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  1. Re:What are you doing here at this hour? on Mobile Wireless at Tempe Presidential Debate · · Score: 1

    I'm listening to it on the BBC 'net feed while I surf...

  2. This system can be hacked! on FDA Approves Implantable RFID for Patients · · Score: 1

    http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.a sp?ArtNum=40

  3. Re:Not on my boat on Two Ways To Use GPS With Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, and I carry a copy of Bowditch, a recent set of charts, an RB sight, and a sextant for when the fool thing breaks... and I know how to use these tools, too.

  4. Re:Stealing Passwords? on Colorado Researchers Crack Internet Chess Club · · Score: 1

    Erm, I crack other people's systems! I really really do! And I get paid to do it! By the people who contract with me to examine their systems for security flaws... However, I don't hit 'em blind - they know in advance that I'm going to be doing this. This seems like dirty pool...

  5. Re:It's not about bytecode, is it? on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I think so, too - but what happens when the mechanisms are replicated by someone unrelated to the current issue, and only needs to solve a similar problem? Kinda like a boolean process riding basic math functions called by the on/off switch, to take it to it's most basic.. is FORTRAN illegal now?

  6. Re:Nuclear Reactor Market?? on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 1

    Well-trained human beings that THINK. We hope.

  7. Re:Pirating Linux on OSIA Dismisses Gartner Linux Piracy Claim · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm one... had Windoze XP on the laptop I bought in Singapore - uniquely, the vendor offered to wipe the disk for me and delete the Micro$oft tax from the price... I used a Sarge install disk right there in the shop. He was fascinated... He e-mailed me a couple days ago that he's been able to boost his sales by a whopping 30% by offering TurboLinux preloaded on his machines... And thanked me profusely.

  8. Try National Geographic... on Computing for Near-Blind Children? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know, they're old and a wee bit commercial, but they've always been slanted towards education... If they haven't considered your particular problem yet, they should... I've already dropped 'em a line - and included a tack on the hearing impaired (my child) as well, and found their response prompt and useful.

  9. Genius? Like Henry Ford... on Keeping Microsoft Happy · · Score: 1

    Ya gotta remember Ford didn't invent the assembly line, his engineers did, and he only capitalized on it... And made a shitload. Rockefeller didn't invent drilling for oil, but HE certainly made a shitload... And the guys at redhat have been doing awright... Soo.. why you whining about a few hungry kids? The Microsoft Family grew up in abject poverty, so they know what's best, just ask 'em...

  10. Re:They don't need it anymore... on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Dunno, saw some pretty interesing shit in the White Sea in '82.. Their KGB (Department of Homeland Security) had some pretty mean ass patrol boats equipped for sub-hunting... We managed to avoid them and get what we needed, and get out undetected most times...

  11. They don't need it anymore... on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's the only reason the Navy will give up on a technology. After six years in boats, two years in training prior to, I came away very impressed with the ongoing developments of tech as an instrument of war. The Soviets could not beat us in that arena, even with Walker trying to make money off what he knew... The only other venue for tech development (outside that for warfighting capability) that has shown in recent history such rapid progress has been the race for the moon in the sixties.. Remember, the US interstate highway system was modelled after Hitler's auotobahn system - designed for high speed transport of war materiel and troops...

  12. Craftsmanship... on Mechanical Pong · · Score: 1

    As a 'lectical engineer, I pure-dee admire it for the craftsmanship... Need totighten up the score wheels, though...