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  1. Re:Medium Data Rate better than Zero Data Rate. on US Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictatorships · · Score: 1

    Speaking of flexibility (some rate is better than none), the area of using the troposphere has improved. It just gives one more means to fling data (just not at sat. rates).

    http://www.militaryaerospace.com/index/display/article-display/5580772754/articles/military-aerospace-electronics/online-news-2/2010/12/army-orders_long-range.html

  2. Re:Simpler, low-tech internet on US Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictatorships · · Score: 1

    We'll duh', Rosco is an exhibitionist. He WANTS everybody else to see.

  3. Re:Ambivlance on HBGary Federal Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Calm and measured commentary. What's wrong with the internet today? "Everyman envisages eloquent effigy."

  4. Re:Sigh on HBGary Federal Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Ensign Spigot: Sir! I've been tracing slashdot like you've assigned.
    Admiral Bigguns: Spit it out..
    Ensign Spigot: Well, it seems somebody has noticed a mistake they've made and gone back to correct themselves.
    Admiral Bigguns: Not good ... I didn't expect to see these signs yet. We better get operation FIDOSMUT off the ground.

    Admiral Bigguns: Ensign ... why are you transcribing our conversation in that submit window?
    Ensign Spigot: Er .. um... You see

  5. Re:I think Madden is schitzo...... on EA Simulation Correctly Picked Super Bowl Champs in September · · Score: 1

    And you have to consider .. what The Pros are REALLY predicting is a spread that will cause the money to be bet half on side and half on the other.

  6. Re:Sloppy Half-circle on Aboriginal Sundial Pre-Dates Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    BTW, Don't listen to those that say it's wind and ice. We're living in a simulation, and when They upgrade the terrain sometimes algorithms that place these stones move these. What happens is, that is a place where two tiles meet and rounding errors get pretty bad there. They says They know about it, but is low probability of it getting fixed. Personally, I agree .. They need to fix the AI first and foremost. Some of the people ... jeez louise, especially there mob/crowd estimation/approximation algos.

  7. Re:Sloppy Half-circle on Aboriginal Sundial Pre-Dates Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    I forgot about those! Thanks. It one of those things that seems simple at first glance , but when you bring your full attention upon it you go WTF? The devil is in the details.

  8. Re:I for one... on RoboEarth Teaches Robots to Learn From Peers · · Score: 1

    Sure ... see fear of computers taking away office jobs! (And at somewhat oblique angle to that, machine guns stopping wars)

    Desk Set (1957)

  9. Re:Wrong take on Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses? · · Score: 1

    I'll buck the institution on the internet, agree, and see your side on this. Everybody has their level of scrutiny they can tolerate. That said, I don't think Thomas Pynchon would like it :)
    (Before somebody corrects me, I know it would require Pynchon posting his image to be a comparable. But what a funny cracked.com article that would be "Thomas Pynchon's Facebook page")

  10. Re:Thomas A. Anderson on New Mexico Bill To Protect Anti-Science Education · · Score: 1

    I'm traveler from another alternate dimension ... selling my boxes of Action Comics #1; overproduced and flopped where I was from. Buying up copies of E.T. for the Atari - which is a rarity and highly prized game back home. Anyways, in our Matrix he took the blue pill and really sucked. But, somehow they fangled in a sequel and it was awesome! And that made them to go on to do a trilogy which definitely lived up to expectations. Unfortunately, in this world they ended up doing a prequel then for the Matrix that totally blew.

    Signed,
    One of Those Time/Dimension Traveler People You Hear About that Should Exist is Time/Dimensional Travel Existed

    p.s. So, yea, you probably guessed about what happened .. but Star Wars .. Lucas had all the money he wanted and nobody shot down the bad ideas. So, it tanked .. and he never went on to make anymore.

  11. Re:Wrong take on Are Flickr Images Abused By Foreign Businesses? · · Score: 1

    I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you grasp what Alphathon is alluding too, e.g. your visage is used in a "Stop Child Porn!" when it was just a shot of you in front of your computer ... Then you must have too much faith in the mob. The common folk will take this picture as gospel and hound you on the street even after it as been proved to be fraudulent and misused.

  12. Re:Playboy isn't Porn on The iPad Will Get Playboy In March · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A while ago, I might have thought same thing (concerning text in Playboy), but they have moved more towards FHM/Maxim. I would say most magazines are like this now (excluding something like Economist). I picked up a March 1984 Popular Science at antique/curios shop; I forgot how much writing there use to be in magazines, and less dumbed down. In Popular Science's defense, they seem to have stayed at a similar level comparing this 1984 issue to say the 2007 iClone issue.

