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  1. Re:Bah on Lala Invents Network DRM · · Score: 1

    The Morrigan? That'd be goddess.

  2. Re:Really Germany? on German Gov To Ban Paintballing After Shooting · · Score: 1

    Hey they're the proto-Nazi pool they're bound to do evil. Taking all their war toys away will eventually let them speak French.

  3. Sell it on What To Do When a Megacorp Wants To Buy You? · · Score: 1

    Take the money and leave. Do not stay in any position where you're dependent on them. If there is any non-compete clause have it reviewed by an attorney. Start something new that you want to do.

  4. Combat it with WWBND on Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Soy Printers ? on Soy-Based Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer soylent toner.

  6. Re:oh yummy on Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE · · Score: 1

    I'll point and KDE 4 and mock you.

  7. HL Menkin Re:Public education... on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    "That erroneous assumption is to the effort that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence....Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its am everywhere else." - H.L Mencken, The American Mercury, April 1924

    http://www.oldthinkernews.com/Articles/oldthinkernews/mandatory_public_schooling.htm

    Teachers should be whipped.

  8. oh yummy on Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE · · Score: 0, Troll

    Twiddly idiocy on the desktop where twittering morons, myspaced hellspawn and facebooked crack heads can crap all over my desktop. KDE doesn't get it, hell guhnome 'regressed' back to what KDE was and is usable and KDE 4.xx is excrement.

  9. How to fix the damage, how to offer a bounty? on NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    I'd offer a bounty for a competing product. I'm going to talk to the Adblock folks and see if they can't just take his code and make it their own but would like more options.

  10. Re:Seems like the Swedish know what to do. on The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many many laws are on the books that forbid or seriously cripple third parties. There are some areas a third party CAN NOT GET ON THE BALLOT BY LAW.

    Ask the Libertarian party (not to be confused with libertarians) how hard it is to get on the national ballot. They cannot get on some local ballots, in some cases not even as write-in candidates.

    Both the Repulsocrats and Demicrats were more than willing for that legislation to happen. The only thing allowed has been usurpation of a party which the neo-cons did to the Reps and the socialists did to the Demis.

  11. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    In a building with the stairs next to the elevator the elevator shaft catches fire and renders the stairs unusable. There's good design reasons for having the stairs away from the elevator. There's also a reason some taller buildings have short run elevators and stairs. They break up a fires path.

  12. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    No it's been scientifically proven there is no such thing as Algore Rhythm, he's not black enough.

  13. Re:Margaret Atwood on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 1

    It depends on the author. Some will send you a book plate that affixes to the book. Some will sign a book if you send it with return postage. Some will refuse to sign anything sent without permission. Some only do signings in a controlled setting, etc.

    I was reading where some nutjob harassed Piers Anthony till he relented and signed a book but he's a bit of a wimp. Most would have jailed the cretin.

  14. 5 seconds on Rugged Linux Server For Rural, Tropical Environment? · · Score: 1

    Google 5 seconds. Decent price, rugged, din rail mountable and works at 95 percent humidity non-condensing.

    http://www.emacinc.com/rugged_linux_sib

    SIB-04000 ...... Standard 400 Mhz Linux Rugged 256/256 SIB USD750.00
    SIB-04010 ...... Deluxe 650 Mhz Linux Rugged 512/512 SIB USD885.00
    PER-PWR-00061 .. External 36 Watt AC Power Adapter USD 30.00

    Hardware

            * Intel ULV Celeron Fanless 400 MHz based SBC
            * 256 MB DDR RAM Expandable to 512 MB
            * 256 MB CompactFlash(TM) Flash Drive Expandable to over 2 GB
            * DB15 Analog SVGA connector & PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
            * 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
            * Three RS-232 & one RS-232/422/485
            * Two Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 ports
            * 6 General Purpose I/O lines accessible through a Screw Terminal
            * Watchdog Timer
            * Extremely Reliable (No Hard Drive or CPU Fan)
            * DC input Integrated Power Supply
            * Power On/Off Switch, Reset Button, & Indicator LEDs

