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  1. Re:Tailgating on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Somehow safety and the issuance of tickets are related? Tickets are primarily a revenue generation system. Any traffic improvement is a mere secondary consideration. If this laser device costs X then ticket generation will increase till the moneys generated are at least X times 10. Then and only then will the program be deemed a success.

  2. Re:.NET is a mess on Corporate America Not Ready For Vista · · Score: 1

    I in no way meant to attack your religion. For doing so, I truely apologise

  3. Re:Not ready for IE7 either on Corporate America Not Ready For Vista · · Score: 4, Funny

    Recently our shop took a perfectly functional, and working softwre interface down replacing it with a bug riddenm not ready for prime time and STILL doesn't work right months later .NET product. The Microsoft or no soft mindset is alive and well so as you see, we are ready to implement Vista, IE 7, or Tooth Fairy 4.0 as long as it shines with the light reflected from Ballmer's bald spot...

  4. Re:and..,.? on Opening Statements Begin in Microsoft - Iowa Case · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. when you consider that Apple has caused countless crashes, untold data loss and unmeassured pain with the numberless invasions of the main operating system via the unmitigated horror they call their bundled browser. Adding the theft of network bandwidth caused by the leigons of zombied machines out there attributable to the unclosed ports, and other such security circumstances that to any marginally trained security professional would seem are trivial to address issues it is horrible what they have put their customers through. -Now if that statement were true, yes, I would treat Apple with the disgust I reserve for the company who really DO knowingly do that thing..

  5. Re:65 million? on Study Provides Compelling Evidence of Single Impact Extinction Theory · · Score: 1

    Ever wondered what god the dinosaurs fought wars and slaughtered each other in the name of?

    oh and regards your sig: Watch out at zebra crossings.....

  6. Re:The new mercenaries on Hackers Not Afraid of Being Caught · · Score: 1

    And the ones left after the battles,end up in control. When mercenaries are not paid, they usually exact tribute. When power resides in the Net, those who control the Net control.

  7. Re:Ultimate R/C on Unpiloted Passenger Jet Tests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I recall a Nova PBS program about a pilotless plane. It shows a jetliner plowing into a forest but then a computer was flying it...
    Honestly though. a jet pilot, in the fur-ball of combat, not only flying HIS craft but controlling pilotless drones alongside? That is crazy!. Combat already uses 110% of the pilot's concentration, adding an aditional plane(s) to his work load will tip him to overload. The enmey need not worry; the pilot will probably run into his own..

  8. Re:Did they plan on this? on iPod Has Nothing To Fear From Slow-Starting Zune · · Score: 1

    Huh? it is a picture looking down at a young lady laying on the grass on her back who might by a stretch be happy? But, her face is more the grimace associated with assault. What the HECK is Microsoft smoking?

  9. Re:Did they plan on this? on iPod Has Nothing To Fear From Slow-Starting Zune · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I downloaded the Zune SW with Firefox (that was an experience in itself). I then downloaded it with IE 6. Both on a XP box SP1. I was curious... the IE 6 download quikly, the firefox took a good 2 minutes.... now here is the interesting thing: the splash screen for the installon a SP 2 box has a background like a scene from Woodstock. The background on a SP1 box install that says "Zune needs an update" Your version of Windows or Zune software may need an update. Windows Vista support is comiong zoon (It can't tell XP SP1 from Vista?)... Ok the Background picture that honestly looks like.... a young oriental women being raped. Try It I am NOT making this up...

  10. Re:repairs vs new on Growing Problems With Electronics Waste · · Score: 1

    If every pre-used computer now stored in attic, garage, closet, or basement were added to the current junk pile, the world would have a REAL crisis. By holding on to our junk we help by keeping the problem non-localized. but that masks the real depth of the problem

  11. Re:other options on Future Ships Could Float On Bubbles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lawrence Welk where are you now that we need you?

  12. Re:A simple answer on The Death of the "Cell Phone" · · Score: 1

    "Your phone is ringing" -the term refers to an earlier era but we still use it..

  13. Re:Reusable paper good idea but only in volume on Self-Recycling Paper · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I knew the word, and even googled several varriants but took a chance on the phonetics. Incunabula does inculde some seldom used, funny words

  14. Re:Reusable paper good idea but only in volume on Self-Recycling Paper · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing new about reusable paper. In the middle ages, Monks would take priceless copies of the works of Archemedes, scrubbed them clean then bleach, cut to quarto and fold sideways, so a copy of the far more important records of the bowel movements of St Cuthbert could be imortalized for all times. The resultant volumes is called a "Palmiset"

  15. Re:Sony Defects on Sony Finds Defect In Digital Cameras · · Score: 0

    I even hear they have recalled my betamax video recorder/player. Boy! and it was JUST getting broken in!

  16. Re:It's true on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2, Informative

    Two Magic Words come to mind that will see you through all these delicate security issues in our modern paranoid world: "Always Lie"
        -The only course of action an honorable man can take in a dishonorable society..

  17. Re:I'm REALLY Serial! on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 1

    No thanks. You stated my last point quite well.

  18. Re:I'm REALLY Serial! on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Personally I never watch South Park OR Al Gore. or other politicans... all are equally relavant and entertaining; not one whit
    As to global warming I am sure it is warming Al's pocketbook but I foind hun causes to be somewhat...doubtful as do many who really view this with an open mind. To quote another on this; It seejms mankind's intervention must be causing warming even beyond this globe:

    On Pluto: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warmin g_021009.html

    On Triton: http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980526052143dat a_trunc_sys.shtml

    On Saturn: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=2006 1109-022035-4126r

    On Jupiter: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_j r.html

    On Mars: http://www.mos.org/cst-archive/article/80/9.html

    Remember; Piltdown Man was accepted as totally valid by the scientists of that day...
    Any time lends itself to "present knowledge chauvanism"

  19. Re:Never send a boy to do a man's job on Ballmer Says Linux "Infringes Our Intellectual Property" · · Score: 1

    Well... do-it-your-self worked for him when it came to dancing and office furniture.

  20. Re:Virginia SOL on Are College Students Techno Idiots? · · Score: 1

    Just the other day I was discussing Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoenhiem with my Alienist when he suddenly remembered a engagement elsewhere, So I struck up a conversation about Minoan linguistic patterns with the hostess who really had to leave to deal with the party, then started chatting about Mississippian Mound Builder cultural survivals with a fellow I ran into but when he left I found myself in a empty room and...yeah yer right

  21. Re:A Gap Filler? on NASA Proposes Manned Asteroid Mission · · Score: 1

    A mass in motion tends to stay in motion till effected by an outside poll.

  22. Re:The perfect secret weapon! on What Not To Do With Your Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is known that any given drive will max out on data in time. It would be good to...pear it down...
    Thus the users could enjoy the fruits of their labor... I'll stop now...

  23. Re:I heard about this on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    "One day while walking up the stair,
    I met a man who wasn't there.
    He wasn't there again today
    I wish that man would go away!"

  24. Re:He did lie.... on RIAA President Decries Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Gee, American weasels, multinational weasels.... hard to tell which team to root for ;)

  25. Re:Heroes on Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have heard of Linus, after all he is a a Hero. Time Mag says so, and he will be remembered as such. Who is this "Bill" of which you speak?