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  1. Re:Only in a divided government, yeah on Bill Bans NSA Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    how many time do people keep having to repeat that lie that war was not declared?? And by lie I mean the dictionary definition not the liberal definition.
    The Constitution does not state what form the declaration of war has to come in and the authorization meets all the previous historical times. Then to top it off you have members of Congress indicating that they were voting on war. Even Ms. Bill Clinton when introducing a bill to end it war said the purpose was "to put a stop to this war"

  2. Re:FOIA on Privatization Limiting Access To Information · · Score: 1

    He could and that is they told him to do. That is what the complaint is about, they told him thier only procedure is for him to submit a FOIA and the author complaining that it takes to long and too much paperwork to do that.

  3. Re:What a mixed up world on Massachusetts Joins the Real ID Fight · · Score: 1

    That is not even close to the theories and practices of those forms of government. Fascism basicly said that the needs of the state outwieghted the needs of the group or individual, but some people are more important and better then others so classes will exist and while the individual may own a factory and make more profit from that risk they will make and do as the state requires. Communism said the needs of the state outwieghted the needs of the group or individual but the state owns everything and no-one is better then anyone else.
    While you do have some fascist governments that had a racist or ideology basis behind them it is not core to its belief any more then that the Communists of Russia killed more Jews then the Fasists of Germany makes mass slaughter a cornerstone of Communism.

  4. Re:A tricky subject. on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Death would not be a problem, we would just fall back to the current practice of ships during war time and of ships back in the days of sails. There a burial at sea is the pratice to dispose of the body when there is no practical way holding on to the body before it decays.
    You would do the same thing with the body but drop it off into space.
    Heck I would be willing to bet that most of the people who go on these trips would have no problem with that, and would actually like that to be thier final resting place.
    Most of theses problems can be solved by looking to the past and seeing what they did when people spend 6+ years on a trip.

  5. Re:Very Easy on How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology? · · Score: 1

    hurricane hits NYC (which IS overdue for a major storm), or San Fran. gets creamed by an earthquake...will the gov response be any better
    Yes because the local governments are prepared to handle what they are suppose to.
    During all the time that the New Orleans and state government were complaining how things went wrong and they did not know what to do, other states disaster organizers were tring to get as much air time to show off thier places and procedures as is thier responsibility.

  6. Clarification on IMax 3D. on The Future of Cinema - 'Real' 3D · · Score: 3, Informative

    IMax has two different systems for 3D effects.
    The first is the polarized glasses, this is used for films that have not been filmed in 3D but they then process and setup multiple projectors to give a 3D look. They glasses look like sun glasses but and from my limited experience they just barly fit over the glasses of existing wearers. This is the kind of technology the article is refering to.
    Then you have the full Imax 3D with just plainly rocks!!!! It consists of a full head gear which fits over your head and easily over existing glasses, it comes with built in speakers to add to the theater sound and uses signals from the projector to flip the lens to give the 3D illusion. If you have not seen one of theses they are a must see. Even the dopey films are impressive just for the 3D effects. My personal favorite is the _Deep Sea_ it is really funny to lift the head sets and see people attempt to grab the fish as they swim up to them.

  7. Re:How is this MSNBC's greed? on NBC Believes They Own Political Discourse · · Score: 1

    These group speeches are setup by the candidates and they are setting the rules. They were originally going to have another in May, it may be back on. Then starting in June or July the DNC takes over and starts setting the rules for the debates. The only way that a channel has a chance of getting a decent rating out of theses is to be the only one showing them, so they are going to agree to any rules but on by the candidates or the parties. Does anything think NBC came up with theses rules they were given by the candidates; there is no advantage from the networks for limiting where and when they are shown, after a week has past from the event they are no longer news, because the name MSNBC shows up on them and that is free advertisement.
    The funny thing about the DNC one was that it was originally going to be questioned by Foxnews but the DNC pulled out because of fear from the candidates that Foxnews would ask too hard of questions.

