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  1. Egads!` on Olmos Tells Fans: "Don't Watch Galactica" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original "Battlestar Galactica" was not the worst science fiction show on TV but it was not good, not good at all.

    Maybe I will like this new one after all.

  2. Re:I do not mind thumbnails... on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I have been using terms like "referer" as if I knew what I am talking about. What I am thinking about is, your web server gives a URL. The first part identifies you on the World Wide Web, e.g. "http/www.pippenbooper.co.uk". The part that follows in a simple setup would be a path to the specific web page or file, like "\directory1\directory2\file.type". It just seems to me that a web server should be available to redirect that "\directory1\directory2\file.type" to "\asshole\nodeeplinking.html" or something like that. From what you are telling me, this is not as trival as I thought. But I have seen it done, all over the web. Wish I knew how.

    This is my final word on the subject, promise.

  3. Re:I do not mind thumbnails... on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Bartmoss (16109) said on Thursday July 10, @07:09AM:

    >The problem is that referrers are client-controlled.

    Egads, that *IS* a problem. But are you telling me that with PHP, ASP, XML, Javascript, and LMNOP, there is no way for a web server to trap and reroute a web page request? I am having a hard time believing that.

  4. "if they added a hardware DivX decoder" on VIA Introduces A New Laptop Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right, but which one????

  5. Re:I do not mind thumbnails... on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 1

    "Imagine your neighbours hook up to your electric outlets to light their backyard on your bill. Do you think that's okay too? "
    No, it is not okay. No one I heard heard of put's electric outlets out by the sidewalk with a sign that says plug in here and use only this electricity and only this way. But then again we are deep into anology hell, here.
    I am not unsympathic to your view. This is a new medium and we still have bugs to work out.
    But your position is not pure white in a black situation.
    Now, if you ARE doing referrer checking, can you not deny the eBay links en mass? Then what *IS* the problem?

  6. I have seen... on Gamers Aren't (Always) Geeks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...two anime ("Serial Experiment Lain" and "Legend of Black Heaven") that have scenes were a mother is sitting down and playing a Playstation with her young son. We need more parents actually playing video games with their children, sharing in the experience with them, and offering their point of view. This needs to be done the very first day that a game console is brought into the home. It needs to be done at least once a week or so. You must engage yourself in your child's life in order to know them.

    I have seen far too many people using a game console as a surrogate babysitter and never, ever playing with their children. These people are irresponsible parents. There are far too many.

  7. Re:I do not mind thumbnails... on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I have been thinking about this term, "bandwidth thieves". You put up a web site. You want people to visit it. Someone links to you. You get people at your web site - but they may not be view the web pages as you designed it. You pay for bandwidth that people used to access your web site in a way you did not intend.

    I seems to be you are the victim of a bad web design. Can you not redirect that access to a web page of your own choosing?

    I just cannot accept that people are stealing from you when you put it in a public place with the intent to share. You are just upset because it is not being share exactly the way you want it shared. So, who is in control of that?

  8. Oh, big deal on Public Domain Act Introduced Into Congress · · Score: 0

    First, lemme say that it seems that those who hold different opinions on the State of Things than I seem to think that anyone who posts an opposing opinion and who is passionate about issues are trolls. What nonsense. I am simply a person passionate about freedom and the downward spiral of the American Dream.
    We need a strong public domain. A real public domain. We need to put out of the Berne Convention and repeal the Sonny Bono Act.
    Now, if I was a troll, I would come back and look for the flames that I incite. I will not and I will not reply to your flames.

    I am not a troll. I am a patriot who believes in the ideals of the Founders of these United States.

  9. The horror that this make me think about... on Real Life Doom With Point-And-Shoot Positioning · · Score: 1

    ...is an army of soldier equiped with head's up visors wired into a secure wireless networks providing realtime face recognization, CCCI functions, geopositioning, IFF, and other functions wondering the streets of Iran or North Korea, or East Austin, Texas, all commanded by the Imperial regime of lying mass murders that run this mad Empire, who use the Bill of Rights and Constitution as toilet paper.

    Big Brother be fragging.

  10. Re:Just another data point on Scientists Grow Decaffeinated Coffee Plants · · Score: 1

    There was no mention of Coca-Cola on the bumper sticker of the Jeep Cheokee in the parking lot of IBM Austin that I saw. I wish I could say it was original but it is not.

    I never understood people who are sensitive to Cola-Coca. Even the stongest mainstream soft drink, Mountain Dew, has no such affect on me. Love the taste of them both though.

    Credit goes to Frank Herbert first. Would it be great of he was also the source of this parody? I hope he is have a good time with Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Mary Shelly.

  11. Re:Just another data point on Scientists Grow Decaffeinated Coffee Plants · · Score: 1

    I hated coffee until I was 40. I loved the coffee flavor and everything coffee flavored but the real thing was too much. Everytime I tried it, I ended up drinking coffee flavored cream and sugar.

