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  1. Re:Amusing, but a problem for one in ten men? on Multicolored Keyless Entry System · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Land of the Lost and the pylon control panel that controlled the weather.

  2. Re:South Park defense on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    If each nuclear warhead we have were to kill 125,000 people, they'd still win.
    They still would have a population greater than our own and the `fight` in them would be far greater as we would have attacked and wiped out 600,000,000+ citizens.

  3. Re:Appropriate name on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 2, Informative

    I consider any engineer making at least twice his age to be making good money.
    I have many friends in the engineering profession and they all make over $80K, including the engineer at a silicone breast making facility.
    Another one that comes to mind is an engineer in sales and makes a $70K base and $50K+ commission + bonuses.

    Changing to a business major doesn't guarantee that type of salary, only a starting of $45K or less as based upon a recent graduate I know.

  4. Re:Appropriate name on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 1

    Engineers make lots of money regardless if the business is a success or a failure.

  5. Re:More info please on The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall · · Score: 0, Troll

    You fed the troll.
    You're supposed to trip trap across the bridge or TRAMP TRAMP and butt the troll over.

  6. Re:Going cheap may well be the sensible way... on The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall · · Score: 3, Informative

    Income of $524 million
    Loss of $423 million
    Equals a spread of $947 million, almost 1 billion.

    Add the $1 billion recall, still looks like Vista and Office are paying for the XBOX 360.

  7. Re:Yeah, about fake IDs on TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID · · Score: 1

    Where are the reports of wrong IDs used caught by the TSA?
    TSA does absolutely nothing to make the public safe.

  8. Re:Where is Ron Paul? on Examining Presidential Candidates Via Google Trends · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Feeding the troll (nom nom nom)...

    Ron Paul was not a serious candidate at any stage of the campaign
    Not even enough to the fact he raised more money debt free and free from PAC than any other GOP candidate and broke 2 fundraising day records?

    Giuliani was leading in polls before the primaries
    Giuliani had Roger Ailes support in the media, no other candidate had that level of media support. Oprah's support of Obama didn't even match what Murdoch Media did for Guiliani.

  9. Re:Where is Ron Paul? on Examining Presidential Candidates Via Google Trends · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's the same thought I had. Ron Paul was all over the map from Google Trends, Facebook, MySpace, and even Digg where he still has more support than Obama.

    If anything, those trends didn't equate to votes which also means that this article is nothing more than a fluff piece and not to be taken seriously.

  10. Re:Installing Silverlight on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  11. Re:Installing Silverlight on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 1

    http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/download/get.pl?com=sh&prod=scorch

    It's a plugin required by some sites to download sheet music or to view the first page before you buy it.
    It's a major pain in the ass, it worked the first time I used it then upgrades didn't work and so on and so forth. I'm at the point where I don't care.

    It's easier to find sheet music for free than it is to purchase it.

  12. Re:Installing Silverlight on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Silverlight makes as much sense to install as Sibelus.
    Worthless POS of software.

    I even wasted an afternoon with Sibelus to install it and the websites that require it other than the first one I went to still say I need to install it.

  13. Re:The Iraq theater on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Imagine being born after 1953 or just being a kid and witnessing and find an occupying force desecrating a belief system your parents brought you up to uphold.
    I'd imagine that after 20 something years, I'd be pissed enough to take hostages too.

    Many people don't want to or can't see the bigger picture.

    Look at the small town hate that comes from a Wal*Mart installation.
    I'm not saying that Wal*Mart = China (but in a way it is) but imagine Wal*Mart being a Chinese military installation with Chinese soldiers in all it's installations.
    Would you not be upset as an American?

  14. Re:The Iraq theater on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    If insurgents made it here, they wouldn't last 24 hours except in municipalities where there are gun laws.

  15. Re:Video uses on 1TB Blu-Ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced · · Score: 1

    Cheap CD-R discs flake.
    Taiyo Yuden discs don't flake.

  16. Re:Only one problem on Scientists Image an HIV Particle Being Born · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Half a million would still be dead if he weren't a homophobe.
    Blood transfusions aside, AIDS is still a preventable condition.

  17. Re:Yes I'd like to see that on Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And no one knows why cancer rates have increased so much in the last few years.

    More people???

  18. Re:Stability on Linux? on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Netscape 4 never crashed on me. I used Turbolinux, Mandrake, and Red Hat.

  19. Re:That, my friends, is... on Early Review Calls New Indiana Jones Film Dreadful · · Score: 0

    Personally, I love Temple of Doom.
    When I first saw it, I liked it but didn't love it, it was just another sequel that wasn't Empire Strikes Back.

    Upon review, It's easier to sit through multiple viewings (at least for me) than Raiders. It's the only one of the trilogy that I bought on VHS (remember when you could get Raiders from McDonalds on VHS?)

    The music is more pleasing to me, it's the only one that had a cabinet video game built, the hindu angle was new to me and I liked the darkness of it.
    I used to hate the character of Willy Scott but you're supposed to hate her, she's not in her element. She was baggage from the start only because she happened to have the antidote.
    Marion was in her element which makes her extremely likable.

    Overall, I think Raiders is the better movie with Temple of Doom a close second. Last Crusade seemed to break the fourth wall; interesting and fun but not very compelling.

    I'll miss Pat Roach in the new one.

  20. Re:Interesting way to look at it on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    I pay $472 a year for my phone services.
    $31 a month for my landline, $25 a quarter for a mobile phone that's on only when I want to use it.

    I realize that $31 a month is a bit too much for today's environment but I'm old fashioned and can't really get it any cheaper.

  21. Re:Microsoft seems to be unable to deliver. on A Copyright Cop In Every Zune · · Score: 1

    First M$ fanboy comment that isn't anonymous coward.

    Your comment on the Zune interface really just implies that you're familiar with the interface and like it. Nothing wrong with that at all.
    The test of the `easier and quicker` is to give the Zune, iPod, and iPhone to a total newbie and let them tell you which on is `easier and quicker`.

    FWIW, my nephew bought a Zune and loved it. It got stolen then he bought an iPod nano. He said he liked the iPod interface better.

  22. Re:Not for the casual user on How To Move Your Linux Systems To ext4 · · Score: 1

    That's not bad compared to Windows.

    I have a 160GB, and 2 500GB and when it CHKDSK, it can take a couple of hours.

  23. Re:Glorified Cattle Prod on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Change the textbooks then. People must not be mammals then either.

    I take it you've never dealt with a human toddler in the 2-3.5 earth year category.
    It's said the the mental capacity of most non human mammals fall in intelligence category of a human 'animal' toddler; you can't reason with them, they react on instinct, and the fact that they can't communicate their thoughts exactly makes it extremely difficult to have a meaningful dialog with them.

  24. Re:Here the propaganda machine starts again on An Inside Look At Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Didn't really do any good then.

  25. Re:It was bound to happen on Google's Audio CAPTCHA Falls To Automated Attack · · Score: 1

    You could mix an audio question with an image.

    You could display an image and ask a question about the image;

    "What color is the shirt on the man?"
    "How many doughnuts are displayed?"
    "How many animals are not cats?"

    Same image could be used for a series of questions.

    Failures are logged against IP address, unusually high numbers are banned.

    Of course, on first look, that keeps a random element out of it so you could have separate elements and combine them for a captcha image;

    -different colored background
    -guy on a bike
    -3 cats and 1 dog
    -6 doughnuts

    A pool of elements are combined to create an image and a random question from an element is picked.