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  1. Re:Dirty tricks are bad form on What Dirty Tricks Did You Use for April Fool's? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but, your sister has died...

    oh- hold on a second!!!

  2. Re:Ok, here's what you do on Work Samples and the Non-Disclosure Agreement? · · Score: 1

    think about it.. he's signed a
    "I HAVE NOTHING" NDA on his way out..
    and you want him to send samples of the very content covered by the contract he signed to the ex employer?

    sheya! that'll go over VERY WELL

  3. death AND taxes on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    die young, real young.....

  4. Re:Not enough on ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's · · Score: 4, Informative

    and indeed, research public dns servers some time.

    you'll find there are MANY alternate tld schemes, including one which was using .biz- and that got destroyed by icann..

    http://support.open-rsc.org/.servers/
    You can freely use any of these servers instead of your ISP's nameservers if you want to be able to see ALL the domain names on the net, not just the ones in the US Government controlled nameservers. You will, of course be able to see all the "old" domain names like .com, but you'll also be able to see all the ORSC new top level domains, too. If you need instructions on how to use these please see
    for one example.

  5. You ninny on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    that's reimbursement of costs..

    Ever buy something for work? and turn in the receipts for reimbursement?
    same thing- coupla orders of magnatude higher.

    sometimes, executives own power toys, and rent them to work, and turn in the receipts for payback.

    Know what operating a personal jet runs?

    It's not a scam, (although it can be abused) but they have to justify the expense to stockholders, and the value for services rendered-

    ever try to book 8 seats leaving in the next 4 hours to destination X on a major airline?

    yeah, there are times when large, mulitnational corporations can justify the expense of a private jet hire.. if it happens to be owned by an exec, that's ok too-- proabbably makes it easier to arrange :)

  6. lego catalog is chock full on Water Spectacular in Episode III? · · Score: 1

    of sith goodness. including sith stuff..

    including general ?devious?- who wields (I SHIT YOU NOT) 4 lightsabers! and looks like a battle droid...

    there is a water vehicle in there with treads wrapped around the body
    some kinda beach lander... but I didn't see any vehichles that seem deigned for underwater scenes....

  7. i have some purchases tp make there tommorow on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    and I'm stopping at the bank for 'change' first!

  8. Re:It's not that simple... on Indian Call Center Employees Hack US Bank Accounts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1st of all, Osama and crew are funded just fine, they don't need your piddly thousands per account scam to pay for their efforts...

    if you DON'T outsource- aren't you still giving people who have no connection with your customers their private information?

    C'mon, it doesn't matter if the call center is in bangalore or in tampa bay, what matters is the legal hoops required to get it back/make reparations...

    remember the afghanni woman who had been hired as a medical transcriptionist but not paid for her work? and threatened to make US citizens medical records public? she wasn't breaking any afghanni law, and she had NO OTHER RECOURSE for recompse for her labors.. (and good for her) the only real bonuses to outsourcing can be mitigated by differing laws, and the ability to 'seek damages' internationally...

    These kinds of (employee, white collar) thefts occur.
    The fact that it was overseas should not make it /. newsworthy unless there was some amusing or technical quirk in international law that made it newsworthy.. I see nothing however, in the headline, any different than a NY times biz blurb about any other fradulent scheme at a major us corp..

  9. don't bother on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 1

    "penis size"
    does not work.
    nor does
    'name' "breast size"

  10. it's funny-- I read where it said "the link has on TiVo Buys Six New Patents From IBM · · Score: 2, Funny

    little further information"
    and immediately checked to see if it had been submitted to /. by roland pipquille

  11. Re:you are right, but have the wrong example/reaso on Gene Therapy Ages Human Cancer Cells in Lab · · Score: 1

    uhuh, and,

    re-read what I wrote.
    1st part. I was talking about a situation in which the status quo is no longer.

    yse, CURRENTLY, we can support all these problems.
    let's say, 40% of the population cannot survive or reproduce without current medical technologies.
    (40% completely pulled outta my ass)

    Now, have a nuclear war, yellowstone erupts, sars, that leaves a community of 300 total people alive in one small town, in Montana USa, or treblinski, (made up) Russia

    now, of that 300, some will be too old to reproduce.. in montana I'd guess better than half... so that leaves 150 folks of breeding age to repopulate the planet. 40 percent of them, (60) will not survive without the medical technology necassary to keep them alive or childbearing..

    so- from 300 survivors, you get 90 breeders.
    by denying reproductive capability to those who can't survive without access to self-supported medical care, you get instead 150 breeders.

    2nd half- your statement we benefit more from our brain power and social constructs than we do from having stronger, fitter bodies. how many people are employed taking care of those who are weak and sick? Nurses, orderlies, families taking care of those who can't fend for themselves.... how many people does it really take to care for the children of a downes syndrome couple? how much MORE benefit could we derive from those medical workers doing something else with their technical skills?

    How many lives are spent, how many dollars are spent, enabling the care of such? how better might those resources be used?

  12. Re:you are right, but have the wrong example/reaso on Gene Therapy Ages Human Cancer Cells in Lab · · Score: 1

    where did I say we are overpopulated?

    that was never mentioned by me.

