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  1. Re:AOL support for this is huge. on Sender-ID Back From The Dead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Guys, don't worry, remember that MS can't fight open source. There are too many ways around them. No matter what license they use, or what fee they charge, you make make some kind of module or plugin under that license. If they do have a license that comes out and says you can't have it interoperate with open source, then it will be obvious that they aren't playing fair. They will be openly stating it themselves. They will have no room to blame open source.

  2. Re:Whaaaaa! on Online Game Event Sparks Player Riot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, no one does, you neo-colonialist!

  3. Re:Ancient Egypt? on Online Game Event Sparks Player Riot · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "This is what drives me crazy about feminists. They'll rant and rave about a model making $50K for appearing in a swimsuit in a beer ad being "exploited", but are *silent* about the so-dehuminizing-its-absurd treatment of women in most Islamic socities, including those subgroups in the U.S> "

    Which feminists are you talking about? Feminists are about the only group that routinely complain about the treatment of women in muslim societies. If you don't believe me, take a course at your local uni or talk to an actual feminist, not some woman you know complaining about models.

  4. Re:Genomes? on Human Gene Count Slashed · · Score: 1

    I think it's more accurate to say there are 0 genomes in (as in inside) the human genome. Unless, there really are other genomes inside the human genome.

  5. Re:The BBS on 7 hour BBS Documentary Nearly Ready · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, and they will take forever to download at 14k!

  6. It's not the OS, it's the apps... on If Windows Came to PPC, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1

    OK, so what if MS put windows on PPC? Are the vendors of all the apps you're going to use comile for the PPC platform? Does the C# and .Net mumbo-jumbo nullify this?

  7. Videomach on Free Video Software For The Volcanocam Team? · · Score: 1
    I've used Videomach to make timelapse movies from various webcams on the web. It can combine .jpgs into a variety of video formats.

    Also, it's free for non-commercial use.

  8. Re:Killer App: Pets on Genetically-Modified Everything · · Score: 2, Informative
    Acutally, there probably wasn't much breeding going on. If you look at an African Wildcat, they pretty much look like cats (compare dogs and wolves). They are about the size of a fully grown house cat.

    Some anthopologists speculate that the cats hung around the graineries, because that's where the rodents were. Gradually people and cats got used to each other. I, for one, don't think cats are particularly domesticated.

  9. Re: Possible uses? on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 1

    How can I find out where I can get things cryo treated? (I'm in Columbus, OH)

  10. Re:Yeah... on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Let me get this straight.

    You can understand why "corporations" would lie to you to sell you a "product", but when news corporations lie to you to sell you a news product with the exact same motivation , they should go to jail?!

    You, sir, value accurate information above all. You truly are a geek.

  11. Re:The Net Effect.... on Computer Networking First-Step · · Score: 1

    ... while you vent your frustration in passive/agressive ways (posting messages about your boss on internet BBSs where s/he'll never read them) using verbose and redundant ('off-topic','obliquely related') language.

  12. Double negative? on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Diebold "wrongfully abused" The DMCA act? Does that mean that they used it properly?

  13. This could be good... on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If they steer away from the Save the Universe Big Deal stuff, and get into the nitty-gritty underworld of an entire galaxy. I enjoyed the Han Solo trilogy because they were something of a noir detective series -- a smuggler struggling to make it with only his wits. And Kevin Smith has already shown that he's concerned with some of the details of the SW universe (contractors on the Death Star). This might work out.

    Just show more Mos Eisleys, Death Stick Dealers, smugglers in crappy starships, malfunctioning droids, bounty hunters, weird aliens...

  14. Re:Speech Recognition is a Mature Technology. on Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source · · Score: 3, Funny
    Because it's hard to get a computer to wreck a nice beach

    Ba-dum-dum ding!

  15. Re:Full size sensor on Canon's new 16.7MP Digital SLR, with WiFi · · Score: 1

    A few questions: What does noise look like on photographs? What causes noise when you take photographs? Why are digitals better at handling noise?

