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  1. 20 Miles Up on Feather-based Jacobean Space Chariot · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's funny, I could have sworn gravity dissapeared within 3 inches of our receptionist's breasts...

    Although I think getting within 20 miles of them is a longshot...

  2. GoLite on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 1

    GoLite:

    http://www.golitestore.com/store/NS_proddetail.asp ?number=PA5209

    At a little over a pound, it fastens around your waist and has a messenger style strap. Result? no neck or shoulder strain.

    Additionally, it's closer to your budget than most of the other suggestions on this page.

    Plus, you won't see everyone else with it.

  3. Summary of Next 50 Posts on Browsing Reality With Sensor Networks · · Score: 2, Funny


    - Outcry From Tinfoil Hat Brigade
    - I Welcome Our New Lamp Post Overlords
    - Maybe We Can Beowulf These Sensors
    - This Will Finally Finish SCO Off
    - Something About Soviet Russia
    - A Groklaw Link Saying "We Filed Suit Against It Three Weeks Ago"
    - I Voted For Kodos

    Repeat Above In Random Order Until...
    Profit!

  4. Re:I let my account lapse 3 months ago on Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should check out BeatPort.com. New releases aer encoded at 320 kbps, and previews are a full 2 minutes long.

    If you're not into "uhn-tss uhn-tss uhn-tss" there's not much there for you, but it's great for club music.

  5. Macromedia At It Again on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought Flash 8 was supposed to have Cold Fusion built in...

  6. Desktop Realitites on OpenIPO and Lindows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mod me down if you must, but I hope that a majority of the IPO dollars are spent refining the GUI AND THE FUNCTIONALITY to be more similar to Windows.

    The fact of the matter is that it will have to more closely mirror M$'s interface than you think to be accepted, perceived improvements included.

    If Longhorn came out with an OSX-like GUI, it would work, but any other OS has to ingratiate itself slowly.

    Not that 2008 for Longhorn isn't slow, but you get the point.

  7. Federal Law vs. Soldier Training on DOD Kicks Up Cybersecurity Efforts · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if social engineering would include taking one of the students hostage when he leaves the NOC for a pee and threatening his life with a car battery, a set of jumper cables, and some titanium nipple clips.

    It seems that if I were a real enemy after real information, it might be a lot easier to take down a camo-clad cyber geek than the 14 levels of electronic protection and pervasive paranoia of social engineering that must be present in these situations...

    Or is titanium not that good a conductor?

  8. 14 days late... on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power · · Score: 1

    Technology like this has one day a year to shine. This is not that day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either...

  9. This reminds me of... on The Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Flat Eric. Not that the Baboochi isn't a good start, it seems that toys that grown-ups can laugh at through one marketing channel and kids can appreciate on their own level will always endear themselves more effectively than simple flat blue animals.

    Not unlike the Buddy Lee campaign... which succeeded both as doll-based jingle silliness for TV people and as more mature viral webmercials for the internet set...

  10. Re:One thing to say on Display Format Technologies Comparison · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've got one. It is a Pioneer Elite HDTV monitor that hangs on my wall. Nothing currently avaiable at the size comes even close to the picture. I've seen some new (HD2?) LDP projection screens, and the side viewing angles are still limited (think crowded super bowl party), and they can't hang flush on a wall. Projection screens... well, I like to watch TV before 7PM some days, and curtains would deprive my neighbors of their view of naked me... so that's right out...

    I'm more than happy with Plasma. Yes, something far more amazing will come along in a couple years, but that's ALWAYS going to be the case...

    If the plizzo (as we refer to it) gets moved to the basement when the next (LED?) hot technology comes out, so be it. I can't keep waiting for the promise of perfection. That's how I ended up with my last girlfriend.

  11. Re:Strongly disagree on Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser · · Score: 0

    You could make it say "hi"?!? Man, you are a peek MASTER!

  12. This on A Linux Machine For Your Collar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Rhymes with "betarded"

  13. If only on Koffice 1.3 Released · · Score: 1

    We could make the OS that runs the fully supportive suite more like Windows... without the penchant for taking in trojan horses and attempting to destroy it's user base, of course...

  14. Re:At last! on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 1

    There's a company called BeatPort that lets you buy .wav files, as well as mp3 or mp4... The difference is that wav files are burned to cd and Fed-Ex'd to you...

    Plus, they have like 170 labels...

  15. Nice Smile.... on The Cheese Slicing Laser · · Score: 1

    He looks like the kind of guy who will always be looking for a better way to eat cheese...

  16. Countdown... on Microsoft Unhappy With HP's iTunes Decision · · Score: 1

    3...2...1... Ogg Vorbis! Who wants my $400?

  17. Martha Stewart Talks on SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement · · Score: 1, Interesting

    An interesting study in two very different we PR campaigns. I saw on cnn.com that the stylish Stewart site Martha Talks has gotten like 6,000,000 visitors. SCO's ugly-ass site, with jagged-aggressive "source" font, makes my insides burn.

    I believe that Martha will eventually be proven innocent, and that SCO will ultimately be scraped from the bottom of this giant shoe we call earth.

    Which raises the question:

    Does lime green vindicate?

    I believe it may.

    <stay on topic>Nobody "owns" free software</stay on topic>

  18. Tried It. Hated It. on Major New TiVo Service Offerings · · Score: 0

    I owned the Pioneer DVR-810H. It retailed for $900. The DVD player provided decent enough quality, but the player itself was noisy. Louder than my 3 year old, $99 Pioneer DVD player.

    The TIVO picture quality, even at the best resolution (which reduces recording time to 8 hours or so), looke like a VCR that hadn't been cleaned for five years.

    I do not have DirectTV, only analog cable, but the picture on live TV is ten times better.

    I returned it in a week.

    IANACTE (I am not a Chinese Telecommunications Engineer), but it seems to me that since the Commercial Skip is gone, one could save themselves a lot of money buying a DVD player and a VCR... and spend the money going on a ski trip or to Mexico or something...

    How much TV does one human being need, anyway?

  19. Playboy Has Been Doing This For Years... on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 0

    But I can almost never find the bunny...

  20. The first line of the book.... on Oryx and Crake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Stand Back, I don't Know How Big This Thing Gets...

  21. iTunes for Windows on The Best and Worst Technologies of 2003? · · Score: 2, Funny

    let's make it two in a row...

  22. I Was In Prison on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    Probably not that much worse than leaving the last two years open...

  23. They Must Be on Low Powered Mini-Server for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Running their site with one... ./ v Crusoe

  24. Re:Stolen or Sold? on Israeli Super Drone Stolen · · Score: 1

    Israel telling the US to "fuck off friendly" would be exactly the right thing for them to do. The US wouldn't invade, because we don't have the military to do it right now. Plus, there's an extremely powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington.

    They would risk, however, losing 4-6 billion (last count) dollars a year in the US funds that keep it alive. It's not too huge a step for the American public to see the benefits of that money staying here, and not too far off that we can't vote out the members of congress who are beholden to that lobby.

  25. What Are They Complaining About? on Group Asks Gov't to Crack Down on Product Placement · · Score: 1

    I have half a mind to text message them on my new Sidekick and tell them to mind their own business.