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  1. Not the Tata you are looking for. on Samsung, Toshiba, Others Accused of LCD Price-Fixing · · Score: 1
  2. Did Heinlein invent this bastard? on SpaceX Unveils Heavy-Lift Rocket Designs · · Score: 1

    Or did he merely predict him?

  3. Re:The Washington Post.... on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 1

    So they're animosity is because they didn't get to leak them as a professional sanctioned media organization?!.....................ectogamatronpolyamoroussexingjesuspaganyneatnessednessWaldouraniumdouchebag

  4. Re:The Washington Post.... on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 1

    So they're animosity is because they didn't get to leak them as a professional sanctioned media organization?!

  5. Re:Boar hunting on Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ah lol?

    In the US you cannot sell the meat radioactive or not. Our hunters are not compensated for game they cannot consume that I'm aware of. Prion testing is offered in states where it is an epidemic. I'm kind of shocked that Germany would pay squat to a hunter. I support hunting and game management by purchasing hunting licenses, buying ammo and firearms and several other supplies. I'll listen to a hunter cry in his beer about the mutant hog he couldn't eat but I'll be damned if the government should line his pockets. Sheesh the pansies.

  6. Re:ah this will be fun on Indian Police Using Facebook to Catch Scofflaw Drivers · · Score: 1

    It's marvelous. In Indiana if you're a government employee and you get a ticket for speeding and several other infractions you lose the car. You can lose the car for other reasons such as moral turpitude so please try to catch a gov't vehicle (non-police) at a bar, titty bar, massage parlor or any other place of ill repute.

  7. Re:The Washington Post.... on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Washpoo is a liberal strong hold. I assume that Wikipee embarrassed Obama so now free speech is not a right any longer but a revocable privileged of 'authorized media' and 'sanctioned organizations'. It's either that or they're pissed they didn't get to leak them first.

  8. Re:I remember this same conversation. on New PS3 Firmware Causing HDD Upgrade Problems? · · Score: 1

    Was the root kit announced? No.

    I bought my first television from them. That television was a 19" that cost $749+tax in 1984 dollars. It had the best picture I'd ever seen. It worked flawlessly from 1894 to 1993 when a part failed. I replaced it and it worked until I gave it away in 1999. It worked for it's new owner until 2005 when it needed the same part replaced. The part was no longer available and it went in the garbage.

    In 1999 I'd looked at getting a Sony but nothing they had in the store stood out. I even adjusted every set to my tastes and it was Sharp and Samsung that ruled. This is still the case with their product the last time I looked which was just before bluray was adopted.

    After Sony bribed several companies to get bluray adopted I have no interest in owning any of their products. The crippled psyche of Sony issued bribes to cover the old wound of losing the VHS-Betamax war.

    In the 80s and most of the 90s I was a fan. I had acquired the first B&W TV they'd made and repaired it. I had a Watchman, a Walkman and an alarm clock. I had a two reel-reel tape players. I got rid of all of that, some of it went in a dumpster as no one wanted it, the TVs went to a collector.

    I don't give a damn about them now.

  9. Re:What they're really saying with this story on US Ability To Identify Source of Nuclear Weapons Decays · · Score: 1

    This has already been detailed in 90s fiction. It does not matter where the material comes from. It matters that it gets used. It's the same as the cry to market bullets or rifles. It does nothing for the victim, it does not catch the user or their boss.

  10. $1 versus lost intelectual property on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    We completely lost a server and every scrap of intellectual property on it. The backups were flawed. Nothing worked right. 30/mnth would have saved our company millions if the provider were reliable. We would have saved money if it had cost 300/gb/mnth

  11. Re:Actual email from Gabe on Valve Apologizes For 12,000 Erroneous Anti-Cheating Bans · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good compensation would be refunding the full amount of the game they'd blocked and any extra paid. The owner keeps their copy of the game and it remains working.

  12. Re:This story is false on Southwest Adds 'Mechanical Difficulties' To Act Of God List · · Score: 1

    It's like Battlesarred Galactica all the machines are GODS FAULT.

