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  1. Re:What do we call this service? OverStat? on Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You! · · Score: 1

    Well,

    As for the chance that someone will try to reverse engineer the search, then before the searcher is sent responses, the system could make sure that 2x or 3x as many applicants hit their profile and then it dumps the less promising, plus x% of randoms that still are not in the "upper crust".

    This way, the searcher who is tweaking his/her profile still might not reliable reverse engineer the search criterion. Why? Well I think the searcher would have to let the system present numerous responses, over a period of time. This also makes the pool of viable candidates seem larger than it really is. Back in 1999/2000 I used to wonder about this about FriendFinder...

  2. Re:You just can't repress anything Ghetto? on iPhones Produced in China Smuggled Right Back in · · Score: 1

    "in the ghetto of AT&T"

    I can just see an ad now... "AT&T, the GHETTO CHOICE..."

  3. Re:you are joking right? I second that not all is on iPhones Produced in China Smuggled Right Back in · · Score: 3, Informative

    cheap crap coming out of China.

    Even Japan and Korea have been forced to manufacture in China, and Chinese companies DO realize that they have to improve or else...:

    Japanese management style in China? Production practices in ...
    http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-005X.00058

    Location decisions of Japanese new manufacturing plants in China ...
    http://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/anresc/v40y2006i2p369-387.html

    Even way back in 2002:

    Samsung, LG Relocating Plants to China| Korea.net News
    http://www.kois.go.kr/news/news/newsView.asp?serial_no=20020505006&part=104&SearchDay=2002.05.06

    I find it hypocritical that US and wester nations (but the US, particularly) will spew volumes of criticism against China when just recently we have facing us a 143 million pounds beef recall. We endured selenium and other chemicals and metals in our water supply, with government not being aggressive enough on some offenders.

    Granted, it is totally unacceptable for any company to produce goods containing lead, arsenic, other toxins, or flaking/dangerous matter.

  4. Re:Don't tell Chef but.. I'm Buddhist... on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mahayana, to be specific....

    OM-MA-NI-PAD-ME-HUM

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra

  5. If you are Finnish...then on Finnish Censorship Expanding · · Score: 0

    U R FINISHED...

  6. Re:Professional Tools... Tools on Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Rather, he hopes it will just add one more tool to their belt."

    Who is/are the tool/s? Are m$' warez the tools for the students, or are the students the tools for m$ income stream. I wonder if these $tudent$ think critically...

    "But Gates said giving away Microsoft software isn't intended to turn students against open source software entirely."

    Was this an editorial, or what Gates said? Either way, it's a fallacious/deceitful statement. Students who get hooked on ms warez will probably not be able to export their files (if there is a Student Professional Version File Format involved. These $tudent$ might find they can't easily export or convert their data and apps.

  7. Think I saw this on the Frontier flight on Saturn's A-ring Soaks Up Debris Ejected from Nearby Moon · · Score: 1

    near the end of January.

  8. Re:Simple enough fix... To add to that... on Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU · · Score: 1

    Even B&W could have some slight embedded peculiarities invisible to the naked eye. A scaled steganographic identifier/pattern could be there, waiting for law enforcement to decode. So, I'd say, if you're worried about COLOR, then worry, too, about B&W...

  9. Re:Why do they care about perception? on Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes · · Score: 1

    It's just too bad that Linux is not intensely capitalizing on this... Could managed Linux boxes running VirtualBox hosting XP be a great way to (after initial spike/bump) lower corporate costs?

  10. Re:Scale Model... That's Doctor EVIL'S on Scientists Find Solar System Like Ours · · Score: 1

    Alan Parsons' Project World...

  11. Re:Cheat Sheet! Vista Most Prized?? on Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes · · Score: 1

    But, isn't the wasteful demand for 2GB RAM and 2GHz CPU what differentiates Vista from KDE/Linux?

    Granted, I don't even have 3D/Compiz/Beryl in my KDE on my new Gateway P-6301 (2 GB system RAM, with 384 of it to the Intel X3100+ (shared card, so probably the bane of my laptop's existence as goes 3D), but maybe it's just the driver I'm using), but for KDE and other Linux GUIs to not demand what ms is doing with vista speaks volu... umm, SCAN-LINES.

    And, to have Vista get better hard disk throughput virtualized in VirtualBox than on native hardware only shows (to me) that ms from some point decided to drive people to shell out dollars for the sheer support of the hardware industry.

    I think if ms wants to survive as far as vista goes, they better pull an AOL: give it away on DVDs, but in cereal boxes, shoe boxes, and even with his/her Viagra SUBscriptions, PROscriptions, INscriptions and CONscriptions. This cannot be good at ALL for msoft.

    It will be even WORSE for ms if LINUX DVDs are given away in cereal boxes, shoe boxes, and, well, ...

  12. Re:I went to Camp Microsoft... Did u tell them: on Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes · · Score: 1

    "Rilly Sabbit! Kixs are for TRIDS!!"??

    Or, um, I meant... "Silly Rabbit! TRIX are for KIDS"??

    Maybe ms should eat Lucky Charms or Total, or Gain or Alpo?

