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  1. Re:It gets a little overboard too on Tour De France Showcases Multitude Of Tech · · Score: 1

    Well don't forget the other persons who shops there who listens to no advice and buys all the new expensive crap.

  2. Re:This being Star Trek... on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Voltaire's song 'USS Making Shit Up' is right on the mark then... :)

  3. Content on How Many TV Channels Will There Be In The Future? · · Score: 1

    Well how about some good content on the existing channels? How about a Sci-Fi channel with little actual SCI-FI. Animal Planet and the Discovery channel line up show the SAME 5 episodes OVER AND OVER... Gets OLD quick.

  4. Re:great... on Starz, RealNetworks Offer Movie Download Service · · Score: 1

    yes, but did you have to reinstall the OS on your DVD player to get the DVD out. Bout what you have to do to get REAL out of yor PC....

  5. Takeing pictures of lightning.... on When Lightning Strikes · · Score: 1

    I had my camcorder setup so I could grab the still frames. I got this shot right outside my window. http://home.earthlink.net/~leon.gandalf

  6. Close? Like right outside your window? on When Lightning Strikes · · Score: 1

    http://home.earthlink.net/~leon.gandalf

  7. Re:Exciting, but perhaps down is the way... on Mars Rovers on New Missions · · Score: 1

    Yes, but did you know its easier and cheaper to go into space than the deap sea? Its a bitch to make a craft that can take on the tons and tons of crush at oceans depth.

  8. Re:Gotta love the 21th Century on Nano Body Building · · Score: 1

    Or just a way to do more..... Get away with more activity because that nanites will repair your muscle...

  9. So... on Robocones · · Score: 1

    which one holds the clipboard?

  10. Voice print?!?! on Biometric Voice Recognition Credit Cards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    now thats just plain stupid. If you want a biometric card put a damn thumb print reader on it.

  11. Re:Course in physics by counter-examples, probably on Physics Goes To Hollywood · · Score: 0

    How about falling off of a hellicopter and then being propelled onto the back of a train when the chopper explodes. (unharmed) Never mind the helecoptor flying in the damn tunnel in the first place.

  12. Re:*Waits in the shadows* on PC In An XP Box · · Score: 0

    hey how about a Beowulf cluster of....

  13. Leela.... on Toshiba's Wristwatch PDA · · Score: 0

    Doesn't Leela have one of those?

  14. What next? on CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel · · Score: 0

    Sue the public library if you do not like what you happen to read in a newspaper you find there?

  15. No Shit Sherlock!!!! on UFO Streaks Through Martian sky · · Score: 1, Funny

    Of course its a damned UFO... They do not know what it is and its 'flying'. SO of couse its a U nidentified F lying O bject! :)

  16. Re:Cars, DVDs, what's the difference? on Congress May Force Revealing of Car Computer Secrets · · Score: 0

    Like the error codes that I use my high tech paper clip to get out of my '89 Chevy Blazer?

  17. Re:I gave up and ripped my CDs on Obtaining Legal MP3s Outside of the U.S.? · · Score: 0

    Thats what CD albums are for.

  18. Re:I hate Software Drivers on A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS · · Score: 0

    NOT driverLESS. Drivers on internal ROM on the damn card. Besides, Software modems EMLULATE the funtions of a hardware based modem with the drivers. Thats also why soft modems only work in WINDOWS.

  19. Re:I hate Software Drivers on A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS · · Score: 0

    won't happen... Makes just too damn much sence...

  20. Re:Battle Field Earth on 'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested · · Score: 0

    I though they left that bit out of the Movie? The book was good. Please don't mix them up.

  21. So... on Own Your Own (Replica) ISS Module · · Score: 0

    where do you keep this? Next to your Tandy subway car???

  22. Re:I hate how Electric Cars look. on Aircraft Maker Will Produce Electric Cars in 2006 · · Score: 0

    Or better yet, upgrade existing cars to electric.... Those wheel motors leave for the room where the gas power plant was to put batteries. Or better yet, upgrade a truck to 4x4 with wheel motors in the front...... BTW, cars in general arre getting but ugly..... i.e. Toyota Echo, Pontiac Aztec, Honda Evo, Chevy Avalanch.... its a trend across the board.

  23. Re:Alternatives on Courts Overturn FCC - Return of the Monopoly? · · Score: 0

    A nice alternative is a Cable based high speed internet and a VoIP phone provider.... I pay NOTHING to the local telco.

  24. Re:Tap in... on Cincinnati Gets Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 0

    DUH! But it is dedicated to the task and is not prone to being unloaded do to taking up resources on the pc it is protecting.... i.e Zone Alarm. And A NAT firewall can cover an entire network.

  25. Re:Whole new online warfare on Cincinnati Gets Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Even worse if you consider that you cannot use a Surge arrestor or suppressor as they BLOCK RF over power line signals. i.e intercoms or X10...