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  1. Re:Impact on birds... on Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How much would it cost in energy and materials to build the global wind farm? Compare that to nuclear.

  2. Re:stop crying on FTC To Monitor Blogs For Paid Claims & Reviews · · Score: 1

    I believe in change. I'm hoarding every penny because I'm gonna need it. I'm a rich fat bastard and will be taxed accordingly so with change Icanhazcheezeburgers http://icanhascheezburger.com/ at http://www.mcdonalds.com/ then will come the evil that I will do in the name of Cthulhu http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/vault298.html to feed his insatiable appetite and my lust for power. But I will secretly worship http://www.venganza.org/ his noodly appendage and court disaster if the slimey idiot finds out. I will bow to the holiest president ever or suffer damnation by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drwfnGlF_E having to watch that. I shall covet weapons of massive destruction at http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ and I will dwell in the house of oblivion forever! http://www.elderscrolls.com/home/home.php

    I will eat your process servers, rape your thugs and gnaw out their hearts and feast! FEAST! I say!

  3. Fiasco! The fractal codec on Concrete Comparisons of Theora Vs. Mpeg-4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone remember it? The author screwed up and coded parts of it on university time so had to revoke the GPL license since they could not prove which parts were or were not university property.

    I spent a month compressing a highly scaled video clip and was able to put about 20 seconds on a floppy. I could compress a complex jpeg with the static compressor into 4 - 20k.

    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4367

    Bandwidth wise it's marvelous, it's the number crunching to compress it that's the killer. I'm not a coder and his paper is marginally comprehensible but there is no way I could recreate the codec.

  4. Re:Someone... on ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings · · Score: 1

    Earl Grey hot and sweet.

  5. Disrespect on Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? · · Score: 1

    The current meme among the developers is to defeature the desktop to pablum and rip out the ability to turn features back on for power users. When users complain about this as best they are able they are mocked and ignored.

  6. Re:Pulseaudio sucks on State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All · · Score: 1

    Yes

  7. Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy on America's Army 3 Has Rough Launch, Development Team Canned · · Score: 1

    http://jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail408.html#Iron is not just for governments. It applies to any organized group of people above a certain size.

  8. Pulseaudio sucks on State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All · · Score: 1, Troll

    Pulseaudio sucks so bad I can't use it with the player of MY choice to watch movies.

  9. Re:No New Power to Tax (no not Hax you ijit). :) on IRS Now Wants To Repeal Cell Phone Tax · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't refute your general point. But the IRS existed before the 16 Amendment and will exist after you repeal it. You can get them OUT of our affairs by supporting use, sales or other anonymous taxes. We don't need the invasive income tax.

    And apportionment would be fantastic.

  10. Re:Why Windows 7 in the summary? on Solid State Drives Tested With TRIM Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because someone got paid to do it. You don't think /. editors work for free do you?

  11. No New Power to Tax (no not Hax you ijit). :) on IRS Now Wants To Repeal Cell Phone Tax · · Score: 1

    Wrong, the SUPREME COURT JESTERS have RULED that the 16th amendment "gives no new power to tax"

    Thus, the Sixteenth Amendment gives no new power to tax incomes, because that power always existed, but it relieves the pre-existing power from the requirement of apportionment. Income taxes are now constitutional because they are no longer subject to the apportionment requirement.

    http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/taxes/16thb.htm
    They myght be lying YmmV.

  12. Macropayments dammit! on You're (Probably) Not Going To Be a Pro Blogger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes some are comics, deal with it.

    I buy
    Your book, (Schlock Mercenary)
    Your mug (Glow in the dark messiah of the moment)
    Your stupid grin on a signed photo.
    Your MOM
    Signed pictures of your cat (Hi Kyle Cassidy and Roswell!)
    Your T SHIRT! (Yes you Dr. McNinja!)
    Your verbally abusive T- SHIRT! (NUKE THE MOON!)
    Your wordless T SHIRT! (WWWBatmanD)
    Your rather funny T Shirt (Blogger, novelist of Better to Beg Forgiveness) -> BOOMY
    Your hysterical mug if you had a damnable CLUE (Some comic that had a banner ad with a coffee mug emblazoned "Not for use with crotch" BUT DIDN'T SELL THE DAMN THING)
    Your doodads (Alien Dice key fob thingies).
    THE CUTE OMG THE TERRIBLE TEETH DESTROYING SUGARY CUTE (DMFA)
    The strange T-Shirt (Oh My Gods)

    In other words all the 'side bidness' you need to be able to EAT. :)

    Feed your artists and authors people.

  13. Re:big issue is NoScript on Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript · · Score: 1

    And Easylist can assault you if they feel like it. So?