    But then I awoke fat and middleaged and learned to depend on the caffeine. Now I have developed a taste for STRONG coffee. I love the taste of espresso in the morning. It taste like victory.

    I have also a great love for parody.

  12. Re:This Started With The Cables... on USB 1.1 Renumbered To USB 2? · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is just SICK! What let the Republicans out???

  13. Woo Hoo! on Tourist-Class Soyuz Spacecraft Seats Open · · Score: 1

    Space for two! Now, you too (for a mere $40 million bucks) can join the 100 mile club!

    Even better if the tourist can help out with the house cleaning! But there is a dark part of me that wish that anyone who can afford this would just burn up on reentry.

  14. Re:Just another data point on Scientists Grow Decaffeinated Coffee Plants · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good for you! If you don't want caffeine, why drink coffee? There are thousands of alternatives.

    But for me, let me say:

    It is by caffeine alone
    I set my mind in motion,
    It is by the beans of Java
    That my thoughts aquire speed,
    The hand aquire shakes,
    The shakes becomes a warning,
    It is by caffeine alone
    I set my mind in motion.

  15. 320 pixels by 480 pixels. on Sony Launches 2 New "Video" Clie Models · · Score: 1

    =major suckage, imho.

  16. Austin Energy Greenchoice on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    This very timely. You can avoid the extra fuel cost that will come from the shutdown of STNP by signing up with Greenchoice!! It will actually make your bill CHEAPER!!!

    We need more of that around the country. Let those who built the nuke pay the extra cost of the nuke - ALL of the cost until the end of time.

  17. Re:I'm sorry, but I fail to see the contradiction on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    Supports of "clean nuclear power" need to wear a spent fuel rod around their neck until they come to understand the reality of nuclear power.

    The REAL problem is this crap has to be watched for at least 100,000 years or more. Name one human institution that has lasted a 100,000 years. Factor in the cost and tell that this make any kind of economic sense at all.

  18. Re:As much as I have amired Cronkite... on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    "yet another liberal mouthpiece seemingly more interested in preserving the status quo"

    While I may agree with your about Cronkite, I must take expect to the idea that a liberal is interested in preserving the status quo. Most liberals *I* know think that status quo is Latin for the "mess we are in". And they are hardly supporters of the lying, mass murdering, and greedy regime with G.W. Bush as the figurehead.

  19. Re:Why should the internet be treated differently? on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 1

    You have a very good point. Perhaps this can be address by TLD - Journalist (and the corporate whores that pass for journalists) can either uses .news (I do not have a solution for this Anglocentics term, sorry) or stick with the current .com, which in the U.S. is probably more relevant. And bloggers can use .nom or .net or .per or something to indicate a personal site. Personal sites would be extempt to the Equal Space Rule.

    I know, enforcement is impossible. But then we are just talking here, it has no basis in reality.

  20. Re:mine's bigger than yours on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1

    What make you think that the NSA uses Intel chips? Using off the rack would be too cost effective for a secret government agency! They probably fabricate they own, using GaAs or some secret tech.

  21. Okay, so... on Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction · · Score: 1

    ...where is the site that tell you how to erase this cyberrecorder? Calling all geeks, calling all geeks! Let's restore some privacy. I want an erase button on my dashboard!

  22. Re:Why should the internet be treated differently? on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 1

    Once, back in Lighter Days, back we America was a republic, we had anti-trust laws, and many people actually believed in the Bill of Rights, the FCC had what was known as the Same Time Rule. When a pundit expressed an opinion on a TV or radio program and sense radio specturm is a limited commodity doled out for FREE to broadcasted, they had an obligation to provide air time for differing opinions. This Eurolaw will NOT "have a chilling effect on Internet communication". It will make for MORE communication! I like it.

  23. Re:As much as I have amired Cronkite... on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    dammit! I mean it is the RAIN in Texas with the acids and the mercury. Sorry

  24. As much as I have amired Cronkite... on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    ...thru the years, I have to ask him consider the plight of residents in the country next to me (Bastrop, SW of Austin) who have been fighting Alcoa's latest lignite strip mine for years and have lost. And this at a time when our air is Texas has both acids and mercury and the South Texas Nuclear Power Plant is shutdown with new leaks of primary coolant. I say ring the coasts with wind power! Put them on MY block, please!

  25. Re:When? What time??? on IRC Forum w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos Tonight at 8pm Eastern · · Score: 1

    Sorry. okay, I made a mistake. the universe will always conspire to keep me humble no matter how many blues singers that I listen to.

    I could SWEAR that was not in the title when I first saw it but then it is not the first that forcing myself to read linear text cause a brain fart.

    So sorry to have wasted your time. You can never have it back. Sorry.