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  1. Re:old news ... on Superflu Being Brewed in the Lab · · Score: 0

    they arn't and thats all I will say to that end.

  2. Re:old news ... on Superflu Being Brewed in the Lab · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because you were polite about it ... from http://www.asanltr.com/newsletter/01-5/articles/01 5d.htm "-The extent of the Soviet "toxic archipelago", to quote Amy Smithson's memorable phrase, that existed under Biopreparat, is now clear. What remains still controversial are the military plans for the use of this vast arsenal. Tucker grimly cites the allegation that several SS-11, SS-13 and SS-17 intercontinental ballistic missiles, armed with biological agents, were deployed near the Arctic Circle aimed at the United States. The envisioned plan was for an apocalyptic war: a nuclear attack followed by a follow-up biological strike. It is worth quoting Dr. Tucker: "Soviet military doctrine for strategic biological warfare called for delivering massive quantities of contagious agents against urban targets to cause panic and social disruption, overwhelm the enemy's medical system, and spawn widespread epidemics that would be impossible to control." Among the agents that would play a key role was the smallpox virus: "Smallpox biological weapons were intended for use against U.S. cities in a war of total mutual annihilation, with the aim of killing the survivors in the aftermath of a nuclear exchange."

  3. old news ... on Superflu Being Brewed in the Lab · · Score: 5, Interesting

    sorry but the USSR plan was nukes and a "virus cocktail". They would hit major cites with nukes and lay waste there, however the fields that made crops had to be saved (we ship most of the grain they live on to them). They planned to release biological weapons on the great plains, not just a little problem stuff but things like anthraz and small pox or malaria and eboloa. By mixing the virus it becomes harder to trace what antibody the hospital needs, and the next year they can vacinate some people against what was spread in the area to allow farming to resume, 2 winters later the dieases would have died.

  4. The odd truth of the sexes... on Girls in the Gaming World · · Score: 1

    Well my understanding on Couter-Strike is everyone wants to be a sniper. The eye opening point is that the russians found out in WWII that women made better snipers than the men. A few quotes from http://www.vor.ru/English/Victory/vict_16.html "The defenders of the Motherland in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 included women too. Women joined the army on a voluntary basis and became pilots, members of tank crews, snipers. One of the sniper companies was formed from women graduates of a sniper school near Moscow. The company was known as "the company of crack shooters", and its members demonstrated feats of heroism fighting their way through to Berlin. From February till May 1945 the company was commanded by Guards Lieutenant Nina Lobkovskaya." "By May 1945 the number of killed Nazis in Nina's record book increased to 89." Place this against the american icon, "during the Vietnam War, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock became the most accomplished sniper of the era, with 93 confirmed kills and 300 probable woundings."

  5. Re:OFF TOPIC: modding question on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm the teacher only has 1 ... I think the teacher needs to sit down in a students desk and wait for a real master.

  6. Re:GREAT no way around it... on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 1

    well look at the choices... a blue blood skull and bones man or a blue blood skull and bones man. (Bush vs. Kerry) We really end up choising the lessor of the two evils after the media has destroyed everyone they can't black mail.

  7. GREAT no way around it... on Massachusetts' Big Brother Tech to Watch Taxpayers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Now the government will insure it gets it's 45% tax(federal plus state plus sales plus ...well you get the idea..) I am reminded of another event in new england area, a 3% tax on tea. Residents became so mad they threw all the tea in the river (boston tea party). I do belive we have proof the founding forefathers disapprove of our government.

  8. Re:Sad state of supposed 'arcades' today. on State of the U.S. Arcade Industry 2004 · · Score: 1

    Yeah I loved silent scope, and being a hunter/sports shooter, I could last a few levels, but the fact it was about a $1 a go drove me away. I called to see about buying an old Silent Scope machine and was told $5,000 for the first generation machine (price was last year was hoping for Xmas...), I said no thanks I'll find the cheap version for the playstation on ebay. If they charged a quarter and droped the check points the games would get played more (it is more fun with friends) but the way it sits now arcades will keep shrinking.

  9. Re:from the T shirt dept.... on Navy Jet eBayed - Some Assembly Required? · · Score: 1

    Okay I know a few military collectors... one gentleman in MI has a parking lot at his home with id plates saying ATF, FBI, State Police, and finally vistors. He collects Tanks and trucks and restores them, often getting visits to confirm the equipment is not able to fire anything. (We did get a .50 cal machine gun (M2HB) to operate off of a mixture of acetelyn and oxygen with an electric ignitor...They used it for a movie even, but man, the neighbors whined and complained while we were getting the timing seq. down on it... :) ) Many of the collectors and museums know they will get visits, to the point of trying to have the agents favorite snack food and drink (the agents do take awhile inspecting the devices) and there is no point in being hostile they have a job to do. Me i sat back and watched and learned from them as much as they would let me!

  10. Re:For those who RTFA and still don't get it... on Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet · · Score: 1

    umm well a tornado went thru here last year and the local hams told the national weather service to TURN THE SIRENS ON!! (I heard that on a scanner) the hams spent the next 3 days doing leg work and reporting damage back TO FEMA (fema had no way to get reports back on storm damage but for these guys they had trained (RACES is sponsered by FEMA) also the hospital and triage sites at local schools were in contact by volenter hams. A tornado may be a small area but once you get hit it takes a lot to get it back and until the power company decides to roll trucks, your on your own!

