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  1. Re:OT: Good news on T-Mobile Offers Relief for Hurricane Victims · · Score: 2, Informative

    12:11 P.M. - Army Corps: Water has become level with the Lake in the city so no more water should flow into the city, except at high tide. okay it's seems better the way you said it...

  2. Re:the sad truth on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 1

    well I techincal have a learning disability in written expression. so yeah I can't spell or appear better than 4th grade in writing, but on a system I tend to blow most others away from experiance and knowledge.

  3. the sad truth on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 1

    Well I can sum it up in a comparison to the college deplomas. I work with a guy that runs an Ebay outlet for the company. He is well paid and got hired at a larger salery because he had a BS, however the BS degree is in English lititure. I have only a HS deploma and MANY years experiance I am often hired in at the same wages as a high school deploma earns. It seems that the pay is based on how much training (regardless if it fits the field or not) you have recieved.

  4. Re:Well, take it away from the Hams... on Another View of the FCC and Spectrum Scarcity · · Score: 1

    um, sorry the new no code tech is all in the VHF and UHF very little code in that range alot of voice and TV/data thou. Besides to take those freq's back would be a nightmare when most of them are used for the Satillite retrans and even shuttle/ISS relaxation. If you are preped to down about 40 Satillites than maybe you can get a few back...

  5. Re:erasure of drive contents on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 1

    well you have some good points but I know in the mid 90's D.O.D. policy was to overwrite the hard drives in 1 than 0 a total of 10 passes. Rumor mill is the CIA and NSA shred their drives.

  6. Re:That's the truth on On the Integrity of Hardware Review Sites · · Score: 1

    well I work in server setups too, and telling a company you want a sample to test is like a kid asking for the keys to the candy store it seems. My latest project was to find 1U cpu heatsinks, I'd be better off making an addon watercooler. If you dont "own" a review site most rep's won't talk to you. I have a few that looked at the company and saw it for the potential, now they work with me to make the stuff needed.

  7. Re:Grammar Nazi on Professor Finds Fault with MS Grammar Checker · · Score: 1

    well tell him my favorite line ... A pronoun is a noun that lost it's amature status.

  8. Re:Begs the question... on Astronauts Face Bleak Odds For Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    do you realize the 100,000 foot mark was first broken by NASA with a WEATHER BALLON! A man sat in a seat connected to tanks and a weather ballon and UP he went. that was the first exploration of space.

  9. Re:why don't they build a couple more copies? on Astronauts Face Bleak Odds For Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    Why not just build some more of the russian shuttle version. They got the plans and a few models ready to be upgraded.

  10. Re:history on Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force · · Score: 1

    no earlier .. the "civil war" in 1776!

  11. history on Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    DIDN'T we fight a war so we could ignore europe??

  12. Side job .. part time army on What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? · · Score: 1

    I went into the national guard infantry ... They give me a gun a case of ammo and tell me to shoot stuff once a month. Sometimes I even get explosives ... It's WONDERFUL to "accidentally" break the company equipment and the look on the bosses face when you say "yeah I had the cell phone on the backpack so that it was high enuff to get a signal - who knew it would get shot/fall into the mortor tube and fired a half mile/fall out of the chopper at 2000 feet/ etc." for some reason I am no longer on call with the company cellphone now.... :)

  13. Re:animal orphanages? on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    no but a zoo tiger MIGHT enjoy it.

  14. Re:The lure of hunting? on Internet Hunting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well I don't care for the Webcam rifle, but having shot my first deer Tue. I can say it took 3 days to find one to shoot, and out of a herd of 7 I only hit 1, they run fast and move quick (My shot was while the deer was at a full run so about 15-20 MPH and they bound so about 4 feet up and down movement at the sametime) so a sure shot is never garented. I can also answer yes all the meat is going in my freezer (100 lbs and it cost $100 after lic. ($24) ammo ($5) and butcher($70). Grain feed beef is going for $2 a pound so I saved some money there. The hide is being taned for a new chair cover for my desk and yes the meat tastes good. Many butchers in the area have deals made with tanners to supply the hides for use in leather wallets, watch bands etc... besides there have been attacks where the deer wins... http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/11/12 /local.20041112-sbt-MARS-B6-Bowhunter_reports_at.s to "NORTH VERNON, Ind. (AP) -- A 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry deer."

