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  1. Re:He should have been fired. on AOL CTO Shown the Door · · Score: 1

    You are overlooking her departure package.

    If she was fired, she would not be getting an undisclosed amount of money and benefits to go retire and be happy.

  2. Re:I Wish They Would Elaborate... on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    There are lots of ways to determine if the vaccine is effective without exposing the person to the virus.

    One such way is to purify serum from the people, and use it as the primary anitibody on a western blot against HIV extracts.
    Collect and compare the sera before and after the vaccinations.

    If only the post vaccine sera can be used in a western blot to detect the HIV proteins, then the person has developed antibodies against the virus,
    and the vaccine is effective at strengthening the immune system against the virus.

  3. whatever, on Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime · · Score: 1

    If CDs are made illegal, I'll go back to the tape cassette. I have the technology !

  4. whew, that was close on Sony Denies Holiday PSP Price Drop · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought I missed the opportunity to get a $250 PSP, thanks SONY for keeping them around a little longer.

    I for one, do not, want a cheap-ass $150 PSP to compliment my $700 PS3.
    I hope they raise the price just to show the world how much better the PSP is than the DS.

  5. Re:Arrrgg...please don't lump me in with zealots on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    yeah, I think I mangled that post a wee bit.

  6. Re:Arrrgg...please don't lump me in with zealots on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    You *really* can't think of any other reason except murder is wrong.

    I'll just throw out one reason

    Abortions are something to be against because they place women in control of their own lives. No longer will they need to
    sacrifice their career over one mistake. No longer will they be locked into a pregnancy they don't want.

    Abortions provide women with the option to walk away that men have always had in the situation of an unwanted pregnancy.

    If men could get pregnant, this debate wouldn't be happening. Abortion would have been legalized a long time ago, and
    been seen as their right to controll their own lives.

  7. Re:grass roots anti-war on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    Thanks, not everyone is open to the idea the government uses these alleged terrorist plots to manipulate public opinion.

    Since so many details of this attack were known to the governments, and so many people were captured . . . I think it makes
    several questions worth asking.

    When did the governments first know about the alleged plot ?

    What affect should knowing about an alleged plot have on a countries terror alert, in theory ?

    When did they raise the terror alert in the US ?

    What seems to be their real use of raising the terror alert levels ?

    Has this administration used terror alerts as distractions from unwelcome news in the past ?

    Does the public derive any benefits from the color coded alert system ?

    Sometimes it takes an elaborate hoax to catapult the propaganda with enough force to achieve the desired control of the public.

  8. grass roots anti-war on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm running late, so I'll just put the lines on the page and leave space to read between them.

    Joe got the boot from a grass roots movement.

    The spin machine reminds people that democrats are left wing radicals that are weak on homeland security.

    A convenient terror plot spoiled so soon after is suspicious.

  9. Re:And it still wouldn't have helped on The 'Truth in Videogame Rating' Act · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems completely unreasonable to expect them to complete the game, let alone 100% the game.

    We can't even get our government to read the complete text of the bills on which they are voting !

    Maybe we should ask the government for that piece of legislation first.

    Dear Congress Citter

              Please make it treason to undermine the credibility of our nation by voting
              on a bill without having read and comprehended the complete text first.

    Thx,
    Jim


    And then the guy has the balls to continue with a statement on ratings which mislead the buyer as to the game content.
    Patriot Act, Protection of Marriage Act, Operation Enduring Freedom, etc etc etc.

  10. Re:Backwords compatibility on PS3's Smart Back-Compat, PS4 Doesn't Play Discs · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call the memory cards compatible.

    Ps2 and PS1 cards were compatible. I could stick my ps1 card into the slot on the ps2, and use the data on the card.

    Buying a reader ($$), and making a copy of the data to the drive on the machine is not compatible, just a cheap hack
    to get the data off of another SONY proprietary memory format.

  11. Re:Why not just douse the server in gas... on Proving Which Spam Filters work Best · · Score: 1

    whoa, thanks,
    I was happy to have a connection, so I was letting it run.
    But now I'm downloading at a much more reasonable speed.

  12. Re:Why not just douse the server in gas... on Proving Which Spam Filters work Best · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm getting 8kb/s downloads from the site, it's just like the good old days !

    I'll post more next week after I watch the video.

