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  1. Re:Not the smartest journo on First Scareware For the Mac · · Score: 1

    a dissection that is not a distinction; both are forms of entertainment. Little different from the circus clown or the trained bear.
      See a old play: The Front Page for further information

  2. Re:Not the smartest journo on First Scareware For the Mac · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Remember the Brit "journalist" who posted his own data to prove ident theft a hoax? Sounds like this fellow attended the same training seminars...
    as to the crapware: gosh and golly gee! Now that I have expressed apropriate concern let us move on...

  3. Re:The Constitution... on US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A new product is all the rage in the District these days:
        Bill of Rights Toilet Paper (tm)
    It comes with all 10 printed on each sheet. Congress Critters find it to be heavy duty absorbent. Somehow though, that stuff you water the Tree of Liberty with seems to slip through anyway, just a little, but it slips through....

  4. Re:wtf on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 1

    that is why the kid is facing the law; he is guilty of showing the Railroad People to be damn fools and it is AGAINST THE LAW to point out the Emperor's new clothes..

  5. Re:Papers please on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere." -Robert Heinlein

  6. Re:ah-oh on Congress To Investigate FCC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In many ways, the 1990s on the Internet resembled the radio spectrum of the 1930s: Some commercial use, some military use and a whole lot of accademic and hobbyist use.
      Ham Radio Operators have watched the FCC for decades. And well they should; Whenever that board sits in their awsome pontification, Hams loose just a little more spectrum. Radio has been distributed in direct relation to the money distributed. Internet will follow this well worn government path. If you want a good lesson on how a service that to this day (see Katrina, see any natrual disaster) has proven its service when all other means of communication fail), to this DAY serves all of us, and for their trouble gets it in the shorts, Ask a Ham. You will get a glimpse at the near future of the "Net". -73

  7. Re:Who said Hubble was a waste of money? on Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Proving Einstein's theory was always been about getting a little behind as it were. The solar eclipse of May 29,1919 was the first confirmation of this. And, this new discovery is much like the 191 observation only writ large, one might say glactic large.

  8. Re:They've finally found it! on Tweaking The Math Behind Political Representation · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Yes, its just that one thing" - Dogbert

  9. t has to be said up front on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me be the firth to shay that I welcome our (Hic!).... waitaminute...what was I shaying?

  10. Re:Fyunch-click on Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75 Laptop · · Score: 2

    At least maybe it will brew a decent cup of Coffee? (for those who don't get the joke; read the book: http://www.amazon.com/Mote-Gods-Eye-Larry-Niven/dp/0671741926

  11. shades of future past on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    -Little fingers inside existing fingers to work with legacy USB devices... Does anyone rememeber the EISA slot standard designed to allow inserting a ISA card?
    Now all we need is a MCA driver and we are in busienss for the new world of 1992.

  12. Re:No, it's just Microsoft on Microsoft Buys Search Engine, Going After Google? · · Score: 1

    the real question is: "once thrown, can it FIND the chair!"

  13. Re:In my experience ... on Goodbye Cruel Word · · Score: 1

    I prefer pico but then that is a matter of taste too. Actually I have been in the computer field so long that my fist "word processor" was using the mainframe utility IEBGENER to transfer a deck of punch card to the printer. If I wanted to change a line I counted 35 cards into the deck, found that line and re-punched that card. Since then I have used everything from Fredwriter on a Apple II up through various Unix PC Mac Sun and gawdonlyknows what up to my current daily work on Word 2003.
      I do believe I have had SOME experience of the evolution of this field and can clearly state that most such programs just don't get it. To this day, I type in whatever I am in, then paste to whatever I need it in, then fight both apps to get what I want. No I do not wish to learn ctl shift tap your toe in app 1 to set margins, click ruler sideways in app 2, tie a pretty ribbon in a knot in app 3 etc. - Yeah I tried 2007. it sucks too but what can you expect from Redmond?
    Someone above said it: spend your time doing it or spend your time learning the tool (and in Microsoft's case, then recovering your file AGAIN when the damn thing blows up on a corrupt normal.dot! Frankly, a typewriter that ran on kinetics is less of a headache...
    At the end of the day you end up with black letters on a white sheet of paper that you fold twice and shove in an envelope. Why all the crap to get there?

  14. Re:perjury ? on RIAA's 'Misspeaking' May Have Affected Verdict · · Score: 3, Funny

    duel, dual, do all, due awl. the difference only works in legal briefs... and mine are not in a knot.

  15. Re:perjury ? on RIAA's 'Misspeaking' May Have Affected Verdict · · Score: 3, Funny

    And for this we gave up duals?

  16. Re:bad idea on Scientist Suggests We Explore 'Universe is a VR Simulation' Theory · · Score: 1

    HA! I see your end of universe and... IDSPISPOPD ....no clip my way out!
    IDDQD take that God!

