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  1. Sale of Goods Act on End User License Gems · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most North American states have a 'Sale of Goods Act'. Go and read it, it is probably on your governmental web site.

  2. Re:Well... on Minor Computer Flaw Frees State Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they should permanently tattoo the release dates on their foreheads...

  3. Americans and Sex on NASA Puts A Stop To Space Romance · · Score: 1

    Why, oh why, do American authorities have this obsession with regulating sex? US authorities are in some ways very similar to medieval Europe and modern day Islamic states. Stupid idiots...

  4. Re:Welld duh its written in C on No WINE Before Its Time · · Score: 1

    Oh man, Windoze always has been C. MFC is just a schtoopiddttt wrapper to make it more obscure. Real programmers don't use MFC...

  5. White glow... on The End Of The Light Bulb? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmm, if you shine a strong enough laser on *anything*, it can give off a beautiful white glow...

  6. Re:Sell rootkits and become a billionaire! on Rootkit Creators Turn Professional · · Score: 1

    No, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are both free. They never made money off those.

  7. PDA==Beige Minivan on Why Have PDAs Failed In The iPod Era? · · Score: 1

    and a minivan isn't quite good enough for anything...

  8. Re:... Nice on Microsoft Thinks Africa Doesn't Need Free Software · · Score: 1

    Well, actually MS is absolutely correct. Most people who buy expensive computers running MS Windows, don't have the required knowledge to use them. It is their customers, they should know...

  9. Re:This has a familiar ring to it on DVD Jon to work for Michael Robertson · · Score: 1

    The what? Anyone who goes to all that expense to build a unicycle with two wheels and no pedals or seat, deserves an onion award...

  10. Sea Launch on Commission Suggests UK Should End Astronaut Ban · · Score: 1

    The UK doesn't have old floating oil rigs? Zenit-3SL Orbital launch vehicle. Family: Energia. Country: Ukraine. Status: Hardware. Library of Congress Designation: J-1e. From the beginning of the program a Zenit-3 version was proposed for geosynchronous launches using the N1/Proton Block D third stage. This had the potential of replacing the Proton in the role of geosynchronous launcher. It was considered for launch from Australia / Cape York in the 1980's. Finally a joint US-Norwegian-Ukraininan-Russian consortium was formed to launch the three stage commercial Zenit from a floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean, Manufacturer: Yuzhnoye. Launches: 14. Failures: 2. Success Rate: 85.71% pct. First Launch Date: 28 March 1999. Last Launch Date: 29 June 2004. Launch data is: continuing. Payload: 5,250 kg. to a: Geosynchronous transfer trajectory. Apogee: 40,000 km. Associated Spacecraft: FS-1300, HS 601 , HS 702. Liftoff Thrust: 740,000 kgf. Liftoff Thrust: 7,300.00 kN. Total Mass: 471,000 kg. Core Diameter: 3.90 m. Total Length: 59.60 m. Launch Price $: 90.00 million. in 1999 price dollars.

  11. Duracells or Energizer Bunny? on A Clock That Runs for 10,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so which one is powering it? I would be more interested in the design of the 10,000 year power supply than the clock.

  12. Re:Justifying space research on The Why of Space Program Races · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, any American project is necessarily an international project - so many immigrants. However there is some uncertainty about whether von Braun and others were immigrants, abductees, or prisoners of war.

  13. Re:High tech is good but.... on The Why of Space Program Races · · Score: 1

    The steam powered space ships were used by people in an alternate universe - green mars - to move between earth and mars. I think it is in A Stranger in a Strange Land.

  14. Re:High tech is good but.... on The Why of Space Program Races · · Score: 1

    Something low tech like Robert Heinlein's gigantic, coal fired, steam powered space ships? Though he never explained where they got the oxidizer from...

  15. Re:Justifying space research on The Why of Space Program Races · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, you forget that it was German technology that went to the moon and most people outside the USA, where there are real public schools that actually teaches something, know that.

  16. Ralsky to the rescue? on Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless · · Score: 2, Funny

    We got to get Allan Ralksky to email the message to everyone...

  17. Job Preservation on PTO Eliminates "Technological Arts" Requirement · · Score: 1

    This is simply another USPTO job preservation scheme. They are trying to ensure that they will have enough work, so no-one gets made redundant for sitting around and drinking coffee.

  18. Re:Alternatives, yes. Migration path? on Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove · · Score: 2, Informative

    Open-Xchange - The Beta Outlook connector is free. The stable version only costs $10.

  19. Re:Whoop-d-doo on Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 DoS Exploit · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. FF works great when it works, but it craches or locks up far more easily than anything else. Some important parts of it seems to be completely single threaded. It can sit for several minutes to forever waiting on a plugin or renderer that isn't available. Sometimes I think the developers have never heard of error handling and timeouts. A browser is a real-time system, but the developers don't seem to have much real-time experience.

  20. Re:Whoop-d-doo on Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 DoS Exploit · · Score: 1

    Hmm, maybe you should turn JavaScript off before you browse for pr0n...

  21. Re:hiding your address on DSPAM v3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Never heard of dictionary attacks on domains have you?

  22. Re:Not here on RFID Tags to Track Your Food · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, Americans would not want to eat food coming from foreign countries like New Mexico...

  23. Crunchy... on RFID Tags to Track Your Food · · Score: 1

    Hmm, who is going to pay my dentist bill for biting on the RF ID Tags?

  24. Re:Chinese made garbage on HP Recalls 135,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Detroit is in the 3rd world? I think you may have a point there...

  25. Re:Usefulness? on AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you have never used Corel WordPerfect. One of its strong points is a grammar checker that actually works. The sorry excuse for a grammar checker built into MS Word, is what convinced the world that it cna't be done. Just another example of MS Innovation (TM)... Cheers, Herman http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/linuxhowtos.html