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  1. Re:What are they talking about... on LANL Warning About Radioactive Trees · · Score: 2

    If it is a debatable fact why should it prove my arguement wrong? If its not a real fact i cant let it get in the way of my decision making.

  2. Re:What are they talking about... on LANL Warning About Radioactive Trees · · Score: 2

    Of course we cannot ignore the nuclear forces. We also cant ignore how we are going to poison ourselves. We cant ignore how we denied that nuclear power could hurt us before many people alive today were born.

  3. What are they talking about... on LANL Warning About Radioactive Trees · · Score: 3, Funny

    Radioactive tests were only done for the good of humanity. No harm can come from them. Hagve they not learned to duck and cover?

  4. Re:Spare me, both of you on The Darker Side of Computer Recycling · · Score: 2

    You are totally right about this. If you ask almost any environmental scientist if its ok if we dump but only a little more than we are now they will tell you hell no. They know their stuff, they arent tree-huggers with degrees or hippies with a bank account.

  5. Re:Basement on The Darker Side of Computer Recycling · · Score: 2

    Believe me when i say i know how schools get shafted. I go to a high school in washington state with severe budget problems. Everytime they meet to discuss what the hell they are going to do they always decide on the same thing. Dont cut down on sports... that Un-American, wait anothe year to get book, dont even THINK of upgrading the fucking pentium 100's with 16 megs of ram that we have to use to research our subjects. One of the worst things they do it turn down the heat. It gets very cold in the buuilding whcih makes it hard to pay attention. Its about 8 degrees below room tempurature on the top floor where they take the measurement. If your downstairs your screwed. During the winter its cold inside. Every time they drop 1 degree they can save a couple of bucks so they do. WTF are they doing with all this money they get?

    I would love it if credit was given for returning your computer but who controls the lawmakers. Not consumers. The sad truth is companies SHOULD be doing a lot more BUT THEY WONT. We as consumers need to pick up their slack even though we shouldn't have to. The rich CEO's can afford to buy whatever unplluted land is left and then they dont give a fuck because they get old and die.

  6. Re:Privacy? on "Smart" Billboards Debut in Sacramento · · Score: 2

    Your antenna has nothing to do with it. If this isn't a hoax then the way they would do it is by picking up radiation from the tuning pieces of your radio. Very hard to do as a car is flying down the high way, from far away, and having to pickup a small amount of signal in a VERY noisy environment because of all the other cars. This would be a nightmare to develop.

  7. Re:Psst! on The Darker Side of Computer Recycling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Haha... ok so what your saying is we take the ground water and filter out the lead to use? Of course the elements exist but they are not in a position to hurt us. Your argument is basically that 99.9% of environmental scientists are totally off in thinking that chemicals getting dumped is a bad thing.

  8. Re:Basement on The Darker Side of Computer Recycling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know they are goign to toss it on the side of the road somewhere else in an even more broken situation... Now lead and othe chemicals are in the ground thanks to oyur lazyness.

    I support the idea of putting a small tax on new computers sold to pay for recycling the old ones. As much as it sucks it the only way we can pull this off.

  9. Re:plz read... on MS-DOS 1981-2002 RIP · · Score: 2

    Just so everyone knows the link wont work but i cant post a fixed one. There is an anti-page widening troll space towards the end that you must cut out if you want to copy and paste.

  10. Re:Our library was worse on Library Censorware Blocks Own Site · · Score: 2

    I tried to look up some auto-biographic info on Ron Jeremy. Didn't work at all. Even non-lude sites would have the word "porn" on there somewhere. Made it very hard so i just gave up.

  11. Re:My control is... on The Internet: Your Next Remote Control · · Score: 2

    Your reply is witty enough for several slashdot posts... welcome to my buddy list...

  12. Re:Pardon my conversion deficiency.. on Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events · · Score: 2

    You are using two different types of measurement. Thats like saying how many hours in a mile.

  13. My control is... on The Internet: Your Next Remote Control · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cowboy Neal is my control.

  14. There is one main problem with mobile gaming on Mobile vs. Desktop Gaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest problem of mobile gaming is there is mainly one game in town, the radeon 9000. The gf4go is not bad but its not the best either. Mobile has caught up enough but its going to take a while for people to think of laptops as gaming machines.

  15. Re:It's very ironic on Farscape Fans Produce Commercial · · Score: 3, Informative

    AOL/Time Warner is very bad but there are 6 coprorations that is considered to own pretty much all media the average american gets. AOL/Time Warner, Viacom, News Corp., Disney, General Electric and Bertelsmann are the companies in no order. 5 years ago it was about 10 companies and 20 years ago there was 50. You can find a list of who owns what in the world of big business. Just look at the freakishly long list that is owned by only Viacom.

    It makes me glad i dont watch tv. Although slashdot is no suppliment for an all enclusive news source it sure fills the most time of my news reading in a day.

  16. Re:It's very ironic on Farscape Fans Produce Commercial · · Score: 2

    Nowadays, it seems that 90% of the content on TV is dictated by the Fortune 500 companies...

    hate to break it to you but its about 3 companies that own 90% of it all... kinda gross...

    i wonder if one company owns more than 1% of all the web content?

  17. This has been done before on Farscape Fans Produce Commercial · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with mixed sucess... i know freaks and geeks fans tried to get it back on but they werent successful... does anyone know of any shows that did comeback this way?

  18. Re:HD cost, DVD cost, motherboard cost ??? Ideas? on Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes · · Score: 2

    You can buy a 10 gig hard drive for $40. In bulk and from Microsoft its prob much cheaper. Im sure they could work out a deal to have a company not pay for their MS licenses if they give em some hard drives.

  19. Re:The summary isn't really fair. on Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes · · Score: 2

    Uh huh... Enron told us all they were making money too. Im not saying Microsoft may be deciving us becuase there are many legal ways to fudge the number.

  20. Re:All I want to know is. ... on Black Ops of TCP/IP: Paketto Keiretsu 1.0 Release · · Score: 2

    IBM has a class A. They own 9.0.0.0 - 9.255.255.255

  21. Re:The summary isn't really fair. on Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes · · Score: 2

    Yes you would lose $5 but they arent making it for $400. I mean honestly in bulk you think it costs em that much?

  22. Re:The summary isn't really fair. on Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes · · Score: 2

    I heard from a saleman that they only claim to lose money. He said that in any business there is no way they will actually lost money by selling something but they just use it as an excuse as to why they arent making money. I think Microsoft is not doing a bad thing if they dont want xboxes to be modded and used with the live service but i wont buy an Xbox just because its not even that good of a pice of hardware. You can buy a barebones pc at twice the speed which is nice if your using the xbox as a server.

  23. Re:Amazing! on New Alienware Media Center · · Score: 2

    This is not Microsoft at all. Its just another company (Alienware this time) building micro-atx computers. These are cool but unless you cant do it yourself there is no reason to buy an Alienware. WindowsXP comes on it becase thats all Alienware sells on their computers.

  24. This is new? on New Alienware Media Center · · Score: 2

    This is jsut another micro-atx computer. Although alienware is sweet it was just a matter of time before they made one. As is standard with Alienware not many will buy it but everyone will want it.

  25. Re:You picture will be crap at any decent resoluti on The PC Display has Left the Building · · Score: 2

    You dont transfer every pixel. You simply transfer coordinates for windows and contents such as text. Streaming video would be like streaming over any other wirless network. It works with some simple compression.

    Also as for security you could simply have a narrow antennea so they sniffers will have trouble picking it up.