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  1. Its a conspirices! on Prsident Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program · · Score: 2, Funny

    Art Bell cover this last week along with Richard C Hoglan. Yea the monument of Mars guy.

    This the so called problems with the Space Station and the Hubble being forced off line. Its to hid the fact that Planet X is comming next month to smash into the Earth. Wiping out everthing!

    They want to use the remining shuttles as escape pod for key memebers of the goverment.

    Kind of Ta Ta! And thanks you for the Fish!

  2. Is this another... on Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this another, "in small print", study payed for by Microsoft?

  3. Already Done? on RFID Music Player · · Score: 1

    When they released The Phantom Mennance movies flood of toys. Dident they release some action figures with RDF stuff? Put them on a base. They speak dialog.

    Not sure if it was inside of the little plastic base or they loaded the player and tages it by what was places on it.

  4. Re:Great... on Towards Self-Replicating Rapid Prototypers · · Score: 1

    The robot guys are using how bug work to build working devices.

    Also I think its HP a year or so back working on a way to utilise somthing like that to build circuits etc. Was covered as a /. article.

  5. Hum.... on Major PC Makers Adopt Trusted Computing Schema · · Score: 1

    1) Locks only keep honest people out.

    2) As in cooking frog's, you do it a little bit at a time...

    3) I.B.M. = I Bought Mac!

    4) I.B.M. = It Beats Me!

    5) Hope that young lady runner is warming up to toss the hammer again! We need her more than ever!

    6) How to get blood from a Turnup. You dont. You get it from the Magician.

    7) If this is like most of MS concepts. It will have ten trillion "features". Take revision 3 to get it right and after that will break untill revision 6. The redesign it after it bypasses by the industry for version 7.

    8) Kind of like. Here is the solution to the noise in the car. Make the drive deaf!

    9) Never ask the problem if its a problem. It always lies and hides!

  6. Re:Heinlein came up with this... on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    I dont remember the titaium disk in one of his stories either.

    But In "Between Planets". The Hero had the message on a thin wire.

  7. Intersting on Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-off · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Imitation the sencerest form of flattery.

    2) Its not the power brick, powering this unit. But the cooling tower you also need to hang off of it! With the earplugs included in the box!

    3) Intel been doing this "odd shape case thing" for years and no one has coppied them yet. Remember the Aztec pyrimid? Uggly shape and colors.

    4) But Microsoft want to go to the "Teddybear" form factor case!
    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5459 78&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312/

    5) The "low heat" and also "low power" micro/Pico-ITX form factor MB are not made by Intel but are being driven by VIA CPU's and chipset!

    6) And is this from the same Intel that was hyping so much bleeding edge stuff, over the last few years. That after X months usually said we can't do it?

  8. Re:Similar to astronaut montioring on Taking Care of Mobile Patients · · Score: 1

    Actualy its very possible to do this. This group is not the only one looking at this. Its could be pulled mostly from embeded remote system tech. Not much different than monitoring a critical pipeline and checking the base line data for problems.

    The most difficult part is geting sensor that are not in the way and can be left for a while. Also can be left to do the checking. Be nice to have a bed simular to Star Trek. Nothing really attached to the person. Have seen the start of this at one hospital. The monitoring was done with a wirless link. A person could get up and move around.

    It would be simular to a setup for intensive care of second by second checking.

    The local hospitals have outpatient groups that visit people recouping or for various reasons. Half of their visits is just spent getting the current status of the person or getting that from there caregiver. Locally their visits cost around 128 dollars for one hour! And going to fry your minds but just a person to sit there and just read a book or watch tv for a home bed bound person can average 20+ dollars with usualy a four hour minumn! And all they could do is call some one in case of problems!

    For elderly people a trend line of medical checks could save both that person and your tax dollars before thing become a problem!

    It could be use more to prevent complications as the person is being cared for. Would be good for short recouping or long term monitoring.

    Last there is one huge major shortage of RN and the different groups around them. Wont replace them but would boster the group we have.

  9. Re:NONONONONO! on Software Distribution By Vinyl · · Score: 1

    Beside the casette system being better than the C64 Disk Drive. Which for some strange reason did NOT use a WD179X chip but its own 6502 cpu! The Coco taped was way more reliable than even the TRS 1!

