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  1. If good enough at Iwo Jima...... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    Soldiers and Marines deserve better but, after depleting supplies and fulfilling current contracts, the soldiers will get new gear. Today's soldiers are still being outfitted with 50/60's contracts. The Marine Quartermaster's Pledge "If it was good enough at Iwo Jima, it's good enough today!"

  2. And the hits just keep on coming! on RIAA Sues Nearly 500 New Swappers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Lose money thru file-swapping and spend money on law suits. LOSE-LOSE!

  3. Handwritten!! on Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? · · Score: 1

    The only handwritten stuff I saw professors use were in math/statistics classes and math-heavy engineering classes. Survey class professors lecture and test the same stuff every year. Go with October 30's advice.

  4. NASA PA Department on NASA's New 'Exploration' Insignia · · Score: 1

    NASA need a PA department! Without it, scientists and engineers would blather like Ellie Arroway (CONTACT).

  5. CIA/NSA on The Security Risk of Keyboard Clicks · · Score: 1

    My first TEMPEST briefing ('73!) discussed monitoring keypresses and the amount of electric current (amps) used by electric typewriters. Each key caused a specific amount of current to be used and a message could be worked out from each current reading.

  6. Valua America! on Cyber-Soap Returns From The Dead · · Score: 1

    Is Value America (www.va.com) a proud sponsor of The Spot? Or just the closed captioning?

  7. My Opinion & Vote on Evoting in the News · · Score: 1

    My opinion & vote does not matter!! I am a white, heterosexual, Christian, conservative Male. The Democrats, liberals, Oprah, and Hillary Clinton have deemed my opinion and vote, and those of other white, heterosexual, Christian Conservatives, does not matter. Democrats, liberals, Oprah, and Hillary Clinton wiil determine what all opinions of all people will be, and why each opinion is right or wrong.

  8. GM Food & NanoTech on Nanotechnology: the Good, the Bad, the Hyperbole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nanotech could go the way of Genetically Modified Foods. It never harmed anybody, but the Public fears the New & Different. The New Luddites will feed the fear with hyperbole.

  9. Illuminati Comment: on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 1

    (From an undisclosed location) We commend and encourage all scientific research. The recent investigations of Atlantis and the Ark of Noah provide paths to the truth.

  10. Old Story & Concept on High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Border Patrol used these along the Mexican border i the 1980's. Hunters used them as target practice.

  11. Not In My BackYard on NETI@Home to Examine Net's Strengths · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When does research data become intelligence data? If research data shows a possible criminal pattern, is NETI(Georgia Tech) responsible to report to the authorities/law enforcement? Can Georgia Tech afford not to report? In this day it is refreshing to find researcher naivete. "to make the Internet faster and more reliable" "where it will be analyzed and made available to anyone else who wants to use it for their own Internet improvement projects"

  12. Ark of Noah AGAIN on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 0

    Kurds,Iranians,and Armenians! Bull!! Turkey just does not want anybody on that mountain. It is too much effort to protect anybody who goes there. Anybody who wants to go there is fanatical and obsessed. Child molesters aside: Celibacy among priests is a preventive measure to the spread of hereditary fanaticism and obsession in the name of religion.

  13. Where's the Flying Cars? on Highest Human Elevation Using a Rocketbelt · · Score: 0

    All the predictions about flying cars and global prosperity. We have no flying cars and globalized poverty. NAFTA, the WTC and the Clintons did a real number on the USA.

  14. Wishful Thinking!! on The Web Won't Topple Tyranny · · Score: 0

    The printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, earth-orbiting satellites, and now, the internet. Each new technical form of communication was heralded as the downfall of tyranny and a course to world peace and understanding! When it did not work, everybody blamed each other. The truth was always simple: Optimism is not realistic. Cynicism is not pessimistic.

  15. Pia Zadora Sighting!! on UFO Streaks Through Martian sky · · Score: 0

    She had to diisappear to somewhere!

  16. DHMO is Grade School Joke! on City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups · · Score: 0

    I heard of DHMO in grade school (4th grade, I think) in the 60s. This displays how bad the education system is going. After living in the UK, Canada, and USA, I have seen how bad all these school systems are. I know a woman in England that thought treacle was mined.

  17. Osprey Next! on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Osprey is a man-killer! Corrupt USMC program managers keep this program going. 8 men killed in a test flight and still no complaints.

  18. No Luke Stewart on Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    As long as Earthlink does not get involved with Luke Stewart and anybody else from Media Fusion of Dallas TX, this might work.

  19. Re:Weapons in space? on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 1

    Existing treaties ban the deployment of nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors in space. The treaty does allow the building nuclear reactors on extraterrestrial bodies with native materials. The UK and France put in that clause.

  20. Satellite Killers on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 1

    F15/16 launched devices in the mid 80's. These "kinetic antisatellite devices" were successful and very low tech (guided rocks) The unclassified program was renamed and focused on another goal. By treaty, nuclear weapons are not deployed in space.

  21. Nothing New! on Have We Learned from the New Economy? · · Score: 1

    People buy what they want or need! India offers services at cheaper costs than US. Corporations get services with view towards a larger profit. Quality and US employment ignored.

  22. All (almost) for free! on U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit · · Score: 1

    Free code, free internet access, free almost everything! Reporters would be the first to preach this, after they are paid.

  23. ADM - New OPEC on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    ADM will be the new OPEC. Now we will have to find a safe way to dispose of hydrocarbon-based fuels. We could just bury them in Saui Arabia.

  24. CR-ROM Rip-OFF on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 1

    I attended DeVry (aka DeVry Inc.)I never used any accompanying CD-ROM. Studygroups of five often shared a single text. Rule #1 - Do Not buy texts unless professor says it will be used. Rule #2 - Do Not buy text unless previous classes used it.

  25. Media Fusion was a SCAM on Could Broadband Over Power Lines be Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Luke Stewart was a snakeoil salesman. Nobody ever saw a working model. He had all the buzzwords: quantum switch, magnetron, laser... A Dallas TV station tracked Stewart to an apartment in North Dallas. He had no comment.