  15. Re:Shoot your computer on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    umm .. I got photo's of a 12 ga slug going thru a monitor... It was a stress reduction exercise (take some old computers to the range and show them what a "critical Stop" really is.

  16. This is in place for semi's already on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    For years the trucking industery has had this in operation ... all the domed cans on the roof's of semi's track the semi to within 3 feet. The data is feed back to the company that tabs up how many miles the truck moved in each state that figure is than multiplied by the road use tax (from .31 to .55 (ohio i belive) per mile, depending on state) this is why truck stops don't charge semi's fuel tax. Instead the charge for how many miles, it was forced when trucks started fueling in a cheaper state and driving thru another without buying fuel. Often trucks fuel in indiana or pennsyvania in order to avoid giving Ohio any money. States started to see that fuel taxes were going down and discovered that peopel would by the cheapest gas (DUH!!) even if it ment from out of state.

  17. just think on A Private Home For Retired Supercomputers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    can you imagine the AC (both power and cooling)demand for a good quake bake? :)

  18. Re:How much raw material have we got? on Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution · · Score: 1

    well the new breeder reactors that are being developed will allow us to enrich enuff material to reseed the reactor, by-product is still the waste, but we will keep creating new radio active material to power the generator. the "grow" time is close to equaling the life span of the material. Problem is that anything that touches the radio active material is considered waste (the water and even the dust from the rooms are now being shipped to areas for dispoasel)

  19. Re:From today's NYtimes... on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    well as an instructor for the NRA I see both sides on this. Infact locally the lawyer briefs that shooting a criminal in "self Defence" will cost $30,000. this cost is in the wrongfull death and also the murder defence lawsuits. You MAY win but you still have to pay the lawyers. However I have meet several students that are taking the class to get a concealed weapon after being threatened (the most recent was a female lawyer, the judge recommended our instructors to her.) On a personal side a gun and a big dog ... let the dog deal with it and if they kill the dog than you have a stonger case to shoot the guy in self defence after all he killed the dog so he may be planing on killing you. mostly a dog and a lock keeps honest people honest. As for the family, my wife finds skeet shooting relaxing (she gets to break things using ecessive force, very theraputic). My daughter is trying to get a scholarship in riflery to pay for college. I will admit 80% of firearm accedents are from people other than the gun owner handeling the firearm, so YES teach your children well if you have a firearm in the home.

  20. it's true on McAfee lists Adware in Top 10 Viruses · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I got hit by ads234 or also called midADDdle ... It is a VIRUS, spybot adaware even hijack had problems removing it. It had 4 copies running and when you deleted one file it reinstalled all 4 changing the names. It even had a few process in the backgound checking to make sure it was all there running. I had to ripe the whole system apart to fix it. I never aproved or wanted it but man removing it was harder than getting rid of the stoned monkey virus.

  21. Re:Yeah, but... on Getting Your Boss To Buy Lava Lamps · · Score: 1

    wait, hook it up to heated chairs... with the way the boss scrimps on heating that would be nice in the winter.

  22. What we really want to know on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 1

    okay is this stuff better than what eye doctors use for glasses now. I'm sick of my 8 year old always breaking his glasses or scratching them so will this stuff survive a growing kid for reading glasses?

  23. Re:Amazing cost on Olympics to Have Massive Surveillance Network · · Score: 1

    Well I can say from first hand experiance at atlanta the strip joints went from $1 tip for dancers to the dancers expecting $10 tips. The cover charge and drink prices doubled. The food was also more expensive, the only saving grace I had was as part of the security detachment from the army we got drinks for free (what the athletes and VIP's didn't want) Security was a show (8 hour shifts sitting in chairs most equipment was turned off to process people for venues faster) until the bomb went off and after that well we were very ragged at the end (12 hour shifts tons of gear high alert).

  24. Re:Everyone remember what a hit the Barbie PC was? on Disney Enters PC Market · · Score: 1

    well I used a "hot wheels" system 2 weeks ago ... as a target for my 12 gauge shotgun.

  25. Re:ick on Disney Enters PC Market · · Score: 2, Funny

    naaa, it'd only get mary kate and ashley pic's. Or worse yet a search for porn comments on the "little mermaids" belly button.