  8. Re:Sketchy figures... on Vista Sales Strong, Higher Than Expected · · Score: 1

    In your example you are counting sales by units, in this article and what Microsoft is saying is ignoring units and giveing the monies they received, so counting upgrade coupons as full sales is irrelavent. In hte US revenue is the money taken in before costs have been subtracted, if they receive back excess inventory and because of that they had a debt to the store they would of needed to apply that against the gross revenue. Which is why for investors revenue is less important then the profit.
    The $1.2 billion has to be enough to cover all costs required to cover the valid coupons that are out there, in the even that they don't receive the coupons and they get to count the what is left of that $1.2 billion in the third quarter revenue.
    No missleading just the use of business jargon.

  9. Re:Why use voting machines at all? on French Voting Machines a "Catastrophe" · · Score: 1

    Everyone can immediately understand how it works.
    You have never seen the results of people filling in paper ballots or surveys. Say you have a box next to the select along with instructions and pictures showing people how they should put an X in the box. While the majority of people will do it correctly you will get a significant number that have circled the box, but a check mark in/out of the box, underlined thier selection,etc. That does not even could the number of people who make multiple selections in places where they are instructed to only select one.

  10. Re:Why is it.... on French Voting Machines a "Catastrophe" · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you skip this summary and read the articles the problem was there were not enough machines that is what everyone was primarily complaining about hte long waits. This was caused primarily by a large amount of people voting. Any problems with machines is not getting any reporting.
    That said there have been major fights leading up to the election about the electronic voting machines with multiple law suits from some parties while other political parties are saying they are great and bringing out scientists to explain how they work and why theses machines are safer and better then the pencil/paper method used in the past.
    As for choosing the machines, you have two different sets of people. You have the choosers who are looking at machines from the way they are used and the current procedures that are in place and picking them based on that environment and funding available then you have all the people on the outside who have never helpped at an election and want to have machines that would stand up to the abuses and threats that a ATM filled with money and located in an unlit side street would have to face.

  11. Re:refund on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    Don't know about turbo tax but since it is quicken they may charge you. However with TaxCut they only charge you for electronic filing once it has been accepted by the IRS. I initially electroniclly filed with TaxCut and the IRS rejected it because some of the forms given to me differed in addresses, so it was easier to mail it all in, and I was not charged any money for my try.

  12. Re:Why Wait? on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    I usally don't get my W-2 until late January then it takes until lat Feburary for the other forms to get in. I fill out the forms (electronicly) then wait for revisions to various forms which then require I make changes to the tax forms. So come start of April I have had a few revisions and I figure most are stable and then I submit my taxes.

  13. Re:Pot & Kettle on Affordable DX10 - GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT · · Score: 2, Informative

    new non-beta drivers out today, so far they have fixed the problems I was having. They are on the nvidia site.

  14. Re:Did the website update? on New Motherboards Disallowing IDE Booting? · · Score: 1

    You can find other warning, differently worded, in other places so I am guessing they were not just added.
    Going to the tech page on the board gives a Special note: The JMicron IDE port does not support OS installation on IDE hard drive. A system/primary drive connected to the IDE port will not be bootable.

  15. Re:Intel removing 'legacy' interfaces on New Motherboards Disallowing IDE Booting? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The easiest way of finding theses boards is to advoid boards that say they are not compatable with windows 98/ME and then to read the technical specs.
    If you goto the technical specs for this board they say
    Special note: The JMicron IDE port does not support OS installation on IDE hard drive. A system/primary drive connected to the IDE port will not be bootable.

  16. Re:Protocol != Content on SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act Advances In Utah · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually it is a rather smart idea, technology wise. Companies that deal with porn could place it on another port, say 84, and then redirect from a clean page. It is easy to implement with all current web servers and since the port is already a standard part of URL so search engines would beable to find it, along will all current software would not have a problem changing over to it. Since it does not have a domain no need to worry about all of that mess of that. In additional almost all home firewall have the abaility to already block specified port so it is a quick way that it could be put in use by the people who want to block it.
    As for the protocol use of the port that is already not the case, various vendors already use different ports on thier web servers to handle help or admin pages.
    There is one major problem, it assumes that the people who run theses sites want to prevent minors from gaining access. So we are back to the .xxx problem and this bill and the idea is dead.

