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  1. Display port to 5 connector coax adapter? on Goodbye, VGA · · Score: 1

    I still have in storage a backup Sun monitor and cables with 5 coax connectors. Seems the scanning electron microscope controller output only provides that type of connectivity. Anyone have a Display Port adapter for that type of equipment?

  2. Re:why? on Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed · · Score: 2

    Your observations are clearly the work of an informed, educated, and enlightened mind.

  3. Re:Owner? on Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed · · Score: 1
    Sure, he took care not to hurt himself. But it appears he did not care what damage he caused to other people -- that is, the gardener. The tenant did destroy the property; or did you not read the part about the back yard exploding?

    ...sufficient time to hire a cleanup crew to dispose of the explosives

    Really? Have you priced a hazardous materials cleanup crew lately? Much cheaper just to let the government burn the house down and sell the land.

  4. Re:Or... on Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think you have your basic anatomy incorrect. Basically, the majority of men like having sex with women; for the rest your comment may apply.

  5. Re:Why not Dallas, TX? on AT&T Goes After Copper Wire Thieves · · Score: 1

    The unions would sign them all up, take their dues, then send them on strike.

  6. Re:Currently inducing a headache... on AT&T Goes After Copper Wire Thieves · · Score: 1

    You forgot to turn your post sideways before delivering the punch line.
    -1 for lack of style.

  7. Re:Wow! on AT&T Goes After Copper Wire Thieves · · Score: 1

    Only if someone finds a good lead to connect them to the spike in thefts.

  8. Re:Wow! on AT&T Goes After Copper Wire Thieves · · Score: 1

    Only if the charge is coupled with resisting arrest.

  9. Re:Copper theft on AT&T Goes After Copper Wire Thieves · · Score: 1

    And traps / "bait", in the form of putting some wiring in very visible places that _looks_ like easy pickings...

    ...which is heavily coated in poison ivy extract. Won't stop them; but the thieves will easy to identify at the scrap yard.

  10. Re:Copper theft on AT&T Goes After Copper Wire Thieves · · Score: 1

    But fiber optic transmits information better. And information is power...

    Power requires a transformer to be useful. Information can only be transformed into power by human beings....and humans are the most inefficient transformers. Therefore, electrical wires transmit a more effective form of power than optic fiber.
    /pedantic_argument

  11. Re:Quality, not quantity on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of....
    If you let them dry out, the breading doesn't stick; and then you don't get that satisfying crunch after deep frying.

  12. Re:Apple will have to cede trademark ownership... on Facebook To Own the Word "Face" · · Score: 1

    Anyone know a law firm who needs letterhead? This would make great letterhead.

  13. Re:Scary on Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    I see you've never contacted Dell technical support.

    No, but by calling the Dell number I have contacted a collection of semi-autonomous, partially intelligent voice response systems with limited input parameters and limited output responses.

  14. Looking in the wrong places on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Industry constantly tells the Universities they need more C/C++ programmers for industrial systems. If all you are looking at is web based development, you are seriously limiting your options. I suggest a less restrictive filter on your search parameters.

  15. Re:it's been said on LimeWire Lives Again · · Score: 1

    Too many high profile special interests are attached to either monkeys or keyboards. Therefore, the *IAA will have the FDA interrupt the normal food sources of monkeys; and require them to eat the same processed foods as humans. From the artificial preservatives and genetically engineered rape seed oil, the monkeys will eventually develop attitude problems and social dysfunction. Depending on the prevailing genetic traits of the monkeys, they will either recreate Linux or MS Windows.

  16. Useless without effective criminal code on US Wants Upper Hand In Battling High-Tech Bad Guys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "White collar" criminals steal peoples' entire life savings; but don't get life in prison; and those eventually convicted usually don't live a life of destitution afterward. Until such time as the prosecution, conviction, and restitution phases for large scale white collar crime is equal to the crime, extra tools are pointless.The new tools may prove beyond a doubt the essentials of the crime. But these research requests should also include legislation which includes suitable punishment.

  17. Re:Huh? on USPTO Decides To Lower Obviousness Standards · · Score: 1

    give applicants greater opportunities to obtain allowance of claims.

    WTF is that even supposed to mean?

    More lawyers fees for everyone -- you pay more and the lawyers receive more.
    Market stimulus in action.

  18. Re:The real losers on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes. Return the members of the House of Representatives to their home districts. The current mode of shipping Representatives to a central physical location is based on technology limitations which no longer exist. Although many would bemoan the limitations of teleconferenced debates, a geographically dispersed Congress would benefit the people.

    The current concentration of government in one location -- executive, legislative, and judicial -- provides too much ease of access with minimal expense/friction for the private sector to influence government. The current atmosphere in Washington DC is too concentrated and too caustic for real representative government to survive. If the private cost of influencing government was increased with a geographically dispersed House of Representatives, the people might actually have a chance to be heard.

    Leave the technical details of securing the legislative process to the NSA -- give them some real work for a change.

  19. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the corporate based homebuilders who were also complicit in this scheme. During this period, home builders refused to build a new home with less than about 2500 square feet. Therefore, the market for smaller homes inflated the value of homes with less than 2500 sqaure feet till the cost of smaller homes and larger homes was nearly equal. Low income home buyers could not find a starter home in a price range they could afford. But, they could qualify for a loan for a larger new home --- they did not need.

  20. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... and 5 steps backward.

  21. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    ...anything as big or as influential to our society as Social Security, Medicare, or the interstate highway system.

    None of those 3 programs were as large nor as influential in their initial legislation. Over the decades and with additional legislation have these programs have become synonymous with enormous oversized bureaucracy. Obamacare is not such a program.....yet. But, with time and continuous legislative action, Obamacare will become a governmental juggernaut. This is why many oppose the initiation of such a program.

  22. Re:Foam the tents? There's another solution... on Saving Lives On the Battlefield With Green Tech · · Score: 1

    And canvas tents don't turn into deadly shrapnel when hit by explosives.

  23. Re:What's the attraction on Google Wave Creator Quits, Joins Facebook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Company paid trips to SpringBreak^W marketing opportunities with Hot Young College Girls^W^W^W^W Facebook's target market.

  24. 55 mph deathtrap on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    If this car can't get to 75 mph in 10 seconds or less, the last 370 miles won't matter. I'll already have been run over or run off the road in the metroplex.

  25. Re:Argh... on British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apparently the Japanese use engineers and scientists to solve technical problems. In the US, lawyers and nanny-state politicians define the problems, define what tools can be used to solve the problems, then require the engineers and scientists use the wrong tool because they won't pay for the right tool. Of course we can't solve the problem; the problem has been distorted beyond reasonable solution.