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  1. Re:Buffy was my inspiration on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    Good one too... I generally don't do that, but if I did it would be Buffy!

  2. Re:Buffy was my inspiration on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    He he ha! No I don't want any of them to die because of this! I meant to say it was only a good show and relieved from my misery and sorrow when girlfriends got scarce sometimes.

  3. Buffy was my inspiration on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    Any time a bad girl got me down and ignored me and played with my heart and wallet, Buffy was an adequate mode to relax by romantically. She was a fantastic celebrity and she will be missed by me and many who are like me.

  4. Profer FAX number on IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ · · Score: 1

    I rather would use the FAX number. Mail takes forever. Email is discarded or ignored, and frequently killed by filter systems. (Phone number is useless too, I am sure not paying for that!) If you find a FAX to suit then please provide it to us, --thank you in advance.

  5. Big contradiction, yes on Trustworthy Computing At One Year · · Score: 1

    Imagine a grocer sells you 5 apples. That same grocer the very next day tells you no I don't sell apples, never have. So you buy oranges instead. Not 5, however, because you are now distrustful of this grocer telling you false advertizing.

    Here, Microsoft is the grocer, and we are the suckers who don't know better than to believe such foolishness. You want apples, but Microsoft claims it sold oranges and only oranges. It is ridiculous of course.

  6. What they SHOULD have done on NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... is to launch a series of probes that could relay signals back to one another. The probes would be like a long network of space chain. They could potentially travel to many times the distance achieved by Pioneer. Then they could reach another solar system, fall in to orbit around that sun, further to head back toward our own sun with information collected on data tapes and hard drive.

  7. This is much like in corrupt countries on Microsoft Fights to Weaken Washington Anti-Spam Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When criminal pays police to look the other way while they commit a crime. Only here, the criminal is Microsoft and their pricey lawyers who are oogling the boys in Washington. This IS news, something new because I don't want this country to be like half the others that allow corrupt governors, policemen, ETC.

  8. Moth balls on a prototype don't make sense on Slashback: Intuit, Telemetry, Meetup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NASA should get on with X-39. Forget about the X-38 designs -- it was put on the chopping block for too long and now newer technology could be used. If more funding for X-38 had succeeded, then it should all be transferred to the newest program for X-39.

  9. Re:Not much different than most mil bases on Los Alamos Security Infiltrated By Reporter · · Score: 1

    That's when internal jobs show their danger. I once worked at a cash register. The manager was a good fellow, but he was wary of student-types holding his money. He did not trust us. The shadier workers likewise did not place good confidence in our manager. They called him silly things, and mocked his warnings to be at work on time, not to take too long for lunch, keep a neat counter display, etc., etc.

    A friend of mine who was also working in the same department as me had to count his drawer at closing time. His drawer was no less than $20 short! Where did the money go? Fortunately for him, his cash register was located in a prominent position. We all knew that he could not have stolen the money, or another employee would tell because we are honest or jealous of him for taking easy money from the store. The difference in cash was not explained, but the fact is that the location of my friend's register had saved his job and reputation. If his register had been distantly located on the perimeter of the store, he surely would have been a suspect regarding the missing money.

  10. Not just a joke! on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    Language evolution is a whole field of study. Linguists and diadacticians, speech therapists are among a few who take this very seriously. New words mean new approach to old problems.

    Simple rule, simple solution. Confusing new word, confusing situations. "To Google" is a good example of this!

  11. What are we making but a living computer? on Computer Made From DNA And Enzymes · · Score: 0

    What would that make me? Am I an android and I didn't know it?

    Are we creating transformers that are half man, half machine? Code alone is not life. Unless you are a virus. I'm confused enough about the ethics of bioengineering. Not saying this is bad, it is very good.

    We need to know CHEMISTRY vs. BIOLOGY. That is what biochemistry is! This opens up a wonderful new field of study with this new computational perspective.

  12. Re:Obligatory... on Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law · · Score: 1

    True. However, if 90% of SPAM comes from assback places like russia or chechna or iceland and such, then I don't care so much about a measily 10% of busted Americans. To hell with them! I get 40 SPAM a day. It's all bullshit like Viagra and xxx, sluts this and that. I know whores want my money, I don't need an email to tell me 100 times each week! One time got me angry, and now I want those 90% to go down, mother----! I want to watch them suffer and crawl for me!