  11. Re:For those who RTFA and still don't get it... on Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet · · Score: 1

    okay lets put it on geek personnel level ... It'll shorten your wireless access range!

  12. Re:News? on Preempting Hailstone Formation To Protect Cars · · Score: 1

    well is 2 miles downwind the toyota plant? I know the saturn plant is north- east but by more than 2 miles ...

  13. Re:Your job shouldn't be your life. on Dream Jobs of 2004 · · Score: 1

    I don't know ... driving a semi truck I was always on vacation. I loved the layovers and breakdowns all over the country from key west to sacramento. It's more the mind set that your job is not a prison and you feel in control of it. For me Stopping the truck somewhere new and taking the sites / geocaching something a few hundred miles myself / or even just to say I swam in the ocean in january (florida but the week after I was in canada, washing my swim trunks... boy did I get funny looks). My Brother is in Iraq, he spent 10 years training for war, he is finally doing what he prepared for. For him the Iraq war is his dream job. In society today what we do for money to live defines us in a small way of the person we are. So yes virginia if you enjoy your job it can be a dream!

  14. Re:Hmm... on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 1

    okay first I see "24" "12" and "10" packets when sniffing ARP traffic for more than a few min. The network should be NAT'ed and firewalled into 255^2 Class C but it's not. two it takes people experamenting to discover new ideas look at the wireless stuff we love now that was pioneered by hams in the 80's using Satilites and other device. I do like the cat and butter toast and agree however at the same time realize that they will look for ways to drop the amount of power used and charged for...look at floresent bulbs. Uncapping isn't right but some of the add-ons are pretty tempting. Finally in my area if you get both CATV and Internet you get $15 off your bill so with both "basic expanded" (no movies but more than 13 channels - only way to get cartoon network) and internet it's $98 a month, My daugther loves the Cartoon channels and with her happy it's $30 extra for the cable modem. I would love to drop the cable but tell a kid they are losing cable and they go into shock :) Finally .. keep your baseball bat (I got a 12 ga.) :)

  15. Re:WTF!?! on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 1

    thats pretty close to what I show too ... looks like a weekday afternoon. last capture mine showed a few 10.xxx.xxx.xxx and 12.xxx.xxx.xxx in it also.

  16. Re:Hmm... on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well this is comcast.. My tcpdump shows ARP traffic on my cable modem from 4 different class B subnets(XX.XX.xx.xx), and even 2 class A subnets (XX.xx.xx.xx) I could understand a class C subnet(XX.XX.XX.xx) but not traffic in class A corporate down at end user. I'm in Indiana and seeing customers in California reply to ARP's... wasted bandwidth. With this much ARP traffic allowed thru the routers it's no wonder they are short bandwidth and kicking bandwidth hogs. Comcast has great speed but at very high cost (about $60 in my area) and the limits and additional overhead they build into the network it's no wonder the people hate them. If I can wean my 10 year old daughter from the TV I will cut the cord and go to DSL (I want to run a game server anyways and DSL is only $30 out here). I am not surprised people uncap and reconfig the cable modem ... they do it to phones (voicemail, speaker phones, heck the ham's started long distance connecting the ham radio to a phone to get longer distance with out the bill), why should the inovative spirit stop at the cable company?

  17. Pocket watch on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    It's very old and very formal but to heck with the stogies... It's the only watch that won't get caught in a computer nor does the band break and get lost. I need to know the time it stays out of sight, and hard to lose. When I was in the army it was perfect, small in the pocket unseen but always ready to do it's job tell me time.

  18. Re:putting it all together on A Linux Machine For Your Collar · · Score: 1

    and the \. line .... I lost my dog you insesitive clod!!!!

  19. putting it all together on A Linux Machine For Your Collar · · Score: 1

    we get collor computers that use the water from washing to recharge the fuel cell battery and and ear clip/gps reciever ... MAN i NEED THIS for my dog! I'd never lose him!

  20. Re:of course it's crusty on The Dirt On Mars, In Words And Pictures · · Score: 1

    ua contrau .. the indoors geek has a white hue and a layer of dusty crude on him too (infrequant bathing) many rarly move from thier chairs and when do so the craeking and groaning are proof the layer of crude has solidified.

  21. of course it's crusty on The Dirt On Mars, In Words And Pictures · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's been waiting how long for us to visit? Come on think aboutit, it has been just hanging around for a few hundred years, that we have been looking at it, and they expect it to be soft and fresh?!?!??

  22. ahh yes on First Computers · · Score: 1

    the days when windows wouldn't recognize over 12 of ram and 200 mb of hard drive was more than enuff space. I miss a game on only 2 floppies (easy to back up too..) and the pride of having that 15" monitor. and leet speak was simple talking computer spec's. :sniff: I miss it

  23. Re:India on Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure you haven't compared parts of chicago and new york ... We have great riches and great slums!!

  24. Re:Average geek on Mafia Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Yes it does get funny, you know the boss did time for a minor oversight. Besides the people that try to walk up and ask all about your work for the company. It's intresting and funny, The best laugh was the manager that insisted on FOUR monitors off a single computer (man that system ran hot!!) he wanted windows for every detail as he was talking... You know somethings not right but can never put a finger on it until ... well that day you really wake up.

  25. Re:Why Debian on Perens: Unite behind Debian, UserLinux · · Score: 1

    Debian is the only distro for the sparc processors given the ammount of stuff to be tossed by universities this area has enormas potential. After all it's the students that still dumpster dive for parts and have time to write code.