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  1. Re:Why assume black on black? on Police Using YouTube to Catch Killers · · Score: 1

    RTFA.. And read the related articles on BBC.. Duh..
    I assume nothing. I *always* RTFA before I comment.

  2. I don't buy it. on U.S. Commerce Department Hacked Again · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They say they can't clean the systems. Bullshit, they just want to blow more of OUR tax dollars on new toys.

    Also, what's the OS? No mention of that in TFA. Why are they using an OS that allows this sort of thing to happen. Shall we take a guess as to the OS?

    If they were serious about security they WOULD put a stop to this crap.
    It's easy to batten down the hatches.

  3. Re:very simple on Police Using YouTube to Catch Killers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    2. He was apparently chosen solely based on race.

    And from where did you glean this information?

    I've read every related article on the BBC and not one mentions anywhere that this killing was race and or hate driven.

    If you would read the articles at the BBC yourself you would see that the police and everyone else is calling this a gang related black on black crime.

    Are you trying to foment racial hatred towards whites?

    Post links to the articles citing that this was race/hate related please.

  4. Excuse me but, on Police Using YouTube to Catch Killers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is apparently related to the hatespeak-related jailing we discussed on Saturday. As this is obviously getting a lot of media attention over there, can someone from the UK enlighten us? Other than the obvious and regrettably tragedy of the situation, why is this case noteworthy?

    How so?

    No where do any of the articles mention anything about race or hate in this particular killing.
    Is the submitter of this story attempting to make things up?
    TFA mentions guns and GANGS, which would suggest that it is probably GANG related and probably a black on black killing..

    Why suggest it was a race hate crime?? Where's the evidence please?

  5. It's the neo-cons stupid. on Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The FN neo-con penny sniffing, greedy, profiteering republicans are the ones decimating this country.
    They should all be arrested and tried for treason.
    They've sold out our country. They are criminals.
    They've damaged this country beyond repair.

  6. This is stupid on The I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Sit around and bang your fingertips against a hard table or desktop for a few hours and get back with us.

  7. Re:This could be it. on Novell Files for Summary Judgment Against SCO · · Score: 1

    My fondest wish is that Darl goes to jail for Lanham act violations or for something the SEC charges him with.

    MY fondest wish is that Darl gets to share a cell with "Bubba"...

  8. Re:That's all well and fine, but on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 1

    It must be nice and comfy in your world.
    I wouldn't know. I live in the real world.
    The car I have is an older car and I can not afford a new car and never will be able to afford a new car.
    IF I had the means, I would buy an air car http://www.theaircar.com/ and use solar panels to run the compressor for filling it.

    To think that everyone either has a brand new car or should run out and buy one is silly.
    I am one of the "have nots" and I struggle to get by on a day to day basis.
    Being disabled is not my choice. I would like to be healthy and rich so I could buy nice new things but fate is my enemy in life. I make do. I shop at curbmart. To me it's a luxury to go to walmart and buy new socks for $4 and a new pair of $10 shoes. I bought new shoes last month when my old shoes came apart. I put duct tape on them but that was really too embarassing.

    But, back to the main argument. There is no way in hell that burning an ounce of gasoline is making more pollution than burning a gallon of gasoline. To those that profess this "fact", please provide scientific, documented fact, with links, not conjecture.

    And if you have such a problem with my plans for transportation, send me some money to buy a new car and some more money to keep the tank filled up, or, STFU... If you can't deal with MY situation then why don't you improve my situation so I don't have to do something that upsets you so badly.

    NO offense to anyone but you can't even begin to imagine. Try being disabled for a while then get back with me.

  9. Re:That's all well and fine, but on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 1

    Drive to the store in your car and burn a gallon of gas.
    I'll drive to the store on the "mow-ped" and burn an OUNCE of gas.

    Who dumped more pollution into the air??

    Why put a motor on the bike?

    1. I'm disabled and peddling a bike for any distance is impossible.
    2. I'm not wealthy (see #1) and saving money is very important to me.

    This is all made from stuff I picked up from trash piles. This is stuff that would have gone into landfills.
    I picked up half a dozen bikes and built one good working bike from the parts. Plus I have a spare parts inventory now. I picked up a dozen or so weedeaters too. I chose the smallest one of the lot so that it would be quiet (I built an improved muffler because I hate noisy machines) and would pollute the least and use the least amount of gas. And at a 40 to 1 mixture ratio the pollution is minimal. I should be able to get 300 to 400 miles per gallon. You'll find no 4 wheel vehicle anywhere that can boast of a remotely similar milage. 300 miles per gallon vs. 30 miles per gallon. You do the math..

    As for the other questions raised, yes, winters here are extremely mild, it snows once every 25 years, it's flatter than any place on earth, the nearest hill is 300 miles from here. EVERYTHING here is spread out and there is NO public transportation system, at all. You either drive or you perish.
    I have a car and I can drive it to the store in air conditioned comfort but I choose to take a very uncomfortable way of transportation. It's my choice. I don't have to do it, no one is making me do it but I can save money this way and I guarantee you that burning a few tablespoons of gas each week is far less worse than burning several gallons of gas each week..

    You'll not convince me otherwise.

  10. That's all well and fine, but on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not expecting to be finding this available for us lowly mortals anytime soon.
    So in the meantime I'm building a weedeater bike with parts I get at Curb*mart. Some people call them a "Mow-ped"..
    Strap a 21cc weedeater motor on the back of an old bicycle and you can get 400+ miles per gallon. YMMV..
    One guy traveled 1,000 mile on 3.5 gallons of gas. I'm going to put a big basket on it and that's how I'll be going to the grocery store. I'll use the car only when it's not feasible to ride the mow-ped, I think I can almost live without the car, maybe only having to resort to it once a month or less.