  13. Re:Welcome to a highly competitive industry on Frustration and Unhappiness In the Games Industry · · Score: 1

    "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." --Hunter S. Thompson

    You can replace music with any entertainment industry and it will be accurate.

  14. Amplifier for cell phone? on Amateur Radio In the Backcountry? · · Score: 1

    http://boatantenna.com/cellular/cellphone_signal_boosters.htm

    I'm unsure if it's legal or if it even works.

  15. Re:Dude! on Dell Settles With the SEC For $100M · · Score: 1

    No they paid a bribe to the government so they would not go to jail. It's not 'humbling' it shows how weak and ineffective the SEC really is. The top echelon of both companies should be in jail and each company broken up and sold off.

  16. Re:Confused on US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill · · Score: 1

    It only protects "US journalists, authors, and publishers". That is the corprat interest. It does not shield me unless I match some legal mumbo jumbo in that law defining 'journalists, author or publishers' which may or may not be the same as 'journalists, author or publishers' as defined by tax laws or other law.

    I doubt my blog would count as matching them if I get sued.

  17. Google has been good about correcting map errors on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    I've gotten them to fix several and fix other information such as business locations and addresses wildly misplaced, wrong phone numbers and such. They need to swat that map company on the nose then feed the fixes everyone else submits back to them for a small consideration.

  18. Re:frobgard on Passwords That Are Simple — and Safe(?) · · Score: 1

    What about nonsense phrases?

    Bug farts of the pomegranate infected mind

  19. Re:there is no shortage... on Feds To Help Train 50,000 Health IT Workers · · Score: 1

    The original was written on a government grant and is in the public domain.

    This is a GPL/LGPL version which works with PostgreSQL http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/mumps.html "The Mumps Compiler is distributed under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL licenses." This is of course not a whole IDE or deployable system as best I can tell and there is still code to be written to implement a system.

  20. That is a data convertion project on Developing a Niche Online-Content Indexing System? · · Score: 1

    You could write a custom program that would scrape the the data from a website you setup to allow that program to run stand alone or you figure out what the data format is and write a program to convert that.

    If you want to recreate the data from scratch then you'd need to set up a website your group would access and enter data. That would be crowd sourcing but you'd probably want something specific to your needs but using easily maintainable code.

    As others have stated you could use virtualization. Inside the virtual machine you may even be able to run a LAMP stack and run the DOS program with dosbox running as as an unprivileged user. http://www.dosbox.com/ http://www.virtualbox.org/ http://www.vmware.com/.

    I would only consider the virtual solution a stop gap until you could get the database translated to something maintainable or recreate the data.

  21. Re:Stop, Citizen! on Tokyo Rail Billboards Scan Viewer's Age, Gender · · Score: 1

    I have a camera blinder. What I'd like is something, perhaps an IR laser than can produce any image in a camera. I suspect it may be possible to do that with a hologram. I've done something like it with a red laser.

    A POV would be cumbersome though one in the back window with "DIE PIG DIE" would be entertaining.

  22. Re:Mr Cummings on FTC Warns Site Not To Sell Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Ok I assume that moderation is by either an anti-gun nut or a queer basher. Bite me.

  23. Re:Mr Cummings on FTC Warns Site Not To Sell Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Well it does indicate that someone or something is about to get penetrated with a round cylindrical object. It's a shooting stance. ;)

  24. Re:The key to not getting beaten up as a nerd on Nerds Still More Likely To Get Bullied · · Score: 1

    They have a shirt.

    And the key to not getting beaten up is to be bigger, stronger, meaner and smarter than them. I had the genes for it.

    Amanda Tapping makes Nurse Chapel look like a nice home maker!

  25. Re:1200 times safe level? on Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin · · Score: 1

    "Dioxin" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_dibenzodioxins is usually referring to Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins

    The estimated elimination half-life for highly chlorinated dioxins (4-8 chlorine atoms) in humans ranges from 7.8 to 132 years.

    So it is a problem and I thought it was solved. It may be that when the EPA started warning people then tapered off in those warnings that I thought it was solved.