    Options

            * Intel ULV Celeron Fanless 650 MHz based SBC
            * Optional replacement of one 10/100 BaseT port to 1000 BaseT
            * Shock Mounted Hard Drive
            * Additional RAM & Flash Capacity
            * AC Input Power Adapter

    SPECIFICATIONS
    Hardware

            * CPU: Intel ULV Celeron Fanless 400 MHz
            * RAM: 256 MB DDR SODIMM RAM Expandable to 512 MB
            * Flash: Type II Compact Flash slot with 256 MB Flash Disk
            * Serial: Three RS-232 & one RS-232/422/485 Port
            * USB: 2 USB 2.0 Ports
            * Power Supply: DC Input, 9 Vdc - 30 Vdc; Output, 5 Vdc @ 6A (30 Watts)
            * Construction: Rugged Extruded Aluminum Chassis
            * Mounting: Desk/Wall mount or DIN Rail
            * Dimension: 8.25" (W) x 2.53" (H) x 4.21" (D)
            * Weight: 4.75 lb.
            * Operating Temperature: 5F - 140F (-15C - 60C) (CFD)
            * Operating Humidity: 5 - 95% @ 40C, non-condensing
            * Vibration: 5 grms / 5 - 500Hz / random operation (CFD)
            * Shock: 100 g peak acceleration (11 msec. duration)
            * EMC: CE/FCC class A

     

  15. Blasphemer! on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Heretic!
    Earth killer!
    LIES!

  16. Get the shirt on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  17. Re:"Great link apocolypse" WAT? on Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    About what I was thinking. It sounds like someone pissed their panties about not counting click origin and in some way not making money. If the batshit paranoiac morons can't put up a shortened URL to START with then they need to gag on their own spittle.

  18. Re:I don't know if someone proposed this but... on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 1

    I'm almost bald but I'm not that cool.

  19. Re:I don't know if someone proposed this but... on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 1

    I meant cutting a pass in the mountains which would allow a severe weather pattern change that would benefit the western states. That was proposed as a use for atomics but I'm not sure by whom.

  20. Re:In my case on How Does Flash Media Fail? · · Score: 1

    I want one. Someone else has done the 'make a sealed case out of solid metal' but I was not happy with how they'd done it.

    1) Make a solid metal case but the board will be inside and wires run through a hole to the USB connector. It's then very easy to pot the board with Dow potting compound.

    2)Make a PCB and solder the connector and wires to it, conformal coat it by hand but leaving the inportant part uncoated. Mount it so it's reasonably robust.

    3) Make a cover that either threads on or locks on but cannot be fully detached so it's not lost.

    I'm partial to a hexagonal body so it doesn't roll but has a screw on cap(s).

    Because I've seen how some places manufacture stuff I'd want to build the whole stick from parts in a proper ESD preventing environment with proper procedures being used.

  21. Re:I don't know if someone proposed this but... on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we do that to California?

    If a wide enough opening is made in the mountains between California and other desert states would it bring good climate change? If Arizona, Nevada, etc could be made lush I'd nuke 'em.

  22. Re:hit them back on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: -1, Redundant

    As an added bonus he's hysterical. You have got to read the letters. :)

    http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm

  23. Re:You'd be betting correctly on No More OpenMoko Phone · · Score: 1

    I agree. I had an Erickson phone and it was...a phone. It barely had a list of phone numbers with names. It is a large brick and I have used it as one with no ill effect...to the phone. I finally killed it after six years of abuse by dropping it in water then disassembling it and losing the elastomer conductor that joined the microphone to the board. I've hated every 'phone' I've had since.

    I want a phone. I want one with 30 days battery life. I want it to ... make phone calls. I now need the list of names with numbers but give me more than 20 characters so I can add hints as to who they are. It can have a character based LED or LCD 'screen'.

  24. Amiga the alternate music on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 2, Funny
  25. Re:And next up on Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work · · Score: 1, Troll

    So you'll send the government with it's guns to stick in someones face if they don't 'share'. If you were not a coward you'd steal from the rich and give it to the poor and take any consequences this would garner you.