  17. Re:troubling security scenario? on Researchers Say Wi-Fi Virus Outbreak Possible · · Score: 1


    Oh no! Imaginary problems are best dealt with by imaginary solutions, You hold a Press Conference and weave imagery to the media. Then they write it up. imagining they have it right. Face it, they lack the imagination on their own. Imagine that...

    - I craftily set my D-Link SSID to "Linksys"

  18. Re:34% on desktops? on The Trouble with Virtualization - Cranky IT Staffs · · Score: 2, Funny

    As with many articles in that rag...the points it seems to make are all on the boss's hair. I am sure my lack of understanding comes from my lack of righ-sized, value added, synergy.

  19. Re:Analogs on Cocaine Vaccine In the Works · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can attest to the efficacy of cocaine in toothache; At one time I was suffering "adverse economic determinism" -I was flat broke out of work. At that time I ended up with the mother of all toothaches. Pain on the transcendental level.
        I also did not have a health plan, dental plan, funny card, HMO, fill out this form, do not loose your #2 pencil, and all the other facets of modern medicine.

      I do not use drugs, am not interested at all in recreational drugs. A friend of that time though was, and sold me some cocaine. I placed it directly on the tooth and BLESSED RELIEF! It worked absolutely better then the over the counter nostrums. I do not know what experience users enjoy, but, that day, I enjoyed lucid thought free of pain and that made the experience well worthwhile. Incidentally, the street purchase price of that drug was far far less then it would cost to see a doctor, get a 'script, then buy the script without the above paperwork goodness. also whatever the Doc said to use probably would have been about as effective as the nostrums.

  20. Re:Analogs on Cocaine Vaccine In the Works · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is it cocaine specific or does it effect response to a whole class of alkaloids? I would truely hate to be in the dentist chair with drill ready only to find, rather quickly, how well this vacine potentially could work.

  21. Re:Sears is evil. on Sears Installs Spyware · · Score: 4, Informative

    I also worked a time for Sears. I can confirm the above. Their motivational technique was equal part bombast and intimidation. Not a fun company to work and play with.

  22. Re:Expensive solution to a government created prob on Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans · · Score: 1

    not just those selling TVs

    the current analog TV channel takes up a large swath of spectrum; Spectrum the FCC can KA-CHING -Sell, if the TV channel is limited to a smaller digital footprint. Over the air this will mean, instead of a fuzzy, not quite, in but you can see it, signal for the marginal stations you just. LOOSE the marginal stations. Improvement #1

    It will mean, when cell phoen service, or some other service transmitting on what was once the remainder of channel 8 causes static on your TV when that pizza deliver car drives by, you loose channel 8 Improvement #2.

    It will mean, when new digital DRM is mandated by copyright yamemr, we will all be int he position of not being able to get aroudn it Improvement #3

    There are more.. but you get the picture (or will for +40 bucks)

  23. Re:Just imagine. on Afterlife Will Be Costly For Digital Films · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or, if they don't preserve Chicken Little, will the sky not fall?
    Seriously, IF the older films are an authentic art that deserves preservation, the why is most of it scrapped on the cutting room floor? why are all the really old films sitting still on their Nitrate Stock in archives in hollywood slowly turing from film to dust?
    AS others point out, released to the Net a movie is saved in various codecs, on various media (hard drive, tape CDR DVDR laserdisc even film FOR FREE just like music and most other data is. Horrible thought that; information in the hands of the people.... unsupervised, heck UN TAXED!
    In the 15th century the Church tried desperately to put an end to this new Printing Press because it was putting their scribes out of work. They even excommunicated printers. Now we do the same only we use Lawyers.
    I await the next turn of the wheel to see what damn foolishness humans are yet capable of..

  24. Re:isn't democracy great? on FCC Ignores Public, Relaxes Media Ownership · · Score: 1

    Mere citizen think they have a better idea how to spend their lives their fortune and their sacred honor when there is a perfectly good pencil pusher around?
    Mind yer betters!

  25. Re:Actually...No. on Recent Human Evolution May Have Been Driven By Self-Selection · · Score: 1

    I am not a scientist. but I can read. I have read the classics and I see no difference in the people then as now. I do see they seem to have the same number of ribs, same intestinal track, same thumb. They may not be as resistant to yersina pestus or malaria but other then on that level, progeny would breed true. That shows Homo Sapeins Sapiens. and I see little or NO difference. Intelectual trough? where? if you mean in Europe yes, there was a somewhat lack of written record at that time. China? thriving civilization. Meso-America? also a pretty good one. Byzantum was living high during most of that, and there were periods of activity in places like Cordova Baghdad Smarakand and others. I see no trough.

    2000 or so years means a heck of a lot of generations of any species even a 3 score and 10 one like us. Plenty of time for evolution...at least, among scientist who study biology, as vs social issues...

    "Evolution" Is a godo way to trace peas, Finchs, the Giant Sloth or variosu primates but,