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  1. Re:Heard this one before on Google's Internal Company Goals · · Score: 1

    Well observed. And no word on Open Source either. Really the good guys.

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  2. Re:Lack of argument ... on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 1

    You are right. I only read what I wanted to. THNX for the alert.

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  3. Lack of argument ... on New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing · · Score: 1

    The article first gives the "miserable failure" example and then says that it will be hard to bomb someone well known. Well, it is politics.
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  4. Re:There may be a link on Ice Ages Linked to Plate Tectonics · · Score: 1

    It is nnot only global warming, it is eating up resources as well. The Living Planet Report 2006 gives some insight.

    From the site: Effectively, the Earth's regenerative capacity can no longer keep up with demand - people are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.

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  5. Re:What? on Canadian Music Industry Says Downloading Declining · · Score: 1

    In 2003 approx 64% of households in Canada were connected.

    But there seems a problem to catch the content of the self-supplied links properly.

    First qoute: An estimated 7.9 million (64%) of the 12.3 million Canadian households had at least one member who used the Internet regularly in 2003, either from home, work, school, a public library or another location.

    A little later, 2nd quote: Internet use was highest at home. About 6.7 million households had at least one member who regularly used the Internet from home, ... These households accounted for nearly 55% of the total ...

    Or maybe I missed RFC 1149 in its full scope.

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  6. Re:Boycotts don't work on Lik-Sang Is Out Of Business · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Read about Brent Spar.

    Quote: ... By this time the call for a boycott of Shell products was being heeded across much of continental northern Europe, damaging Shell's profitability as well as brand image.

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  7. Re:Legs-a-licious! on Neil Gaiman Talks To John Dvorak · · Score: 1

    ?)

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  8. Re:Stupid question of the day on EU Rejects Spam Maker's Trademark Bid · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, I bet that at least one parvenu exists who actually did it this way.

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  9. Size is not all if things are complex .... on Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive? · · Score: 1

    Quote:

    "But simply enlarging a graphic display or workspace won't help users navigate large, complex information environments and diverse content sources. How information is organized, presented, integrated, and controlled directly affects how easily and thoroughly users will analyze and understand it -- especially in mission-critical and time-pressured situations."

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  10. Re:Paper is for old people on Deprecating the Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    How stupid to develop e-ink then.

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  11. Re:Paperless Office! on HP's Memory Spot Chip · · Score: 1

    Bah - this was already proposed in 1975.

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  12. Re:Linky link on Creating Water from Thin Air · · Score: 1

    In 1946, under his leadership, the Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where the British were headquartered. Some 90 people- Jews and Arabs, as well as British- were killed, despite warnings that there would be a bombing.

    Begin's picture, that of a wanted terrorist, was posted in all British prisons and offices in Palestine. The British conducted an extensive manhunt for Begin, who had a price on his head that began at $8,000 but was raised to $50,000. Begin escaped the British dragnet by disguising himself as a bearded Orthodox rabbi.

    Earlier, and more an act of terror.

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  13. Re:One on Billions of Planets In Milky Way? · · Score: 1

    ...
    I have just three things to teach:
    simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and in thoughts,
    you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.

    Tao Te Ching, 67

    Slightly different turn :)

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  14. Re:What are the 34 data items? on EU and US Reach Deal On Airline Data · · Score: 1
    Pulled from here:


    1. PNR record locator code
    2. Date of reservation
    3. Date(s) of intended travel
    4. Name
    5. Other names on PNR
    6. Address
    7. All forms of payment information
    8. Billing address
    9. Contact telephone numbers
    10. All travel itinerary for specific PNR
    11. Frequent flyer information (limited to miles flown and address(es))
    12. Travel agency
    13. Travel agent
    14. Code share PNR information
    15. Travel status of passenger
    16. Split/Divided PNR information
    17. Email address
    18. Ticketing field information
    19. General remarks
    20. Ticket number
    21. Seat number
    22. Date of ticket issuance
    23. No show history
    24. Bag tag numbers
    25. Go show information
    26. OSI information
    27. SSI/SSR information
    28. Received from information
    29. All historical changes to the PNR
    30. Number of travelers on PNR
    31. Seat information
    32. One-way tickets
    33. Any collected APIS information
    34. ATFQ fields"



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  15. Re:Cautiously optimistic on Indian State Encourages Microsoft Removal · · Score: 1

    Check out some history books ...

    OTOH, some anthropology might give some more unbiased insights.

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  16. Re:Society creates art, or art creates society on Jamais Cascio on Gadgets and the Future · · Score: 1

    The answer, obviously, is that neither choice is exclusive of the other, and that both are often true.

    Yes, some call it interaction, and some add "weak" and "strong".

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  17. Re:This story is complete bullshit on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 1

    .cm is not a nonexistent domain. It is a well-defined domain, owned by Cameroon.

    Like the set of real numbers and the set of natural numbers are both sets. No big difference, both sets (and even all numbers).

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  18. Re:Top-notch editing on Scientists Measure Gravity Change From Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but I think the more likely possibility is that it was an intentional use of mental retardation.

    Or they maybe were anticipating that they were to be "quoted" here (were dupes have kind of a tradition as I was informed), which then would be precognition.

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  19. Re:{old,new} news on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Honestly admiring you that you have kept your optimism, and I am not cynical here.

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  20. Re:cheaper -yes better - no on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 1

    I wish LaTeX were thought of more around here.

    So myself did when I was so much younger than today. But now my optimism has vanished in the haze.

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  21. Re:I totally agree on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 1

    CAUSE

    Well, an imbecile attempt to pose as a person with a good command of the English language. I apologize.

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  22. Re:Innovation on Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    May I ask what style you practice and in what school/lineage

    For sure, Yang (Cheng Man Ch'ing) for only three years now with Wilhelm (forgive him for the site, computer related issues are not his main concern) who was raised :) by Patrick (among others).

    And, yes, I agree that Tai Chi adds much to life.

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  23. Re:Pigmy chimp on Deciphering the DNA Code of Neanderthal Man · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. ;)

    Hmmm, I am just completely outdated. :)

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  24. cheaper -yes better - no on Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Printing on demand is getting cheaper and better

    There was a German transcription for DTP - "Dumme Treiben Plötsinn" (along the lines of "Dumbheads Try Printing"). So it is more likely that language and readability of printed matter will decline/degrade even more. But that does not matter, cause technical quality (10^y dpi, full colour) will be state-of-the-art.

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  25. Re:Innovation on Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Debatable if considering Xu Xuanping.

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