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  1. Re:How very /. of him! on Massachusetts' CIO Defends Move to OpenDocument · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm stating the obvious. But can't we use a standard already in place. How about HTML or XML to do the formatting? You just need a browser to view the document. The compilers can be retooled for an office enviroment.

  2. Re:The hell? on SCO Tells Courts What IBM Did Wrong · · Score: 1

    You should have the right to face you accuser and the evidence brought forth. If sco will not provide the later, then they should outright SHOVE IT!

  3. Re:Who should decide? on Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Or drop it in the middle of the ociean next to a subduction zone. Over millions of years, the Earth crust will swallow the stuff up back into the mantel.

  4. Re:This sounds like a good idea to me. on Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

  5. Re:I love it! on Unblock Google Cache in China · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Bullets are cheap, and the CCP knows it. Their mantra is that life is expendable for the "greater good" of the party and it's power needed to control China. They might even nuke their own city if need be to keep democrocy from taking root.

    You have been reading on on the latest bolsters by the CCP lately, right?

  6. Re:Wait a minute . . . on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    Be it the CEO, or company. But I agree. It's greed at the heart of this issue. Go ahead, let them piss of the rest of corporate America when they have to pay higher bandwidth bills to conduct e-business. This will REALLY backfire all the way to Washington DC. Oh ya, this will get real political. You can bank on that.

    As for us geeks. It's time we kick ma-bell to the curb and start doing P2P WiMAX when it comes available. Start of at the local city level, then worry about interconnects between other cities later.

  7. Skype THIS! on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    With Skype to Skype calls the information is encrypted. What I want to know is, can it still be detected as VOIP traffic at this point?

  8. Re:Sprinklers wouldn't have on Fire Destroys Southampton Fibre-Optics Center · · Score: 1

    So do you suspect an act of arson? Being that this happend at a Uni, there are lots of potential motives...

  9. Re:Bullshit on Underground 'Cold War City' For Sale · · Score: 1

    I hope your not afraid of the dark. Just imagine being in the middle of this installation and all the power goes out.

    Ya, that would suck.

  10. Re:Does it really matter? on Start of Life Gene Discovered · · Score: 1

    find it even funnier that Republicans throw a massive tantrum with regards to abortion in the US, even when done under the best possible circumstances (ie. as early as possible, and so forth).

    How about the MAJORITY of American throwing a massive tantrum. It's not that hard to figure it out when nine judges cast a vote on the most controversial topics in US history. In fact, it's so controversial that many are in favor of putting togeather a Constitutional Amendment that explicitly states when you can and cannot justify abortion at the federal level.

    Seriously, I suggest all Non-Americans read about Roe vs. Wade before bashing America for our ethical and moral views. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_vs._Wade

  11. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    Which of course is simple a racist attitude.

    Stop the PC crap. It's NOT racist if it's TRUE!!! Go ahead, prove me wrong. I'll be waiting here for an answer.

  12. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    For the most part, by the way, people with multiple partners tend to be slightly healthier once you've adjusted for other factors.

    You have got to be kidding! I'm sorry, but if you find jealousy to be of a healthy mental state (not counting the the most important physical aspect too), you can have at it.

    There are reasons polygamies doesn't last...let alone a love triangle.

  13. Re:Does that mean... on LED-Based LCD Display Tested · · Score: 1

    Look on the "brite" side! At least you don't have to worry about dead pegs.

  14. Re:The really reason should be ... on No Porn for You, iPod · · Score: 1

    This reminds of a time I was stopped behind a Ford Explorer at a red light. While behind, I noticed he had two of those flip-down LCD screens (was all the rage back in 2001) playing video of pr0n. Needless to say, it ended with a nice "money shot" facial. ...and it's at this point I stopped drinking my milkshake I got a few blocks down the road from Sonic.

  15. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    In old Europe and America, it was not uncommon for a married couple (of Christian faith) to birth and raise 8 children or more. And yes, all by the same parrents. Of course, the main reason they had so many children was the extra help needed on the family farm. That, and birth control wasn't around other then the women to count her period cycles. So no, most successful religions did NOT involve promiscuity.

    As I know, you can have more then one wife according to Islamic tradition. However, in order to prevent promiscuity outside the trusted family circle, women have no rights and thus are very very tightly controlled by the men. While I'm against this form of religion, it does work from a survival standpoint in keeping STDs from running rampent in their society.

  16. Re:quite interesting on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    we'll have fun galore when that happens. a true righteous moral civil war.

    Ok, I'll raise your poker bid...

    We'll have fun galore when the "gay gene" is found. Watch what happens when the pro-abortion and pro-gay crowd fight eachother. Could it be the gay community takes a stance on pro-life?

  17. Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Religion goes back as far as human history has been documented. Being that the basic tenants of religion build on each other, I often wonder if promiscuity is shunned in almost all of oldest civilizations because it comes from an implicit form of survival. In other words, if you have just one faithfull partner, your chances of survival are much MUCH greater in times of a massive STD pandemic.

    Take Africa and Asia for example where AIDs runs rampent. If this trend continues, only the religiously faithfull and monogamous will survive to carry on their genes and culture. In the mean time, I think we are seeing a deadly transition taking place.

  18. Re:Good strategy on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    Too bad he couldn't have said that about Iran given the news lately.

  19. Re:Comparison on Internet Plays A Large Role For U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    Easy. Just rate how loud the DB is when jackasses call into the call center screaming bloody murder with rage all pissed off that they cannot get online. Be it PC, or cable modem issue. I mean, you can take someones TV away. But you be DAMNED if they lose internet connection.

    Ya, I say the Internet is very important.

  20. Re:Better Late Than Never on Speaker of the House Starts Blogging · · Score: 1

    Unless of course, success gets you a intern under your desk.

    Ummm..you do know that Bill Clinton is a Democrat, right?

  21. Re:Pretty good, but the Republican Playbook is bog on Speaker of the House Starts Blogging · · Score: 1

    Exactly! I think Penny Arcade summed it up rather well. http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2004-03- 19

  22. Re:Yeah, but at least you won't have to on Price of Power in a Data Center · · Score: 1

    Truth is often found in jest! Seriously, I only run such programs that taxes my CPU 100% mainly in the winter time (or anytime it's cold for that matter). Because I need my appartment to be warm anyways, it's not wasted heat. Rather then turn my heater on, I just let my 2.8Ghz P4 rip away at 100% load. So ya, not only am I doing something usefull but I'm also taking advantage of the heat.

  23. Re:Folding on Price of Power in a Data Center · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter. CPU cycles are not cheap, they cost money in terms of wattage used. The more data you throw at your CPU, the more power they consume. After a while, that DOES add to the electric bill.

  24. Re:The other side of the sword ... on Scientists Complete Map of Human Genetic Variation · · Score: 1

    Flamebait?! The mods are on crack today. I see thing flaiming about the parents post, rather it's informitive.

  25. Re:It better be good on Handwriting Recognition on DS · · Score: 1

    My handwriting ranks the worlds worst. If Nintendo needs beta testing, they should ask for samples of my writing. Then, I would give them the discription of what I wrote in typed format.

    Ya, it's bad. I'm afraid I would freak out the CPU and cause it to shut down in a fit of fear.