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  1. Re:A point to note on Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary · · Score: 1

    This was published in the book "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi. While charlie may have professed to be at that level it is less clear of other church members would have agreed with him... I myself know nothing about the specifics of this cult (excuse me, church) -- I am just relaying what was observed about charlie shortly after his arrest. That said I do find it interesting that a mass murderer chose that cult as the best match for him...

  2. Re:A point to note on Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary · · Score: 1

    Remember that Charlie Manson considered himself "Theta Clear" in Scientology. He was a great proponent of that "Religion".

  3. Re:Creepy -- and SAD on Honda's Answer To the Segway · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More evidance that we are just too fat. We need this like we need another McDonalds on the next corner. Our feet are also "designed to be small, safe and unobtrusive enough to mingle with pedestrians or use indoors",

  4. Re:sigh on NH Man Arrested for Videotaping Police · · Score: 1
    Wow - I wonder if the NSA has recorded anything in nashua NH?
    • The statute clearly states that *any* recording or intercept of telecommunication or oral communication without the express consent of all parties is at least a misdemeanor.
  5. Re:When wormbots go bad... on Wormbot Crawls Through Your Intestines · · Score: 1

    Ouch, battery ACID for blood!

  6. Re:He's going to be waiting a long time on NSA Spying Comes Under Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    And just how would you know that Bush is just going after international communications? IIRC Gonzales did not "rule out" domestic survelance. As far as what is new about this, Bush has sidestepped FISA court. If Clinton had a tap with no court order, he should be in just as much hot water as Bush.

  7. Re:Heads should roll! on NSA Spying Comes Under Attack · · Score: 1

    How about starting a war against a nation that post no clear and present danger to the US of A. Misuse of the military would certainly be an impeachable offense. GWB has been a disaster for the long term health our nation -- if not the entire world.

  8. Re:He's going to be waiting a long time on NSA Spying Comes Under Attack · · Score: 1
    If the conservatives in their air conditioned, leather upholstered, sound proofed SUV's would understand the following:

    • Sometime in the future, there will be a democrat as president (maybe 2008 maybe later...).
    • Said president will have the wiretapping tool that Bush so nicely gave him (her?)

    Now observe the horror on their faces! Paying attention now?
  9. wow - new definition of recursion... on Your Thoughts Are Your Password · · Score: 1

    "I'm having a bad day at work, can't even log in!"

  10. Re:Wait... IP addresses in links on Most Web Users Unable to Spot Spyware · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, IMHO its better that folks should know that there are drunks on the road or other hazards that can harm them instead of simply believing that wearing a seat belt is a 100% sure fire forcefield from trouble.

    Your point is that my comment should not have been made because people should be blissfully unaware? Nice.

  11. Re:Wait... IP addresses in links on Most Web Users Unable to Spot Spyware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For sites that direct your browser to an IP address URL this hosts file does nothing. (http://123.22.33.44/grabyoubytheshorthairs.php)

  12. Re:Messages in bottles. on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    I have a similar setup - but within the comcast domain. However, I relay all my outgoing mail thruogh comcast's smtp server (have to because they block outgoing port 25 access) so the receiving system's smtp servers see the mail as coming from a comcast network. I don't seem to lose things with this setup. Is it possible for your personal mail server to do this with your ISP's server too?

  13. Re:Unfucking possible. on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1

    By your definition, George Bush should be nowhere near elected office either. He failed at every "Job" he ever had and took lots of investors dollars on the way. Born rich, fed with silver spoon from the start, never "worked hard" a day in his life and the first year of his presidency? 40% of the time he was on vacation! The only way he has any money of his own was because he was handed the Texas Rangers baseball team on a platter.

    Ted is no poster child for middle america but what we have in the white house now is driving this nation straight into the ground. Bush is the poster child of the idiocy of the electorate.

  14. Re:Star Trek Voice Command light switch on Is Insteon Better than X10 for Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    And its even on SALE!

  15. Re:Why you let the citizens arm on Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press · · Score: 1

    Anyone know how many injuries/deaths occur to:

    1) intruders shot by someone protecting themselves

    2) gun owner shot by their own weapon

    3) victim of a gun stolen from a gun owner and used elsewhare to commit a crime?

    I have suspicians that 2 and 3 far outnumber 1 but have not seen stats to back this up.

  16. Re:Great! on Cassini Finds Evidence of Water · · Score: 1

    Water? How many bazillion miles from the sun? Organic molecules to boot?

