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  1. Re:Wow! on Mainframe Programming to Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Great! Just in time as the forecast doesn't look too great.....

  2. Re:Mother of the Internet? on Mother of Internet Speaks Out · · Score: 1
    I am EVE.

    I am the Mother of all Internets.

  3. Re:Honeypots - one old clarification on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Back in the '70s, there was one level above Top Secret/Codeword, that was related to NRO projects' data. Am unaware if those classifications still exist....

  4. Re:Honeypots on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1
    OH WOW, DUDE! Now I understand. The military is omnipresent. So that's why they've caught this dude Osama bin Laden. And that's why they can't be fooled by all those explosive boobytraps in Iraq!!!!

    Any other people out there who have ever contracted at DOE and think that's a real, live boob show! (Just had to get boob in there a couple of times!!)??

    On a more serious note, as far as training goes, I compared what passes for training today against what my old unit went through, and I'm still thoroughly unimpressed.

    So according to this poster, only the Chinese, Albanians, and Russkies can penetrate the Pentagon????

    ["Of course there were WMDs in Iraq! Otherwise, they troops wouldn't have been ordered by me to don hazardous suits." Donald Rumsfeld, Fearless leader]

  5. Re:Can't get to story. on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1
    Iffy...iffy...but, I do recall that when I was in one particular military group many years ago during the Vietnam war, we would receive what was called a "positive bogey sighting" on the average once every three months.

    What this was: a military pilot, or pilots, ID'd a UFO, which sometimes appeared on radar, sometimes didn't. Unfortunately, they didn't show us the pix on the UFOs....(but technically speaking, what he says makes sense, given that he isn't a total technoid and he may be misusing some terminology. I do recall that Wordpad comm stuff....

  6. Re:Limitations of the comic format, but one fact!! on Free Comic Book Day 2006 · · Score: 1
    I would like to officially go on record as stating that the Green Lantern was the first expression of nanotechnology in Western fiction...

    ["In brightest day, in blackest night..."]

  7. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    You win - sort of...I can't find a link to that. But I distinctly recall that sometime in either 1986 or 1987, there was an ASAT test from Cape Kennedy - a ground launch - that was supposed to be a successful kill of a dummy satellite.

    Later, it turned out that it was a complete phoney...a strategic intel ruse - which was successful in misleading the Soviets. This later called into question that F-15 airborne launch, also....

  8. Re:Good News....right? on Bird Flu Drug Mass Production Technique Discovered · · Score: 1

    Sorry, here's that recent news item where Dr. Gerberding says we really shouldn't be worried about that birdy flu....

  9. Re:Good News....right? on Bird Flu Drug Mass Production Technique Discovered · · Score: 1
    No,no,no....if Rumsfeld's company (the pharmaceutical he has all that $$$$ invested in) doesn't have a monopoly, we will suddenly not be hearing very much in the news anymore about it.

    After all, the head of the CDC, Dr. Julie Geberding, was reported in the news the other week as not being particularly worried about this birdy flu (can't find that news link - this is from an earlier interview)......rather peculiar that the CDC spokespeople are giving the American populace the opposite idea???

  10. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    In my free time (admittedly minimal, right now) over the next several days, I shall hunt for some link to to validate what I said.

    But simply finding a link is not proof positive as my memory serves me quite well. That ASAT test was admitted later by Reagan to be nothing more than a strategic disinformation ploy (while not a fan of Reagan - since the Soviet Union still existed - this was more than justified), so the fact that I recall this renders your link as nothing more than a mistake at best, fiction at worst - and now I wonder about all the remaining Wiki articles....

  11. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    I'm taken aback by:

    an ASAT took out a satellite in a successful test.

    I guess those Wikipedia articles are still a bit lacking. There was great a media hubbub about those ASAT tests turning out to have been completely phoney!!!!

    I did work on one actually honest effort of the SDI (ECM on the Sea Wolf sub series); don't know about all the other facets, but do recall the ASAT was strictly fictional.

    As far as conspiracy - where's the conspiracy - all I'm aware of is the factual stuff???

  12. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    May, 2007, in a secret White House basement operations center:



    "Mr. President, the target has been acquired! Laser destruction imminent!"

