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  1. Re:A simple machine on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    He is not using a machine to accelerate down however. I don't understand. The article says he'll reach the speed of sound at 35 seconds in. It also says that Kittinger's fall lasted minutes. Why then did Kittinger not break the sound barrier after 35 seconds into hist descent?

  2. Re:I wouldn't want a HTML5 only Web now on YouTube Offers Experimental Opt-In HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    I would use Flash 10.1 if they had a 64 bit version that worked worth a damn!

  3. Re:No more working for the man on IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    Banks are in business to make money. Not to "care". Don't you know this already? For all we know the bank saw the startup firm as a good investment. Indeed, as a startup it already attracted other investors.

  4. Re:No more working for the man on IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low · · Score: -1, Troll

    In other words your father was a loser...

  5. Re:PDF forms? DIE! on Adobe Security Chief Defends JavaScript Support · · Score: 1

    Government crap need only be done on paper because the government insists that it's done on paper. The government could tomorrow pass a law saying that paper is no longer required. They did pass laws saying that digital signatures are valid. The government should get out of the business of issuing Social Security Cards and into the business of issuing digital IDs. HTML+CSS can do just about everything that is required and I say anything it can't do really is necessary! It really, really doesn't matter if a document flows exactly this way or that way - just that it's readable, comprehensible and usable. The rest is pure fluff and not required.

  6. Re:Privacy fears on Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google To Bing · · Score: 1

    Bring it on! I'd sue them into the stone age then live off the profits.

  7. Re:No mbox? on Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Thunderbird has always stored mail in mbox format. TB 3 is no different.

  8. Re:RFC-822 compatible format message on Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Instead of blaming TB why not blame Exchange and it's IMAP support? Or more properly the admins running your Exchange server! Because I've used IMAP through Exchange for years without ever any such error message.

  9. Re:Different intelligence: on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ah the emotional intelligence argument. When a wealth women loses all of her money in a scam job I would just love to ask her "It's a shame you lost all your money but how did you *feel* about the transaction?!?". Why do we give equal weight to so called emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence will not put food on the table, cure cancer, build bridges, etc. Clearly it's a lot less valuable.

  10. Re:If women are so smart . . . on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Your response did little to address the point you quoted, which was if women wanted to they could elect a female president. After all they have a majority. As for meaningful respect and the "intelligence" of women (especially young women) I will rest my case on the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww. Enuf said (and shown).

  11. Re:If women are so smart . . . on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    So you miss Leykis too... :-(

  12. Re:Call the FBI? on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    Regardless if this was true or not in this particular case, surely you recognize that this can and does happen. That people do accidentally download things and child porn could be one of them. Who are you to tell that that model was 18 or 16 and 2 months, for example? Let along viruses could infect your system and use it for file storage and transfer for other people who are engaging in the dealing of child porn. It's time we took the radical step of charging people who are actually doing the bad act - not people who are not doing the bad act. IOW the person making the child porn is the culprit here - not the person viewing it. It is wrong to rob from a bank. But is it wrong to watch somebody rob a bank?

  13. Re:Ignorance in the comments from the Superintende on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why don't you go become a fucking teacher and take care of 20 to 30 children with little to no help from anyone for less than what you could make at Wendy's flipping burgers

    Wouldn't that be the definition of somebody who either isn't that bright or who is bad in math? Spare me the "she does it because she loves it" crap. If that were truly the case then just STFU and enjoy that which you say you enjoy.

  14. Re:extremes on Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    How many times must this stupid accusation be debunked before people will wake up and realize this is not true. It's amazing how stupid people are!

  15. Re:Personally I believe it depends upon if you're. on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 1

    No, salaried means you get paid for the week - not for the number of hours worked in the week. On call for a weekend - take two days off. You're 100% entitled so long as your work is getting done. You see "salaried" goes both ways though most people are too timid to take advantage of it...

  16. Re:ICANN has lost it! on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 1

    Huh? Wouldn't software be simplified by not applying any regex to the TLD?!? IOW why not simply assume it can be anything (short of a null byte).

  17. Re:Wave of the future? Consider cable cost on Hulu May Begin Charging For Content Next Year · · Score: 1

    It's clear from your posting that you don't really watch internet TV. First off, people don't pay $150/month for cable - they pay more like $60-$80.

    Secondly, broadcasting TV over the internet is in it's infancy. There's a lot of problems, not limited to complications due to the technical nature of the current setup, outages in ISP, router and other problems. Grainy videos because of poor quality. Buffering issues, etc.

    Thirdly, you really can't "watch what you want" because quite simply it's not always available.

    Fourth, we have absolutely no idea of what subscription model, content availability and price they might charge. You state a "modest fee" but how do you know what modest is? They might charge $40, $50 or even $90 a month. Or they might charge $5 a month and then in the next few years that'll increase til we're paying about the same as we were from cable.

