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  1. Re:wash repeat... on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 1

    I am a senior in high school right now

    and we still watch Channel One every day
    well, it is on, but most of us have homework to do, but many of the kids in the lower grades, or the ones with mean teachers, are forced to watch it, or @ least sit still and quiet while it is on.

    what I do like about channel one is the equipment that they provide, as I am a part of our broadcasting club, where we produce a professional news show with local and world news and sports, as well as school announcements, where we have over the shoulder pictures and videos to go with the stories.

    I think that yes, Apple is trying to put itself in schools, but really, who cares
    having computers, of any sort is a good thing and serve many purposes other than just advertising.

    and if you are brainwashed by all of the ads around you I dont see how you can even watch TV with out being brainwashed

  2. Re:That's pointless on Tracking People Via Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    but...

    In order for that to work, no one, anywhere, would be able to have a cell phone

  3. Are you sure? on Tracking People Via Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Informative

    insert IANAx where x equals the first letter of the science I would need to study in order to get this right,

    but...
    It is actually my understanding that the user of the phone, is not being tracked,
    but that they are actually using the signal sent out by any number of phone(s) as a sort of "X-ray" type thing
    where the objects in-between any given cell phone and the reciever device
    stop the signal, creating a shadow that the reciever picks up,
    Thus creating the image

    That is where the reference to Radar comes into play, by not actually locating the person by the origin of the signal, but by the objects in the way of the signal on its way to the reciever

  4. a Link on Yahoo! Online Games Contain Spyware · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I tried to provide everyone with a link
    but if Yahoo is providing this for free,
    I cannot seem to find a link to it,

    however, I did find this...

    http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/promo/promo _civ_nl.hf2k

    from there you have to click "sign up and play"
    now, then sign in with a yahoo ID,
    click "continue to rent game"
    just click "single game rental" for this
    then the last step before the EULA, in which there is nothing from the above quote

    which calls into the validity of the above story

  5. Re:SliMP3... on Component MP3/OGG Players? · · Score: 1

    u know u will use this
    lol
    http://www.slimdevices.com

  6. Everyone needs to be better informed on Law Enforcement by Machines · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not only does the robots need to get better at law enforcement,
    so do the Humans involved

    At the bail hearing for Johnston, Tinney and three other defendants in Houston, the FBI's Kristen Sheldon ... testified that an IP address is, "in very simple terms, a Social Security number. Only one person at one specific time can have that number." In fact, an IP address identifies a computer, rather than a person, and may not even consistently map to a particular machine in networks that use dynamic IP addressing.

    any one that is even allowed to even get near law enforcement in this area show have some kind of technology background, judges and jury included

    The brief also identifies a file entitled "harry potter book report.rtf" whose name and tiny size (1K) make obvious that it is not an illegal copy of the Harry Potter movie. Obvious to anyone who looks, anyway. But why should the record and movie companies bother to look? They're unlikely to suffer any damages if ISPs take down the wrong files, and the consumers involved are unlikely to sue them. (In filing with the Internet Service Providers, a company representative even certified in writing "that we have a good faith belief that use of the material ... is not authorized by Warner Bros. ... or the law."

    a person was definately involved in this situation, yet it was allowed to get this far
    this should let everyone know that we have a problem, and that the "general public" is not as informed as we had hoped/thought

  7. Re:The scanner driver itself on Scanning Large Amounts of Pictures? · · Score: 1

    I have a cheap Acer 320 USB scanner that also uses the MiraScan

    it does a nice batch job, sending all of the diferent "jobs" to photoshop as a seperate file,

    I discovered it when I accidently selected job 2, and I kept sending 2 files to Photoshop, lol

  8. Re:Correcting some misinformation... on So Where Are The Fuel Cells? · · Score: 1

    According to a Popular Science Article a while back, the paint for the outside of the hindenburg is actually the same stuff that was once used in solid state rocket boosters

  9. Re:GPL ? on Liquid Audio: Better off dead? · · Score: 1

    but I mean, really

    do we really need their code?
    It's Liquid Audio for goodness sake, it sucked and it always will suck

    We dont need more crap for GPL, besides all of parts about the code being a valuable asset and all, having the code would probably not improve your life any, and if it did, you have a sucky life.

  10. Re:Reverse Cooking? on Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking · · Score: 1

    but you could,

    theoretically, if you could contain all of the smoke and energy released?
    ?
    but, also IANAC, so i dont know

  11. human potential on Flying Snakes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe they could create a large scale version of this, for sky diving covertly, if it worked, they might be able to make un detectable parachutes that are long and snake-like

    I do not know the mechanics of something like this, but it would be cool if it would work

    also, does anyone know if radar can detect regular parachutes, because you would think it could, but then again, rampant guessing is amuck

  12. Great, Now not only on the ground, but in the sky on Flying Snakes · · Score: 1

    well, this is all we need, snakes that can come @ us from the air

    add that to the list of things to be afraid of when outside

    now i can never leave the house!!!

