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  1. Are problems are solved!! on Software Industry Shifting Piracy Strategy · · Score: 1

    A massive base of hard working people can give substantial amounts of money towards software. They will be taxed. The tax money can go towards the Iraq War. Woo Hoo!!

    It will surely lead to a few more features in MS Word.

    This is absolutely great.

  2. Time to Check Up on Aerogel--extreme insulation on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 2

    Aerogel is an incredible substance made 99.8% air. It's a super insulator (my words). Loosely speaking,it's like Jello in a solid form with the water replaced with air.

    Hot water on demand would require a smaller amount of surface area for the chamber, thus less aerogel needed..a cost improvement. Google aerogel--I see some recent articles in the google 'News' tab as well.

    Nasa/JPL offers a description here:
    http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/aerogel.html

  3. Re:If the RIAA ran other industries.... on Music Industry Backlash Against Sony Rootkit · · Score: 1

    "..Long distance calls would be $2.50/minute." Oh that's right. SBC gave up on that idea a week ago.

  4. Re:Ground Br.. 7,000 RatShacks and 7,000 Starbucks on Skype Makes U.S. Retail Debut · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because throughout the United States there are just as many Radio Shacks as there are Starbucks: about 7,000 of each.

  5. My god, at this rate SCO code will be found next on DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 5, Funny

    My god, at this rate SCO code will be found next

  6. One of the great Two problems Solved on RSA-640 Factored · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...now if he could just find his keys.

  7. Bowl movements on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Low frequency sounds can cause involentary bowel movements. Why isn't this technology used in retirement nursing homes?

  8. hopefully.. on Oracle To Offer A Free Database · · Score: 2, Interesting

    'hopefully' is code for 'by then they somewhat locked in'

  9. Top Speed on The World's Smallest Car · · Score: 1

    I hear tops speeds of over 240 miles per lightyear!

  10. wrongside economics on The Problems with Broadband in America · · Score: 1

    The U.S. is real good at manufacturing scarcity and charging accordingly.

    More than courts are being lobbied. Americans are being lobbied through scarce broadcast channels that scarcity is needed.

  11. It sounded eviler when our government did it on Future Cell Phone Knows You By Your Walk · · Score: 1

    They 'must' have got it from our own DARPA's defunct Information Awareness Office. The Total Information Awareness mission. Part of it was called HumanID, which could recognize people from far distances by their gait.

    ooo.. I sound so fancy

    Wiki
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awa reness

  12. Only way to be seen on Scotty To Be 'Beamed Up' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I post fast enough my post might actually be seen!

    No time to read the article or think about a response.

    The moderation needs reform.. ..put mods on 'jury duty' showing them only less seen posts or something.

    time to slice me up. thanks

  13. Re:Theft! on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    "By law, the customer is limited to being responsble for only the first $50 of charges." So of a bank's computer generates a $200 charge AND the customer catches it, fills out all the forums right, and jumps through the hoops the bank only makes $50 that the government doesn't know about? I'm not sure if it could go down like that or not, but it's a reminder that opening up 'Enron' possibilities can happen.

  14. They will go the extra mile to rid the kinks... on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The next natural step is to install dozens of hi-res video cameras in check out areas, snap pictures of people when as they enter the front sliding doors, and at check out areas. That alone almost sounds good. The problem is they will only show the parts of video tape they want to. That's scary. The police are doing that sort of thing now. It might also make it 'reasonable' to scan people at the door for criminal electronic devices.. Like Ipods! MwaHahaAhaHA..

  15. More erronious charges?? on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    I can't look at a receipt from Stater Bros without seeing a price mistake, keep my cable bill from jumping to a new rate, and I stress out when I'm driving barely too slow to stop when the light turns yellow, and now this?!

  16. Re:People forget on Lessig - Public Domain Dead in 35 Years · · Score: 1

    'useful arts and sciences' right.

    It also found it important to limit the copyrights(14/28 years), patents (17? years)..

    The result was/would be a huge constant flow in to the public domain. If that wasn't intended, they sure didn't think things through. There's not much left for the imagination.

    Your 'Nice try at deception!' is deception..and flamebait.

  17. Mad MPAA on New Mad Cow Test on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    Prions are infringing upon the intellectual property of bovines.

  18. Re:It wasn't HIS job on Small Town USA Competing With India · · Score: 1

    Wow, that was great. Thank you. You put in to words what I've--in the past--tried and failed to put in to words. That's worth 90% of the credit in my book.

  19. world communications cap the common worker on Small Town USA Competing With India · · Score: 1

    No surprise here. In the past America's high economic success allowed even unproductive Americans high levels of access to piss away resources. Globalization is changing all of that. Now the domain of the wealthy are peppered across the earth and taking a new form that resembles a mega-global reincarnation of the Lord/Serf era.

  20. Let the ©egan movement begin on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors · · Score: 1

    Feeding a cow 90 pound of feed to get 1 lb of meat agrivates vegans: they want to eat that feed themselves ;) It is analogous to paying $9.99 for content awhile the artist gets a $0.25. Feeding big media conglomerates the $$ only strengthens them, so it is obvious to just not buy anything they offer. Might as well try to coin the term now: ©egans. like 'vegans', but the v is switched with the © sign... 'cagans': people who don't buy media and only watch free media. Perhaps '©egitarians' could mean they only buy content when the $$ goes directly to the artists.

  21. If someone could just explain this to RIAA/MPAA on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 1

    "In this instance, Alice and Bob can have more than just a cheap classical chat: they can also gain an advantage for future exchange, when they will be able to transfer quantum information at no further cost."

  22. Nothing innovative on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 1

    Like I really need more girls fluttering their plastic-looking eyelids at me.

  23. Re:Boing Boing on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 1

    You find the this non-restriction of information imposing?

    So many people just don't get it.

  24. Google should Make a Design for a PVR on TiVo Lets You Respond to Ads · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would allow people to search on google, and click on contexual VIDEO ads that download to the PVR.

    BBC has an open source video codec availible.

    Google could decide the design(much like microsoft makes hardware people adhere) and just let hardware makers use the design for free. Google would just cash in on the ad flow(ad peoples bandwidth), and it would launch podcasting/videocasting to a new level.

  25. Re:Hold your outrage - another analogy on Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    No. That's a real bad analogy.

    He wasn't in the house drinking milk out of the refrigerator. He was outside in a SUV using the internet.

    This guy might have been being creapy or he may have been a guy a ways from home just trying to use the internet as if we didn't live in a police state.