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  1. Re:MS / Transformer Connection on Microsoft Fueling HD Wars For Own Benefit? · · Score: 1

    I'm calling that claim that it was an entertaining movie.
    Yea the first fight at the military base was good the film quickly went downhill and very very fast. It quickly became a movie of bad dialog, poor lighting and boring action. And that comes from someone who like The Rock and Armageddon.

  2. Re:Why? on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 1

    Couple that with the short range theses things have and unless the people are crowded in like an Atlantic slave ship you are not going to have a problem. Provided you have not gone and increased the antenna.
    Besides how many business are using theses for widespread use? We have a couple around the offices I have worked in but they are mainly in conference room and places like that.

  3. SIgn me up! on Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle · · Score: 1

    This sounds great maybe a side table to hold my books, drinks and a few other knick-knacks.
    I can just put on my mpeg3 player, put the chair back into recliner mode throw up the leg rest and veg the day out reading /.. Is the 42-inch TV include and what channels come on it and where do I store the beer?
    Sure type can somewhat suck and laptops can get a little hot but such are the hardships of working in a modern environment.

  4. Re:Why? on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Primary purpose of the encryption is to make sure that you are getting the input from another device. Not sure I would even call it encryption more like channel selection.

  5. Re:Is it just me... on All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' · · Score: 0

    If you actually cared about the issue you would of known that this was from 1 year ago, and that it was Nancy Pelosi who was pushing it.
    This was a recommendation from the 9/11 commission and put into law by Congress but part of the items that George Bush has not been pushing to get enforced.
    Good old Nancy has said that she would push to have this enforced and has pushed for it both in Congress and in multiple speeches, if Bush did not have more respect then she did it probably would of been more advanced then it currently is.

  6. Re:NASA on NASA Requires JPL Scientists To Give Up Right To Privacy · · Score: 1

    You had a bad contract and company, was it some 8(a)?
    I have had two contracts that ended like that but the contracts had a 30 day pay/warning, in addition to the 2 weeks final warning from the company ; however the HR offices worked with me to get me a new job.
    To those wondering if this is common, excluding the no warning or leave pay, it is for government contracts. During the mid and late 90s the executive branch decide that they were going to contract out almost everything, for the military that basically ment if you were not pulling a trigger it would probably be contracted out. The purpose of this was to allow the government to easily change out people as needed, need new skills remove the old person get someone with the correct skills or in this case need people in one location fire them from other locations.

  7. Re:tags on Egyptian Blogger Silenced by YouTube, Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    Google is a public company, NASDAQ stock symbol GOOG.

  8. Re:MS sells what? on Vista Branding Confusing Even To Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since when has MS been a computer retailer?

    For a long while now, however they are only sold in stores in Japan or Korea, don't remember which. that does not even include the xboxes but they are not being advertised as Vista ready.

    But back to the main item, the people sueing are saying that because Microsoft advertised that computers with the Vista Ready sticker were capable of running Vista that it is Microsofts fault and Microsoft was doing the misleading .

  9. Re:Fuck the FCC on FCC Delays Vote On Cable TV Regulation · · Score: 1

    That the FCC makes the rules and not Congress is not the reason, FCC making regulations abridging freedom of speech would still be unconstitutional.
    Where the FCC gets the right is that they are first admendment is not about exact words but about making sure what you want to express get out. The courts have said that certain words just don't have a use in a public discourse; the only exception to this would be saying you want to kill the president or a few other high level officials.
    For example Congress has passed various laws saying cannot say "Fuck Hillary!", but you can say "Hillary is nothing without her husband." However you cannot create a law, like was recently tried by Hillary and other Democrats, with the purpose of setting up a federal watchboard to stop certain types of speech and a purpose of making for the broadcasters that "the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue".

  10. Re:Disregard carbon; pay attention to all else on Google Goes Green · · Score: 1

    Clinton never passed a mercury emissions law, and President Bush could not of just killed it if he had. What Clinton did was in December 2000, after Bush has already been elected, was rush out a proposal that according to scientists was technically impossible to achive, besides being extremly expensive. The Clinton proposal was draft only.
    Back in 2003 Bush did put out a proposal that could of setup cap and trade policy with a 40% reduction by 2010 and 70% by 2018, when passed, the first ever rules regulating emssions on mercury from coal burning power plants, it was at 29% by 2010.
    While like you say nuke would help alot there is no way it is going to happen, far to many environmentalists are against it and they can just keep bringup up Three mile island and chernobyl

  11. Re:Chinese "capitalism" is still largely an illusi on China In the Habit of Copying and Redirecting US Sites? · · Score: 1

    Facisism does not require an "ideology of racism and military expansionism" that was mainly an claim spread by the communists, there are plenty of examples of facistism that do not claim thaose ideas, just look at South America .
    As for China and racism just look at Tibet or Xinjiang or how non-asian coloured people are treated. If you don't believe that China has military expansion on its mind look at Taiwan or any military examination of China by any outside country.