  14. Re:big issue is NoScript on Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript · · Score: 3, Informative

    He was trying to work around a problem with easylist and handled it badly but easylist is as much to blame for targeting him.

    He answers his emails if you care to ask but easylist has ignored me so far.

  15. Re:Mount Helen? on A Supervolcano Beneath Mt. St. Helens? · · Score: 1

    Mount a saint?

  16. Re:Correction on The Birth and Battle of Conficker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If a Linux based distribution was the dominant desktop OS the morons who run a PC would be infected within minutes. They'll click on, suck up, snort or fk anything presented to them. I've had intelligent people click on, install or follow complex instructions that disable all security on a PC so they could install 'that cool looking game' and then lie about it even when I had logging software logging to a remote server.

  17. Re:It's so obvious on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    Scrotium

  18. Re:There is a right way. on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 1

    Yes that would be the overhead I missed. I've not heard of the title "records manager" but that is what I meant when I used librarian. The person I talked to was over all of their records pertaining to proprietary data concerning software, hardware, build instructions and the like.

    I am experiencing that ineptitude at my new job. IT all two of them, managed to LOSE all the data from a hard drive crash of a server. 10 years worth of design data go poof.

    How embarrassing is it to have to go to one of your contract board houses and beg for copies of your data back?

  19. Re:Good luck on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    Give a poor boy 20 dollars a bird and let him keep any worth keeping. You won't have a bird problem.

  20. There is a right way. on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system

    For that level of documentation you need to have a staff and get it properly indexed. You need a high level librarian. This would be someone with a masters degree at minimum in library science and at least a bachelors in information technology. They will not come cheap and they are a long term investment. The software is available, it is not trivial. Hiring a large number of people to recategorize and tag all the documents for the length of time that takes is also an expense but worth it. Once it's all in place maintaining it gets much easier.

    I've seen a system developed for Raytheon. They took all the old compartmentalized data Hughes had and put every scrap of paper through a scanner. It was exceptionally well done. This would display electronic files and would have the location of hard copy. Classified documents were in some cases indexed but were hard copy only afaik. There were some documents that were hard copy only, those were usually ones with an NDA or other restriction on making electronic copies. It had every thing mentioned wrt versioning and such. Documents spanned decades with hundreds of revisions and you could pull up and view any revision. Depending on how recent and what type of document you could view a change log. Older scanned ones did not have that unless they'd been important enough to reenter as modern documents which meant OCR or manually transcribed. Some schematics were reentered into the system in a modern format. The effort was worth it. Having that data is the only way some devices or parts could be made or repaired.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system

  21. Re:It's soo cutting edge on Fedora 11 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    The preview is a crash monkey. noPulseaudio will not play nice with VLC, mplayer or the scrototem. I can't use the ATI Radeon drivers. I'll put up with it as I will not go back to ubuntu without them restoring long term features. I'll run win7 for 3D games.

  22. Re:Anyone have words about the browsing on Palm Pre Is Out, Time For Discussion · · Score: 1

    I Want A Fucking Phone. I Want It To Make Phone Calls. I Want It To Serve Me Coffee and Blow Jobs. I Want It To Look Like Tricia Helfer! Come On!

  23. Re:They're smoking that wacky weed again. on 9th Circuit Says Feds' Security Checks At JPL Go Too Far · · Score: 1

    That document is very reasonable. It weeds out all but the top of the bell curve of immoral or illegal behavior. I grant you that most JPL employees could not pass a TS SCI clearance. I think the full nude 3D body scan would make them a bit reticent. That was common practice in the 80s. Yes it's soooo 1980s. The full and complete dental photograph is ridiculous silly.

    Am I getting all pervy if I want to see me when I was thin, young and svelt? I should try and get a copy of that 3D photog. I could map it onto a DOOM 3D figure.

    I've been damned since birth, this is just gravy.

    .

  24. Re:They're smoking that wacky weed again. on 9th Circuit Says Feds' Security Checks At JPL Go Too Far · · Score: 1

    If it accepts Federal money they pwn it. What college has refused to accept such welfare and refused to accept students getting such welfare and how have the courts ruled for/against the college?

    If you'uns don't wanna be slaves don't suck from the fed trough! :-D :-D

    You know WORK for a living like the rest of us vorkers.

  25. Re:They're smoking that wacky weed again. on 9th Circuit Says Feds' Security Checks At JPL Go Too Far · · Score: 0, Troll

    Considering the lack witted diatribe he's done recently I agree. Federal funding may or may not yield good results but the pizza, beer and pot paid for with it is marvelous.

    When you throw giverment money at it you get excrement and politics. I've yet to here of a test that can tell you how much of either you're getting.