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  1. Re:USB 2.0 is better than Bit Torrents. on The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent · · Score: 2, Interesting
  2. Re:Wall building? on A Run Through Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    my method works 100% as well.
    try typing

    mstsc /console
    in xp's run box...

  3. Re:Wall building? on A Run Through Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    also from task manager you can force log-off.
    rightclick startbar, choose task manager, users tab- LOGOFF

  4. Re:Wall building? on A Run Through Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    mstsc /console read up.

    "This also solves the annoying
    "Terminal server exceeded the maximum numbers of allowed connections"
    issue we all know too well."

    or hey-
    shutdown -r -m \\server

  5. why a treadmill? on OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops · · Score: 1

    Why tie the cow to a treadmill/spinning in a circle?

    adapt kinetic watch tech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_quartz to charge up a battery pack.. how impossible would it be to have battery packs you clip onto and off of the cows legs... let it walk where it will and at feeding time, swap batteries...

  6. FYI on 'Bionic' Nerve To Repair Damaged Limbs and Organs · · Score: 1

    the ones that became bugs weren't humans to start with..

  7. Damn.. ever heard of echelon? on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

    the UK spied on the US citizens, (no laws broken) for the US, and vice-versa....

  8. Damn sawyer! HE KNEW ABOUT THIS! on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 1

    I good series of books, homo sapiens, hybrids.. etc
    http://books.google.com/books?id=bXXxvdWie0wC&pg=PT57&vq=american+draft+dodger&sig=hj7bJk-Yrto3n37rhn4AMGft2-M

    I thought it was just a product of his imagination.. and a poor one at that.. but it was FREAKING REALITY! that's why it was so bad as ficiton in this book..
    (Mr. Sawyer, if you ever see this, please don't take this as a slur- I loved the series- I was just freaked when I read the topic)

  9. Seriously though... on Super-Light Plastic As Strong as Steel · · Score: 1
  10. Hmm on D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.ncdot.org/projects/hov/faqs.html#q2
    Do children and infants count as passengers?
    Yes. All states with HOV facilities count children and infants as passengers.

    Why do children count as passengers in the HOV lane?
    The main law governing HOV lane use is WAC 468-510-010. This law merely states "occupants." HOVs may therefore include passengers who are not licensed drivers. These can include senior citizens, people with disabilities, and children as well as other people who do not, or can not, obtain a drivers license for various reasons.

    HOVs with non-licensed passengers do not always help to remove cars from traffic. However, one of the Department's considerations in determining HOV eligibility policy is the degree to which the policy will be enforceable by the State Patrol. It can already be challenging to accurately determine how many occupants are in a vehicle. It would be much more difficult, and more expensive, to additionally be required to determine occupant age or licensing status. Another consideration is that carpools are sometimes driven by parents or caretakers who transport groups of children to activities. This does keep additional vehicles off the road.
    http://www.rtc.wa.gov/Studies/Archive/hov/faq.htm#Q12

    Why are people with children allowed to use the HOV lane?
    HOV policies everywhere have allowed children to be counted as occupants of a carpool to meet the necessary occupancy requirement. While children may not be of driving age, there are two major reasons that we allow people with children to use the HOV lane: school and day care responsibilities and the idea of educating our children regarding ridesharing. Often, it is difficult to drop kids off at day care, drive to a park-and-ride, catch the bus, and get to work on time. Allowing parents to bring their kids along with them in the carpool, or on the bus, gives them an opportunity to use the HOV lane. This also keeps enforcing the lane very simple: two or more people per car.

  11. Also flat out wrong.... on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    http://cameras.pricegrabber.com/digital/p/48/form_keyword=dslr/rd=1/sortby=priceA
    Hmm..

    I see TWO DSLR cameras for less than the price of photoshop, one of them (the one that is 5$ less) comes with a lens.

  12. I RTFA for a change on 'Floating Bridge' Property of Water Found · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and it makes me wonder.. where they talk about the changes in water density.

    IF you could find a way to change the density of water within living cells-- decrease slowly, and increase rapidly...

    by oh say, 10% or more from standard...

    When you decrease slowly, then cellular walls could expand to accomodate the increased volume without bursting...
    now your return the density to normal (if necassary).. and before the cells recover- you freeze the cells-- and the expansion of the frozen water does not cause massive gross cellular damage.

    now cyronics is much more achievable.. (of course, the voltages described do not seem condusive to application to living flesh,, but perhaps another method could be found for the same effect...)

