User: Lost Penguin

Launch today?

On: NASA Snaps Mysterious "Night-Shining" Clouds

Driving home, about an hour and a half ago: I saw a launch from the cape.
Anyone know anything?
It was not a shuttle.

Selective enforcement?

On: Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer

This just gives more "guns" to stop any real publication of criticism.
You write something the NeoCons/Republicans don't like, they invoke this; You may not be guilty of any "Illegal" copies, but the computers are still gone. This is the modern version of Nazi Germany's book burnings. /Will the computers be taken by the Firemen?

Next up:

On: The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution

Umbrella Corporation unavailable for comment.

Zip files?

On: Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives

Can it share zip files?

Dear (Not Gay) Republican

On: House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators

Here is an image you will be interested in ....
Goatse

Spintronics?

On: Major Breakthrough In Spintronics Research

Wouldn't spinning the electrons faster cause the atom to move into a higher energy state? (Plasma?) /I'll take one in the 40 Megawatt range......

Yes, there was a GPL Violation

On: MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit

"The MPAA doesn't need to ship source code with GPLed software if they didn't make any modifications"

If the GPL'd code was not modified, the software would not have sent information about the universities network back to the MPAA.

Dan Glickman is that you trolling as an AC?

My profile?

On: All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'

I ship out as a reservist next year. /Would love to see my profile......

Ground control to Major Tom:

On: Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS

You're circuits dead, there's something wrong.

Re:Very very incorrect.

On: USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology

"What would survive 1 ton of concrete landing directly on it at terminal velocity?"

Wiley Coyote?
Daffy Duck?

Re:math

On: Maglev On the Drawing Boards

"Seriously, what couldn't we have done with that money?"
Get an honest answer from the Republican party and the oil lobbyists about why we invaded Iraq.

"cutting the exposure to x-rays by 80%"

On: New Super Scanner Can Scan Body in Under a Minute

They now use Gamma rays......

How long till:

On: Houston Police Test Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft

These become armed with missiles?
"We don't need no stinking warrant"

Sounds just like;

On: The Universe Damaged By Observation?

The Bush administrations "War on Terror"
The more it's examined, the more absurd it seems.

At least one in the SS was not "evil"

On: Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong

I had a great uncle in the SS; he wrote a letter to Hitler "informing" him of the "terrible things happening to the Jews without his knowledge".
He died in the gas chamber..... /Sigh

So the real issue was;

On: C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances

Car ran Microsoft Windows.
If they had ran Linux, they wood has won 2 millions uz dollerz.....
They should have used an array of chickens pecking on buttons to drive the truck...
Windows....
LOL

To stop the RIAA:

On: Warner Music CEO Says War With Consumers Was Wrong

The only way to stop the RIAA is through a series of "secondary boycotts" and public protests.
For example:
Boycott BestBuy for selling RIAA sponsered CDs.
Get a license to protest, as per any city or state laws.
Stand in front of BestBuy all day with picket signs; "BestBuy supports RIAA/MPAA lawsuits against you"
Keep this up till BestBuy removes all CDs/DVDs from their stores.
Go to Walmart and repeat......
Next?

Now Kyocera IS infringing?

On: Microsoft Claims Patent On Elements of Embedded Linux?

Seems to me, Kyocera needs to release the added "MS IP" code they are using as required by the GPL ASAP!
If the Linux source code Kyocera is using is really containing "IP" from Microsoft, we should be able to see what the heck Kyocera licensed.

Check with AT&T?

On: White House Ordered to Preserve All Email

Since AT&T has been spying on everyone since spring of 2000, why not ask them for copies of Whitehouse and NRC.com emails?

There are two kinds of ships....

On: Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise

Submarines and targets.....

What happens after you sign....

On: Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment?

It is way past time to update your resume.
I was once asked to sign an "updated" non-compete; right before being laid-off.

I just came to say this:

On: DARPA Looks To Adaptive Battlefield Wireless Nets

"This is DARPA"

Space based weapons?

On: Scientist Are Working to 'Steer' Hurricanes

"directly beaming microwaves on those areas from space"

Hmmmm, me thinks this will NOT end well.
I would rather play a "Nice game of Chess".......

It's about timing

On: Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program

Bush, for all of his 9-11 spouting, was actually tapping American's phones before September 11, 2001.
That is what Bush and the Telcos do not want Congress to investigate.

Re:Capture it now, before its disappeared

On: Googlestalking For Covert NSA Research Funding

She will take the change out of his remaining teeth; no Novocaine... /Now that works for torture, Your screams actually hurt your own ears... //It's a real relief for your ears when they apply the composite to the hole in your teeth.(Lake Mary 1988) ///I'm from Florida, torture is old news here since Milton, Fl 1985... ////For the record, it started there with some armed robbers who did time and later found (and killed/tortured) the witness(s) against them... /////In a parade, on a float, in public. (For some reason, no one else will testify...)