  16. Re:US votes? on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    He hasn't used cocaine in the past 25 years, IIRC from the first presidential campaign he ran.

  17. Re:US votes? on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 3, Informative
    I am for impeaching Bush over 9/11. Remember, an impeachment is just an investigation, as we learned in recent years. 9/11 is much more serious than an affair.

    In any case, I expect Bush to be able to stand on his own. The fact that he couldn't face the comission on his own two feet (metaphorically) that he is not in charge. He is not a leader.

    Here is your reference to Bush saying that God speaks through him: Intelligencer Journal and the Lancaster New Era, on July 16, 2004. . Here's the Lancaster Online archive. It requires Javascript.

    I don't care about Bush's personal beliefs. I only care about the constituencies he panders to when he creates policies for our country.

    Why would you vote for this failure again? He blew the war on terror before 9/11 and brought us into Iraq solely as the behest of his neo-con buddies in their quest for world domination, while claiming it was related to the war on terror. He hasn't come clean about his national guard record, nor his history of drug use. While Kerry was fighting in Vietnam, he was having Senior pull strings to get him out of his military obligation. Hasn't he demonstrated to you that he is unfit to lead our country?

  18. Re:US votes? on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "Kerry said of himself that when he learned of the attacks, he sat frozen for over a half hour.".

    He wasn't exactly commander in chief at the time, you know.

  19. Re:US votes? on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 3, Interesting
    "If Bush wins both the popular and electoral votes in November then what will you find to complain about?"

    His stupidity, his inane policies, his inability to lead (needed Cheney with him at 9/11 comission hearings, was paralysed when informed of WTC attacks), his religious delusions of granduer ("God speaks through me"), his alienation of the US from the world community, his simplistic black/white view of the world ("You're either with us, or against us"), his occasional grammatical gaffes...

  20. Re:Humans have acute sense of smell, too on Rescue Rats to Find Buried Victims · · Score: 1
    Receptors are in the nasal cavity. Dogs kind of cheat, because they have theirs on their wet noses, hanging out in the air. In order to compete on the same level, you would have to somehow suck the air through your mouth up into your nasal cavity. (Maybe a pump on your nostrils?)

    Then, take patches of couch cushion and shove it up into your nasal canal until you get a positive ID. steve too.

  21. Re:Humans have acute sense of smell, too on Rescue Rats to Find Buried Victims · · Score: 1
    Did you miss the part about our sense of smell being inside the mouth? That's why you don't want to open your mouth when it stinks. Dogs have more receptors, sure, but many people think that people are 'smell-blind'. Which isn't the case.

    Dogs basically have their sense of smell on the outside of their wet noses. I'm sure that if people could set lightly touched objects against their olfactory receptors inside the nasal cavities, we could tell who had touched things, too.

  22. Re:Humans have acute sense of smell, too-Hind-sigh on Rescue Rats to Find Buried Victims · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, you're moniker is anonymous coward.

  23. Humans have acute sense of smell, too on Rescue Rats to Find Buried Victims · · Score: 1
    I was reading somewhere that human's sense of smell is just as accurate as a dog's or rat's. The thing is that our nose filters out most of the chemicals. But what we normally call our sense of taste is actually primarily smell. The tongue only senses sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. The rest of the 'taste experience' is the sense of smell, provided by the chemicals wafting up to the nasal cavities in the back of the mouth.

    So you could smell stuff as good as a dog, if you want to put it in your mouth.

  24. Re:Classic question on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Can't be. If you're a virgin and you give/recieve fellatio, you're still a virgin. Only intercourse is sex.

  25. First CG movie on The Last Starfighter--The Musical! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Last Starfighter was the first move with CG special effects. The plot is that an arcade video game is a training simulator for starfighter pilots, and one was accidentally sent to earth. Very geeky ;)