    The mow-ped, built from stuff people throw away is helping to keep stuff out of the landfill, helping to reduce pollution and is a poke in the eye to the uberglobalists that insist we all buy brand new cars every year and constantly fill them up with hyperinflated, over priced gas..

    I'm not a good little consumer. I want to keep my money. I'm tired of the fat cat profiteers on Wall Street getting fatter from the sweat of my brow, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
    Time to fight back..

  11. The most obvious way to handle this is on What Is Real On YouTube? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't waste your life watching crap on youtube and making fake friends on myspace.
    Get a life. Go outdoors for once.
    There is life outside of the internet.
    It's sad how far society has spiraled down the toilet since the Internet came to be.

  12. Why don't the change the name from "Open Source" on DoD Wary of That "Open" Word · · Score: 1

    to "Free To Examine" ??

  13. Re:It's not the cheese on Star Trek - Special Edition · · Score: 1

    Bullshit on what you said. Mostly.
    Yeah, I like the things you listed but I LOVE the cheese.
    I watch these shows that aired when I was a kid and I say to myself, "Damn that shit was corny but I still love it." I love the cheese effect specifically because it takes me back to the days when my cousin and I would take old appliance and furniture boxes, cut port holes in them and use crayons to draw control panels inside to make shuttle craft and transporters. Without the flavor of cheese in the old shows the connection to those good old days is broken.
    Leave shit the f*ck alone! Just like Star Wars, I was a teen when that came out and I like it just the way it was made, I like seeing the mattes as the ships attack the death star. I like seeing the mattes and jerky motion of the Enterprise.

    God damn, why can't people leave shit alone the way it was made? I wish there was some sort of copyright they could place on something (retroactively) to prevent modifications, edits, derivative works, or worse, remakes.
    Worse freaking remake in the history of Sci-fi is BSG.. I want to take that zoomed in jerky-cam and beat the freaking director in the head with it.

    I will NOT watch any movie or show that uses zoomed in jerky-cam.. I'm sure they'll find a way to work that effect into the soon to be butchered ST-TOS..

    Now is the time for everyone to go get copies of the original shows, before they yank the old shows from the shelves and replace them with the botched up versions.

  14. He played the game on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anyone that takes that many chances with that many dangerous animals is going to get it, sooner or later.
    I was always appalled at how he behaved around animals, what an idiot.
    Darwin 1, Irwin 0

  15. Re:Cloes on Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In? · · Score: 1

    Shut up Dubya..

  16. When they demoted Pulto on Pluto Making a Comeback · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they pissed off a LOT of people.
    What more can you say?

  17. Re:Backups don't need to be tricky these days on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1

    1000FX.. Start it up and forget about it. It's not so bad.

  18. Re:Backups don't need to be tricky these days on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 5, Informative

    outpost.com has 300gb seagates (pata) for $79 flat, no rebates and free shipping. That's insanely cheap.
    I saw someone had 160gb drives on sale for $29, no rebate.
    Big drives are getting extremely cheap and I'm digging it..

  19. Re:Backups don't need to be tricky these days on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That may be fine for folks like my dad that has a 30gig drive that's 80% empty.
    But some folks have 3 terabytes (not porn btw) of HTPC stuff, considering how cheap hard drives are now and there's no good way to back up that much data.. And with hard drives getting cheaper by the day, it seems that the only thing to do is just keep adding more drives. You reach a point of no return where you just have to take the risk of losing your stuff.

    I'm looking forward to the 1tb drives that have been promised by years end. Drop 6-8 of those in a vanilla budget box and use it as your backup, power it up only when needed.

  20. Oh hell no. on Google CEO Joins Apple's Board · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google is a profiteering parasitic operation. This is the foot in the door for google to swallow up Apple.
    I'll bet Microsoft is paying google to do this, to infiltrate and swallow Apple.

    Google = bad. Go away google..

  21. I think they should have named it the on OLPC Gets a New Name, New Features · · Score: 2, Informative

    CRM 114 instead

  22. Re:pics mirror? on Update on Xara's OS Vector Graphics Project · · Score: 3, Funny

    KWouldK KyouK KratherK KitK KhaveK KaK KonK KeveryK KwordK K?K mmmK?

  23. Re:Printable view of TFA on Locking Up Linux, Creating a Cryptobook · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shit, coffee malfunction, I meant to type "hate" not "have"....

  24. Printable view of TFA on Locking Up Linux, Creating a Cryptobook · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you have the 400 page ad loaded version as much as I do.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/18/locking_up_ linux-creating_a_cryptobook/print.html

  25. They need to upgrade and drop prices! on Cable Industry Needs to Spend Heavily on Upgrades · · Score: 3, Funny

    What pisses me off is I'm paying $45 a month for Road Runner PLUS a $10 a month penalty for not subscribing to cable TV. So after adding taxes, my RR bill is $57 a month. That's BS..
    And they keep flooding my snailmail box with flyers trying to get me to sign up for digital TV, voip and RR for the low, low price of $120 a month + taxes, so figure $130 a month. No thanks. Don't want it or need it.
    I just want internet only. I have a cell phone and TV sucks.

    As for RR here, the speed is decent, it's stable and dependable and they've never jacked me around like SBC did on DSL. I'll do without before I ever do business with SBC so I'm stuck with RR..

    I wouldn't mind paying what I pay if they would up the speed. I hear some places in the US are getting 3x to 4x the speed I get for half the price. WTF??? Bump up our speed or cut our bills you cheap bastards!