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  1. This had been going on for some time. on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1


    Pick up a book meant for grade school math from the 1800s, then pick up ones for each decade till the present.

    Grab copies of history text books for a certain grade for each decade from as far back as you can go and compare how they treat the subject of the bill of rights, how government works and what government is intended to do.

    Home school your children when little. You will get to teach them what you believe which important in a near theocracy. You can teach them enough critical thinking, math, english and other skills to survive the propaganda, indoctrination and idiocracy of later schooling.

    Even keeping them out of the public system for a few years is of benefit.

  2. Re:Insurance? on FCC To Hold Hearings On Early Termination Fees · · Score: 1

    The phone is a refurbished piece of shit that costs $30 on ebay but you get to pay $50 for it.

    This was Chachingular.

  3. Re:So, basically on Is 'Corporate Citizen' an Oxymoron? · · Score: 1

    Fascism is Italy's baby. There are bits and pieces of Facism, Communism, Socialism and Meism in America. As long as they mostly cancel out we win. ;) The rise of mega-corps should be stifled as the trust busters have done in the past. Unfortunately this will not happen in this century. Megacorps will become virtual nation states with citizens and if you do not belong to one you will be a non-entity.

  4. Re:Extremophiles on Phoenix Mars Lander Deploys Robotic Arm, Possibly Finds Ice · · Score: 1

    Great Salt Lake is at a water activity of 0.75 at 30 percent salt solution and has life.

    http://biology.fullerton.edu/biol302/envir.html

    It's still dependent on an ecosystem. If anything could possibly be alive there it would be eating leftovers. I pity the first people to go there because they'd NEW FOOD. ;)

  5. Re:I can confirm on Review/Overview of Lightweight Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm surprised at getting rated funny. I have a Stinkpad P90 that meets those specs but it's running a badly mauled RH 7.3 (botched 7.1 upgrade) and I don't trust it's security so don't let it play in the information freeway.

    I was using it as a picture server with dyndns. It works fine. I was able to do an FTP install and will probably have to again with something that will work. I've just been to busy to muck with setting up something.

    My current picture server is a rack mount Pentium with the F00F bug, 32 meg but a whole 4 GIG hard drive!!!

  6. Re:Why not Debian? on Review/Overview of Lightweight Linux Distros · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can it run on a Pentium 90 laptop with 32meg ram and a 340meg harddrive and be installed with only a couple floppies and wired network card?

  7. Re:Time Limits on What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    They can fudge that but it's a start.

    If they have a patent and do not challenge a product that is using it without license within 90 days they lose the right to gain any compensation at all for that one instance.

    When they do, within 90 days, challenge a product using their patent and win they cannot get any punitive damages but only what comparable patents get per each use. They also cannot get an injunction prior to a formal ruling, they'll get their fee for however many products are made so can STFU.

    BUT if the person who used their patent had made some reasonable attempt, such as publishing specifications in well known tech journal and waited a reasonable time then the patent owner gets squat even when they get a formal ruling of cease and desist. It would be in the manufactures best interests to publish full and complete specifications. ;)

    Patents that cover government or internationally mandated standards are lost. No money, nothing. Any patent mandated by government to communicate with, do business with or garner contracts with government are lost. If you don't want them used protest it within 90 days and force the gov't to use eminent domain.

    This should take away all benefit from patent trolling and submarine patents and people leeching via government mandate.

    If it can be shown that the sole purpose of a patent is to landmine/submarine/stealth their IP to be negatively used against the unwary then a jury could strip them of all rights to it and a jury would be required to make such a decision regardless of the infringement decision.

  8. Re:Need more input! on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had a REV 8 linksys and it would be perfect as it LOCKS up on max bandwidth. The internal webserver also crashed and it won't take open source firmware. I got a good one when I bought a Buffalo that rocks, just before a texas judge stopped their product from being sold here.

    DD-WRT would do that easily. It can do it to wireless as well. Look for a compatible router, preferably one that can take a full install and strangle their link. ;)

    http://www.dd-wrt.com/

  9. Lets see how far back we can go. on Teen Discovers Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Cantenna? on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    Super Cantenna SCB10
    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2859

    The best homemade one according to this article is fabricated from a Nally chunky soup can.

    http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

  11. Re:How about... on Automated PDF File Integrity Checking? · · Score: 1

    md5 is good but computationally intensive. It would be good to make one at first but is there a known way to detect a bad file that takes less time? I don't know if a simple CRC or even modulo-11 would be bad or good.

