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  1. Re:I doubt it. on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points so I could drop you down for stupidity.

    As to why you figure it out.

    qz

  2. Re:groom lake closed??? on Roswell UFO Festival · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is a recent closure and the google pic is several years old? Just guessing on this, mind you.

    qz

  3. Re:Address implies content on Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping · · Score: 1

    It is true the sfgate article is more misleading but that is the one most will read. Not many will seek out Wired or other sources to clear this up.

    qz

  4. Re:Address implies content on Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping · · Score: 1
    A little further down was:

    Expert evidence in Alba's case showed that the Web addresses obtained by federal agents included page numbers that allowed the agents to determine what someone read online, Crowley said.

    So our judges are still a little unclear on the concept. Well, plus the page numbers here but at least they got closer. I guess the "page number" where I am at at the moment is comments.pl.

    But still, page numbers from an expert?

    qz

  5. I find this the most interesing on The History of the CD-ROM · · Score: 3, Informative
    Beethovens 9th is very popular in Japan on new years.

    However, Sony vice-president Norio Ohga, who was responsible for the project, did not agree. "Let us take the music as the basis," he said. He hadn't studied at the Conservatory in Berlin for nothing. Ohga had fond memories of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ('Alle Menschen werden Brüder'). That had to fit on the CD. There was room for those few extra minutes, the Philips engineers agreed. The performance by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, lasted for 66 minutes. Just to be quite sure, a check was made with Philips' subsidiary, PolyGram, to ascertain what other recordings there were. The longest known performance lasted 74 minutes. This was a mono recording made during the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1951 and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. This therefore became the playing time of a CD. A diameter of 12 centimeters was required for this playing time.

    In this way the specifications of the CD were determined by means of intensive contact between Philips and Sony.

    http://www.research.philips.com/newscenter/dossier /optrec/beethoven.html

    Just thought you'ld like to know

    qz

  6. Re:Accidental science? on Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Finally End Journey · · Score: 1

    Eddie Dimsdale did. Well, to only one person, I admit that but he did deserve it.

    qz

  7. Re:Just imagine on Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Finally End Journey · · Score: 1

    My bet is on the virgin Mary.

    qz

  8. Re:Bloat? on Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing · · Score: 1
    Although I think that the basic idea is terribly useful, the implementation of it appears to be pretty good.

    Huh? Can you parse that for me?

    M'kay. Thanks.

    qz

  9. They said hard but not impossible on Vista Security Claims Debunked · · Score: 1
    Microsoft is looking into both vulnerabilities, which were made public last week. Neither of the flaws has been used in any attacks and exploiting the issues is hard, a company representative said.

    Hard is what makes crackers salivate.

    qz

  10. Re:That's great and all... on NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment" · · Score: 1
    The amount of time it takes to count the votes. I still prefer a paper ballot as the final count but it would be nice to get the counts quicker.

    Why? Why would you want it faster? Who cares if it takes a few days to do an accurate count? Only FOX and the ones that report inaccurate results during the election.

    But really. What is your reasoning here? Why do you need to know RIGHT NOW who won other than bragging rights and bets?

    I'm willing to wait, oh, a week or better as long as it is an accurate count.

    qz

  11. Re:heh... microsoft = hacked voting on NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment" · · Score: 1

    Hello. I am software developer in Nigeria and I specilize in voting machines. I happy to make your aquantaince.

    My boss, the master programer, died....

    You know the rest.

    qz

  12. Re:Forwarding, not revealing. on University of Washington Will Aid RIAA · · Score: 1
    When you drive a beat-to-shit Chevy van that you bought with money from working in a butchers shop, the prospect of getting the largest paycheck of your life looks pretty damn good, no matter what your ideology.

    I think there are better links out there but this one will do.

    qz

  13. Re:Over-romanticized on ATM Turns 40 · · Score: 1
    This person obviously does not understand the Internet DID NOT EXIST FOR THE REGULAR people in those days.

    In those day it was dial-up BBS stuff. Google Tandem and banks. All dial-up ATMs in those days.

    The subtext to the above seems to be that this "invention" was some kind of genius. I disagree; this is an obvious and straightforward usage of technology that would have been "invented" by a hundred other people within the span of a few years had not someone else first done it.

    But it he did it. What have YOU invented today?

    And the detail about replacing chocolate bars with cash just rings of the same mindset that has lead to so many patents of similarly obvious things, like "selling goods and services... OVER THE INTERNET! The idea came to me when I realized in a flash of inspiration that people could use the internet to communicate their desired purchases." What'll they think of next, phones that have a built-in organizer?? Search the page. Where is Internet found? The ads. It is not in the article.

    What an age we live in...