  13. Re:you are right, but have the wrong example/reaso on Gene Therapy Ages Human Cancer Cells in Lab · · Score: 1

    the average is always 100- even if the scale hasn't been revaluated, 100 iq is "average"

    how do you define poor?

    high birthrate is another survival mechanism, because in TRULY POOR areas, their is a higher infant mortality rate.

    note that, once again, medical care has unbalanced evolution-with even our (usa) (wildly complained about as insufficient) universal access to medical care for all- high birthrates do equate with more population.

    If medical care were only available in the instances of accidents, (broken legs, auto accidents, assaults) evolution would continue. (except I suppose, evolution for good luck)

    medical ethics are centered entirely on the individual- when they should also consider the community as a whole.

    Diabetic?
    ethics for individuals say- give them insulin.
    ethics for community say- Dachau, Treblinka.
    ethics a little closer balanced for both say, insulin in exchange for sterilization if of breeding age.
    Any chronic condition which can't permit survival without current levels of medical technology- should be withheld- if evolution is what is important.

    if 98% of the population dies, and 50% of the survivors don't have access to the old medical technology, then half the population is useless.

    as to the poor?- if you can't pay for your hospital bill, then medically assisted delivery is always followed by a tubal ligation.

    Brutal? hell yes..
    Necassary-- perhaps.. or we have stopped evolving via natural means...

    we can, soon, have a gattagaesque ability to evolve, but that will only refine, and purify known traits that are considered desirable.

    Very little opportunity to actually have sustainable 'sports' appear on the horizon then.

  14. you are right, but have the wrong example/reason on Gene Therapy Ages Human Cancer Cells in Lab · · Score: 1
    that's selecting for a different set of abilities, also made available through genetics.

    the ability to make money is a survival ability, as it allows you to support a family and so on- through multiple generations if you are a rockafeller or a hilton...

    Where evolution has halted for h.sap is that we medically cure/treat many conditions that would have died out but for modern medication..

    postapocolyptic war, the same skillset that enables a weak business man to amass a personal fortune can also allow him to amass a food supply.. But a hemophilliac, diabetic, or woman who can only give birth by c-section due to hip placement, all are going to die from lack of 'current' levels of medical care.. - that's where natutral selection has been destroyed, medical care for chronic issues that lacking such care would die out...

  15. Nobody cares on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares if an "experimental" drone is shot out of the sky (or swatted at the picnic table.

    so many answers....

    How about it's mother?
    (ha-ha)

    how about it's inventor?
    (especially if it's the end of the DOD due to a lucky shot)

    how about it's user?
    (imagine, you go military, and get to play with this kinda hardware- hell, that's whattid cause me to sign up- excellent hardware toys- and you lose it, it's like losing a great laptop)

    budget freaks
    (how do we spend X billion a month there anyway)

  16. Re:But is it... on IPTV Revolution Put on Hold · · Score: 1

    ya know.. that has got to be the SKIMIPIEST pair of webpages I've ever seen for something that expects recurring fees of my entertainment dollar.

    Why can't the include a 'now listed' near complete movies list instead of 5 headliners, (that aren't all headliners)

    there is no real explanation of the method used to play movies... it's-- predisposed to failure- cause it's just NOTHIN THERE... I could even make better webpages, and I suck at making webpages.. but I've cruised porn free trials..-

  17. Re:Directed by.. on 'Transformers' Live Action Movie from DreamWorks? · · Score: 1

    you mean minerva?
    http://terrania.us/minerva/#whominerva

    oh- she's a car... right.. sorry- nevermind

  18. wifi detector, the canary on What Can You Do With $100? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with SSID detection
    http://www.canarywireless.com/
    leaves half your cash in pocket.

  19. Re:SCO License on What Can You Do With $100? · · Score: 1
    wouldn't that be 5.99 friends?
    and aren't personal licenses 199
    meaning you need .99 friends?

    sniff.

  20. Re:and its only half the machine too! on NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record · · Score: 1

    to look at porn 30 thousand times faster than you or I can....

  21. UWB on How to Protect Radio Signals Over Short Distances? · · Score: 1

    ultra-wideband
    supposed to sound like static
    only readable/interpertable if you know exactly what you are looking for.

  22. Re:Honest question .. on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS · · Score: 1

    and if you ask for your free copy of the source code?

    (also part of the GPL)

  23. Re:The picotux is actually smaller than the gumsti on World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack · · Score: 1

    Chewbacca is a member of OSWEA

  24. Re:As expected? on Ars Technica Builds Make Magazine's Steadicam · · Score: 1

    I'm bothered by that...
    I do a lot of editing of my home movies.
    Most of the shots I'm personally in are
    me & the boy in the back yard
    howeverm I work at it, and research, and even scoured this topic for tidbits.

    I even do simultaneous shots from different persepctives for the video in video overlay

    I'm sorry, Dad in the backyard with the kids, is not the entry level (imho) of where bad video begins...

  25. Re:Cell Phone (Action/Adventure) Games Are Terribl on John Carmack's Cell Phone Adventures · · Score: 1

    Most carrier subsidies are a lot more than 100$ for locked v. unlocked phones...