  13. when I play an online game, on MMO Bans Men Playing As Women · · Score: 1

    I choose female 'cause I don't wanna watch a guys fanny all day... I'm not gonna be all 'gross, a guys ass' but if I have to have it constantly in view, I want it to be pleasing to look at....

    pixles or no.

  14. Re:Deadlier? I say- Neutered! on Germs Taken Into Space May Come Back Deadlier · · Score: 1

    yes, yes it does.. and I'm confabulated... I can't figure why this should be... it seems contrary to what I've believed....

  15. Deadlier? I say- Neutered! on Germs Taken Into Space May Come Back Deadlier · · Score: 0

    The likely cause: In microgravity the force of fluids passing over the cells is low, similar to conditions in the gastrointestinal tract, and the cells adapted quickly to the new environment."
    Ok.. so the cells adapted to microgravity, and likely LOST the ability to deal with full gravity scenarios..... THUS, on return- they will not be able to function in full gravity.. as their 'evolution' while in space didn't require it...

    YES- they may be deadly WHILE in space- as they adapt quicker than the mammals-- but they should be far less deadly on their return

  16. so-- where is the problem.... on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    I mean- that's like saying warm and toasty are different...

    I mean, why else did all the guys call me homosexual in school? My mommy always said that-- OH NO! they weren't just commenting on my peachy keen smile & can do attitude? oh damn!

  17. No, but you have a choice on Suit Seeks 'A La Carte' TV Channel Choices · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you can go to a park with per ride admissions, or to a park with all day admissions.
    and you have a choice.

    I am juste olde enough to remember pinning myself at Disneyland CA with the cute pins and my ticket to indicate having an all day pass-- as opposed to paying per ride... but-- I don't have to go to disneyland... I can go to the local carnival....

    furthermore, amusement parks don't have governmental granted monopolies over a certain geographical area.
    Businesses with Gov granted exclusive privleges by god do need clamping down/regulations.. or they will certainly run rampant... and this goal has no real hurdles, other than the desires for a fat bottom line on the part of the corps.
    nothing else... and if the 'people' grant them the exclusive privlege of serving the 'people' then the 'people' should be able to place limits on what they get..

  18. and the euro is winning-- i on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1

    in part cause the DEA got $500.00 bills quashed years ago...

    I knew I'd read this before- and I found details readily.. multiple sources exist,
    this is a good one from 2004
    http://slate.com/id/2111504/

    "But among a subset of global cash connoisseurs, the dollar is losing ground to the euro--"

    "Finally, in the past two years, euros have also become easier to carry, store, and hide than dollars. Generally, the largest denomination of U.S. currency readily available is the $100 bill. But in the past two years, the European Central Bank has started to print 200-euro and 500-euro bills. These larger bills thus allow for the concentration of wealth in smaller packages. At today's rates, a 500-euro note is worth $682."

  19. Ahem- you are wrong on one important fact. on Americans Giving Up Social Life for the Web · · Score: 2, Funny

    while they silcone forms may be superior
    http://realdoll.com/faq.asp#silicone
    they aren't life!

  20. Wow.. on End of Moore's Law in 10-15 years? · · Score: 1

    I never knew EXXON manufactured CARS

  21. And if you largely stay domestic? on Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy · · Score: 1

    I have two comcast commercial accounts at locations about 20 miles apart.

    4 hops apart-- all inside comcast...

    80% of my traffic is from a permanent vpn from each location to the other.

    in your situation- would they allow as this doesn't hit your cap? especially as ALL the traffic is within your ISP's network?

  22. Re:Bizarre legal argument on City Fights Blogger On Display of Public Information · · Score: 1

    Umm.. forms can be and are copyrightable.
    I can create a form with text, that enables any number of processes to be handled well.
    Unless it's graph paper... it's unique, and creative works.

  23. ten year old science fiction--Einsteins Bridge on Robotic Presence For a Telecommuter · · Score: 1
  24. Hello my name is CAGGATATATATATGG on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 1

    I suggest, why bother keeping names at all if mispellings are such a hardship...

    let me walk into the "******" ministry and identify my self with a cell sample.. it's just so much easier then!

  25. Consider hotel soap... on 54% of CEOs Dissatisfied With Innovation · · Score: 1

    Motels did not use to have soap in the rooms.

    Imagine today, a hotel that didn't offer little bars of soap.

    that's an innovation, that only COST money..
    and continues to do so today...

    is it a bad innovation or a necassary one?