    Wait, they can sell 3 licenses to each employee, and inflate their uptake counts. Or, put windows on floppies, err, umm, DVDs like AOL did its warez on CD...

  13. Re:Cheat Sheet! Vista Most Prized?? on Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes · · Score: 1

    Aside from ms orifice and maybe hex-box, how can they NOT fight for saving vista, however dim the view ahead? After all, since they're adding prizes to the gimmickry to generate uptake....the money they sunk into it makes it their most... ummm.. "prized POssession", or OBsession or CONfession...

  14. Re:But There's No Illusion of Thin on The ThinkPad Takes On The MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing pills are tapered... Lozenges would otherwise be lodged-inges..

  15. Re:Annnndddd... Well, these worm on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 4, Funny

    their way into your heart, so they're heart-worming welcomes.

  16. Re:forgive my ignorance; me, too... on Nanowires Allow For Electricity-Generating Clothing · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't use of this material make it harder to travel through airports, train stations and similar in the US or US-co-opted EU nations...?

    What will this mean (if anything) for DSDs (data storage devices)?

    And, how much juice will be generated and discharged when wearers (become engage in heavily-mechanical, mind-blowing frottage (frotteurism)(consensual or not)? Will it be "shocking" and/or "scentillating"

    (captcha: "eagerly")

  17. Re:Great news, if you're not microsoft... on Sun Snags Open Source Virtualization Company, Innotek · · Score: 1

    I bet they are hoppin' mad that THEY didn't acquire innotek just to "cockblock" others. I use VirtualBox, and it's presence in the repositories made most timely my new laptop purchase, considering vista was on it and it would have been more of a hassle for me to legally get xp.

    VirtualBox is fantastic for me.

    For those who say ms has "nothing to offer", they sort-of do, but I understand that it was their hope to malign Linux and Mac through the hope that MS WINDOWS would be the host, and that users would see windows as being more productive and feature-rich than the guest OS's offerings.

    For me, it couldn't be further from truth. I run vista home premium in quarantine in VB, and I could care less that the vista NIC is by design/default NOT enabled. Why? no vista virus vector...

  18. Re:Fool the black hats! Speak upppp.... on Multifunction Printers — The Forgotten Security Risk? · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, these MFP's don't have speakers. Otherwise, the goats would have a new form of emission... mwaehhehehe mwaehhehhee.... Now, you can hear, see, *and* smell the goat..

  19. Re:Nice of Them... Open Source? on Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?q=harvard+open+source+software&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

    Would be nice to seem them plow ahead even further into Open Source and give a resurgence to Open Source-friendly magazines, able to cite Harvard faculty/staff/professor/tutor/student achievements and projects.

    I bet that would infuriate Gates. Chairs might even start populating Harvard's lawns...

  20. Re:Sounds Like Ozone... Sounds like a way to on Outer Space has a Smell · · Score: 1

    create an "Oh NO zone..." Might be useful as a home intruder disposal tool (as long as I sleep wearing functional air packs). But, I suppose law would consider it a "booby trap".

  21. Re:Sounds Like Ozone on Outer Space has a Smell · · Score: 2, Funny

    Proto-Captain Garrovic(k) will impressed... as long as you don't have an "Obsession" that wastes hemoglobin

  22. Re:True Skynet.... Well, I'm thinking "The Medusa on DARPA Advances AI Program For Air Traffic Control · · Score: 1

    Touch". (Isn't that the one where Richard Burton makes a 747 (or somesuch) crash into a skyscraper in Britain?)

  23. Re:So when you say "draws boycott" BAD? on Trend Micro Draws Boycott Over AV Patent Case · · Score: 1

    We'll know it's REALLY bad when/if their name gets changed to Trimmed Micro...

  24. Re:Hmm Damned if they do; damned if they don't... on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    "The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines.

    The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of a travel clampdown by the Bush administration that officials in Brussels described as "blackmail" and "troublesome", and could see west Europeans and Britons required to have US visas if their governments balk at Washington's requirements."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/11/usa.theairlineindustry

    This is a the beginning of a disturbing trend.... All it takes now is for a handful of co-conspirators to figure out WHO are the air marshals (using sensitive magnets?) to locate the cuffs and guns, then storm a few, disarm them, and then keep everyone else at bay. I wonder if those air marshals will die as easily or unquestioningly as dental-school-bound kids who don't fully appreciate what it means to be dismembered or handicapped in their early youth for wealthy and government who publicly call patriots but in private laugh at them as fodder.

    Plus, having all these armed personnel just makes for brewing trouble where landings occur in places where guns are forbidden. I wonder how Japan feels about non-military/non-diplomat gaijin landing armed, and who quite likely will refuse to be searched and inventoried for excessive firepower.

    Further, just WHAT firepower will these AMs expect to safely use in the skies without bringing down the plane FOR the would-be/presumed hijackers?

  25. Re:Network Functionality Embedded in Kernel? on Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source · · Score: 1

    Possibly, but No
    because it was out of a
    truthfully real Thirst for Love

    Can you not see all
    colorful cherry blossom
    full in the clear skies?

    Fear not for it is
    here enjoy it with fullest
    measure for all to cherish