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  1. Re:Elsewhere on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think he intended "like".

  2. Re:first post on Plant a Seed, Get Sued? · · Score: 1

    Round-up is a herbicide.

  3. Bakersfield Ca,Chemistry teacher tries to be cool on Physicists Work on Physics' Uncool Image · · Score: 1

    This comes to mind. When I was a Senior at Ridgeview High school In Bakersfield Ca, a Chemistry teacher at East High decided to ignite
    "a few milliliters of methanol" in a GLASS bottle. This "experiment" (make science look kool, blow shit up)
    is usually done in a plastic five gallon water bottle. Well, needless to say, he sent himself, and a few students to the hospital.

    News Story

  4. Golf Ball on Opportunity Spots Curious Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    Looks like ET's titlist he lost on the back 9.

  5. Re:Better yet... on Searching with Images instead of Words · · Score: 1

    This might be the case. Mapquest has a company do something simular, drive around and take notes on EVERY intersection, ramp, road construction, and whatever else. They do it slowly, and I imagine its boreing as hell.

    information here

  6. Re:wow on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 1

    This does not come with keyboard or mouse, and you CAN use a VGA monitor, or whatever you want with it. The video output is a DVI connector, but a DVI->VGA adaptr is ~$15UDS.

    Froogle search for DVI to VGA adaptors

  7. Re:No Thanks on Smart Guns are Coming · · Score: 1

    Sorry I left you out Mr. Gates.

  8. Re:Thats why smart shooters use pump shotguns on Smart Guns are Coming · · Score: 1

    I have not heard of 0 sized buckshot. I have heard of triple "aught" and double "aught", but never single.
    And a shotgun should not be considered a rifle. There are rifled slugs, and rifled slug barrels, but shotguns are not rifles by design.

  9. Re:Make a straight line, go to jail. on U.S. DOT Launches Laser Illumination Reporting · · Score: 1

    The guy ALSO pointed the laser at a corporate jet, and also a police helicopter investigating the corporate jet illumination. Any observatory using lasers for alignment ( not sure how this would work any better then optical alignment, think scope) would probably be listed on any area flight maps, or in a NOTAM around the time it would be used.

  10. Re:No Thanks on Smart Guns are Coming · · Score: 1

    Hell, bowlers are lower middle class. Did you not read the memo about ball size? The size of your balls are reversely proportional to you salary.

    Basketball-washing cars
    Bowling-mechanic
    baseball-IT monkey
    tennis-IT monkey manager
    golf- Owner of company IT monkey works for.

    This is all total bullshit( and thus just a joke, hope I did not piss off any rich bowlers), as I work half the time as an IT monkey, and half the time as a machinist, and I play golf and baseball, but suck at bowling.

  11. Re: Smart gun owners on Smart Guns are Coming · · Score: 1
    I've never been afraid of any type of weapon, except the small chance of it blowing up by itself (think nuke exploding in silo because of a software glitch).


    I am sure there are hardware interlocks (keys, buttons, whatever) to prevent this, but if it did happen, most silos are DESIGNED to withstand a nuclear blast, and they are already underground, so the chances of miles and miles of scorched earth are not that great. There is the chance of having a huge smoldering radioactive crater, but the damage should be fairly contained.
  12. Re:How long has this been happening? on U.S. DOT Launches Laser Illumination Reporting · · Score: 1

    not sure if you are being sarcastic, or serious, but it is quite a rash. Since the 23rd, we are averaging 1.55 a day, including today ( I doubt there were any reported today yet). IF you figure 500 since 1990, and fudge the math to use 366 days a year ( bite me guys)over 14 years you get .097/day. This is a pretty common thing now, and you can thank the media for that. These are not terrorists, these are dumb asses trying to be cute.

  13. Re:How long has this been happening? on U.S. DOT Launches Laser Illumination Reporting · · Score: 1

    Its been a sudden rash since the media blew it out of proportion, and now every dipshit with a damn toy thinks its funny.

  14. Re:goodbye bank account on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1

    I have seen a lot of elementary schools ( grammar schools) use macs. Teachers hate them ,because they are used to IBM clones, but its easier to teach a a 6-7 year old how to use it when they can barley remember right from left.

  15. Re:Use it to your advantage on This Call May Be Monitored ... · · Score: 2, Funny
    Things I've heard have been a few bathrooms (along with normal noise associated with it), sex, arguements, etc.


    At What point during sex do you decide to call Tech Support? I would imagine the Arguments are the women complaining about the guy calling tech support because he is having a floppy problem, or possibly having trouble inserting something in some socket.
  16. Re:My neighborhood on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 1

    And they would have had the strenuous task of holding down the reset button to get back in.

  17. Re:Lock him up for finding bugs? on Security Researcher Faces Jail For Finding Bugs · · Score: 1

    Nelson Mandela.

  18. Re:Humans playing God? on MIT Making Computer Parts from DNA · · Score: 1

    Shit, I cant resist.

    Would they be "red men"?

    I am 1/8 Cherokee, so let the war dancing begin.

  19. Re:Virgins in Space? on Sir Richard takes Virgin into Space · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that to be very messy, what with all the fluids just floating about....

  20. Re:Humans playing God? on MIT Making Computer Parts from DNA · · Score: 1

    We could start generating organisms that THRIVE on mars, then make more complex organisms that thrive on the organisms before them, and on and on, until we decide to make carbon dioxide processing plants to help generate an atmosphere that will suit us a little more comfortably. Then we invade, and pillage another planet.

  21. Re:How can they sleep at night...? on FBI Warns: Many Tsunami Relief Pleas Are Fake · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see the Red Cross suggest people would burn in fire and brimstone if they did not donate weekly.

  22. Re:I dont understand on Belkin Offering Pre-802.11N Products · · Score: 1

    It could be a number of things. I belive what you are refering to is a subset of ethernet (IEEE 802.3) that is fast ethernet over:
    cat-5 cable(100base-tx over 2 pair of cat5 )
    cat-3(100base-T4 over 4 pair of cat 3)
    fiber (100base-FX over two multi-mode fibers)

    Ethernet 802.3 can be a subset of many standards, from 1Mbps(802.3e) to 1000Mbps(802.3z).

  23. Re:Turbo Tax, AGAIN on Tax Time Again: Any Linux Solutions? · · Score: 1

    In high school, I had an economics teacher tell me this. She claimed it is better for you to get it, and let it draw intrest in your bank, than to give it to the IRS as an intrest free loan.

  24. Re:Turbo Tax, AGAIN on Tax Time Again: Any Linux Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Jackson Hewitt?

  25. Re:Funny? on 64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there is a reason its predictable. Microsoft Software is predictable. They do have a reputation, and they lived up to it a few days ago at CES.