    Fifth, you do pay for all of the other crap you don't watch anyway. Even for internet TV. If they charge you the take into account what it cost them to produce everything then figure out a subscription price that overs their costs. So in that sense, yes you are paying - and you always will.

  18. Re:Maybe it would work.. on Hulu May Begin Charging For Content Next Year · · Score: 1

    My PC is not in my living room. Even with Hulu's Desktop app I still must be in my second bedroom to watch anything on it. What's what the "Media Center hacks" are. It's the process of shipping this video content from a small room with a small monitor to a big room with a lazy boy and a large HD monitor. Most people don't have computers next to their large screen flat panels in their living room.

  19. Re:Will Thunderbird 3 not blow massive chunks? on Mozilla Messaging Unveils Raindrop · · Score: 1

    Just because you don't know what the fuck you are doing (and can't be bothered to read/research any documentation) does not mean that TB is bad. Just because you resort to the mouse because you don't have the foggiest notion of already built in and standard to most modern GUIs keyboard translations like tab to get to the next input box means that you're an idiot - not the program. You can easily type in your to, cc or bcc recipients without the use of a mouse - type a frigging comma will ya! Geeze. Setting the "field" to cc is but a tap of the "c" key but did cha try that?!? Hell no! Cause you're a frigging idiot! Perhaps you can't paste in recipients but most of the rest of the human race can. Next idiot please...

  20. Re:Article is doomed to failure, but PulseAudio is on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    Here's the deal. You've over-architected it! Way before you begin worrying about networking audio, UpNP, Bluetooth, and ACLs of who can play a sound where get the damn fucking thing to work in the first place! Ain't nobody ever died by having more than one sound come out at the same time. More often than not, due to all of this unmanaged complexity, the end user has no sound coming out at all. I still haven't managed to get my mic working. How how fucking hard is that?!? There's one plug, one microphone and it's plugged in. Why then can I not record anything with it? Why should there ever be any more than one selection for this fucking mic?!? Answer: There shouldn't be. It should just work. It isn't just working and it has been just working on other OSes for quite literally a decade or more. Get the fucking basics working, down cold and (get this - a new word for you) RELIABILY FIRST! There. I feel better now...

  21. Re:The phone to have? on HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone · · Score: 1

    If you think that Bluetooth is bad on the iPhone and Andriod - just try it on WinMo! ;-)

  22. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1

    HP didn't do anything with /net! The automounter treated /net as something special if so configured. IOW it did it on Solaris and Linux too and was not an HP invention - it was part of the automounter.

  23. Copyleft it! on When Do You Fire a Headhunter? · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why I have 1 copy of my resume on my own web site and it's copyleft'ed. Head hunters are free to take a copy of it and if they want alter it slightly, but they must put a pointer to the original and only official copy of my resume that I maintain. If I find they violated the terms of the copyleft I inform them of their illegal behavior and threaten suit. I'm serious about this. Any company who does not wish to work with my terms does not work with me - period.

  24. Re:a scary thing of manipulating URL? on Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services · · Score: 1

    I get these phishy emails all the time but I look at the actual URL and see it is not actually coming from the service or agency. One time I saw it vectored to a site which I did a whois lookup of the domain name and it listed the name, address, and phone number of someone in southern Calif (not China).

    At which point you should have called them and informed them of the illegal activity. And if they didn't response with a "Thanks for reporting this and we'll get right on it" but instead hung up then follow up with a call to the FBI. That's how you stop such behavior!

    However, the scary thing is what happens if these people figure a way to "scoop" or "fraud" (whatever) the URL displayed on bottom of my browser window and in the address bar?

    That's why you "Use the source Luke". Look at the actual source of the message and see in plain text there (well HTML with tags but it's all ASCII and usually not that hard to figure out) what the exact actual URL is. And if you have a mailer that is incapable of showing you the actual source then I suggest to you that you need a better mailer!

    But on identity theft they say most of it was done with basic skills like going through someone's trash or bank employees (72% of banks report employees committed fraud).

    Exactly, which is why most of the hype about this is just that hype. However when you are dealing with large numbers there will be a percentage of people who really are that stupid. It's why we have spam and why we have phishing in the first place...

  25. Re:Yeah, but... on Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    Try http://openstreetmaps.org/

    As for token Windows box - vituralize it! I use VMWare to run Windows 7 which I use to run Playon (http://themediamall.com) to stream internet content to my TV. I'd use Boxee but Boxee doesn't do UPnP/DNLA and requires that you either sit in front of your computer or move your computer to the living room.

    With Windows virtualized I don't have to worry about it screwing up and can pretty much reboot at will.