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  1. Re:All NEW cars on NTSB Recommends Black Boxes For All Cars · · Score: 1

    As a former paramedic

    Medical Fact. After a mother's water has broken you need to be as gental as possible (The baby's safely padded womb is now gone. The baby is now free to bounce around on mommy's pelvic bone.)

    So if you ever have this happen to you, by all means drive like hell with your childs soft skull bouncing on your wife's pubic bone. Worse yet, slam on your brakes as you cruise up the shoulder in traffic as a car trys to pull out in front of you. I'm sure 150lbs of mommy squeezing your baby agaist a seatbeat is just fine.

    Traffic laws exist for a reason. You endanger not only yourself, your wife, and your baby, but everyone else on the road.

    You turned on your flashers so people would see you... Hell people don't see or get out of the way of police cars, firetrucks, etc with lights ad sirens going.

    Hell you want to take a chance with your life, go for it... Just leave everyone elses life out of it.

    I sat let'em go... It's darwinism at it's finest.
    One less idiot.

  2. Thank you for flying Air-P0rn on Cringely: Wi-Fi in the Sky · · Score: 0

    Nobody needs p0rn that badly... I hope

  3. Re:Download Warehouse? on Dell to Ship Linux Desktops in Europe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously,

    The only way to get my mother off windows was to get her onto (then Lindows). She didn't trust that 'free' stuff. She felt comfortable paying a few dollars for it, and the 'support' behind it.

  4. They used to... on Dell to Ship Linux Desktops in Europe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So Dell returns home to Linux...

    I bought several PC's from Dell in 2001 with RedHat preinstalled... They shipped with driver disks too...

  5. Re:Trinity on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    wait wait!

    30+ more minutes of Trinity's ass in leather... Now that I'd buy.

  6. Re:All these virus description websites are lackin on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 1

    It has installation instructions when you double click on it...

  7. Re:fix? on Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool · · Score: 1

    Sorry dude. Doesn't always work that way. 98.6 F is the average body temp. For example, my normal body temp is 96.2 F, my wifes is 98.9F, until she goes to bed them it's 102F at the thight, and 44F at the feet. I'd add bio-capacitance to the finger print. (Old technology, but whatever touches the scanner has to be able to pass electricity)

  8. Re:Why always DC conversion? on Efficient Power Supply Contest · · Score: 1

    WOW... A few reasons come to mind.

    OK Basics.

    DC - ------------> +

    AC H N

    In DC, the electricity flows in one direction, in AC it alternates (60 hz in the US).

    This is WAY over simplified,and I'll take my licks for it, but here goes...

    Transistors are basicaly electronic switches (millions, billions, trillions of them make up your computer processor, ok got carried away there...)
    Electricity flows through them in one direction.

    Most parts would have to be re-engineered to work on ac, and some just wouldn't be possible.

    run a google search on the differences on AC and DC power...

  9. OT: router dies on Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net · · Score: 1

    Turn on WAN ping, this way your provider's DHCP server sees that the CPE device is still using the IP address, and doesn't assign it elsewhere.

  10. Re:What newbies want. on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    It's there, It's called OS X

    My grandfather taught me there is a correct tool for every situation, then he elbowed me and said including the bedroom...

    Seriously, you don't want windows, but you don't want command line, use a MAC. No I don't own one.

    You don't mind a command line, come over and grab some parts from dead computer pile, and build yourself a Linux box.

    What pisses me off is trying to get Dell not to ship windows with a desktop...

    "No ma'am, I really don't want windows xp, yes Ma'am I realize the computer won't work without something on there. No Ma'am, I don't want to upgrade to office XP Pro..."

  11. Re:SSDD on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    Amen Brotha

  12. Eh hm... on Was Zuse's Z3 the First Programmable Computer? · · Score: 1

    Colossus was the first totally electronic computing device. Props to the Germans for the first ever electro/mechanical...

    Seriously, pretty cool stuff. I think this weekend I'll build a computer from old buick starter solenoids, and serpintine belts.

  13. Re:You almost got me there .. on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 1

    If you cannot have a control and it is non-repeatable then I'd argue that it is not a science.

    Right... Like Open Heart Surgery. You can only remove the clot once, then it's gone.

    My point being, that your arguing two different issues. The methods of working vs the object you work on.

  14. Re:Can you imagine... on Cisco IOS Source Code Theft Story Continues · · Score: 1

    Yeah like the time a few years back when some idiot announced the route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 via BGP ('97 or '98)...

    Or the MD tunnel fire that took down a nice chuck of the east coast for a day or so...

  15. Silent Ha! on A Silent PC Solution? · · Score: 1

    Here's pic of my Silent beowolf cluster...
    Here
    Ok so it doesn't process much, or even generate a lot of heat.

    Oh yeah... some assembly required to boot it.

  16. Re:Reverse Engineering... on FOSS Application Under Attack by Makers of KaZaa · · Score: 1

    "Ford should be allowed to send cease and desist letters to anyone who makes cars."

    Umm.. Although I love FORD Henry wasn't the first.

    http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacars st eama.htm
    Old Engraving depicting the 1771 crash of Nicolas Joseph Cugnot's steam-powered car into a stone wall.

    ok...internal combustion engines, here ya go...

    1858 - Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas. In 1863, Lenoir attached an improved engine (using petroleum and a primitive carburetor) to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete an historic fifty-mile road trip.

    Although some argue it was Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz who invented the first car.

    Henry perfected the assembly line.

    As for Reverse Engineering... Almost everything was reverse engineered from the original, in fact some of the original inventer's products aren't remotely as popular as the 'copies'... (ie.. tampax vs Kotex)... ok strange example I know... but in the NE US.. it's true.

  17. Re:I had a discussion... on D&D Is 30 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mod Redundant!

    Your girlfriend told me this story last night while she was playing with my +8 two handed sword...

  18. New Record on Scribus 1.1.6 Reviewed · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Article's 4 minutes old and madpenguin has already seen the slashdot effect.

  19. Re:still on topic, troll on Secret Repairs Preceded TCP Flaw Release · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are people who use Windows boxes as routers

    Now that's scary...

    Imagine the techsupport on that mess...
    ... Now right click, select BGP... Click peer...
    ... That's correct sir... it's probably not a good idea to run IIS on your core router...

  20. Ummm Raven on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: 1

    I don't know about any of you... but an intelligent, hot chick, who can kick my ass while drinking chai... that's my kind of woman.

  21. Re:Oxymoron? on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    Like concrete. It's great for holding things up (compression), but not for any lateral movment. Magnesium isn't that fragile, but you get the idea.

    Burning magnesium is hot as hell... as water only makes it worse.

  22. Bring back 60's tech on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    14 bolts and 5 hoses and my '66 mustang's engine comes out.

    I need 12 tools to do the majority of any work I need to do, all of which are available at sears, and for a total cost of under $100.

    No need for a multi-thousand dollar device to tell me my air filter needs changing.

  23. Re:When is it too far? on Brain Chip Approved For Paralysis Research · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know about you... but NO ONE is entering my backdoor!

  24. Re:Im as dumb as they come on Brain Chip Approved For Paralysis Research · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would I be able to hijack my very own bionic man via my bluwtooth enabled cell phone?

    --
    We can rebuild him, we have the technology
    --

  25. "fool" the eye on 600 PowerMacs Make One DVD · · Score: 1

    And there isn't any technology that can "fool" the eye either.

    Umm, have your heard of optical illusions. You may have seen your local magician perform some of these. If not David Copperfield performs regularly.

    Seriously, There is a difference between what you see, and what you know. You know David Copperfield didn't make an elephant disappear, but to your eyes, it did.