  12. Re:w00t on MIT Students Show How the Inca Leapt Canyons · · Score: 1

    This is not exactly new the technique is still used today and various people have built Inca style bridges in the past few decades.
    Getting the initial thin ropes across you just have them drop them from the opposing sides tie them together and away you go. Now it gets fun it the bridge is over a river or a very,very deep valley, in thoses cases it looks like they would shoot from one side let gravity and the force carry the projective and rope across to the other side and then climb down.

  13. Re:It was presented with good arguments on US Control of Internet Remains an Issue · · Score: 1

    You people always thinking about Afghanistan and Iraq, he already pointed out Bush then the goes back and starts mentioning stuff from the 90s(CIA, torture, small rooms ,etc) so based on that he must be thinking of Kosovo and Bosnia.

  14. Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unless you set your page file to the same initial and max sizes then it is going to grow in increments and cause fragmentation. If you use user swapping them it is really going to increase in size. To check the fragements of page file(s) run defrag(XP) and the report will show how many fragments, also sysinternals has a great pagedefrag(2000,2003) program. BTW a frag in the page file does cause major performance hits, which is the reason for the recommendation to set intial and max sizes.

    Placing your page file on a different partition(single drive) is a bad idea, however placing it one a different drive is a really good idea. The rule is it should be placed on the most used partition of the least used drive. Also placing making sure that drive is on a seperate channel or controller from the main drive is a good idea. Do not put it on a RAID-1 or RAID-5 drive, RAID-0 is good. However do not place page files on multiple partitions on the same driveWord of warning you should keep a very small page file, under 50 meg, on drive C there there is older software that expect it and can cause problems and slowdowns if not found; also good in an emergency when your main pagging file cannot come on-line and is required if you want crashdumps or have they fixed that? yes I know about the temporary page file that windows creates in an emergency.

    IIRC, The setting of the no page file was an old performance idea and will now not work, windows creates an temporary page file if it cannot find one. When this originally idea came out(windows 95,98???) it would work if you had alot of physical memory(1 or 2 gig, don't remember what the sweet point was) because windows would use the page file even if you had enough physical memory. So you shut down swapping and windows was forced to use your physical memory. However you had to be sure that you had enough physical memory to handle all your needs, or you would crash.

  15. What software? on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Could not see it in the article but does anyone have information on the software that will be provided?

  16. Re:What I don't get... on FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database · · Score: 1

    The list contains any criminal legal problems and the court rulings.
    So are you saying that Canada is so dumb they cannot understand that someone arrested for disturbing the peace during a rally is different from murdering someone? Or maybe Canada does not have the right to say who enters thier countries.
    BTW go back and read the link Canada does go through and says "we will take this guy, but not this guy"

  17. Re:What I don't get... on FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database · · Score: 1, Insightful

    KFUD strikes again!

    The FBI just provides a place to store the criminal record of people and based on agreements between Canada and the US, Canada can view the record.
    None of this was made up the two people blocked from Canada are guilty of various crimes. There were treated no differently then anyone else entering Canada.
    For more info see http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/seattle/visas/inadmissible-en.asp, remeber you are entering a different country not crossing the street in your home town.

    However remember who these people are, they are not interested in what happens but how they can raise money from what happened.

  18. Re:Faith in people on Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 0

    The only reason you don't see it in Wikipedia is because there is a whole army of people who do nothing but check the list of just edited pages and apply thier intelligence to determine if the change should be allowed.
    During the prime time for that wikipedia you make a vandalism change and chances are it will be undone in less then 5 mins, even for pages where you are the only visitor for the past month.

  19. Re:More about Brazil: on Cisco Offices Raided, Execs Arrested In Brazil · · Score: 1

    You forgot that Brazil has gay money.

  20. Re:Behind quake? on Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo Now Out · · Score: 1

    I always go for CTF since it is always fast paced and you can easily go on the attack or dig in and just do some killing as other other side attacks.
    I do wish they would bring back the grappling hook, it was always fun to swing over the enemy or hide yourself in some dark corner and fire away.

  21. Re:Ill gotten gain? on The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well in the US if the owners of the cigarettes did that they are considered a gift, provided you had not requested them or they are mis-delivered, and you are free to keep them.

  22. Re:"invented" on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 0

    Ok you are right.
    That should of said the US took the initiative in creating the Internet

  23. Re:Lucky! on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 1

    It was discussed but with the Euro to US Dollar exchange rate it was decided against.
    Frankly I think we should of done it just so we could have local Fritteries.

  24. Re:Why bother? on Microsoft Releases IIS FastCGI Module · · Score: 1

    If that comment could be trusted you would know that IIS7 uses a text file to store its configuration.

  25. Re:Currency Fluxuation on Space Money Invented For Space Tourists · · Score: 1

    You create your own currency and you can set your exchange rate.