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  1. Re:It's either full body scanning on EPIC Files Lawsuit To Suspend Airport Body Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    there is one simple alternative: DO NOT FLY. When the Airlines see massive drop off in passengers when they feel this intrusive buttinsky security in the pocket book THEY will step in to help. Need to go to a meeting? do it online, going on vacation? see the local sites. If you must go overseas, try going by liner... Freedom begins when we all stop being cattle.

  2. understandable on Study Shows Babies Think Friendly Robots Are Sentient · · Score: 4, Funny

    Klaatu barada nikto -now doesn't that sound like clear baby talk?.

  3. Re:Let's get this over with. on How To Deflect an Asteroid With Today's Technology · · Score: 0

    I always thought deflection was inversely related to the amount of Kryptonite the asteroid contains.

  4. Re:Fluorescent, not bioluminescent on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 1

    Marginally related: This reminds me of a article I read many many years ago on research done with UV on Egyptian pharaoh Mummy bones. If during your life you have taken tetracycline, your bones will develop a UV glow not present if you have not. It seems there is was a swamp in lower Nubia that developed a insect the bite of which was deadly yet those who ate some local plant (I read this years ago and forget the specifics), developed an immunity due to naturally occurring tetracycline. UV glow can occur due to many biological reactions. By the way: The Mummies: Glowed ..

  5. 1gb/month on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And with the crisp iPad screen I will be able to download/stream all my favorite movies for.... enter bill shock. The cheap up front, soak them on bandwidth American telecom paradigm needs to needs now.

  6. Re:Ugh.. on The A-Team of IT — and How To Assemble One · · Score: 1

    Then fill out an incident report specifying what happened in language appropriate to pointy hair, including the requested power point presentation on how to better schedule unscheduled outages... These being the Geek skills that get the promotions..

  7. Re:Yep on Video Games Lead To Quick Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    and how to enjoy a coffee break

  8. Re:Well, this is not a on NASA Looks At Railgun-Like Rocket Launcher · · Score: 1
  9. Re:competition? on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    does ANYONE know of another service ANY service like Paypal but run reputably? I am sure I am not alone in my own personal dislike with these people. I sympathize with Notch.

  10. Re:Popcorn Hour on Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network? · · Score: 1

    Subtitle: hit subtitle button on controller, then down/ down/ right/ enter One problem is multi-line subtitle /napear like this with /n instead of space. its a bug but they work and you get used to it.

  11. Re:Popcorn Hour on Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Agreed. I also use Popcorn hour, before that I used a Avel Link Player and before that a MyIhome from El Gato ALL use the Sybas software. The Popcorn Hour handles the most encodes and you can plug in multiple servers. plus it will take a BluRay and a hard drive. Also the client for it runs on PC (XP Vista Win7) Mac 10.3 and on with a G4 of around 900mhz and up or Linux. Highly recommended

  12. Re:Sorry, Comrade on Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon · · Score: 1

    For years a direct corollary between hemlines and the DOW was observed; then came the mini skirt and all bets were off.

  13. Only 4 times and all of 10 years? on Five Billionth Device About To Plug Into Internet · · Score: 1

    The human inverse squared Moore's Law takes hold. I would expect that after 10 years the 10 trillionth device would be plugged into the 4th dimensional matrix that traces its origin to today's interwebs. I would also suspect this device would be a just born human and all the concerns we have today of security, privacy, and data will look somewhat...quaint.

  14. Re:Lots of uses for this technology... on New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off · · Score: 1

    there are many utilities that can read each block-sector then re-create a index/VTOC or FAT table. Looks like a place to make some bucks in the tech support field.

  15. Re:How do you define "different book"? on Counting the World's Books · · Score: 1

    In the 1480s a edition of Dante's Divine Comedy was printed in Venice. In 1481 another was printed in Florence. Each is the exact same text barring printer mistakes and if you are lucky enough to have the Florence one which includes the plates; illustrations. Each is also an absolute work of art in its own right and distinct from the other. Should these be recorded as one book or two?

  16. Re:Um, um... on RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Speaking as a former "artist", who, to be published, had to sign a contract that reminded one of a ransom note or the plans Genghis Khan drew up for the fair treatment of a raised city... I am somewhat familiar with the industry. Our record sold moderately; not great but OK. It earned a few hundred thousand and I have a photocopy of my one royalty check for a whopping Twenty Bucks! Some years later I got the ASCAP rights for one of my songs reassigned to me, because the label had inadvertently let it lapse after 20 years. That search and work cost far more then I ever earned from it. But it was the principle of the thing. I am very happy the Internet is raining on the parade of these ghouls.

  17. Re:Mother on Boy Builds Wall-Climbing Machine Using Recycled Vacuums · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ha! and to think, Harry Potter just used a Broom!

  18. Re:We All Wish on Climategate's Final Days · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The emails the emails everyone is all over the emails. Look at the data and the CLISTS he uses to manipulate it. I did. I saw loops that went out and nab a separate file and shoot the numbers from it into the middle of a generated graph to "smooth" it. and that was the LEAST suspicious thing I noticed. To this day I have seen little if any discussion of the data files and code contained in FOIA2009.zip Everyone is so into tattler TV that they read the nasty things people say (emails). What about what they...DO??

  19. Re:Wait... They want them to dumb things down... on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    my father (who is a scientist) subscribed to Science; the AAAS journal among others. Weekly in my youth I was required to read the Abstract on every article. "I do not care if you understand it, just read it." was his instructions. One thing I learned was: Command of a discipline was seldom accompanied by a ability to communicate it in simple English sentences. The reason Sagan and people like him were popular was that they had such an ability. It is so rare among scientists that having it becomes noteworthy.

  20. Mark Twain said it best on Daily Kos Pollster Made Up Numbers · · Score: 0

    there are Three sorts of Lies: Lies, damned Lies, Statistics. but then he did plead......Clemmency...

  21. Re:Unlucky? on Astronomers Solve the Mystery of 'Hanny's Voorwerp' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't Mythbusters attempt to light a giant cloud of gas?

  22. Re:Fuck right off. on Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As someone who has read English literature for the last 400 years, (and I do mean the last 400 years; I collect antiquarian books and read them) I can say the language has gone through various evolutions. At times profanity is suppressed at times used. Today it is abused. Go ahead, such does reflect our culture (or lack thereof). My choice is to read and not to watch the networks nor, by the way the commercials. As I said: I read.

  23. Re:As a non-developer, this is what I see on IT Infrastructure As a House of Cards · · Score: 1

    Its wonderful to ride the developer ship. But once the brilliant code is down on silicon, and runs into reality it must be patched. Patching is so humdrum, so tedious. No admiring fans, just plodding day after day finding that routine that seems to always call the variable from nowhere "Object not set to an instance of an object". Frank Loyd Wright was a great architect. People marvel at his design. Few know the name of the roofer who has to repair the design flaw that makes every Wright Roof Leak....

  24. Re:Today "malicious content" on FTC Takes Out Porn- and Botnet-Spewing ISP · · Score: 1

    " been ordered give back $1.08 million to the FTC" - Why is it any arrest results in fines that some fed agency collects....and eventually keeps? It seems Law enforcement is now more a money generation then a cost center..

  25. ah its for security on MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and everyone KNOWS how well governments can keep secrets.