    I'm definitely not a programmer nor math geek. :(

  12. Re:Pretty crappy FPGA on Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Has Xilinx solved their exploding chip problem? We couldn't keep them on the board. It was not their high end but I've not seen Altera's do that.

  13. What is Britain? on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    He had a lot to say.
    http://www.amazon.com/Country-Right-Left-1940-1943-Journalism/dp/1567921345

    My favorite though it is most hated by some political persuasions is this.

    Even as it stands, the Home Guard could only exist in a country where men feel themselves free. The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  14. Smoking crater on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They pulled down yalla ya Nasrallah for a while so they do not have clean hands.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=268395414333521428

  15. Re:WoW's peaked. on Age of Conan's "Kinda" Launch and Massive Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Yea but REAL alcoholics brew their own beer and mead and also run off some corn sugar alcohol!

    Without the taxes the stuff is cheap!

    In the US the feds don't care about beer up to 200 gallon if not sold but anything distilled is treated as a capital crime worse than terrorism.

  16. Re:But wait! on Room Temperature Semiconductor of T-Rays · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most departments only allow semi-auto rifles except for the el1te units. Besides you have to aim for the head and full-auto is to keep their heads down and stop massed attacks.

    Zombies don't duck.

    http://zombiehunters.org/

  17. Re:I know the solution on Quantum Cryptography Broken, and Fixed · · Score: 1

    "When using quantum communications I always use Schrödinger's cat-5 cable. A quality product of the Jollyreaper company."

    I lol'd really.

  18. Re:Dual Boot on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    They may clone the drive then use automated tools to see if there is anything 'fishy'. They'd have your identity. They could then politely ask wtf you were doing and escalate it or just brown bag you and not tell anyone while you're dismembered till you talk.

    It is better store the data in a way that it does not look like data. One gigantic outlook file that has 10s of thousands of emails with lots op P3/\/15 spam. Every bit of that can be mangled with junk that is really data yet still look like spam.

    Stenography is not mature enough IMHO. It needs more guile built in.

    Where the stego/ecryption program would reside is a problem. Either on an SD card that can be smuggled through a metal detector or on a private website somewhere. You'd need a way to clean all the gunk windows loves to crap on your harddrive prior to anyone touching the PC.

  19. Re:Do you really want NSA developing your OS? on How the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level · · Score: 1

    The geek side of NSA is excellent and they've done a tremendous job with the US governments electronic security infrastructure. The political side is not so good but it is fortunate that we have rather fast turnover for elected officials so that they can't do too much damage.

    It's not perfect.

    What does the most harm is when any government agency is given too much power by the laws that are enacted. Then you should point the blame at the legislature and the executive.

  20. Re:A rare topic on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    It's actually Y2.38k the revisions are based on years I think.

  21. Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease on DVD Porn Viruses Ravage US Soldiers' Computers · · Score: 1

    http://whattorture.blogspot.com/

    When the 5,000th soldier dies CNN is giving away free toasters.

  22. Re:An update on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    I thought it was 3/5ths.

    Population is self regulating.

  23. Re:Seen it longer ago on Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art · · Score: 1

    Ewwwww git that thar HTML thing OFF me! ;)

    Those don't require fancy schmancy lyebraries nor nutin!

  24. Seen it longer ago on Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art · · Score: 4, Informative

    pngtopnm | ppmtopgm | pgmnorm | pnmscale -width 80 | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtoascii

  25. Re:the new dr. who sucks... on Use BitTorrent To Verify, Clean Up Files · · Score: 1

    The first season is written by a schizophrenic that likes lesbian porn. Too many contradictory episodes and only two good ones. They need to get rid of the immortal, the generic asian chick and the geek, do something about the cop that doesn't know how to use a real gun and put a spine in her and flush the traitor down a toilet as organic residue. They really need to drown some of the writers.

    They could be the first series to kill off all but one of their franchise characters and several of the support crew!