    Could be it work better since Motorola designed the hardware and ugh Microsoft did the software.

  10. 20 watts on AMD's New Low-Power CPUs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just saw Toms Hardware with a review on the Mac Mini. Stated it only eats 20 watts and 28 watts for DVD playback. With a PC eating 160 watts.

    Not bad for a little 1.2~1.4Ghz box!

    They also had a review on SFF units. Still noize! Looked like a hardware hack to the Mini.

  11. Re:Did Bond do it first? on James Bond Peelable Automobile Paint · · Score: 1

    I thoug the False Face eps of the batman 60's TV series had a spray that change a van from whight to blue.

  12. Re:Robot of Roses on Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot · · Score: 1

    Or Rose the Robot.... Jane! Stop this crazy thing!

  13. Re:Let Me Get This Straight... on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    And if you think that was bad try being a Atari ST user. Was worst!

  14. Re:From Another article... on Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter · · Score: 1

    Agree. Why use a sign bit on it unless it was for overflow?

  15. Re:98 on Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter · · Score: 1

    Just think if they were running XP and its problems with WiFI and Firewire breakdowns! Wow what a train wreck! Or in this case a plane wreck!

  16. Re:Maybe it had "worked just fine" for them? on Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter · · Score: 1

    Odd are someone or some thing will. In all major blame games. You must sarcifice someone or some thing to the god of disaster and oops.

    Else will loos your head. Esp when the Fed's will be hunting for the problem so thay can create a usless soloution that cost billions and makes the inital problem worse.

    Some poor little software package is crying bits right now! Wishing he was 32 and not 16 bit!

  17. Re:The Roads Must Roll on The Super Superhighway · · Score: 1

    Same here! Wonder if they could "Burry" it like the "Road". Be a bit more expensive but would shut up the eco people. And keep the ranchers happy. When finally done. Fill it in and let some future people dig it up and go mad!

    Also like the "Road". How in the heck do you change lanes amd have on/off ramps? Makes more sense instead of spreading out but to have layers.

    PS: Always wonder what happen to the restrant when it got to the end of the "Road" in the story?

  18. Re:A Deisgn that works on MicroDisplay Claims Progress Toward Elusive LCoS · · Score: 1

    Isent there something about a room full of X Monkey with Y Typewriters for Z years creating.....

  19. Re:Must have been a classic "WTF?!" moment at the on Opportunity Rover Encounters Its Own Heat Shield · · Score: 1

    It did help to get that "Car Wash" recently from the locals...

    Too bad the other is out in the boonies to far for MAA. { Mars Automobile Association } to sprits it also.

  20. Re:Extortion for fun or profit. on B612 Foundation and 2004 YD5 Asteroid Capture? · · Score: 1

    Are you sure this is not "Austen Powers: Rock around the World?"

    Where he want to hold the world biggest rock concert with real rock? Which ends with a battle of the band between Austen's Shadilic and Evil's Hard rocker?

  21. Re:When are the vouchers given out? on Microsoft Class Action Suit Outcome: Indifference · · Score: 1

    Same here. I though it was suppost to be inforced by now! Sent in a long time ago and nothing!

  22. Some missing Items... on Top 100 Toys From The '70s or Thereabouts · · Score: 1

    1) Mattel's Vacu Form machine. { Early George Forma grill! }
    2) Anything using Greeny stickum caps. Esp the slender Grenade/timer/alarm thing.
    3) Mattel's Major Mat Mason. (Beats Buzz and the rest!)
    4) A simple cardbord box. { Yep the box of imigination! }

  23. Re:NOOO!!! on Top 100 Toys From The '70s or Thereabouts · · Score: 1

    Those heavy flywheel card wer a perffict battering ram!

    I think Dell comics even did a seried based on the SST.

  24. Re:Tinker Toys on Top 100 Toys From The '70s or Thereabouts · · Score: 1

    The current version is PC'ed. IE it made out of plastic!

  25. Re:Pyraminx on Top 100 Toys From The '70s or Thereabouts · · Score: 1

    There was that and Rubic Magic. Yep the one that had a solution book at the same time as the puzzle! Problemwas you could gum up the plastic strings holding the parts together.