  13. Re:Just Apple? on Apple's DRM Is Bad For Consumers and Business · · Score: 1

    Because, (and this is from the article, not my opinion )

    Companies can only use apples DRM if they pay the licensing fees because the DMCA prevents
    reverse engineering of the DRM scheme. (Then the guys cries, rubs his eyes, and screams)
    "It's just not fair *sniffle*". (Refering,of course, to people who showed up 3 years late for Dinner,
    and felt justified in bitching about someone taking food off their plate )

  14. Craigslist ? on Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings? · · Score: 1

    I know I can't be the only one that searches through craigslist for everything.

    You know, myspace has a lot of traffic too now that I think about it.

  15. Re:half good i guess on Vinod Khosla Talks Ethanol · · Score: 1

    I suppose that is true.

    But where the people live, and where they have the crops, are not close together.
    So globally it may balance out, but I don't think it will stop the increase of
    pollution in the urban areas.

  16. half good i guess on Vinod Khosla Talks Ethanol · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bio-diesel and ethanol only address the concerns about the supply of oil.

    They do nothing to reduce CO2 emmissions of our autos.

  17. Re:I agree on Vista Speech Recognition Goes Awry · · Score: 1

    and develop algorithms to determine if an email is spam,
    or just written by someone using microsofts latest speach recognition technology.

  18. Re:64%? on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 5, Funny

    basically the game consists of pac
    slaughtering ghosts, dots, and bigger dots.
    Ghosts are also hunting pac when he isn't
    hunting them.

    30% of the screen isn't available to the characters
    because of the way the maze is designed. This leaves 70%
    as the max violence percentage.

    However, in the post 9-11 world, pac killing ghosts has been
    reclassified as doing Gods work, and is seen as promoting
    freedom and democracy while killing evildoers.

    Integrating over time, we can see that only 64% of the game is
    actually violent, and 6% of the time pac is doing gods work.

  19. Re:An excellent idea on Sony Plans Deposit Scheme for PS3 in UK? · · Score: 1

    I don't get how it works.

    Lets say I want to get a PS3, I don't, but for the sake of discussion lets pretend I want one.

    1) I go into a store, and ask that they put me on a waiting list.
    2) They collect my $150 and now I'm on a waiting list.
    3) My machine comes in, and they sell it to me, and
    deduct my deposit from the price.

    So, as long as I have money for the deposits, I'm still free to speculate on the ebay market.
    I'm just not convinced ebay can support costs higher than SONY wants the device to sell for
    at retail outlets.

  20. Re:OS X Native Development Pointless on Best Developer Tools for OS X · · Score: 1

    Asking me to boot windows is the exact same thing as asking me to give up
    my command line.

    It's not an option.

    Which choice is profitable and makes economic sense again ?

  21. Re:In Unrelated News... on MySpace #1 US Destination Last Week · · Score: 2, Funny

    more than 36 hours have passed since the story was posted, I guess everyone forgot about it.
    Good question about the bot traffic though. I know i get more spam from myspace than any other site i visit.

  22. Re:In Unrelated News... on MySpace #1 US Destination Last Week · · Score: 0, Troll

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  23. Re:Quit repeating the stupid myth on Bacterial DVD Holds 50TB · · Score: 1

    IF, and it's a big if, the world was about long term thinking that may be true.

    Are the shareholders interested in sinking money into a whole new production facility after they
    spent so much on the current infrastructure ?

    What are they producing while developing the next big thing ?

    How does the knowledge that their current product will soon be obsolete affect their bottom line ?

    Can they afford to take that loss in business ?

    How certain is it that the next big thing makes up for the loss ?

    What if the new technology is better, but rejected by the consumers because of
    compatibility issues with the old technology that people already have ?

    Can the business afford to have a failure that large, and still be relevant in the market ?

  24. Re:Doesn't matter on Microsoft Hoping for Vista in January · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I personally have no reason to upgrade to vista right now.

    I upgraded to an apple. I'm already enjoying features that microsoft has been promising for years.

    I guess that's the reason it needs to come out quickly, marketing can't hype something that everyone has seen on their friends
    apple.

  25. Re:Just jam them on School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones · · Score: 1

    RTFA.

    This isn't about phones being in schools. It's about schools getting into phones.

    There are lots of reasons why parents would want their kids to have a cell phone at school.
    There are lots of reasons why kids would want to have a cell phone too.