  13. Planet alignment on A Private European Internet? · · Score: 1

    So it is the US Government that has been aligning the planets???

    I always had that suspicion, but I could never prove it

    Could you please supply me with your sources so we can go public with this new information?

    thanx

  14. Re:Tesla Coils suck on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 1

    from my own experience, the tanks were designed by Westwood to be used fairly in small numbers

    BUT,,, If you combine them into large groups they are unstoppable

    the downfall to the prism tank was and is its insanely weak armor, thus creating a need for the great weapons

    so, when there are enough that they dont have to wait between charges, they are the best

  15. Re:I have this giant wart on my finger on Your Skin Is Your Password · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree

    what about the handgun thing
    what if you are being attacked and your gun wont recognize you because you are sweating profusely??

    What about dirty hands?

    I believe that biometric systems will not be completely accurate until they use DNA from blood
    (like in Gattaca) (but, then also like in Gattaca, they can be fooled)

    but then there is privacy issues and things like that.

  16. Re:Star Wars.. on IMAX Develops Movie Transfer Technology · · Score: 1

    except this time they could digitally replace the entire cast with ewoks,

    LIke IN SouthPArk!!!!

  17. mouse on Teaching the Trackpad New Tricks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    well, i dont know about the scrolling capabilities on the mac, but i say buy a mouse

    I know it isnt what you are looking for, but even the scrolling drivers that i have for my synaptics pad dont do that great of a job, and end up being more hassle than they are worth

    there are a lot of nice mice out there, including mini mice that do a nice job

    Kensington pocket pro this mouse has a retracting cord, and it works perfectly

  18. Track Data Layout on Hard Drive Platters on What Sustained Disk Transfer Rates Do You Get? · · Score: 1

    I didnt know when I read your post,

    But, your question started me thinking, because you had a very good point about defraggin moving all of the data to the slower part of the drive.

    According to my research on the subject, unlike CD's, hard drive tracks start at the outer edges of the hard drive and work their way in.

    So, that means that not only is defragmenting a good thing to do because of its resequencing of the data, but also because it moves the data to a faster portion of the drive

    my sources
    Inside computers, an In Depth guide
    &
    Disk Layout

  19. Re:Money? on Iowa College Goes Paperless · · Score: 1

    I agree
    especially with the fact that after graduating from college, most of the books that you paid money for will never benefit you again

    sure, you can sell them to someone else, or back to the school bookstore, but at a great loss.

    when there is no paper books, money can instead be spent on a laptop, which, last time i checked, can be used for more than one thing, thus not wasting money on things that can only be used for a short period of time.

    I would rather spend money on a laptop that i can continue to use after school than a set of paper books that once I am finished with, I will never use again

    Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!

  20. Re:SS# on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    I believe that you misunderstood them,

    Why would people claim to not have children?

    I believe that the person meant that people were pretending to have children, and when it came time to provide proof of their existence, the tax cheaters could not, thus the "loss" of children

  21. We need more of these (not first poster's either) on Sanyo Solar Ark and Giant LED Display · · Score: 2, Informative

    Solar energy is a pratically infinite source of energy, and we have not even begun to tap its potential.

    Sooner or later we are gonna run out of oil, and solar is the future. this shows that we dont big ugly solar farms to get the same result

    bravo to the Japs!!!

  22. Are they the first and last? on 321 Studios Plays It Safe Against the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Just because they made it, what makes us so sure that they wont be the last also?

    Maybe they wont be,
    but i am sure that their laywers are already making new bullshit to stop the next attempt @ freedom,
    eventually taking it all away

  23. Flash for free on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Well i know that you can download a free version of flash for 30 days

    its not really a solution, but it could be a start to see if you wanted to actually use flash

  24. In the future on Will Robots Cheer Up the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    And when will this happen?? What happened to the "flying cars of the future"? they never happened. In the world that you live in, do you teleport to work?

    I dont

    yet those before me said "in the future"

    and well maybe in the future i will, but the future is not the same as today, right now, because it could be 1,000's of years before that happens, or it could be tommorrow

    and since we are all going in to the future, why not just invent thought logic interfaces for animals so that they could do these things??
    in the future, anything is possible,

    so, i currently reside in the here and now

  25. How do you know? on Will Robots Cheer Up the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been a dog?? i havent, but i suspect that neither have you, so they could be smarter then you imagine, just to lazy to conquer the world.

    Also, could you imagine the day that you come home and a robot comes to the door? they are metallic toys, not worthy companions. besides, if your only friend is a robot, you need new friends.

    so maybe robots for the elderly are okay for cleaning etc., but they are definitely no substitute for a real person

    So maybe our pets arent at the "take over the world" stage, but they still have a brain and thinking capacity