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  1. Beyond Global Warming on Talk to This Year's Quirkiest Senatorial Candidate · · Score: 0

    Aside from global warming, what are your major environmental priorities and what remedies will you seek as Senator to address them?

  2. Re:Bike Lanes on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 0

    You forgot to mention the most important part--drivers actually do yield to cyclists there. Hawthorne and MLK is one place where all the paint and lights actually do make us safer.

    Bike lanes are a nice gesture, and they do have their place, especially out here in Hillsboro with our 45MPH avenues. But in the city center I wish we'd do away with the bike lanes completely. Broadway is particularly bad, placing you right in the door zone and forcing you to deal with unloading cars next to the downtown hotels (I'm talking to you, Benson.) Traffic moves along at under 15MPH, so taking the lane is hardly a challenge, but Oregon law requires us to use the bike lane. As a result, myself and many others typically use 3rd or even brave the streetcar tracks on 11th. Ironically, the bike lane discourages biking on Broadway.

  3. Re:Yeah but will we be able to use our cell phones on FCC to Auction Airwaves for Inflight Internet · · Score: 0

    I'm an Oregon native, and I don't intend to start pumping my own gas.

    Our legendary former governor Tom McCall used to tell Californians to "Visit, but please don't stay." But they did stay, and its all been downhill since then.

    I'll suppose you don't even tip the station attendants, huh?

  4. Re:whooboy on A Kilowatt of Power · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, not quite... That 1000 watts is only what the suppy is capable of. The actual draw will be the combined needs of the computer's individual components, plus any inefficiencies inherent to the power supply. Likley this will be well under 1000 watts. Even so, its silly.

  5. Re:Pfffft on A Kilowatt of Power · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bah, my electricity bill is high enough with my Mac Mini drawing 20 watts. This trend towards bigger and bigger power supplies is a disturbing reflection of the overt consumption fad that spawned large SUVs.

  6. Re:Rental unit? on 1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable · · Score: 0

    RadioShack has a crimping tool for only $34. Catalog number is 279-405. I've had mine for a few years now--no complaints.

  7. Mirror on Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware · · Score: 0
    The screenshot link is broken.

    Here's a mirror for anyone who missed it.

  8. Re:They do? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 0

    Didn't you hear? God is a homophobe...

  9. Re:Yes but not because of this superstitious crap. on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 0

    I haven't been able to find a link either, but I did see it mentioned on one of the news networks. IIRC, the results were 55% Kerry, 40% Bush. That particular survey was by Zogby, polling cell phone users 30 and under (or was it under 30?).

  10. Re:Just a Precaution . . . on Absentee Ballots Go Missing in Florida · · Score: 0

    Mind posting a link?

  11. Re:legal basis for the email on Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use · · Score: 0

    And you sir should read (c)(4)(B), which provides an exception for "Noncommercial use of a mark." Read the US Supreme Court's ruling on Mattel Inc. vs. MCA Records for an explaination as to what constitutes noncommercial use.

  12. Re:True but now chance a few things on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 0

    I for one go to work during the day...

  13. Re:Claiming "terror" to justify other things... on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 0

    Indeed...

    Now if they'd just drop that darn code requirement...

    KD7ZRT

  14. Re:Even better on PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request · · Score: 1

    Masters are often recorded at higher sample rates and bit depths.

  15. Re:This is ALL YOUR FAULT!!! on MPAA, RIAA Seek Permanent Antitrust Exemption · · Score: 1

    Hear hear...