re:Possible causes... on RIP: Leonard Zubkoff · · Score: 0

    It means fatality. Think about it!

  13. Re:Can't work in reverse on Speech For The Deaf · · Score: 0

    or they could just have a pen and paper

  14. Re:Proper way to dispose of a monitor... on Recycling The First World, in the Third · · Score: 0

    I know that in Manitoba there is an excellent program called Computers for Schools in which local business can donate old computers or other hardware to schools.

    In one course I took last semester, Exploring Hardware; we cleaned them, formated and just overall played with them. When the semester was over, the computers found their ways into classrooms for use, or they went to smaller, less technologically advanced schools.

    They newest batch that we got were P-1's with 1-4 GB's of HD space, all with CD & floppy drives and monitors.

    It's a lot of fun, to use compressed air on these things, especially this latest batch, cause they were from a furniture company, they certainly smelled like they had been there.

  15. Re:There's a very simple solution on FTC Tells Search Engines to Disclose Paid Links · · Score: 0

    Yes but it would be a pain in the a$$.

    Google preaches speed, not just on page loading but also in minimzing the number of mouse clicks until you find a suitable hit for what you are looking for.

    Hopefully, Google never requires registration!

  16. Re:FIRST- and place to get stuff on Home-Built vs. Store-Bought PCs · · Score: 0

    here's the link fixed

    www.burntcircuitsinc.com

  17. FIRST- and place to get stuff on Home-Built vs. Store-Bought PCs · · Score: 0

    FIRST POST whoohoo. anywho.. I get my parts from a company in Toronto, Burnt Circuits (www.burntcircuitsinc.com).

  18. Re:various options we've considered. on P2P Programs on K-12 Networks? · · Score: 0, Troll

    N2H2 is definetly not your best option.

    My school district uses N2H2's Bess and after a stupid moron at our school told one of the teachers about a anonymity proxy server that were were using in multimedia class to get around bess and access some soundfx it took the division 3 weeks to block that individual site. This is because N2H2 manages the entire policy and only they can block sites.

    If you are willing pay a bit take a look at Sagebrush & Symantech's WebManager/IGEAR.

  19. Re:I see a market in smuggling MP3 players. on Canada to Raise Tariffs on Recordable Media · · Score: 1

    mod this up, its great!!! and true lol

  20. Re:You forgot... on Table Top Fusion Courtesy of Tiny Bubbles · · Score: 1

    lol. You should ask Schrodinger about the cat. He made an interesting animal analogy.

  21. Re:Open Source anyone? on Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown · · Score: 1

    If it had been an Open Source client you would have had the ability to make sure there *are* no backdoors.

    But would you have checked for backdoors?


    It think that just the possibility of people being able to check the code is enough to deter the programmers from putting in backdoors.