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  1. Re:TTOTD on Sites or Software for a Budding Typist? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:In the future... on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: 1
  3. you are just flat out wrong... on Mars Rover Opportunity Still Stuck In a Dune · · Score: 1

    and here's my best argument

    100X more efficiently?

    How much mass, do we have to get into orbit, to get a man to mars and back...

    how much mass, do we have to get into orbit, to drop a rover on the surface of mars one-way?

    add that to your efficiency calculations, and get back to me...

  4. Re:DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?! on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I listened to the dialogue, in those movies, and you are trying to tell me

    those weren't robots?

  5. Tivo Series two, & VPN on MPAA Cracking Down on TV Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    Tivos HMO allows moving a show from one tivo to another.

    I put my moms (charlotte) network into mine (NJ) with a VPN connection, and they can move shows (ALBEIT VERY SLOWLY) from one unit to the other.

  6. Re:It's coming. on Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that's wholly accurate.

    The reason I'd be USA centric, is we are SO VERY BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLD when it comes to cell phone tech, and I'd be suprised to find symbian phones hold that high a percentage in the US.

    Further, I would be suprised to find 'everyone is flipping' there phone that fast.

    I own a kyocera 7135 currently had one for 2-3 years, and had two different kyoceras (sprint, then verizon) in the 6035 flavor before

    Lastly, are you sure symbian was the first snartphone aside from the two nokias you mention?

    the Qulacomm's pdQ (6035 predecessor) was out in, what, 1999? do you know when the first symbian phone was? I admit I do not, and can't find a timeline...

    I find the following
    "Symbian Ltd: History
    Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998 and is" and wonder if they had there first phone out before palm smart phones were available...

  7. Re:Arbitrary marketing decision on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    Mobile, Embedded, Server, Pro, Home, Starter, Handheld......What else?

    Media center
    Virtual PC
    Professional X64
    Tablet
    server 2003
    server 2003 small business
    server 2003 x64
    windows Plus!
    um, plus service pack versions,
    that's all since XP originally released timeline

  8. Re:It's coming. on Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod · · Score: 1

    those are worldwide statistics.

    I'd be suprised to find symbian has 61% of the US market.

    Further, it's worth noting, that's percentages of what shipped in that year, it does not account for existing devices currently in the hands of end users.

  9. Re:Consider please, the current president... on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    No, I'm not.. although according to my sought out rebuttal source, there is a republican faction "Libertarians" that is distinct from the libertarian party.

    I'm referring to republicans from perhaps a generation ago--although I can not find an on=line citation.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factions_in_the_Repub lican_Party_(United_States)

  10. Re:pc possible today on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 1

    Wrong type of data loss..
    I'm not talking about "the only copy" I'm talking about "any copy"

    and I'm sorry, it was Wells Fargo, not BOA that had a laptop stolen.
    THEN ANOTHER ONE
    http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040417/n ews_lz1ed17middle.html
    the laptops contained THOUSANDS of customer records on the local hard drive.

    Why?
    proper security should mean data is not on an removeable, insecure machine. it should be backed up and remote always....

  11. a great read on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    Ecotopia ERNEST CALLENBACH

    California secedeing is what it's all about.

    sequel is ok.. original is great

  12. You are *already* required to identify yourself wh on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    You are *already* required to identify yourself when you board a plane

    Umm.. hmmm.. really?

    http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000686.html

    http://archives.californiaaviation.org/airport/msg 22780.html

  13. I belive it's simple on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    IF you want highway money from the fed gov.
    you must do what the fed requires re; ID

  14. Re:I feel so sorry for you Americans on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    so if he rapes you, you can't win civil damages..

    and you are ok with that?

    Lawsuits are for judges to dismiss if silly.

    they are also tools when other methods of recourse fail..

    We can't all be individuals with 'faint awareness of surroundings' that get an act of congresss together by name requiring a (by the way) door to be opened for court cases in federal courts.

    tell me-- congress ASKED for that bogging down...

    lawsuits, civil or criminal, can right wrongs.. and even if your interperation is correct, is bad policy.

  15. Consider please, the current president... on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I beileve he'd get a law in the works that promised milk and honey for the nation, repealed all income taxes, made every treehugger happy, and included the national ID law...

    and then, line item veto all but the last.