  17. Time travel is possible, and NASA has it on The Dozen Space Weapon Myths · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget all those press stories from scientists currently around that say time travel is impossible.
    We now have proof that NASA and the US Military have it.
    As clearly started in this article, from a guy in NASA, the US Military is talking about going back in time by 7+ years and put a missle defense system in Czechoslovakia.

  18. Not really new. on Is Daylight Saving Shift Really Worth It? · · Score: 1

    When this bill was originally being talked about, various people said the study it was based on, done back in the 1970s was worthless. However they quickly got labeled as working for "big oil". Others mentioned that even using newer numbers the saving would not be great were also labeled as working for "big oil".
    However all you "man is the prime source of global warming" can take heart, I have already seen a few articles where they are ignoring the claim that the change will save energy to focus on saying that it will save lives on the road, it is better for outdoor recreation, and it just makes people feel good because of the extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day.

  19. Re:DST on Microsoft Takes a 'Patch Tuesday' Break · · Score: 1

    Living in Europe or anywhere else in the world it does effect you; if your users do business with Americans(Canada also switched). If you do business with US or Canada then it is likely they have meetings or phone calls scheduled with them in which case if you don't update the systems and then update the scheduler then they will be off.

  20. Go commercial on Samba Success in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Back when I did system admin one of the companies I worked for needed SAMBA but the management did not trust it so I found a product called Totalnet. It was an exact replica of SAMBA but with a nice graphical interface, since it was a commercial product management had an easier time and paid the thousands of dollars, but I had a nicer graphical interface, in addition to the command line tools.

  21. Re:DST on Microsoft Takes a 'Patch Tuesday' Break · · Score: 1

    Bingo.
    This originally came from the global warming crowd, and according to them would be one of the easiest to implement and would produce measurable results.
    Just image what will happen if they are listened to for other things and we implement things like forbidding air travel for vacations .

  22. Re:If the ultimate edition... on Australian Students Can Get Office at 95% Off Retail · · Score: 1

    Because most of the time your university has to do a special deal with microsoft to all the students to get this version.
    The company I work for has a similar deal with microsoft were we get microsoft 2007 enterprise for home use for $20US.
    Most of the time theses deals require that you have a licensed copy at work/school machines and you are only authorized to use them during the time you goto that school or work for that company.

  23. Re:Mission Accomplished on Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting? · · Score: 1

    Try reading the news sometimes and not the kook web sites.
    What they did was request a paper on what would be needed to postpone elections, since the attack on 9/11 happened when an election was happening in New York City, if a major disaster, nature or manmade, happened. The paper mentioned that it impossible since the elections are mainly governed by the states. This paper was well covered and parts are available to everyone to read; well provided you are actually interested in the truth.

  24. Re:Mission Accomplished on Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting? · · Score: 1

    The company did nothing of the sort, it was a person who worked for the company and who was exercised his first admendment rights.
    Do you have any proof that the company did anything to change the votes??
    Also why do you not have any problems with other voting manufacturers that send money to the democrat party and verbally support them; and BTW the problems in Ohio were with thoses machines.

  25. Re:Let us Hope for Lawsuits not Peace in this Case on Google and YouTube Continue To Struggle With Details · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gen X is not based on number, it was named by some author to designate the people after the Baby Boomers and Generation Jones.
    IIRC,
    Gen X designated thoses people who grew up under the Baby Boomers and a sterotype of a lack(ed) a foundation of belief in the values of the past along with a poor outlook on what the future brings.
    Gen Y designs thoses who came after Gen X and stood for _Generation Why?_ and marked the end of the Baby Boomers or the start of the future with them growing up with computers and other digital items being all around them since birth.
    Both designations came from famous books or articles and then caught on with the people who write about this stuff.