    "Heh...Hehh..heh..(imagine a Bevis & Butthead-type laugh), good thing those Asian people decided to be chipped. It makes all this tracking stuff so much easier. Heh...heh...heh...."

    "That's the last critic of me and mine in that country. Heh...heh....heh....."

  13. Re:I think the phrase is "going nowhere fast." on John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water · · Score: 2, Funny
    I predict M$ will be purchasing Halliburton after the Iran attack.

    They need their subsidiary, Kellogg-Brown-Root, to attack Dvorak!

    [No child left a dime....no billionaire left behind.]

  14. Re:I love this on John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water · · Score: 1
    Listen, there's nothing wrong with being Gay. You ARE Gay, right???

    I mean, Coulter hot!!!

    Now this lady is hot!!!!

  15. Re:Pictures on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon · · Score: 0, Troll
    DARN IT!!

    How many times to I have to tell you guys, the invisibility formula has already been successfully created????

    Your fearless leader/president/decider/frat boy, George W. Bush, used it when he was stationed in the Texas Air National Guard in Alabama - and again in several other places while in the Texas ANG!

    That is exactly why no one ever saw him at those places.....

    [In a democracy, the people are the deciders.]

  16. Re:Dvorak is a Goofball Gasbag on John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water · · Score: 1
    So all that time I spent learning OSX wasn't wasted??? Thank the Deity!!!

    I have first dibs on the M$ domain.....

  17. Re:Worth a watch on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1
    In your post you neglected to mention anything factual - to make sense to a normal person, one must include facts.

    I realize these are pesky little things as I've met people who are convinced Bush is a war hero, and John Kerry never served in combat.

    There is one positive aspect of the horrendous Iraqi War, though; returning combat vets will now be experienced in controlled and uncontrolled demolitions and explosions and other incendiary events. Now when they happen to view the collapse of the WTC on 9/11/01, it will look quite obvious as to what took place there.

  18. Re:Google = Dead Engine Walking on Microsoft/Yahoo Merger to Take on Google? · · Score: 1
    I beg to differ. If Osama is ever to be found it will be by the penultimate in search engines: GOOGLE!!!!

    Hint: he's actually in Dick Cheney's basement.

  19. Re:Well... on Microsoft/Yahoo Merger to Take on Google? · · Score: 2, Funny
    WOW!!!

    They could give up twice as many dissidents to Chairman Hu and China's Department of Public Security.

    Another plus in the Global War on Terror!!

  20. Re:you know the drill-great point!! on Bill Would Outlaw Digital Receiver Recorders · · Score: 1
    You're right - a letter...and at least a $100,000 donation, at least that's right it takes to get the attention of your senators and reps today.

    [In a democracy the people are the deciders!]

  21. Re:Poor Colbert? on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1
    When all the media is for-profit - owned by only six major corporations - it is not "free" - it is most definitely regulated.

    To go back to some semblance of unregulated media - the monopolies must be done away with (go back to the laws the way they were prior to Republican-controlled congresses (although the neoliberal dems are in no way guilt-free).

  22. Re:So does this mean? on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1

    I believe this flaw was by design....

  23. Re:OpenBSD fixed on Jan. 21, 2000 on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1
    Does this mean no more 9/11/01s????

    Or does this mean plenty more????

    IN A DEMOCRACY...THE PEOPLE ARE THE DECIDERS!

  24. Re:Poor Colbert? on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1
    No - corporations DID exist at that time but were not recognized in the US Constitution for very good reason, and Jefferson purposefully would never allow it as long as he lived!!

    The corporation was not accorded their obscene and phony legal status until the late 1800s, early 1900s, based upon a casebook note, that is, a summary note (which actually had nothing to do with the case it was attached to) on top of a legal case dated 1886. Such a note has never been legally submissible. Make of that what you will!!!

  25. Re:So? on Higher Education Fears Wiretapping Law · · Score: 1

    One of the very best laws was created under the supervision of President Teddy Roosevelt - forbidding corporations to donate to any political campaign and to any politician. Once the law was overturned, the foundation for fascism was laid.