    'real' republicans are for non-governmental interference in business small & Large, and non-influence over our daily lives..

    I can't believe old, rich, die-hard republicans don't really hate bush & his take on republican politics... it's not what their view used to be.

  16. I'm subject to US income tax, for life... on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    I believe, under US law, that is an absolute..

    is there any circumstance, where an american, living abroad, is not required to file taxes?

  17. Re:Started the shooting?? on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I see, so by your logic, we should still be (largely) an english colony, as the founding fathers had no 'legal right' to rebel?

  18. How hard is it, on 32-bit to 64-bit - Obsolesence Pains Again? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    without knowing the form the x99986 processor will take, to, while coding for 64bit, to leave room for 128 bit. (I have no idea of the practicality myself)

    got a program that will still be around in five years? telnet client? something?

    great... whilst coding it for 64 bit, leave room for another bit, so in five years, you can 'turn it on' and be that much ahead of the game.

  19. Re:pc possible today on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 1

    [I] Be an effective remote terminal. You can carry it around for an hour or a day, and, within a few minutes, all relevent changes can be transfered. You can take it to the coffee house, sync to .Mac, and by the time you get back home, your big machine can be updated. [/I}

    Sync? screw sync-- I do it live. OP suggested transferring changes to a machine elsewhere, I suggest, RUN THE MACHINE ELSEWHERE from remote.

    All my data is at HOME, not possible to lose due to mugging/leaving in a taxi....

    I can't lose any of it.

    (ya know how BOA lost a laptop with thousands of customer files on it? why-? why aren't these laptops just massively secure thin clients- if needed in the field where wifi is not available- freaking tie them to a cell phone.

  20. pc possible today on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At my work, I'm the IT guy..

    I convinced my boss, allowing the staff web access was a good idea.

    we bought a 3com router, that has an url allow list, and we can list 30 domains that are reachable, the rest of the internet is not.

    I don't have to unlock my desk to use it, I use mstsc.exe (aka remote desktop) to pull up my computer at home (running xp pro) and do everything off of it.

    I can print locally.

    I can save locally.

    I can print at home.
    I can save to my pc at home

    I walk in the door at either place, and pull up the exact desktop I was working out when I walked out the door on the other end.

    I can do this with my smartpanel from across the parking lot, or my pocket PC at a starbucks- or even on my cell phone....

    think about it, for a $300.00 NEC mobile pro from ebay, a 30$ wifi card, I have a 800X600 windows ce machine that runs for 4-8 hours, and the machine powering the display IS my home PC....

    why do I need a laptop? I'm running my home machine- anywhere a broadband connection is available to me...

    I can even do it from a Dell Axim@ 640X480.

    (if I owned one.)

  21. Re:Need a preview on iTunes Music Store Sells Videos · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nas Ne Dogonyat.

    and they weren't in their late teens,
    fifteen and fourteen when they made the video.

    pervert...

    (I liked them too, I have family in eastern europe, and a large group of lithuanian friends, I've heard a lot of it in russian before they had english songs)

  22. Re:Turkish Delight Isn't All That Good (with recip on Chronicles of Narnia Trailer · · Score: 1

    until today, I always assumed the kidney portion of that name referred to kidney beans..

    'scuse me whilst I go outside to hurl at my newfound knowledge....

  23. Agreemsg on Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets · · Score: 1
  24. so like, on Printing (Big) Manuals? · · Score: 1

    the bible?

    Thank you, I'll be here til Tuesday,

    Try the veal!

  25. Re:Hunting is NECESSARY on Internet Hunting Banned in California · · Score: 1

    I'm not anti-hunting.. don't participate, don't mind if others do it.. (for what it's worth, I've eaten plenty of game that neighbors or friends have had at hand)

    I agree, that if the trees get cutdown, the population pressures can readily demand a reduction of the herd..

    the real question is, do all the trees gotta be cut down?

    (seen bush's desire to give states the decision of allowing roads in national parks? do you know how many trees a logging company can get if montana allows 1 road per 10 sq miles of park? me neither, but I know the loggers are slobbering at the thought of their ability to take old growth trees from the park being in the hands of their governor, instead of the national parks dept.)