    Time to go ice fishing!

  17. Re:Whatever: subscribers revolt? on AOL Won't Budge on Email Tax · · Score: 1

    Then the AOL subscribers, who attempt to use the net for well established purposes, will stop receiving emails from some sources -- like vendors or lists. They will probably walk when this starts to happen. The subscribers will drive AOL's actions much more than letter writing campaigns.

  18. Re:Who'd have guessed? on Google Windows Apps Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    So google is starting to release apps -- apps that alot of users like. They release them on windows, and THEN release them on a non-microsoft OS. Should Mr Gates start getting nervous?

  19. Re:I BUILT my first computers ... on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1

    My Dad and I build an Altair and an Imsai. The Altair was crap quality-wise compared to the Imsai but both worked. I remember toggling in simple machine code programs to do thinks like my the front panel lamps pan left/right -- like a cylon.

    Eventually, the IMSAI got floppy drive(s), serial port, and close to a FULL 64k of RAM. I also built a serial terminal kit that drove a monochrome monitor and a kit built keyboard for the UI.

    Because of my machine code experience here, when I got to college and bought a TI-99/4a machine, I had to start working on that in assembler. Lotsa fun!

  20. Re:not that you'd want to... Even more options: on Building a Linux Home Media Center · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the media is already on a linux backend server? Why not cable the video/audio from the backend to your tv/audio amp and run the frontend on the same system? Savings includes electric power and the $360 he spent on the box.

    There is another solution, one that provides access to video and audio data and plays on a TV via 100Mbit ent, hauppauge media mvp ($40 on sale at Radio Shack). The open source project mvpmc.org provides access to mythtv recordings and to other mpeg video and mp3 audio data on your server. Reasonable user interface, extreme small form factor, low power consumption, quite a nice box that appears to do nearly everything the author talks about. Also has a fully functional remote control, a VNC client and a slimp3 player!

  21. Re:Huh? on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 1
    • Yes. It seems, in retrospect, the evidence was wrong. It is also speculation reported as news when we are told he lied about them in order to go into Iraq for one or more of the following: Christian Holy War, oil, racism against Middle-Easterners, finish what his father started, or being a Republican.


    But... along with the total lack of validation any of his stated reasons for STARTING A WAR, other people (like Richard Clark) say that Bush was talking about taking a poke at Iraq just after 9/11. Bush started a war that plunged us into near isolation in the world against a country that in actuality posed no threat to us! I don't know of a more dumbass move that a president can make than that. When Bush started to rattle the sabre at Saddam, Saddam let the inspectors back in. I was all for this. Clinton could not manage to keep the inspectors there. But -- when the status quo was what Bush's father had setup (inspections to keep Saddam under control) George W could not leave well enought alone and had to start a war. People seem to keep saying that the alternative to war was do nothing. Well, we (and the rest of the world) were sure as hell not doing nothing. The inspectors were on the ground and telling us that we needed to let the inspections complete. What the hell with Bush's hurry?

    All the evidence points to Bush just wanting (for whatever reason you want from the list you stated above) to attack. His agenda is not transparent. Our government was setup with checks and balances. If Bush wants to have a hidden agenda, that is his choice but our constitution was built to provide adequate oversight. The thought of him spying on all of us without anyone looking over his shoulders gives me the willies.

    We must have court orders for wiretaps, period.
  22. Re:My S100 8080 had star trek sound effects! on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    My IMSAI 8080 S100 system used to have phaser and warp drive sound effects. No sound card -- way to hard. Just set an AM radio next to the machine while playing the game and tune so you can hear the RF broadcasting off the bus. Actually sounded similar to the effects on the star trek show!

  23. Re:The PATRIOT Act works on Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension · · Score: 1

    If I am not mistaken, the number of entries per hear appears to be going up. Anti-Terror efforts seem to be having an undesired effect.

  24. Re:New "species" of "mammal"? Hair? on New Mammal Species Found in Borneo · · Score: 1

    What does the hair look like? What about the hips?

    Elvis?

  25. Re:Could this be a thin client computer? on Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back · · Score: 1

    Hauppauge Media MVP. This works great as a media client - S-video out to the TV and a remote control. I use it as a client of a MythTV server. The MVP also has a rudementary VNC viewer and a slimp3 client as well when you boot the open source MVPMC code. No keyboard, but for streaming media this is a good solution. On closeout sale a Radio Shack for $40. Checkout http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main