  13. Re:Becoming quite common.. on Linux in High School Labs · · Score: 1

    I did not say that public schools are rotten. You are still a good person. Despite the slur and you are a bigot. I did not mean to hurt feelings if I said that academies are dumb, or you are not super educated like Harvard. You may just be uninspired, not lazy, or down on your luck to be poor. Either way it is not your fault and I apologize you misunderstood.

    You are good. Don't let somebody tell you otherwise.

  14. All well and good BUT on Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about faxs that come from Russia? When faxer pays Russian mob to look the other way? When police want to wheel and deal with George Bush instead of listen to him like they should (in order to take care of Russian crime with advice and recommendations)?

    Other countries may be so corrupt that their affairs are not in order. They can not deal with some problems effectively, which means that we may feel the pain for some time. Pricey faxes are only one of them.

  15. Re:Becoming quite common.. on Linux in High School Labs · · Score: 1

    So? Harvard University has LOTS of money (in the ten billion dollars or more) yet they profer free Linux. Are you saying a stupid academy is as good as Harvard students? Or that privledge children should only use expensive hardware? Please clarify what you mean. I did not go to a christian academy but I assume it's as good or better than a public school, and they probably know what is what.

  16. Re:Simple... on Ask ISP Owner Barry Shein About the Spam Wars · · Score: 1

    WHO? Me and you or the governor of florida? I don't want more SPAM than I receive but I won't pay for any more of it. I just want SPAM to stop, period. If corrupt police don't care about stopping SPAM but only their fat pocket book then we should not make them MORE rich. It's blackmail. Which do you want: blackmail that you propose or bribery as it stands (to do nothing for you and me)?

  17. Re:2.5lbs at 500mph. on More on Columbia · · Score: 1

    I am more convinced now, reasonably! But still engineers need to learn more accurate language to relate to the public at large what they do. I am not an engineer as you can tell.

  18. I would ask: on Ask ISP Owner Barry Shein About the Spam Wars · · Score: 1

    In some region the police are very corrupt. The spammers pay them to look the other way and not do a bust that would send them to jail in some other country. How do we deal with this?

  19. Re:2.5lbs at 500mph. on More on Columbia · · Score: 1

    Come on now. They shouldn't call things insulating foam if it is not purely foam. NASA is false advertizing, plainly. If I sold you a couch (a soft couch) that secretly had bricks on the inside, and your bum broke because I lied to you about the interior of the couch, I would go to jail by most accounts.

    Foam is only soft, and everyone knows it. Foam that is not soft is not foam. The whole NASA crew needs a lesson on basic material needs. I don't want another halt to the space program, or to kill any more astronaughts than is strictly necessary to do another space mission.

  20. Re:Tell me about foam on More on Columbia · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I've felt cold foam before. It turns brittle, like a powder or a piece of dry sand. It should shatter in to a million pieces on impact. If space tiles don't withstand amazing G force and sudden impact of a broken up foam insulation, then the whole shuttle fleets should be grounded, no questions asked. European too.

  21. Tell me about foam on More on Columbia · · Score: 1

    The Columbia disaster is still a mystery to me. What is foam? It's soft, like a pillow, or the packing insulation in your electronics shipment. The relative speed of the aircraft to the foam projectile would have to be more than hundreds of miles per hour to do any damage.

    Think of throwing a baseball. A good baseball pitcher will throw at 70, 80, 90 miles per hour. Now throw a piece of foam at that speed. You could hit my head with it, and no damage would be done!

  22. Don't confuse fraud with cracking on AOL's Merlin Compromised? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's say I am a salesman, and I want to give you X amount of product in return for your money, or a dinner date with you, or to take you golfing, etc. Then I give you the information you requested, and you turn around and kill my fellow customers or steal from them- that is a crime.

    If you crack my system and steal credit cards and the like, that's illegal too, but now you are talking about two different crimes.

  23. Pretty cool on Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    But it's not the first!

  24. There is some genetic basis to nerve communication on The Taste of Pain · · Score: 0

    Dendrite count and branch order (depth of the "threads) is been known to have some genetic basis. More branches is thought to mean that learning takes place (in the hypocampus, a memory center of the brain), and it seems that some people are genetically dumb. If not people, then certainly lab rats that can't learn to navigate a maze for a reward (such as food or an addictive drug).

  25. I've been waiting more than 20 years for this. on "Clone Wars" Cartoon Shorts on Cartoon Network · · Score: 0

    ... ever since I saw "Episode IV" in the opening credits and didn't quite understand what they meant by that.