    Yes, what an age we live where no one knows their history and no one knows their facts and no knows what *might* have been innovative when the intartubes was only in the hands of the govt.

    Where one knows only they are right because they don't know history.

    BZZT! You lose.

    qz

  14. Re:Not quite the same as today's ATMs. on ATM Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    And Monty Python never did a skit on this behind the scenes exchange?

    I am disappointed. It was great fodder.

    qz

  15. Re:No joke. on USAF Developing New "SR-72" Supersonic Spy? · · Score: 1

    Yep. They did this to break the record. If the record had been faster they would have broken that too.

    qz

  16. Re:A11/YF12/SR71: where to get parts? on USAF Developing New "SR-72" Supersonic Spy? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. NOAA has one too.

    I have a friend who used to work on them. We have spent more than a few hours discussing them. Nice plane.

    Too bad I can't talk about our discussions.

    qz

  17. Re:The really sad part... on Nuke-Proof Bunker Turns Out Not Waterproof · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not really way beyond. Removing the lead is an incremental step. Way beyond would be fuel cells, full electric, solar, whatever. Anything not fossil would be way beyond.

    And the car would run on unleaded. It would run a bit hotter and, in the long term, wear out quicker because the lead acted as a lubricant.

    qz

  18. Re:OLD OLD news on Space Station Computers Partially Restored · · Score: 1
    If exposed to the heat of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, the skin could burn away. Mission managers decided the blanket needed to be pushed back into place, if only to prevent time-consuming repairs to Atlantis' skin after the ship's return to Earth.

    It sounds a litle critical to me.

    I didn't see a 6 months repair estimate in TFA. Where did that come from?

    qz

  19. Re:Another reason I invest in foreign stocks on Congress Considers Forcing Travel Registration · · Score: 1
    The end result is that money just flows out of the US, increasing the trade deficit and harming domestic companies.

    That's ok. We'll just make new laws to deal with it.

    qz

  20. Re:Profit! on PC Call Centers Garner Lowest Satisfaction Score · · Score: 1
    I guess you didn't work where I did.

    I was a tech for a year, and it was horrible. You only get angry/upset people talking to you, and most of the problems can be resolved by following a script.

    It was not the best but it paid (notice I didn't use payed) the bills. I was a Sales Engineer and took a lot of calls. We catered to businesses but on occaision we took the personal call. I'm not sure why.

    I ended up on the personal call Mac line. Ok, whatever. I took all the calls.

    Got laid three times with three different calls that year. Well, multiples of those three calls.

    My point is sooth the angry people. It paid off for me.

    Oh, and I am not the bottom of the barrel. My first assignment with them was 15mil bux.

    qz

  21. Re:Avoid CLick through on Nerdy Photo in Vista DVDs Thwarts Disk Pirates · · Score: 1

    Bummer. They is dead

    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
    Apache/1.3.33 Server at microsoft.blognewschannel.com Port 80

    I'll try again later.

    qz

  22. Re:Alternative Solution on Justice Dept. Defends Microsoft Against Google · · Score: 1

    I think one of the problems is most people don't know what services are and how to manage them. Heck, I'm not sure how many know what a control panel is.

    qz

  23. Re:uh boot camp still wins on Parallels 3.0 Announced, 3D Graphics Included · · Score: 1
    why in the world would anyone run emulation when they can run Windows natively with bootcamp. If you're going to play games you would obviously want the most speed you can get. I bought a mac, but I'm 98% in the windows. I only use mac to test web based apps in safari. For people like me or for gamers, I don't see why you would ever use paralells emulation. The speed cost is just too high.

    A good question and I have an answer.

    I am the opposite.

    I support Macs at work. I do the ARD thing and the ssh thing. Mostly ssh as I write scripts for management and the lot.

    I use the PC side for AD management and trouble call software because I have to.

    I can't be rebooting my system every 10 minutes to see the trouble desk nor can I be reboting my system every 10 minutes to edit that script.

    Sometimes it is not about games or people like you who can handle frequent reboots. I can't. It is all about getting work done.

    qz

  24. Re:VMware Fusion 2? on Parallels 3.0 Announced, 3D Graphics Included · · Score: 1

    Please list these files and locations.

    Thx.

    qz

  25. Re:True enough on The IT Department as Corporate Snoop? · · Score: 1

    This is not wise. Go legal? Heh. Once the first thing goes wrong who will be holding the bag?

    On every job I have left that is it. I have never tried to log on.

    Case closed. Move on.

    Emailing the owner/manager of a flaw in the system? Not wise.

    It is best to cut the cord and go away.

    So you emailed the owner/manager you still had access?

    Good luck in court.

    qz