    See for yourself:
    Mini Mac
    iClone

  13. Re:Wow, Apple moves boldy into the 1950's on The iPad Will Get Playboy In March · · Score: 1

    It's been there for while ... RTM!

    curses

  14. Re:Even better on EC Tests Show Windows Vista Is Above Average — At Blocking Content · · Score: 1

    Do not speak His name! He just aquired the Eldritch Killbox.exe, the most powerful program in all existence! Combined with His Button of Restart and the aforementioned Host File of Invisibility .. He possess the ability to take on Death.2012.trj_kern itself!

  15. Re:Ambiguous on Kneber Botnet Strikes, Targets Gov't Agencies · · Score: 0

    Here, Here! Up with parentheses! Parens are your friends!

    Also, since comma meant a slight pause in reading, I always looked at parentheses as a slight lowering/change of the voice (or maybe as "air quotes" (does one put quotes around the word "air quotes"?) .. or maybe as Groucho tapping his cigar).

  16. Re:I have a much more ambitious vision on The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn · · Score: 2

    No form of the Bible (even if you were referring to the Tanakh/Torah) was all inclusive. Books were lost or intentionally not added. There are whole groups that were marginalized (for reasons unprovable by our time). Famous among these groups are a varied bunch labeled as Gnostic,
    some calling themselves Christians, others not.

    I've desperately tried to summarize what Gnostics could have brought to the table, and how it wasn't included in the Bible (for whatever reason ... even as simple as, the Church needed uniformity); but, I could not without being a windbag. A good starter link is:

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

    Also check out the:

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

    And, for the diversity the old testament portion:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Canon#Canons_of_various_Christian_traditions

  17. Re:Not sure it matters on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    If you look CDC's own website (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm), that fear is probably because vaccines for MMR can cause (but extremely rare):

            * Deafness
            * Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
            * Permanent brain damage

  18. Tron gaves us Perlin Noise! on Tron: Legacy — Too Much Imagination Required? · · Score: 1

    I didn't know this until today, but Tron gave us Perlin Noise.

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

    So, thank you Tron for letting me steal code for use in my shaders*.

    * - Shaders (as characters) would be quick and like shape shifters. Weakness would be "injections" to shut them down or bad drivers :). I would say that would make a good plot for Tron, but who am I kidding. As long as Hollywood can get people coming to the theaters with crap stories - especially with "geek" movies. Though, they don't work for me. The only real Transformer movie had Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Eric Idle, and Orson Welles. Oh, and Scatman Crothers.

  19. Re:Goes both ways... on Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    In answer to your questions, I would ask have you ever read "Sophie's World"? I would recommend it if not. While it is brief intro/review of Philo 101 personalities (and I am assuming you have a decent background on that), I am referring to the fictional part of the book. It explores the character/author relationship in a surrealist way.

    If I was going to have a Bible, it would probably be this book with "Good Omens" ... and I guess I would have to append some book with lots violence, incest, rape, some vanilla sex, most of the *cides, etc. in it as well to get it up to Bible standards.

  20. Re:Goes both ways... on Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Dahmer was a bad example for anagama to give. I would say a better would be somebody born into problems (deformities, cancer, etc.) - that person did not get to choose what happened to them, where is the free will in that? Unless you suppose someone chose into whom they would be born (then they are a much stronger person than I for choosing a difficult road). Probably why the thought of rebirth was developed by multiple cultures - for punishing past sin/karma. However, that doesn't soothe me.

    The best take for me (YMMV) has been conflict is needed for motion. Without it, there is no story, no motion. It is a still life. And maybe a some point it will come back to that point, but it will probably shatter again into another collection of personalities.

    "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens"

  21. Re:Goes both ways... on Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    >> sky daddy

    I like to picture Jesus as a figure skater. He wears, like, a white outfit, and He does interpretive ice dances of my life's journey.

  22. Re:Yeah i was thinking about that. on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1

    ... all you have to do is get your eardrums punctured.

    I can lend you this Justin Bieber CD I found in a paper bag on my doorstep.

    I assume that bag was on fire.

  23. Re:Hope It Helps End the Fighting on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 1

    Oh god, were not going to start doing Zima jokes are we?

  24. Re:Comments on Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown · · Score: 1

    ... So "Aliens land in LA!" takes precedence over "Mexican immigrants take boat to San Diego". ...

    I thought you said the Aliens went to LA?

  25. Re:I for one ... on Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown · · Score: 1

    ... welcome our new chinese overlords

    I would wait an hour before making that statement.